yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
competition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French compétition, from Late Latin competītiō, competītiōnem, from Latin competō, from con- + petō. By surface analysis, compete + -ition.
Inflected forms:
form: competitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of competing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The competition for this job is strong.
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
gloss: A contest for a prize or award.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The newspaper is featuring a competition to win a car.
gloss: The competitors in such a contest.
pos: noun
tags: collective
uncountable
examples: The new stain remover was ten times more effective than the competition.
Japanese retail stores have strove to, and have succeeded in, fulfilling these severe demands, and in doing so, have constantly had to innovate both technologically and institutionally in order to keep up with the competition.
Antonyms: cooperation
Related words: competitive
compete
competent
Derived words: anticompetition
competitional
competition-based learning
competition caution
competitioner
competitionless
competitionlike
competition wallah
contest competition
coopetition
co-opetition
economic competition
hypercompetition
immunocompetition
in competition
intercompetition
interspecific competition
intraspecific competition
mompetition
monopolistic competition
noncompetition
non-price competition
outcompetition
perfect competition
precompetition
scramble competition
self-competition
subcompetition
unfair competition
wet t-shirt competition
Translations:
goshawk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English goshauk, from Old English gōshafoc (“goose hawk”), from gōs (“goose”) and hafoc (“hawk”). Compare also Old Norse gáshaukr and Late Middle English gosling. The bird gets its name from the fact that the birds of the species are hawks that were alleged to prey on geese.
Inflected forms:
form: goshawks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several birds of prey, principally in the genus Accipiter.
pos: noun
examples: But you heed me no more than a goss-hawk minds a yellow yoldring.
Translations:
lark
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English larke, laverke, from Old English lāwerce, lǣwerce, lāuricæ, from Proto-West Germanic *laiwarikā, from Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ, *laiwazikǭ (compare dialectal West Frisian larts, Dutch leeuwerik, German Lerche), from *laiwaz (borrowed into Finnish leivo, Estonian lõo), of unknown ultimate origin with no definitive cognates outside of Germanic.
Inflected forms:
form: larks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laverock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lavrock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: larks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: larking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: larked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: larked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: laverock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: lavrock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small, singing passerine birds of the family Alaudidae.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various similar-appearing birds, but usually ground-living, such as the meadowlark and titlark.
pos: noun
gloss: One who wakes early; one who is up with the larks.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A jolly or peppy person.
pos: noun
examples: Charles Randolph Grean is married to pop lark and multi-hit artist Betty Johnson.
gloss: To catch larks (a type of bird).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to go larking
Derived words: Beesley's lark
bushlark
calandra lark
crested lark
day lark
gay as a lark
greater short-toed lark
happy as a lark
hoopoe-lark
horned lark
lark bunting
lark buttonquail
larker
larkheel
larklike
lark-plover
lark's-heel
lark sparrow
larkspur
lark's tongue
magpie-lark
meadowlark
mudlark
pink-billed lark
rise with the lark
rising lark
sand lark
scribble lark
sea lark
shore lark
shorelark
skylark
songlark
sparrow-lark
titlark
torrent-lark
up with the lark
woodlark
writing lark
Translations:
skylark
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sky + lark.
Verb sense 1809, originally nautical, possibly influenced by northern English dialectal term lake/laik (“to play”) (from Old Norse leika (“to play (as opposed to work)”)); see lark for details.
Compound parts: sky
lark
Inflected forms:
form: skylarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small brown passerine bird, Alauda arvensis, that sings as it flies high into the air.
pos: noun
Translations:
phonetics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English phonetic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English phonetics
From phonetic + -s.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: This dictionary shows the phonetics of the words.
Translations:
analyst
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From French analyste.
Inflected forms:
form: analysts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who analyzes.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who is an analytical thinker.
pos: noun
gloss: A mathematician who studies real analysis.
pos: noun
gloss: A systems analyst.
pos: noun
gloss: A practitioner of psychoanalysis.
pos: noun
examples: “I had a difficult session with my analyst last evening and the slightest thing is apt to set me off.”
gloss: A financial analyst; a business analyst.
pos: noun
examples: The Shanghai-based company reported Wednesday that net profit soared 246% to 28 billion yuan ($3.9 billion) in the first quarter of 2024, more than double the average analyst estimate of 12.62 billion yuan ($1.7 billion), according to LSEG data.
Related words: analyst programmer
Derived words: autoanalyst
bioanalyst
color analyst
colour analyst
conspiracy analyst
cryptanalyst
cryptoanalyst
cyberanalyst
database analyst
discourse analyst
glycoanalyst
hypnoanalyst
microanalyst
narcoanalyst
nonanalyst
psychoanalyst
quantitative analyst
schizoanalyst
technical analyst
Translations:
anchovy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish anchoa, from Genoese Ligurian anciôa or related Corsican anchjuva, anciua. The term's ultimate origin is unclear; some suggest it may have derived from an unattested Vulgar Latin term *apiuva, from Latin aphyē, apua, from Ancient Greek ἀφύη (aphúē) (which may be formed like Sanskrit अभ्व (ábhva-, “monster”)); others suggest it comes from Basque antxu, anchu (“dried fish”), from anchuva (“dry”), if that Basque term is not itself derived from Latin via some intermediary. None of these hypotheses is satisfactory because of the phonetic irregularities.
Inflected forms:
form: anchovies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any small saltwater fish of the Engraulidae family, consisting of 160 species in sixteen genera, those of the genus Engraulis being widely sold as food.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
Translations:
cemetery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English cimiterie, from Old French cimitiere, from Medieval Latin cimitērium, from Late Latin coemētērium, from Ancient Greek κοιμητήριον (koimētḗrion), from κοιμάω (koimáō, “I put to sleep”); compare cœmeterium. Displaced Middle English charnel (“mass grave, cemetery”) and Old English līctūn (“cemetery”).
Inflected forms:
form: cemeteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cœmeterium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cœmetery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cemetary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cementery
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A place where the dead are buried; a graveyard or memorial park.
pos: noun
examples: The plain around was interspersed with cemeteries, Turk, Greek, and Armenian, with their growth of cypress trees...
They were probably the work of individual craftsmen working to meet the chieftains' needs. Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here.
[…] the cemetery – which people of shattering wit like Sampson never tired of calling ‘the dead centre of town’ […]
Translations:
mallard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English malard, mawlard, from Old French malard, malart, mallart (“male wild duck”), from Old French male, masle (“male”) + -ard, -art. Cognate with Medieval Latin maslardus, mallardus.
Inflected forms:
form: mallards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mallard
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maudelard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Anas platyrhynchos, a common and widespread dabbling duck, natively found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, whose male has a distinctive dark green head.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The meat of this bird, eaten as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: manky mallard
mottled mallard
Translations:
syllable
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English syllable, sillable, syllabylle, sylabul, from Anglo-Norman sillable, from Old French sillebe, from Latin syllaba, from Ancient Greek συλλαβή (sullabḗ), from συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “to gather together”), from συν- (sun-, “together”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
Inflected forms:
form: syllables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: syllab
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: syllabe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: syllables
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: syllabling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: syllabled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: syllabled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: syllab
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: syllabe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A unit of human speech which often forms words corresponding to one opening of the mouth; a vowel and its surrounding consonants.
pos: noun
examples: I wanted to look up velleity and quotidian and memorize the fuckers for all time, spell them, learn them, pronounce them syllable by syllable—vocalize, phonate, utter the sounds, say the words for all they're worth.
gloss: The written representation of a given pronounced syllable.
pos: noun
gloss: A small part of a sentence or discourse; anything concise or short; a particle.
pos: noun
examples: Then let them caſt backe their eyes vnto former generations of men, and marke what was done in the prime of the world. Seth, Enoch, Noah, Sem, Abraham, Iob, and the reſt that liued before any ſyllable of the law of God was written, did they not ſinne as much as wee doe in euery action not commanded?
Th'Archbyſhop
Is the Kings hand, and tongue, and who dare ſpeak
One ſyllable againſt him?
In none of my travels did I ever meet him or learn a syllable of his whereabouts.
gloss: To utter in syllables.
pos: verb
tags: poetic
transitive
examples: [A] thouſand fantaſies
Begin to throng into my memorie
Of calling ſhapes, and beckning ſhadows dire,
And ayrie tongues, that ſyllable mens names
On Sands, and Shoars, and deſert Wilderneſſes.
Related words: syllabus
Derived words: ambisyllabic
checked syllable
closed syllable
decasyllable
disyllable
dodecasyllable
duodecasyllable
duosyllable
enneasyllable
foresyllable
free syllable
hendecasyllable
heptasyllable
hexasyllable
intersyllable
in words of one syllable
midsyllable
monosyllable
multisyllable
octosyllable
oligosyllable
open syllable
pentasyllable
plurisyllable
polysyllabic
polysyllable
protosyllable
quadrisyllable
quinquesyllable
semisyllabic
semisyllable
septisyllable
sesquisyllable
syllabary
syllabatim
syllabic
syllabification
syllabify
syllable-timed
syllable timing
syllable weight
trisyllable
words of one syllable
Translations:
heron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English heron, heroun, heiron, from Anglo-Norman heiron, from Medieval Latin hairō, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *hraigrō, from Proto-Germanic *haigrô (compare Swedish häger and Danish hejre), dissimilation of *hraigrô (compare Old English hrāgra, Dutch reiger, German Reiher), from imitative Proto-Indo-European *(s)kreik-, *(s)kreig- (“to screech, creak”) (compare Welsh crëyr (“heron”), Ancient Greek κρίζω (krízō, “to creak, screech”). Compare also egret from the same Germanic etymon.
Inflected forms:
form: herons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any long-legged, long-necked wading bird of the family Ardeidae.
pos: noun
Translations:
cake
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kakǭ
Old Norse kakabor.
Middle English cake
English cake
From Middle English cake, from Old Norse kaka (“cake”) (compare Norwegian kake, Icelandic/Swedish kaka, Danish kage), from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ, of disputed origin. Likely a distant cognate with kaak. Perhaps related to cookie, kuchen, and quiche. Doublet of coca (pastry).
Inflected forms:
form: cakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His shoes are caked with mud.
You will remember that Stranger Things was initially conceived as a one-off, and its success forced the Duffer Brothers to cake on endless new lore to keep the engine running.
gloss: To form into a cake, or mass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin.
Derived words: anticaking
cake up
Translations:
base
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: acrobatics
arts
cheerleading
hobbies
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷem-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *gʷémtis
Proto-Hellenic *gʷə́tis
Ancient Greek βᾰ́σῐς (bắsĭs)bor.
Latin basis
Old French basebor.
Middle English base
English base
From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.
Inflected forms:
form: bases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: basing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: based
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: based
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Firstly, I continue to base most species treatments on personally collected material, rather than on herbarium plants.
gloss: To be located (at a particular place).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Troops have been based in Munich since the end of World War II.
Top management decided to base our new Spanish subsidiary in Arévalo (Ávila).
Take a look at that. This is where we are going to be basing this season.
gloss: To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.
pos: verb
examples: Apart from time taken out during radio- and chemotherapy, Maurs continued to participate in POW. She would base a flyer in a double balance and make the audience laugh with her clowning antics for two more shows.
gloss: To freebase.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: You know he started to base at a hell of a pace / And now it's a disgrace, he's got the pipe in his face
Derived words: base off
base on
rebase
Translations:
buzzard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: golf
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English bosart, from Anglo-Norman buisart, from Old French busart, busard, a derivative ( + -ard) of Old French buison, buson (French buse), possibly from Latin būteō (“hawk”).
Affixes: -ard
Inflected forms:
form: buzzards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several Old World birds of prey of the genus Buteo with broad wings and a broad tail.
pos: noun
gloss: Any scavenging bird, such as the American black vulture (Coragyps atratus) or the turkey vulture (Cathartes aura).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: In North America, a curmudgeonly or cantankerous man; an old person; a mean, greedy person.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
slang
examples: Perhaps the crusty old buzzard loved his only child more than anyone had given him credit for all these years — maybe even more than he himself had realized.
gloss: A blockhead; a dunce.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: 1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 142,
An old man’s shadow is better than a young buzzard’s sword.
It is common, to a proverb, to call one who can not be taught, or who continues obstinately ignorant, a buzzard.
gloss: Synonym of double bogey.
pos: noun
gloss: A fighter plane.
pos: noun
tags: US
World-War-I
slang
gloss: The insignia of a colonel, or a petty officer within the navy.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
gloss: A military discharge (due to the military discharge certificate).
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Synonyms: buteo
broadwing
turkey vulture
vulture
Derived words: augur buzzard
Buteo augur
belled buzzard
buzzard bait
buzzard-eagle
buzzardet
buzzardlike
Buzzards Bay
common buzzard
Buteo buteo
crested honey buzzard
eastern buzzard
Buteo japonicus
European honey buzzard
forest buzzard
Buteo trizonatus
gag a buzzard off a gut wagon
grasshopper buzzard
Butastur rufipennis
grey-faced buzzard
Butastur indicus
honey buzzard
jackal buzzard
Buteo rufofuscus
knock a buzzard off a gut wagon
knock a buzzard off a shit wagon
lizard buzzard
Kaupifalco monogrammicus
long-legged buzzard
Buteo rufinus
Madagascar buzzard
Buteo brachypterus
moor buzzard
mountain buzzard
Buteo oreophilus
red-necked buzzard
Buteo auguralis
rough-legged buzzard
rufous-winged buzzard
Butastur liventer
stink a buzzard off a gut wagon
turkey buzzard
upland buzzard
Buteo hemilasius
white-eyed buzzard
Butastur teesa
Translations:
stork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
cartomancy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
philosophy
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.
Inflected forms:
form: storks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
pos: noun
gloss: The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
gloss: The seventeenth Lenormand card.
pos: noun
Related words: crane
egret
heron
Derived words: adjutant stork
black-necked stork
black stork
giant stork
hair-crested stork
maguari stork
marabou stork
milky stork
Oriental stork
saddle-billed stork
stork-billed
stork bite
storkish
storklike
storkling
storksbill
storkwise
storky
white stork
wood stork
Translations:
fricative
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin fricatīvus, from Latin fricāre (“to rub”).
Inflected forms:
form: fricatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more fricative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fricative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
pos: noun
examples: Watt listened for a time, for the voice was far from unmelodious. The fricatives in particular were pleasing.
gloss: produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.
pos: adj
Translations:
jackdaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Compound of jack + daw. The first element, also present in Low German (North Saxon) Jöker (“jackdaw”), may refer either to its characteristic call, often represented as tchak-tchak, maybe influenced by association with the name Jack. The second element means “jackdaw” in itself, from Old English *dāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *dāhwā. Cognate with Old Prussian doacke (“starling”), Latin faccilāre (“the sound or timbre of the thrush”), and German Dohle (“jackdaw”).
Compound parts: jack
daw
Inflected forms:
form: jackdaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bird of the genus Coloeus, similar in appearance to crows and found within the same family; traditionally associated with church towers and ruins, where it frequently likes to nest.
pos: noun
Translations:
cuckoo
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: From Middle English cokkou, kokkow, cukkuk, gokkouȝ, probably from Old French cocu, coquu, cucu (whence French coucou); ultimately onomatopoeic of the song of the male Common Cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), perhaps via Latin cucūlus (“cuckoo”).
Compare dialectal English gowkoo (“cuckoo”). Displaced Middle English gnokken (“cuckoo”) and native Middle English yeke, ȝek (from Old English ġēac (“cuckoo”)), see English gowk.
The UK sense is by analogy from the bird's practice of brood parasitism.
The Malaysian and Singaporean sense is a Calque of Hokkien 咕咕鳥 /咕咕鸟 (ku-kú-chiáu)
Inflected forms:
form: cuckoos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cuckooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cuckooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cuckooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more cuckoo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cuckoo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To make the call of a cuckoo.
pos: verb
examples: Switzerland is the home of many musical toys and here were carved whistles in the shapes of birds. These cuckooed realistically when blown into, with the beak opening and shutting, and the tail moving up and down to produce the 'cuck' and the 'oooh'.
gloss: To repeat something incessantly.
pos: verb
gloss: To take over the home of a vulnerable person for the purposes of carrying out organized crime in a concealed way.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: She'll have been cuckooed. That'll be the Knezevics. They can't launder fast enough, so what do you do with it? Where do you put it? You hide it in somebody else's place; somebody who han't got a clue what's going on and couldn't do a fat lot about it if they did.
gloss: Crazy; not sane.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I think I'm going cuckoo!
71...R/3xN†? [White] resigns?? Lengyel combined to get this cuckoo coup expecting 72 RxR BxP† to win. And Darga's mind, apparently in the same channel, also overlooked 73 K-K3.
Translations:
robin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for robin redbreast. Also from Middle English robynet, robynett (“robin (bird)”), from the Middle English name Robynett, a diminutive of the Middle English name Robyn (“Robin”).
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Inflected forms:
form: robins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
pos: noun
examples: As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
gloss: Any of various passerine birds (about 100 species) of the families Muscicapidae, Turdidae and Petroicidae (formerly Eopsaltriidae), typically with a red breast.
pos: noun
gloss: A trimming in front of a dress.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: American robin
Australasian robin
cock-robin
cock-robin shop
eastern yellow robin
flyrobin
forest robin
golden bush robin
golden robin
Japanese robin
magpie-robin
mangrove robin
Natal robin
North American robin
Peking robin
Pekin robin
ragged robin
robin-breast
robin-chat
robin dipper
robin egg blue
Robin Hill
robinlike
robin redbreast
robin-run-in-the-grass
robin-run-in-the-hedge
robin-run-the-hedge
robin snipe
robin snow
rose robin
round robin
round-robin story
rufous bush robin
rufous scrub robin
rufous-tailed scrub robin
scrub robin
sea robin
swamp robin
wake robin
wake-robin
wakerobin
white-throated robin
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: gushëkuq
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏥᏍᏉᏉ
roman: tsisquoquo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 知更鳥 /知更鸟
roman: zhīgēngniǎo
lang: French
word: grive
lang: Māori
word: pītoitoi
lang: Portuguese
word: tordo
altimeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined based on Latin altus (“high”) + -meter.
Affixes: -meter
Inflected forms:
form: altimeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: altimetre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: An apparatus for measuring altitude.
pos: noun
examples: For that reason, if you do any mountain climbing, allow a generous margin of error of extra altitude—not only for possible altimeter error, but also for downdrafts that are particularly prevalent if high winds are encountered.
Translations:
applaud
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English applauden, from Latin applaudere (“to clap the hands together, applaud”), from ad (“to”) + plaudere (“to strike, clap”).
Inflected forms:
form: applauds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: applauding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: applauded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: applauded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To express approval (of something) by clapping the hands.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: After the performance, the audience applauded for five minutes.
gloss: To praise, or express approval for something or someone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Although we don't like your methods, we applaud your motives.
Now by the Gods, I do applaude his courage.
It moved him to within one goal of Thierry Henry's 34 in 2004 and Henry - honoured with a statue outside the stadium on Friday - rose from his seat in the stands to applaud Van Persie.
Related words: explosion
implausible
implode
plaudit
plausible
Derived words: applaudable
applauder
applaudingly
applaud to the echo
reapplaud
unapplauded
unapplauding
Translations:
relaxed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From relax + -ed, originally after Latin relaxātus.
Base: relax
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more relaxed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most relaxed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made slack or feeble; weak, soft.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: It was a very wet morning. I woke relaxed and melancholy as in the country, and walked about an hour under cover, in the middle of the town […].
gloss: Made more lenient; less strict; lax.
pos: adj
examples: The relaxed rules were greatly tightened after the lawsuit.
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.
gloss: Free from tension or anxiety; at ease; leisurely.
pos: adj
examples: He's a relaxed kind of guy, he never lets himself get upset.
Students and faculty members lunch at the cafeteria and naturally communicate freely with one another in a relaxed and informal setting.
Even so, this delightful station is well worth a visit, - either to admire the architecture, sip a coffee from the shop, or just soak up the relaxed atmosphere of the area and watch the birds and other wildlife on the shores right outside the station.
gloss: Without physical tension; in a state of equilibrium.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a muscle: soft, not tensed.
pos: adj
Derived words: nonrelaxed
relaxed education
relaxedly
relaxedness
unrelaxed
Translations:
lang: Ainu
word: ラッチ
roman: ratci
lang: Belarusian
word: рассла́блены
roman: rasslábljeny
lang: Bulgarian
word: отпу́снат
roman: otpúsnat
lang: Catalan
word: relaxat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 輕鬆 /轻松
roman: qīngsōng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 散逸
roman: san3-i4
lang: Czech
word: uvolněný
lang: Dutch
word: rustig
lang: Dutch
word: kalm
lang: Finnish
word: rento
lang: French
word: détendu
lang: German
word: entspannt
lang: German
word: locker
lang: Indonesian
word: santai
lang: Japanese
word: くつろいだ
roman: kutsuroida
lang: Japanese
word: リラックスした
roman: rirakkusu shita
lang: Latin
word: mītis
lang: Latin
word: remissus
lang: Māori
word: aumoe
lang: Māori
word: hūmārie
lang: Māori
word: parohe
lang: Māori
word: pāroherohe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: avslappet
lang: Polish
word: rozluźniony
lang: Polish
word: zrelaksowany
lang: Portuguese
word: tranquilo
lang: Romanian
word: relaxat
lang: Russian
word: рассла́бленный
roman: rassláblennyj
lang: Slovene
word: sproščen
lang: Spanish
word: relajado
lang: Spanish
word: tranquilo
lang: Ukrainian
word: розсла́блений
roman: rozsláblenyj
bewilder
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From be- (prefix used as an intensifier) + wilder (“to lead astray; to go astray, wander”).
Base: wilder
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: bewilders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bewildering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bewildered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bewildered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All the different possible options may bewilder us.
Don’t push me into that maze and bewilder me.
Thou, Kind Redeemer, toucht to ſee / So ſad a Sight, ſuch moving Miſery, / Didſt ſoon determine to diſpel / Theſe Shades of Death, and Gloom of Hell: / And ſo to reviſit with Thy Heav'nly Light / Loſt Man, bewilder'd in Infernal Night.
Such Works, in point of Precepts, are of the Number of thoſe that are call'd ſpecious, in which the Authors, whilſt they endeavour too exactly to explain what they have dogmatically advanc'd, loſe themſelves in imaginary Mazes, and bewilder themſelves more and more.
It is that fiend politics, Asem,—that baneful fiend, which bewildereth every brain, and poisons every social feeling; which intrudes itself at the festive banquet, and, like the detestable harpy, pollutes the very viands of the table; [...]
[P]ause therefore, now, and solemnly determine that you will never again degrade your being, by bewildering your brain with strong liquor.
Thou bewilderest my mind by thy ambiguous words. Tell me, therefore, one only thing for certain, by which I may obtain happiness.
"Stop!" faltered Dorian Gray, "stop! you bewilder me. I don't know what to say. There is some answer to you, but I cannot find it. Don't speak. Let me think. Or, rather, let me try not to think."
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
She preceded me along a strange path, unlike any I have ever seen in other countries. [...] [T]he contours of the gardens these walls confine dispose it to leisure; it curves or doubles back altogether, and right at the start a bend bewilders us; there is no knowing where we have come from or where we are heading.
Ever more new drugs appeared on the market, bewildering and swamping clinicians who had been accustomed in their pharmaceutical armamentarium to a handful of painkillers, alkaloids with physiological effects, and vaccines.
It was remarkable that Tunisia reached half-time on level terms as they were often bewildered by England's pace and movement before being spared by their generosity in front of goal.
Translations:
microbe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French microbe, from Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”) and βίος (bíos, “life”). By surface analysis, micro- + -obe.
Inflected forms:
form: microbes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any microorganism; (loosely, nonscientifically) especially, a harmful bacterium.
pos: noun
examples: We humans and other complex animals are full of microbes, gajillions of them. People have so many that microbe cells living in our bodies outnumber our own vastly.
Yes, there are microbes everywhere and most are just fine for us, perhaps even beneficial to our microbiomes and immune systems. We don’t care about those.
Translations:
jeer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier gyr, probably from Dutch gieren (“to roar with laughter, laugh loudly”) (related to German gieren (“to gape, snap”)); or from Dutch gekscheren (“to jeer”, literally “to shear the fool”), from gek (“a fool”) (see geck) + scheren (“to shear”) (see shear (verb)). The OED states no verifiable connection to English cheer.
Inflected forms:
form: jeers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jeers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jeering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jeered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jeered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mocking remark or reflection.
pos: noun
examples: 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Fable of Midas, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol XII, Sir Walter Scott, ed., Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co., 1824, pages 302-5,
Midas, exposed to all their jeers, Had lost his art, and kept his ears.
gloss: To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But when he saw her toy, and gibe, and geare, / And passe the bonds of modest merimake, / Her dalliance he despisd, and follies did forsake.
At the end of a frantic first 45 minutes, there was still time for Charlie Adam to strike the bar from 20 yards before referee Atkinson departed to a deafening chorus of jeering from Everton's fans.
gloss: To mock; treat with mockery; to taunt.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: And if we cannot jeer them, we jeer ourselves.
Derived words: jeerer
jeeringly
jeerleader
jeery
outjeer
Translations:
vel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vel (“or”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The ∨ symbol used to represent the inclusive or, which is a logical connective.
pos: noun
Translations:
journey
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
Etymology: From Middle English journe, from Old French jornee, from Vulgar Latin *diurnāta, from Late Latin diurnum, from Latin diurnus, from diēs (“day”). Displaced native Old English fær and Old English faru.
Inflected forms:
form: journeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: journeys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: journeying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: journeyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: journeyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
pos: noun
examples: The journey to London takes two hours by train.
“Don't set out on a journey using someone else's donkey.” ~ African proverb
Or is it, that when human Souls a journey long have had, / And are returned into themselves, they cannot be but sad?
gloss: Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the journey to political freedom
my journey of dealing with grief
Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
That progress has taken over ten years and £20 million to bring to fruition. But, as Mands explains, the journey has been one that HSG has been almost obligated to undertake. "First and foremost, this is an environmental project," she says.
gloss: The progress of a customer through a system, often a computer system.
pos: noun
examples: We need to map out the user journey and make it more efficient.
a customer journey
gloss: A day.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A day's work.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: But whan ye haue done that Iourney ye shal promyse me as ye are a true knyght for to go with me and to helpe me / and other damoysels that are distressid dayly with a fals knyghte / All your entente damoysel and desyre I wylle fulfylle / soo ye wyl brynge me vnto this knyghte
gloss: The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of giraffes.
pos: noun
tags: collective
colloquial
gloss: Life on Earth.
pos: noun
gloss: To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
pos: verb
examples: The arrangement for certain long-distance trains to call at suburban stations (saving passengers the trouble of journeying to the termini), which proved popular last year, is being extended.
Synonyms: fare
journey
sith
trip
Related words: move
vehicle
Derived words: a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
journeyer
journeylike
journeyman
journeyperson
journeywoman
journeywork
memory journey
microjourney
outjourney
Sabbath-day's journey
wedding journey
Translations:
venom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English venym, from Old French venim, from Vulgar Latin *venīmen, from Early Medieval Latin venīnum, from Classical Latin venēnum (“drug; poison; a charm”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to love”). Doublet of venin and venene.
Inflected forms:
form: venoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An animal toxin intended for defensive or offensive use; a biological poison delivered by bite, sting, etc., to protect an animal or to kill its prey.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] There may be in the cup / A spider steep’d, and one may drink, depart, / And yet partake no venom, for his knowledge / Is not infected...
And from the Boughs brush off the evil dew, / And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew, / Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites, / Or hurtfull Worm with canker’d venom bites […]
I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.
The serious artist […] [is] obsessed by his material; it’s like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.
Venom evolved from saliva and it's used primarily for catching and digesting prey.
gloss: Feeling or speech marked by spite or malice; vitriol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: The venom of such looks, we fairly hope, / Have lost their quality, and that this day / Shall change all griefs and quarrels into love.
[…] as I was feasting my jaundiced eye one morning with a certain newspaper, which I was in the habit of employing as the vehicle of my venom, I was startled at discovering myself conspicuously pointed out in an angry column as a cowardly defamer […]
My daughter […] has no occasion to dispute the identity of your person; the venom of your present language is sufficient to remind her that she speaks with the mortal enemy of her father.
History is a study which has none of the venom of reality in it.
The attack was so unwarranted and delivered with such venom that his unpreparedness for it left him speechless.
Some of these reviews were written in joyous zeal. Others with glee. Some in sorrow, some in anger, and a precious few with venom, of which I have a closely guarded supply.
Derived words: antivenom
antivenomics
antivenomous
dilute Russell's viper venom time
envenom
envenomate
envenomation
envenomization
nonvenomous
outvenom
Russell's viper venom clotting time
Russell's viper venom time
spit venom
venomic
venomics
venomization
venomless
venomlike
venomosalivary
venomosity
venomous
venomously
venomousness
venomsome
Translations:
vertebrate
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of French vertébré, from Latin vertebrātus (“jointed”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: vertebrates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a backbone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, being, or pertaining to Vertebrata, animals with backbones.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An animal having a backbone: one belonging to the subphylum Vertebrata.
pos: noun
examples: Under the white chalk, drawn on the blackboard / Under the x-ray, I'm just a vertebrate
Antonyms: invertebrate
Translations:
vermouth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French vermout, vermouth, from German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of wormwood.
Inflected forms:
form: vermouths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He gazed around until on the lid of a spinet he spotted a promising collection of bottles, gin, whiskey, vermouth and sherry, mixed with violin bows, a flute, a toppling pile of books, six volumes of Grove's Dictionary mingled with paperback thrillers, a guitar without any strings, a pair of binoculars, a meerschaum pipe and a jar half-full of wasps and apricot jam.
Vermouth originated in the 18th century, when wine growers in the foothills of the French and Italian Alps developed a method of enhancing the taste of sour or uncompromising wines with the infusion of a variety of sweeteners, spices, herbs, roots, seeds, flowers, and peel.
Earlier this year while in Madrid, I fell prey to what the Spanish call la hora del vermut, the vermouth hour, a break in the day for a glass, generally before eating.
gloss: A serving of vermouth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As we sat over our vermuths he glorified the Company’s business, and by-and-by I expressed casually my surprise at him not going out there.
Related words: absinthe
Derived words: French vermouth
Italian vermouth
red vermouth
white vermouth
Translations:
spaceman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin spatiumbor.
Old French espace
Anglo-Norman spacebor.
Middle English space
English space
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English spaceman
From space + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: spacemen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An astronaut, often a male astronaut.
pos: noun
tags: childish
informal
examples: I want to be a spaceman when I grow up.
gloss: A humanoid extraterrestrial.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: A spaceman from Mars could easily pick out the most civilized nations here. They are the only ones who know how to make atom bombs.
While in Los Angeles he was contacted by a spaceman from Saturn whose name was Ramu[…]
He was out UFO-hunting in the Mojave Desert, California, when he was greeted by a tall, blond spaceman from Venus
Synonyms: astronaut
rocketman
Related words: spacewoman
guardian
Derived words: spacemanship
Translations:
spaceship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: * space + ship
* (programming operator): From its resemblance to the shape of a flying saucer.
Compound parts: space
ship
Inflected forms:
form: spaceships
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: space ship
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A manned vehicle that flies through space.
pos: noun
gloss: A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
pos: noun
examples: The spaceships look like a row of threshers harvesting a field of wheat; the thickness in the direction of motion is only about 10 cells.
We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.
Synthesis of spaceship flotillas is even more complicated than synthesis of oscillators, since spaceships are like oscillators that move[…]
gloss: The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.
pos: noun
examples: If we reverse the positions of $a and $b, the spaceship will sort in the opposite order[…]
gloss: A computer.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: flying saucer
spacecraft
starship
UFO
Derived words: elementary spaceship
heavyweight spaceship
overweight spaceship
spaceshiplike
Translations:
spacecraft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin spatiumbor.
Old French espace
Anglo-Norman spacebor.
Middle English space
English space
English -craft
English spacecraft
From space + -craft.
Inflected forms:
form: spacecraft
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spacecrafts
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A vehicle that travels through space.
pos: noun
examples: Today, Velcro is used for everything from keeping astronauts from floating off the floor of their spacecrafts to keeping artificial hearts in place, as well as the more mundane tasks of fastening clothing.
The object appeared after a series of routine prelanding procedures in which the crew tested the steering jets, a test that often shakes loose objects from the spacecraft.
For the autocompatibility test, completed with Redwire partner Airbus Defense and Space, both spacecraft were stacked together, just like they will be for launch and the first month of the mission.
Translations:
sophistication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sophisticacion, sophisticacioun, sophisticacoun, from Old French sofisticacion, sophisticacion, from Medieval Latin sophisticātiōnis. By surface analysis, sophisticate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: sophistications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Enlightenment or education.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Cultivated intellectual worldliness; savoir-faire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Deceptive logic; sophistry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Falsification, contamination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Complexity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The police force were unable to deal with the sophistication of the criminal network.
gloss: Ability to deal with complexity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of sophisticating; adulteration.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: the sophistication of drugs
how generally they [drugs] are adulterated by the fraudulent avarice of the feller ; especially when the sophistication is very gainful
Antonyms: provincialism
Derived words: oversophistication
ultrasophistication
unsophistication
Translations: