yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
drawing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English drauing, drawing, equivalent to draw + -ing.
Base: draw
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: drawings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dwg
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.
While you see some of our exploration on camera, I also spent many happy hours between shoots with Chris Nix, digging out dozens of wonderful plans, maps and drawings of projects that I never knew existed, and some that never did exist.
gloss: The act of producing such a picture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Such acts practiced as a graphic art form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of drawing or pulling something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Proverb: An official is great in his office as a well is rich in drawings of water.
gloss: An act or event in which the outcome (e.g., designating a winner) is selected by chance in the form of a blind draw, notably of lots; especially such a contest in which a winning name or number is selected randomly by removing (or drawing) it from a container, popularly a hat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small portion of tea for steeping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] the tea-kettle was presently steaming like an engine, and an extra large "drawing of tea" was steeping on the hearth.
Related words: draft
drawer
drawnwork
sketch
drafter
draftsman
drawing room
Derived words: drawing back
drawing board
drawing office
droodle
GPS drawing
indrawing
ledger drawing
life drawing
line drawing
microdrawing
out of drawing
poker drawing
schematic drawing
shop drawing
subdrawing
technical drawing
toothdrawing
underdrawing
working drawing
Translations:
graffiti
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)bor.
Italian graffire
Italian graffito
Italian graffitibor.
English graffiti
Borrowed from Italian graffiti, from graffito, from graffire, borrowed from Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō, “to write”), from Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-.
Inflected forms:
form: graffiti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graffito
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: graffitis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: graffitiing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: graffitied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: graffitied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: graffito
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Drawings or words drawn on a surface in a public place, usually made without authorization.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The underpass is a popular place for graffiti artists.
The city council spends thousands of pounds removing graffiti from public buildings.
The removal of unsightly graffiti on the sides of railway bridges spanning major roads in the North West is to be handed over to National Highways, to speed up the job.
gloss: Informal inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., as opposed to official inscriptions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: To mark a surface with such images.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: antigraffiti
calligraffiti
cybergraffiti
digital graffiti
giraffiti
graffiti art
graffiti artist
graffiti bomber
graffiti knitting
graffitiless
graffitilike
graffitist
graffitology
nongraffiti
reverse graffiti
scratchiti
scratchitti
shoefiti
Translations:
vernacular
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
art
arts
biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
Inflected forms:
form: vernaculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more vernacular
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vernacular
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The language of a people or a national language.
pos: noun
examples: The principal vernacular of the United States is English.
The idea that the Bible should be translated into vernaculars was explosive in medieval society.
gloss: Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic
Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
gloss: Language unique to a particular group of people.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang
For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
gloss: A language lacking standardization or a written form.
pos: noun
gloss: Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
pos: noun
examples: Vatican II, a church council in the 1960s, allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
gloss: A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial, basilectal, demotic
There are blacktips, silvertips, bronze whalers, black whalers, spinner sharks, and bignose sharks. These of course are vernacular names, but this is one case where the scientific nomenclature does not clarify the species, since it is now being revised.
gloss: Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic
a vernacular disease
gloss: Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
pos: adj
gloss: Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
pos: adj
gloss: Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
pos: adj
examples: An English vernacular name for Rosa multiflora is multiflora rose.
Antonyms: unvernacular
Derived words: vernacular architecture
vernacular dance
vernacular dialect
vernacularism
vernacularist
vernacular language
vernacular name
vernacular school
vernacular variety
Translations:
jargon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).
Inflected forms:
form: jargons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jargons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jargoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jargoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jargoned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.
That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’.
gloss: A language characteristic of a particular group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.
In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.
gloss: Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Cut the jargon and get to your point.
gloss: To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
pos: verb
examples: Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […].
Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
[T]he noisy jay, / Jargoning like a foreigner at his food; […]
Synonyms: vernacular
jargon
language
parlance
phraseology
sublanguage
terminology
Antonyms: vernacular
Related words: nonsense
:Category:Jargon
Derived words: blargon
cyberjargon
Eurojargon
jargonal
jargon aphasia
jargonaphasia
jargonaut
jargoneer
jargoner
jargonese
jargonesque
jargonic
jargonisation
jargonise
jargonish
jargonist
jargonistic
jargonitis
jargonium
jargonization
jargonize
jargonless
jargony
psychojargon
technojargon
Translations:
chromosome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: 19th century: from German Chromosom, ultimately from Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “colour”) + σῶμα (sôma, “body”) (because they are stained under the microscope). Equivalent to chromo- + -some.
Affixes: chromo-
-some
Inflected forms:
form: chromosomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A linear arrangement of condensed DNA and associated proteins (such as chaperone proteins) which contains the genetic material (genome) of an organism.
pos: noun
examples: Chromosomes store genetic information.
A length of DNA is divided into segments called chromosomes and shorter individual units called genes.
Translations:
chromosomal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chromosome
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English chromosomal
From chromosome + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to chromosomes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pedantic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pedant
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English pedantic
From pedant + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more pedantic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pedantic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pædantic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: pedantick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant.
pos: adj
examples: Bad news for a certain kind of pedantic patriot (look away now, Jacob Rees-Mogg). Prince Charles has debased the English language – and in a letter to a foreign potentate, no less.
gloss: Tending to show off one’s knowledge, often in a tiresome manner.
pos: adj
examples: They had heard people call things pedantic, which they did not think were so ; for instance, a boy had once said that Harry himself was a pedant, for talking of the siege of Syracuse, and of the machines used there, because the boy knew nothing about them, and disliked reading. "Then you perceive," said his mother, "that the meaning of the word varies with the different degrees of knowledge of those who use it. I remember when it was thought pedantic for a woman to talk of some books, which are now the subject of common conversation. Sometimes old-fashioned learning, and sometimes useless learning, is called pedantry; and it is generally thought pedantic to produce any kind of learning that is so unusual, that it is not likely that the company is acquainted with it, or can be pleased by it. In short, pedantry may be said to be an ill-timed parade of knowledge."
The style is pedantic and reviewish: but I can easily fancy states of mind to which it may be no less salutary on that account.
Synonyms: pedantical
Related words: pedant
pedantical
pedantry
inkhorn
Derived words: non-pedantic
overpedantic
pedantically
pedanticism
pedanticize
pedanticly
pedanticness
pedantics
unpedantic
Translations:
pedant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French pedant, pedante, from Italian pedante (“a teacher, schoolmaster, pedant”), associated with unrelated Italian pedagogo (“teacher, pedagogue”). Compare French pédant.
Inflected forms:
form: pedants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pædant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pædant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes an excessive or tedious show of their knowledge, especially regarding rules of vocabulary and grammar.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning.
pos: noun
gloss: A teacher or schoolmaster.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: I have in my youth oftentimes beene vexed to see a Pedant [tr. pedante] brought in, in most of Italian comedies, for a vice or sport-maker, and the nicke-name of Magister to be of no better signification amongst us.
gloss: Pedantic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: nitpicker
pedant
pettifogger
priss
smart aleck
smartass
wiseass
wise guy
Antonyms: maverick
Related words: buzzkill
caviler
formalist
fusser
hairsplitter
nazi
neatnik
perfectionist
precisian
precisianist
precisionist
purist
rulemonger
stickler
tightass
fastidious
complainer
Derived words: outpedant
pedancy
pedantess
pedantic
pedantical
pedantise
pedantism
pedantize
pedantly
pedantocracy
pedantocrat
pedantry
Translations:
gibberish
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested mid-16th century. Origin obscure. Possibly from *gibber, of onomatopoeic origin imitating to the sound of chatter, possibly from or influenced by jabber, + -ish denoting the name of a language (compare English, Finnish, Spanish, etc.). The verb gibber, first attested circa 1600, is usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish.
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: gibberishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more gibberish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gibberish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.
Could it be, after all, that the whole story was true, and the writing on the sherd was not a forgery, or the invention of some crack-brained, long-forgotten individual? And if so, could it be that Leo was the man that She was waiting for - the dead man who was to be born again! Impossible! The whole thing was gibberish! Who ever heard of a man being born again?
The Game of Thrones novels were best sellers without fleshed-out Dothraki; the languages in Star Wars, one of the most successful franchises ever, are mostly gibberish, even if Han Solo claims to understand Chewbacca’s bestial warbling.
gloss: Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless
pos: adj
Synonyms: gibber
Related words: double Dutch
framis
gobbledygook
gobbledegook
galimatias
jargon
mumbo jumbo
nonsense
rhubarb rhubarb
Derived words: gibberishlike
gibberishy
Translations:
gaffer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
Etymology: From gaff (“hook”) + -er.
* (cinema): The natural lighting on early film sets was adjusted by opening and closing flaps in the tent cloths, called gaff cloths or gaff flaps.
* (glass)
Base: gaff
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: gaffers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A chief lighting technician for a motion-picture or television production.
pos: noun
gloss: A glassblower.
pos: noun
examples: The apprentice carries a gather of glass on the blowpipe to the gaffer's bench […]
gloss: Someone aboard a boat whose duty is to gaff a (large) fish once the angler has reeled it in.
pos: noun
Derived words: gaffer grip
gaffer tape
Translations:
banshee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish bean sí, from Old Irish ben síde (literally “woman of the fairy mound”). The term banshee entered English in 1771.
Inflected forms:
form: banshees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: banshie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: benshee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A female spirit, usually taking the form of a woman whose mournful wailing warns of an impending death.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Scotland
examples: Late had he heard, in prophet's dream, / The fatal Ben-Shie's boding scream […].
gloss: A noisy or ill-tempered woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Where's this old banshee that runs the place?
Related words: sidhe
Derived words: bansheelike
Translations:
gracias
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish gracias (“thank you”).
Inflected forms:
form: grassy arse
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: grassy ass
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Thank you.
pos: intj
tags: US
colloquial
examples: Muchos gracias, my friend. —The girls are in the kitchen, Bimbo told Vera.
"Gracias, my friend. I owe you a great debt.
“No, gracias, my friend. This will do fine.”
Translations:
khutbah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba)bor.
English khutbah
Borrowed from Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba).
Inflected forms:
form: khutbahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: khotbah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: khotbeh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: khutba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: khutbeh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer, or at other special occasions.
pos: noun
examples: Save your khutbah for another time.
Translations:
polder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch polder, from Middle Dutch polre, from Old Dutch polra, of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: polders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poldering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: poldered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: poldered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An area of ground reclaimed from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
pos: noun
examples: The patron saint of the Oude Kerk, Saint Nicolaas, the ‘water saint’, was also very popular, as he protected the sailors and those living on the polders from the dangers of the sea.
gloss: To reclaim an area of ground from a sea or lake by means of dikes.
pos: verb
Translations:
bwana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔab-
Proto-Semitic *ʔabw-
Arabic أَب (ʔab)bor.
Swahili bwanabor.
English bwana
Borrowed from Swahili bwana (“master”), from Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”). Doublet of abbot.
Inflected forms:
form: bwanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Big boss, important person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: It is Jim C.’s custom always to say “Up Simba” in a fake-deep bwana voice as he hefts the camera to his right shoulder […]
Translations:
burro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish burrobor.
English burro
Borrowed from Spanish burro.
Inflected forms:
form: burros
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small donkey, especially when used as a pack animal or one that is feral and lives in the southwestern United States or northern Mexico.
pos: noun
Translations:
cadastre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French cadastrebor.
English cadastre
Borrowed from French cadastre.
Inflected forms:
form: cadastres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cadaster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A public survey of land, originally for the purpose of taxation and to create an official register of land ownership.
pos: noun
examples: As page 1 of the accompanying text helpfully explains, "ichnographic plans are particularly well suited for cadastres" but reveal nothing of the ups and downs and tops of things.
gloss: A register of such surveys, showing details of ownership and value.
pos: noun
examples: The only parts of Greece that have had a land registry and cadastre are the Dodecanese Islands, because they were occupied by the Italians from 1912 to the end of World War II. Land use on the islands, which include Rhodes and Kos, is still guided by Italian law.
Related words: cadastral
cadastrally
Translations:
cadre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French cadre, from Italian quadro (“framed painting, square”), from Latin quadrum, from quattuor (“four”).
Inflected forms:
form: cadres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A frame or framework.
pos: noun
examples: […] He took away the frame itself, as well as the notice.
Mr. MacCulloch. I recollect Mr. Dobrée stating that his reason for taking the cadre was, that the notice was pasted, and that he could not unpaste it.
gloss: The framework or skeleton upon which a new regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff.
pos: noun
examples: From the original plan, thirty-four cadre battalions, with a total of 116 companies, had actually been formed, a total of about 700 officers and another 600 key enlisted men.
gloss: The core of a managing group, or a member of such a group.
pos: noun
examples: In an article concerning Yunnan, it pointed out that the efforts of the Nuchiang Lisu Autonomous Chou’s party committee had resulted in a doubling of minorities cadres since 1965, and that many of these persons had assumed the first and second positions in leadership squads at different levels.
After the war, he was a party cadre and worked as a correspondent for the daily newspaper Zeri i Popullit (The People's Voice).
Finally, the exchange, circulation and education of local cadres constitute another key strategy implemented by the provincial leadership in its efforts to diffuse economic development into the backward inland region.
Party cadres must guard against the temptations of power, money and sex.
gloss: A small group of people specially trained for a particular purpose or profession.
pos: noun
Derived words: cadreman
cadreship
Translations:
gaffe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French gaffe (“blunder”). Doublet of gaff.
Inflected forms:
form: gaffes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gaff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A foolish and embarrassing error, especially one made in public; a social blunder; a breach of etiquette.
pos: noun
examples: make a gaffe
Translations:
Taiwanese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Taiwan
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Taiwanese
From Taiwan + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: more Taiwanese
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Taiwanese
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Taiwan or its people, culture, language/s, etc.
pos: adj
examples: We know the “ethnic” distribution between Taiwanese and mainland Chinese households in each district (ch’ü) of Taipei. In 1963, the percent of Taiwanese households varied from only 28.8% in Taan district to 86% in Chiencheng district. In 1991, Taan again had the lowest percent of Taiwanese households (63%) and Tatung the highest (86%).
As Reece Overhalt spoke to the President, the first reports came in of China’s invasion of the Taiwanese island of Peikan, just off the coast of Fujian.
At 6.30 am on 23 August 1958, Mao delivered his response to Khrushchev's peace initiative. The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) rained thousands of artillery shells onto the Taiwanese islands of Kinmen and Matsu. The bombardment continued unabated for 44 days, during which time Kinmen sustained hits from over 474,000 artillery shells.
gloss: People from Taiwan.
pos: noun
tags: collective
in-plural
plural
plural-only
examples: Congregations consist mainly of Mandarin-speaking refugees from the mainland but Taiwanese are not excluded. Student centers were established at Taipei, Panchiao, and Tainan for Bible study, fellowship, and personal counseling.
Taiwan was the touchstone for both sides. We felt that we should not and could not abandon the Taiwanese; we were committed to Taiwan's right to exist as an independent nation.
Translations:
Canadian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-North Iroquoian *-nat-
Laurentian kanatader.
French Canadabor.
English Canada
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Canadian
From Canada (noun) + -ian (suffix forming adjectives and nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: more Canadian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Canadian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Canadians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, belonging to, or relating to Canada, its culture, or people.
pos: adj
examples: After Trump spoke with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in April 2017, the two sides offered vastly different accounts of what was discussed.
gloss: Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian English.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: Of, belonging to, or relating to Canadian French.
pos: adj
tags: informal
nonstandard
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Canada.
pos: noun
examples: Even the Canadians have gone to war against them! They never go to war against anybody!
gloss: Canadian national championship.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: “If you look back 20 years ago, we were all playing in the Canadians and high-level cashspiels,” Shantz, 51, said Friday.
"When we were playing in the Canadians (championships) other teams would come around to watch us do our warm-ups," son Jayme Hall said.
“With it being Canadians, I’m just, a little bit, not as good as the top girls are,” she said, despite playing in the Canadians in Belleville in 2013.
gloss: canoe (short for Canadian canoe, as opposed to kayak)
pos: noun
Antonyms: non-Canadian
Derived words: Canadian Alliance
Canadian as maple syrup
Canadian bacon
Canadian Bill of Rights
Canadian canoe
Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Canadian clipper
Canadian dainty
Canadian English
Canadian Eskimo Dog
Canadian Eskimo dog
Canadian Falls
Canadian football
Canadian Forces
Canadian French
Canadian garlic
Canadian hemp
Canadian horse
Canadianisation
Canadianise
Canadianism
Canadianist
Canadianization
Canadianize
Canadian Lead
Canadian Rockies
Canadian Shield
Canadian studies
Canadian Tire money
Canadian waterweed
Canadian West
Canadian whisky
I'm Canadian
non-Canadian
Western Canadian Select
Translations:
talent
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
hobbies
lifestyle
media
sports
Etymology: From Middle English talent, from Old English talente, borrowed from the plural of Latin talentum (“a Grecian weight; a talent of money”), from Ancient Greek τάλαντον (tálanton, “balance, a particular weight, especially of gold, sum of money, a talent”). Compare Old High German talenta (“talent”). Later figurative senses are from Old French talent (“talent, will, inclination, desire”), derived from the biblical Parable of the Talents.
Inflected forms:
form: talents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A marked natural ability or skill.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Feel awfully about Scott... I always knew he couldn't think—he never could—but he had a marvelous talent and the thing is to use it—not whine in public.
He has a real talent for drawing.
gloss: A unit of weight and money used in ancient times in Greece, the Roman Empire, and the Middle East, equal to about 30 to 60 kg in various times and places.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
gloss: A desire or inclination for something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: People of talent, viewed collectively; a talented person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The director searched their talent pool to fill the new opening.
And all over Hollywood, suits are licking their chops at the prospect of more malleable actors. “She’s not going to talk back,” one top talent wrangler told me dryly.
gloss: The men or (especially) women of a place or area, judged by their attractiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Not much talent in this bar tonight—let's hit the clubs.
I went down to the beach front, of course, for that was the first thing that all Vaalies did: to look at the sea and to check the talent on the beach.
Derived words: cybertalent
multitalent
nontalent
outtalent
talent community
talent contest
talentful
talentless
talent management
talent scout
talent show
talent-spotter
talent-spotting
talent stack
talentwise
voice talent
Translations:
graft
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
chemistry
horticulture
lifestyle
medicine
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
surgery
transport
Etymology: From Middle English graffe, from Old French greffe (“stylus”), from Latin graphium (“stylus”), from Ancient Greek γραφείον (grapheíon), from γράφειν (gráphein, “to write”); probably akin to English carve. So named from the resemblance of a scion or shoot to a pointed pencil. Doublet of graphium. Compare graphic, grammar.
Inflected forms:
form: grafts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graff
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: grafts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grafting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grafted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grafted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: graff
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
pos: noun
gloss: A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
pos: noun
gloss: A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
pos: noun
gloss: To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And graft my love immortal on thy fame!
Of course, this was a music cruise, a floating rock festival grafted onto a passenger ship, and a quietly thriving corner of the music and cruise industries.
gloss: To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope yarns.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To form a graft polymer
pos: verb
Synonyms: attach
put together
unite
imp
Derived words: allograft
antigraft
anti-graft
autograft
bone graft
cleftgraft
dendrigraft
downgraft
endograft
engraft
graftage
graftectomy
graftless
graftling
graft polymer
graft-versus-host
graft-versus-host disease
heterograft
homograft
hypergraft
intergraft
intragraft
isograft
lipograft
micrograft
orthograft
perigraft
postgraft
regraft
skin graft
syngraft
transgraft
whip graft
white graft
xenograft
zoograft
graftable
graft the forked tree
misgraft
Translations:
handicap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From hand-in-cap, in reference to holding the game stakes in a cap.
Inflected forms:
form: handicaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: handicaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: handicapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: handicapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: handicapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something that prevents, hampers, or hinders.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Age is often a handicap.
Captain Edward Carlisle[…]felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze,[…]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
gloss: An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The older boy won, even though his opponent had been granted a handicap of five meters.
A handicap in chess often involves removal of the queen's rook.
Eventually the elephant and camel were depatched by themselves with two laps start of the bicyclist and horse, the motor car being scratch. It was a sensational race owing to the conduct of the field, but on the handicap the elephant won, bicycle second, motor car third.
gloss: An individual's physical or mental disadvantage or disability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A race or similar contest in which there is an allowance of time, distance, weight, or other advantage, to equalize the chances of the competitors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An old card game, similar to lanterloo.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Here some of us fell to handicap, a sport that I never knew before, which was very good.
gloss: Synonym of hand-in-cap (“old English trading game”).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To encumber with a handicap in any contest.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To place at disadvantage.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: The candidate was handicapped by her lack of experience.
gloss: To estimate betting odds.
pos: verb
examples: Grandpa Andy would buy the racing form the day ahead of time so he could handicap the race before he even arrived at the track.
Derived words: Benghazi Handicap
handicamp
handicapism
handicapitalism
handicappable
handicapper
handicap principle
handiphobia
nonhandicap
overhandicap
polyhandicap
prehandicap
re-handicap
rehandicap
self-handicap
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tasoituskilpailu
lang: Spanish
word: hándicap
polydactyl
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πολυδάκτυλος (poludáktulos), equivalent to poly- + -dactyl.
Affixes: poly-
-dactyl
Inflected forms:
form: polydactyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Polydactylous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A polydactylous animal.
pos: noun
Translations:
foot
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fot, fote, foot, from Old English fōt, from Proto-West Germanic *fōt, from Proto-Germanic *fōts, from Proto-Indo-European *pṓds. Doublet of pes, pie (“Spanish unit of length”), and pous.
Cognates
*Scots fit (“foot”)
*Yola voote (“foot”)
*North Frisian fut, fötj (“foot”)
*Saterland Frisian Fout (“foot”)
*West Frisian foet (“foot”)
*Cimbrian buus, vuaz, vuus (“foot”)
*Dutch voet (“foot”)
*Dutch Low Saxon voot (“foot”)
*German Fuß, Fuss (“foot”)
*German Low German Faut, Foot (“foot”)
*Gottscheerish vúəs (“foot”)
*Luxembourgish Fouss (“foot”)
*Mòcheno vuas (“foot”)
*Vilamovian füs (“foot”)
*Yiddish פֿוס (fus, “foot”)
*Danish fod (“foot”)
*Faroese and Icelandic fótur (“foot”)
*Jamtish fót (“foot”)
*Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish fot (“foot”)
*Gothic 𐍆𐍉𐍄𐌿𐍃 (fōtus, “foot”).
Inflected forms:
form: foots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: footing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: footed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: footed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: foote
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: feets
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: foots
pos: verb
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pay (a bill).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To tread to measure of music; to dance; to trip; to skip.
pos: verb
examples: There's time enough, I hope, To foot a measure with the bonnie bride,
He saw a Quire of Ladies in a round,
That featly footing seem'd to skim the Ground
gloss: To walk.
pos: verb
examples: thieves do foot by night
gloss: To set foot on; to walk on.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: […] Or shepherd-boy, they featly foot the green
People who would not have dared to foot the place before crept in and did not come to the house.
gloss: To set on foot; to establish; to land.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: What confederacy have you with the traitors / Late footed in the kingdom?
gloss: To renew the foot of (a stocking, etc.).
pos: verb
examples: I'll sew nether stocks and mend them and foot them too
gloss: To sum up, as the numbers in a column; sometimes with up.
pos: verb
examples: to foot (or foot up) an account
gloss: To spread out and stack up (turf sods) to allow them to dry.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
transitive
Derived words: foot the bill
Translations:
mariposa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mariposa (“a butterfly”).
Inflected forms:
form: mariposas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mariposa lily (Calochortus spp.).
pos: noun
Translations:
mutt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of muttonhead.
Inflected forms:
form: mutts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mongrel dog (or sometimes cat); an animal of mixed breed or uncertain origin.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Beerbelly, Beerbelly / Get these mutts away from me / You know, I don't find this stuff amusing anymore
gloss: A person of mixed racial or ethnic ancestry.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
usually
examples: Soon, we will no longer be an outpost of Europe, but a nation of mutts, a nation with hundreds of fluid ethnicities from around the world, intermarrying and intermingling. Americans of European descent are already a minority among 5-year-olds. […] Immigration reform or not, the nation of mutts is coming.
gloss: A person from the United States.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
broadly
derogatory
gloss: An idiot, a stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
slang
examples: “I knew you weren’t such a mutt as you looked,” she cried.
I must say I think Chloe was a bit of a mutt to walk on the bed and then leave a button somewhere about. She might have learned better than that from the pictures surely.
Mother fuckin' mutt! You, you fucking piece of shit!
“He’s so blatantly stupid. He’s a punk. He’s a dog. He’s a pig. A con. A bullshit artist. A mutt who doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” he said, among many other things, in a video.
gloss: The snowy sheathbill.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: bitsa
bitser
bitzer
cur
Heinz 57
mongrel
Mutt and Jeff
Derived words: Amerimutt
Euromutt
muttish
muttly
muttnik
muttrimony
Translations:
molar
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English molar, from Latin molāris (“millstone, molar”).
Inflected forms:
form: molars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A back tooth having a broad surface used for grinding one's food.
pos: noun
examples: Jamie had a molar removed as it was decaying.
gloss: Of or relating to the molar teeth, or to grinding.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: nonmolar
Translations:
precise
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French précis, from Latin praecīsus, perfect passive participle of praecīdere, from prae- (“before, in front”) + caedere (“cut; strike”), cognate with hit. Related to incise. Doublet of précis.
Base: caedere
Affixes: prae-
Inflected forms:
form: more precise
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: preciser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most precise
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: precisest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: præcise
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Both exact and accurate.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: precise definition
highly precise
precise calculation
Please give a precise measurement of the room.
Her precise instructions made the task easier.
A memory is "precise" when the occurrences that would verify it are narrowly circumscribed: for instance, "I met Jones" is precise as compared to "I met a man." A memory is "accurate" when it is both precise and true, i.e. in the above instance, if it was Jones I met.
Individually, some of these definitions fall into the common definitional trap of being overly precise.
gloss: Consistent, clustered close together, agreeing with each other (this does not mean that they cluster near the true, correct, or accurate value).
pos: adj
gloss: Adhering too much to rules; prim or punctilious.
pos: adj
Related words: repeatable
Derived words: hyperprecise
nonprecise
overprecise
precisely
preciseness
precisian
precisification
precisify
prissy
pseudoprecise
superprecise
to be precise
ultraprecise
unprecise
Translations:
Desi
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani دیسی (desī) / देसी (desī).
Inflected forms:
form: more Desi
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Desi
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: desi
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Desis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: desi
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the culture, people, or products of South Asia; South Asian.
pos: adj
gloss: A member of the South Asian diaspora.
pos: noun
examples: Desis from the United States have an accent; those from Canada, another.
Translations:
kara
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Punjabi ਕੜਾ (kaṛā); see Hindi कड़ा (kaṛā, “bracelet”).
Inflected forms:
form: karas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bangle worn by Sikhs, one of the five Ks, to remind them to do God's work.
pos: noun
tags: Sikhism
Translations:
Newfoundland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English new found lande (in a letter, apparently written in 1499, from Henry VII of England to his lord chancellor, Cardinal John Morton, about the North American land explored by Sebastian and John Cabot, a likely location being Newfoundland, or the name later being specifically narrowed down to it), equivalent to newfound + land.
Compound parts: newfound
land
Inflected forms:
form: Newfoundlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very large breed of working dog from Newfoundland, with a shaggy, usually black coat, known for its water rescue ability, strength, and gentle disposition.
pos: noun
examples: The younger, a frank, bold, bright-eyed child, was mounted on a large Newfoundland dog, whose impatience the elder brother was trying to soothe.
Translations:
re
Part of speech: prep
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rē, ablative of rēs (“thing, matter, topic”).
Inflected forms:
form: ray
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: About, regarding, with reference to; used especially in letters, documents, emails and case law.
pos: prep
examples: Re A (conjoined twins) [2000] EWCA Civ 254
"I know it's been a long haul, but can we please not get complacent re: our annual magic gunk explosion? I can't believe I just typed those words."
gloss: A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
fellah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic فَلَّاح (fallāḥ, “peasant”), from Classical Syriac ܦܠܚܐ (“worker; peasant”). Attested since 1743.
Inflected forms:
form: fellahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fellahin
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fellaheen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A peasant, farmer or agricultural laborer in the Middle East and North Africa.
pos: noun
examples: The Egyptian fellaheen, in many of their ways and customs, reproduce almost exactly their ancient prototypes. They use the same ploughs and the same shadoofs for raising water.
Religion long kept the two races, Arab and Egyptian, apart, and when eventually the Christian fellaḥ in the neighbourhood of Cairo had become Mohammedan, the Mohammedan Arab had become a townsman with a townsman’s sense of superiority over the country bumpkin.
It has the prophetic vision. Fuit Ilium! The sack of windy Troy. Kingdoms of this world. The masters of the Mediterranean are fellaheen today.
The real problem of the Arabian population in Palestine is how to get rid of the economic domination and control by approximately 100 families of effendi who now own the land, keeping the fellaheen in obscurity and ignorance and subjecting them to merciless exploitation.
1929-1930, H P Lovecraft, Fungi from Yuggoth
And at the last from inner Egypt came // The strange dark One to whom the fellahs bowed
Before her, seated half-crouching upon a wicker chair, was a big-breasted sphinx-faced fellah girl, with her skirt drawn up above her waist to expose some choice object of my friend's study.
All of them were crudely caricatured scenes of life among Moslems: a schoolmaster, ruler in hand, presiding over a class of small boys, a fellah ploughing, a drunk being ordered out of a bar.
Lizards, reputed to be of hgih aphrodisiac potency, used to be brought by Egyptian fellahin to Cairo[.]
It differed from the Ulema both in a more modernistic interpretation of Islamic dogma and in its social demands, which included the redistribution of land among the fellahs.
Translations:
grafter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English graft
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 grafter
From graft + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: grafters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by engrafting.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.
pos: noun
gloss: The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who works in market stalls.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: a hard worker who puts in long hours
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
Related words: graft
Translations: