yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
irreversible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-
Latin ir-
English ir-
English reversible
English irreversible
From ir- + reversible.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backwards.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an irreversible engine
gloss: Incapable of being reversed, recalled, repealed, or annulled.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an irreversible sentence or decree
Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[…]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.
“Even under a variety of policies, including plastic product reduction, waste management, and environmental recycling, microplastic pollution is irreversible and escalating.”
gloss: Incapable of being reversed to the original state without consumption of free energy and increase of entropy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: irreversibility
Derived words: irreversibleness
irreversibly
thermoirreversible
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: անշրջելի
roman: anšrǰeli
lang: Belarusian
word: неабарача́льны
roman: njeabaračálʹny
lang: Bulgarian
word: необратим
roman: neobratim
lang: Catalan
word: irreversible
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 不可逆
roman: bùkěnì
lang: Czech
word: nevratný
lang: Dutch
word: onomkeerbaar
lang: Esperanto
word: nereversebla
lang: Estonian
word: pöördumatu
lang: Finnish
word: peruuttamaton
lang: French
word: irréversible
lang: Georgian
word: შეუქცევადი
roman: šeukcevadi
lang: Georgian
word: გამოუსწორებადი
roman: gamousc̣orebadi
lang: Georgian
word: არაუკუქცევადი
roman: arauḳukcevadi
lang: German
word: irreversibel
lang: German
word: unumkehrbar
lang: Greek
word: αδιάστρεπτος
roman: adiástreptos
lang: Greek
word: αμετάτρεπτος
roman: ametátreptos
lang: Hungarian
word: visszafordíthatatlan
lang: Irish
word: dochúlaithe
lang: Italian
word: irreversibile
lang: Japanese
word: 不可逆
roman: fukagyaku
lang: Korean
word: 뒤집을 수 없는
roman: dwijibeul su eomneun
lang: Manx
word: neuyantagh cur ergooyl
lang: Manx
word: neuyantagh dy chur er ash
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: irreversibel
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: irreversibel
lang: Polish
word: nieodwracalny
lang: Portuguese
word: irreversível
lang: Romanian
word: ireversibil
lang: Russian
word: необрати́мый
roman: neobratímyj
lang: Spanish
word: irreversible
lang: Swedish
word: oåterkallelig
lang: Swedish
word: irreversibel
lang: Tagalog
word: ditumbalikin
lang: Ukrainian
word: незворотний
roman: nezvorotnyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: необоротни́й
roman: neoborotnýj
lang: Welsh
word: anghildroadwy
irradiation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French irradiacion, from Latin irradiatio. Morphologically irradiate + -ion.
Base: irradiate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: irradiations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An act of irradiating, or state of being irradiated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: illumination; irradiance; brilliance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: mental light or illumination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: The apparent enlargement of a bright object seen upon a dark ground, due to the fact that the portions of the retina around the image are stimulated by the intense light; as when a dark spot on a white ground appears smaller, or a white spot on a dark ground larger, than it really is, especially when a little out of focus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: nonirradiating
unirradiated
Derived words: chemoirradiation
irradiation illusion
irradiation sickness
microirradiation
photoirradiation
postirradiation
reirradiation
X-irradiation
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَشَعُّع
roman: tašaʕʕuʕ
lang: Arabic
word: تَشْعِيع
roman: tašʕīʕ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: radiaktik şüalanma
lang: Catalan
word: irradiació
lang: Estonian
word: kiiritus
lang: Finnish
word: säteilytys
lang: French
word: irradiation
lang: German
word: Bestrahlung
lang: Greek
word: ακτινοβολία
roman: aktinovolía
lang: Hindi
word: किरणन
roman: kiraṇan
lang: Indonesian
word: iradiasi
lang: Italian
word: irradiazione
lang: Kazakh
word: сәулесоққы
roman: säulesoqqy
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: bestråling
lang: Polish
word: napromieniowanie
lang: Portuguese
word: irradiação
lang: Russian
word: облуче́ние
roman: oblučénije
lang: Russian
word: излуче́ние
roman: izlučénije
lang: Slovene
word: iradiacija
lang: Swedish
word: bestrålning
jabber
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English jaberen, javeren, chaveren (“to chatter, babble”), dissimilated forms of jablen, chavelen (“to jabber”), from Middle English chavel ("jaw"; > modern English jowl). Equivalent to jowl + -er (iterative suffix).
Base: jowl
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: jabbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jabbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jabbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jabbered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 1829, James Hogg, The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: A.T. Goodrich, Volume I, Chapter 9, “Mary Burnet,” p. 184,
Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.
“What are you jabbering about, shipmate?” said I.
The noise of their battle with Numa had drawn an excited horde of savages from the nearby village, and a moment after the lion’s death the two men were surrounded by lithe, ebon warriors, gesticulating and jabbering—a thousand questions that drowned each ventured reply.
gloss: To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.
He wept very little, but when he wept he howled aloud, and jabbered wild abuse, threats and recriminations through the wet torrent of his howling.
gloss: Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by George Faulkner, Dublin, 1735, Volume 3, A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson, pp. v-vi,
And, is there less Probability in my Account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many Thousands even in this City, who only differ from their Brother Brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a Sort of a Jabber, and do not go naked.
Two tongues from the depths,
Alike only as a yellow cat and a green parrot are alike,
Fling their staccato tantalizations
Into a wildcat jabber
Over a gossamer web of unanswerables.
Mark Pauline has a good line of gab, in his elliptical, left-handed fashion. He's at relative rhetorical ease with classy theoretical jabber such as emergent behavior, cyborganics, chaos theory, transparent interfaces, artificial life, and the machinic phylum.
Derived words: jabberer
jabberfest
jabberingly
jabbery
jibber-jabber
Translations:
jape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English japen (“to deceive, play tricks on; act foolishly, joke; have sex with”), of uncertain origin, but perhaps combining Old French japer (“to bark, howl, scream; chatter, gossip”) with gaber (“to mock, deride”).
See also gab, Old Occitan japar, jaupar (“to bark, yelp, yap”), related to Old Saxon galpōn (“to cry loudly, make a noise, brag”) (Low German galpen (“to bark, howl, scream”)), Middle High German gelpfen (“to scream, bark, boast, proclaim”), Old Norse gjálpa (“to yelp”) (dialectal Swedish galpa (“to cry, screech”)). More at yelp, yawp, yap.
Inflected forms:
form: japes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: japes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: japing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: japed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: japed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A joke or quip.
pos: noun
examples: [H]e clapped hand to thigh, and laughed and laughed until the air rang again.
"Oho, a jape—a jape indeed!" he roared.
“Now I come to think of it, I suppose schooling isn't such a bad idea as long as he can have some japes and tomfoolery with his young cohorts.” “My love, it will be very good for him and very good for us.”
Alex: Your husband's trying to kill you. / Clara: If this is another of your absurd japes... My husband may have many faults, Dr. Palmer, but a murderer he is not.
gloss: A prank or trick.
pos: noun
examples: In London or New York in the late 1970s dada meant what it meant in Paris and New York at the end of the First World War: a not-quite-naked prank, a jape clothed in the barest g-string of aesthetic authority, a Bronx cheer in three-part harmony, Tzara's affirmation of the right “to piss and shit in different colors.”
gloss: To jest; play tricks.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Now the Lond of Egypt longeth to the Soudan, yet the Soudan longeth not to the Lond of Egypt. And when I say this, I do jape with words, and may hap ye understond me not.
gloss: To mock; deride.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have sexual intercourse with.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Nay, brother, lay hand on him soon; / For he japed my wife, and made me cuckold.
I jape a wench […] it is better to jape a wenche than to do worce.
Thair is ane hundreth heir sittand by / That luiffis geaping als weill as I.
Sum gois so gymp in gyis / Or sche war kissit plane, / Sche leir be japit thryis.
Fottere. To jape, to sard, to fucke, to swive, to occupye.
Derived words: bejapen
japery
japester
japish
japingly
Translations:
jubilation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French jubilacion, from Latin iūbilātiō (“a shouting for joy”). Cognate with Spanish jubilación (“retirement”).
Inflected forms:
form: jubilations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A triumphant shouting of great happiness; rejoicing, especially as celebratory outbursts; a feeling of joyous exultation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I knew it had been a victory when I heard the jubilations coming from that neighborhood.
The jubilation she felt when she received the award kept her grinning all week.
The final whistle triggered scenes of wild jubilation at Eden Park as a nation celebrated a repeat of the outcome from the very first World Cup final in 1987.
Translations:
Judaization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Judaizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Judaisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of Judaizing; a conforming to the Jewish religion or culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
kedge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of cadge.
Inflected forms:
form: kedges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kedges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kedging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kedged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kedged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small anchor used for warping a vessel.
pos: noun
examples: ...and throw them into the boat, which, as there are no wharves, we usually kept anchored by a small kedge, or keelek, just outside of the surf.
The chaps who had gone off in the cutter had been equally spry with their job, bending on a stout hemp hawser through the ring of the kedge anchor, which they dropped some half a cable's length from the brig, bringing back the other end aboard, where it was put round the capstan on the forecastle.
gloss: A glutton.
pos: noun
tags: Yorkshire
gloss: To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move with the help of a kedge, as described above.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] there was a stretch of twelve miles of channel running in a north-easterly direction which the ship could not possibly negotiate under sail unless a change of wind should occur — of which there seemed to be absolutely no prospect. The only alternative, therefore, would be to kedge those twelve miles; truly a most formidable undertaking for four persons — one of them being a girl — to attempt.
By noon the men had loaded the cargo & Prophetess was kedging out of the bay against unfavourable winds.
Translations:
playtime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + time.
Compound parts: play
time
Inflected forms:
form: playtimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Time for play or diversion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A time when children can play outside during the school day.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: The school bell rings to mark the end of playtime.
gloss: A duration of time when one is not as serious or committed as one could be, especially in a conflict of sorts.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
examples: I thought I could go easy on you and win, but I suppose playtime is over.
gloss: The duration of a recording.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The longest track on the album has a playtime of eight minutes.
Translations:
ketch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English catche, from cacchen (“to catch”). For the modern form with /ɛ/, compare the pronunciation /kɛtʃ/ of catch.
Inflected forms:
form: ketches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen, the mizzen being stepped forward of the rudder post.
pos: noun
examples: […] to finish her new Habit or Appearance, and make her Change compleat, he ordered her Sails to be alter’d; and as she sailed before with a Half-Sprit, like a Yacht, she sailed now with square Sail and Mizen Mast, like a Ketch; so that, in a Word, she was a perfect Cheat […]
Translations:
knack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English, use as "special skill" from 1580. Possibly from 14th century Middle English krak, knack (“a sharp sound or blow”), knakke, knakken, from Middle Low German and of imitative origin, similar to Dutch knak (“snap, crack”). Latter cognate to German knacken (“to crack”). See also crack.
Inflected forms:
form: knacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something.
pos: noun
examples: These men had some uncanny knack of knowing when the steel was right, and like many such things, it just could not be put into a textbook on the subject.
The sophist runs for cover to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;
And the Premier League's all-time top-goalscoring midfielder proved he has not lost the knack of being in the right place at the right time with a trio of clinical finishes.
gloss: A petty contrivance; a toy.
pos: noun
gloss: Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity.
pos: noun
gloss: To crack; to make a sharp, abrupt noise; to chink.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
examples: If they hear the Beads knack upon each other, that's enough.
gloss: To speak affectedly.
pos: verb
Related words: knacked
knack-kneed
knick-knack
Derived words: knackish
knackless
knacky
Translations:
knacker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old Norse hnak (“saddle”) (whence Icelandic hnakkur (“saddle”)).
Inflected forms:
form: knackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knackers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knackering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knackered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knackered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who makes knickknacks, toys, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: toymaker
gloss: One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand.
pos: noun
examples: A Bachanalian dancing the Spanish Morisco, with knackers at his fingers.
gloss: A harnessmaker or saddlemaker; their place of business (e.g., saddlery).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Plow-wright , Cart-wright, Knacker and Smith
gloss: One who slaughters and (especially) renders worn-out livestock (especially horses) and sells their flesh, bones and hides.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: slaughterer, slaughterman
After a few years even the whip loses its virtue, and the pony goes to the knacker.
gloss: One who dismantles old ships, houses, etc. and sells their components.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: salvager, salvor; scrapper, wrecker, breaker; shipbreaker, car breaker
gloss: An itinerant person, especially one of Irish Traveller heritage.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
ethnic
offensive
slur
gloss: A person of lower social class; a chav, skanger, or similar.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
offensive
slang
gloss: A testicle.
pos: noun
tags: UK
in-plural
slang
vulgar
examples: He looked like someone had put a 9mm full metal jacket round through his left scrotum. He even had his mouth open in some parody of a soundless scream, much as I imagined I would do if someone shot my left knacker off.
gloss: An old, worn-out horse.
pos: noun
examples: Believe me, you can get an old knacker for cheap at the glue yard, but it won't carry you as far as a thoroughbred!
gloss: A collier's horse.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
gloss: To tire out, exhaust; to beat up and use up (something), leaving it worn out and damaged.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
examples: Carrying that giant statue up those stairs completely knackered me.
That table that I was going to put the statue on may not suffice, as it's completely knackered.
gloss: To reprimand.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
Derived words: high-jimmy-knacker
knacker's yard
Knackerville
Translations:
knapsack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Low German knapzak or Dutch knapzak (older form cnapsack), from Middle Dutch cnappen (“to bite with teeth”), ultimately from knappen (“to eat, crack”), of imitative origin, + sack. German Knappsack is from Dutch.
Inflected forms:
form: knapsacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: knapsacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knapsacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: knapsacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knapsacked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A case of canvas or leather, for carrying items on the back.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
examples: 1936, Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post, ch 3. "All but Nancy carried knapsacks, with sandwiches and thermos flasks of tea. Peggy’s knapsack held Nancy’s provisions as well as her own, for on Nancy’s shoulders, instead of a knapsack, was a pigeon-basket […]"
The two elder reluctantly left him and walked on, taking their brother's knapsack to relieve him in following, and the youngest entered the field.
gloss: A set of values from which a subset is chosen.
pos: noun
gloss: To go hiking while burdened with a knapsack, usually overnight or for longer.
pos: verb
examples: My sleeping bag fell off my backpack into the water, while we were knapsacking up the mountain.
Synonyms: backpack
rucksack
Derived words: knapsack problem
Translations:
knave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From Middle English knave, knafe, from Old English cnafa (“child, boy, youth; servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *knabō. Cognate to Dutch knaap and German Knabe.
Inflected forms:
form: knaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boy; especially, a boy servant.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Any male servant; a menial.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave that, doting on his own obsequious bondage, wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For naught but provender, and when he's old – cashier'd! Whip me such honest knaves.
gloss: A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: I could plainly diſcover from whence one Family derives a long Chin; why a ſecond hath abounded with Knaves for two Generations, and Fools for two more; why a third happened to be crack-brained, and a fourth to be Sharpers.
He was a man whom scarcely any amount of fortune could have benefited permanently, and who was made to be ruined, to cheat small tradesmen, to be the victim of astuter sharpers: to be niggardly and reckless, and as destitute of honesty as the people who cheated him, and a dupe, chiefly because he was too mean to be a successful knave.
I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
God's bones! Whenever I go to beat those knaves / my tapsters, out she [my wife] comes with clubs and staves, / "Go on!" she screams — and it's a caterwaul — / "You kill those dogs! Break back and bones and all!"
gloss: A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or a soldier.
pos: noun
Derived words: beknave
knave bairn
knave of clubs
knave of diamonds
knave of hearts
knave of spades
knaveproof
knavery
knaveship
knavess
knavish
Translations:
knead
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English kneden, from Old English cnedan, from Proto-West Germanic *knedan, from Proto-Germanic *knudaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gnet- (“to press together”).
Inflected forms:
form: kneads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kneading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kneaded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: knead
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: kneaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: knead
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: kneaden
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: knodden
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: kneads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Knead the dough by pressing down on it with the heels of both your palms and pushing it forward to stretch it, then pulling it back toward you...
gloss: To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: I will knead him: I'll make him supple.
gloss: Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Cats knead with their paws when happy, just as they kneaded when feeding from their mothers as kittens.
One of the most characteristic things that cats do is ”knead,” pushing their paws alternately against any invitingly soft area of their human friends' bodies like a baker kneading dough.
Why do cats knead? When kittens are nursing, they knead against their mothers' bellies to draw out milk. A relaxed adult cat kneads your leg or a couch cushion to show that he's happy and content, as he was when he was a nursing baby.
gloss: To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: The act of kneading something.
pos: noun
examples: Do not expect the dough to be very manageable even after a good knead.
Derived words: kneadability
kneadable
kneader
kneadingly
reknead
unkneaded
Translations:
Lamarckism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Internationalism, from Lamarck (i.e. its proponent Jean-Baptiste Lamarck) + -ism.
Base: Lamarck
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: Lamarckianism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and especially, in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: Coordinate term: Darwinism
Translations:
lanky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lank
English -y
English lanky
From lank + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: lankier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lankiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tall, slim, and rather ungraceful or awkward.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: tall and lanky
awkwardly lanky
long, lanky frame
The lanky teenager towered over his classmates.
A lanky cat slinked across the alley.
Translations:
lap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English lappe, from Old English læppa (“skirt or flap of a garment”), from Proto-West Germanic *lappō, from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”), of uncertain origin, possibly Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”). Cognate with Dutch lap (“cloth; rag”), German Lappen (“cloth; lobe; flap”), Icelandic leppur (“rag; patch”).
Inflected forms:
form: laps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The loose part of a coat; the lower part of a garment that plays loosely; a skirt; an apron.
pos: noun
gloss: An edge; a border; a hem, as of cloth.
pos: noun
gloss: The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.
pos: noun
gloss: A place of rearing and fostering.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: The upper legs of a seated person.
pos: noun
examples: The boy was sitting on his mother's lap.
gloss: The female pudenda.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
euphemistic
gloss: A component that overlaps or covers any portion of itself or of an adjacent component.
pos: noun
gloss: To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Her garment spreads, and laps him in the fold.
gloss: To rest or recline in someone's lap, or as in a lap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to lap his head on lady's breast
Related words: burlap
Derived words: earlap
fall into one's lap
fall into someone's lap
headlap
in the lap of the gods
land in someone's lap
lap band
lap belt
lapboard
lap cat
lap-chart
lap dance
lapdance
lap-dance
lap dancer
lap desk
lap dog
lapdog
lap dulcimer
lapel
lapful
lapheld
lapless
laplike
lapling
lapmark
lap of luxury
lappet
lap pillow
laprobe
lap robe
lap sash seatbelt
lap steel
lap steel guitar
lapstone
lapstrake
laptop
lapward
lapware
lapwise
lapwork
with one's jaw in one's lap
Translations:
larch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From early modern German Larche, Lärche, from Middle High German larche, from Old High German larihha, from Proto-West Germanic *larikā, an early borrowing from Latin larix, itself possibly of Gaulish origin. In the first century AD, Vitruvius wrote that the tree was given the Latin name "larigna" when the Romans discovered it at the town of Larignum.
Inflected forms:
form: larches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coniferous tree, of genus Larix, having deciduous leaves in fascicles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Larch-tree, with us, groweth slowly, and to be found in few places; it hath a rugged bark, and boughts that branch in good order, with divers small yellowish bunched eminences, set thereon at several distances, from whence tufts of many small, long, and narrow smooth leaves do yearly come forth; it beareth among the green leaves many beautiful flowers, which are of a fine crimson colour […]
1716, Nicholas Rowe (translator), The Ninth Book of Lucan in John Dryden, Miscellany Poems, London: Jacob Tonson, Volume 6, p. 67,
The Gummy Larch-Tree, and the Thapsos there,
Wound-wort and Maiden-weed, perfume the Air.
Thus the Birch Canoe was builded
In the valley, by the river,
In the bosom of the forest;
And the forest’s life was in it,
All its mystery and its magic,
All the lightness of the birch-tree,
All the toughness of the cedar,
All the larch’s supple sinews;
Joan was thinking: ‘She looks like a tree […] it must be the green dress. But her eyes are like water, all greeny and shadowy and deep looking—a tree near a pool, that’s what she’s like, a tall tree. A beech tree? No, that’s too spready—a larch tree, that’s Elizabeth; a larch tree just greening over.'
Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.
While the ravaging fires in Australia and Europe received wide media coverage, 1 million hectares of larch forests were wiped out on the Ta-hsing-an-ling mountain in north-eastern China (H. Tagawa, personal communication).
gloss: Wood of the larch.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The cart was of rough wood, without springs, like a big box fixed on long larch poles between two pairs of wheels. The larch poles did instead of springs, bending and creaking, as the cart moved over the forest track.
Derived words: American larch
Chinese larch
Dahurian larch
Daurian larch
East Siberian larch
European larch
golden larch
Himalayan larch
Japanese larch
larch agaric
larch bark beetle
larch bolete
larchen
larch knight
larchlike
larch pug
larch turpentine
larchwood
lesser larch bark beetle
Masters' larch
Russian larch
Siberian larch
subalpine larch
western larch
Translations:
latch
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
databases
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English lacchen (“to seize, catch, grasp”, verb), from Old English læċċan (“to grasp, take hold of, catch, seize”), from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną, *lakwijaną, *lakkijaną (“to seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₂g-, *(s)leh₂gʷ- (“to take, seize”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lakken (“to grasp, catch”).
Inflected forms:
form: latches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: latching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: latched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: latched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: laught
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: laught
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: latches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lech
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: letch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To close or lock as if with a latch.
pos: verb
gloss: To catch; lay hold of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Where hearing should not latch them.
gloss: To use a latch (kind of lightweight lock).
pos: verb
gloss: To connect to the breast.
pos: verb
gloss: A fastening for a door that has a bar that fits into a notch or slot, and is lifted by a lever or string from either side.
pos: noun
examples: The cleverly constructed latch which Clayton had made for the door had sprung as Kerchak passed out; nor could the apes find means of ingress through the heavily barred windows.
gloss: An electronic circuit that is like a flip-flop, except that it is level triggered instead of edge triggered.
pos: noun
gloss: A latching.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A crossbow.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: That which fastens or holds; a lace; a snare.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Love will none other birde catch,
Though he set either nette or latch
gloss: A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.
pos: noun
gloss: A lightweight lock to protect internal structures from being modified by multiple concurrent accesses.
pos: noun
Derived words: latchable
latcher
latch on
latch on to
latch onto
relatch
unlatch
chain latch
deadlatch
doorlatch
drawlatch
latchbolt
latchet
Latchford
latchkey
latchless
latchstring
latch-up
on the latch
spring latch
throatlatch
throat latch
Translations:
laudable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English laudable, from Old French laudable or directly from Latin laudabilis; equivalent to laud + -able.
Base: laud
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more laudable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most laudable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of being lauded.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: admirable
laudable motives
laudable actions
laudable ambition
That there is and from time immemorial has been within that part of the parish called Mablethorpe St. Mary's a laudable custom that, if any outdweller take ancient pasture ground, he shall pay a modus of 4d. an acre, and so in proportion, on the 1st of August, in lieu of all manner of tithe; and that if any of the ancient pasture be once ploughed up or meadowed, it shall, when restored to pasture again, pay 4d. the acre in the hands of such outdweller.
gloss: Healthful; having a disposition to promote healing.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: laudable juices of the body
laudable pus
Derived words: laudableness
laudably
unlaudable
Translations:
lawn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Early Modern English laune (“turf, grassy area”), alteration of laund (“glade”), from Middle English launde, from Old French lande (“heath, moor”), of Germanic or Gaulish origin, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”) or Proto-Celtic *landā, both from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).
Akin to Breton lann (“heath”), Old Norse & Old English land. Doublet of land and lande.
Inflected forms:
form: lawns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lawns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lawning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lawned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lawned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
gloss: An open space between woods.
pos: noun
tags: England
countable
historical
regional
uncountable
gloss: An overgrown agar culture, such that no separation between single colonies exists.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To furnish with a lawn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: By opening all the arches of the several apartments […], by lawning the area within, and by a judicious use of ivy where any blank spaces require to be broken, or any deformities concealed, this might be made a beautiful and singular scene; […]
Derived words: Chapel Lawn
Fair Lawn
fold like a lawn chair
gazelle on the lawn
get off my lawn
get-off-my-lawn
lawn base
lawn billiards
lawn bowl
lawn-bowl
lawn bowling
lawn bowls
lawn bubble
lawncare
lawn chair
lawn-chair
lawn daisy
Lawndale
lawn dart
lawn dart effect
lawned
lawner
lawn flamingo
lawn food
lawnful
lawn gnome
lawngrass
lawn jart
lawn job
lawn jockey
lawnless
lawnlet
lawnlike
lawn mixture
lawnmower
lawn-mower
lawnmowing
lawn party
lawn prawn
lawn rake
lawnscape
lawn shrimp
lawn-sleeves
lawn sleeves
lawn tennis
lawny
moss lawn
Oak Lawn
relawn
Stalin's lawn
tree lawn
widow's lawn
Translations:
leech
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English leche (“blood-sucking worm”), from Old English lǣċe (“blood-sucking worm”), akin to Middle Dutch lāke ("blood-sucking worm"; > modern Dutch laak).
Inflected forms:
form: leeches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leeches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leeching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leeched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leeched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A typically aquatic blood-sucking annelid of the subclass Hirudinea, especially Hirudo medicinalis.
pos: noun
examples: The leech on his leg had swelled to more than five inches long, puffed and swollen on his blood.
gloss: A person who derives advantage from others in a parasitic fashion.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 'Wrecked his body and his mind, no use to hisself or his family or nobody, just a leech on society'.
At this point, I felt this man was a leech. I suspected that he had spent a lifetime living off the good will of women that he met.
gloss: A glass tube designed for drawing blood from damaged tissue by means of a vacuum.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient.
pos: verb
tags: literally
transitive
examples: The poppy made him sleep and while he slept they leeched him to drain off the bad blood.
gloss: To drain (resources) without giving back.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: mooch, suck down
Bert leeched hundreds of files from the BBS, but never uploaded anything in return.
Her daughter Astrid (new Tim Burton muse Jenna Ortega) barely speaks to her, and her greasy-haired boyfriend Rory (Justin Theroux, proving once again to be a comedic tour de force) obviously leeching off her fame and money
Synonyms: sponger
bloodsucker
vampire
Derived words: Amazon giant leech
green leech
land-leech
leechlike
leechy
turtle leech
water-leech
horse-leech
horse leech
leecher
Translations:
leach
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *lechen, *lecchen, from Old English leċċan, from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to leak”).
Inflected forms:
form: leaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leached
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Heavy rainfall can leach out minerals important for plant growth from the soil.
[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
gloss: To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The gangue was leached to recover minerals left behind by the original technology.
gloss: To bleed; to seep.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: A more generic geography, one where the suburb uneasily abuts the commercial and industrial, or leaches out to a nonurban frontier.
There's a second half to each video. He remembers now. He watched it passively, over and over, and never saw it. Something comes through. It's been leaching into the background of the world this whole time, in plain sight, and he never saw it, and it's here now—
Related words: demineralize
Derived words: bioleached
leachability
leachable
leachant
leachate
leach brine
leacher
leaching
unleached
Translations:
lease
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English *lesen, from Anglo-Norman *leser, Old French lesser, laisier (“to let, let go”), partly from Latin laxō (“to loose”) and partly from Old High German lāzan (“to let, let go, release”) (German lassen), cognate with Old English lǣtan (“to allow, let go, leave, rent”) whence let.
Inflected forms:
form: leases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To grant a lease as a landlord; to let.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
gloss: To hold a lease as a tenant; to rent.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: I'm leasing a small apartment in Runcorn for a month while I'm there for work.
gloss: To assign a temporary IP address to (a networked device).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To accept such an assignment of (an IP address).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: lessor
lessee
Derived words: prelease
leasable
leaseability
leaseable
leaseback
lease-lend
lease out
leaser
re-lease
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: арендовам
roman: arendovam
lang: Dutch
word: pachten
lang: Dutch
word: leasen
lang: Finnish
word: vuokrata
lang: German
word: pachten
lang: Irish
word: léasaigh
lang: Māori
word: rīhi
lang: Persian
word: اجاره کردن
roman: ejâre kardan
lang: Polish
word: arendować
lang: Polish
word: dzierżawić
lang: Polish
word: wynajmować
lang: Polish
word: wynająć
lang: Portuguese
word: arrendar
lang: Russian
word: арендова́ть
roman: arendovátʹ
lang: Russian
word: брать в аре́нду
roman: bratʹ v aréndu
lang: Russian
word: взять в аре́нду
roman: vzjatʹ v aréndu
lang: Russian
word: брать внаём
roman: bratʹ vnajóm
lang: Russian
word: взять внаём
roman: vzjatʹ vnajóm
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: gabh air mhàl
leash
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
sports
surfing
Etymology: From Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from Middle English lees, leese, leece, lese, from Old French lesse (modern French laisse), either from Latin laxa, feminine form of laxus (“loose”) or, more probably, from a deverbal of Old French lesser, laissier, from Latin laxāre (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.
Inflected forms:
form: leashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: leashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: leashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: leashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: leashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
pos: noun
examples: A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash
like a fawning greyhound in the leash
gloss: A brace and a half; a tierce.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A group of three.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
[I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
An I could climb and lay my hand upon it, / Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
gloss: A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
pos: noun
gloss: A leg rope.
pos: noun
examples: Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year
gloss: A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
pos: noun
gloss: To fasten or secure with a leash.
pos: verb
gloss: to curb, restrain
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
Antonyms: unleash
Derived words: in leash
leashless
leashlike
off-leash
on a tight leash
on-leash
short leash
strain at the leash
traffic leash
urinary leash
unleashable
Translations:
ledge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
business
geography
geology
manufacturing
natural-sciences
shipbuilding
Etymology: From Middle English legge, from Old English leċġ (“bar, crossbeam”), from Proto-West Germanic *laggju (“layer, strip, ledge, rung, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *lagjō (“layer, stratum”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, recline”). Cognate with West Frisian lêch (“a layer of sheaves on a threshing floor”), Dutch leg (“layer”), German Low German Legg (“wrinkle, fold, flat layer, stratum”), Middle High German legge, lecke (“position, layer, stratum, tier; pleat, hem”). Related to Middle English leggen (“to lay, apply”), from Old English leċġan (“to lay”); and Old English *ġeleċġ (“positioning, arrangement, layout”) as in Old English limġeleċġ (“the disposition of the limbs, form, shape”). More at lay.
Inflected forms:
form: ledges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A narrow surface projecting horizontally from a wall, cliff, or other surface.
pos: noun
examples: Let me help you tie the rope around your neck / Let me help to talk you the wrong way off the ledge / Let me help you hold the Glock against your head
There's something inside this / Confusion we face / We marvel in silence / As time ticks away / Where's the ledge? / I can't touch it / But I feel it's so close
gloss: A shelf on which articles may be laid.
pos: noun
gloss: A shelf, ridge, or reef, of rocks.
pos: noun
gloss: A layer or stratum.
pos: noun
gloss: A lode; a limited mass of rock bearing valuable mineral.
pos: noun
gloss: A (door or window) lintel.
pos: noun
gloss: A cornice.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of timber to support the deck, placed athwartship between beams.
pos: noun
Derived words: foreledge
Grand Ledge
ledgeless
ledgment
ledgy
portaledge
underledge
Translations:
leisurely
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English leisure
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English leisurely
From leisure + -ly.
Base: leisurely
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more leisurely
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most leisurely
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more leisurely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most leisurely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by leisure; taking plenty of time; unhurried.
pos: adj
examples: He goes about his business in a leisurely manner
As we had a free morning, we went on a leisurely walk around the city.
Warwick passed through one of the wide brick arches and traversed the building with a leisurely step.
The minimum of 48 m.p.h. up the 1 in 200 to Ardley summit was on the leisurely side, [...].
This rather leisurely journey, consuming almost six months, should be contrasted with Liu Tsung-yüan's trip into exile in 815- it took him a little more than three months to reach Liu-chou in Lingnan from Ch’ang-an.
gloss: In a leisurely manner.
pos: adv
examples: For some minutes he walked leisurely but uncollectedly, along the line of stalls; as if contemplating the rich display of summer fruits still remaining unsold.
Sunset Crescent Drive curved leisurely north from Sunset Boulevard, well beyond the Bel-Air Country Club golf-course.
Oh give me a land / where the bright diamond sand / flows leisurely down to the stream
where the graceful white swan / goes gliding along / like a star in a heavenly dream.
Translations: