yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
typewriter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From type + writer.
Compound parts: type
writer
Inflected forms:
form: typewriters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper.
pos: noun
gloss: One who uses a typewriter; a typist.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: So many mongrel words, like typist and typewritist, have been introduced, we propose a fixed designation of—typewriter, to mean the person who writes, and writing machine, the device.
He had taken the wife to his raw new palace in San Diego, where she and her people occupied a wing of great price, and Cheyne, in a veranda-room, between a secretary and a typewriter, who was also a telegraphist, toiled along wearily from day to day.
The typewriter got up and disappeared out a back door, and soon she come back with a man, and he said, "Can I be of some help, Mr. Higgens?"
gloss: A machine gun or submachine gun (from the noise it makes when firing).
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
examples: The battle had opened in earnest. From the wooded ridge came in reply the clacking of "typewriters,” and bullets whined over our heads.
It was like sinking to sleep in a soft, dry bed with a big drink of brandy in you after you're dog-tired from a tour of duty on the firing-step, or slipping into a warm bath when you're lousy-dirty and chilled to the bone from crawling through mud and filth and dodging flares and 'typewriter' bullets half the night.
Why, any day I'd go up against a typewriter, with a forty-five. One shot I'd need and there'd be time for three while he was getting that damn' thing swung around and pointed —
Fortunately we were on the edge of a shallow shell hole when the sentry caught our movements and Fritz cut loose with the "typewriters."
gloss: A prank in which fingers are jabbed roughly onto someone's chest followed by striking them over the ear in imitation of using an old-fashioned typewriter.
pos: noun
Synonyms: typographer
Related words: type
typewrite
typist
write
touch-typist
Derived words: blind typewriter
Chicago typewriter
Jewish typewriter
memory typewriter
microtypewriter
telephone typewriter
TV typewriter
typewriter apostrophe
typewriterless
typewriterlike
typewriter-paired
typewritery
Translations:
possibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English possible
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 possibly
From possible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more possibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most possibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Perhaps; indicates that the proposition may be true (is not certainly false) regardless of any facts or circumstances known to, stated by or implied by the speaker.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonyms: maybe, perhaps, mayhap, mayhaps, by chance, perchance, peradventure; conceivably
Possibly, they will make gains in the midterm elections.
It was possibly the costliest mistake in the organization's history.
This rare and possibly unique specimen must be conserved.
“Well, everything does point to either a major epeirogenic deformation, or possibly just a simple disruption of isostasy throughout the entire plate network.”
That, however, is something the ZOA has seemed unwilling to do, on the theory that Bannon is a self-declared, and possibly even sincere, supporter of the Jewish state.
gloss: In the realm of possibility; indicates that the action may successfully be performed (is not impossible) regardless of any facts or circumstances known to, stated by or implied by the speaker that might limit the performance.
pos: adv
examples: I'm much stronger than you, so you can't possibly win.
I couldn't possibly be there on time.
I couldn't possibly cheat on my wife.
It seems unlikely, but, yes, they could possibly win even now.
The police don't know him, and the information they have leads them to think he could possibly have murdered his wife.
Related words: contingently
incidentally
Translations:
possible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English possible, from Old French possible, from Latin possibilis (“possible”), from posse, possum (“to be able”); see power. Displaced Middle English acumendlic (“possible”), from Old English ācumendlīċ (“possible”). Compare also Old English mihtelīċ (“strong, capable, powerful, possible”), which was cognate with Old High German mahtlīh (“possible”) and Old Norse máttulígr (“mighty, possible”). Compare also Dutch mogelijk (“possible”) and German möglich (“possible”).
Inflected forms:
form: more possible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most possible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Able but not certain to happen; neither inevitable nor impossible.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Rain tomorrow is possible, but I wouldn't bet on it.
It's not just possible, it's probable that there will be rain tomorrow.
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;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
gloss: Capable of being done or achieved; feasible.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: It's possible for anyone to learn to play the bagpipes.
And success in minor degree, in the sense in which he uses the term "success," is only somewhat more possible than success in winning the White House chair.
Peace between Israel and the Arab countries is "more possible than any time before," says ex-Arab League U.N. ambassador Clovis Maskoud.
Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.
gloss: Being considered, e.g. for a position.
pos: adj
examples: Jones and Smith are both possible for the opening in sales.
gloss: Apparently valid, likely, plausible.
pos: adj
Synonyms: futurable
possible
Antonyms: impossible
Related words: contingent
improbable
incidental
possibility
potent
potential
probable
Derived words: anything is possible
art of the possible
ASAP
as much as possible
as quickly as possible
as soon as possible
compossible
counterpossible
humanly possible
if possible
nonpossible
possibilist
possibleness
possible world
possibly
unpossible
Translations:
propeller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English propel
English -er
English propeller
From propel + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: propellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: propellor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
rare
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, propels.
pos: noun
gloss: A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.
pos: noun
examples: The plane’s propeller spun rapidly before takeoff.
The boat is powered by a single propeller.
He repaired the damaged propeller after the storm.
"No motor," Tranny says. "It snag bad."
 Right. The spiderweb would get wrapped around the propeller.
gloss: A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer.
pos: noun
gloss: A spinnerbait.
pos: noun
Related words: prop
propulsion
Derived words: constant-speed propeller
fishtail propeller
P-factor
propeller beanie
propeller cap
propellered
propellerhead
propeller head
propellerless
propellerlike
propeller shaft
propliner
Translations:
mighty
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mighty, mightie, mighti, myghty, miȝty, maȝty, from Old English mihtiġ, mehtiġ, meahtiġ, mæhtiġ (“mighty”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahtīg (“mighty”), from Proto-Germanic *mahtīgaz (“mighty”), equivalent to might + -y.
Cognate with Scots michty, mychty, Saterland Frisian machtich, Dutch machtig, German Low German machtig, German mächtig, Swedish mäktig.
Base: might
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: mightier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: mightiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mightie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mightie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Very strong; possessing might.
pos: adj
examples: He's a mighty wrestler, but you are faster than him.
Wise in heart, and mighty in strength.
gloss: Very heavy and powerful.
pos: adj
examples: Thor swung his mighty hammer.
He gave the ball a mighty hit.
gloss: Very large; hefty.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Having listened attentively to the statement of Wandle Schoonhoven, giving an occasionable grunt, as he shovelled a mighty spoonful of Indian pudding into his mouth […]
gloss: Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful.
pos: adj
examples: His mighty works
Under his ſpecial eie / Abſtemious I [Samson] grew up and thriv'd amain; / He led me on to mightieſt deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Againſt the uncircumciſ'd, our enemies.
Mighty was their fuss about little matters.
gloss: Excellent, extremely good.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Tonight's a mighty opportunity to have a party.
She's a mighty cook.
gloss: Very; to a high degree.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: You can leave that food in your locker for the weekend, but it's going to smell mighty bad when you come back on Monday.
Pork chops boiled with turnip greens make a mighty fine meal.
The lady is not heard of, and the King mighty angry and the Lord sent to the Tower.
'He is a mighty handsome man!' 'I don't think so,' said Tess coldly.
"You see, between you an' me close-tiled, I look on this South American business as a mighty serious thing, and if I have a pal with me I want a man I can bank on."
I was mighty glad that our entrance into the interior of Caprona had been inside a submarine rather than in any other form of vessel. I could readily understand how it might have been that Caprona had been invaded in the past by venturesome navigators without word of it ever reaching the outside world, for I can assure you that only by submarine could man pass up that great sluggish river, alive.
I pounded on a farmhouse / Lookin' for a place to stay / I was mighty, mighty tired / I had come a long, long way
I was walkin' down the street / And it was gettin' mighty late
And I know my love, it's about that time / Make me feel, mighty real
Derived words: high and mighty
how the mighty have fallen
mightily
mightiness
mighty dollar
mighty oaks from little acorns grow
overmighty
unmighty
Translations:
Thatcherite
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Thatcher + -ite, named after British prime minister Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013).
Base: Thatcher
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: more Thatcherite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Thatcherite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Thatcherites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Thatcherism.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: a Thatcherite policy
Morgan, by his own description represented the new spirit of Thatcherite enterprise.
gloss: Supporting Thatcherism.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: He has a Thatcherite outlook on life.
gloss: An advocate of Thatcherism.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
thrombosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θρόμβωσις (thrómbōsis, “curdling, clotting”). By surface analysis, thrombus + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: thromboses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The formation of thrombi in the blood vessels of a living organism, causing obstruction of the circulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cure for thrombosis at the heart of London was to start work quickly on the new Victoria line. A high-level decision to proceed with this railway was urgently awaited
Blood-clotting platelets had surged like minnows to the site of injury, clumping together to form a thrombosis that blocked the artery, causing a heart attack and tissue death.
Translations:
execution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Old French execution (c.1360), from Latin exsecutiō, an agent noun from exsequor (“to follow out”), from ex (“out”) + sequor (“follow”). Equivalent to execute + -ion.
Base: execute
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: executions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Already the poor man saw himself crowned by the might of his arm Emperor of Trebizond at least; and so, led away by the intense enjoyment he found in these pleasant fancies, he set himself forthwith to put his scheme into execution.
gloss: The state of being accomplished.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The mission's successful execution lifted the troops' morale.
gloss: The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Efforts to unionize were routinely met with clubbings, shootings, jailings, blacklistings and executions, perpetrated not only by well-armed legions of company goons, but also by police officers, deputies, National Guardsmen and even regular soldiers.
gloss: The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Specifically, the seizure of a debtor's goods or property in default of payment.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: There are two executions in the house, one for sixteen hundred, the other for two thousand three hundred pounds.
gloss: The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker.
Synonyms: pursuance
Related words: execute
executioner
executive
executor
Derived words: executional
executionary
execution cycle
executionism
executionist
execution-style
execution time
execution unit
inexecution
malexecution
misexecution
nonexecution
postexecution
posthumous execution
summary execution
unexecution
writ of execution
Translations:
executioner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English execution
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English executioner
From execution + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: executioners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An official person who carries out the capital punishment of a criminal.
pos: noun
examples: He would probably have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace.
Underpinning that power was a reign of terror the like of which Chechens had not seen since the days of Stalin. Even the Russian contraktniki, or freelance fighters, were not as feared as Mr Kadyrov's private army of kidnappers, torturers and executioners were.
gloss: Executor.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A hit man, especially being in some organization.
pos: noun
Synonyms: carnifex
deathsman
doomsman
executioner
executor
halseman
Jack Ketch
lockman
manqueller
Related words: electrocutioner
execute
execution
executor
Derived words: executioneress
judge, jury and executioner
Translations:
executor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English executour, from Anglo-Norman executour, from Latin exsecūtor, agent noun of exsequor.
Inflected forms:
form: executors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: executour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who carries out some task.
pos: noun
examples: This manner can no longer be considered "folk-song," yet neither can it be taken as "art-song," at least not conscious art, for the executors, the chazzanim, did not know of any theory of music and modulation.
gloss: A component of a system that executes or runs something.
pos: noun
examples: When searching for a solution is unnecessary, then the program executor "doesn't care" which solution is generated nor how it is obtained.
gloss: Someone appointed by a testator to administer their estate in accordance with their will; an administrator.
pos: noun
examples: literary executor
gloss: An executioner.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, / Delivering o'er to executors pale / The lazy yawning drone.
Related words: execute
executrix
Derived words: coexecutor
dative executor
executor de son tort
executorship
executress
literary executor
nominate executor
subexecutor
will executor
Translations:
oath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ooth, oth, ath, from Old English āþ (“oath”), from Proto-West Germanic *aiþ (“oath”), from Proto-Germanic *aiþaz (“oath”).
Cognate with Scots aith, athe (“oath”), North Frisian ith, iss (“oath”), Saterland Frisian Eed (“oath”), West Frisian eed (“oath”), Dutch eed (“oath”), German Eid (“oath”), Swedish ed (“oath”), Icelandic eið (“oath”), Latin ūtor (“make use of, employ, avail”, verb), Old Irish óeth (“oath”).
Inflected forms:
form: oaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A solemn pledge or promise that invokes a deity, a ruler, or another entity (not necessarily present) to attest the truth of a statement or sincerity of one's desire to fulfill a contract or promise.
pos: noun
examples: take an oath
swear an oath
break one's oath
But all of us took an oath to do our duty when we joined the Space Force, and I fully expect everyone to willingly keep their word. But you took no oath, and have no obligation.
There are […] brought all the way from Bougainville to present their birth certificates and testify in this courtroom, under oath, as to their given names.
gloss: A statement or promise which is strengthened (affirmed) by such a pledge.
pos: noun
examples: After taking the oath of office, she became the country's forty-third premier.
The generals swore an oath of loyalty to the country.
Wrex: [sigh] Before I left, I made an oath to my father's father.
Wrex: I swore to recover my family's battle armor. It was taken from him after the uprising.
gloss: A light, irreverent or insulting appeal to a deity or other entity.
pos: noun
gloss: A curse, a curse word.
pos: noun
examples: The farther from the Senator's office, the darker and older the furniture, the freer fly four-letter oaths, the higher the heaps of unfiled and unattended papers culminating in a frenzy of pulp in the press section[…]
Synonyms: pledge
vow
avowal
Related words: affirmation
solemn affirmation
bloody oath
fucking oath
statutory declaration
Derived words: abjuration oath
bodily oath
book oath
corporal oath
counteroath
Hippocratic oath
ken oath
minced oath
my bloody oath
oathable
oathbound
oathbreach
oathbreaker
oathbreaking
oath-brother
oathful
oath-helper
oath-helping
oathless
oathlet
oathlike
oathmaker
oath of allegiance
oath of calumny
oath of office
oath-ring
oathtaker
oathtaking
oathworthy
on oath
ring-oath
take oath
under oath
weapon oath
Translations:
botany
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1696: Back-formation from botanic.
Inflected forms:
form: botanies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The plant life of a geographical area; flora.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the botany of Greenland
gloss: The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular place.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: wortlore
phytology
Derived words: archaeobotany
archæobotany
archeobotany
astrobotany
botanical
botanically
botanise
botanize
botanist
botanomancy
botanophile
Botany Bay
cryptobotany
ethnobotany
ethnomedicobotany
geobotany
macrobotany
microbotany
neobotany
paleobotany
Port Botany
xenobotany
Translations:
leafy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English leaf
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English leafy
From leaf + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: leafier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: leafiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: leavy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with leaves.
pos: adj
examples: leafy trees
leafy vegetables
gloss: Containing much foliage.
pos: adj
examples: a leafy avenue
The Earth is facing a climate crisis, but it’s also getting greener and leafier. According to new research, the rise is largely courtesy of China and India.
gloss: In the form of leaves (of some material).
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling a leaf.
pos: adj
examples: Another option is to wash spinach and other leafy greens thoroughly in running water before eating them.
gloss: Wealthy, middle- or upper-class.
pos: adj
examples: They live in a beautiful house in a leafy suburb.
Those are not necessarily the leafiest areas. From the tenants of Durham, £1,671,546 was used to subsidise people elsewhere. I am not familiar with Durham, it may be a very leafy place in the north-east, but I suspect that there is a need for those funds.
Income tax payments cost the average British taxpayer £4,985 a year, but those who reside in the leafiest areas of the country pay three times this amount.
The Tories plan to give their all against the other Ukip defector, Mark Reckless, in the more prosperous Rochester & Strood next month. But this plays to the stereotype: Tories fighting for leafy areas, hiding from the poorer ones.
In an essay for the New Yorker about her own move, also prompted by a breakup, Dunham contrasts the chaotic grit of New York with the “spaciousness” of London – a city that “doesn’t jangle me”. Dunham, as you may by now be sensing, lives in one of the leafier parts of north London.
Derived words: leafily
leafiness
leafy-fruited nightshade
leafy goosefoot
leafy greens
leafy liverwort
leafy sea dragon
leafy seadragon
leafy spurge
leafy-stemmed
leafy vegetable
non-leafy
nonleafy
unleafy
Translations:
deluge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: firefighting
government
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃-der.
Proto-Italic *lawō
Latin lavō
Latin dīluō
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin dīluvium
Old French delugebor.
Middle English deluge
English deluge
From Middle English deluge, from Old French deluge, alteration of earlier deluvie, from Latin dīluvium, from dīluō (“wash away”). Doublet of diluvium.
Inflected forms:
form: deluges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deluges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deluging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deluged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deluged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A great flood or rain.
pos: noun
examples: The deluge continued for hours, drenching the land and slowing traffic to a halt.
gloss: An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
pos: noun
examples: The rock concert was a deluge of sound.
A fiery deluge fed / With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
The little bird sits at his door in the sun, / Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, / And lets his illumined being o'errun / With the deluge of summer it receives.
gloss: A system for flooding or drenching a space, container, or area with water in an emergency to prevent or extinguish a fire.
pos: noun
examples: deluge system, deluge gun, deluge set
2002, NAVEDTRA, Gunner's Mate 14324A
In the event of a restrained firing or canister overtemperature condition, the deluge system sprays cooling water within the canister until the overtemperature condition no longer exists.
On June 8, 2005, a decomposition reaction occurred in the manifold system on a mobile acetylene trailer at Western's Bellville plant that caused the fusible plugs of five cylinders to melt, releasing the products of decomposition. The materials released did not ignite before the deluge system was manually activated, controlling the incident. The incident started when a mobile acetylene trailer, with the cylinder valves open and the manifold fully pressurized, was moved into another bay and the block valve was opened, which initiated an acetylene decomposition reaction.
gloss: To flood with water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some areas were deluged with a month's worth of rain in 24 hours.
South Yorkshire 2019: The track at Conisbrough is deluged by floodwater. Lines were shut and services were disrupted across Yorkshire and the East Midlands.
gloss: To overwhelm.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After the announcement, they were deluged with requests for more information.
In Women on the Verge all of the characters are deluged by and constantly dealing with the effects and messages of pop culture.
Related words: inundate
Derived words: after me the deluge
after us the deluge
Deluge
deluge gun
psychiatric deluge
deluger
undeluged
Translations:
antebellum
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ante bellum (literally “before the war”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of the time period prior to a war.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A renewed sense of national pride arose in Hitler's antebellum Germany.
gloss: Of the time period prior to a war.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: See also: Antebellum South
Slavery was an accepted part of antebellum plantation life.
There was no single characteristic house style during the antebellum period, but the elegant plantation homes built in the American South, with their central entrances, balconies, columns, and formal ballrooms, came closest to representing a discrete architectural style for the period.
Across the street from the church, which is lovingly known as Mother Emanuel, is Marion Park. Until recently, this where a statue of Vice President John C. Calhoun, a slaveowner and staunch supporter of antebellum plantation slavery, stood.
Synonyms: prebellum
pre-war
Antonyms: postbellum
post-war
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: d'avantguerra
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 戰前的 /战前的
lang: Czech
word: předválečný
lang: Danish
word: førkrigs-
lang: Dutch
word: vooroorlogs
lang: Estonian
word: sõjaeelne
lang: Finnish
word: sotaa edeltävä
lang: French
word: d'avant-guerre
lang: Georgian
word: ომამდელი
roman: omamdeli
lang: German
word: Vorkriegszeit
lang: German
word: Vorkriegs-
lang: Greek
word: προπολεμικός
roman: propolemikós
lang: Irish
word: réamhchogaidh
lang: Italian
word: anteguerra
lang: Italian
word: prebellico
lang: Japanese
word: 戦前
lang: Korean
word: 전쟁 전의
roman: jeonjaeng jeonui
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: førkrigs-
lang: Polish
word: przedwojenny
lang: Portuguese
word: pré-guerra
lang: Portuguese
word: pré-bélico
lang: Romanian
word: antebelic
lang: Russian
word: довое́нный
roman: dovojénnyj
lang: Spanish
word: prebélico
lang: Swedish
word: förkrigs-
lang: Turkish
word: savaştan evvel
lang: Vietnamese
word: tiền chiến
lang: Welsh
word: cyn y rhyfel
cliff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English clyf, from Old English clif, from Proto-West Germanic *klib, from Proto-Germanic *klibą.
Inflected forms:
form: cliffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vertical (or nearly vertical) rock face.
pos: noun
examples: , scar
gloss: A point beyond which something abruptly fails or decreases in value, performance, etc.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Derived words: alto cliff
ambulance at the bottom of a cliff
American cliff swallow
bass cliff
benefit cliff
benefits cliff
bird cliff
Cleveland
cliffage
cliffbound
cliff-bound
cliffbrake
cliffdrop
cliffed
cliff edge
cliff face
cliff-face
cliff fall
cliff-green
cliffgreen
cliff green
cliffhanger
cliff hanger
cliff-hanger
cliffing
cliffless
clifflet
cliff lift
clifflike
cliffline
cliff notes
cliff railway
cliff rose
cliffrose
cliffscape
Cliffsend
Cliffs End
cliffside
cliff spurge
cliff stonecrop
cliff swallow
clifftop
cliffy
Clifton
Coalcliff
Edgecliff
fall off a cliff
fall off the cliff
fiscal cliff
follow someone off a cliff
glass cliff
go jump off a cliff
Heathcliff
Kingscliff
Kuiper cliff
Nightcliff
Oak Cliff
Queenscliff
Red Cliffs
seacliff
Seacliff
Seacliff Park
treble cliff
undercliff
West Cliff
White Cliff
White Cliffs
Translations:
precipice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1598, from Middle French precipice, from Latin praecipitium (“a steep place”), from praeceps (“steep”), from prae + caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“head”).
Distantly related to precept through Latin praecipiō (“to teach”), from prae + capiō (“take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-, *keh₂p- (“to hold; to seize”).
Inflected forms:
form: precipices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præcipice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A very steep cliff.
pos: noun
examples: I resolved to remove my tent from the place where it stood, which was just under the hanging precipice of the hill; and which, if it should be shaken again, would certainly fall upon my tent[…]
gloss: The brink of a dangerous situation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: to stand on a precipice
In emailed comments supporting the new initiative, the laureate professor Noam Chomsky said: “Humans are marching towards a precipice. When we reach it, unthinkable catastrophe is inevitable. […]”
gloss: A headlong fall or descent.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: cliff
cliffdrop
Related words: precipitous
precipitously
precipitousness
Derived words: precipice bond
precipiced
Translations:
aright
Part of speech: adv
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ariȝt, ariht, from Old English āriht (“aright, properly”), from earlier *an riht, on riht (“rightly”), corresponding to a- + right.
Base: right
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: arights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: arighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: arighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: arighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Rightly, correctly; in the right way or form.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: it is not easie we should so often settle our minds in so regular, so reformed, and so devout a seat, where indeed it ought to be, to pray aright and effectually: otherwise our praiers are not only vaine and unprofitable, but vicious.
Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart. I will hover near and direct the steel aright.
The great service which he rendered to science was that he put the right questions ; it was not that he answered them aright.
"Well, gentlemen, have I read you the riddle aright, or is there any point which you would query?"
gloss: To or on the right-hand side.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: Once more away! and now
The long descent is seen,
A long, long, narrow path.
Ice rocks aright, and hills of snow,
Aleft the giddy precipice.
gloss: To make right; put right; arrange or treat properly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But, from working with those who have felt exiled and damned, excoriated and benumbed, and yet have made it back to useful and creative life again, I know there are more sure, albeit intense, ways to aright oneself.
Derived words: set aright
Translations:
confused
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Originally from Middle English confused (“frustrated, ruined”), from Anglo-Norman confus + Middle English -ed (past participial suffix), from Latin cōnfūsus, past participle of cōnfundō; now equivalent to confuse (a back-formation) + -ed.
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more confused
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confused
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: unable to think clearly or understand
pos: adj
examples: A new survey suggests that most Americans are confused about what counts as a healthy food choice.
gloss: disoriented
pos: adj
gloss: chaotic, jumbled or muddled
pos: adj
gloss: making no sense; illogical
pos: adj
gloss: embarrassed
pos: adj
Synonyms: addle-pated
addled
addlepated
at a loss
at a loss for words
at sea
at sixes and sevens
baffled
befuddled
bewildered
confused
confuzzled
dazzled
discombobulated
disconcerted
dumbfounded
flabagasted
flabbergasted
flabbergastered
flummoxed
flustered
fluttered
jumbled
lost for words
minussed
misled
mixed up
muddled
muzzy
mystified
nonplussed
not with it
out of it
out to lunch
punch-drunk
spaced out
speechless
stumped
stymied
thrown
up a tree
Related words: confuse
confusing
confusion
complex
Derived words: confuddled
confused deputy
confused flour beetle
confusedly
confusedness
foncused
I'm confused
inconfused
nipple-confused
nonconfused
Translations:
confusing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more confusing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confusing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Several sections in that book are really confusing.
The Cleveland Clinic’s Sukol thinks the word “healthy” is confusing and should be replaced with the term “nourishing,” as some processed foods have been marketed as “healthy.”
Antonyms: judicious
obvious
sensible
Translations:
caviar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French caviar, from Venetan caviaro (earlier found as Italian caviale), probably by way of Ottoman Turkish خاویار (havyar), from Classical Persian خَاوْیَار (xāwyār). Doublet of ajvar.
Inflected forms:
form: caviars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caviare
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something whose flavor is too fine for the vulgar taste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Related words: malosol
Derived words: beluga caviar
black caviar
Carolina caviar
caviarlike
caviar spoon
caviar to the general
cowboy caviar
gauche caviar
green caviar
poor man's caviar
red caviar
salmon caviar
Texas caviar
Yorkshire caviar
Translations:
roe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rowe, rowne, roun, rawne, from Old English *hrogn (“spawn, fish eggs, roe”), from Proto-Germanic *hrugnaz, *hrugną (“spawn, roe”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek- (“(frog) spawn”).
Cognate with Dutch roge (“roe”), German Low German Rögen (“roe”), German Rogen (“roe”), Danish rogn, ravn (“roe”), Swedish rom (“roe”), Icelandic hrogn (“roe”), Lithuanian kurkulai̇̃ (“frog spawn”), Russian кряк (krjak, “frog spawn”).
Inflected forms:
form: roes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Eggs of fish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: It was quite flavourless, except that, where its innards had been imperfectly removed, silver traces of roe gave it an unpleasant bitterness.
Today, some seafood experts say, the cheaper (though mushier) roe feeds 60 percent of the market.
gloss: Sperm of certain fish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Ovaries of certain crustaceans.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: caviar
egg
Derived words: hard roe
roed
roelike
roestone
soft roe
white roe
Translations:
sturgeon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sturgiun, sturjoun, from Old French estorjoun (“sturgeon”), from Frankish *sturjō, from Proto-Germanic *sturjô (“sturgeon”).
Inflected forms:
form: sturgeon
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sturgeons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any marine or freshwater fish of the family Acipenseridae that are prized for their roe and are endemic to temperate seas and rivers of the northern hemisphere, especially central Eurasia.
pos: noun
examples: The old prince sat in silence, his bright little eyes watching Karenin from one side, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw that he had already formed a phrase to sum up that politician of whom guests were invited to partake as though he were a sturgeon.
The sturgeon is considered to be rich in aphrodisiac elements.
An investigation has been carried out into the changes in blood chemistry which occur during the migration of young sturgeon and spawned adults from freshwater into saltwater and of the migration of prespawning adults in the reverse direction by Magnin (1962).
1997, M. L. Khrykhtin, V. G. Svirsky, Sturgeon catch and the current status of sturgeon stocks in the Amur River, Andreas Bauer, Astrid Kaiser-Pohlmann, Sturgeon Stocks and Caviar Trade Workshop: Proceedings, page 29,
Strict regulation of the catch was introduced in the Soviet Union in 1976 in order to prevent overfishing of the sexually mature sturgeons in the river.
Long and snout-nosed with rows of platelike bony protrusions, sturgeon have a dinosaur-era look.
Information on the spawning period, spawning behavior, and other details of the reproductive biology of green sturgeon in the Columbia River is lacking (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife 1995).
Only about one out of every 80 sturgeons caught in the Sacramento River is a Green Sturgeon, and that lopsided ratio is reversed for sturgeons taken in the Klamath River.
In 2009, 120,000 Chinese sturgeons were released into the Yangtze River in an effort to boost the population of the endangered species in the wild.
Translations:
delicacy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English delicacie, from Middle English delicat, from Latin delicatus. Equivalent to delicate + -cy.
Base: delicate
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: delicacies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being delicate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] for unless a matter be true enough to stand a good deal of misrepresentation, its truth is not of a very robust order, and the blame will rather lie with its own delicacy than with the carelessness of the crusher.
gloss: Something appealing, usually a pleasing food, especially a choice dish of a certain culture suggesting rarity and refinement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a Chinese delicacy
gloss: Fineness or elegance of construction or appearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Frailty of health or fitness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Refinement in taste or discrimination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Tact and propriety; the need for such tact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: delicate
delicatessen
delicious
delight
Derived words: hyperdelicacy
indelicacy
overdelicacy
Translations:
grime
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English grim (“dirt or soot covering the face”), from a specialized use of Old English grīma (“mask”), from Proto-West Germanic *grīmō, from Proto-Germanic *grīmô (“mask”).
Likely influenced by dialectal Dutch grijmsel (“grit, grime”), Dutch grijm (“soot, grime”), Middle Dutch gryme (“mask”), Middle Low German greme (“dirt”), compare Danish grime (“a halter”), Danish grimet (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Bokmål grimete (“soiled, stripy”), Norwegian Nynorsk grimete (“soiled, stripy”).
Inflected forms:
form: grimes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: griming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Dirt, grease, soot, etc. that is ingrained and difficult to remove.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Underneath all that soot, dirt and grime is the true beauty of the church in soft shades of sandstone.
[…] ſhe ſweats a man may go ouer
ſhoes in the grime of it.
Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
gloss: A genre of urban music that emerged in London, England, in the early 2000s, primarily a development of UK garage, dancehall, and hip hop.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To begrime; to cake with dirt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily.
Fog from the river rolled up the street and the windows were grimed by soot, but Cartwright had not turned on the electric light.
His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on.
Derived words: degrime
grimeless
grimester
grimy
grindie
gunk
rhythm and grime
Translations:
versatile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: BDSM
biology
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sex
sexuality
Etymology: From Latin versātilis (“turning easily”), from versātus, past participle of versō (“to turn, change”), frequentative of vertō (“to turn”).
Inflected forms:
form: more versatile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most versatile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of doing many things competently.
pos: adj
examples: Ruthanna Boris, a versatile dancer and choreographer who was the first American ballerina to be a star of one of the prestigious Ballets Russes troupes of the ’40s, died Friday at her home in El Cerrito, Calif. She was 88.
gloss: Having varied uses or many functions.
pos: adj
gloss: Changeable or inconstant.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of moving freely in all directions.
pos: adj
examples: The versatile anther is an important step up in flowering plant evolution and it may be the most widespread of all simple anther types.
gloss: Synonym of vers (“Willing to take either a penetrative or receptive role in anal sex”).
pos: adj
examples: Among men who do engage in anal intercourse, about one-quarter are tops, one-quarter are bottoms, and one-half are versatile.
gloss: Being a switch; capable of taking either a dominant or a submissive role.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being either a dominant or a submissive partner in a sexual relationship.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
Derived words: digital versatile disc
unversatile
vers
versatility
Translations:
Adonis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).
Inflected forms:
form: Adonises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Adonides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A beautiful man.
pos: noun
Translations:
sadomasochism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sado- + masochism.
Base: masochism
Affixes: sado-
Inflected forms:
form: sadomasochisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sado-masochism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practices of sadism and masochism collectively, usually in reference to consensual practices within the BDSM community.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Sadism and masochism: the (often sexual) enjoyment by one person of both inflicting and receiving pain.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: algolagnia
S&M
S and M
SM
s-m
s/m
Related words: bossy and servile
Derived words: sadomasochist
sadomasochistic
BDSM
Translations:
sadomasochist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See sadomasochism.
Inflected forms:
form: sadomasochists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who enjoys both inflicting and receiving pain for sexual gratification.
pos: noun
gloss: Sadomasochistic.
pos: adj
Translations:
sadomasochistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sadomasochist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English sadomasochistic
From sadomasochist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more sadomasochistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sadomasochistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to sadomasochism or sadomasochists.
pos: adj
Translations:
ambidextrous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin ambidexter + -ous, the former from ambi- (“both”) + dexter (“right”), thus literally “both hands being like a right hand”. By surface analysis, ambi- (“both”) + dextrous (“skillful; agile”).
The Latin word is first attested in the Vetus Latina, calquing Ancient Greek ἀμφοτεροδέξιος (amphoterodéxios) in Judges 3:15 after the Septuagint, itself translating Hebrew אִטֵּר יַד יְמִינוֹ (iṭṭēr yaḏ yəmīnō, literally “bound in his right hand”). This phrase is now generally translated as “left-handed”; the Septuagint translation is either from a variant reading or from a different interpretation.
Base: ambidexter
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more ambidextrous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ambidextrous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having equal or comparable ability in both hands; in particular, able to write well with both hands.
pos: adj
examples: Some are […]ambidextrous or right-handed on both sides; which happeneth only unto strong and athletical bodies, whose heat and spirits are able to afford an ability unto both.
gloss: Equally usable by left-handed and right-handed people (as a tool or instrument).
pos: adj
gloss: Practising or siding with both parties.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: All False, Shuffling, and Ambidextrous Dealings.
gloss: Of a person, bisexual.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
gloss: Exceptionally skillful; adept in more than one medium, genre, style, etc.
pos: adj
examples: Michelangelo was a very ambidextrous artist, producing sculptures and frescoes with equal ability.
For years, by every possible device, we have been raising the prices of our agricultural products against the foreign buyers […] by every device known to the ambidextrous tradesman and financier. The result is that we have raised up other and unexpected competitors in the markets of the world.
In a footnote, these admirers will often bemoan Agee as a Renaissance or at least ambidextrous artist in an age of specialization, a vast and turbulent ocean syphoned off through a garden hose; not just a novelist manque but also a frustrated […]
He also played the piano and violin, was an ambidextrous artist, and enjoyed acting. Holidays were spent yachting or canoeing or with his brothers. By 1903, Baden-Powell's military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a best-seller,[…]
Synonyms: both-handed
either-handed
Antonyms: ambilevous
ambisinistrous
Related words: ambidexterity
dextromanual
left-handed
right-handed
sinistromanual
Derived words: ambi
ambidextrously
ambidextrousness
ambisextrous
amby
Translations: