yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
historic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin historicus (“historical”), from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “exact; historical”). Cognate with French historique. By surface analysis, history + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more historic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most historic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: historick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hystoric
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: historique
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history.
pos: adj
examples: A historic opportunity
July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
Alongside the nature targets, countries reached a historic agreement to develop a financial mechanism for sharing the benefits from drug discoveries, vaccines and food products that come from digital forms of biodiversity, known as digital sequence information or DSI, after rows about biopiracy in the lead-up to Cop15.
gloss: Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.
pos: adj
examples: Sights are thick sown in the counties of York and Nottingham: the former is more historic.
gloss: Synonym of historical: of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history or the past generally (See usage notes.)
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
examples: An high-pac'd Muse treading a lofty march, leades honor enchaind in an Epique pen, grac'd with the furtherance of historique Clio.
gloss: Various grammatical tenses and moods specially used in retelling past events.
pos: adj
examples: The historic tenses include the imperfect, the pluperfect, and the future perfect.
Synonyms: notable
significant
landmark
momentous
groundbreaking
dated
old-fangled
outdated
bygone
foregone
Antonyms: unhistoric
Related words: historicaster
Derived words: ahistoric
ahistoricism
antihistoricism
antihistoricist
ethnohistoric
historic county
historic criticism
historic district
historic infinitive
historicism
historicist
historicistic
historicity
historicization
historicize
historicness
historic present
historic present tense
historic rhyme
historic site
macrohistoric
microhistoric
mythohistoric
nonhistoric
past historic
past historic tense
polyhistoric
posthistoric
prehistoric
present historic
protohistoric
sociohistoric
unhistoric
Translations:
researcher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English research
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 researcher
From research + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: researchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who researches.
pos: noun
examples: Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
The Amazon is larger than the next two largest rainforests combined, according to Rhett Butler, a rainforest researcher and the CEO of Mongabay.
Translations:
research
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
marketing
Etymology: Early Modern French rechercher (“to examine closely”), from Old French recerchier (“to seek, to look for”), by surface analysis, re- + search.
Inflected forms:
form: researches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: researching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: researched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: researched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To search or examine with continued care; to seek diligently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make an extensive investigation into.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To search again.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To receive a certain response in market research.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Agency and bank staff told the newspaper the ad researched well.
Derived words: nonresearched
nonresearching
overresearched
underresearched
unresearched
misresearch
reresearch
Translations:
melon
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English meloun, melon, from Old French melon, from Late Latin melonem, from Latin melopeponem, from Ancient Greek μηλοπέπων (mēlopépōn), from μῆλον (mêlon, “apple”) + πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”).
Inflected forms:
form: melons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Some of the plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Some of the plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Some of the plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Some of the plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A light pinkish orange color, like that of some melon flesh.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The breasts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
plural-normally
slang
uncountable
examples: She indicated her left melon, underneath which lay the heart. “Because you stuck with me, and whether you ever said it or not, that is love.”
“Wait a minute.” I said. “James with another woman? Mommy, that doesn't even sound right?” “It's true. I caught him squeezing her melons.”
gloss: The head, the brain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: Think! Use your melon!
gloss: A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
countable
derogatory
gloss: A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Of a light pinkish orange color, like that of melon flesh.
pos: adj
Synonyms: breasts
Derived words: banana melon
bittermelon
chest melon
Chinese preserving melon
Christmas melon
coyote melon
fodder melon
fuzzy melon
Hami melon
jam melon
kaffir melon
Korean melon
mango melon
melonade
melonal
melon aldehyde
melon baller
melon ball scooper
melon beetle
melon bread
melon cactus
melon cutting
melonette
melongrower
melon head
melon-headed
melon-headed whale
melon heptenal
melon hole
melonic
melonious
melonist
melonlike
melonous
melonrita
Melon rugose mosaic virus
melon thistle
melontini
melonworm
melony
Montreal melon
Montreal nutmeg melon
mouse melon
Namib melon
oriental melon
paddymelon
pepino melon
Persian melon
pineapple melon
pocket melon
pomegranate melon
preserving melon
Santa Claus melon
seven-year melon
snake melon
snow melon
stock melon
Translations:
linen
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Old English līnen (“linen", "made of flax”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”), equivalent to line + -en. Cognate with Latin līnum (“flax”) and thus also Linum. More at line.
Base: line
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: linens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Thread or cloth made from flax fiber.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
gloss: Domestic textiles, such as tablecloths, bedding, towels, underclothes, etc., that are made of linen or linen-like fabrics of cotton or other fibers; linens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She put the freshly cleaned linens into the linen closet.
But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window at the old mare feeding in the meadow below by the brook,[…].
gloss: A light beige colour, like that of linen cloth undyed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Made from linen cloth or thread.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having the colour linen, light beige.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: lingerie
fustian
muslin
flaxen
Derived words: bedlinen
body linen
cottolin
Irish linen
lack-linen
linen basket
linen closet
linen cupboard
linen-draper
linen draper
linendraper
linener
linenette
linenfold
linen hall
linenless
linenlike
linen paper
linen prover
linens
linen tester
lineny
linish
linoleum
nonlinen
prelinen
Russia linen
shaving linen
table-linen
tow linen
underlinen
Translations:
underpants
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-énts
Proto-Indo-European *ph₂énts?
Proto-Hellenic *pánts
Ancient Greek πᾶς (pâs)
Ancient Greek ἔλεος (éleos)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek ἐλεέω (eleéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)
Ancient Greek ἐλεήμων (eleḗmōn)
Ancient Greek Παντελεήμων (Panteleḗmōn)der.
Italian Pantalonebor.
French pantalonbor.
English pantaloon
English pantaloons
English pants
English underpants
From under- + pants.
Inflected forms:
form: underpant
pos: noun
tags: attributive
Senses:
gloss: Underwear covering the genitalia and often buttocks, usually going no higher than the navel.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The Italian fashion of wearing red underpants on December 31 is becoming popular, reputedly to guarantee luck for the new year.
She takes off her fatigue pants and throws them in the washer and the surgical greens and her bloodstained bra and turns on the machine. She is wearing socks and underpants and a .38 Special with a shrouded hammer in an ankle holster.
He wore khakis slung so low that five inches of his underpants showed—dark blue boxers with big white polka dots.
Translations:
don
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dominus (“lord, head of household”), akin to Italian don, Sicilian don, Spanish don; from domus (“house”). Doublet of dom, domine, dominie, and dominus.
Inflected forms:
form: dons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: donning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: donned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: donned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: No one feeds at the high table except the dons and the gentlemen-commoners, who are undergraduates in velvet caps and silk gowns[.]
The truth is, unless a man can get the prestige and income of a Don and write donnish books, it’s hardly worth while for him to make a Greek and Latin machine of himself and be able to spin you out pages of the Greek dramatists at any verse you’ll give him as a cue.
gloss: An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: A mafia boss, especially one who is Italian or Italian-American.
pos: noun
gloss: A (usually Spanish or Italian) title of respect to a man, especially a lord or nobleman.
pos: noun
examples: Wo often of an evening go and hear the band in the square opposite the captin-giniral’s palace—it is here were the dons and donnas and all the fashionables assemble, and I must say it’s amusing.
Time was when the walker amid California vales could stop at some cool cellar hid in these western hills and pour from great flagons a shimmering glass of cool red wine. Nowadays, the hand of the law has stepped in and spoiled all this, because the hordes of wanderers who have come west have made of these resting places questionable resorts—made of them places that the Spanish dons and donnas never dreamed of.
A sustained media campaign against American domination would require the support of just a few dot-com dons and donnas or hedge fund phenoms who want to head straight for structural change and skip the reformist way stations supported by philanthropic business leaders like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen, Gary Hirshberg, and the later[ ]Paul Newman’s family.
gloss: Any man, bloke, dude.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: I’m confused like who’s this don
.22 bells and that who’s on
gloss: To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To don one's clothes.
Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.
Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.
Related words: donzel
Derived words: don hand
donnish
donnism
donny
donship
Translations:
hagiography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hagio-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
French -graphieder.
English -graphy
English hagiography
From hagio- + -graphy.
Inflected forms:
form: hagiographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of saints and the documentation of their lives.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The second half of the eleventh century saw a notable surge of interest in hagiography throughout England, which meant that many of the Anglo-Saxon saints of earlier eras were furnished, often for the first time, with a Latin Vita.
Jacques LeGoff remarks, 'Hagiography tells us much about the mental infrastructure [of the middle ages]: the interpenetration between the tangible world and the supernatural world, the common nature of the corporeal and psychic, are the conditions which make miracles and related phenomena possible.
Charters, wills, and monastic rules offer evidence for this transformation, but it is hagiography and its double-scoped discourse that illuminates it best, and we will start with a vita that pursued the question of peroperty and prestige more comprehensively than the rest, the Vita Sadalbergae.
gloss: A biography of a saint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A biography which expresses reverence and respect for its subject.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
examples: Churchill revisionism, of course, is almost as much of a cottage industry as Churchill hagiography.
gloss: A biography which is uncritically supportive of its subject, often including embellishments or propaganda.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: For an obsequious hagiography of [William] Byrd, see L. Wright 1940. For a more critical assessment, see Lockridge 1987, 1992.
This 'cultivated characteriology' (ibid., p. 117) is one that she suggests has been reduced to the cult of the theorist's personality in many of the hagiographies written about Foucault, missing how he cultivated his ethos or characteriology in order to persuade, seduce, unsettle, question, and so forth.
Between 2000 to 2019, 55% of leading actor and actress Oscars went to performances in a biopic. Over the past four years, the genre has been responsible for 63 Oscar nominations. Yet at the same time, hagiography has resurfaced as a pre-requisite for success.
Related words: mash note
paean
Derived words: autohagiography
hagiographer
hagiographic
Translations:
preference
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French preference, from Medieval Latin preferentia. Doublet of preferans. Morphologically prefer + -ence.
Base: prefer
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: preferences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: preferences
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: preferencing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: preferenced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: preferenced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The selection of one thing or person over others (with the main adposition being "for" in relation to the thing or person, but possibly also "of")
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He has a preference for crisp wines.
gloss: The option to so select, and the one selected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Can I keep my preferences when I upgrade to the new version of this application?
Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet. Perhaps we assume that our name, address and search preferences will be viewed by some unseen pair of corporate eyes, probably not human, and don't mind that much.
gloss: The state of being preferred over others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A strong liking or personal valuation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A preferential bias; partiality; discrimination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To give preferential treatment to; to give a preference to.
pos: verb
tags: US
Synonyms: forechoice
Derived words: affectional preference
depreference
dispreference
enantiopreference
in preference to
isopreference
nonpreference
photopreference
preference cascade
preference share
preference stock
preferendum
revealed preference
sexual preference
stereopreference
subpreference
thermopreference
time preference
Translations:
heater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
gambling
games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English heat
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 heater
From heat + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: heaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that produces and radiates heat, typically to raise the temperature of a room or building.
pos: noun
examples: Turn on the heater; I'm cold.
“First you've got to sit up and go into the tackroom, because you are soaking wet. And shivering.” […] The tackroom was cold, so Sam turned on the kerosene heater and found a wool cooler and wrapped her in it.
gloss: A person who heats something, for example in metalworking.
pos: noun
gloss: A gun.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: The thug pumped two rounds from his heater into her.
gloss: A fastball, especially one thrown at high velocity.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Jones threw a heater under his chin.
gloss: An extended winning streak.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.
gloss: A medieval European shield having a rounded triangle shape like a clothes iron.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: It can be assumed that as the earlier kite shield transformed into the heater shape, there must have been versions in between the two styles. Indeed, in artwork of the Medieval period, shields are rarely present after 1450 and even then are quite small. The development of flattop heaters from larger kite shields is likely the result of increased fighting on horseback and the use of improved armor.
gloss: A dead heat; a race in which two or more competitors reach the finish line simultaneously.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of banger (“a powerfully energetic or exceptional song”).
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: heating
Derived words: air heater
block heater
closed feedwater heater
dry heater
fan heater
feed heater
feedwater heater
foot heater
headbolt heater
head bolt heater
head-bolt heater
heaterless
hot water heater
immersion heater
induction heater
iron heater
masonry heater
microheater
oil heater
open feedwater heater
orchard heater
point heater
quartz heater
space heater
steam heater
storage heater
water heater
wet heater
Translations:
thong
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English thong, thwong, thwang, from Old English þwong, þwang (“thong, band, strap, cord, strip of leather; phylactery”), from Proto-West Germanic *þwangi, from Proto-Germanic *þwangiz, *þwanguz (“coercion, constraint, band, clamp, strap”), from Proto-Indo-European *twenk- (“to squeeze, press, pressure”). Cognate with Scots thwang, thwayng, thang (“thong”), Middle Low German dwenge (“clamp, jaws, steel-trap”), German Zwinge (“vise, clamp”), Danish tvinge (“clamp”), dialectal Norwegian tveng (“shoestrap, shoelace”), Icelandic þvengur (“strap, thong, latchet”).
Inflected forms:
form: thongs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A narrow strip of material, typically leather, used to fasten, bind, or secure objects.
pos: noun
gloss: An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
dated
plural-normally
examples: Because of August he wears shorts and sandals, the Japanese geta sort called thongs.
T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs (T-shirts, cut-offs, and a pair of thongs).
2006, Peter Murray, David Poole, Grant Jones, Contemporary Issues in Management and Organisational Behaviour, Thomson, page 108,
Players turned up for questioning wearing thongs, shorts and T-shirts.
Thongs are the favoured footwear for many Aussies, especially near the beaches, but most people in the Outback find that they can't put a foot wrong with a tough, nicely worn-in pair or workboots.
You shouldn′t face condescension if you rock into a boutique in your thongs and a singlet, but neither will you be treated like a princess just because you've splashed $5000 on daddy's credit card.
gloss: An item of clothing, usually an undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
examples: She was impressed by her friend's confidence to wear a thong on the crowded beach.
"Another girl bends over to get her books from her locker. Her hot pink thong sticks out of her low-rise pants."
"At her friends' urging, Margo ended up buying a purple thong."
gloss: The largest section of a bullwhip constructed of many straps of braided leather.
pos: noun
Related words: sandal
Derived words: sea thong
thongage
thonged
thonging
thongkini
thongless
thonglike
thongweed
thongy
Translations:
jandal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Japanese + sandal, originally a genericized trademark.
Compound parts: Japanese
sandal
Inflected forms:
form: jandals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flip-flop (type of footwear)
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
Translations:
flip-flop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. Most probably an imitation of the sound produced when walking in them.
Inflected forms:
form: flip-flops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flip flop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flipflop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: flip-flops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flip-flopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flip-flopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flip-flopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: flip flop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: flipflop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sandal consisting of a rubber sole fastened to the foot by a rubber thong fitting between the toes and around the sides of the foot.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
examples: the necessity for yet another place at which to buy a polo shirt or a pair of flip-flops may not be apparent to the town's residents
gloss: A change of places; an inversion or swap.
pos: noun
tags: idiomatic
examples: On the break for strong left, everything remains the same, except for the flip-flop of positions.
BR's flip-flop attitude towards the two options can be observed in comments made by the BR chairman in September 1967, which were interpreted as meaning that the facts now have to be "adjusted" to prove the electrification case.
gloss: A change of places; an inversion or swap.
pos: noun
tags: US
idiomatic
gloss: A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable and an unstable state (switching from one to the other and back again in response to a trigger), and which is thereby capable of serving as one bit of memory.
pos: noun
examples: Ten two-state flip-flops […] were formed into ten-stage ring counters representing each decimal digit in the ten-digit accumulators […]
gloss: The sound of a regular footfall.
pos: noun
gloss: A somersault.
pos: noun
gloss: A return trip.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: We'll catch you on the flip-flop. This here's the Rubber Duck on the side. We gone, 'bye, 'bye.
gloss: A person or inhabitant of the Middle East, or a Muslim nation, particularly Afghanistan.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
gloss: To alternate back and forth between directly opposite opinions, ideas, or decisions.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
transitive
Related words: sandal
Derived words: flip-flop operator
flip-flopper
Translations:
Nahuatl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish náhuatl, from Classical Nahuatl nahuatl, nahuatlatolli (“the clear or understandable language”).
Inflected forms:
form: Nahua
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nahuatls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Nahuatl
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a group of people indigenous to Central Mexico, spanning multiple tribal groups and including the Aztecs.
pos: noun
Translations:
awe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English aw, awe, agh, awȝe, borrowed from Old Norse agi, from Proto-Germanic *agaz (“terror, dread”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂egʰ- (“to be upset, afraid”). Displaced native Middle English eye, eyȝe, ayȝe, eȝȝe, from Old English ege, æge (“fear, terror, dread”), from the same Proto-Germanic root.
Inflected forms:
form: awes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: awes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: awing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: aweing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: awed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: awed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of fear and reverence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.
gloss: A feeling of amazement.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
In 1825, the first public railway carried passengers across the English countryside, setting in motion not just an engineering revolution, but an industrial one too. Imagine the awe and excitement of those first passengers as they boarded the train, unaware that they were witnessing the dawn of a new era.
gloss: Power to inspire awe.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
gloss: To inspire fear and reverence in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That large room had always awed Ivor: even as a child he had never wanted to play in it, for all that it was so limitless, the parquet floor so vast and shiny and unencumbered, the windows so wide and light with the fairy expanse of Kensington Gardens.
gloss: To control by inspiring dread.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: While a sense of outrage is the only rational response to atrocity, if that outrage is maintained at too high a level over too long a time it can generate feelings of impotence, as we permit ourselves to be awed by this irrational act of violence.
Derived words: awebound
aweful
awe-inspiring
aweless
awesome
awestricken
awestrike
awestruck
awe walk
awful
inawe
overawe
shock and awe
underawe
awed
Translations:
peanut
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pea + nut, perhaps a folk etymology of pinda, pinder (still found in Southern US dialects).
Compound parts: pea
nut
Inflected forms:
form: peanuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pea nut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pea-nut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: peanuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: peanutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: peanutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: peanutted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pea nut
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pea-nut
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A legume resembling a nut, the fruit of the plant Arachis hypogaea, native to South America.
pos: noun
examples: He always liked eating peanuts along with tea before biscuits came into his life.
gloss: Synonym of countneck (“very small hard clam”).
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: See peanuts (“very small amount”).
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: To pull on somebody's tie as a prank, causing the knot to tighten.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: beer nut
Derived words: chocnut
circus peanut
cocktail peanut
hog peanut
if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
Japanese peanut
packing peanut
peanut ball
peanut brittle
peanut bunker
peanut butter
peanut butter and jelly
peanut butter cup
peanut cactus
peanut gallery
peanut-headed lanternfly
peanutless
peanutlike
Peanut Man
peanut marzipan
peanut milk
peanut oil
peanut paste
peanut table
peanut tree
peanut tube
peanutty
peanut whistle
peanut worm
Peanut yellow mosaic virus
Translations:
Francophone
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Altered and reinterpreted from French Francophonie, with semantic influence from Latin Franco- (“French”) + Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ), Franco- + -phone.
Affixes: Franco-
-phone
Inflected forms:
form: francophone
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Francophones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: francophone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: French-speaking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person who speaks French, especially as their mother tongue.
pos: noun
Translations:
Anglophone
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Anglo- + -phone.
Base: Anglo
Inflected forms:
form: anglophone
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Anglophones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anglophone
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: English-speaking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the Anglophone media
Ireland is an unusual anglophone location in that it is an island of some size with a population large enough for internal dialectal variation. It can be compared in this respect with Newfoundland and possibly with Jamaica and New Zealand (two islands, of course). Other anglophone locations are either much larger (United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia) or so small that an internal differentiation of varieties is not recognisable, cf. the many anglophone islands of the Caribbean as well as such islands as Malta or Tristan da Cunha.
gloss: One who speaks English, generally natively.
pos: noun
examples: When we consider the situation of Anglophones in Quebec, we quickly realize that the vitality of this group depends upon its geographical location. In and around Montreal, Anglophones have good access to English-language resources and services. They also have their own institutions, although French is now part of these institutions. Anglophones living in and around Montreal are better served in their language than anywhere else in the province.
Translations:
da
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From child language; compare dad and dada.
Inflected forms:
form: das
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Father.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Northern-England
Scotland
examples: “Dear, but you're like your grandmother!” she continued, patting the little girl's head. “Many a penny's worth I sold to your da, when he was weer than you are.”
Oh where is yer da son? The man said it to me and was grumpy. Is yer da here?
Once the silky gent who ran a barge called the Knuckle Sandwich tried to persuade Borglum's ma and da to sell him their little dwarfish boy for twelve gold coins.
I was twelve when the das started killing themselves all around me
gloss: Yes.
pos: intj
tags: Russianism
slang
Antonyms: nyet
Translations:
hoarse
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hors, hos, from Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz, akin to Old Norse háss (West Norse) and heiss (East Norse) (whence Icelandic hás, Norwegian Nynorsk hås, Norwegian Bokmål hes and Swedish hes).
Inflected forms:
form: hoarser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hoarsest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a dry, harsh tone to the voice, as a result of a sore throat, age, emotion, etc.
pos: adj
examples: I am old and my voice is hoarse […]
Translations:
coarse
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Adjectival use of course that diverged in spelling in the 18th century. The sense developed from '(following) the usual course' (cf. of course) to 'ordinary, common' to 'lacking refinement', with 'not fine, granular' arising from its application to cloth. Compare the development of mean.
Inflected forms:
form: coarser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: coarsest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With a rough texture; not smooth.
pos: adj
examples: Two hundred Sempſtreſſes were employed to make me Shirts, and Linen for Bed and Table, all of the ſtrongeft and coarſeſt kind they could get; which, however, they were forced to quilt together in ſeveral Folds, for the thickeſt was ſome degrees finer than Lawn.
gloss: Composed of large particles.
pos: adj
examples: coarse sand
Graham flour is coarsely granulated wheat meal. No sieves or bolting cloths are employed in its manufacture, and many coarse, unpulverized particles are present in the product.
Missing units may be attributed to either the lack of proper sized material in the source or the successive, downcurrent sedimentation of the coarser materials first and the finer materials last.
gloss: Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy.
pos: adj
examples: coarse manners
coarse language
☞ This word [earth] is liable to a coarſe vulgar pronunciation, as if written Urth;[…]
The butcher and the porkman painted up only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
gloss: Unrefined.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Of inferior quality.
pos: adj
examples: Due to the internet issue, the system generated an coarse audio file.
She detests visiting coarse places.
Antonyms: fine
Derived words: coarse fish
coarse-grained
coarse-graining
coarsehanded
coarse-handed
coarsely
coarsen
coarseness
coarsish
coarsy
uncoarse
Translations:
stamen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin stāmen, from Ancient Greek στῆμα (stêma).
Inflected forms:
form: stamens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stamina
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In flowering plants, a male reproductive structure in a flower that produces pollen, typically consisting of an anther and a filament.
pos: noun
Translations:
happen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English happenen, hapnen, augmented from Middle English happen (“to come to pass, happen”), perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”). Equivalent to hap (“a chance, occurrence, byfall”) + -en (verbal suffix).
Base: hap
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: happens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: happening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: happened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: happened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To occur or take place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Let me tell you how it happened.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
gloss: To happen to; to befall.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 'By my soul! I believe something bad has happened me,' he muttered, and popped up his window, and looked out, half dreaming over the church-yard on the park beyond […]
gloss: To do or occur by chance or unexpectedly.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
intransitive
with-infinitive
examples: Take an umbrella in case it happens to rain.
Do you happen to have an umbrella?
If you should (happen to) need any help, I'll be there.
It happened that a police car was passing my house just at that moment.
gloss: To encounter by chance.
pos: verb
examples: Unexpectedly, in a nook close by the farmhouse, he happened upon a spot where the vintage had actually commenced.
gloss: To become popular or trendy.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Synonyms: bechance
befall
belimp
betide
betime
chance
come about
come to pass
crop up
evene
eventuate
go on
hap
happen
hold
occur
pass
take place
tide
transpire
Related words: happening
happenstance
come into being
Derived words: accidents will happen
accidents will happen in the best regulated families
accident waiting to happen
as it happens
behappen
couldn't happen to a nicer
disaster waiting to happen
happenable
happen across
happen along
happen by
happenchance
happener
happeningly
happen on
happen upon
if it happens, it happens
it so happens
make fetch happen
make happen
mappen
mishappen
or it didn't happen
pics or it didn't happen
pictures or it didn't happen
rehappen
shit happens
these things happen
unhappen
waiting to happen
what's happening
worse things happen at sea
Translations:
hernia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hernia (“protruded viscus”). See also yarn and cord.
Inflected forms:
form: hernias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: herniae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: herniæ
pos: noun
tags: dated
plural
Senses:
gloss: A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.
pos: noun
examples: give someone a hernia
have a hernia
Translations:
snowman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: * snow + -man.
* (score of eight; card ranked eight): A typical snowman, built from two balls of snow, resembles a figure eight.
Base: snow
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: snowmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A humanoid figure made with large snowballs stacked on each other. Human traits like a face and arms may be fashioned with sticks (arms), a carrot (nose), and stones or coal (eyes, mouth).
pos: noun
gloss: A score of eight, especially within one inning (in baseball) or on one hole (in golf, where it is also known as dogballs).
pos: noun
examples: [The Angels] dropped a snowman early on us [Saturday] and we built a snowman early too.
"Then they dropped a snowman (8) on us and did it pretty quick," Narron said. "Then Stone had to stay out there and suck it up for us […]"
For me, another blow-up score of a snowman, 8, seems about right on this hole.
gloss: A playing card with the rank of eight.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An attractive but heartless man.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: A few years ago there lived a lover
By the name of Jimmy Jones
Who really snowed the girls and left them cold
And gained the title of "The Great Snowman".
Related words: snow angel
iceman
☃
Derived words: abominable snowman
snowmanlike
snowmanness
snowman sign
Translations:
achiever
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English achieve
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 achiever
From achieve + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: achievers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who achieves something.
pos: noun
gloss: One who tends to succeed; a winner.
pos: noun
examples: River hadn't laid eyes on Hobden before, but this had to be him: average height, thinning brownish hair, look of terror as he turned to face this new intrusion even while crushed in an arm-lock by the previous invader, the achiever—except this wasn't an achiever: he was blackclad, wore a balaclava, had a utility belt round his waist, but the ensemble lacked the hi-tech tailoring of the genuine article.
Studies of student behavior and attitudes show that a majority of students violate standards of academic integrity to some degree, and that high achievers are just as likely to do it as others.
Derived words: nonachiever
overachiever
superachiever
underachiever
Translations:
aching
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more aching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most aching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: achings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That aches; continuously painful; that causes pain.
pos: adj
examples: The aching heart, the aching head.
There was a long spell of silence, a big, aching void, and then from the Professor a keen 'S-s-s-s!'
gloss: The feeling of an ache; a dull pain.
pos: noun
Translations:
frown
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English frown, froun (“a threatening appearance; lowering of the clouds”), from frounen (“to frown”). See below.
Inflected forms:
form: frowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: frowns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frowning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frowned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frowned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.
pos: noun
examples: Philip had once told him of a man who had a horse-shoe frown, and Tom had tried with all his frowning-might to make a horse-shoe on his forehead
He encounters some obstacle in his train of reasoning ... and then a frown passes like a shadow over his brow.
gloss: A downturn of the corners of the mouth, typically expressing sadness.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: The smile and the frown are both indicated and the operation of a motor driven flasher causes the face to look happy and sad in turn.
gloss: Any facial expression that indicates disapproval or displeasure.
pos: noun
gloss: To have a frown on one's face.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She frowned when I told her the news.
gloss: To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Noisy gossip in the library is frowned upon.
The sky doth frown and lower upon our army.
gloss: To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let us frown the impudent fellow into silence.
gloss: To communicate by frowning.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Frank frowned his displeasure with my proposal.
Copling glanced at the heading and signature, then read the contents and frowned annoyance.
As the band paused between songs, a gust of wind blew a distinctive Worthy Farm odour in the direction of drummer/vocalist Julien Ehrich: “Wow,” he frowned, “this place smells of cow shit.”
Synonyms: scowl
Derived words: frownful
frownless
frownsome
frowny
permafrown
turn the frown upside down
afrown
frown at
frowner
frown on
frown upon
outfrown
Translations:
concatenate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Italic *katesnā
Latin catēna
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin catēnō
Latin concatēnō
Latin concatēnātus
English concatenate
From the perfect passive participle stem of Latin concatēnāre (“to link or chain together”), from con- (“with”) + catēnō (“chain, bind”), from catēna (“a chain”).
Inflected forms:
form: concatenates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: concatenating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: concatenated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: concatenated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To join or link together, as though in a chain.
pos: verb
examples: Locke, by contrast, contended that [madness] was essentially a question of intellectual delusion, the capture of the mind by false ideas concatenated into a logical system of unreality.
gloss: To join (text strings) together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Concatenating "shoe" with "string" yields "shoestring".
gloss: Joined together as if in a chain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.
Related words: catenate
Derived words: concatemer
concatenation
concatenative
deconcatenate
nonconcatenated
reconcatenate
unconcatenate
unconcatenated
Translations:
wont
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wont, iwoned, from Old English ġewunod, past participle of ġewunian. Cognate with German gewohnt and Dutch gewend.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Accustomed or used (to or with a thing), accustomed or apt (to do something).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He is wont to complain loudly about his job.
This is the ſuteltie of Satan, who vnder the shew of godly matters, deceaueth the vnaduyſed, as we are wont to ſay, that in the honye lyeth hidden the poiſon.
[…] I haue not that Alacrity of Spirit, / Nor cheere of Minde that I was wont to haue.
On ſome fond breaſt the parting ſoul relies, / Some pious drops the cloſing eye requires; / Ev'n from the tomb the voice of Nature cries, / Ev'n in our Aſhes live their wonted Fires.
He could read English Manuscripts very elegantly, elegantissime: he was wont to preach to the people in the English tongue, though according to the dialect of Norfolk, where he had been brought up; […]
But while Katy Perry similarly threw herself into the spirit of the event – crowdsurfing, dancing with a security guard, charming the audience – her peculiar combination of newfound political conscience and longstanding predisposition to DayGlo cartoonishness was simultaneously intriguing and baffling, as a woman delivering between-song speeches about the necessity of taking back power surrounded by dancers dressed as flowers and giant pom-poms covered in fluorescent fur was perhaps wont to be.
As many Ukrainians are wont to do, Mr. Hlibovytsky refers to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, under which a newly independent Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal in exchange for assurances from world powers, including Russia, that the “inviolability” of its borders would be respected.
Translations: