yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
foosball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Fußball, itself a calque of English football.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: table soccer (US), table football (UK)
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
examples: […] Caleb on Tuesday, for the first time in months, had invited him to play foosball […]
Translations:
burdock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *bury dokke (attested as plural bury dokkis), equivalent to bur(ry) + dock.
Base: bur
Inflected forms:
form: burdocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.
pos: noun
examples: Your love is like a studded leather headlock
Your kiss, it could put creases in the rain
You're rarer than a can of dandelion and burdock
And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade
Translations:
polymorphic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From poly- + -morphic.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I refer to those genera which have sometimes been called "protean" or "polymorphic," in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.
1897, Grant Allen, An African Millionaire
Dr. Beddersley came -- a dapper little man, with pent-house eyebrows, and keen, small eyes, whom I suspected at sight of being Colonel Clay himself in another of his clever polymorphic embodiments.
gloss: Having or relating to the ability to take multiple data types for a single parameter.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Polymorphic redefinition in C++ is achieved by the use of virtual functions.
A polymorphic call looks like a procedural call, but where a procedural call has only one possible target subroutine, a polymorphic call can result in the execution of one of several different subroutines.
gloss: Relating to a compound that can crystallize into two or more distinct forms (e.g. carbon, which can crystalize into coal, graphite, diamond, etc.)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fact that polymorphic equilibrium is not a dynamic equilibrium is significant with respect to the random distribution of velocity of temperature agitation among the molecules.
Synonyms: protean
Antonyms: monomorphic
Derived words: catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia
hyperpolymorphic
nonpolymorphic
polymorphically
polymorphic content
polymorphic iteration
Translations:
radiocarbon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin radiusder.
English radio-
Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃-der.?
Latin carbōlbor.
French carbonebor.
English carbon
English radiocarbon
From radio- + carbon.
Inflected forms:
form: radiocarbons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A radioactive isotope of carbon, especially 146C.
pos: noun
Translations:
d-word
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: d-words
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: D-word
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The word damn.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: The word dick or dickhead.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: The word douche or douchebag.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: The word dyke.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: Any word beginning with d that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
pos: noun
Related words: b-word
c-word
e-word
f-word
g-word
G-word
h-word
i-word
j-word
k-word
l-word
m-word
n-word
o-word
p-word
q-word
Q-word
r-word
s-word
t-word
u-word
v-word
w-word
x-word
y-word
z-word
related terms C-bomb
f-bomb
f-slur
L-bomb
n-bomb
Q-slur
r-slur
Translations:
a-word
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Inflected forms:
form: a-words
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bad word that starts with the letter a, such as ass/arse or asshole/arsehole.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: The word alleluia, typically in the context of Lent since the Lenten liturgies of various Christian churches omit the alleluia.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
examples: It was Lent; “alleluia” is not sung in the Catholic church during Lent. I told her Babloo liked songs with the “A-word.”
My congregation is frustrated because we can’t sing carols during Advent, and now we can’t say the A-word [Alleluia] during Lent.
What we give up — the A-word. […] I added what we call the A-word in Lent, since we stop saying “a-l-l-e-l-u-i-a” for this season (Shhhh!).
gloss: Any word beginning with a that is not normally taboo but is considered (often humorously) to be so in the given context.
pos: noun
examples: Specialists sometimes choose PDD-NOS instead of an autism diagnosis because they are afraid that the “a-word” frightens patients.
Translations:
h-word
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: h-words
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: H-word
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The word hell/Hell.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: Any word beginning with h that is not normally taboo but is considered to be so in the given context, such as horny.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
Related words: a-word
b-word
c-word
d-word
e-word
f-word
g-word
G-word
i-word
j-word
k-word
l-word
m-word
n-word
o-word
p-word
q-word
Q-word
r-word
s-word
t-word
u-word
v-word
w-word
x-word
y-word
z-word
related terms C-bomb
f-bomb
f-slur
L-bomb
n-bomb
Q-slur
r-slur
Translations:
plaint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English plainte, borrowed from Anglo-Norman plainte (“lamentation”), plaint (“lament”), and Old French pleinte (“lamentation”), pleint (“lament”) (modern French plainte), from Medieval Latin plancta (“plaint”), from Latin planctus (“a beating of the breast in lamentation, beating, lamentation”), from Latin plango (“to beat one's breast, to lament”); see plain.
Inflected forms:
form: plaints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A complaint.
pos: noun
examples: she seemed to repeat, though with perceptible resignation, her plaint of a moment before. ‘Your father, darling, is a very odd person indeed.’
gloss: A lament or woeful cry.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: In the first paroxysm of his grief, Ingolfr exclaimed, (what sorrowing heart has not echoed his plaint?) that he could never more taste of joy.
His shriek was as feeble as the plaint of a grass-stalk in a storm.
I heard voices calling to me, just discernible above the engine noise; I stopped, and switched off. There were no voices, nothing, but far, far away the plaint of an unmilked cow.
gloss: A sad song.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: An accusation.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
examples: Once the plaint had been made there was nothing that could be done to revoke it.
Related words: complaint
plaintiff
plaintive
Derived words: plaintful
plaintless
Translations:
p-word
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From p + word.
Compound parts: p
word
Inflected forms:
form: p-words
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: P-word
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any vulgar/taboo word starting with p, e.g. piss, penis, pussy, poof, prick, or Paki.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
gloss: prosodic word, phonological word.
pos: noun
gloss: A preposition or adverb that no longer performs a prepositional or adverbial function including particles in phrasal verbs, quasi-modal verbs, and determiner phrases and infinitive markers.
pos: noun
Synonyms: particle
Related words: b-word
c-word
d-word
e-word
f-word
g-word
G-word
h-word
i-word
j-word
k-word
l-word
m-word
n-word
o-word
q-word
Q-word
r-word
s-word
t-word
u-word
v-word
w-word
x-word
y-word
z-word
related terms C-bomb
f-bomb
f-slur
L-bomb
n-bomb
Q-slur
r-slur
Translations:
atavistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin at-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwh₂os
Latin avus
Latin atavus
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French atavismebor.
English atavism
▲
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
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -istic
English atavistic
From atavism + -istic.
Inflected forms:
form: more atavistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most atavistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of the recurrence of a trait reappearing after an absence of one or more generations due to a chance recombination of genes.
pos: adj
examples: Although the heterozygote gives it an atavistic appearance, the gene is not atavistic.
Thus the gene which produced atavistic digits in the vigorous heterozygous pentadactyl condition is a lethal monster in the homozygous condition.
Reactivation of a dormant atavistic gene could account for the abnormal costocoracoid ligament in humans.
gloss: Of a throwback or exhibiting primitivism.
pos: adj
examples: They made me feel that I was alive in the nineteenth century, a sort of atavistic remnant, a romantic shred […]
The true perversion took place only in the privacy of her mind — the way she imagined an atavistic macho atop her when engaged in a mandatory contribution to the fetus-banks with some cretinous inept breeder…
Because I am atavistic enough to believe that drawing is the basic language of the illustrator, even as words comprise the basic language of the writer…
gloss: Relating to earlier, more primitive behavior that returns after an absence.
pos: adj
Related words: atavism
atavist
Derived words: atavistically
nonatavistic
Translations:
atavist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: atavists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A genetic characteristic emerging after an absence from several generations.
pos: noun
gloss: A person of atavistic beliefs or habits.
pos: noun
Related words: avatar
Derived words: atavistic
atavistical
Translations:
repertory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin repertōrium. Doublet of repertoire.
Inflected forms:
form: repertories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A repertoire.
pos: noun
gloss: A collection of things, or a place where such a collection is kept.
pos: noun
gloss: A specific set of works that a company performs.
pos: noun
gloss: A theater in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation.
pos: noun
examples: Since “Masques” was my first exposure to Stage I, My admiration of that production spawned an intense enthusiasm for the seven-year-old company, which, unfortunately, was quickly dampened by seeing “Icarus,” which runs in repertory with “Masques.”
gloss: A cinema specializing in classic or older films.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
Derived words: in repertory
rep
repertorial
Translations:
guidon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From French guidon, from Italian guidone. Equivalent of guide + on.
Compound parts: guide
on
Inflected forms:
form: guidons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small pennant or banner carried by infantry soldiers to direct troop movement.
pos: noun
gloss: A soldier assigned to carry such a banner.
pos: noun
Translations:
instrumentalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English instrumental
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English instrumentalism
From instrumental + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: instrumentalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the philosophy of science, the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these ideas are biological functions of our organisms, and psychological functions whereby we direct our choices and attain our successes.
Translations:
so-and-so
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: so-and-sos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: so and so
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A placeholder name for a person or thing, used when a name is not known; a generic person or thing.
pos: noun
examples: She told me to ask so-and-so, but he didn't know, either.
Business letters normally begin "Dear Mr So-and-So".
He will tell you to do so-and-so, but read the instructions first, anyway.
gloss: Used in place of epithets such as SOB, bastard, etc.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
euphemistic
examples: That miserable so-and-so messed up my work!
“How can five hundred pounds become a hundred thousand pounds?!”
“I’m not a bank,” snapped Mr Big.
“No, you just rob them!” said Frank.
“Cocky little so-and-so, aren’t you?”
Greg [Wise]’s excellent to work with. Funny and incredibly playful. He gets to be married to me by day and Emma Thompson by night. What a lucky so-and-so. We all want to be married to Emma Thompson, don’t we? I certainly do.
Related words: such-and-such
so-so
Translations:
topping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English toppyng; equivalent to top + -ing.
Base: top
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: toppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any food item added on top of another, such as sprinkles on ice cream or pepperoni on pizza.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pepperoni and mushrooms are common pizza toppings.
gloss: The act of cutting off the top of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Either of the cables that support the ends of a spar or boom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The tail of an artificial fly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: top off
topper-offer
Derived words: boot-topping
chart-topping
hill-topping
topping lift
topping out
Translations:
toppings
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling.
pos: noun
Translations:
press-gang
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From press + gang.
Compound parts: press
gang
Inflected forms:
form: press-gangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pressgang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: press gang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: press-gangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: press-ganging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: press-ganged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: press-ganged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pressgang
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: press gang
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A body of men employed to force others (impress them) into military service, especially naval service.
pos: noun
examples: "If this is a press gang," Lyle remarked, "you should know that my diet is extremely poor, I'm too tall for trenches and I blow away in a light breeze."
gloss: To force (someone) into military or naval service.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To coerce (somebody) into doing something that they are reluctant to do.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
plaintext
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Consisting only of plain text.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: binary
encoded
encrypted
Translations:
effusively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English effusive
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English effusively
From effusive + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more effusively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most effusively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an effusive manner.
pos: adv
examples: […] he is, as he affirms, a “people person”—his impulses are unfailingly awkward, his attempts at humor are lumpishly uncool, he’s accident-prone and fretful, but he’s also effusively sympathetic, optimistic, encouraging, and insistently pursuing sentimentally warm companionships based on little but a bottomless fund of sheer enthusiasm.
Translations:
probiotic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: bacteriology
biology
ecology
microbiology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *pér
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *próder.
Proto-Italic *prō
Latin prōder.
English pro-
English biotic
English probiotic
From pro- + biotic.
Inflected forms:
form: probiotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more probiotic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most probiotic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A food or dietary supplement, such as a yogurt, containing live bacteria for therapeutic reasons.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, or relating to probiosis; ecologic facilitation.
pos: adj
gloss: Describing any dietary supplement that contains live bacteria for therapeutic purposes.
pos: adj
Related words: probiogenomics
probiosis
Translations:
Sega
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese セガ (Sega), an abbreviation of service games, because the company's earliest products were aimed at American servicemen on military bases.
Inflected forms:
form: Segas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various video game consoles manufactured by Sega, a Japanese video game developer and publisher and manufacturer of arcade games and formerly of video game consoles.
pos: noun
examples: I would lay in bed for a few hours playing games on my Sega, getting totally absorbed in it as though it were all real and then I would sleep for the rest of the day.
Translations:
parenthetical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin parentheticus (from Late Latin parenthesis or Ancient Greek παρένθετος (parénthetos), + -icus) + -al. By surface analysis, par- + en- + thetical.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: parentheticals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Using, containing, or within parenthesis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You wrote "Bob (my best friend) works in finance", but I think you should rephrase that parenthetical part.
gloss: Explaining or qualifying something.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Incidental.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A word or phrase within parentheses.
pos: noun
gloss: A descriptor or modifier enclosed within parentheses and put, indented, in a line of dialogue to describe how it should be acted or directed onscreen.
pos: noun
Synonyms: parenthetic
Derived words: interparenthetical
nonparenthetical
parentheticality
parenthetically
parentheticalness
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: parenteza
offended
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more offended
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most offended
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
viewed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more viewed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most viewed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been viewed; having been seen, watched or witnessed.
pos: adj
Translations:
wisely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wisliche, wislike, from Old English wīslīċe (“wisely”, adverb), equivalent to wise + -ly.
Base: wise
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: wiselier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more wisely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: wiseliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most wisely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a wise manner; using good judgement.
pos: adv
examples: She wisely decided to re-check her homework before submitting it.
"My second command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda "will be that they carry you safely to the land of the Winkies. Your brains may not be so large to look at as those of the Scarecrow, but you are really brighter than he is—when you are well polished—and I am sure you will rule the Winkies wisely and well."
I still retain an unbounded admiration for G. J. Churchward and all his works, so wisely carried on by his successors.
Translations:
okina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hawaiian ʻoki
Hawaiian -na
Hawaiian ʻokinabor.
English okina
Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻokina (“cutting off, separation”).
Inflected forms:
form: okinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ʻokina
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Hawaiian apostrophe-like letter (ʻ ) used to indicate the glottal stop consonant.
pos: noun
Translations:
demilitarisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-der.
English de-
English militarisation
English demilitarisation
From de- + militarisation.
Inflected forms:
form: demilitarisations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: demilitarization
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The reduction of the armed forces of a state or other political entity in its entire territory, usually at the end of hostilities or as part of a treaty.
pos: noun
gloss: The elimination of the armed forces of a state or other political entity from a specific area in its territory, usually at the end of hostilities or as part of a treaty, such as in the case of demilitarized zones.
pos: noun
gloss: The conversion of a military or paramilitary force into a civilian one.
pos: noun
Related words: disarmament
Translations:
rapini
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian rapini, diminutive of rapo, variant of rapa (“turnip”).
Inflected forms:
form: rappini
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vegetable native to China, Brassica rapa subsp. ruvo, with green spiky leaves and a bitter taste.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Bitter and salty foods often go very well together and here the slight bitterness of rapini (also known as broccoli rabe) complements the savoriness of pork sausage. Use either the homemade sausage on page 163 or a plain pork […]
Translations:
governess
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English governesse, a contracted form of governeresse, from Old French governeresse (“female ruler or administrator”). In later senses, equivalent to govern(or) + -ess.
Base: governor
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: governesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: governesses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: governessing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: governessed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: governessed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A woman paid to educate children in their own home.
pos: noun
examples: [Mashenka Pavletsky] returning from a walk to the house of the Kushkins, with whom she was living as a governess, found the household in a terrible turmoil.
Boy, you are a crabby lady! Who are you? Calvin's cruel governess?
it was then still just possible to have a relatively normal life at the family’s 25-bedroom mansion at 145 Piccadilly, from where the baby was taken for a two-hour constitutional in her pram to Hyde Park and back every day by her governess.
gloss: A female governor.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: “The Gates Ajar” seems to be the favorite song and inspiration of Ma Ferguson in her four years as governor. The lady governess pardoned criminals as soon as they were convicted and was so chronic in her actions that the courts had just about refused to function in convicting anyone.
I cannot begin to tell you how tired I am of this woman and all she stands for and all those shallow people who think an Alaskan governess has what it takes to be a VP.
gloss: The wife of a governor.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The Lady Governeſs of the Town drew near to me; […]
The common wood strawberry, which was introduced by the Right Hon. Lady Powis [Henrietta Clive, Countess of Powis] when Governess at Madras, grows in great luxuriance and of delightful flavour.
I was pressed to make a halt at Ahmedabad for a few days; then asked to stay for a few hours; finally, for half an hour, to see “the Governor and Governess” of Madras.
gloss: To work as governess; to educate children in their own home.
pos: verb
Derived words: governess-cart
governessdom
governess general
governess-general
governesshood
governessless
governesslike
governessship
governess-ship
governessy
lieutenant governess
subgoverness
undergoverness
Translations:
dorado
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish dorado, from the verb dorar (“gild, give a golden color”).
Inflected forms:
form: dorados
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doradoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mahi-mahi or dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus), fish with a dorsal fin that runs the length of the body, also known for iridescent coloration.
pos: noun
Translations:
brin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of unknown origin ; perhaps French brin
Inflected forms:
form: brins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the radiating sticks of a fan. The outermost are larger and longer, and are called panaches.
pos: noun
gloss: A single silkworm thread extruded from the gland, before it has formed a bave.
pos: noun
Translations:
wimpy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wimp
English -y
English wimpy
From wimp + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: wimpier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wimpiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having the characteristics of a wimp; feeble, indecisive, cowardly.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
often
examples: I used to think it as wimpy or a cop-out to say "mixed class" or "lower middle class." But at this point it seems like the most accurate label.
You don't want to waste your time fighting wimpy enemies, do you?
Translations:
stockbroker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From stock + broker.
Compound parts: stock
broker
Inflected forms:
form: stockbrokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who buys and sells shares (stock) on a stock exchange on behalf of clients. May also provide investment advice and/or company information, depending on the level of service offered (or chosen by the client).
pos: noun
Translations:
sprinkler
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sprinkle
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 sprinkler
From sprinkle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: sprinklers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sprinklers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sprinklering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sprinklered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sprinklered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anything that sprinkles.
pos: noun
gloss: An irrigation device that sprays water into the air whilst moving back and forth.
pos: noun
gloss: A heat-activated device that sprays water in the event of a fire, usually mounted on a ceiling.
pos: noun
gloss: A dance move in which the dancer places one hand on the head behind the ear, with elbow bent, stretches the other arm forwards and mimics the motions of an irrigation sprinkler with a rotary head.
pos: noun
gloss: To fit with automatic sprinklers for fire prevention.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: dry sprinkler
holy water sprinkler
microsprinkler
sprinkler alarm
sprinkler bell
sprinkler gong
sprinkler strategy
sprinkler system
sprinkler timer
Translations:
stabbing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: stabbings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sharp, intense.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Too much running gives me a stabbing pain in the chest.
gloss: An incident in which a person is stabbed.
pos: noun
examples: A stabbing took place in the alley last night.
The hospital receives many victims of stabbings.
Translations:
chop-chop
Part of speech: intj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Chinese Pidgin English, from Cantonese 速速 (cuk1 cuk1, “quick”). Recorded in English since the 1830s (see citations for adverb). Recorded as a Chinese term in 1795.
Inflected forms:
form: chop chop
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: chop chop
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: chop chop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to urge someone to do something quickly.
pos: intj
examples: We got places to be, pal! Chop chop!
(Singapore) chop-chop kalipok
gloss: Quickly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Well, more soon, more better; sendee chop chop," I told him.
"Sam, when you have catchee chow-chow, I want you chop-chop" (quickly).
‘And another beer! But cold this time, hear that, boy? Muchee coldee, and bring it chop chop.’
gloss: Tobacco that is produced and sold without excise (tax), and therefore cheap and illegal.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
uncountable
examples: We are here today to try and do the impossible: to stop the chop chop industry.
2002 November 11, Major ‘chop chop’ seizure in Northern Queensland, Australian Taxation Office, media release.
Attitudes to tobacco mean it′s virtually sold under the counter (and we′re not talking about ‘chop chop’).
Translations:
scrounge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1915, alteration of dialectal scrunge ("to search stealthily, rummage, pilfer") (1909), of uncertain origin, perhaps from dialectal scringe ("to pry about"); or perhaps related to scrouge, scrooge ("push, jostle") (1755, also Cockney slang for "a crowd"), probably suggestive of screw, squeeze. Popularized by the military in World War I.
Inflected forms:
form: scrounges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrounging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrounged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrounged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scrounges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To hunt about, especially for something of nominal value; to scavenge or glean.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: scrounge for food
Now you don't seem so proud about having to be scrounging your next meal.
Laura snatches coins from inside a truck to make a telephone call, scrounges shoes and clothes for them at a municipal beach, schemes to get a room key so she and Howie can sleep overnight in the Starlight Motel, steals a Jeepster from a deputy sheriff who's trying to arrest them.
For example, the PC may have been caught slipping unobtrusively into a restaurant or pub on his ground to scrounge […] a drink or a meal.
The booty bandits, who craved sex with the weaker inmates, and the merchants, rich with scrounged or stolen items who kept safe through an uncanny craft to barter anything, followed.
When I was a young soldier, and had not yet acquired the tobacco vice (which began with scrounging cigarettes at routemarch halts when everyone else lit up and I felt left out) I used to win cross-country races.
gloss: To obtain something of moderate or inconsequential value from another.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As long as he's got someone who'll let him scrounge off them, he'll never settle down and get a full-time job.
gloss: Someone who scrounges; a scrounger.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of scrounging; a trip taken for the purpose of scrounging.
pos: noun
examples: "Still, it's not much good sending you two off on a medical supplies scrounge. What about food and general stores? Suit you?"
Synonyms: beg
bum
mump
scrounge
scunge
tap
wheedle
Related words: scrounger
scringe
scrooge
scrouge
scrunge
Derived words: on the scrounge
scrounge down
scrounge out
scrounger
scrounge up
Translations:
guffawing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: guffawings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: boisterous laughter
pos: noun
examples: 'I'm sorry,' said Jim, between guffawings, 'but come on, Neville. Brentford United win the FA Cup?'
Translations:
sayonara
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese さようなら (sayōnara, “farewell”, literally “if that's the way it is”) or its shorter, less traditional form さよなら (sayonara).
Inflected forms:
form: sayōnara
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: sayonaras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sayōnara
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Goodbye, adios, adieu.
pos: intj
tags: especially
humorous
informal
often
examples: Sonic: Sayonara! Shadow the Hedgehog!
gloss: An utterance of sayonara, the wishing of farewell to someone.
pos: noun
examples: After a simply marvelous, entertaining two and a half hour meal, they reclaimed their shoes and ceremoniously bid their sayonaras to the Japanese girls.
Translations:
glinting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: glintings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A glint.
pos: noun
examples: Then, as if to contradict me, a stray sunbeam found the spot and sent curious bright glintings of sheen and shadow dancing and playing under the fallen roots and trunk.
Translations:
punctual
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin pūnctuālis (“relating to a point”), from Late Latin pūnctus (“point”) + -ālis (adjective suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: more punctual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most punctual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: punctuall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Prompt; on time.
pos: adj
gloss: Prompt; on time.
pos: adj
examples: Luis is never late; he's the most punctual person I know.
gloss: Existing as a point or series of points.
pos: adj
gloss: Expressing a momentary action that has no duration.
pos: adj
gloss: Periodic; occasional.
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
examples: The management of the above mentioned feed sectors is subject to close co-operation with the Member States through […] punctual expert groups meetings where appropriate.
gloss: Observing trivial points; punctilious.
pos: adj
tags: dated
Synonyms: in time
on time
prompt
punctual
seasonable
timely
Antonyms: overdue
premature
Related words: point
pointwise
punctilious
punctuate
punctuation
meticulous
Derived words: bipunctual
copunctual
impunctual
nonpunctual
prepunctual
punctualism
punctualist
punctuality
punctualize
punctually
punctualness
unpunctual
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: دَقِيق
roman: daqīq
lang: Armenian
word: ճշտապահ
roman: čštapah
lang: Asturian
word: puntual
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dəqiq
lang: Belarusian
word: пунктуа́льны
roman: punktuálʹny
lang: Bulgarian
word: точен
roman: točen
lang: Catalan
word: puntual
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 守時 /守时
roman: shǒushí
lang: Czech
word: dochvilný
lang: Czech
word: přesný
lang: Danish
word: punktlig
lang: Dutch
word: punctueel
lang: Dutch
word: stipt
lang: Esperanto
word: akurata
lang: Finnish
word: täsmällinen
lang: Finnish
word: ajoissa
lang: Finnish
word: säntillinen
lang: French
word: ponctuel
lang: Galician
word: puntual
lang: Georgian
word: პუნქტუალური
roman: ṗunkṭualuri
lang: German
word: pünktlich
lang: Indonesian
word: tepat waktu
lang: Irish
word: pointeáilte
lang: Irish
word: poncúil
lang: Italian
word: puntuale
lang: Japanese
word: 時間を守る
roman: jikan o mamoru
lang: Korean
word: 시간-을 엄수하는
roman: sigan-eul eomsuhaneun
lang: Manx
word: traaoil
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: punktlig
lang: Polish
word: punktualny
lang: Portuguese
word: pontual
lang: Russian
word: пунктуа́льный
roman: punktuálʹnyj
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: pongail
lang: Spanish
word: puntual
lang: Swedish
word: punktlig
lang: Turkish
word: dakik
lang: Ukrainian
word: пунктуа́льний
roman: punktuálʹnyj
itty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Baby-talk form of little + -y. Compare itsy-bitsy.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: ittier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: ittiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely small; itty-bitty.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: I flatter myself that itty Dordy will not forget me at least under a week. Kiss him for me.
Translations:
Mercurian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
philosophy
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Mercury
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Mercurian
From Mercury + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: more Mercurian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Mercurian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Mercurians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the planet Mercury.
pos: adj
gloss: An inhabitant of the planet Mercury.
pos: noun
gloss: One who is mercurial.
pos: noun
examples: When a Mercurian is connected with the arts, it is often possible to discern a lack of the heavy, thoroughgoing seriousness which some artists seem to feel is the least that life deserves.
The thumb of a Mercurian has a tendency to be stiff, as they love money and may have difficulty sharing it.
Unfortunately yellow color is not unusual to find in the palm of a Mercurian.
Translations:
hemin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek αἷμᾰ (haîmă, “blood”) + -in. By surface analysis, hem- + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: hemins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: haemin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a reddish brown substance produced in a laboratory test for the presence of blood by reaction with glacial acetic acid and sodium chloride
pos: noun
Translations:
giggling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gigglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of producing giggles; high-pitched laughter
pos: noun
examples: Once there, he blushingly went through the procedure, having to fold and refold the flag about three times, to the twitterings and gigglings of twelve little girls.
Translations:
chillout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chill outdeverb.
English chillout
Deverbal from chill out.
Inflected forms:
form: chillouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chill-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chill out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A period of quiet, rest and relaxation, especially after a party, etc.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: The Gloucester Chamber of Commerce cancelled this year's SnowFest […]. President Peter Markey says instead a 'chillout day' is being held at the end of the month.
gloss: Synonym of downtempo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
winters
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the winter.
pos: adv
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: They ski winters in the Laurentians.
Translations:
ens
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: alchemy
chemistry
human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
pseudoscience
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin ēns (“thing”), from esse (“to be”). See entity.
Inflected forms:
form: enses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: entia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An entity or being; an existing thing, as opposed to a quality or attribute.
pos: noun
examples: Forms sphered in fire with trembling light array'd, / Ens without weight, and substance without shade […].
the Nature of the Supreme Ens
gloss: Something supposed to condense within itself all the virtues and qualities of a substance from which it is extracted; an essence, an active principle.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Here he states that there are five ‘active principles’ – the five Enses or entia – that influence our bodies and give rise to disease […]
Derived words: ens entium
ens reale
Translations:
cans
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: breasts
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: See Thesaurus:breasts
gloss: headphones
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Translations:
multiversal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English multiverse
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 multiversal
From multiverse + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the multiverse.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If the Universe is a true multiversal continuum, in contradistinction to the synechistic continuum) then it is not homogeneous of any one particular conceptual or biological series thruout; it would be heterogeneous, to be sure, but not necessarily discordant or conflicting, it would be knowable severally rather than wholly, each to each rather than all to all.
The Originators, creators of the multiversal seeding ground for their successors.
The edge appears as a boundary of razor-sharp obsidian glass with a hazy gray area of nothingness extending a few feet beyond it. This gray, a strain on the eyes, should look familiar to any player character accustomed to multiversal travel; this is the nothingness between the planes of reality.
‘Not by such a name.” Buglet shook her head. ‘She was trying to design a new sort of being, greater than the stargods, with a better control of the multiversal environment and a stronger love for all the older races. But she had to rush her work, because she was afraid the jealous young gods would try to wreck it, to defend their own supremacy.
How many fashions in insanity, do you think, have been set by mentally disturbed temporal adventures? We shall never know! ’ She laughed. ‘Captain Bastable, for instance, was an inadvertent traveller (it sometimes happens), and was on the borders of madness before we were able to rescue him. First one finds it is the future which does not correspond, and this is frightening enough, if you are not expecting it. But it is worse when you return - to discover that your past has changed. You two, I take it, are fixed to a single band. Count yourselves lucky, if you do not know what to expect of multiversal time-travelling.’
The music video for Swift’s “The Fate of Ophelia,” in which the star steps out of a Pre-Raphaelite painting and proceeds to clip through space and time, taking on different guises along the way, is meant to be a confident visual statement of the Swift franchise’s multiversal power[…].
Translations:
such-and-such
Part of speech: noun
det
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: such-and-suches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: such and such
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: such and such
pos: det
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A placeholder or generic thing.
pos: noun
examples: It's a poor system, because if you want to do such-and-such, you must first find that function in a long and disorderly list.
[…] it has answered numerous questions as to what such-and-such a locomotive designer would have done, to keep pace with increasing demand for tractive power, had he held office for just a little longer.
We always rub our hands too much / We know the reasons, but such and such
Every once in awhile, I get an email that questions my commitment to the Messiah, usually in the form of “if he believes such and such, then he must not believe that Jesus is God” or something like that.
gloss: indefinite; some or other, not stated
pos: det
examples: I am troubled by the rush of young researchers attempting to prove that females are not inferior to males in such-and-such an ability or such-and-such a trait, especially when it is by no means clear what difference it makes.
Related words: so-and-so
Translations:
paleness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin pallidus
Old French palebor.
Middle English pale
English pale
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English paleness
From pale + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: palenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or degree of being pale or of lacking color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The cold weather intensified the paleness of the landscape.
Translations:
goolies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From gooly.
Inflected forms:
form: gooly
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: The testicles.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
plural
plural-normally
slang
vulgar
examples: "They should hang him by the goolies from the yardarm." Ouch!
"My oath," he said, "here's a man got his goolie chit. And I left mine behind. How fat can you get?"
"I've got mine," said Ward quietly, tapping his pocket."
"It's not your goolies I'm worried about," said Curnow.
Marcus: Sorry, your "gooly"?
Stylax: Yeah.
Marcus: You can't have one "gooly". It's just your "goolies".
Stylax: No, no, no, no. The whole thing is your goolies, all three of them, but if you're talking about one in particular, you say "gooly".
Translations:
concussion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
law
natural-sciences
seismology
Etymology: From Latin concussiō. Equivalent to concuss + -ion.
Base: concuss
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: concussions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A violent collision or shock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: It is believed that great ringing of bells, in populous cities, hath dissipated pestilent air; which may be from the concussion of the air.
[Water vapour bubbles] hit againſt the ſides of the more eminent and Mountainous Places, of the Globe, and by this Concuſſion are condenſed, and thus become heavier than the Air they ſvvom in, and ſo gleet dovvn the rocky Caverns of theſe Mountains, […]
gloss: An injury to part of the body, most especially the brain, caused by a violent blow, followed by loss of function.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The unlawful forcing of another by threats of violence to yield up something of value.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Then Concussion, Rapine, Pillories, / Their Catalogue of Accusations fill.
Related words: concuss
quash
Derived words: concussional
concussion fuse
concussion grenade
concussionlike
immaculate concussion
postconcussion
post-concussion syndrome
subconcussion
Translations:
metallurgical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English metallurgy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English metallurgical
From metallurgy + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more metallurgical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most metallurgical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to metallurgy, the study of metals and their properties.
pos: adj
Translations: