yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
outsize
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English size
English outsize
From out- + size.
Inflected forms:
form: outsizes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outsizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outsizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outsized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outsized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An unusually large garment size.
pos: noun
gloss: Of an unusually large size .
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1958, P. G. Wodehouse, The Fat of the Land, in 'A Few Quick Ones', Everyman, London: 2009, p 11.
...the contents of the kitty amounted to well over a hundred pounds. And it was generally recognized that this impressive sum must inevitably go to the lucky stiff who drew the name of Lord Blicester, for while all the starters were portly, having long let their waist-lines go, not one of them could be considered in the class of Freddie's outsize uncle.
gloss: Unintuitively or unexpectedly large.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Small changes in initial conditions can have an outsize effect on the course of events.
[Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like.
gloss: To exceed in size.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Mega-ship to outsize seas' reigning Queen.
Translations:
outskirt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
Proto-Germanic *skurtijǭ
Old Norse skyrtabor.
Middle English skyrte
English skirt
English outskirt
From out- + skirt.
Inflected forms:
form: outskirts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outskirts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outskirting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outskirted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outskirted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A more remote part of a town or city; the periphery, environs; a suburb.
pos: noun
examples: Many people commute into the business district from the outskirts of town.
I told her of my plan to take John into an urban outskirt area for the purpose of retrieving some vital technical manuals.
The outskirt communities were originally established as labor camps for railroad workers, farm and ranch hands.
Hal Smith, manager of the Ferry Field theatre, Detroit, one of the largest and prettiest outskirt houses in town, played Metro's "Revelation" for three days last week
gloss: To surround as an outskirt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
outstretched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more outstretched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outstretched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extended or stretched out.
pos: adj
examples: They ran towards each other with arms outstretched, and the credits rolled.
After Gervinho had been brilliantly denied an early shot on goal by Mats Hummels' outstretched boot, the German champions made a mockery of their fourth-seeding in this season's group-stage draw.
Translations:
outward
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English outward, from Old English ūtweard, equivalent to out + -ward.
Base: out
Affixes: -ward
Inflected forms:
form: more outward
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outward
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more outward
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most outward
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: outwards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Outer; located towards the outside.
pos: adj
gloss: Visible, noticeable.
pos: adj
examples: By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.
Noble and milde this Perſean ſeemes to be,
If outward habit Iudge the inward man.
gloss: Tending to the exterior or outside.
pos: adj
examples: The fire will force its outward way.
gloss: Foreign; not civil or intestine.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: an outward war
gloss: Towards the outside; away from the centre.
pos: adv
examples: We are outward bound.
The wrong side may be turned outward.
gloss: Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: ANd thenne the quene lete make a preuy dyner in london vnto the knyȝtes of the round table / and al was for to shewe outward that she had as grete Ioye in al other knyghtes of the table round as she had in sir launcelot / al only at that dyner she had sir Gawayne and his bretheren
gloss: Away from home.
pos: adv
gloss: A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital.
pos: noun
Synonyms: outwards
Antonyms: inward
inwards
Derived words: outwardmost
outward-looking
outwardness
Translations:
outwardly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English outwardly, outwardli, utwardliche, equivalent to outward + -ly.
Base: outward
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Externally or on the outside, or on the surface.
pos: adv
examples: The terrorist was outwardly a bank clerk.
If only she would wake and close her mouth, mentally prayed the outwardly unflinching girl. Later the doctor came, and sheltered by his presence the sick woman's husband stood in the doorway.
gloss: Toward the outside
pos: adv
Synonyms: superficially
to all appearances
Translations:
ovary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin ovarium, from Medieval Latin ovaria (“bird ovary”), from Latin ovum (“egg”). Doublet of ovarium.
Inflected forms:
form: ovaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female reproductive organ, often paired, that produces ova in most animals, and in mammals, secretes the hormones estrogen and progesterone.
pos: noun
examples: The male testicles are homologous to the female ovaries.
gloss: The lower part of a pistil or carpel that bears ovules and ripens into fruit.
pos: noun
Synonyms: ovarium
Derived words: Chinese hamster ovary cell
-gov-
ovarial
ovarialgia
ovarian
ovariectomy
ovaried
ovariole
ovaritis
ovaryless
periovary
polycystic ovary syndrome
Translations:
ovum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cytology
embryology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Doublet of egg, ey, huevo, and oeuf.
Inflected forms:
form: ova
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The female gamete in animals; the egg cell.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: spermatozoon
Translations:
ovulate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From ovul(e) + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French ovuler.
Base: ovule
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: ovulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ovulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ovulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ovulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To produce eggs or ova.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Other studies have shown that women living near the equator have a marked tendency to ovulate during the full moon.
gloss: Containing, or bearing, an ovule.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ovulate flowers are usually isolated by enclosing them individually or in clusters in pollenproof bags […]
Translations:
ovule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from French ovule (“ovum”), from Latin ōvum (“egg”). Doublet of ovolo.
Inflected forms:
form: ovules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.
pos: noun
gloss: An immature ovum in mammals.
pos: noun
Derived words: ovulary
ovulate
ovuliferous
ovulist
pluriovulate
Translations:
owing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Still to be paid; owed as a debt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: These seven subscriptions remain owing.
Translations:
owlish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English owl
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English owlish
From owl + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more owlish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most owlish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of an owl.
pos: adj
examples: 1914, Theodore Dreiser, The Titan, Chapter 26, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/fr100299.txt
"You're very right," he said, with owlish smugness, adjusting a waistcoat button that had come loose, and smoothing his cuffs.
He feebly wanted to get out of this, away from clucking nurses and Dr. Crittenham's owlish peering and the horrible scrambled eggs and cold toast.
This owl imitated Trumpkin’s voice rather well, and there were sounds of owlish laughter all round.
gloss: Wise and solemn.
pos: adj
examples: He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom.
[…] their large black eyes scanned the drawings with the owlish look of wisdom peculiar to connoisseurs.
I feel, indeed, that something very ponderous, and solemn, and authoritative, and learned, and wise, and owlish, and erudite, ought to be said.
gloss: Stupid; dull-looking.
pos: adj
examples: But, indeed, the young Venetian is, at that age when all men are owlish, ignorant, and vapid, the most owlish, ignorant, and vapid man in the world.
"Any more big words coming?" he asked. "Owlish, stupid, brutal, unloving? That's you all over. Have you murdered anybody?"
Derived words: owlishly
owlishness
Translations:
oxidize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
French oxygène
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *akēō
Latin aceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin acidusbor.
French acide
blend
French oxidebor.
English oxide
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English oxidize
From oxide + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: oxidizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oxidizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oxidized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oxidized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: oxidise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
form: oxydize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To combine with oxygen or otherwise make an oxide.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:[…]. The evolutionary precursor of photosynthesis is still under debate, and a new study sheds light. The critical component of the photosynthetic system is the “water-oxidizing complex”, made up of manganese atoms and a calcium atom.
gloss: To increase the valence (or the positive charge) of an element by removing electrons.
pos: verb
gloss: To coat something with an oxide.
pos: verb
gloss: To become oxidized.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: oxidizable
oxidization
corrode
rust
Derived words: deoxidize
electrooxidize
hyperoxidize
oxidizement
oxidizer
photooxidize
reoxidize
sesquioxidize
underoxidize
Translations:
oxtail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English ox tayll, from Old English oxan tæġl (literally “ox's tail”), equivalent to ox + tail.
Compound parts: ox
tail
Inflected forms:
form: oxtails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tail of an ox or cow.
pos: noun
gloss: A cut of meat taken from the tail of a cow or calf; it requires long, slow braising, and is used to prepare oxtail soup.
pos: noun
Translations:
keenness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From keen + -ness.
Base: keen
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: keennesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: sharpness or cutting ability
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: astuteness or sagacity
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: eagerness or enthusiasm
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
spicy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Italic *spekjō
Late Latin speciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Late Latin -iēs
Late Latin speciēs
Old French espicebor.
Anglo-Norman specebor.
Middle English spice
English spic(e)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English spicy
From spic(e) + -y. First attested in the 16th century.
Inflected forms:
form: spicier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spiciest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spicey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or containing spice.
pos: adj
examples: He prepared a spicy casserole.
gloss: Of a flavor, provoking a burning sensation due to the presence of capsaicin or a similar chemical.
pos: adj
examples: This curry is too spicy for me. I can't eat it.
This place is actually known for serving the Donkatsu of Death, aka the Drop-Dead Donkatsu, by far the spiciest dish I’ve ever endured.
That’s why we knew we had to get our hands on Truff’s latest launch: White Hotter. It’s an even spicier take on the fan-favorite (and perhaps our favorite), White Truffle Hot Sauce.
“I think we are going to see a lot more of this,” said Lyons Wyatt. “There is a push now and we do see both unit and dollar growth of spicy and swicy products.”
gloss: Of a food, flavor, or odor, tangy, zesty, or pungent.
pos: adj
examples: She breathed in the strong, spicy aroma.
The breath of the mountain heifer was fragrant as the gales of Sirendiep, by feeding on ſpicy herbs.
gloss: Of an expression or behavior, vigorous; colorful; stimulating.
pos: adj
examples: He is known for his spicy political commentary.
gloss: Scandalous.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
informal
examples: When one side or the other had written any particularly spicy dispatch, news of it was sure to slip out.
gloss: Risky; mildly aggressive or dangerous.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: Look at the little wildcub! That's one spicy ball of fur.
gloss: Risqué, sexy, racy; mildly pornographic.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
examples: I don't want my children to see the spicy images on this web site.
To draw followers to the euphemistically termed “spicy” paid subscription material on OnlyFans, she has to upload free content regularly on TikTok and Instagram; […].
Synonyms: pungent
spicy
tangy
zesty
Antonyms: bland
mild
spiceless
unspicy
Related words: spiciness
Derived words: neurospicy
nonspicy
overspicy
spicily
spiciness
spicy cough
spicy pillow
spicy tooth
swicy
unspicy
Translations:
sewage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sewer (“system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage”) + -age or from sew (“to drain or draw off water”) + -age.
Base: sewer
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: sewages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A suspension of water and solid waste, transported by sewers to be disposed of or processed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Untreated sewage can pollute rivers.
The city invested in a modern sewage system.
gloss: sewerage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Synonyms: wastewater
Related words: slop
sludge
sewer system
sewage treatment
waste management
Derived words: raw sewage
sewage fungus
sewage plant
Translations:
prehensile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from French préhensile, from Latin perfect passive participle prehēnsus, from prehendō (“grasp, seize”) + adjective suffix -ile, from Latin -ilis.
Affixes: -ile
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Some monkeys have prehensile tails which they use to pick things up.
Translations:
hanky-panky
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly a corruption of the Romani expression hakk'ni panki ("great trick", "big con" and hence "shady dealings").
Inflected forms:
form: hanky panky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Mischievous behaviour, dishonest or shady activity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I think there was some hanky-panky with the last election.
Are you sickened by the idea of more and more CIA hankypanky in Central America?
gloss: Amorous behaviour, smooching, making out, necking, sex or other sexual activity, especially if illicit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I don't wanna cry / I just wanna hanky panky / Nothing like a good spanky
You're my doll, rock and roll, feel the glamor in pink / Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky-panky
gloss: A debaucherous act; a sexual act that is considered inappropriate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sweeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
curling
games
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
soccer
sports
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English swepere, swepare, equivalent to sweep + -er. Cognate with Middle Low German swēpære, swēper (“broom for sweeping up debris”).
Base: sweep
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: sweepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who sweeps.
pos: noun
gloss: One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
pos: noun
gloss: A detector for mines.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
pos: noun
gloss: A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
pos: noun
gloss: A batsman who plays sweep shots.
pos: noun
gloss: A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
pos: noun
gloss: A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
pos: noun
examples: ..tree will be hanging over the water about canoe level (a sweeper)..
So named because they can sweep passengers from a boat, they can also capsize a canoe, especially when paddlers lean too far away from the sweeper..
gloss: A carpet sweeper.
pos: noun
gloss: A vacuum cleaner.
pos: noun
tags: US
regional
gloss: A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
pos: noun
tags: Cebu
including
regional
gloss: The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
pos: noun
gloss: A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
pos: noun
gloss: A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: carpetsweeper
carpet sweeper
chimney sweeper
crossing-sweeper
minesweeper
Skysweeper
street sweeper
sweeperess
sweeper-keeper
trench sweeper
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: метач
roman: metač
lang: Catalan
word: defensa lliure
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 清道夫
roman: qīngdàofū
lang: Finnish
word: libero
lang: French
word: libéro
lang: French
word: libero
lang: German
word: Libero
lang: German
word: Ausputzer
lang: Italian
word: libero
lang: Russian
word: чи́стильщик
roman: čístilʹščik
lang: Swedish
word: libero
gasp
Part of speech: verb
noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gaspen, gayspen (“to gape, outbreathe”), related to and likely derived from Old Norse geispa (“to yawn”) or its descendant Danish gispe, which may be related to gapa (“to gape”).
Inflected forms:
form: gasps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gasping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gasped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gasped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gasps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The audience gasped as the magician disappeared.
gloss: To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion; to respire with heaving of the breast; to pant.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We were all gasping when we reached the summit.
c. 1761-1764, Robert Lloyd, An Epistle to C. Churchill, Author of the Rosicad
She gasps and struggles hard for life.
gloss: To speak in a breathless manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The old man gasped his last few words.
gloss: To pant with eagerness or excitement; to show vehement desire.
pos: verb
examples: I'm gasping for a cup of tea.
Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.
gloss: A short, sudden intake of breath.
pos: noun
examples: The audience gave a gasp of astonishment
gloss: A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: I'm popping out for a gasp.
gloss: The sound of a gasp.
pos: intj
tags: humorous
examples: Gasp! What will happen next?
Derived words: agasp
dying gasp
gaspy
last gasp
Translations:
overture
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English overture, from Anglo-Norman, Middle French overture, from Old French overture, from Latin apertūra. Doublet of aperture.
Inflected forms:
form: overtures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: overtures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overturing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overtured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overtured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An opening; a recess or chamber.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: c. 1612', George Chapman, A Hymne to Hermes
the cave's inmost overture
gloss: Disclosure; discovery; revelation.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: It was he
 That made the overture of thy treasons to us.
gloss: An approach or proposal made to initiate communication, establish a relationship etc.
pos: noun
tags: often
plural
examples: overture of friendship
Shortly afterwards the North Eastern Railway made overtures for the purchase of the Blyth & Tyne system, and the directors of the latter were then disposed to sell, but, in view of their excellent dividend record, stood out for a good price.
Sarkozy gave a defiant speech, going on the offensive and betraying no hint of having been beaten. He styled the result as a "crisis" vote, by a French population which was "suffering". In a clear overture to Le Pen's voters, and the extreme-right motto of loving France, he said: "I call on all French people who put love of their country above partisan considerations, to unite and join me."
My mother had no choice; one did not turn down such an overture from the regent.
gloss: A motion placed before a legislative body, such as the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A musical introduction to a longer piece of music or a dramatic work (such as a play, an opera, or a motion picture).
pos: noun
examples: The overture was almost at a close; and silence being now more effective than any thing that he could urge in favour of the play, Courtenaye went behind the scenes:...
gloss: A medley of themes from a larger work, such as an opera or musical, typically played at the beginning but sometimes played at any part of the work or performed as a standalone piece.
pos: noun
examples: The paradoxical use of an overture at the end of a concert occasionally gave rise to satire in the musical press.
gloss: To make overtures; to approach with a proposal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For a partner setting a table in a game of “house,” an overturing child might assume the role of the father returning home from work at dinnertime rather than overturing by throwing a ball toward the child and yelling “catch.”
Antonyms: coda
Related words: overt
Translations:
aide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French aide ("aid; assistant", as in aide-de-camp (“field assistant”)). More at aid.
Inflected forms:
form: aides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: aid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An assistant.
pos: noun
examples: The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade.
Weiner and his aides dismissed such talk as idle political insiderism […]
gloss: An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.
pos: noun
Derived words: metro aide
teacher's aide
Translations:
intersect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin intersecare (“to cut between, cut off”), from inter (“between”) + secare (“to cut”).
Inflected forms:
form: intersects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: intersecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: intersected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: intersected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cut into or between; to cut or cross mutually; to divide into parts.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Parallel lines don't intersect.
Any two diameters of a circle intersect each other at the centre.
Lands intersected by a narrow frith / Abhor each other.
gloss: Of two sets, to have at least one element in common.
pos: verb
Related words: intersection
intersectional
intersectionalism
intersectionalist
intersectionalistic
intersectionality
intersectionally
Derived words: intersectin
intersectingly
intersector
nonintersecting
unintersected
Translations:
entitle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman entitler, from Old French entiteler, (French intituler), from Late Latin intitulāre.
Inflected forms:
form: entitles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: entitling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: entitled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: entitled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: entitule
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: intitle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To give a title to.
pos: verb
examples: The deed entitled her to an undivided interest in the property.
gloss: To dignify by an honorary designation.
pos: verb
gloss: To give power or authority (to do something).
pos: verb
examples: A passport entitles the bearer to travel to other countries.
gloss: To give rightful ownership.
pos: verb
gloss: To give a title to a book, film, play, etc.
pos: verb
examples: His autobiography, entitled Life of a Driver, was a best-seller.
Synonyms: name
give a title to a book
Derived words: disentitle
entitlee
entitlement
misentitle
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: давам право
roman: davam pravo
lang: Catalan
word: donar el dret
lang: Dutch
word: berechtigen
lang: Faroese
word: geva rætt til
lang: Finnish
word: oikeuttaa
lang: Finnish
word: valtuuttaa
lang: German
word: berechtigen
lang: German
word: das Recht geben
lang: German
word: das Recht erteilen
lang: Russian
word: дава́ть пра́во
roman: davátʹ právo
lang: Russian
word: управомо́чивать
roman: upravomóčivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: уполномо́чивать
roman: upolnomóčivatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: dar derecho a
lang: Spanish
word: diñar fuero a
lang: Turkish
word: izin vermek
lang: Turkish
word: yetkilendirmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: дава́ти пра́во
roman: daváty právo
lang: Welsh
word: awdurdodi
exterminate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exterminātus, perfect passive participle of exterminō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from ex- (“thoroughly”) + terminō (“to finish, close, end”), from terminus (“limit, end”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: exterminates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exterminating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exterminated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exterminated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To kill or otherwise permanently eliminate all of (a population, often of pests or undesirables), usually intentionally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
The natives everywhere eat their [sc. cuscuses] flesh, and as their motions are so slow, easily catch them by climbing; so that it is wonderful they have not been exterminated. It may be, however, that their dense woolly fur protects them from birds of prey, and the islands they live in are too thinly inhabited for man to be able to exterminate them.
The geth are a humanoid race of networked A.I.s. They were created by the quarians 300 years ago as tools of labor and war. When the geth showed signs of self-evolution, the quarians attempted to exterminate them. The geth won the resulting war. This example has led to legal, systematic repression of artificial intelligences in galactic society.
Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s.
gloss: To bring a definite end to; to finish completely.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: The public school failed to exterminate truancy.
Related words: terminate
termination
terminator
Derived words: exterminatable
extermination
exterminative
exterminator
exterminatory
exterminatrix
exterminism
Translations:
tassel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English tassel, from Old French tassel, from Latin tāxillus (“small cube”), from tālus (“ankle”).
Inflected forms:
form: tassels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tossel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: tassels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tasseling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: tasselling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: tasseled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: tasseled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: tasselled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: tasselled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: tossel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A ball-shaped bunch of plaited or otherwise entangled threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the ball is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end (often used as decoration along the bottom of garments, curtains or other hangings).
pos: noun
examples: The Giant's boots were of pink leather and had tassels on them and his hat was decorated with an enormous pink ostrich feather, carefully curled.
gloss: The panicle on a male plant of maize, which consists of loose threads with anthers on them.
pos: noun
examples: The plant world is very busy and helpful when it seems to be playing. The tall, plumy tassels at the tops of corn stalks, swing much as you do under the maple tree. But those tassels are so loaded with pollen that you can often see a brown dust hovering over a corn field. As the wind blows the tassels, the pollen is shaken down in clouds.
gloss: The loose hairs at the end of a braid.
pos: noun
gloss: A narrow silk ribbon, or similar, sewn to a book to be put between the pages.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of board that is laid upon a wall as a sort of plate, to give a level surface to the ends of floor timbers.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of bur used in dressing cloth; a teasel.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin plate of gold on the back of a bishop's gloves.
pos: noun
gloss: To adorn with tassels.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] gauzes of silver mist;
Loop’d up with cords of twisted wreathed light,
And tassell’d round with weeping meteors!
gloss: To put forth a tassel or flower.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Maize is a crop that tassels.
Related words: sword knot
Derived words: detassel
pretassel
silktassel
tassel-eared squirrel
tasselly
tasselmaker
tasselmaking
tasselseed
tasselweed
Translations:
infection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Old French infection, from Late Latin īnfectiō. Equivalent to infect + -ion.
Base: infect
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: infections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of infecting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
gloss: A disease caused by such presence of a pathogen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As the previously used chemotherapeutic agents have only proved themselves to be spirochetostatic and not spirochetocidal, the patient is liable to a delayed infection which may not become manifest for years.
And researchers at the National Institutes of Health report finding candidalike fungus infections in the blood of AIDS victims.
It has been reported that periparturient cows undergo a period of immunosuppression of various immunological parameters associated with a high susceptibility to uterine and mammary infections […]
gloss: A visible sign of such a disease, such as the suppuration of a wound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: infect
infected
infectable
infectious disease
infection prevention and control
infective
exfection
Derived words: agroinfection
antiinfection
anti-infection
autoinfection
bladder infection
coinfection
cross-infection
disinfection
hydrofection
hyperinfection
infectiology
infectional
infectionism
infectionist
lytic infection
microinfection
monoinfection
neuroinfection
noninfection
opportunistic infection
parainfection
postinfection
preinfection
pseudoinfection
reinfection
retroinfection
secondary infection
self-infection
sexually transmitted infection
spinfection
spurious infection
subinfection
superinfection
suprainfection
toxicoinfection
transfection
transinfection
urinary tract infection
urinary-tract infection
Vincent's infection
xenoinfection
yeast infection
Translations:
laryngology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English laryngo-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English laryngology
From laryngo- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of physiology dealing with the larynx and its disorders.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
laryngologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English laryngo-
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English -logist
English laryngologist
From laryngo- + -logist.
Inflected forms:
form: laryngologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who studies or specializes in laryngology; a subspeciality of otorhinolaryngology.
pos: noun
Translations:
laryngological
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English laryngo-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
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 -logical
English laryngological
From laryngo- + -logical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to laryngology.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pokie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From clipping of poker machine + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
Base: poker machine
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: pokies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of poker machine, an electronic game of chance played for money, especially slot machines.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
in-plural
slang
examples: For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised pokies in Victoria in 1993.
2006, author not known, Sydney City Guide, Lonely Planet, page 148,
In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.
None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.
I was also shocked that the poker machines (which we call pokies back home) were on full display, as in Australia, they legally have to be in a separate room.
Translations:
properly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin propriusbor.
Anglo-Norman proprebor.
Middle English propre
English proper
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English properly
From proper + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more properly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most properly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a proper manner, appropriately, suitably; correctly, justifiably
pos: adv
examples: Does she think the repairs have been properly done?
I know that I am spoiling your life that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I cant[sic] even write this properly.
Hospitals are failing to care properly for the growing number of people with dementia, according to an NHS-funded report, which has prompted demands for big improvements to help patients.
gloss: individually; in one's own manner.
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
gloss: Entirely; extremely; thoroughly.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
examples: I was properly tired after that party.
Derived words: improperly
Translations:
Sam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Sams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Dicky Sam (“a man from Liverpool”)
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
Translations:
disagree
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English disagre (“to refuse to assent to”), from Anglo-Norman disagreer, disagrer, desagreer (“to refuse assent”), from Old French desagreer, desagrëer (“to be disagreeable; to be unpleasant”) (modern French désagréer (“to displease”)); the English word is analysable as dis- + agree.
Base: agree
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disagrees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disagreeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disagreed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disagreed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: John disagreed with Mary frequently.
Bob says cats are friendlier than dogs, but I disagree.
Not only did I oppose President George H.W. Bush on his China policy, I strenuously disagreed with Democratic President Bill Clinton on his trade and human rights policies toward China and Tibet as well. This was difficult because I otherwise greatly supported and admired his leadership.
You might think you look great in the full, body-hugging Lycra gimp suit, but chances are your girlfriend disagrees – according to the poll only 7% of the women asked found it a good look.
If her manner of opposing the debate was deemed objectionable (she scoffed a little, saying that the lack of female parity in society was more of an issue), there were ways for people to disagree without resorting to lurid terrorisations.
Recently, the Supreme Court justices Sonia Sotomayor and Amy Coney Barrett spoke together publicly about how members of the court speak civilly to one another while disagreeing, sometimes vigorously, about the law.
gloss: To fail to conform or correspond with.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My results in the laboratory consistently disagree with yours.
Derived words: agree to disagree
disagreeable
disagreeableness
disagreeably
disagreeance
disagreement
disagreer
disagree with
Translations:
disagreeing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: disagreeings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Disagreement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I believe that all the Bohemians and the great folks in Paris are so leagued together, that they are afraid of one another, and the people receive all the buffets of their disagreeings.
Translations:
squalid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin squālus
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin squālor
Latin squāleō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin squāliduslbor.
English squalid
Learned borrowing from Latin squālidus, from squālēre (“to be rough or dirty”).
Inflected forms:
form: squalider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: squalidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: squalids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extremely dirty and unpleasant.
pos: adj
examples: [...] Mythologists describe Pan the son of Mercury (who was the God of Speech) with the upper part like a man, and the lower like a beast, to signifie that Truth is fair and comely, but a Lye squalid and Deformed.
gloss: Showing or characterized by a contemptible lack of moral standards.
pos: adj
examples: a squalid attempt to buy votes
Minister, I hardly think that we can exploit our Sovereign by involving her in some might call a squalid vote-grubbing exercise.
[A] demon is just what we’ve been needing for a long, long time for our squalid affairs, to gratify our squalid desires, the sort of demon, of course, who can be persuaded to believe that he is the demon who will take all our own demoniacality on his shoulders, an Antichrist bearing the Iron Cross, and will not insolently slip through our fingers to string himself up before time, as [Nikolai] Stavrogin did.
gloss: Any member of the family Squalidae of dogfish sharks.
pos: noun
examples: Numerous diet studies on squalids have shown that members of this family tend to feed mainly on teleosts and cephalopods[…]
Derived words: squalidity
squalidly
squalidness
unsqualid
Translations:
deconstruction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
literature
media
philosophy
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From de- + construction or deconstruct + -ion.
Base: construction
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: deconstructions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A philosophical theory of textual criticism; a form of critical analysis that emphasizes inquiry into the variable projection of the meaning and message of critical works, the meaning in relation to the reader and the intended audience, and the assumptions implicit in the embodied forms of expression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The destroying or taking apart of an object; disassembly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He shall be empowered to require the immediate deconstruction and re-execution to his satisfaction of any such work as may appear to him to have been executed improperly […]
A group of men demand a reform the beginning of which must be a work of deconstruction, if I may use such a word.
Related words: deconstruct
Derived words: deconstructional
deconstructionism
deconstructionist
Translations:
perdu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French perdu, originally after sentinelle perdue.
Inflected forms:
form: perdus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perdue
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One placed on watch, or in ambush.
pos: noun
gloss: A soldier sent on a forlorn hope.
pos: noun
examples: To watch, poor perdu, / With this thin helm?
Translations:
hairdo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hair
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁t
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti
Proto-Germanic *dōną
Proto-West Germanic *dōn
Old English dōn
Middle English don
English do
English hairdo
From hair + do.
Inflected forms:
form: hairdos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hairdoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A hairstyle.
pos: noun
examples: Halogen light glares off the man's slick hairdo.
Jennifer Garner is a star of many talents and now many hairdos.
Between an asymmetrical bob and pixie cut, Houston paired her short hairdo with a glazed red lip, tonal purple eyeshadow, and chocolate blush.
gloss: A haircut.
pos: noun
Derived words: hairdoed
hairdon't
Translations:
phrasebook
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From phrase + book.
Compound parts: phrase
book
Inflected forms:
form: phrasebooks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phrase book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: phrase-book
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A book containing common phrases in two or more languages, used to learn a foreign language.
pos: noun
gloss: A usually pocket-sized book consisting of everyday expressions and vocabulary in two languages and intended for travellers who wish to communicate with locals while in other countries.
pos: noun
examples: He knows, ‘Hello’ in eighteen languages / ‘I love you’ in only one / By the time he's got his phrasebook / The chance is usually gone
Translations:
gridding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: griddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The adding of a grid of lines to a map etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The construction of a rectangular matrix of numbers from a set of scattered data points.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
contouring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: contourings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the construction of contour lines through a matrix of points each having a known value of some variable
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: a technique in makeup using blush and bronzing powder to define contours on the face
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Contouring is not our thing because the main beauty philosophy in France is to accept who you are.
gloss: the building up of muscles with exercise
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: walking along contour lines, usually to save energy or simplify navigation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you are going to be walking in mountainous or rough terrain it is often a good idea to plan a route following contour lines. This is called ‘contouring’.
Derived words: vontouring
Translations:
rater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From rate (“to appraise”) + -er.
Base: rate
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: raters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who provides a rating or assessment.
pos: noun
examples: The three raters agreed on the score.
Translations: