yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
indie
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From independent, by shortening, + -ie. Used of popular music since the 1980s, and of cinema for some decades before that.
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: indies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Independent; from outside the mainstream.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an indie pop group
an indie video game
You would hide away and find your peace of mind / With some indie record that’s much cooler than mine
gloss: An independent publisher.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He says Ninja Tune retains the master and publishing rights on most of its catalog, making it easy to license quickly. Yet as majors jump on the videogame bandwagon, he fears indies may lose that outlet.
gloss: A work released by an independent publisher.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A person who listens to indie music and follows indie fashion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: grindie
indiedom
indie folk
indie-like
indieness
indie pop
indie press
indie rock
indietronica
Indiewood
landfill indie
stindie
Translations:
imperialist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From imperial + -ist, after French impérialiste.
Base: imperial
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: more imperialist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most imperialist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: imperialists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to imperialism.
pos: adj
examples: On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial power— the reconquest of the power of decision in all domains of national life, the prelude to that reconquest of identity which is at the heart of the renaissance undertaken on the basis of fundamental national demands, and ceaselessly contested, by every means available, on every level, and notably on the internal level'.
gloss: An advocate of imperialism.
pos: noun
examples: "The Japanese imperialists enforced the harshest colonial rule in history over Korea, bringing unspeakably horrible misfortune and sufferings and disasters to the Korean nation," said a spokesman for the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of Korea, according to the state-run Korean Central News Agency.
Translations:
guff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Nonsensical talk or thinking.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: “… That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh.[…]If she had her way, she’d ruin the company inside a year with her hare-brained schemes ; love of the people, and that sort of guff.”
gloss: Superfluous information.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
gloss: Insolent or otherwise unacceptable remarks.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: “Oh, my God. Did-did you guys kill him?” “No! No one murdered him” “No! What... He was just...” “We found him in there.” “(laughs) I'm just giving you guff. And, uh, just so you know, I am feeding on you guys right now.”
gloss: A fart; act of breaking wind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
gloss: To fart.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To mislead.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: "Let me see if I get you. You can't bear to help convict Ashe of murder because you doubt if he's guilty, so you're scooting. Right?"
[…]"That's close enough," Wolfe said.
"Not close enough for me. If you expect me to[…] invite a stiff fine for running out on a subpoena[…], don't try to guff me. Say we doubt if Ashe is guilty, but we think he may get tagged because we know Mandelbaum wouldn't go to trial without a good case. Say also our bank account needs a shot in the arm, which is true. So we decide to see if we can[…]"
Derived words: guffer
guff off
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пърдя
roman: pǎrdja
lang: Dutch
word: protten
lang: Dutch
word: scheten laten
lang: Dutch
word: winden laten
lang: German
word: pupen
lang: German
word: pupsen
lang: German
word: furzen
erogenous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rem-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rém-e-tider.?
Pre-Greekder.?
Ancient Greek ἐράω (eráō)
Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gènebor.
English -gen
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English -genous
English erogenous
From Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs, “love”) + English -genous (“producing”).
Inflected forms:
form: more erogenous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most erogenous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sensitive to sexual arousal.
pos: adj
examples: His neck, shoulders, upper back, and spine were erogenous zones.
gloss: Causing sexual arousal; erotogenic.
pos: adj
examples: give him an erogenous massage
Derived words: erogenousness
erogenous zone
Translations:
dotty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: See dote, or compare totty (“unsteady, dizzy”).
Inflected forms:
form: dottier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dottiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dotties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mildly insane or eccentric; often, senile.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
UK
colloquial
examples: My nan has got dottier and dottier since passing the age of eighty.
Knockers in this part of the world seem intended for ornament only, — nobody seems to pay any attention to them when they’re used. The old lady upstairs must be either deaf or dotty.
"Good God! I don't want another accident here. I should go dotty if I had to face all that again."
Mr. Fox stopped digging and stared at Badger as though he had gone completely dotty. "My dear old furry frump," he said, "do you know anyone in the whole world who wouldn't swipe a few chickens if their children were starving to death?"
gloss: Having an unsteady gait.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dated
gloss: A shotgun.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: Never bummy but I'm scummy fam, I used to burgle houses
Then some OGs was consignin me them ounces
Wet man round me had me feeling like I’m drownin
Fam we really went there with a brownin
Me and next man really went there with a dotty
05 murder squad nicked me for a [censored]
They dont know what I’ve been through
Red dot on his head like a hindu
Scrams, Face just stack for the Wesson
Ca’ be the gunplay that we’re into
It’s like them man chill with the singer
Two dot dots there in the dinger
Yard man’s got a dotty in the rave
But he’s still tryna do the La Linga
We’ve had guns and shanks without awareness
We’ve had guns and shanks we’re so fearless
Bro I’m booky, I’ll take your food if my belly starts rumblin
They rap about bootings, they ain’t blammed nobody
Hold that properly when I bang that dotty
I put sniff in a rex, and I slang that bobby
I’m out here from the night till dawn
The dotty’s out but I like it sawn
Derived words: dottily
dottiness
Translations:
hubble-bubble
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hubble-bubbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hubble bubble
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bubbling sound.
pos: noun
gloss: A hookah.
pos: noun
examples: In India, the lower orders use a hookah or hubble bubble, which is made of a cocoa-nut shell well cleaned out, having a hole through the soft eye of the shell, and another on the opposite side, a little lower down, the first of which is used for the chauffoir, and the other to suck or draw the smoke from.
His favourite pipe is a huge hubble-bubble, which he will construct in a few minutes by inserting a small piece of Bamboo for a bowl obliquely into a large cylinder about six inches from the bottom containing water, through which the smoke passes to a long slender Bamboo tube.
I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks.
[…] and then all at once the muttering bubbling noise made by Yussuf's pipe seemed to be coming from the old lawyer's parted lips, and the pipe, instead of justifying its name of “hubble-bubble,” kept on saying snorruk—snorruk, after the fashion of Mr. Burne.
Translations:
slyness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English slynesse. By surface analysis, sly + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: slynesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being sly.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: With his natural slyness, he was able to talk his way out of trouble.
gloss: The result or product of being sly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: craftiness
Translations:
libidinal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating or pertaining to the libido.
pos: adj
Translations:
inserting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: insertings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something inserted or set in, such as lace in garments.
pos: noun
examples: Flax handkerchiefs composed in chief value of edgings and insertings of cotton lace made on the Lever or Gothrough machine are properly dutiable at the rate of 70 per cent […]
Translations:
kuru
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Fore kúru (literally “trembling, shivering”). Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *kút(V) (“dangling, shaking”) if cognate with the reduplicated element of Yagaria gúli gúli hu- (“be loose, rattle”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: By the late 1950s, kuru was the leading cause of death among Fore women, and it had killed so many that men outnumbered women by three to one.
Translations:
crinkle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English crenclen (“to bend, buckle”), from Old English *crinclian, frequentative form of Old English crincan (“to yield”), from Proto-Germanic *kringaną (“to turn, to fall, to yield”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind”). Cognate with North Frisian krenge, krönge (“to obtain, reach, attain”), Dutch krinkelen (“to turn, wind”). Related to cringe.
Inflected forms:
form: crinkles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crinkling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crinkled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crinkled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: crinkles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To fold, crease, crumple, or wad.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He crinkled the wrapper and threw it out.
The old man's lined face crinkled into a smile.
gloss: To rustle, as stiff cloth when moved.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The green wheat crinkles like a lake.
All the rooms were full of crinkling silks.
gloss: A wrinkle, fold, crease, or unevenness.
pos: noun
examples: He observed the crinkles forming around his eyes and suddenly felt old.
gloss: The act of crinkling.
pos: noun
Derived words: uncrinkle
crinklebutt
crinkle-crankle
crinkle-cut
crinkle-leaved poison
crinkle-patterned
crinkleroot
crinkly
Translations:
unevenness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unevennesse, equivalent to uneven + -ness.
Base: uneven
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: unevennesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or characteristic of being uneven; irregularity; inconsistency; the lack of smoothness or continuity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The unevenness of his voice betrayed his nervousness.
gloss: The result or product of being uneven.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A rough or uneven thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His chinne, a thorny hairy unevennesse, / Doth threaten, and some daily change possesse.
Translations:
powerhouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From power + house.
Compound parts: power
house
Inflected forms:
form: powerhouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A power station; the building housing a power station
pos: noun
examples: The new powerhouse comprised two tube turbines with a total capacity of 4,500 kW under 18.3 feet head.
gloss: Any source of power, energy or strength; a source of influence or inspiration
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The company has been a powerhouse in its industry for many years.
The mitochondrion is the powerhouse of the cell.
She's a powerhouse of ideas.
The Soviet Union often led the world in the Olympics during the Cold War, and East Germany was an Olympic powerhouse — though athletes from both are now believed to have been systematically and massively doped[…]
While the California economy maintains its powerhouse status, outranking even those of most countries, the state’s most-powerful sectors — including tech companies and supply chain logistics — have struggled to keep their footing, pummeled by high interest rates, investor skittishness, labor strife and other turmoil.
Long Europe’s powerhouse, Germany is struggling with a potent mix of short-term and deeper structural problems that – along with a divided and seemingly ineffectual government – have prompted economists to talk of the “sick man of Europe”.
The vocal powerhouse has sold more than 250 million albums during her 40-year career and has won five Grammy awards.
gloss: A very good hand of cards, likely to win.
pos: noun
examples: A hand like A-2-3-4 is a powerhouse in Omaha/8, because it can easily make the best low hand and capture half the pot.
Related words: workhorse
Translations:
lawbreaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lawbreker, lawe brekare; equivalent to law + breaker.
Base: law
Inflected forms:
form: lawbreakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: law-breaker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who breaks (violates) the law, a criminal.
pos: noun
examples: I'm just a poor old man. I have no time for law-breakers. My legs are grey. My ears are gnarled. My eyes are old and bent.
People often assume that speedboarders are disrespectful lawbreakers.
Mr. Grimm pleaded guilty to a single count of tax fraud and was convicted in July 2015; he went on to serve eight months in prison. Lawmaker, law enforcer and lawbreaker — that’s a heck of a résumé, and alliterative, too!
Translations:
lethally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lethal
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lethally
From lethal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lethally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lethally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lethal manner, in manner which is or will be fatal.
pos: adv
examples: He was lethally poisoned by the cobra and died a day later of it.
Translations:
lethargically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lethargic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English lethargically
From lethargic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more lethargically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lethargically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lethargic manner, without energy, tiredly.
pos: adv
Translations:
tiredly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tired
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tiredly
From tired + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tiredly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tiredly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tired manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
leniency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lenience + -y, from Latin lēn(iō) (“to soften, soothe”), from lēnis (“soft”).
Base: lenience
Affixes: -y#Etymology_3
Inflected forms:
form: leniencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The convicted felon asked for leniency, but because the crime was so heinous the judge refused and gave the maximum sentence.
gloss: An act of being lenient.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: leniency applicant
leniency application
Leniency Notice
leniency policy
Leniency Program
overleniency
Translations:
lenience
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin lēn(iō) (“to soften, soothe”) -i- + -ence, from lēnis (“soft”).
Affixes: -i-
-ence
Inflected forms:
form: leniences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Leniency: mercy or forgiveness in the assignment of punishment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was lenience in the sentence given by the court, and he got the minimum prison time.
Translations:
leniently
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lenient
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English leniently
From lenient + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more leniently
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most leniently
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lenient manner.
pos: adv
examples: With Assyria in full control of the Levantine littoral, Philistia, which was vital to Assyrian political and commercial aspirations, was treated leniently and was awarded “favored nation” status.
Translations:
amygdalin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From amygdal- + -in.
Base: amygdal
Inflected forms:
form: amygdaline
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A glycoside of benzaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide found in bitter almonds, and in the kernels of some other fruit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
festal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French festal, from Latin festum (“feast”).
Inflected forms:
form: more festal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most festal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: festive, relating to a festival or feast
pos: adj
examples: His wife had decorated it all up with hollyhocks and poison ivy, and it looked real festal and bowery.
They were, at any rate in their inception, genuinely religious or genuinely social and festal; and from either point of view they were far better than the secrecy of private indulgence which characterizes our modern world in these matters.
Amidst this fetor the Burmese masses live their festal and contemplative existences.
Athanasius of Alexandria’s thirty-ninth Festal Letter remains one of the most significant documents in the history of the Christian Bible. Athanasius wrote the letter, which contains the first extant list of precisely the twenty-seven books of the current New Testament canon, in 367 C.E., during the final decade of his life.
Translations:
copiously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English copious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English copiously
From copious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more copiously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most copiously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a copious manner; plentifully.
pos: adv
examples: A copiously tattooed young man in a blue jumpsuit sits mansplayed across from her, shackled to the rail on his side of the hallway, staring at Penny.
Translations:
contiguity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French contiguïté (whence -ity), from Late Latin contiguitās, from Latin contiguus (“bordering upon”), from contingō (“to touch or border upon”).
Base: -ity
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: contiguities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state in which two or more physical objects are physically touching one another or in which sections of a plane border on one another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the mechanical conception of ‘cause’ it is…demanded that there should be spatial and temporal contiguity between the movements involved.
Antonyms: discontiguity
Translations:
circularly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English circulerlich, equivalent to circular + -ly.
Base: circular
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more circularly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most circularly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a circular way.
pos: adv
Translations:
surpassing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more surpassing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most surpassing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: surpassings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Becoming superior to others; becoming excellent; exceptional; exceeding.
pos: adj
examples: "Yet once again," exclaimed he, passionately, "let me gaze on that beautiful and beloved face! let me see if sorrow has cast a shadow on its surpassing loveliness! I will not let her know how near I am, and how wretched! No, in secret and in silence will I look upon her once more; and then, farewell for ever!"
gloss: The act or process by which something is surpassed; a bettering.
pos: noun
examples: In both of these surpassings, the human being, in being freed, is freed both to be itself and to be beyond itself; but the second orients us more fully towards being free beyond self-determination.
Translations:
dramatist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dramatists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of playwright.
pos: noun
Translations:
laboriously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English laborious
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English laboriously
From laborious + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: labouriously
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: laborously
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: labourously
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: With great expenditure of effort, in a manner requiring much labor.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The heavy man laboriously climbed the steep mountain, pulling himself up inch by inch.
At the far end of the houses the head gardener stood waiting for his mistress, and he gave her strips of bass to tie up her nosegay. This she did slowly and laboriously, with knuckly old fingers that shook.
For many years the coal measures on the shores of Lough Allen were worked only in the most primitive fashion, and the coal was transported laboriously in the inevitable ass carts of the Irish peasant.
Translations:
lackadaisically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lackadaisical
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lackadaisically
From lackadaisical + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lackadaisically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lackadaisically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lackadaisical manner; without enthusiasm or interest; perfunctorily.
pos: adv
Translations:
lady-in-waiting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From lady + in + waiting (“attendance, service”). (Waiting in the sense of a waiter, not passing time.)
Inflected forms:
form: ladies-in-waiting
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lady, often a noblewoman, in the household of a queen, princess, or other woman of higher rank who attends her as a personal assistant, generally a role considered an honour.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he electreſs [Sophia Charlotte of Hanover] was heard to ſay to one of her ladies in waiting, "that it vexed her to the very heart to go and act in Pruſſia the theatrical queen along with her Eſop.["]
This night, after eleven o'clock, as the royal family were returning from Drury-lane theatre, when the carriages had reached the end of John-street, Pall Mall, a stone was flung with such force as to break one of the glass pannels in the coach, in which were their majesties and the lady in waiting; which, after striking the queen on the cheek, fell into lady Harrington's lap.
Of a sudden a man leapt up to the top of the wall from the other side, and then, hanging for a moment, dropped lightly upon the grass within. All the ladies-in-waiting shrieked at the suddenness of his coming, but the man ran to the Queen and kneeled at her feet, and she saw it was Robin Hood.
The political influence wielded by many of the court ladies, and especially by the first lady-in-waiting (mother of the present Emperor), bears a certain resemblance to that which the eunuchs wielded under the later Manchus at the court of Peking. [...] And behind the 30 ladies-in-waiting there are the rank and file of female palace attendants, some 300, all of Kyoto stock—quite sufficient to keep any conscientious chamberlain on the qui vive.
In the Queen's coach are the Queen's stateroom and bathroom, the Royal Family lounge, lady-in-waiting's compartment and bathroom, and dresser's room. […] Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret are accommodated in one coach, and each of the two suites comprises a stateroom with its adjoining bathroom. A bedroom is provided for each of two ladies-in-waiting, and a separate compartment for the maid.
At last she [Makeda, the Queen of Sheba] was overcome by a desire to go to Jerusalem and see with her own eyes the things about which she had heard. [...] She chose as her companion on the journey her lady-in-waiting, and the two of them travelled in sedan chairs mounted on the backs of camels.
Young girls from wealthy families were often sent to the royal court to help the queen and noblewomen. After becoming a teenager, a girl could then be named a lady-in-waiting. These ladies assisted their mistress in any way and usually went with her when she traveled.
Translations:
lamentably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lamentably, equivalent to lamentable + -ly.
Base: lamentable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more lamentably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lamentably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Regrettably; in a manner deserving or inspiring lamentation.
pos: adv
examples: Lamentably the good too die; we will all mourn his passing.
gloss: With lamentation.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
examples: [S]he […] lamentably recounted to hym all the felonyes / and iniuries done to her by ſyr Hewe Spencer […]
I loue a ballad but euen too well, if it be dolefull matter merrily ſet downe: or a very pleaſant thing indeede, and ſung lamentably.
He spoke learnedly and lamentably upon the evils and inconveniences of his own profession, […]
Translations:
regrettably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰreh₁d-der.
Proto-Germanic *grētaną
Frankish *grātander.
Old French *greter
Old French regreterbor.
Middle English regretten
English regret
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English regrettable
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English regrettably
From regrettable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more regrettably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most regrettably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner inspiring or deserving regret.
pos: adv
examples: Your exam results are regrettably poor: you should regretfully reflect on all the time wasted reading comics.
Translations:
anthocyanin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English antho-
English cyan
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English cyanin
English anthocyanin
From antho- + cyanin.
Inflected forms:
form: anthocyanins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many water-soluble red to violet plant pigments related to the flavonoids (more noticeable in autumn after its chlorophyll decomposes).
pos: noun
Translations:
flavonoid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From flavone + -oid, from Latin flāvus (“yellow”). Not related to flavor.
Base: flavone
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: flavonoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many compounds that are plant metabolites, being formally derived from flavone; they have antioxidant properties, and sometimes contribute to flavor.
pos: noun
Translations:
lamplighter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lamp + lighter.
Compound parts: lamp
lighter
Inflected forms:
form: lamplighters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to light streetlights at dusk and snuff them at dawn.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 1,000 crossing-sweepers; another thousand chimney-sweeps, and the same number of turncocks and lamp-lighters;
I did the hurdles over two or three garden-walls, but so did the flyer who was on my tracks, and he drove me back into the straight and down to High Street like any lamplighter.
gloss: Any device or contrivance for lighting lamps, such as a length of paper to be set alight at one end.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: […] and finally, laughing and all tired out, they stopped to rest and to think of some other game. They played “Buz” till they were rested, and then “Genteel Lady,” where every time a little girl made a mistake she had to have a lamplighter stuck in her hair.
gloss: A kind of tall bicycle.
pos: noun
Derived words: lamplighter group
Translations:
streetlight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From street + light.
Compound parts: street
light
Inflected forms:
form: streetlights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: street light
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: street-light
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any large outdoor light used to illuminate a public area, usually urban.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: At night the streetlights of Paris are beautiful to see.
gloss: The light produced by these lights.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Fool, I'm the kinda G the little homies wanna be like / On my knees in the night, sayin' prayers in the streetlight
Derived words: streetlight effect
Translations:
landlocked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
geography
natural-sciences
real-estate
Etymology: From land + locked (i.e. "locked-in by land on all sides").
Compound parts: land
locked
Inflected forms:
form: land-locked
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a country, region, etc., surrounded by land (having no borders with the sea).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Switzerland is landlocked and obviously will never be a great sea power and must always trade overland.
Located in Kowloon, with an area of 9.36 km², Wong Tai Sin is the only district in Hong Kong that is totally landlocked. It has a population of 420,183 (2011) and a high density of 44.891/km².
gloss: Living in freshwater, such as landlocked salmon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a property or parcel, surrounded by other property and having no access to a public road.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: An easement of necessity, said the court, may be provided when property is landlocked and the owner needs access to that property from a public highway.
In some states, the law allows for easements by necessity, especially in circumstances where a property is landlocked.
For example, if a property is landlocked (entirely surrounded by other privately owned land) and has no access to a public street...
Translations:
larcenous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English larceny
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English larcenous
From larceny + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more larcenous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most larcenous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: larcenious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Given to larceny, tending to thievery.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling theft, often applied to legal actions that seem unfair.
pos: adj
examples: These late fees are larcenous. I should have read the fine print before signing.
Derived words: larcenously
Translations:
buggered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the verb bugger.
Inflected forms:
form: more buggered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most buggered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Broken; not properly functioning.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
slang
examples: Your telly is buggered, best get it fixed.
It's well and truly buggered now; you may as well throw it out.
One of the bands that caused my knee to get even more buggered at the last Epitapth (from too much dancing).
I'm sorry, but the tax system is more buggered than that...
I used to have the unit istalled in a renault 5 in a vertical postion, from which the unit was great - never skipped once even on the most buggered cd's i had and the worst roads i could find.
gloss: In trouble; in a bad situation.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
slang
examples: The police caught you on CCTV, now you're really buggered.
If the banks go abroad we're even more buggered (in the short term, at least, and politicians work pretty much by gradient descent) than if they don't.
gloss: Tired, worn-out, exhausted.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
examples: You'll have to take over from here, mate, I'm completely buggered.
I am not sure why, but I'm more buggered after I get to the US than I am when I return home. I think it has a lot to do with it being easier to align my sleeping patterns with flying in to Oz during the night (arriving early morning), than it is flying into the US and landing at 10 pm at night.
gloss: damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
slang
examples: I'm buggered if I'm going to drive all that way at this time of night.
Synonyms: kaput
stuffed
in for it
done in
exhausted
Derived words: unbuggered
Translations:
breakout
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
video-games
Etymology: Deverbal from break out. The video game genre is named after Breakout, the first game of this kind, released in 1976 by Atari.
Inflected forms:
form: breakouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An escape from prison.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An escape from any restrictive or confining situation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The point at which visibility returns after passing through clouds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An outbreak (sudden eruption of disease etc.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But for those of you who never had teenage acne or who had some teenage acne problems and outgrew them, it is a real shock to start having breakouts in the mid twenties to late thirties.
gloss: A breakdown of statistics; a detailed view of component parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A room in a hotel etc. that can be taken by a smaller group at a large conference.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A style of video game that involves moving a paddle to deflect a ball into a wall of bricks to eliminate them one by one.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] a "breakout" game where a ball is bounced off a bar at the bottom of the screen up to a wall of bricks. Each time the ball strikes a brick it is eliminated and points are awarded.
[…] a breakout game in Greenfoot […] In breakout the user hits a ball with a paddle into bricks […]
[…] a breakout game clone on the left, with rectangular bricks.
[…] a breakout game which is based on a 1970's arcade game, where a player character moves a paddle on the lower part of the game screen in order to break bricks on the upper part of the game screen using a ball that may bounce back […]
gloss: Of a book, film, or other work: leading its author to sudden mainstream success.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Then in 1991, Jada won her breakout role playing Lena James on NBC's A Different World.
gloss: Splitting a signal into several signals.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
examples: breakout box; breakout cable
Synonyms: jailbreak
prison break
Related words: outbreak
Derived words: breakout board
breakout character
breakout force
breakout group
breakout room
breakout session
Translations:
bracken
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English braken, probably of Scandinavian/North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *brakni (“undergrowth”), related to Proto-Germanic *brekaną and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreg- (“to break”). Cognates include Danish bregne and Swedish bräken (“fern”).
Inflected forms:
form: brackens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several coarse ferns, of the genus Pteridium, that form dense thickets; often poisonous to livestock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: An area of countryside heavily populated by this fern.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: brackened
brackeny
Translations:
billiard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French billard with the insertion of the second i and orthographic representation of the French palatalized /j/ sound, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).
Inflected forms:
form: billiards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to the game of billiards.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: a billiard table; a billiard ball
gloss: A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.
pos: noun
Derived words: billiard ball
billiard green
billiard room
billiard table
Translations:
bendy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bindaną
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Proto-Germanic *-janą
Proto-Germanic *bandijaną
Proto-West Germanic *bandijan
Old English bendan
Middle English benden
English bend
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English bendy
From bend + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bendier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bendiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bendies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the ability to be bent easily.
pos: adj
examples: Bendy rulers are far more fun than the wooden ones.
gloss: Of a person, flexible; having the ability to bend easily; resilient.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: When I was in the scene in the barn he encouraged me to do as many contortions as I could, and he seemed to like the fact I was so 'bendy.' … After all how many young actresses in Hollywood are "bendy"?
gloss: Containing many bends and twists.
pos: adj
examples: a bendy road
gloss: Articulated.
pos: adj
examples: “The bendy bus is very easy to get on to and can carry twice as many passengers and more people can sit down,” Ms. Cottam said.
gloss: A bendy bus.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: Finally for November, on the 26th double-deckers were restored to the 29, which under bendies had gained an unsavoury reputation that it simply hadn't merited before this form of transport was imposed upon it; […]
Derived words: bendiness
bendy-boy
bendy bus
bendy straw
Translations:
correcting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: correctings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The making of a correction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the correctings of the errors of our own inexperience […]
Translations:
disinterest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English interest
English disinterest
From dis- + interest.
Inflected forms:
form: disinterests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disinteresting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disinterested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disinterested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An absence of interest (attention or curiosity).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She eyed him over her martini with cool disinterest.
[…] there was no neighbourliness, worth the word, between what the postmistress called ‘our old people’ and ‘that new set’. Polite calls paid by the former on the latter were as politely returned; but at that it ended. The gulf of mutual disinterest was unbridged.
The root of the matter, as a letter and an editorial in our November issue pointed out, is disinterest in the railway, whatever it does.
Salem politely admired the rifles, but his disinterest was hard to mask.
gloss: The absence of interest (bias or stake).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He maintained a posture of scrupulous disinterest in Balkan affairs […]
gloss: What is contrary to interest or advantage.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: 1676, Joseph Glanvill, Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, London: John Baker and Henry Mortlock, Essay 2 “Of Scepticism and Certainty,” p. 45,
Now the progress of Knowledg being stopt by extreme Confidence on the one hand, and Diffidence on the other; I think that both are necessary, though perhaps one is more seasonable: For to believe that every thing is certain, is as great a disinterest to Science, as to conceive that nothing is so:
gloss: To render disinterested.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Moscow Bolsheviks may disinterest themselves in the fate of Ukrainian or White Russian territories under Polish rule; but nationalist States in the Ukraine or White Russia could never evince such indifference.
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: desinterès
lang: Dutch
word: desinteresse
lang: Esperanto
word: malemo
lang: Finnish
word: välinpitämättömyys
lang: Finnish
word: kiinnostumattomuus
lang: French
word: désintérêt
lang: German
word: Desinteresse
lang: Hungarian
word: érdektelenség
lang: Hungarian
word: közömbösség
lang: Hungarian
word: közöny
lang: Irish
word: neamhshuim
lang: Māori
word: arokore
lang: Occitan
word: desinterès
lang: Polish
word: brak zainteresowania
lang: Romanian
word: dezinteres
lang: Spanish
word: desinterés
lang: Swedish
word: ointresse
lameness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lame
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English lameness
From lame + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: lamenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An impediment to walking due to the feet or legs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His lameness may have prevented him from walking but it didn't stop him from running for public office.
gloss: The quality of being lame, pathetic or uncool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: I can't believe the lameness of the special effects in that movie.
Translations:
laminate
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1666; borrowed from New Latin laminātus, perfect passive participle of laminō (attested since the first quarter of the 16th century), from Latin lāmina (“thin sheet of metal/other material”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
Inflected forms:
form: laminates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: laminating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: laminated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: laminated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: laminates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To assemble from thin sheets glued together to make a thicker sheet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We'll laminate the piece of wood with grain going in different directions to make a really strong hull for the boat.
gloss: To cover (something flat, usually paper) in adhesive protective plastic.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We laminated the printouts so we could use them as signage.
gloss: To form (metal etc.) into a thin plate, as by rolling.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause to separate into thin plates or layers; to divide into thin plates.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Material formed of thin sheets glued together.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: delaminate
overlaminate
lamination
laminator
Translations:
delaminate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English laminate
English delaminate
From de- + laminate.
Inflected forms:
form: delaminates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: delaminating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: delaminated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: delaminated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause (something assembled by lamination) to come apart into the layers that make it up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To come apart into its component layers.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Water damage caused the plywood of the floor to delaminate. The layers came apart and the whole piece had to be replaced.
The difference in the coefficient of thermal expansion between the film and the coating can cause the coating to delaminate.
Synonyms: delam
Derived words: delam
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: delaminoida
lang: Finnish
word: palstauttaa
landless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English londlees, from Old English landlēas, equivalent to land + -less. Cognate with Dutch landeloos (“landless”), German landlos (“landless”), Icelandic landlaus (“landless”).
Base: land
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not owning land.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The landless younger sons of the gentry often entered the military as the only way to make a living.
The landless flock to the cities seeking jobs.
By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.
gloss: Not containing any land.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We set sail toward the landless horizon.
Antonyms: landed
Derived words: farmlessness
landlessness
Translations: