yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
nave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin nāvem, singular accusative of nāvis, possibly via a Romance source. Doublet of nef and nau.
Inflected forms:
form: naves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The middle or body of a church, extending from the transepts to the principal entrances.
pos: noun
examples: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
gloss: The ground-level middle cavity of a barn.
pos: noun
Derived words: double-nave
naved
naveless
navelike
Translations:
neap
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps of Scandinavian origin: compare dialectal Norwegian neip (“forked pole”).
Inflected forms:
form: neaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: neaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: neaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: neaped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
pos: noun
gloss: Low; lowest; the ebb or lowest point of a tide.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Designating a tide which occurs just after the first and third quarters of the moon, when there is the least difference between high tide and low tide.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Little groups of sailors came swinging along and pushied their way noisily inside the gaudy joints. Sex everywhere: it was slopping over, a neap tide that swept the props from under the city.
gloss: To trap (a ship) in water too shallow to move, due to the smaller tidal range occurring in a period of neap tides.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At 8, being high water, hauld her bow close ashore, but Keept her stern afloat, because I was afraid of Neaping her, and yet it was necessary to lay the whole of her as near the ground as possible.
gloss: To ooze, to sink, to subside, to tail.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It is well known that the spring tides happen at the change and full of the moon, at which time she is conjunction with and opposition to the sun. As these retire from their conjunction, the tides neap till about three days after the first quadrature, when the tides begin again to be more and more elevated, and arrive at their maximum about the third day after the opposition.
Translations:
negate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin negātus, perfect passive participle of negō (“to deny, refuse, decline”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: negates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: negating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: negated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: negated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict.
pos: verb
examples: The investigation tending to negate any supernatural influences.
gloss: To nullify or cause to be ineffective.
pos: verb
examples: Progress on the study has been negated by the lack of funds.
Persecution can be negated through exposure.
The 'slab track' system negates the need to divert utilities such as gas pipes and telecoms cables by only digging down to a depth of 30cm.
gloss: To be negative; bring or cause negative results.
pos: verb
examples: a pessimism that always negates
gloss: To perform the NOT operation on.
pos: verb
Related words: negative
negativeness
negativism
negativity
negation
Derived words: negatability
negatable
negatedness
negater
negatism
negator
unnegated
Translations:
neural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “a sinew, nerve”) + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the nerves, neurons or the nervous system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: neural connections
neural interface
gloss: Modelled on the arrangement of neurons in the brain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: abneural
adneural
aneural
antineural
bapineuzumab
bioneural
chordoneural
costoneural
dermoneural
diploneural
ectoneural
electroneural
endoneural
epineural
extraneural
glioneural
hyponeural
interneural
intraneural
microneural
multineural
myoneural
neural arch
neural axis
neural canal
neural crest
neural crest syndrome
neuralization
neuralize
neurally
neuralness
neural net
neural network
neural plate
neural processing unit
neural spine
neural tube
nonneural
oligoneural
onconeural
panneural
paraneural
perineural
postneural
preneural
proneural
sensorineural
spiking neural network
subneural
supraneural
transneural
vasoneural
Translations:
neuron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron, “nerve”), doublet of nerve and sinew. By surface analysis, neuro- + -on.
Inflected forms:
form: neurons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neura
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neurone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A cell of the nervous system, which conducts nerve impulses; consisting of an axon and several dendrites. Neurons are connected by synapses.
pos: noun
examples: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
gloss: A nervure of an insect's wing.
pos: noun
gloss: A mathematical function serving as an essential unit of an artificial neural network.
pos: noun
Synonyms: neuron
Related words: neural
neuralgia
neuritis
neurology
neuroscience
neurosis
neura
neurode
Derived words: algoneuron
antimirror neuron
antineuron
clusteron
get someone's neurons firing
input neuron
interneuron
Jennifer Aniston neuron
medium spiny neuron
mirror neuron
motor neuron
motor neuron disease
multineuron
neuron activation
neuronal
neuronally
neuronic
neuronitis
neuronlike
neuronopathic
neuronopathy
neuronophage
neuronophagia
neuronophagy
paraneuron
Purkinje neuron
pyramidal neuron
rosehip neuron
sensory neuron
spindle neuron
spiny projection neuron
von Economo neuron
Translations:
newel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nowel, *newel, from Old French noel, from either Early Medieval Latin nōdellus (“buckle”, diminutive of nōdus "knot") or Late Latin nucālis (“nut-like”, derivative of nux "nut"). Doublet of noil and noyau.
Inflected forms:
form: newels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.
pos: noun
gloss: Either of two kinds of supporting post in a staircase.
pos: noun
examples: We went along the hall to the end and up a flight of stairs with a carved handrail and newel post.
Derived words: neweled
newelled
Translations:
niacin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: in 1942 derived from nicotinic + acid + vitamin, chosen to dissociate it from nicotine, to avoid the perception that vitamins or niacin-rich food contains nicotine, or that cigarettes contain vitamins.
Compound parts: nicotinic
acid
vitamin
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A water-soluble vitamin, a component of vitamin B complex, found in meat, yeast, and dairy products; it is essential to metabolism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Mixing the alkali into the recipe in the right way chemically releases the otherwise unavailable niacin in the corn, which stops pellagra in its tracks, and allowed corn-based agricultural populations to grow and spread.
Translations:
nib
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a variant of neb, perhaps due to association with nibble.
Inflected forms:
form: nibs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knib
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nibs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nibbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nibbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nibbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: knib
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.
pos: noun
examples: Slowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them.
Ford, whose often acid nib belied a deep love of all things Iberian, is one of 20 British authors profiled in a new Spanish book[…].
gloss: A bird's beak.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: Bits of trapped dust or other foreign material that form imperfections in painted or varnished surfaces.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of a roasted, hulled cocoa bean.
pos: noun
gloss: A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.
pos: noun
examples: the little nib or fructifying principle
gloss: One of the handles projecting from a scythe snath.
pos: noun
gloss: The shaft of a wagon.
pos: noun
gloss: To fit (a pen) with a nib.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In nibbing the pen, place the inside of the point flat upon the nail of your left-hand thumb (holding the quill between the first and second finger of that hand), and let the whole length of the split be extended thereon, to steady the pen as much as possible […]
Derived words: denib
nibber
nib-cove
nibless
niblet
niblick
niblike
nibmeister
nib pen
nib sugar
nipple
renib
Translations:
nibbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nib
English -ed
English nibbed
From nib + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more nibbed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nibbed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a nib or point.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a stamp: having the nib of its perforation removed or damaged.
pos: adj
Derived words: unnibbed
Translations:
niched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English niche
English -ed
English niched
From niche + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a niche.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They left early, yet the evening had seemed interminable; and considering that Emily was niched between an inlaid table, on which stood a shepherd in a yellow jacket offering a China—Chinese I mean—rose to a shepherdess in green and pink—and a tea-pot, all exquisite Dresden specimens—and an old lady, of whose shawl and shoulders Emily had the full benefit,...
Translations:
niggle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1599. Origin uncertain, but likely borrowed from dialectal Norwegian nigla (“to be stingy, to busy oneself with trifles”), ultimately from Old Norse hnøggr (“stingy; miserly”), related to Old English hnēaw (“stingy; niggardly”). More at niggard.
Inflected forms:
form: niggles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: niggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: niggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: niggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: niggled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A minor complaint or problem.
pos: noun
examples: The Olympic medal contender's back problem has been described as a "niggle" by the head coach, Charles van Commenee, but Porter's friend and former team-mate Danielle Carruthers revealed that the injury is playing on the Briton's mind.
He declared that it would take until the early New Year for all the faults and niggles to be ironed out, and that the rest of 2019 would be deemed to be a 'bedding in' period.
gloss: Small, cramped handwriting.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I shall so feed your fierce vexation , And raise your worship ' s storms ; I shall so niggle you , And juggle you , and fiddle you , and firk you
gloss: To use, spend, or do in a petty or trifling manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To dwell too much on minor points or on trifling details.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fidget, fiddle, be restless.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
gloss: To walk with short steps.
pos: verb
tags: UK
archaic
dialectal
intransitive
examples: I can see him now with his one eye closed as he came niggling along, and didn't he just give me a grandfather's blessing!
Derived words: niggler
nigglesome
niggly
Translations:
niter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English niter, nitere, nitre, nytre, from Old French nitre, from Latin nitrum (“native soda, natron”), from Ancient Greek νίτρον (nítron). Ultimately from Egyptian nṯrj (“natron”). Doublet of natron and trona. Compare also natrium, nitrogen.
Inflected forms:
form: niters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nitre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A mineral form of potassium nitrate (saltpetre) used in making gunpowder.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Native sodium carbonate; natron.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: nitric
nitrifaction
nitrify
nitrogen
nitrous
Derived words: niter bush
nitracrol
Nitralloy
nitramidin
nitran
nitraniline
nitranisic
nitrate
nitridation
nitriding
nitrile
nitrion
nitrite
nitryl
soda niter
Translations:
nitric
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nitro- + -ic, compare French nitrique.
Affixes: nitro-
-ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom less than 1 per cent., but more generally several per cent., which makes its strength when taken with the aræometer seem greater than it actually is.
gloss: Nitric acid.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
nob
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Pronunciation spelling of knob.
Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.
Inflected forms:
form: nobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hit in the head.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Translations:
nodal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English node
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English nodal
From node + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of the nature of, or relating to, a node.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If the sexual component [in a prosecutorial case] cannot be construed, it must be constructed. It is the nodal point of the prosecutor's comprehension. Up to that point, everything […] may perplex or disturb. But once the sexuality has been imputed, everything that seemed normal can now be made abnormal and perverse.
Chapter 4 is nodal to the book, not simply because it stands at its very middle. It engages with Kaiserkritik but also it connects the previous chapter’s discussion of working method and sources to what follows in Chapter 5, where Zonaras’ interest in Roman antiquity is discussed in greater detail.
Freightliner has advocated the long-planned development of Ripple Lane as a nodal yard. Its redevelopment, to accommodate roads up to 700 metres long, was listed in the London Freight Strategy of 2022 but hasn't gone beyond the drawing board.
gloss: Of or relating to the nodus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: antenodal
atrionodal
binodal
conodal
dianodal
enodal
extranodal
heminodal
infranodal
internodal
intranodal
multinodal
nodal analysis
nodal fever
nodalise
nodalize
nodally
paranodal
perinodal
polynodal
postnodal
prenodal
quadrinodal
subnodal
trinodal
uninodal
Translations:
nodder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nod
English -er
English nodder
From nod + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: nodders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who nods.
pos: noun
gloss: One who nods.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of noddy (“cutaway scene of an interviewer nodding”).
pos: noun
Translations:
nodule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nōdulus (“small knot”), from nōdus (“knot”). Doublet of nodulus.
Inflected forms:
form: nodules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rounded mass or irregular shape; a small knot or lump.
pos: noun
examples: Biotics manipulate mass effect fields using dozens of element zero nodules within their nervous system that react to electric stimuli from the brain. Amplifiers allow biotics to synchronize the nodules so they can form fields large and strong enough for practical use.
Translations:
nonce
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English nonse, nones, a rebracketing of Middle English to þen anes, for þen anes (to/for the once (i.e., the one occasion or instance)), from the dative singular neuter of þe. The cryptography sense is commonly said to be a contraction of number used once, although this is probably incorrect.
Inflected forms:
form: nonces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: That will do for the nonce, but we'll need a better answer for the long term.
[...] Dunce, / Dotard, a-dozing at the very nonce, / After a life spent training for the sight!
'Idiot!' exclaimed the doctor, who for the nonce was not capable of more than such spasmodic attempts at utterance.
gloss: A nonce word.
pos: noun
examples: I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors.
gloss: A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
pos: noun
examples: The protocol opens with A communicating in clear to AS his own claimed identity and the identity of the desired correspondent, B, together with A's nonce identifier for this transaction, I_(A1). ("Nonce" means "used only once.")
The information gained by the eavesdropper would permit a replay attack, but only with a request for the same document, and even that may be limited by the server's choice of nonce.
Both CCM and GCM require a unique nonce (N used once) value to maintain their privacy and authenticity goals.
The main idea with the challenge-response type of authentication protocol is that the challenge sent by the server is used only once (referred to as a cryptographic nonce, which means “number used once”).
gloss: One-off; produced or created for a single occasion or use. Denoting something occurring once.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But particular men are not stereotyped for jobs nor particular desks (as against others) to sit at - the standard here is nonce.
Dickinson's association of heliotrope with Mary Bowles was nonce and fleeting, but the subject of gardens was always a safe one on which to address her: “How is your garden – Mary? Are the Pinks true –?”
Poplack et al. (1988, 57) found that 65% of their types were nonce and only 7% of the types were considered widespread.
Some of the single-citation terms appeared to be nonce formations, that is, created for the occasion.
Derived words: for the nonce
nonce borrowing
nonce word
Translations:
notate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1871; back-formation from notation or from Latin notātus, perfect passive participle of notō; either way, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, note + -ate.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: notates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: notating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: notated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: notated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To mark with spots or lines, which are often colored.
pos: verb
gloss: To add notes to; to annotate
pos: verb
gloss: To create notation (e.g. music or mathematics); to record/put down in the form of notation
pos: verb
Derived words: notatable
notator
Translations:
nubile
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French nubile, from Latin nūbilis (“marriageable”), from nūbō (“marry, to take as husband”), from Proto-Indo-European *snewbʰ- (“to marry, to wed”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek νύμφη (númphē, “bride, young wife, nymph”) (English nymph), but this is disputed.
Inflected forms:
form: more nubile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nubile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nubiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable (principally of a young woman).
pos: adj
examples: "Pretty little thing, isn't she?" said Mrs. Budge huskily, and panted two or three times. "Yes," Denis nodded agreement. Sixteen, slender, but nubile, he said to himself, and laid up the phrase in his memory as a happy one.
gloss: Sexually attractive (especially of a young woman).
pos: adj
gloss: A woman of marriageable age; a sexually attractive young woman
pos: noun
Related words: connubial
nuptial
nuptials
Derived words: nubility
prenubile
Translations:
nulled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Turned so as to resemble nulled work.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
nurser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nurse
English -er
English nurser
From nurse + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: nursers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who nurses; a nurse; one who cherishes or encourages growth.
pos: noun
Translations:
oaf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of awf, auf, aufe, probably from Old Norse álfr (“elf”) (whence Norwegian Bokmål alv). Doublet of alf and elf.
Inflected forms:
form: oafs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: auf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person, especially a large male, who is clumsy or a simpleton.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Ouch! You dropped that box on my feet, you lumbering oaf!
gloss: An ill-mannered person; a boor.
pos: noun
tags: dated
derogatory
examples: I hope you haven't been thinking me an awful oaf for not writing to thank you for so many jolly games after I left Tapsfield?
gloss: An elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins, hence, a deformed or foolish child.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: galoot
imbecile
lout
moron
fool
Derived words: oafdom
oafish
oaflike
oaf-rocked
Translations:
oblate
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From French oblat and its source, Ecclesiastical Latin oblātus (“person dedicated to religious life”), nominalization of oblātus, perfect passive participle of offerō (“to offer”); see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: oblates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oblati
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person dedicated to a life of religion or monasticism, especially a member of an order without religious vows or a lay member of a religious community.
pos: noun
gloss: A child given up by its parents into the keeping or dedication of a religious order or house.
pos: noun
examples: 2007, The Venerable Bede started as an oblate at St Paul's, Jarrow, but by the time of his death in 735 was surely the most learned man in Europe. — Tom Shippey, ‘I Lerne Song’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 19
gloss: Designating a person who is an oblate, of or belonging to an order of oblates.
pos: adj
tags: capitalized
not-comparable
examples: an Oblate Father
Related words: oblation
offer
offering
Translations:
oboe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: An earlier form in English is hautboy, but the spelling oboe was adopted into English ca. 1770 from the Italian oboè, a transliteration in that language's orthography of the 17th-century pronunciation of the French word hautbois, a compound word made of haut (“high, loud, high-pitched”) and bois (“wood, woodwind”).
Inflected forms:
form: oboes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.
pos: noun
examples: Whistles, mirlitons, flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.
This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicked Carabosse, with her ghoulish minions, and the Lilac Fairy, with her elves.
Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.
Translations:
oboist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oboe
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English oboist
From oboe + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: oboists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oboeist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who plays an oboe.
pos: noun
Translations:
ocelot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French ocelot, a word formed by Buffon from Classical Nahuatl ōcēlōtl (“jaguar”).
Inflected forms:
form: ocelots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An American feline carnivore (Leopardus pardalis, syn. Felis pardalis) covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches which are variously arranged.
pos: noun
Translations:
octane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From oct- + -ane.
Base: oct
Inflected forms:
form: octanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the eighteen isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons (C₈H₁₈) found in petroleum, especially an iso-octane 2,2,4 trimethyl-pentane; they are used as fuels and solvents.
pos: noun
gloss: octane number
pos: noun
Related words: octene
octyne
Derived words: cyclooctane
diazabicyclooctane
high-octane
isooctane
low-octane
methoctramine
n-octane
octanal
octanamide
octanedione
octane number
octane rating
octanoic
octanol
octanone
octanyl
octodrine
perfluoroctane
research octane number
Translations:
octant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
geometry
human-sciences
mathematics
mysticism
nautical
philosophy
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Latin octāns. Doublet of Octans.
Inflected forms:
form: octants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
pos: noun
gloss: The aspect of two planets that are 45°, or one-eighth of a circle, apart.
pos: noun
gloss: The eighth part of a disc; a sector of 45 degrees; half a quadrant.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument for measuring angles, particularly of elevation.
pos: noun
Synonyms: octile
Related words: quadrant
sextant
Derived words: hyperoctant
octantal
Translations:
ohmic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ohm
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English ohmic
From ohm + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more ohmic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ohmic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to, or measured in, ohms.
pos: adj
gloss: That obeys Ohm's law
pos: adj
Derived words: nonohmic
ohmically
ohmic resistance
subohmic
superohmic
Translations:
olefin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From olefiant, "oil-producing".
Inflected forms:
form: olefins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: olefine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of unsaturated open-chain hydrocarbons such as ethylene; an alkene with only one carbon-carbon double bond.
pos: noun
Translations:
omened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English omen
English -ed
English omened
From omen + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Acting as, or containing, an omen or omens.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: happy-omened day
Antonyms: unomened
Translations:
onyx
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English onix (c. 1300), earlier oniche (c. 1250), from Old French oniche or onix, from Latin onyx, from Ancient Greek ὄνυξ (ónux, “onyx”). Doublet of unguis.
Inflected forms:
form: onyxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A banded variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: People talk about using marble in the bathrooms. Marble wasn't good enough for use—we have onyx!
gloss: A jet-black color, named after the gemstone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: ebony, raven
gloss: Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Horaga.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Jet-black; often, glossily so.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: ebony, raven
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
There was no moon, only stars set brilliantly in the soft black onyx of the sky : a black night and very silent on Cimiez ; and a black and silent prospect from the verandah […]
Derived words: onyx marble
Translations:
oocyte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From oo- + -cyte.
Base: oo
Inflected forms:
form: oocytes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oöcyte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cell that develops into an egg or ovum; a female gametocyte.
pos: noun
Translations:
operon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English operator
English -on
English operon
From operator + -on.
Inflected forms:
form: operons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of genetic material that functions in a coordinated manner by means of an operator, a promoter, and structural genes that are transcribed together.
pos: noun
Translations:
opine
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French opiner, from Latin opīnor (“to hold as an opinion”), from *opīnus (“thinking, expecting”), only in negative nec-opīnus (“not expecting”) and in-opīnus (“not expected”); akin to optō (“to choose, desire”), and to apīscor (“to obtain”); see optate and opt.
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: opines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: opining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: opined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: opined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: opines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: I opined that matters would soon become considerably worse.
"Your decisions," she opined, "have been unfailingly disastrous for this company."
Requested “Bonsoir, Paris!” and he performed with such élan I pressed a crisp five-franc note into his hand. He removed his dark glasses, checked the watermark, invoked his pet saint’s name, gathered his coppers, and scarpered through the flower beds, laughing like a madcap. Whoever opined “Money can’t buy you happiness” obviously had far too much of the stuff.
gloss: To give one's formal opinion (on or upon something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I had to opine on the situation because I thought a different perspective was in order.
gloss: To suppose, consider as correct, or entertain, an opinion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Do you, Maister Francis, opine that ye will re-establish your father's credit by cutting your kinsman's thrapple, or getting your ain sneckit instead thereof in the College-yards of Glasgow?
This, I opine, is a correct and fair statement of the case.
gloss: Any of a class of organic compounds, derived from amino acids, found in some plant galls.
pos: noun
Related words: opinion
opinionated
Derived words: opination
unopined
Translations:
orate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Partly borrowed from Latin ōrātus, perfect passive participle of ōrō (“to speak; to pray”) and/or partly back-formation from oration, from Latin ōrātiō (“speech, discourse, oration”); either way, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). By surface analysis, Latin or- + -ate.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: orates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: orating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: orated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: orated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To speak formally; to give a speech.
pos: verb
gloss: To speak passionately; to preach for or against something.
pos: verb
Related words: exorate
oral
oration
orator
oratory
oratrix
perorate
Translations:
ornery
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A contracted or dialectal pronunciation of ordinary. Sense 3 (“ordinary, commonplace”) was the earliest sense; the meaning of the word then shifted to “inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant”—presumably due to ordinariness—and finally to sense 1 (“disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with”).
Inflected forms:
form: ornerier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: orneriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: onery
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: onry
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: o'n'ry
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ornary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Disagreeable, stubborn, and troublesome to deal with; cantankerous.
pos: adj
tags: Appalachia
especially
informal
examples: Seemingly here was an intruder who was violating custom. Moreover, the partners had come to look upon this exceedingly rich district as their exclusive property. And so their indignation was extreme. "The low-down, ornery cuss!" said Dobbs. "The nerve of him, crowdin' in on us, just as if there wasn't lots of other places for him to go!"
Through Michael sped the thought: 'Could I make her jealous?' And he was shocked at it. A low-down thought—mean and ornery!
I ain't sayin' I don't share your sentiments, Buck, but you're a born fool. First place Luke would kill the Kid in a gun-fight. Second place if Luke did get shot he's got two brothers just as ornery as he is, and if Ike Plummer didn't kill the Kid then Hank Plummer would.
[“S]he was a girl and girls are less ornery than boys. Though I guess Mim was ornery in her way. Once she got to be sixteen, she put my parents through hell.” / “Grandpa, what’s ‘ornery’?” / “Oh, you know. Mean. Contrary. Rebellious.” / “Like Daddy?” / “I don’t think of your daddy as ornery, just, what‘s the word?—very uptight about things. People get to him more than they do to most people.”
After a lifetime of being sweet as pie, once Grandpa died, she got kinda ornery.
But in many instances, the complainers are not just being ornery [about noisy eating]; they could have a condition called misophonia, in which one experiences strong negative feelings to specific sounds—like the proverbial nails on a chalkboard.
gloss: Troublesome to deal with in a good way; mischievous, prankish, teasing.
pos: adj
tags: US
general
humorous
informal
gloss: Ordinary, commonplace; hence, inferior, plain-looking, unpleasant.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: ornerily
orneriness
Translations:
ossify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from ossification, or modeled on French ossifier and formed from Latin os, ossis (“bone”) + -ify.
Affixes: -ify
Inflected forms:
form: ossifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ossifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ossified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ossified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To transform (or cause to transform) from a softer animal substance into bone; particularly the processes of growth in humans and animals.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: […], nor do all bones of the same skeleton ossify during the samе period of time.
gloss: To become (or cause to become) inflexible and rigid in habits or opinions.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
animate
examples: Before long, the entire organization ossifies.
Possession of absolute knowledge would ossify the human spirit, quenching human creativity;
gloss: To grow (or cause to grow) formulaic and permanent.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
inanimate
examples: This accidental repartition gets repeated, develops advantages of its own, and gradually ossifies into a systematic division of labour.
Now, in turn, we apply a revolutionary critique that […] ossifies into a rhetoric to become "the monstrous Latin of a monstrous church."
[T]he charge threatens to ossify into conventional wisdom before the movie's audience can get to theaters to see how misguided it is.
gloss: To calcify.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: The cartilages become brittle, and in many instances are ossified; the ligaments are rendered harder, but are less capable of resisting extension.
Related words: ossification
ossifier
calcify
Derived words: coossify
nonossifying
reossify
Translations:
oust
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman ouster, oustier, from Old French oster (modern French ôter), from post-classical Latin obstare (“to remove”), classical obstāre (“to obstruct, stand in the way of”). Not related to out.
Inflected forms:
form: ousts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ousting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ousted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ousted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To expel; to remove.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The protesters became so noisy that they were finally ousted from the meeting.
The CEO was ousted by the board of directors.
Antonyms: accept
harbor
shelter
Translations:
ouster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
property
Etymology: From Old French ouster, oustre, a nominalization of Anglo-Norman oustre (“to oust”).
Inflected forms:
form: ousters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ousters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oustering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oustered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oustered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
pos: noun
gloss: The forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; a coup; an ousting.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: According to three Lakeview employees, Mr. [RC] Kendrick’s ouster came as the nursing home was telling staff members to try to clear out less-profitable residents to make room for a new class of customers who would generate more revenue: patients with Covid-19.
Mr. [Rishi] Sunak, a former chancellor whose resignation in July precipitated Mr. [Boris] Johnson’s ouster, earlier said he would not serve in Ms. [Liz] Truss’s cabinet.
The announcement blindsided employees, many of whom learned of the sudden ouster from an internal announcement and the company’s public facing blog.
D.H.S. declined to comment Friday on the ouster of Ms. [Kristi] Noem, who will lead the department through the end of the month.
gloss: To oust.
pos: verb
Related words: ouster le main
Translations:
ouzel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English osel, from Old English ōsle, from Proto-West Germanic *ą̄slā, *amslā, from Proto-Germanic *amslǭ. Cognate with German Amsel.
For the spelling, compare Early Modern English bloud (“blood”).
Inflected forms:
form: ouzels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ousel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oozel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Eurasian blackbird (Turdus merula).
pos: noun
tags: regional
gloss: A water ouzel, an aquatic perching bird (Cinclus mexicanus).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Derived words: ring ouzel
water ouzel
white-throated dipper
Translations:
parser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parse
English -er
English parser
From parse + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: parsers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A computer program that parses.
pos: noun
gloss: One who parses.
pos: noun
Derived words: geoparser
predictive parser
Translations:
pas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French pasbor.
English pas
Borrowed from French pas.
Inflected forms:
form: pas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The right of going foremost; precedence.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: ‘Nobody of any elegance of manners can exist, where tradesmen, attornies, and mechanics have the pas.’
Even Mrs. Bute Crawley, the Rector's wife, refused to visit her, as she said she would never give the pas to a tradesman's daughter.
gloss: A step in a dance.
pos: noun
examples: The premier pas in life is the most important of all ……
Related words: haut-pas
n'est-ce pas
pas de deux
pas de quatre
pas de trois
pas devant
pas devant les enfants
pas seul
Derived words: have the pas of someone
Translations:
paster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek παστός (pastós)
Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor.
Late Latin pasta
Old French pastebor.
Middle English paste
English paste
English -er
English paster
From paste + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, pastes.
pos: noun
gloss: A slip of paper, usually bearing a name, intended to be pasted by the voter, as a substitute, over another name on a printed ballot.
pos: noun
gloss: A diagram of the circuitry of a telephone, glued inside the telephone itself.
pos: noun
Derived words: cutter and paster
Translations:
pated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pate
English -ed
English pated
From pate + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a pate or a particular type of pate (head)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: long-pated
shallow-pated
Translations:
patina
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian patina, from Latin patina (“dish, pan”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek πατάνη (patánē), either from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread”) or from Pre-Greek. Doublet of paten, patena, and patine.
Inflected forms:
form: patinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: patinae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A paten, flat type of dish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The colour or incrustation which age and wear give to (mainly metallic) objects; especially, the green rust which covers works of art such as ancient bronzes, coins and medals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gloss or superficial layer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: he enjoys a patina of respect by the police, despite being an ex-criminal
It demonstrates how scientific authority could be constructed on the fly, as it were, by someone with no connections and no psychological credentials who offered a technique that had the patina of modern science[…]
gloss: Of a green colour, tinted with grey, like that of bronze patina.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: patella
Derived words: fauxtina
patinaed
patinate
patination
patinize
patinous
Translations:
peaky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English peak
English -y
English peaky
From peak + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: peakier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: peakiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Sickly; peaked.
pos: adj
examples: Her appetite did not improve, however, and she looked very thin and peaky.
gloss: Characterised by peaks.
pos: adj
examples: Or over hills with peaky tops engrail'd, / And many a tract of palm and rice, / The throne of Indian Cama slowly sail'd / A summer fann'd with spice.
A wide spread of possible outcomes will give a relatively flat distribution and so indicate a risky project. A narrow spread of results will give a very peaky graph and indicate a low risk project.
Derived words: peakily
peakiness
peaky blinder
peakyish
Translations: