yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
uppity
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier uppedy, equivalent to up + -ed + -y; compare blackity, biggity, and hippity (and possibly also persnickety, pernickety). First attested around 1880 in Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris to describe Jack Sparrer (Jack Sparrow), who tattled on Br'er Rabbit (see quotations below). Compare uppish.
Base: up
Affixes: -ed
-y
Inflected forms:
form: uppitier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: uppitiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uppedy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: uppety
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Presumptuous, above oneself, self-important; arrogant, snobbish, haughty.
pos: adj
examples: "Hit wuz wunner dese yer uppity little Jack Sparrers, I speck," said the old man; "dey wuz allers bodder'n' longer udder fokes's bizness
gloss: Exceeding one's station or position, assuming prerogatives to which one is not entitled.
pos: adj
examples: And the Yankees are very upset because so many uppity darkies have been killed recently.
The Association was openly committed to "restoring the historical balance of power intended by our Founders" between the nobility and the uppity commoners […]
Related words: know one's place
Translations:
Americana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-
Proto-Germanic *amalą
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs
Proto-Celtic *rīxsbor.
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Amalarīksder.
Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos
Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos
Proto-Germanic *haimaz
▲
Proto-Germanic *rīks
Proto-Germanic *Haimarīksder.?
Italian Amerigoder.
New Latin Americalbor.
English America
English -ana
English Americana
From America + -ana.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: All things peculiar to the culture and people of the United States; anything that is a symbol of American life.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Today Coke exists as nostalgic brand, harking back to the day when the drink enjoyed its peak iconic stature. Coke now stands for 1950s Americana.
The Clovis Limit, her shop in Portobello Road, dealt exclusively in Americana.
Recycling Americana through predigested pop culture makes Monster Trucks seem indebted to Amblin movies of the ’80s, by way of the boy-and-his-car riff on those same movies Michael Bay half-assedly performed in the first Transformers.
gloss: An amalgam of roots musics formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the American musical ethos; specifically those sounds that are merged from folk, country, blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll and other external influential styles.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The music that became Americana crossed racial lines very early, becoming one of the major integrating forces in America. The chapter shows how artists such as Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers were creating and playing Americana long before we had a name for what they were doing.
A quarter-century later, the Band’s music provided a key template for the acts first labeled Americana, including Son Volt, Wilco and Lucinda Williams, as well as for their sonic heirs.
Translations:
beamer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *bagmaz?
Proto-West Germanic *baum
Old English bēam
Middle English beem
English beam
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 beamer
From beam (“balance beam”) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: beamers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gymnast proficient with or specializing in the balance beam.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
albedo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: alchemy
astronomy
biology
botany
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
pseudoscience
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *albʰós
Proto-Italic *alβos
Latin alb(us)
Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.
Latin -ēdō
Latin albēdōbor.
English albedo
Borrowed from Latin albēdō (“whiteness”).
Inflected forms:
form: albedos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: albedoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For track, painting rails white at weak points that are more prone to buckling (where the 'critical rail temperature' is close to the 'stress free temperature' [...]) increases their albedo and can help slow how quickly they heat up, reducing their temperature by perhaps five degrees or so.
gloss: The whitish inner portion of the rind of citrus fruits that is a source of pectin, commonly referred to as the pith.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the four major stages of the magnum opus, involving purification of the prima materia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: albedo feature
albedometer
ice-albedo feedback
terrestrial albedo
Translations:
pushover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A deverbal from push over. First use appears c. 1891 in the Galveston Daily News.
Inflected forms:
form: pushovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who is easily swayed or influenced to change their mind or comply.
pos: noun
examples: I'm a pushover when it comes to buying new kitchen gadgets.
“His [Helmut Newton's] women are strong and powerful, definitely not pushovers,” he says.
gloss: Someone who is easy to push around and to take advantage of; someone who lets themselves be picked on or bullied without defending or standing up for themselves.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that is easy to do or accomplish; an easy task.
pos: noun
Synonyms: softy
wuss
Related words: cave
cave in
give in
pullover
turn the other cheek
Derived words: pushoverness
Translations:
valentine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Saint Valentine's Day (“day of celebration of romantic love”).
Inflected forms:
form: valentines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An expression of affection, especially romantic affection, usually in the form of greeting card, gift, or message given the object of one's affection, especially on February 14th.
pos: noun
examples: Such an extravagant valentine was unexpected.
gloss: A person to whom a valentine is given or from whom it is received, especially on February 14th.
pos: noun
examples: Won't you be my valentine?
Synonyms: Valentine
Valentine's
valentine's
Related words: Saint Valentine
Saint Valentine Day
Saint Valentine's Day
Valentine
Valentine Day
Valentine's Day
vinegar valentine
Derived words: valentining
Translations:
electronics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éyti
Proto-Hellenic *éimi
Ancient Greek εἶμι (eîmi)der.
English ion
English electron
▲
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English electronics
From electron + -ics.
Inflected forms:
form: electronics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study and use of electrical devices that operate by controlling the flow of electrons or other electrically charged particles or by converting the flow of charged particles to or from other forms of energy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Electronics is a popular subject.
gloss: Devices which require the flow of electrons through conductors and semiconductors in order to perform their function; devices that operate on electrical power (battery or outlet)
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: Look at all the electronics in this room!
gloss: Electronic circuitry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The electronics is the difference between a modern and an old-fashioned thermostat.
The electronics are completely updated.
Related words: electronic
electronic calculator
electronic games
Derived words: acoustoelectronics
bioelectronics
cryoelectronics
digital electronics
Intel
magnetoelectronics
nanoelectronics
nonelectronics
optoelectronics
power electronics
psychoelectronics
quantum electronics
radioelectronics
stereoelectronics
thermoelectronics
animatronics
atomtronics
caloritronics
conetronics
gizmotronics
mechatronics
mecomtronics
moletronics
psychotronics
spintronics
straintronics
structronics
twistronics
avionics
bionics
civionics
dildonics
ovonics
radionics
Translations:
culinary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French culinaire, itself a borrowing from Latin culīnārius, from culīna (“kitchen”).
Inflected forms:
form: more culinary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most culinary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the practice of cookery or the activity of cooking.
pos: adj
examples: Her culinary skills were excellent.
Sizzling kebabs, delicious kheer and the ever popular haleem -it's a clear sign that Ramadan sure brings with it a culinary awakening. At the same time, Ramadan is all about discipline and faith.
gloss: Of or relating to a kitchen.
pos: adj
Related words: cook
kiln
recipe
Derived words: culinarian
culinarily
culinary art
culinary linguistics
ethnoculinary
medicoculinary
nonculinary
Translations:
stad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans and Dutch stad (“city, town”), from Middle Dutch stat, from Old Dutch stad, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz (“place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis (“standing, position”). Doublet of stead.
Inflected forms:
form: stads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: town, village
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
Translations:
refrigerate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From participle stem of Latin refrigerō (“to make cold”), from re- + frigerō.
Inflected forms:
form: refrigerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refrigerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refrigerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refrigerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make (someone or something) cool; to cool down.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
obsolete
transitive
examples: Lo here hath euery fayth[f]ull man a ſure promiſe, yͭ in the feruent heate of tentacion or tribulacion […] God gyueth the faythful man yͭ hopeth in him, yͭ ſhadow of hys holy ſhoulders, which are brode ⁊ large, ſufficient to refrigerate ⁊ refreſhe the man in that heate, and in euerye trybulacion he putteth hys ſhoulders for a defence betwene.
[T]he other [artery] goes to the lungs, to fetch air to refrigerate the heart.
They vvould go over board vvith a Rope faſtned about them, that by drenching themſelves a vvhile in the Sea, they might eaſe the internal Heat vvhich parched them; and vvhen they ſtood any of them to ſteer the Veſſel, they vvould have their Feet in a Pail of Sea VVater to refrigerate 'em.
Persons born in winter are, so to say, of a cold and frosty disposition and can thereby exert a refrigerating influence on the temperature of the air.
gloss: To keep (something) cool by containing within a refrigerator.
pos: verb
tags: specifically
transitive
examples: Please refrigerate your uncooked meats at or below 40° Fahrenheit.
Related words: refrigerant
refrigeration
refrigerator
Derived words: rerefrigerate
Translations:
Hollywood
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: The name of the neighbourhood in Los Angeles (proper noun sense 1) was coined by real estate developer H. J. Whitley, from holly + wood. By metonymy, it became the name of the industry, and eventually also a name for decadence.
Compound parts: holly
wood
Inflected forms:
form: more Hollywood
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Hollywood
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Hollywoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hollywoods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Hollywooding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Hollywooded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Hollywooded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or relating to the Hollywood movie industry.
pos: adj
examples: As many critics pointed out, the timely (but mostly tame and light) comedy was not too controversial, but too popular, too American, and too Hollywood to headline a festival that was scheduled to screen the likes of Robert Bresson's Un Feme Douce, Jean-Luc Godard's Le Gai Savior, Eric Rohmer's My Night at Maud's, Agnes Varda's Lion's Love, Paola Pier Pasolini's Pigpen, and Bo Widenberg's Adelen '31.
What did they say when they shipped you away to fight somebody's Hollywood war?
The film is at once too Hollywood and too realistic. It is tied to genre conventions while stylistically following the new code of realism, especially with regard to mise-en-scène and performance.
gloss: Of or characteristic of a Hollywood film.
pos: adj
examples: A Time reporter called Reagan "Hollywood handsome and remarkably youthful in appearance", a candidate who had "rattled political seismographs from coast to coast."
gloss: A waxing practice that removes all of the pubic hair, unlike a Brazilian which leaves a small strip behind.
pos: noun
examples: If you ask the woman who does your waxing she will tell you that everyone is asking for Brazilians or Hollywoods, including Gwyneth Paltrow […]
gloss: To engage in Hollywooding (various senses).
pos: verb
Translations:
magnum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Latin magnum, neuter of magnus (“great”).
* (bottle): Ellipsis of magnum bonum.
* (handgun): Name registered 1935 by Smith & Wesson Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Inflected forms:
form: magnums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: magna
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bottle containing 1.5 liters of fluid, double the volume of a standard wine bottle.
pos: noun
examples: So please don’t ask me when / There may be wine and roses / And magnums of champagne
gloss: A powerful firearm cartridge, often derived from a shorter, less powerful cartridge calibre that uses the same bullet.
pos: noun
gloss: A handgun that fires a cartridge of this calibre; chiefly a revolver, but rarely an autoloader firing an unusually powerful calibre.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I know what you're thinking. "Did he fire six shots or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But, being as this is a .44 magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
Related words: bonum magnum
foramen magnum
magnum opus
opus magnum
os magnum
Derived words: belted magnum
double magnum
Translations:
hypertext
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hyper- + text; coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.
Base: text
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: hypertexts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We do not read hypertext the same way we read a novel, and browsing the Web is a different experience from reading a book or newspaper.
Further, hypertext systems, because of their ease of construction, are very rich in text, graphics and visual illustrations.
1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", WIRED
Did Nelson realize at the time that he had met Xanadu's second parent? Probably not. The inventor scattered his ideas as widely as possible, with little care about where they landed. But as the decades passed, it would be Gregory who oversaw the attempt to transform Xanadu into a real product. He never received much public notice, but through all the project's painful deaths and rebirths, Gregory's commitment to Nelson's dream of a universal hypertext library never waned. If Ted Nelson is Xanadu's profligate father, Roger Gregory is Xanadu's devoted mother, and in retrospect, his role appears to have been intertwined with a terrible element of sacrifice.
gloss: A hypertext document.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: A hypertext system, then, is a memex-like device for creating and manipulating hypertexts, both for on-line browsing, and for reducing selected portions of such texts to . .
Synonyms: non-linear text
Related words: hyperlink
Derived words: hypertexted
Hypertext Markup Language
HTML
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTP
nonhypertext
Translations:
yank
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since 1822; from Scots yank. Unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: yanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yanked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now a white-backed rams its head down the wildebeest’s throat and yanks out an eight-inch length of trachea, ribbed like a vacuum hose.
[Regarding risks of AI] And you just have to have somebody close to the power cord. [Laughs.]^([sic]) Right when you see it about to happen, you gotta yank that electricity out of the wall, man.
gloss: To remove; to recall or revoke.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.
The cops yanked my driver's license.
gloss: To masturbate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: In the dark protection of the auditorium and his Baltimore cape, with two coiled females only inches beneath his feet, completely in his power and ignorant of the invisible force that held them captive, only this shadow knew, the True Dildough, with great pleasure and tremendous gutsy motions, yanked his full-grown penis to a gigantically pleasurable orgasm.
Derived words: rank and yank
yank around
yanker
yank off
yank one's crank
yank someone's chain
Translations:
squamous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English squamous, from Latin squāmōsus, from squāma (“scale(of a fish or reptile)”).
Inflected forms:
form: more squamous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most squamous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with, made of, or resembling scales; scaly.
pos: adj
examples: In the squamous heads of Scabius, Knapweed, and the elegant Jacea Pinea, and in the Scaly composure of the Oak-Rose, which some years most aboundeth.
I might call it gigantic - tentacled - proboscidian - octopus-eyed - semi-amorphous - plastic - partly squamous and partly rugose - ugh!
We spread the papers on the least squamous section of the floor and lay down; the smell was not so bad at ground level.
(And we'll never find out whether the last thought to pass through the mind of the captain of the Thresher was, "It's squamous and rugose," or simply, "It's squamous!")
gloss: Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to an epithelium with cells that are wider than their height (flat and scale-like).
pos: adj
Related words: squama
Derived words: adenosquamous
basosquamous
erythematosquamous
neosquamous
nonsquamous
papulosquamous
petrosquamous
simple squamous epithelium
squammy
squamously
squamousness
squamous suture
subsquamous
tympanosquamous
Translations:
reparation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin reparatus
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tio
Latin reparātiō, reparātiōnisbor.
English reparation
Borrowed from Latin reparātiō, reparātiōnis.
Inflected forms:
form: reparations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A payment of time, effort or money to compensate for past transgression(s).
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
uncountable
examples: I am sensible of the scandal I have given by my loose writings, and make what reparation I am able.
A feature of locomotive operation on the Region de l'Est of the French National Railways, not only on the old Alsace-Lorraine lines, but also on the Est proper, is the wide use still made of ex-German engines received as reparations after the 1914-19 war.
Biotic Leader: So how about if I kill Chairman Burns and finish this charade?
Chairman Burns: Please! I was trying to help you people!
Shepard: Let's not do anything we're all going to regret.
Biotic Leader: Why not? What have we got to lose?
Biotic Leader: Since the chairman here decided we didn't get reparations, we've got nothing left to live for!
Chairman Burns: But I've changed my mind! Seeing y-you all, it's c-clear that you all d-deserve...
Biotic Leader: You had your chance! Some L2s are nearly crippled from side effects of the implants, but you voted against reparations!
gloss: The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: the reparation of a bridge or of a highway
The church at Lichfield, in which we had a seat, wanted reparation, so I was to go and find a seat in other churches; and having bad eyes, and being awkward about this, I used to go and read in the fields on Sunday.
Related words: repair
reparative
microreparations
war reparations
Derived words: antireparations
microreparations
nonreparation
reparational
reparationist
Translations:
bodyline
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket.
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
examples: The Cousins changed the game entirely, said the blimpish fellow: much as he might have deplored power tennis or bodyline bowling.
Translations:
mythology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested as Middle English in 1412. From Middle French mythologie, from Latin mythologia, from Ancient Greek μυθολογία (muthología, “legend”) μυθολογέω (muthologéō, “to tell tales”), from μυθολόγος (muthológos, “legend”), from μῦθος (mûthos, “story”) + λέγω (légō, “to say”). By surface analysis, myth + -ology or mytho- + -logy.
Affixes: mytho-
-logy
Inflected forms:
form: mythologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The collection of myths of a people, concerning the origin of the people, history, deities, ancestors and heroes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now the great obstacle in tracing the identity of any of the basic forms of worship lies in the vast number of names which appear in the ancient idolatries and mythologies, creating the illusion of a miscellany of gods, whereas many of these different names refer to the same deity. Thus the sun has been personified and worshipped under as many different names as there are nations on the surface of the earth.
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
gloss: A similar body of myths concerning an event, person or institution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This program to distinguish Austria from Germany was important to building a new Austria, but it also indirectly contributed to victim mythology by implying that participation in the Nazi war of conquest was antithetical to Austrian identity.
gloss: Pervasive elements of a fictional universe that resemble a mythological universe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This tongue-in-cheek episode is especially fun for people who don’t take their “X-Files” mythology seriously.
gloss: The set of misconceptions and false attitudes that are held about something and contribute to its perception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Straight people who do not know, or do not know that they know, any gays, can accept all the mythology about us that is paramount in the propaganda of our enemies.
gloss: The systematic collection and study of myths.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: godlore
Derived words: astromythology
etymythology
geomythology
mytharc
mythologian
mythological
mythologist
mythologize
neomythology
neuromythology
pseudomythology
xenomythology
Translations:
cathedral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cathedral, chathedral, cathiderall, from Old French [Term?], from Latin cathedrālis, from cathedra + -ālis, from Ancient Greek καθέδρα (kathédra, “chair of a teacher, throne”).
Base: cathedra
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: cathedrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the office of a bishop or an archbishop.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The principal church serving as the office (and some as place of residence) of an archdiocese's/a diocese's archbishop/bishop which is symbolized by an episcopal throne known as the cathedra.
pos: noun
examples: The bishop presided over the ceremony from his seat in the cathedral.
gloss: A large or important church building.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
gloss: A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a cathedral of commerce
gloss: A large buttressed structure built by certain termites.
pos: noun
Related words: archdiocese
bishopric
cathedra
diocese
Derived words: cathedral cactus
cathedral ceiling
cathedral church
cathedral city
Cathedral City
cathedral close
cathedraled
cathedralesque
Cathedral Falls
cathedralic
cathedralism
cathedrallike
cathedral mound
cathedral termite
Cathedraltown
co-cathedral
noncathedral
procathedral
pro-cathedral
the cathedral and the bazaar
Westminster Cathedral
Translations:
basilica
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin basilica, from Ancient Greek βᾰσῐλῐκή (băsĭlĭkḗ), from βᾰσῐλῐκὴ στοά (băsĭlĭkḕ stoá, “royal hall”), ultimately from βασιλικός (basilikós, “royal”), from βασιλεύς (basileús, “king, chief”). Doublet of basoche.
Inflected forms:
form: basilicas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: basilicae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
pos: noun
gloss: A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
pos: noun
gloss: An apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; hence, any large hall used for this purpose.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: archbasilica
basilical
basilican
Translations:
chapel
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English chapele, chapel, from Old French chapele, from Late Latin cappella (“little cloak; chapel”), diminutive of cappa (“cloak, cape”). Doublet of capelle.
(printing office): Said to be because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
Inflected forms:
form: chapels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chapels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chapeling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: chapelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: chapeled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: chapeled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: chapelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: chapelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
pos: noun
tags: especially
gloss: A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
pos: noun
examples: One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
gloss: A place of worship of a denomination not in conformity with the Church of England, usually Protestant; for example, of Nonconformist or Dissenter congregations.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
pos: noun
gloss: A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A printing office.
pos: noun
gloss: A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
pos: noun
gloss: Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
pos: adj
tags: Wales
not-comparable
examples: The village butcher is chapel.
gloss: To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: give us the bones Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them!
Derived words: absidal chapel
antechapel
apse chapel
apsidal chapel
Chapel Allerton
Chapel Brampton
chapel cart
Chapel Chorlton
chapel de fer
Chapel-en-le-Frith
chapeler
chapelgoer
chapel-goer
chapelgoing
Chapel Lawn
Chapel-le-Dale
chapelless
chapelman
chapelmaster
Chapel Milton
Chapel of Ease
chapel of ease
chapel of rest
chapelry
Chapeltown
chapelward
chapelwarden
chapelwards
closet-chapel
father of chapel
freechapel
Heaton Chapel
Holmes Chapel
Lady chapel
minichapel
mortuary chapel
mother of chapel
St John's Chapel
Thomas Chapel
Translations:
vicar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vicar, viker, vikyr, vicaire, vicare, a borrowing from Anglo-Norman vikare, vicare, vikaire, vikere and Old French vicaire (“deputy, second in command”), from Latin vicārius (“vicarious, substitute”). Doublet of vicarious.
Inflected forms:
form: vicars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vic.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: priest, rector, curate
Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion[…] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
For this [annual choir outing] the vicar traditionally hired a brake, an ancient, Edwardian, horse-drawn, bus-like vehicle which had plodded along for many years between Ramsgate and Pegwell Bay, carrying passengers who were in no hurry, until it became so unroadworthy that no horse could be persuaded to pull it on a regular basis.
gloss: In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
pos: noun
gloss: A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: proxy, representative, agent
Related words: vicarate
vicarian
vicariate
Derived words: lay vicar
parochial vicar
unvicar
vicarage
vicar apostolic
vicar choral
vicaress
vicar forane
vicar-general
vicar general
vicarial
vicarish
vicarless
vicarly
vicar of Bray
Vicar of Christ
vicarship
Translations:
rector
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rectour, rector, from Old French rector, rectour and Latin rēctor.
Inflected forms:
form: rectors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rectour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In the Anglican Church, a cleric in charge of a parish and who owns the tithes of it.
pos: noun
examples: It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
gloss: In the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric with managerial as well as spiritual responsibility for a church or other institution.
pos: noun
gloss: A priest or bishop in the Orthodox Church who is in charge of a parish or in an administrative leadership position in a theological seminary or academy.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
gloss: In a Protestant church, a pastor in charge of a church with administrative and pastoral leadership combined.
pos: noun
gloss: A headmaster or headmistress in various educational institutions, e.g., a university.
pos: noun
gloss: An official in Scottish universities who heads the university court and is elected by and represents the student body.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Related words: rectorate
rectorial
rectory
rectrix
regular
Derived words: corrector
director
lay rector
missionary rector
prorector
rectoress
rector magnificus
rectorship
rectress
subrector
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ծխակեր
roman: cxaker
lang: Bulgarian
word: енорийски свещеник
roman: enorijski sveštenik
lang: Dutch
word: predikant
lang: Dutch
word: dominee
lang: Finnish
word: kirkkoherra
lang: Hungarian
word: plébános
lang: Irish
word: reachtaire
lang: Italian
word: parroco
lang: Macedonian
word: жу́пник
roman: žúpnik
lang: Macedonian
word: па́рох
roman: pároh
lang: Norman
word: recteu
lang: Polish
word: proboszcz
lang: Portuguese
word: reitor
lang: Romanian
word: paroh
lang: Russian
word: па́стор
roman: pástor
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: жу̑пнӣк
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: žȗpnīk
priory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman priorie.
Inflected forms:
form: priories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A monastery or convent governed by a prior or prioress.
pos: noun
Translations:
rort
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably a back-formation from rorty (“boisterous or rowdy, saucy, dissipated, or risqué”). Originally slang but now in common usage.
Inflected forms:
form: rorts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rorts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rorting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rorted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rorted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A scam or fraud, especially involving the misappropriation of public money or resources.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
examples: 2008, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 4067,
Not all of the projects were bad or rorts; the majority were no doubt valuable to their communities.
It′s one of the great rorts in Australia that for overstaying your welcome (even by five minutes) in a space that may cost only a few dollars to park in, local councils are prepared to fine you anywhere from $50 to $120.
The rort was that South Australia and Western Australia, who controlled their grounds, were allowed to double-dip. In Perth, for instance, the WACA sold season tickets, which they marketed in the form of memberships, to everything at the ground, including football. They had a huge membership and were rolling in money, but because they′d sold their tickets in memberships, they declared a loss on the cricket Test match. At the end of the season, though, they′d get the same twofourteenths^([sic]) of Pool Two as Queensland.
gloss: To cheat or defraud.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
transitive
examples: He wants to change the system for the benefit of all and wants to stop the incredible rorting that has occurred within the prisons system.
SINGLE pensioners living together will come under scrutiny from Centrelink looking for same-sex couples rorting welfare.
York is then alleged to have rorted the doctor out of his share.
Translations:
shindig
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an alteration of shindy, or from Scottish Gaelic sìnteag (“jump, leap”).
Inflected forms:
form: shindigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A noisy party or festivities.
pos: noun
examples: They'd get up a regular shindig, if it wasn't for making too much noise.
"That's a darn shame. Well–I suppose you're waiting for somebody to take you out to some big shindig, Sir Gerald." "Shindig? Oh. Shindig. No, to tell you the truth, I was wondering what the deuce I could do this evening[…]"
There was bound to be a New Year's shindig going on in his apartment down on Las Palmas.
Which suggests that the man in the middle of what will be the planet’s splashiest shindig this weekend far prefers the stillness and privacy he finds about 1,500 miles away from London, on unpaved roads and rugged woods near the Carpathian Mountains.
gloss: A noisy argument.
pos: noun
Translations:
duomo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Italian duomo. Doublet of dome and domus.
Inflected forms:
form: duomos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duomi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cathedral, or a cathedral-like building, especially one in Italy.
pos: noun
examples: Of tower or duomo, sunny sweet.
There was no doubt as to the direction, with the campanile of the duomo as a beacon.
Translations:
Bristolian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Bristol
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Bristolian
From Bristol + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Bristolian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Bristolian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Bristolians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or relating to Bristol.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Bristol
pos: noun
Translations:
shipshape
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ship + shapen (“shaped; wrought with a definite shape”), later shortened to shape. The word is of nautical origin, based on the obligation of a sailor to keep his or her quarters arranged neatly and securely due to the limited space typically allotted to service members aboard ship, and against turbulence at sea.
Compound parts: ship
shapen
Inflected forms:
form: more shipshape
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most shipshape
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ship-shape
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more shipshape
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most shipshape
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: ship-shape
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Meticulously neat and tidy.
pos: adj
examples: SHIP-shape, in a seaman-like manner; as "That mast is not rigged ship-shape;" "Put her about ship-shape," &c.
[I]t would have been more ship-shape to lower the bight of a rope, or a running bow-line, below me, than to seize an old sea-man by his head-lanyard; [...]
When we set out on the jolly voyage of life, what a brave fleet there is around us, as stretching our fresh canvas to the breeze, all "shipshape and Bristol fashion," pennons flying, music playing, cheering each other as we pass, we are rather amused than alarmed when some awkward comrade goes right ashore for want of pilotage!
[G]lad to see you, gentlemen—steerage not quite shipshape at present—overhauling ship, you see; but when we once get under way, get things shipshape, you know.
Annie, my girl, cheer up, be comforted, / Look to the babes, and till I come again, / Keep everything shipshape, for I must go.
Well, Captain Smollett, what have you to say? All well, I hope; all shipshape and seaworthy?
― When are you going out fishing again? / ― Oh, in about six weeks, when we're shipshape aloft.
Having made sure everything is shipshape, the colonel goes back to the controls and starts to bring the plane down.
[Y]ou got the downhaul to keep him in place real snug like. Otherwise it just ain't shipshape. Hell, everybody knows that.
Dr. Marks said I'm shipshape. Those were his exact words. Or maybe he said tip-top. It was something alliterative.
gloss: Neatly and tidily to a meticulous extent.
pos: adv
examples: No—sir—if I sink, I sink; but d——e, I'll go down ship-shape and with dignity.
I have said a good deal about Bertha, because I like her frank, easy way, her desire to please, and her pleasant natural manner of doing it. I do n't think novel-writers and picture-makers say enough about such girls. [...] Those are the girls, Ma'am, whom I want to see described by people who know how to do this sort of thing up shipshape.
Some of you have n't sense enough to put a blanket ship-shape over a sick man. There! Leave it alone! I can die anyhow!
Translations:
familiar
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English familiar, familier, from Latin familiāris (“pertaining to servants; pertaining to the household”). By surface analysis, family + -ar. Piecewise doublet of familial. Displaced native Old English hīwcūþ.
Inflected forms:
form: more familiar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most familiar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: familiars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Known to one, or generally known; commonplace.
pos: adj
examples: There’s a familiar face; that tune sounds familiar.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
gloss: Acquainted.
pos: adj
examples: I'm quite familiar with this system; she's not familiar with manual gears.
gloss: Intimate or friendly.
pos: adj
examples: We are on familiar terms now; our neighbour is not familiar
Don’t be familiar with me, boy!
Be thou familiar; but by no meanes vulgar:[…]
gloss: Of or pertaining to a family; familial.
pos: adj
examples: 1822, Lord Byron, Werner
familiar feuds
gloss: An attendant spirit, often in animal or demon form.
pos: noun
examples: The witch’s familiar was a black cat.
The familiars of the magicians, on the other hand, were not in all cases evil, and often may have approximated the "guides" with whom present-day spiritualists are well acquainted.
"What power hath gold?" Catweazle wondered as he picked up his familiar and put him in his special pocket.
gloss: A member of one's family or household.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A member of a pope's or bishop's household.
pos: noun
gloss: A close friend.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: [A] friend of mine, that finding a Receipt in Braſsivola, would needs take Hellebor in ſubſtance, & try it on his own perſon; but had not ſome of his familiars come to viſite him by chance, he had by his indiſcretion hazarded himſelfe; many ſuch I have obſerued.
gloss: The officer of the Inquisition who arrested suspected people.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: accustomed
familiar
habitual
known
predictable
routine
wonted
wontish
nigget
Antonyms: ignorant
unfamiliar
unknown
unacquainted
cold
cool
distant
impersonal
standoffish
unfriendly
strange
unaccustomed
unpredictable
unwonted
Related words: familial
accepted
approved
believed
recognized
daimon
Derived words: confamiliar
familiar fraud
familiarisation
familiarise
familiarism
familiarity
familiarization
familiarize
familiarly
familiarness
familiar stranger
hyperfamiliar
nonfamiliar
on familiar ground
overfamiliar
semifamiliar
ultrafamiliar
Translations:
scrivener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English scryvener, alteration of scryveyn, from Anglo-Norman scrivein (“professional penman, copyist”), from Old French escrivain, from Vulgar Latin *scriba, *scribanem, from Latin scriba, from scrībō (“to write”).
Inflected forms:
form: scriveners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.
pos: noun
examples: Scrivener (enters with a paper in hand):Here is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings,
Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed
That is may be today read o'er in Paul's.
And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
Eleven hours I have spent to write it over[…]
The nature of my avocations for the last thirty years has brought me into more than ordinary contact with what would seem an interesting and somewhat singular set of men, of whom as yet nothing that I know of has ever been written:—I mean the law-copyists or scriveners.
Below this, sat two scrivener monks at two little desks, on which were scrolls of parchment and ink-horns and goose-quill pens.
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gloss: One whose business is to place money at interest; a broker.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: amanuensis
scribe
tabellion
Related words: notary
Derived words: money scrivener
Translations:
useful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From use + -ful.
Base: use
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more useful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: usefuller
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most useful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: usefullest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: usefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a practical or beneficial use.
pos: adj
examples: prove useful
practically useful
That’s a very useful tool for gardeners.
She found the information extremely useful.
In the early days troubles were experienced with oscillation from the rod drive and with the transformers, but were overcome later, and these machines performed useful service until superseded by more modern locomotives less costly in maintenance.
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
Translations: