yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
arbutus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From taxonomic name Arbutus, from Latin arbutus.
Inflected forms:
form: arbutuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arbuti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any flowering plant in the genus Arbutus: the strawberry tree.
pos: noun
examples: Many nights, though autumnal mists were spread around, I passed under an ilex - many times I have supped on arbutus berries and chestnuts, making a fire, gypsy-like, on the ground […]
gloss: Epigaea repens, the mayflower, the trailing arbutus.
pos: noun
examples: Ah, who is he,—on whom young men and maidens look with pitying eye? to whom the old man lifts his hat, and little children cease from their sports as he passes, and quietly slip the innocent daisy, or the sweet-scented arbutus into his hand, which they have culled from the wide commons, where, they have been told, the good Sea-flower loved to stray.
gloss: Arbute; the wood of the strawberry tree.
pos: noun
Translations:
defrost
Part of speech: verb
noun
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-
Proto-Indo-European *prews-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *prustós
Proto-Germanic *frustaz
Proto-West Germanic *frost
Old English frost
Middle English frost
English frost
English defrost
From de- + frost.
Inflected forms:
form: defrosts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: defrosting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: defrosted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: defrosted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: defrosts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To remove frost from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have just defrosted the fridge.
After leaving the service, he [Jack Schweibold] flew for Chicago Helicopter Airways and Butler Aviation as a jack-of-all-trades. “I flew the first traffic patrol for the Chicago freeways, defrosted tomato crops by keeping the wind blowing on them so the frost couldn’t form,[…]” he says.
gloss: To thaw (something).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Will you defrost the chops for supper tonight?
gloss: To recover from something tiresome.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: See you tomorrow evening; I'll have defrosted from my trip by then.
gloss: The removal of frost.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But only recently has automatic quick defrost appeared on production models of domestic refrigerators.
Derived words: autodefrost
defrostable
defrostee
defroster
Translations:
shitting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From shit + -ing. Compare Middle English schitinge, schytynge (“defecation”), whence modern English shiting.
Base: shit
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: shittings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of defecating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it modifies; same as fucking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
vulgar
Translations:
face-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: From face + off, or a deverbal from face off, c. 1889.
Compound parts: face
off
Inflected forms:
form: face-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: faceoff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: face off
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A confrontation or argument between two people or groups.
pos: noun
examples: It's unclear which side will win the latest face-off between the President and Congress.
Huntsman starts out with a vision of Theron that’s specific, unique, and weighted in character, but it trends throughout toward generic fantasy tropes and black-and-white morality, and climaxes in a thoroughly familiar face-off.
gloss: The start of play, when two players try to get control of the puck dropped by the referee.
pos: noun
examples: Canada’s men’s hockey team defeated the USA 3-2 in overtime Thursday to capture the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off Championship as the NHL put on a show in the first edition of this midseason international tournament.
gloss: The start of play, when two players attempt to get possession of a ball placed on the ground between them by the referee.
pos: noun
Derived words: face-off circle
Translations:
refereed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more refereed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most refereed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: said of articles or books that have undergone peer review
pos: adj
examples: She has published four books, twenty refereed articles, and dozens of book reviews.
gloss: said of a journal whose articles are submitted to peer review
pos: adj
examples: Lexicography Illustrated isn't a refereed journal, is it?
Derived words: nonrefereed
unrefereed
Translations:
alec
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin alecbor.
English alec
Borrowed from Latin alec (“herring”).
Inflected forms:
form: alecs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An anchovy or herring, especially pickled or dried.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sauce made from alecs; alec sauce.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: smart alec
smart aleck
Derived words: alec sauce
alecy
Translations:
horsefeathers
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: The "nonsense" sense, a euphemism for horseshit, is horse + feathers, a nonexistent item as only birds have feathers. Compare hen’s teeth.
The "horse hair" sense notes the similarity of that hair to bird feathers.
Regarding the roofing sense, compare feathering strip and horsefeathers.
Compound parts: horse
feathers
Inflected forms:
form: horsefeathers!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: Indicates disbelief.
pos: intj
tags: US
euphemistic
examples: Horsefeathers! You knew it was a bad idea and now you're just making excuses about it.
Translations:
saucy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sauce + -y.
Base: sauce
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: saucier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sauciest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sauce-y
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: saucey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: sawcy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Similar to sauce; having the consistency or texture of sauce.
pos: adj
examples: Bring the tomatoes to a boil and then simmer until they reach a saucy consistency.
gloss: Impertinent or disrespectful, often in a manner that is regarded as entertaining or amusing; smart.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: She is a loud, saucy child who doesn't show a lot of respect to her elders.
If this be knowne to you, and your Allowance, / We then haue done you bold, and ſaucie wrongs.
And books!—Thomson, Cowper, Scott;—she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy I believe, to prevent their falling into unworthy hands; and she would have every book that tells her how to admire an old twisted tree. Should not you, Marianne? Forgive me, if I am very saucy. But I was willing to shew you that I had not forgot our old disputes.
gloss: Impudently bold; pert.
pos: adj
examples: Her mouth was large, and she had a saucy, pronounced chin.
gloss: Sharp; pungent; piquant.
pos: adj
gloss: Mildly erotic.
pos: adj
examples: I enjoyed the dancing, but my husband found it a little too saucy.
Saucy epaulet shoulder and full sleeves that fit into neat button trimmed cuffs.
An episode of ITV1's The X Factor which featured a Britney Spears impersonator performing a "saucy" routine in a body stocking did not breach the broadcasting code, media regulator Ofcom has ruled.
Related words: applesaucey
tomato-saucy
sassy
Derived words: oversaucy
sassy
saucily
sauciness
Translations:
harboured
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a harbour
pos: adj
gloss: sheltered
pos: adj
Derived words: unharboured
Translations:
tuneful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tune + -ful.
Base: tune
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more tuneful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tuneful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having or producing a pleasing tune; melodic or melodious
pos: adj
Translations:
tuneless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tune
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English tuneless
From tune + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: more tuneless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tuneless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no pleasing tune; not tuneful.
pos: adj
examples: They insist they aren't a hardcore band, but their hectic pace and tuneless vocals are certainly in the hardcore vein.
gloss: Silent or mute.
pos: adj
Derived words: tunelessly
tunelessness
Translations:
tureen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier terrene (thus pronunciations with /tj/, /t͡ʃ/ are spelling pronunciations), borrowed from French terrine. Doublet of terrine.
Inflected forms:
form: tureens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A broad, deep serving dish used for serving soup or stew.
pos: noun
examples: The tureens and stands are variously marked with the date letters for 1726 and 1728, with the charge and discharge marks for the fermier-générals Charles Condier (1722-1726) and Jacques Cortin (1726-1732) and with their weights.
But the metal tureen cannot just have been an import from the eastern Mediterranean area or from the Carpathian basin, because the style horizon of the Tiefstich pottery tureens with pendant triangles on the shoulder did not penetrate as far as that, nor do we know of any vessels there, pottery or precious metal ones, which show a similarity with these.
The large covered soup tureen, as well as the 15 inch round plate on which it sat, was rimmed by gold leaf, and was decorated with an ornate nineteenth century English scene.
Translations:
crossroad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cross + road.
Compound parts: cross
road
Inflected forms:
form: crossroads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cross road
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A crossroads (place where one road crosses another).
pos: noun
gloss: A road that crosses another.
pos: noun
examples: Finally, at a likely looking north-south crossroad, we turned left and found elusive US 14 two miles north.
Related words: corner
intersection
junction
Derived words: crossroader
Translations:
turn-off
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English turn offdeverb.
English turn-off
Deverbal from turn off.
Inflected forms:
form: turn-offs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turnoff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that repulses, disgusts, or discourages, especially sexually.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: I like the people at my job, but the 60-hour work weeks are a big turn-off.
Braces on a pretty girl actually aren't a turn-off for me.
gloss: A road where one turns off, such as a motorway exit.
pos: noun
Antonyms: turn-on
Translations:
turn-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English turn ondeverb.
English turn-on
Deverbal from turn on.
Inflected forms:
form: turn-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: turnon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that attracts, gives pleasure, or encourages, especially sexually.
pos: noun
examples: Pretty eyes have always been a turn-on.
Translations:
turnstile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nos
Proto-Indo-European *tórh₁nos
Proto-Hellenic *tórnos
Ancient Greek τόρνος (tórnos)bor.
Latin tornus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin tornōbor.
Proto-West Germanic *turnēn
Old English turnian
▲
Latin tornō
Old French tornerbor.
Middle English turnen
English turn
Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *stéygʰeti
Proto-Germanic *stīganą
Proto-West Germanic *stīgan
Proto-West Germanic *-i
Proto-West Germanic *stigi
Proto-Indo-European *-lósder.?
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.?
Proto-Germanic *-ilaz
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Germanic *-ō
Proto-Germanic *ilō
Proto-West Germanic *-ilu
Proto-West Germanic *stigilu
Old English stiġel
Middle English stile
English stile
English turnstile
From turn + stile.
Inflected forms:
form: turnstiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rotating mechanical device that controls and counts passage between public areas, especially one that only allows passage after a charge has been paid.
pos: noun
examples: The fare was fixed at 2d., irrespective of distance, and was paid by passengers on passing through turnstiles at each station.
gloss: A similar device in a footpath to allow people through one at a time while preventing the passage of cattle.
pos: noun
gloss: The ⊢ symbol used to represent logical entailment (deducibility relation), especially of the syntactic type; i.e., syntactic consequence. (Such symbol can be read as "prove(s)" or "give(s)". )
pos: noun
Related words: double turnstile
Derived words: turnstile attendance
turnstiled
Translations:
canister
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English canustyr (“basket”), a borrowing from Latin canistrum. Doublet of canaster and knaster.
* (metal receptacle): Through influence of unrelated can.
* (projectile): Short for canister shot, so called for its casing.
Inflected forms:
form: canisters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: canisters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: canistering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: canistered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: canistered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cylindrical or rectangular container usually of lightweight metal, plastic, or laminated pasteboard used for holding a dry product (as tea, crackers, flour, matches).
pos: noun
examples: Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […] A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.
gloss: Any of various cylindrical metal receptacles usually with a removable close-fitting top.
pos: noun
gloss: A special short-range antipersonnel projectile consisting of a casing of light metal, loaded with preformed submissiles such as flechettes or steel balls. The casing is designed to open just beyond the muzzle of the weapon, dispersing the submissiles.
pos: noun
gloss: A projectile component containing colored or screening smoke or riot control agent composition.
pos: noun
gloss: A component of canister-type protective masks containing a mechanical filter and chemical filling to filter, neutralize and/or absorb toxic chemical, biological and radiological agents.
pos: noun
gloss: Part of a windmill that connects the sails to the windshaft.
pos: noun
gloss: A person's head.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
examples: Caunt let fly left and right, but Bendy ducked his canister, and got down with more caution than gallantry.
gloss: To pack into a canister.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: canasta
canistel
Derived words: canister damascus
canister Damascus
canisterize
canisterlike
canister shot
oxygen canister
Translations:
dalet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Phoenician 𐤃𐤋𐤕 (dlt, “door”), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *dalt-; compare Hebrew דֶלֶת (délet). Doublet of delta.
Inflected forms:
form: dalets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daled
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: daleth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fourth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
pos: noun
Translations:
tweed
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since the 1830s. Probably a shortening or back-formation from Scots tweedling (“a type of twilled cloth”), attested since the 16th century and related to tweedle; the two words are variants of tweeling and tweel, which go back to Middle English twel, twyle (“a type of woven fabric; twill”), whence also English twill. Scottish tradition says it derives directly from tweel when an English merchant misread tweels or tweeled (cloth) in an 1831 letter from a Scottish merchant as Tweed(s) and took it to be a trade-name based on the River Tweed, but the DSL says evidence for this is lacking, and because English merchants must have been familiar with tweel(ed cloth) before the 1830s, it seems unlikely to be based on misunderstanding tweel rather than on the well-attested tweedle. Several of the earliest citations, from 1839, 1841, and 1845 treat it as a new name for a familiar cloth.
Inflected forms:
form: tweeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coarse woolen fabric used for clothing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: MICHAEL NOWAK, alias John Mazurkiewiez, was indicted for stealing, on the 15th of April, 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called tweed, value 12s., and 2 1/4 yards of woollen cloth, called doe-skin, value 17s., […]
“Nothing very special, sir. He had a mack or coat over his arm, and a trilby hat. He wore a tweed suit, sir, I think.”
Translations:
tweeds
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Clothing made of this material.
pos: noun
examples: The doctor is young and cute but successful enough to have a big house and a small car and good tweeds as well as well-fitting jeans and wool sweaters.
gloss: Trousers.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
Translations:
tweezers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 17th century (1645–55): plural of tweeser (on the model of nippers, pincers, pliers or scissors), from obsolete tweese (“case for small instruments”) (or alternatively, alteration of plural form tweeses), aphetic form of earlier etweese (plural of etwee), from French étuis, plural of étui (“case, box, cover”) (from Old French estui (“container, prison”, noun), derivative of étuier (earlier spelling, estuier (“to shut up, guard, keep, preserve, save, enclose, place in a cover”), probably from Vulgar Latin *estudiāre (“to keep, treat with care”) or *studiāre, from Latin studēre (“to care about”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A small pincerlike instrument, usually made of metal, used for handling or picking up small objects (such as postage stamps), plucking out (plucking) hairs, pulling out slivers, etc.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
self-expression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
English expression
English self-expression
From self- + expression.
Inflected forms:
form: self-expressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Medical culture constrains stimming through strict clinical designations and pathologizing definitions, referring to it as stereotypies or "self-stimulatory behaviours." Autistic people, however, often define stimming more broadly as repetitive sensory practices used to regulate emotional states, to cope with external sensory stimuli, or for purposes of self-expression.
Translations:
rescuer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rescue + -er.
Base: rescue
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: rescuers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who rescues someone or something.
pos: noun
examples: As Tarzan’s heavy hand fell upon his shoulder the priest dropped his victim, and turned upon her would-be rescuer.
[…] an opportunistic relative masquerading as his rescuer, […]
She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
By now, a new worry had emerged. With the rescuers working close to so many dead bodies, there was fear of disease taking hold.
Translations:
confessor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From Middle English confessor, confessour, from Anglo-Norman confessour, and its source, Latin cōnfessor, from cōnfiteor (“confess, admit, acknowledge”). By surface analysis, confess + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: confessors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: confessour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
pos: noun
examples: Long before Edward I, the English had a King Edward who they considered a martyr and a King Edward who they considered a confessor.
Confessors provided the troubled Church with an alternative sort of authority based on their sufferings, particularly when arguments began about how and how much to forgive those Christians who had given way to imperial orders – the so-called ‘lapsed’.
gloss: One who confesses to having done something wrong.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: confessant
gloss: A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who acts as listener and helper.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: They do not feel connected to any gay/lesbian communities. Nor do they feel able to establish relationships with anyone who can support them. Thus an inexperienced but sincere young heterosexual actor can find himself playing not only role model but also confessor and phantom friend to people in great need.
Derived words: confessorial
confessorship
father confessor
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 自白者
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 懺悔者 /忏悔者
lang: Greek
word: ομολογητής
roman: omologitís
lang: Irish
word: admhálaí
lang: Japanese
word: 告白者
lang: Japanese
word: 自白する人
lang: Old English
word: andetta
lang: Persian
word: خستو
roman: xostu
lang: Russian
word: испове́дник
roman: ispovédnik
lang: Swedish
word: bekännare
twin-engine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English twin
English engine
English twin-engine
From twin + engine.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: powered by two engines, one in each wing
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
twinkle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English twinclen, twynclen, from Old English twinclian (“to twinkle”), equivalent to twink (“to wink; blink; twinkle”) + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare German zwinkern (“to wink; twinkle”).
Base: twink
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: twinkles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: twinkling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: twinkled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: twinkled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: twinkles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shine with a flickering light; to glimmer.
pos: verb
examples: We could see the lights of the village twinkling in the distance.
These stars do not twinkle when viewed through telescopes that have large apertures.
The western sky twinkled with stars.
As the train rumbled slowly over the Forth Bridge, the western sky was aflame with a particularly gorgeous sunset, and lights were twinkling from the small craft riding at anchor on the calm waters of the firth.
gloss: To be bright with delight.
pos: verb
examples: His shrewd little eyes twinkled roguishly.
gloss: To bat, blink or wink the eyes.
pos: verb
examples: She smiled and gave a little nod and twinkled her eyes[…]
The Owl Fell a Moping and Twinkling.
gloss: To flit to and fro.
pos: verb
examples: A butterfly twinkled among the vines[…]
gloss: A sparkle or glimmer of light.
pos: noun
examples: Soon the rocket was out of sight, and the flame was only seen as a tiny twinkle of light.
gloss: A sparkle of delight in the eyes.
pos: noun
examples: He was a rotund, jolly man with a twinkle in his eye.
One of thoſe archers cloſely I did ſpy, / ayming his arrovv at my very hart: / vvhen ſuddenly vvith tvvincle of her eye, / the Damzell broke his miſintended dart.
gloss: A flitting movement.
pos: noun
examples: I saw the twinkle of white feet,
gloss: A brief moment; a twinkling.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: The female genitalia.
pos: noun
tags: childish
examples: The popular Swedish cartoon song about genitals was translated as "Willie and Twinkle".
Derived words: twinkle out
twinkler
twinkle in one's daddy's eye
twinkle in one's father's eye
twinkle-toed
twinkle toes
Translations:
two-edged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From two + edged.
Compound parts: two
edged
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having two cutting edges
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: having two, often contrasting, meanings or interpretations
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: Then there's that term 'gay'. Does that still mean all homosexual people? For some folks, as mentioned earlier, yes. For others, no. It is in reality a two-edged term. On the hand meaning all sisters and brothers, yet on the other hand sisters in the political, social, economic liberation movement, called Gay Liberation. It implies a political stand.
Related words: double-edged
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: двусмислен
roman: dvusmislen
lang: Polish
word: obosieczny
lang: Polish
word: dwusieczny
two-way
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: American-football
ball-games
broadcasting
education
football
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
mathematics
media
radio
road
sciences
skating
sports
statistics
transport
Etymology: From two + way. Compare Old English twiweġ (“an intersection, a junction of two roads”).
Compound parts: two
way
Inflected forms:
form: two-ways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a highway, allowing traffic in two directions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of traffic or visibility, moving or occurring in opposite directions.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Permitting communication in two directions, i.e. both transmitting and receiving.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The inner power cars are brake second class compartment coaches; the guard has means of both bell and two-way telephone communication with the driving compartment.
gloss: Of a project, treaty, etc., involving the mutual action or participation of two parties.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Utilising both Western and Indigenous knowledge systems; bothways.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There are increasing examples of Indigenous-led research, and "two-way" collaborative research between scientists and Indigenous land custodians.
gloss: Playing both offense and defense in the same game.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a table, etc., having or involving exactly two variables; bivariate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A two-way chart; a two-way table.
gloss: A serving of Cincinnati chili with spaghetti.
pos: noun
tags: Cincinnati
Derived words: two-way mirror
two-way street
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: двупосочен
roman: dvuposočen
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 双向的
lang: Czech
word: obousměrný
lang: Danish
word: tovejs
lang: Finnish
word: kaksisuuntainen
lang: Georgian
word: ორმხრივი
roman: ormxrivi
lang: Greek
word: αμφίδρομος
roman: amfídromos
lang: Latin
word: bivius
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: toveis
lang: Polish
word: dwukierunkowy
lang: Swedish
word: dubbelriktad
lang: Swedish
word: tvåvägs
lang: Welsh
word: dwyffordd
tympanum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
architecture
biology
engineering
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tympanum (“a drum, timbrel, tambourine; the eardrum”). Doublet of timbre, timpani, timbal, and tymbal.
Inflected forms:
form: tympanums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tympana
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drum.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
pos: noun
examples: When he came around, the star sound was gone. The ringing it left in his tympana was a great confusion.
gloss: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various anatomic structures in various animals with analogy to a drum head:
pos: noun
gloss: A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated.
pos: noun
gloss: A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated.
pos: noun
examples: It was a black-and-white picture of a Romanesque doorway, with flanking saints and a lively Last Judgement in the tympanum […].
gloss: A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged; used for raising water, as for irrigation.
pos: noun
Derived words: epitympanum
hypotympanum
mesotympanum
pseudotympanum
tympanic
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قَلْب القَوْصَرَة
roman: qalb al-qawṣara
lang: Azerbaijani
word: təmpanum
lang: Azerbaijani
word: timpan
lang: Belarusian
word: тымпан
roman: tympan
lang: Bengali
word: মধ্যকর্ণ
roman: moddhokorno
lang: Bulgarian
word: тимпан
roman: timpan
lang: Catalan
word: timpà
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鼓室
roman: gǔshì
lang: Danish
word: tympanon
lang: Dutch
word: timpaan
lang: Finnish
word: tympanon
lang: Finnish
word: tympaani
lang: German
word: Tympanum
lang: Greek
word: τύμπανο
roman: týmpano
lang: Hebrew
word: תוֹף הַאוֹזֶן
lang: Hindi
word: कान का पर्दा
roman: kān kā pardā
lang: Hungarian
word: timpanon
lang: Icelandic
word: gaflflötur
lang: Italian
word: timpano
lang: Kannada
word: ಟೈಂಪಾನಮ್
roman: ṭaimpānam
lang: Kazakh
word: тимпанум
roman: timpanum
lang: Korean
word: 진동판
roman: jindongpan
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Tympanum
lang: Macedonian
word: тимпан
roman: timpan
lang: Polish
word: tympanon
lang: Portuguese
word: tímpano
lang: Romanian
word: timpan
lang: Russian
word: тимпан
roman: timpan
lang: Swedish
word: tympanon
lang: Swedish
word: tympan
lang: Tagalog
word: timpano
lang: Thai
word: หูตอนใน
roman: hū txn nı
lang: Turkish
word: kulak davulu
lang: Uzbek
word: timpanum
lang: Vietnamese
word: chứng màng nhĩ
lang: Yiddish
word: טימפּאַנום
roman: timpanum
repartee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French repartie, a deverbal of repartir (“to retort”).
Inflected forms:
form: repartees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: repartée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: repartees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reparteeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reparteed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reparteed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: repartée
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A swift, witty reply, especially one that is amusing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many persons must laugh when a great person or an acknowledged wit says a clever thing, such as a smart repartee, or a really good pun.
Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany[…]
A slight smile broke on his lips. ¶ "You are always prepared to sacrifice your principles for a repartee," he answered.
gloss: A conversation marked by a series of witty retorts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A skill in replying swiftly and wittily.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
Another millstone around the NDP’s neck was the relative lack of seasoned parliamentarians in the government front bench who were skilled enough at repartee to take on the Tory veterans across the floor.
gloss: To reply with a repartee.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Aubrey speaks of him as 'incomparable at reparteeing, the bull that was bayted, his witt beinge most sparkling, when most set on and provoked.'
gloss: To have a repartee (a conversation marked by witty retorts or replies).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To see them together, friendly, reparteeing, chummy, would turn your stomach--Barbara so exquisite and high-born, and the man, his eyes full of evil fires, sitting like a great toad on the model's chair.
Translations:
timestamp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From time + stamp (noun); the verb sense derives from the noun.
Compound parts: time
stamp
Inflected forms:
form: timestamps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: time-stamp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: timestamps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: timestamping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: timestamped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: timestamped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: time-stamp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A variable containing the date and time at which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.
pos: noun
tags: especially
gloss: The time at which something in a video occurs.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: To record the date and time of (an event, etc).
pos: verb
tags: especially
transitive
Related words: datestamp
timecard
time clock
timesheet
update
Derived words: Lamport timestamp
timestamp-based concurrency control
time-stamping
timestamp reply
timestomp
Translations:
typeset
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From type + set.
Compound parts: type
set
Inflected forms:
form: typesets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: typesetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: typeset
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: typeset
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to set or compose written material into type
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: to be set or composed into type
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: ASCII does not conform to an expanded character set that includes Classic Greek letters, so you will please understand if the μ does not typeset correctly.
gloss: Set in type.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: laser typeset
typesetter
typesetting
Translations:
typesetting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Inflected forms:
form: typesettings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The setting of written material into type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
eccentricity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
geometry
graph-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin eccentricitās. By surface analysis, eccentric + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: eccentricities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being eccentric or odd; any eccentric behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.
gloss: The ratio, constant for any particular conic section, of the distance of a point from the focus to its distance from the directrix.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For an ellipse, the eccentricity is the ratio of the distance from the center to a focus divided by the length of the semi-major axis.
gloss: The eccentricity of the conic section (usually an ellipse) defined by the orbit of a given object around a reference object (such as that of a planet around the sun).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The farthest distance from a vertex to any other vertex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: excentricitat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 離心率 /离心率
roman: líxīnlǜ
lang: Dutch
word: excentriciteit
lang: Finnish
word: eksentrisyys
lang: Finnish
word: epäkeskisyys
lang: French
word: excentricité
lang: Galician
word: excentricidade
lang: German
word: Exzentrizität
lang: Hungarian
word: excentricitás
lang: Irish
word: éalárnacht
lang: Italian
word: eccentricità
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: eksentrisitet
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: eksentrisitet
lang: Polish
word: ekscentryczność
lang: Polish
word: mimośród
lang: Portuguese
word: excentricidade
lang: Romanian
word: excentricitate
lang: Russian
word: эксцентрисите́т
roman: ekscentrisitét
lang: Spanish
word: excentricidad
lang: Swedish
word: excentricitet
lang: Turkish
word: eksantriklik
lang: Turkish
word: eksantrisite
bestir
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)twerH-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)twr̥H-yé-ti?
Proto-Germanic *sturjaną
Proto-West Germanic *sturjan
Old English styrian
Old English bestyrian
Middle English bestyrien
English bestir
From Middle English bestyrien, bestirien, from Old English bestyrian (“to heap up, pile up”), equivalent to be- + stir.
Base: stir
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: bestirs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bestirring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bestirred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bestirred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Notwithstanding all the various temptations to bad temper, pride, greediness, adultery and so forth, the enemy really has but one temptation, and that is, to bestir the saints.
gloss: To make active; to rouse oneself.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.
The old man and his wife bestirred themselves to make every thing ready for the unexpected guests, […]
When he had bestirred himself, […] it was clear daylight, though the sun had not tipped the yellow wall in the east.
And so I hope we can bestir ourselves not to “Rally Around Caesar,” as the recent Economist recommends. I hope we will bestir ourselves to rally around an emergency/militant reconstruction of a secular democracy consecrated to the equality of each and every living one of us.
Why is it so important to bestir oneself? Bestirring oneself means that one feels truly fortunate and excited to stand before one's Creator and that one longs for this moment.
Could these well-paid civil servants bestir themselves not only to rescue the American republic from danger but to strengthen its democratic governance, refresh its ideals, and reclaim its sadly soiled national honor?
We may officially have three branches of government, but Americans seem to accept that it’s more like 2.25: A presidency that acts unilaterally whenever possible, a high court that checks the White House and settles culture wars, and a Congress that occasionally bestirs itself to pass a budget.
Translations:
freethinker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From free + thinker, since 1692.
Base: free
Inflected forms:
form: freethinkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: free-thinker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who has formed their opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with no religion.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
examples: The report projected that in the Asia-Pacific region, the proportion of freethinkers is projected to decline from 21 per cent in 2010 to 17 per cent in 2050.
Derived words: freethinking
free thought
Translations:
typewriting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From type + writing.
Compound parts: type
writing
Inflected forms:
form: typewritings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, or the skill, of using a typewriter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The material produced by a typewriter; typescript.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Older typewriters produced typewritings in which the horizontal space allocated for each character was precisely the same.
Derived words: touch typewriting
Translations:
typewritten
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From type + written.
Compound parts: type
written
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: written using a typewriter
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Here the typewritten account ended, but at the foot of the last page Carrados had pasted a newspaper cutting.
Translations:
peckerwood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inversion of woodpecker. Application to white people is due to the perception that the woodpecker is a symbol of whites, whereas the crow or blackbird is a symbol of blacks.
Inflected forms:
form: peckerwoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: peckawood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woodpecker.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
Southern-US
slang
examples: On the morning of the next, one of Mr. White's daughters came into the house to inform me that there was a "peckerwood" in a tree in the yard. I immediately took my gun and went out to investigate thinking that perhaps it was a Pileolated Woodpecker, a bird I wanted to obtain.
When I was a boy, I rooted over an old dead sourwood to get some peckerwood eggs.
There was nothing but a peckerwood on an oak tree.
gloss: A peckerwood sawmill.
pos: noun
tags: Appalachia
Southern-US
examples: Throughout this territory are mills of every variety and size, from the small "peckerwood" tractor mill capable of cutting only a few thousand feet of lumber per day to the world's largest pine lumber mill with a capacity of more than one million feet per day.
The Langdale Company's new centralized sawmill and debarker in 1958 constituted a tremendous advance over the old peckerwood technology.
gloss: A white person, especially a Southerner, or one who is ignorant, rustic, or bigoted.
pos: noun
tags: US
ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
examples: All the time I was stretched out on the infirmary cot I kept looking at the blank walls and seeing the mean, murdering faces of those Southern peckerwoods when they went after Big Six and the others with their knives.
Just as prejudiced as a Mississippi peckerwood when it comes to colored people.
gloss: A white (male) inmate, especially one who is racist or who is a member of a race-based prison gang.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: peckerhead
Derived words: featherwood
wood
woodpile
Translations:
federate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin, compare foedus.
Inflected forms:
form: fœderate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: federates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: federating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: federated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: federated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fœderate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Federated, united in an alliance or federation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To unite in a federation.
pos: verb
Translations:
heder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew חֶדֶר (khéder, “room”).
Inflected forms:
form: heders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hederim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hadarim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hedarim
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An elementary school in which students are taught to read Hebrew texts.
pos: noun
Translations:
caterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cater
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 caterer
From cater + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: caterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person employed to obtain and maintain the storage of provisions, especially food.
pos: noun
examples: 1821 June 19, ”Peregrine,” The Traveller: Letter IV, in The Kaleidoscope; Or, Literary and Scientific Mirror, page 401,
It was in vain that I petitioned, appealing to our caterer, if proofs of appetite were wanting; for sick men seldom have occasion for that important person′s services.
“I say, Mr. Cribbage,” cried an old master′s-mate, to the caterer, who had entered shortly after the tea-kettles, and assumed his place at the end of the table, “what sort of stuff do you call this?”
There is a caterer for the table, whose sleekness of face, rotundity of person, and general air of comfortable well-being, do great honor to the cheer he provides.
gloss: A person or company hired to provide and serve food, usually for a large group and at a location separate from where the food is prepared.
pos: noun
examples: If so, you will probably sign a contract with a caterer months, maybe years, in advance and make a substantial down payment.
1994, John N. Ingham, Lynne B. Feldman, Dutrieuille, Peter Albert (1838—1916) and Albert E. Dutrieuille (July 26, 1877—April 25, 1974), entry in African-American Business Leaders: A Biographical Dictionary, page 225,
From a family of French West African descent, Albert Dutrieuille was the last of the great African-American caterers in Philadelphia.
Although many hotels work with outside Kosher caterers to provide Kosher services, some have developed their own in-house Kosher catering departments.
Related words: cater
catering
provisioner
Derived words: caterership
Translations:
bygones
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Plural of bygone (noun).
Inflected forms:
form: bygone
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: Things that happened in the past.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: […] if you spare me, bygones are bygones, and when you fellows are in court for piracy, I'll save you all I can.
Translations:
helen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: helens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of a pair of curved, spine-like appendages on some hyoliths.
pos: noun
Translations: