yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
figurative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Middle French figuratif.
Inflected forms:
form: more figurative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most figurative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.
pos: adj
examples: The lovers she seems to pursue with her figurative language in fact retreat under the barrage of similes, metaphors and fables.
It is important to emphasize that Kafka as an autistic person was not always consciously aware his interpretations and writings were literal, thus the line between literal and figurative were not consciously clear for Kafka. This blurring stems from the specific focus of autistic persons who look at external predictable behavior of people and situations rather than at internal mental states of individuals. Kafka wrote from his autistic perspective in which the literal form is a default state of understanding the external world. For Kafka to move beyond the literal is not only to express that which cannot be said literally, but to express that which is not literal. The figurative is not simply not the literal, it is more than the literal. It is beyond the literal. The gap between the literal and the figurative, across which the reader is compelled by language to traverse, is for Kafka also the space which language cannot adequately express. The use of parable by Kafka marks his most concentrated effort to examine the space between language and that which is beyond language.
gloss: Metaphorically so called.
pos: adj
gloss: With many figures of speech.
pos: adj
gloss: Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
pos: adj
examples: This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
gloss: Representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.
pos: adj
examples: 1875-1886, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy
They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.
Antonyms: literal
Related words: figure
transferred sense
Derived words: figuratively
figurativeness
nonfigurative
semifigurative
unfigurative
Translations:
rendition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From obsolete French rendition, alteration (after rendre (“to render”)) of reddition (“reddition”). Many senses influenced by render.
Inflected forms:
form: renditions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: renditions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: renditioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: renditioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: renditioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: rendering
The group's debut, Beloved Symphony, featuring light opera renditions of Mozart, Bach and Chopin, was deemed insufficiently classic for inclusion on the classical charts.
Yes. That is Rob Schneider performing an impromptu rendition of his famous character: the annoying guy who is wrong.
gloss: A given visual reproduction of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Formal deliverance of a verdict.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The handing-over of someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Since then, according to his lawyers and relatives, he has been repeatedly beaten, threatened with a firearm and with further rendition to Guantánamo by Ugandan officials, before being questioned by American officials.
gloss: The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: The handing over of a person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); especially, for one jurisdiction to do so to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Records show that only about three hundred fugitive slaves were renditioned to the South between 1850 and secession a decade later.
Related words: render
Derived words: loan rendition
nonrendition
Translations:
roommate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *Hrew-?
Proto-Indo-European *(H)rewH-der.
Proto-Germanic *rūmą
Proto-West Germanic *rūm
Old English rūm
Middle English roum
English room
English -mate
English roommate
From room + -mate.
Inflected forms:
form: roommates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with whom one shares a room, as in a dormitory, barracks, rooming house, or apartment.
pos: noun
gloss: A person sharing the same home albeit not the same room (but generally not a family member or spouse).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
Philippines
US
examples: I live with Marsha. We’re roommates.
gloss: A same-sex significant other with whom one lives; a coinhabitant in a non-heterosexual relationship.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
ironic
Related words: room and board
roomer
rooming house
boarder
comrade
Derived words: roommatehood
roommateless
roommately
roommateness
roommateship
Translations:
faculty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English faculte (“power, property”), from Old French faculte, from Latin facultas (“capability, ability, skill, abundance, plenty, stock, goods, property; in Medieval Latin also a body of teachers”), another form of facilitas (“easiness, facility, etc.”), from facul, another form of facilis (“easy, facile”); see facile. Doublet of facility.
Inflected forms:
form: faculties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The academic staff at schools, colleges, universities or not-for-profit research institutes, as opposed to the students or support staff.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Philippines
US
gloss: A division of a university.
pos: noun
examples: She transferred from the Faculty of Science to the Faculty of Medicine.
gloss: An ability, power, or skill.
pos: noun
examples: He lived until he reached the age of 90 with most of his faculties intact.
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty!
If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]
The preſent Argument is the moſt abſtracted that ever I engaged in, it ſtrains my Faculties to their higheſt Stretch; and I deſire the Reader to attend with utmoſt perpenſity; For, I now proceed to unravel this knotty Point.
It was some time before Johnstone recovered the full use of his faculties; his eyes unclosed but to stare fixedly upon the bank, which, however, was now unoccupied.
I have used the notion of games so far as if it were familiar to most people. I think this is justified as everyone knows how to play some games. Accordingly, games serve admirably as models for the clarification of other, less well-understood, social-psychological phenomena. Yet the ability to follow rules, play games, and construct new games is a faculty not equally shared by all persons.
gloss: An authority, power, or privilege conferred by a higher authority.
pos: noun
examples: Unless he has bi-ritual faculties, the Latin priest must baptize and confirm the Eastern rite person, whether infant or adult, according to the liturgical books of the Latin church ( canon 846 , §2 ).
gloss: A licence to make alterations to a church.
pos: noun
tags: Church-of-England
gloss: The members of a profession.
pos: noun
Synonyms: ability
attribute
capability
capacity
endowment
faculty
gift
potential
potentiality
power
propensity
property
talent
virtue
wherewithal
Related words: facultative
skill
Derived words: facultied
facultize
interfaculty
nonfaculty
staffaculty
subfaculty
Translations:
interim
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin interimbor.
English interim
Borrowed from Latin interim (“meanwhile”).
Inflected forms:
form: interims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Transitional.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Iraq's government is interim.
In a period of transition from steam to diesel, many of the schemes are inevitably of an interim nature and only on full dieselisation will the final pattern be determined and full benefit derived.
gloss: Temporary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You are interim manager until he returns from hospital.
Drogba's goal early in the second half - his fourth in this Wembley showpiece - proved decisive as the remarkable turnaround in Chelsea's fortunes under interim manager Roberto di Matteo was rewarded with silverware.
gloss: A transitional or temporary period between other events.
pos: noun
examples: His car is in the shop, but they gave him a rental to drive in the interim.
Translations:
spasm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English spasme, from Old French spasme, from Latin spasmus, from Ancient Greek σπασμός (spasmós, “spasm, convulsion”), from σπάω (spáō, “to draw out, pull out”).
Inflected forms:
form: spasms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spasms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spasming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spasmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spasmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sudden, involuntary contraction of a muscle, a group of muscles, or a hollow organ.
pos: noun
examples: Jessica went into spasms after eating a peanut.
gloss: A violent, excruciating seizure of pain.
pos: noun
gloss: A sudden and temporary burst of energy, activity, or emotion.
pos: noun
examples: He would use the simplest, plainest language, he said to himself over and over again; but it is not always easy to use simple, plain language,—by no means so easy as to mount on stilts, and to march along with sesquipedalian words, with pathos, spasms, and notes of interjection.
Both Spear & Davis were indicted in the witchhunt surrounding the sensational (if nonexistent) "Revere sex ring." Both men have said they have been police targets since at least 1975, following the anti-gay spasm which ensued after Dick Bavely's suicide.
gloss: To produce and undergo a spasm or series of spasms.
pos: verb
Related words: spasmodic
spastic
Derived words: angiospasm
arteriospasm
blepharospasm
bronchospasm
cadaveric spasm
cardiospasm
cheirospasm
colpospasm
cystospasm
dactylospasm
enterospasm
esophagospasm
gastrospasm
geniospasm
graphospasm
hemispasm
laryngospasm
myospasm
neurospasm
ophthalmospasm
pharyngospasm
phrenospasm
pylorospasm
spasm band
spasmic
spasmogen
spasmogenic
spasmoid
spasmology
spasmolysis
spasmophilia
spasm war
vasospasm
xyrospasm
Translations:
tipster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: * From tip (etymology 5) + -ster.
Base: tip#Etymology_5
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: tipsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who provides tips or advice to others, for example on the form of racehorses or the stock market.
pos: noun
gloss: One who provides tips or hints on how to succeed at a game.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Absent from the pages of CRASH for a year, ex-tipster Robin Candy returns and puts finger to key to debate the state of the games software industry.
Those are the two choice words top tipster Rich Pelley used to describe the monthly helpathon that is the one and only COMPLETE CONTROL.
Does anybody know what Jon Riglar is doing now? (SU Tipster for about 6 years - Zapchat!).
Translations:
mullet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).
Inflected forms:
form: mullets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mullet
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes).
pos: noun
gloss: A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes).
pos: noun
tags: sometimes
specifically
gloss: A fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes).
pos: noun
tags: US
especially
gloss: Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Any of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family.
pos: noun
tags: US
especially
Derived words: black mullet
black true mullet
bright mullet
bully mullet
callifaver mullet
common grey mullet
common mullet
cucumber mullet
diamond mullet
finger mullet
flathead grey mullet
flathead mullet
gray mullet
hardgut mullet
Lebranche mullet
mangrove mullet
pearl mullet
popeye mullet
proto-mullet
red mullet
river mullet
sea mullet
so-iuy mullet
striped mullet
stunned mullet
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: moll
lang: Finnish
word: mullo
lang: French
word: rouget
lang: Ancient Greek
word: τρίγλη
roman: tríglē
lang: Latin
word: mullus
lang: Portuguese
word: salmonete
lang: Portuguese
word: trilha
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: trlja
lang: Spanish
word: salmonete
lang: Tagalog
word: asubi
stupendous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested from 1547, from Late Latin stupendus (“stunning, amazing”), from the verb stupeō (“(I) am stunned”). Doublet of stupend (which is obsolete), and related to stupor and stupid.
Inflected forms:
form: more stupendous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stupendous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
pos: adj
examples: One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.
The entrance to Fonthill—that truly cloud-capt palace, so fantastic and so transitory—was by two stupendous doors, which seemed to defy the strength of giants.
Over the broadest there seemed to spring a cragged and stupendous arch, from which, as from the jaws of hell, gushed the sources of the sudden Phlegethon.
gloss: Of stunning excellence or degree; marvelous.
pos: adj
examples: The renovator created a stupendous new look for our house.
Synonyms: colossal
enormous
huge
marvelous
prodigious
terrific
tremendous
Antonyms: stupid
Related words: stupid
stupor
Derived words: stupendously
stupendousness
unstupendous
Translations:
marvellous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested from 1300 as Middle English merveilous, from Old French merveillus, from merveille (“a wonder”) + -us. Doublet of merveilleux. See also marvel.
Inflected forms:
form: more marvellous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most marvellous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: marvelous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: I went to a marvellous party last week.
At first glance, importance sampling seems like a marvellous solution to any posterior simulation problem.
Translations:
huzzah
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Likely originally a hoisting cry, possibly related to hoise. Compare possibly to the cognate Swedish hissa (“to hoist; huzzah”), Spanish izar (“to hoist”) and French Ho, hisse! (“Hey, hoist!”). First attested in the 1570s.
Inflected forms:
form: huzzahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: huzza
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: huzzahs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: huzzahing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: huzzahed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: huzzahed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: huzza
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.
pos: noun
examples: The night that she was awakened by the loud huzzah of the Watchman on her palace roof, she thrilled with the hope that her vengeance awaited only the arrival of the propitious hour.
gloss: To cheer (someone or something) with a huzzah sound.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Towns have been taken, and battles have been won; the mob has huzza'd round bonefires, the Stentor of the chappel has ſtrained his throat in the gallery, and the Stentor of S——m has deafned his audience from the pulpit.
In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]
Translations:
dissenter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dissent
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English dissenter
From dissent + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dissenters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who dissents (disagrees), especially from an established church.
pos: noun
examples: As my study proceeded, I began to see that an investigation of organizational morality should also explore managerial dissenters, so-called whistleblowers, many of whom take stands against their organizations on grounds that they define as moral.
Translations:
pedicel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
mycology
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Late Latin pedīcellus, diminutive of pedīculus (“foot-stalk or pedicle of a fruit or leaf”), diminutive of pēs (“foot”).
Inflected forms:
form: pedicels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pedicle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stalk of an individual flower (or fruit, e.g., once fertilised) or spore-producing body within a cluster.
pos: noun
examples: Water flux through the pedicel could also be involved in tomato fruit CC.^([cuticle cracking])
gloss: A stalk of a fungus fruiting body.
pos: noun
gloss: A stalk-shaped body part; an anatomical part that resembles a stem or stalk.
pos: noun
gloss: A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
pos: noun
gloss: A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
pos: noun
examples: Spiders have the body clearly divided into two pieces which are joined by a narrow stalk, the pedicel.
gloss: A narrow stalk-like body part connecting specific segments in certain insects and some other arthropods.
pos: noun
gloss: The segment of an antler that attaches to the head of a cervid.
pos: noun
examples: Table 5 lists 14 does with 1 or both antlers and 4 does and 1 doe fawn with incipient antler pedicels like those on male fawns.
Related words: peduncle
petiole
Derived words: pedicellar
pedicellate
pedicellation
pedicelled
pedicular
postpedicel
Translations:
detractor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English detractor, dectractour, from Anglo-Norman detractour, from Old French detractor.
Inflected forms:
form: detractors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: detractour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: A person who belittles the worth of another person or cause.
pos: noun
examples: Four polite Englishmen in their middle 20s, feigning like firewater drunks in a Eugene O'Neill play: it's exactly the stuff that makes their detractors groan.
Antonyms: adherent
proponant
supporter
Translations:
antitussive
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English tussive
English antitussive
From anti- + tussive.
Inflected forms:
form: antitussives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more antitussive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most antitussive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A cough suppressant or a drug that inhibits coughing.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: protussive
gloss: Having cough suppressant abilities.
pos: adj
examples: Coordinate term: protussive
Translations:
blasphemy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English blasfemie, from Old French blasfemie, from Ecclesiastical Latin blasphēmia, from Ancient Greek βλασφημία (blasphēmía, “profanity”), from βλασφημέω (blasphēméō, “to slander”). Displaced native Old English tāl.
Inflected forms:
form: blasphemies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of irreverence or contempt toward a god or toward something considered sacred; an impious act, utterance, view, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That imam said that drawing the prophet Muhammad was a form of blasphemy.
Had God cancelled His everlasting Covenant with Israel? The mere thought was blasphemy! But what did God's silence and the present dark cloud mean?
Look, I don't think it ought to be blasphemy, just saying "Jehovah".
Shepard: What happened to those other Alliance officers? The ones who came before me?
Major Kyle: They wanted to take me away from here! They wanted me to abandon this place. Turn my back on my family. They spoke blasphemy!
Major Kyle: I did what I could to make their end quick and painless. I had no other choice. It was necessary to protect my children. Only I can keep them safe.
The fundamentalists in that religion hold that such views are blasphemy and that religion is above criticism.
gloss: An act of irreverence towards anything considered inviolable; the act of disregarding a convention.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Some historical information is given on the Panormo family of guitar makers and a whole chapter is called, "Maccaferri's 'Monstrosity'," the name given Julian's Maccaferri guitar due to the blasphemy of its having more than six strings, […]
The market has responded well to this type of packaging [wine in cardboard containers], even if some consider it near blasphemy, and it has had a role in bringing wine to the younger generation and to social classes intimidated by the high price of many bottled products.
I know this is utter blasphemy and completely incomprehensible to developers and power users who love their keyboard shortcuts, but some people just love having buttons on their screens with the exact name of their function written on them.
Related words: blaspheme
Derived words: antiblasphemy
blasphemist
blasphemous
blasphemously
blasphemousness
Translations:
Gibraltar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: "Gibraltar" is the name of a line of tumblers made by glassware company Libbey. The drink was named in 2005, by Steve Ford at Blue Bottle Coffee in San Francisco, after the glass in which its version was served.
Inflected forms:
form: Gibraltars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gibraltar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: ; (originally) A cortado served in a small glass; (by extension) any cortado
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Two Gibraltars (decaf) at Kafka
At a recent meeting at Mint Plaza’s Blue Bottle Coffee, Maggiotto ordered a Gibraltar, a small, milky espresso drink.
I paid for my beans and sipped my perfectly-made Gibraltar as I walked down the street thinking about how I would now always order from his pizza company.
Translations:
dateline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: journalism
media
Etymology: Etymology tree
English date
Middle French lignerbor.
English line
English dateline
From date + line.
Inflected forms:
form: datelines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: datelines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: datelining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: datelined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: datelined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.
pos: noun
examples: Other bits of furniture include the dateline, which says where a journalist is reporting from – historically with the date of dispatch, eg “Buenos Aires, 1 March.”
gloss: To attach a dateline to a particular document.
pos: verb
examples: He datelined the entry: "Oxford Mississippi, 27 January, 1926."
Translations:
fraud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fraude (recorded since 1345), from Old French fraude, a borrowing from Latin fraus (“deceit, injury, offence”).
Inflected forms:
form: frauds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The crime of stealing or otherwise illegally obtaining money by use of deception tactics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any act of deception carried out for the purpose of unfair, undeserved or unlawful gain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When success a lover's toil attends, / Few ask, if fraud or force attain'd his ends.
But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
gloss: The assumption of a false identity to such deceptive end.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person who performs any such trick.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A trap or snare.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: to draw the proud King Ahab into fraud
Derived words: 419 fraud
advance fee fraud
affinity fraud
antifraud
befraud
biofraud
carousel fraud
category fraud
click fraud
constructive fraud
copyfraud
counterfraud
cyberfraud
defraud
e-fraud
electoral fraud
familiar fraud
food fraud
fraudful
fraudience
frauditor
fraudless
fraudmeister
fraudonomics
fraudproof
fraudsman
fraud squad
fraudulence
fraudulent
fraudulently
fraudulentness
friendly fraud
insurance fraud
mail fraud
mandate fraud
megafraud
missing trader fraud
nonfraud
odometer fraud
pious fraud
prefraud
return fraud
romance fraud
tax fraud
telefraud
vomit fraud
wire fraud
Translations:
gink
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown but possibly from similar senses of kink or geck. Cf. geek.
Inflected forms:
form: ginks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A guy, a fellow, especially (derogatory) a foolish, unworldly, or socially inept man; a goof.
pos: noun
examples: You know, I've always thought that the best man in the world is hardly good enough for any woman. But when it comes to the best girl in all the universe caring for an ordinary gink like me, well, you'll have to let me get used to it.
[…]so if any of you ginks are me frien's yeh better keep outen here so's yeh won't get hurted[…]
Don't see a movie in it myself, but those Hollywood ginks will take anything.
[Asian sage:] You have a great, great fear of Officer Pupp. Ain't you, mouse? / [Ignatz:] Yes. / [Asian sage:] I can tell you how to overcome it. / [Ignatz:] Tell me. / [Asian sage:] Gimme dime, I tell. / [Ignatz:] Here it is. / [Asian sage, walking away from an aghast Ignatz:] Don't be afraid of the big gink. / [Officer Pupp, incoming:] Gink? What gink?
No wonder the country's on its bloody knees! You ginks are a bloody disgrace to the human race!
This stuff ain't going to help me in August. The summer ginks come down here in June.
Adrian felt that it was he who had brought Tom into notice and popularity, that Tom was his own special creation. The silent spotty gink of the first year had been transformed into someone admired and imitated and Adrian wasn't sure how much he liked it.
Translations:
instinct
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin īnstīnctus, past participle of īnstinguō (“to incite, to instigate”), from in (“in, on”) + stinguō (“to prick”).
Inflected forms:
form: instincts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A natural or inherent impulse or behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many animals fear fire by instinct.
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust / Ensuing dangers.
In spite of these qualifications, the broad distinction between instinct and habit is undeniable. To take extreme cases, every animal at birth can take food by instinct, before it has had opportunity to learn; on the other hand, no one can ride a bicycle by instinct, though, after learning, the necessary movements become just as automatic as if they were instinctive.
gloss: An intuitive reaction not based on rational conscious thought.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct
Debbie's instinct was to distrust John.
Derived words: death instinct
gut instinct
herding instinct
herd instinct
instinctive
instinctively
instinct shooting
instinctual
killer instinct
survival instinct
Translations:
wang
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: wangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wanging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wanged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wanged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To batter; to clobber; to conk.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To throw hard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ask, too, the guy in the bass boat wanging out a spinner-bait at Bull Shoals in Arkansas.
He wanged them across the room, and Billy caught them flying over his head, then held them up for inspection as though he was contemplating buying.
After Sam filled in my big block letters with the glitter, he unleashed his inner Jackson Pollock, wanging artful paint splatters everywhere.
Translations:
flatmate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *flataz
Old Norse flatrbor.
Middle English flat
English flat
English -mate
English flatmate
From flat + -mate.
Inflected forms:
form: flatmates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person with whom one shares a flat.
pos: noun
examples: Yet when both Regine and her flatmate are at home they tend to spend their time in their rooms, although Regine (and probably the flatmate too) tends to spend more time in the communal areas of the flat when the other is not at home.
“So, it would probably [be] best if we could find another flatmate and go for a flat of five, and if old Chip does pull out, at least we can then drop down to a flat of four. What do you reckon?”
Kamal moved Fathi′s things into his own room, and the two became flatmates.
The apartment in which Kamal lived was spacious, with several large rooms and various flatmates.
gloss: A person with whom one shares any rental dwelling, not necessarily a flat.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
examples: It had been weeks since all the flatmates had sat down together for a meal. Communication was breaking down. Written notes had begun to appear all over the house; please don′t touch this food, I bought it especially for Hermione[…].
One night, one of the flatmates (the one who owned the house) was ranting and raving all night about her girlfriend.
The position may have been different when your client was living in the house with the flatmates.
The young poster had responded to the presence of newly washed sex toys in a shared space with a disgusted hostility and the dildo-owning flatmate complained the poster should have requested the removal more politely.
Related words: housemate
roommate
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: huisgenoot
lang: Finnish
word: asuintoveri
lang: Finnish
word: kämppäkaveri
lang: French
word: colocataire
lang: Greek
word: συγκάτοικος
roman: sygkátoikos
lang: Hindi
word: सहवासी
roman: sahvāsī
lang: Hungarian
word: lakótárs
lang: Japanese
word: 同居人
roman: dōkyo-nin
lang: Japanese
word: ルームメイト
roman: rūmumēto
lang: Japanese
word: 部屋っ子
roman: heyakko
lang: Polish
word: współlokator
lang: Polish
word: współlokatorka
lang: Russian
word: сосе́д по кварти́ре
roman: soséd po kvartíre
lang: Russian
word: сосе́дка по кварти́ре
roman: sosédka po kvartíre
enthuse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested from 1827. Back-formation from enthusiasm, from Ancient Greek ἔνθεος (éntheos, “possessed by a god”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + θεός (theós, “god”)
Inflected forms:
form: enthuses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enthusing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enthused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enthused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To show enthusiasm.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: a splendid performance, and I was enthusing over it
gloss: To cause (someone) to feel enthusiasm or to be enthusiastic.
pos: verb
tags: humorous
proscribed
sometimes
examples: The novelty of the film enthused the audience.
One of the museum's greatest strengths is its focus on educating and enthusing children from an early age, and it's something that Mullins is especially proud of.
Related words: enthusiasm
enthusiast
enthusiastic
unenthused
unenthusiastic
Derived words: enthused
enthuser
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: ентусиазирам се
roman: entusiaziram se
lang: German
word: begeistern
lang: Hungarian
word: lelkesedik
lang: Māori
word: kohara
lang: Russian
word: проявля́ть энтузиа́зм
roman: projavljátʹ entuziázm
lang: Spanish
word: entusiasmarse
lang: Ukrainian
word: захоплюватися
roman: zaxopljuvatysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: захопитися
roman: zaxopytysja
coterie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *kutąder.
Old English cotbor.
Medieval Latin coteriabor.
French coteriebor.
English coterie
Borrowed from French coterie.
Inflected forms:
form: coteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A circle of individuals who associate with one another for a common purpose.
pos: noun
examples: The new junior employee joined our merry after-hours coterie.
A tightly knit coterie of executive powerbrokers made all the real decisions in the company.
Baskets of game had reached her house, but not a single line, in his own hand, had met her eye. Better it should be so: Georgiana was not yet in a state to "lure the gentle tassel back," but no thanks to the chattering coterie whom she had courted for the sole purpose of rendering the marquis reassured on the subject of proper acquaintance.
The verses were copied out, handed about, sneered at, admired, passed from coterie to coterie.
The branch was worked by pull-and push ^([sic]) trains, drawn or propelled by one of a small coterie of the sprightly little Wolverhampton type of 0-4-2 side tanks.
In the case of a crack-smoking, prostitute-frequenting Mr. Sheen, many people in Hollywood say there is a long list of enablers: managers and agents and publicists; a coterie of assistants and party buddies; prostitutes, drug dealers and sex film stars; and the tabloid media, which have fed on Mr. Sheen’s antics for years.
So the thought of closing the Academy is not based in malice; the action might prove enlightening and refreshing. The old club coterie has very little excuse, and its loss would leave few casualties.
gloss: A communal burrow of prairie dogs.
pos: noun
examples: The coterie was located in the middle of our wheat field.
The population of each coterie constantly changes over a period of a few months or years, by death, birth, and emigration. But the coterie boundary remains about the same, being learned by each prairie dog born into it.
The odd part of prairie dog life is that this friendly state exists only among the members of each coterie, and does not extend between coteries.
Young prairie dogs in a coterie are brothers and sisters. They have the same father and sometimes the same mother. To find a mate from a different family, young prairie dogs must travel to a new area.
Related words: cottage
Derived words: coterieism
petticoatery
Translations:
nascent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nāscēns, nāscentis, present participle of nāscor (“to be born”). Doublet of naissant.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Emerging; just coming into existence.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the firſt, the Pope was but Antichriſt naſcent ; In the ſecond, Antichriſt creſcent ; In the third, Antichriſt regnant ; but in this fourth, he is made Lord of the Catholike faith, and Antichriſt triumphant[…]
The point of this chapter’s unflattering précis of nascent American medicine is not to castigate it for its primitivism, but to put blacks’ historical aversion to medical care into context, for most antebellum blacks were subjected to southern medicine.
Locke has another plaque at Crediton station, on the line from Exeter to Barnstaple. It tells us that his "great number of unsurpassed works include the building of the nascent London & South Western Railway".
gloss: Describing the state, aspect, or practice of an abstract concept.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For, as we have ſhewn, the original Uſe of it was to ſupport naſcent Hero-Worſhip.
gloss: Of the state of an element at the time it is being generated from some compound or transitioning from one state to another; Newly released from a compound (especially hydrogen and oxygen) by a chemical reaction or electrolysis and possessing heightened reactivity; Newly synthesized (especially protein or RNA) by translation or transcription.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There are no reasons for supposing that any of the residual atmospheric oxygen is immediately combined with fixed or nascent hydrogen, or hydrocarbonate, in the venous blood at 98°, by slow combustion, and consequently none for supposing that water is immediately formed in respiration.
gloss: Naissant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] charges of blazonry, bends sinister and bends dexter, lions couchant, lions nascent, and[…]
Marks of the makers : the initials of the maker and the arms of the town : a lion nascent with three flames.
[...] in chief a demi lion nascent gules.
gloss: Describing a quantity of object that is starting to grow from zero or an infinitesimal beginning. Also the creation or identification of an infinitesimal delta.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: Fluxions are very nearly as the Augments of the Fluents, generated in equal, but infinitely ſmall parts of Time ; and to ſpeak exactly, are in the Prime Ratio of the naſcent Augments : but they may be expounded by any Lines that are proportional to ’em.
Antonyms: dying
moribund
Related words: antenatal
innate
natal
native
nativism
natural
naturalism
naturel
naturism
prenatal
Derived words: connascent
nascent hydrogen
nascently
nascentness
nascent protein
renascent
Translations:
adolescent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested ?1440, from Middle English adolescent, from Middle French adolescent or directly from Latin adolescentem, accusative form of adolescens, present participle of adolēscere (“to become adult, grow up”), from ad- (“to”) + alēscere (“to grow or become nourished”). The adjective first appeared in 1785.
Inflected forms:
form: more adolescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most adolescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: adolescents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or at the age of adolescence; at the stage between being a child and an adult.
pos: adj
examples: Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, / Detain their adolescent charge too long.
Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
gloss: A person who is in adolescence; someone who has reached puberty but is not yet an adult.
pos: noun
examples: It may be wartime, but Miss Adolescent wants her fun!
Besides, there are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years; and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and they literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.
‘A healthy adolescent might be expected to produce five hundred billion blood cells a day.’
Translations:
fungible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1765 as noun, 1818 as adjective, from Medieval Latin fungibilis, from Latin fungor (“to perform, discharge a duty”) + -ible (“able to”). Originally a legal term, going back to Roman law: res fungibiles (“replaceable things”).
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
form: more fungible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fungible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fungibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to be substituted for something of equal value or utility.
pos: adj
examples: .
Take away this fungible instrument from the service of our necessities and how shall we exercise our Charity, which is a branch of Religion and Justice, as well as of Humanity?
Gold is fungible. Silver is fungible; that is, these metals are both so homogeneous that, if I get a pound of pure gold, for example, it is indifferent to me whether it be this pound or that pound, one is as good as another
At the core of Kasarda’s conception of the aerotropolis lies the notion that space – unlike time – is fungible.
However, unless you are unique among technical organizations and have fungible staff members who can easily replace each other, you'll need to augment the standardized description with your needs for this particular position.
gloss: Any fungible item.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: The archetypical fungible is money: if I drop a £1 coin in the street it is a matter of indifference to me whether I pick up that coin or another £1 coin lying next to it.
Translations:
pikey
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pike
English -y
English pikey
From pike + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: pikeys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more pikey
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pikey
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pikeys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pikeying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pikeyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pikeyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pike (type of fish).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The first time he comes to the surface of the water he gasps for breath, his huge mouth gapes, he gives his head a shake and out tumbles the bait, hooks and all, not one of them having had hold, and away goes pikey quite satisfied with his entertainment pro tem., and wondering what that ugly two-legged moster with the hop pole in his hand, and who looked in such a state of perplexity and stew, had to do with the matter
In 1876, in twelve fishings in the same months, there were caught 31 Pikeys, 4 Spotted Dogs, and 441 Nowds.
A pikey's a pike. It's the dirtiest fish in the water.
The boated Pikey makes a series of tailstands as it lunges about, biting at feet, bags, hands, creels and thwarts.
gloss: Associated with or filled with pike (fish).
pos: adj
examples: Like its schoolboy master, the rod built from the cane then chosen has since had many a narrow escape "by flood and fell," and not a few damaged 'tips,' aye, and 'joints' too; but its main timbers are as sound as ever, and I trust may yet be destined to wave death over many a pikey pool and glittering torrent when the hand that chose them is no longer able to do justice to their supple graces.
The Broadland waters are pikey waters. There is no doubt that if Norfolk is famous for any one species of fish, then it is for none other than Esox himself, the predatory pike.
The name gar-pike has gone some way to suggest the non-existent relationship, while (two dorsal fins notwithstanding) the pike-perches look remarkably 'pikey'.
We travel along tortuous forest roads in the most 'pikey' part ofVarmland — the whole time alongside water.
gloss: To steal.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: >It's getting hold of a copy that isn't pikeyed that I'm having >difficulty with :-(
Agree with Adrian about it being Pikeyed. At least you've a cheque to go buy something else.
Rumour has it that you once posting something interesting that was pikeyed straight from scrotexes lame troll book.
Translations:
cession
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French cession, from Latin cessionem, from past participle of cēdere (“to yield”). By surface analysis, cede + -sion.
Inflected forms:
form: cessions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which is ceded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is ceded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The reinsurance company accepted a 25% cession from the direct insurer.
gloss: The giving up of rights, property etc. which one is entitled to.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] Rashleigh, whose occasions frequently call him elsewhere, has generously made a cession of his rights in my favour; so that I now endeavour to prosecute alone the studies in which he used formerly to be my guide.
Related words: cessation
concession
excession
precession
procession
recession
secession
succession
Translations:
acquaintanceship
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English acquaintance
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English acquaintanceship
From acquaintance + -ship.
Inflected forms:
form: acquaintanceships
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being acquainted.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: What, eschew acquaintanceship? forget, After my most hearty commendations, my very trusty friend, ’Twere sin and shame Tomaso.
To host and hostess thus with fortune blest,
Lief had I come with better news to bear
Unto your greeting and acquaintanceship;
Without effort, she took them with her into her ever widening circle of acquaintanceship, and the two Avonlea girls found their social pathway at Redmond made very easy and pleasant for them […]
When they talked down the telephone he heard a man whom he might respect at the other end of it — a fellow who sounded willing to let bygones be bygones and passion acquaintanceship.
gloss: A relationship as acquaintances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: They began their acquaintanceship very lovingly, and after a shake or two by the hand, Bell gave him a more particular account of the uses and sanctity of his office […]
In their long acquaintanceship and intimacy they could not recall an harsh word that had been uttered by Amelia.
I have already spoken to them through my window to begin an acquaintanceship.
A growing distaste for the forced acquaintanceships of travel and a craving for home brought me back.
It was an acquaintanceship formed partly out of boredom, partly for mutual protection […]
[…] because she felt a strange freedom—even a security—in having decided that no acquaintanceship could end in anything untoward, she felt emboldened to sometimes do and say such things to men […]
Related words: acquaint
acquaintance
acquainted
unacquainted
Translations:
euthanize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from euthanasia; 1970s.
Inflected forms:
form: euthanizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: euthanizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: euthanized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: euthanized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: euthanise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: euth
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: euthanase
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: euthanaze
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To carry out euthanasia on (a person or animal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: John decided to euthanize his dying dog.
A terminally ill minor has become the first child to be euthanized in Belgium since age restrictions were lifted in the country two years ago.
Translations:
enticed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more enticed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enticed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been tempted; Finding something enticing.
pos: adj
examples: It is a world to see how commonly we are blinded with the collusions of women, and more enticed by their ornaments being artificial than their proportion being natural.
I stared at him , still undecided but very enticed.
In particular instances, even in the face of greater financial incentives at a rival flagship institution, students were more enticed by the sense of community promised by the support programs in existence at their chosen PWI .
Translations: