yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
petrol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French (essence de) pétrole, from Medieval Latin petroleum, from Ancient Greek πετρέλαιον (petrélaion, “oil of the rock”), from πέτρα (pétra, “stone, rock”)+ ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil, any oily substance”). Doublet of petroleum.
Inflected forms:
form: petrols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fluid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, primarily consisting of octane, commonly used as a motor fuel.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
uncountable
usually
examples: 1987 October 29, Advertisement, New Scientist, page 31,
We were the first company to introduce unleaded petrol in Britain, opening our first pump in June 1986.
2000 September 27, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 106th Congress, Second Session, Volume 146, Part 14, page 19605,
European oil firms are beginning to follow the example of their American counterparts by adding convenience stores to their pumps: the typical American petrol station now makes some 40 percent of its profits from the sale of non-oil products, such as cigarettes and beer.
2003, S. Srinivasan, Automotive Mechanics, Tata McGraw Hill, India, 2nd Edition, page 149,
At a crank angle 6° before the TDC, the electric spark ignites the petrol mixture.
He also admitted that when big trucks bring in petrol, they park along Langata Road[…].
2006 August, Economic Scenario, Pratiyogita Darpan, page 218,
The increase in rates comes just a few days after India raised petrol prices by 9-2% and diesel prices by 6-6% which boosed inflation expectations in Indian economy.
2008, Robin Stonecash, Joshua Gans, Stephen King, Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Macroeconomics, Cengage Learning Australia, page 122,
Most major Australian cities receive their petrol from a single refinery.
gloss: A motor vehicle powered by petrol (as opposed to diesel).
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
usually
examples: However, I do feel entitled to criticise the car. There are lots of different versions: manuals and automatics; petrols and diesels; two-wheel drives and four-wheel drives, and it's possible to spend thirty grand on one.
Synonyms: gasoline
gas
Derived words: petrolage
petrol blue
petrol bomb
petrol bunk
petrol cap
petrol-electric
petrol engine
petroleomics
petroleous
petrol filling station
petrol garage
petrolhead
petroliana
petrolic
petroliferous
petrolism
petrolist
petrolization
petrolize
petrolless
petrolly
petrol pump
petrol sniffer
petrol station
petrol tank
Translations:
petrel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier pitteral. Perhaps a diminutive of Peter, with reference to St. Peter's walking on the water (Matthew 14:29).
A derivation from patter or pitter-patter has been suggested, for instance by ornithologist Elliott Ladd Coues.
Inflected forms:
form: petrels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various species of black, grey, or white seabirds in the order Procellariiformes.
pos: noun
examples: The seventh of May following, we first saw many Birds in bignesse of Cliffe Pidgeons, and after divers other as Pettrels, Cootes, Hagbuts, Pengwins, Murres, Gannets, Cormorants, Guls, with many else in our English Tongue of no name.
In a storm they will hover close under the ship's stern in the wake of the ship (as it is called) or the smoothness which the ship's passing has made on the sea; and there as they fly (gently then) they pat the water alternately with their feet as if they walked upon it; though still upon the wing. And from hence the seamen give them the name of petrels in allusion to St. Peter's walking upon the Lake of Gennesareth.
Translations:
yore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English yore, yoare, yare, ȝore, ȝare, ȝeare, from Old English ġeāra (“long ago”), of unclear origin but probably from Proto-Germanic *jērǫ̂ (literally “of years”), the genitive plural of Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”). More at year.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A time long past.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
uncountable
examples: This word comes from the days of yore.
It appeared strange to me that the “little dipper” should be still diving quietly in the river, as of yore; and it suggested that this bird might continue to dive here when Concord should be no more.
In days of yore and times long gone before there was a Sultan of India who begat three sons; the eldest hight Prince Husayn, the second Prince Ali, and the youngest Prince Ahmad; moreover he had a niece, named Princess Nur al-Nihár, the daughter of his cadet brother who, dying early, left his only child under her uncle's charge.
Several logistics executives told me that if half-full freight vans from multiple firms kept congesting the streets, the best solution might be for every retailer to use a single firm instead. One delivery service to rule them all – just like the postal service of yore.
Translations:
yaw
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
Etymology: Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).
Inflected forms:
form: yaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yaws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yawed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The rotation of an aircraft, ship, or missile about its vertical axis so as to cause the longitudinal axis of the aircraft, ship, or missile to deviate from the flight line or heading in its horizontal plane.
pos: noun
gloss: The angle between the longitudinal axis of a projectile at any moment and the tangent to the trajectory in the corresponding point of flight of the projectile.
pos: noun
gloss: A vessel's motion rotating about the vertical axis, so the bow yaws from side to side; a characteristic of unsteadiness.
pos: noun
gloss: The extent of yawing; the rotation angle about the vertical axis.
pos: noun
examples: the yaw of an aircraft
gloss: To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To swerve off course to port or starboard.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question.
gloss: To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: heading
pitch
roll
surge
scend
Derived words: adverse yaw
yaw damper
Translations:
pause
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French pause, from Latin pausa, from Ancient Greek παῦσις (paûsis), from Ancient Greek παύω (paúō, “stop”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of pausa.
Inflected forms:
form: pauses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pausing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To stop (an activity) for a while.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The general public could therefore have been forgiven for thinking that work on the new station had stopped. But pausing work on an active construction site of this size is not straightforward.
gloss: To interrupt an activity and wait.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When telling the scary story, he paused for effect.
Tarry, pause a day or two.
pausing a while thus to herself she mused
She paused and took a defiant breath. ‘If you don't believe me, I can't help it. But I'm not a liar.’ ¶ ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough![…]What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
Will this affect HS2 and other major projects?
[...] Work at the majority of sites has paused, although some staff may be present to ensure the safety and security of these sites and to make safety assessments. [...]
gloss: To hesitate; to hold back; to delay.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.
gloss: To halt the play or playback of, temporarily, so that it can be resumed from the same point.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pause a song, a video, or a computer game
Press Start at any time to pause the game.
gloss: To consider; to reflect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Take time to pause.
gloss: Used immediately after a statement to indicate that there was no innuendo or homosexual meaning intended, especially when such a meaning is a reasonable interpretation.
pos: intj
tags: slang
Derived words: nonpausing
pausable
pausingly
prepause
unpause
Translations:
gauze
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French gaze, from Arabic قَزّ (qazz, “silk”).
Inflected forms:
form: gauzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gauzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gauzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gauzed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gause
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To apply a dressing of gauze; to cover with gauze.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lid [of the feeder] has a circular gauzed area that allows the syrup to permeate slowly.
I gauzed the deep cuts and gashes.
gloss: To mist; to make or become gauze-like.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
literary
examples: The wide plain gauzed into a sea on which the hut floated lonely.
It had come to be six o’clock; midges gauzed the air.
Then a film of chemical vapour seems to drift around the city, fudging every edge, gauzing every vista.
I was once foolish enough to believe knowledge would clarify, but some things are so gauzed behind layers of syntax and semantics, behind days and hours, names forgotten, salvaged and shed, that simply knowing the wound exists does nothing to reveal it.
Related words: wire netting
Translations:
mane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mane, mayne, from Old English manu (“mane”), from Proto-West Germanic *manu, from Proto-Germanic *manō (“mane”), from Proto-Indo-European *mony-, *mon- (“neck”).
Cognate with Dutch maan, manen (“mane”), German Mähne (“mane”), Danish man (“horse's mane”), Swedish man (“horse's mane”), Icelandic mön (“mane”).
Inflected forms:
form: manes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Longer hair growth on back of neck of an animal, especially a horse or lion.
pos: noun
examples: Before they went to see Glinda, however, they were taken to a room of the Castle, where Dorothy washed her face and combed her hair, and the Lion shook the dust out of his mane, and the Scarecrow patted himself into his best shape, and the Woodman polished his tin and oiled his joints.
gloss: Long or thick hair of a person's head.
pos: noun
gloss: Part of a naval sword between the tang button and the quillon.
pos: noun
Derived words: hogmane
lion's mane
lion's mane jellyfish
mane-comb
maned
maneless
manelike
shaggy mane
unmaned
Translations:
hymn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ymne, from Old English ymen (reinforced by Old French ymne), from Latin hymnus, borrowed from Ancient Greek ὕμνος (húmnos).
Inflected forms:
form: hymns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hymns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hymning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hymned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hymned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A song of praise or worship, especially a religious one.
pos: noun
examples: But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.
An interesting feature of the church is the invisible clock, which you can hear thumping away as you enter. Constructed in 1525, it is one of the oldest timepieces in England. It chimes the hours and the quarters, and every three hours it plays a hymn. But it has no faces.
gloss: To sing a hymn.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: An unknown cast, including Diane Keaton, hymned the Age of Aquarius, stripped off at the end of the first act and let the sunshine in at the end of the second.
gloss: To praise or extol in hymns.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To hymn the birth-night of the Lord.
Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine.
In sculpture and in the drama, in Aristophanic farce and in hieratic rituals, in pictorial art and in the stream of literature, the phallus is transcendent. Thus the Priapean poetry of the ancients, particularly of the Romans, hymned sexual potency.
Related words: theody
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: salmear
lang: Spanish
word: salmodiar
unabridged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English abridged
English unabridged
From un- + abridged.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not abridged, shortened, expurgated or condensed; complete.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an unabridged dictionary
Translations:
reliable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rely
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English reliable
From rely + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more reliable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reliable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reliables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
pos: adj
examples: a reliable witness to the truth of the miracles
the best means, and the most reliable pledge, of a higher object
According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs.
gloss: Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't.
pos: adj
gloss: Something or someone reliable or dependable
pos: noun
examples: the old reliables
Synonyms: secure
dependable
trustworthy
solid
Antonyms: unreliable
Related words: reliability
reliance
rely
Derived words: nonreliable
reliabilism
reliabilist
reliableness
reliably
semireliable
superreliable
ultrareliable
Translations:
gauntlet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English gauntelett, gantlett, a borrowing from Old French gantelet (“gauntlet worn by a knight in armor, a token of one's personality or person, and symbolizing a challenge”), diminutive of gant (“glove”), a borrowing from Frankish *want (“glove; mitten”) and reinforced by Medieval Latin wantus (“glove”) itself borrowed from the former, from Proto-Germanic *wantuz (“glove; mitten”). Cognate with Dutch want (“mitten; shroud”), German Low German Want (“shroud”), Danish vante (“mitten”), Swedish vante (“glove; mitten”), Faroese vøttur (“glove; mitten”).
Inflected forms:
form: gauntlets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gantlet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Protective armor for the hands, formerly thrown down as a challenge to combat.
pos: noun
examples: The hands were defended by Gauntlets, these were sometimes of chain mail, but oftener of small plates of iron rivetted together, in imitation of the lobster's tail, so as to yield every motion of the hand, some gauntlets inclosed the whole hand, as in a box or case, others were divided into fingers, each finger consisting of eight or ten separate pieces, the inside gloved with buff leather, some of these reached no higher than the wrist, others to the elbow; the latter were stiled long armed gauntlets: many of them are to be seen in the Tower; for a representation of one of them, see plate 26, fig 6.
gloss: A long glove covering the wrist.
pos: noun
examples: The hawk no longer darts forth from the gauntlet to soar through the air for his prey.
Solventproof rubber gauntlets under solventproof sleeves closed at the wrists should be worn.
gloss: A rope on which hammocks or clothes are hung for drying.
pos: noun
gloss: An eruption of pellagra on the hands.
pos: noun
Derived words: demigauntlet
take up the gauntlet
throw down the gauntlet
ungauntlet
Translations:
chiasmus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin chiasmus, from Ancient Greek χῑασμός (khīasmós), from χῑάζω (khīázō, “to mark with an X”), from χ (kh, “chi”).
Inflected forms:
form: chiasmi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chiasmuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
examples: The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chiastic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms[…]
John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies:
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
Leeman therefore holds that chiasmus is the basic order in Greek and Latin: antithesis is, he claims, normal for the modern, rational mind, but for the Greeks and Romans chiasmus was more natural.
The realization that Mawlānā was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise.
Translations:
jackass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jack
English ass
English jackass
From jack + ass.
Inflected forms:
form: jackasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A male donkey.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A foolish or stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
gloss: An inappropriately rude or obnoxious person.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
examples: Bobby, only jackasses go around saying how much money they make.
gloss: A kind of bootleg liquor.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
examples: As the vintner Louis Foppiano recalled years later, Sonoma County during Prohibition became a center for bootlegging, not of wine, but of spirits. 'There were some big stills hidden up in the hills of Sonoma, some producing five hundred gallons of Jackass [spirits made from spring water and sugar] a day.'
By now the wine counties were rife with the activity of the illegal wine trade and the force of the Prohibition Unit was hustling to keep up. At the start of the year, Officer William Navas had staged a raid on the dining room at Healdsburg's Hotel Sotoyome and discovered 'jackass' brandy […]
gloss: The laughing kookaburra.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
obsolete
Derived words: howling jackass
jackaburra
jackass battery
jackass clover
jackass copal
jackass corn
jackass cover
jackassery
jackassification
jackassism
jackass kingfisher
jackass morwong
jackassness
jackass of all trades
jackass penguin
jackassy
jackhole
jackrabbit
laughing jackass
Translations:
jenny-ass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jenny-asses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jennyass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A female donkey.
pos: noun
examples: c. 1849, G. Herbert Rodwell, Old London Bridge, London: Henry Lea, Chapter 15, p. 158,
[…] this little donkey could not be trusted in the road, for it was always getting under the wheels, because it would not let its mother, a fine fat old jenny ass in the shafts, alone.
But a man who holds so tightly to what he calls his rights over what he calls his debts will hold tightly also to what he calls his rights over her whom he calls his wife. No sir smile neighbour shall covet his ox or his wife or his manservant or his maidservant or his jackass. / —Or his jennyass, Buck Mulligan antiphoned.
[…] old rope is for tethering your jennyass […]
Translations:
jenny
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.
Inflected forms:
form: jennies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Jenny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jennies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jennying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jennied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jennied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Jenny
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A device for spinning thread from fiber onto multiple spindles (also called spinning jenny).
pos: noun
gloss: A female creature of certain kinds:
pos: noun
gloss: A female creature of certain kinds:
pos: noun
gloss: A female creature of certain kinds:
pos: noun
examples: Of course all the stock went by road and the house cat—a jenny it was—was put into a basket and driven in the trap along with one or two particular things and the women.
gloss: A female creature of certain kinds:
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: A catmill.
pos: noun
gloss: In billiards and similar games, a powerful follow shot with plenty of topspin.
pos: noun
examples: Cream's potting had been extraordinary, extraordinary, I remember, said Goff. I never saw anything like it. We were watching breathless, as he set himself for a long thin jenny, with the black of all balls.
gloss: To wind finished lace onto cards ready for sale.
pos: verb
Derived words: flying jenny
henny
jenny-ass
jenny-longlegs
jenny wren
tea jenny
Translations:
she-ass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English she asse; equivalent to she- + ass.
Base: ass
Affixes: she-
Inflected forms:
form: she-asses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female donkey.
pos: noun
Translations:
simian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin sīmia (“ape, monkey”), from Ancient Greek σιμός (simós, “snub-nosed”).
Inflected forms:
form: more simian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most simian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: simians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to apes and monkeys.
pos: adj
gloss: Bearing resemblance to an ape or monkey; apelike or monkeylike.
pos: adj
examples: In “Benguelê” (which refers to slaves’ nostalgic longing for Africa) he makes extensive use of crouching, stooped bodies in a simian, loping walk, arms hanging loosely and head down to suggest tribal dances, rituals, animals, a precivilization.
gloss: An ape or monkey, especially an anthropoid (infraorder Simiiformes).
pos: noun
examples: The simians would require no special orientation courses to teach them the reasons for fighting, such as, “To make the world safe for Demagocracy,” or whatnot.
Synonyms: apely
apish
monkeyish
simial
simious
Derived words: presimian
prosimian
simian crease
simian immunodeficiency virus
simianity
simianization
simianize
simian line
simianness
simian shelf
Translations:
shrewdness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English shrewd
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English shrewdness
From shrewd + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: shrewdnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being shrewd.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A man with less worldly shrewdness would never have seen how things really stood; a man with less pliability could never have adapted himself to them. It must always be remembered, that his whole administration was one long struggle: he had to maintain his master on the throne, and himself in the ministry; and this was done by sheer force of talent.
At the centre of Stalin’s superiority over his competitors was certainly his intense will, just as Napoleon ranked what he called ‘moral fortitude’ higher in a general than genius or experience. When Milovan Djilas said to Stalin during the Yugoslav-Soviet discussions in Moscow during the war that the Serbian politician Gavrilović was ‘a shrewd man’, Stalin commented, as though to himself: ‘Yes, there are politicians who think shrewdness is the main thing in politics. . . .’⁴⁴ His was a will-power taken to a logical extreme. There is something non-human about his almost total lack of normal restraints upon it.
gloss: An invented collective name for a group of apes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
she-bear
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sche bere; equivalent to she- + bear.
Base: bear
Affixes: she-
Inflected forms:
form: she-bears
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female bear (as opposed to a he-bear, male bear).
pos: noun
examples: Elisha [...] was able to call upon two she-bears to come and eat up the children who had treated him irreverently[.]
two she-bears came out of the woods and tore forty-two of the boys.
Translations:
aimer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English aim
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 aimer
From aim + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: aimers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who aims; one who is responsible for aiming.
pos: noun
examples: After joining the RAF, he trained as a bomb aimer in Oxfords, Ansons and Wellingtons before joining a squadron of Lancasters.
Translations:
immature
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French immature. Partially displaced unripe, from Old English unrīpe (“unripe, immature”).
Inflected forms:
form: more immature
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most immature
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: immatures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Occurring before the proper time; untimely, premature (especially of death).
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: And thou also canst best account for the causes of her immature death […].
gloss: Not fully formed or developed; not grown.
pos: adj
gloss: Childish in behavior; juvenile.
pos: adj
examples: You're only young once, but you can be immature the rest of your life.
The man was immature for throwing a tantrum.
Wilhelm Stekel - As quoted in The Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger.
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
gloss: An immature member of a species.
pos: noun
examples: There are many genera and even families of Brachypylina for which immatures are not yet known, and thus numerous examples of adult convergence and misclassification remain to be revealed: such is the case with Hypozetes.
While on a walk the next morning I found what looked like a patch of old growth habitat - perhaps somewhere the fires had missed - and to my astonishment saw a female Red-lored Whistler accompanied by an immature.
Derived words: immature dependent
immaturely
immatureness
Translations:
ursine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Mid 16th century, from Latin ursīnus, adjectival form of ursus (“bear”) + -ine.
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: more ursine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ursine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ursines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of bears.
pos: adj
examples: The British chief having undergone the ursine embrace of the Seikh monarch, the whole cavalcade proceeded towards the town.
[…] the old man's eccentricities, sometimes bordering on the ursine, repelled the juniors […]
[…] we noted that a preponderance of the evidence supports an ursine origin for the giant panda.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the bear subfamily Ursinae.
pos: adj
examples: 2004, in Donald G. Lindburg and Karen Baragona (eds.), Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation, Berkeley: University of California Press, Part Two, Introduction, p. 37, https://books.google.ca/books?id=bFKrwj73REIC&pg=PA37
gloss: Covered in stiff bristles.
pos: adj
gloss: A bear.
pos: noun
Synonyms: bearlike
bearly
Derived words: brankursine
subursine
ursine baboon
ursine dasyure
ursine howler
ursine seal
Translations:
pentagon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
government
mathematics
military
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Middle French pentagone, from Late Latin pentagōnum, from Ancient Greek πεντάγωνον (pentágōnon), noun use of the neuter of the adjective πεντάγωνος (pentágōnos, “five-angled”), from πέντε (pénte, “five”) + -γωνος (-gōnos, “angled”). Equivalent to penta- + -gon.
Base: penta
Inflected forms:
form: pentagons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polygon with five sides and five angles.
pos: noun
examples: Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, […]
gloss: A fort with five bastions.
pos: noun
Synonyms: 5-gon
quinquangle
Related words: pentagram
quinquangle
Derived words: pentagonal
pentagonoid
pentagonous
Translations:
glad
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English glad, gled, from Old English glæd (“shining; bright; cheerful; glad”), from Proto-Germanic *gladaz (“shiny; gleaming; radiant; happy; glossy; smooth; flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰladʰ-, from *ǵʰelh₂- (“to shine”).
Cognate with Scots gled, glaid (“shining; bright; glad”), Saterland Frisian glääd (“smooth; sleek”), West Frisian glêd (“smooth”), Dutch glad (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), German glatt (“smooth; sleek; slippery”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish glad (“glad; happy; cheerful”), Icelandic glaður (“glad; joyful; cheery”), Latin glaber (“smooth; hairless; bald”), Russian гла́дкий (gládkij, “smooth”). Doublet of glatt.
Inflected forms:
form: gladder
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more glad
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gladdest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most glad
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: glads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pleased; happy; gratified.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
usually
examples: I'm glad the rain has finally stopped.
I'm always glad to be of service.
I was glad of receiving the tent in time for the camping trip.
I am glad of you. And so I have been since our first encounter.
I'm very glad at this decision because we'd been on the ropes for a while.
I am happy and glad at your success.
Every day I feel glad about the life I am living.
A wise son maketh a glad father.
Glad am I that your highness is so arm'd / To bear the tidings of calamity.
"I was dragged up at the workhouse school till I was twelve. Then I ran away and sold papers in the streets, and anything else that I could pick up a few coppers by—except steal. I never did that. I always made up my mind I'd be a big man some day, and—I'm glad I didn't steal."
gloss: Having a bright or cheerful appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
predicative
usually
examples: Her conversation / More glad to me than to a miser money is.
Glad Eevening & glad morn crownd the fourth day.
gloss: A gladiolus (plant).
pos: noun
tags: informal
predicative
usually
examples: Glads are widely grown as cut flowers both in the United States and abroad.
Antonyms: cranky
depressed
downcast
heavy
peevish
sad
sorrowful
Derived words: engladden
get glad in the same britches one got mad in
get glad in the same pants one got mad in
glad and sorry
gladden
glad-eye
gladful
glad-hand
gladhand
glad hand
glad-handed
glad-hander
glad-handing
gladhearted
gladless
gladly
Gladman
gladness
glad rags
gladsome
glad tidings
glad wrap
overglad
unglad
Translations:
yam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese inhame and Spanish ñame, likely from Wolof ñàmbi (“cassava”) or a related word. The term was spelled yam as early as 1657.
Inflected forms:
form: yams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any climbing vine of the genus Dioscorea in the Eastern and Western hemispheres, usually cultivated.
pos: noun
gloss: The edible, starchy, tuberous root of that plant, a tropical staple food.
pos: noun
examples: Inwardly Okonkwo knew that the boys were still too young to understand fully the difficult art of preparing seed-yams. But he thought that one could not begin too early. Yam stood for manliness, and he who could feed his family on yams from one harvest to another was a very great man indeed.
gloss: A sweet potato; a tuber from the species Ipomoea batatas.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A potato.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: An oca; a tuber from the species Oxalis tuberosa.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
gloss: Taro.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
gloss: An orange-brown colour, like the flesh of the yam.
pos: noun
Derived words: aerial yam
air yam
afoo yam
betel yam
bitter yam
cheeky yam
Chinese yam
common yam
cush-cush yam
elephant foot yam
elephant yam
fiveleaf yam
Foochow yam
fourleaf yam
garnet yam
greater yam
Indian three-leaf yam
Indian yam
intoxicating yam
Japanese mountain yam
Japanese yam
jewel yam
lesser yam
Mexican yam
mountain yam
negro yam
New Zealand yam
Okinawan yam
parsnip yam
potato yam
pounded yam
purple yam
seven-lobed yam
thorny yam
toco for yam
tropical yam
true yam
water yam
white yam
wild yam
winged yam
yam bean
yamberry
yam cake
yam daisy
yamless
yamlike
yampee
yam stick
yellow yam
Translations:
maize
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish maíz, from Taíno *mahis, *mahisi, from Proto-Arawak *marikɨ. Cognate with Lokono marisi, Wayuu maiki.
Inflected forms:
form: maizes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maiz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Corn; a type of grain of the species Zea mays.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But alass! these, when they had maize (yt is, Indean corne) they thought it as good as a feast, and wanted not only for 5. days togeather, but some time 2. or 3. months togeather, and neither had bread nor any kind of corne.
A fundamental creative act of American man was the development of maize. For it was maize that made possible and sustained the whole Peruvian civilization as well as Mexican and Central American ones. Exactly where it originated is not known, but corn was found in pre-Mayan graves dating to 3000 B.C.
Translations:
heptagon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Since 16th century, from Ancient Greek ἑπτάγωνον (heptágōnon), from ἑπτά (heptá, “seven”) + γωνία (gōnía, “angle”). By surface analysis, hepta- + -gon.
Inflected forms:
form: heptagons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polygon with seven sides and seven angles.
pos: noun
Translations:
nonagon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From nona- + -gon.
Base: nona
Inflected forms:
form: nonagons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polygon with nine sides and nine angles; an enneagon.
pos: noun
Translations:
decagon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From deca- + -gon.
Base: deca
Inflected forms:
form: decagons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polygon with ten sides and ten angles.
pos: noun
Translations:
dodecagon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From dodeca- + -gon.
Base: dodeca
Inflected forms:
form: dodecagons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polygon with twelve edges and twelve angles.
pos: noun
Translations:
porcine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old French [Term?]der.
Middle French porcinder.
Proto-Indo-European *perḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos
Proto-Italic *porkos
Latin porcus
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
Latin porcīnusder.
Middle English porcine
English porcine
From Middle English porcine, partly from Middle French porcin (from Old French [Term?]) and partly from its etymon, Latin porcīnus, from porcus (“pig”).
Inflected forms:
form: more porcine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most porcine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: porcines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or being a pig.
pos: adj
examples: Alas, your delicious sandwich has been slain. Gaius’ blow sent it sprawling from your hand and onto the dusty grass where its saucy, porcine contents splattered forth from its freshly-baked body.
gloss: Similar to a pig.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: boarish, boarlike
gloss: Overweight to the extent of resembling a pig; severely obese.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:overweight
gloss: A porcine animal: a pig, hog, boar, or related wild animal.
pos: noun
Related words: pork
Derived words: antiporcine
nonporcine
porcinely
porcine measles
porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
porcine stress syndrome
unporcine
Translations:
AGP
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more AGP
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most AGP
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Autogynephilic, or in the manner of an autogynephile.
pos: adj
Translations:
roman
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
Etymology: From Roman.
Inflected forms:
form: Roman
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Upright, as opposed to italic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In some early printed Bibles quoted text is indicated by changing the font from roman to italic.
gloss: Of or related to the Latin alphabet or roman numerals.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: roman font
Translations:
achromatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀχρωμάτιστος (akhrōmátistos, “uncolored”), from ἀ- (a-, “not”) + χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”), equivalent to a- + chromatic; compare French achromatique.
Base: chromatic
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more achromatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most achromatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Free from color; transmitting light without color-related distortion.
pos: adj
examples: The designer chose an achromatic color scheme of black, white, and gray.
achromatic color scheme
achromatic image
gloss: Containing components such as achromatic lenses and prisms, designed to prevent color-related distortion.
pos: adj
examples: An achromatic lens reduces color distortion in optical instruments.
gloss: Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid.
pos: adj
gloss: Having only the diatonic notes of the scale; not modified by accidentals.
pos: adj
Synonyms: achromatic
colorless
colourless
hueless
Antonyms: colored
coloured
colorful
colourful
dyed
motley
multicolored
multicoloured
particolored
particoloured
polychromatic
polychrome
variegated
Related words: achromaticity
achromatic lens
achromatic number
achromatic prism
achromatism
chromatic
Derived words: achromatically
nonachromatic
pseudoachromatic
Translations:
undermine
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English mine
English undermine
From under- + mine.
Inflected forms:
form: undermines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: undermining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: undermined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: undermined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To dig underneath (something), to make a passage for destructive or military purposes; to sap.
pos: verb
examples: Martin, for instance, had on one occasion undermined a tree sacred to old gods, then stood in the path of its fall, but forced it to fall elsewhere by making the sign of the Cross.
gloss: To weaken or work against; to hinder, sabotage.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: The war efforts were undermined by the constant bickering between the allies.
The penile mishaps (one involving a bristled toothbrush), severings (one involves hungry ducks) and surgeries cited by Ms. Roach are nothing if not memorable, but her book consistently undermines its own discoveries.
The growing use of social media to spread anger and dissent in the Arab world has been hailed by western governments as one of the chief justifications for a completely unfettered internet. The US is reportedly funding the secret rollout of technology in Iran in an effort to undermine internet censors in the country.
When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.
The 'partygate' controversy has played a major part in undermining the credibility of Boris Johnson and his Government and has led to calls from senior MPs for him to resign.
gloss: To erode the base or foundation of something, e.g. by the action of water.
pos: verb
examples: Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms. The thousands of gallons of water that cascaded onto the railway line below washed away track, ballast and overhead line equipment, and undermined embankments along a 300-metre section of Scotland's busiest rail link.
gloss: To regard an object as the sum of the parts that compose it, in object-oriented ontology.
pos: verb
examples: We can even go further: when we consider an object in everyday life we do not usually just undermine or overmine it as if it demanded an either/or approach, but rather we run the two processes in tandem: duomining, as Harman labels it.
Antonyms: undergird
Translations:
two-faced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From two + faced, modelled after earlier English twi-faced.
Base: two
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having two faces or plane surfaces.
pos: adj
tags: literally
not-comparable
gloss: Deceitful, duplicitous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Hypocritical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: double-faced
hypocritical
Janus-faced
Related words: double standard
hypocrite
Translations:
hirsute
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin hirsūtus (“shaggy, hairy”).
Inflected forms:
form: more hirsute
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hirsute
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered in hair or bristles; hairy.
pos: adj
examples: A third eminent cause of iealousie may be this, when hee that is deformed hirsute and ragged, and very vertuously giuen, will marry some very faire niec piece, or some light huswife, he begins to misdoubt (as well he may) she doth not affect him.
[…] there are of Roots, Bulbous Roots, Fibrous Roots, and Hirsute Roots.
Juan, I said, was a most beauteous Boy,
And had retained his boyish look beyond
The usual hirsute seasons which destroy,
With beards and whiskers and the like, the fond
Parisian aspect […]
At that period, too, the Jew's long beard was far more distinctive than it is in this hirsute generation.
Depilatories were used for all hirsute parts of the body.
Despite occasional hirsute rebellions by Cavaliers in the seventeenth century and hippies in the twentieth, the shaggy, long-haired male has remained a rarity […]
Antonyms: glabrous
bald
callow
calvous
depilous
hairless
smooth
Translations:
tsar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Caesarbor.
Proto-Germanic *kaisarazder.
Proto-Slavic *cěsařь
Old East Slavic цѣсарь (cěsarĭ)
Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ)
Russian царь (carʹ)bor.
English tsar
Borrowed from Russian царь (carʹ), from Old East Slavic цьсарь (cĭsarĭ), from Proto-Slavic *cěsařь, from a Germanic language, from Proto-Germanic *kaisaraz, from Latin Caesar. Doublet of Caesar and Kaiser. The spelling tsar began to replace the older czar in the nineteenth century. Compare Byzantine Greek Τζαῖσαρ (Tzaîsar).
Inflected forms:
form: tsars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tsari
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: czar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tzar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: csar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An emperor of Russia (1547 to 1917) and of some South Slavic states.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: [W]hy, in the name of common sense, should the English call the Czar (tsar) of Russia razc?
I vuz never beink too krazy about any of dose tsari.
>There IS a difference between the Russians as a group of people and Soviet communism!
Ha ha ha! Know any other good ones? First their^([sic]) were the plain old tsari, then the red tsari (Stalin, etc) and know Putin is the 'new look' tsar. But the same beastly imperialist bullying goes on.
At that time Mongol princes faced the challenge of choosing from three options: either combine all their forces and fight against the Manchus, which were stronger and had taken over all of China at that time, or approach the Russian Tsari as did the Buryat and Khalmig Mongol princedoms or to follow the way of Inner Mongolia and accept relative autonomy given by the Manchu.
gloss: A person with great power; an autocrat.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Chin Chien-shih, an old poor peasant of Korean nationality, said: "The wolfish ambition of the new tsars is exactly the same as that of the old tsars. The Soviet revisionist renegade clique is struggling desperately in the hope of saving itself from doom, but this will only bring on its destruction more quickly."
Related words: csar
czar
Tsar Bomba
tsarevich
tsarevna
tsarina
tsaritsa
tzar
Derived words: czarocracy
czarocrat
czarocratic
if only the tsar knew
tsarate
tsardom
czardom
tsarian
tsaric
tsaricide
tsarina
czarina
tsarish
tsarism
czarism
tsarist
czarist
tsarlike
tsarship
Translations: