yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
presumably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From presume + -ably, presumable + -ly.
Base: presume
Affixes: -ably
Inflected forms:
form: more presumably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most presumably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: præsumably
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Able to be sensibly presumed.
pos: adv
examples: Presumably, he will attend the opening.
Capello made a change on the hour which was presumably enforced by injury as the excellent Young was replaced by Stewart Downing.
Yet this is the level of [neural] organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness.
Translations:
sympathising
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more sympathising
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sympathising
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: sympathetic
pos: adj
Translations:
sympathizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sympathizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who sympathizes; the offering of sympathy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
goller
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gollers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gollering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gollered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gollered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To gurgle.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: If all this were studied and practised, there would be fewer Preachers, and shorter Preachings, and fewer and shorter Prayers amongst Professors; they would not sleep and wake People, gasping and gollering, and few understanding what they are saying, […]
Translations:
framer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English frame
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 framer
From frame + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: framers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes frames for paintings.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who assembles the frame of a ship.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who assembles the timbers of a wood-framed building.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A person who writes a new law.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who writes a new law.
pos: noun
tags: US
capitalized
historical
plural-normally
sometimes
examples: the Framers of the Constitution
In a real sense, US democracy has died this month. It doesn’t mean it’s dead for the long term but at this moment the idea of an accountable representative system, as the framers of the constitution wrote it, is no longer present.
gloss: A person who frames another, attempting to have them convicted of a crime they did not commit.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: The Los Angeles Times is also policing Web sites that frame its site without permission. As of November 1997, the Times had threatened to send cease and desist letters to unlicensed framers.
Translations:
lang: Italian
word: corniciaio
lang: Polish
word: ramiarz
lang: Swedish
word: rammakare
lang: Turkish
word: çerçeveci
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: چرچوهجی
roman: çerçeveci
lang: German
word: Gesetzgeber
lang: German
word: Gesetzgeberin
lang: German
word: Gesetzschreiber
lang: Swedish
word: lagstiftare
freakout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From freak + out, as a deverbal from freak out.
Base: freak
Inflected forms:
form: freakouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: freak-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A frightening or disorientating experience, especially one that results from the use of a hallucinogenic drug.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An occurrence of unrestrained or irrational behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
freebase
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From free + base.
Compound parts: free
base
Inflected forms:
form: freebases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: free base
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: freebases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freebasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freebased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freebased
pos: verb
tags: past
form: free base
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The purified, dry form of an amine, especially an alkaloid natural product, that is normally used in solution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The freebase is heated in a retort, foil, or other container and the vapor is inhaled as the freebase vaporizes.
On June 9, 1980, national attention was brought to cocaine freebasing when comedian Richard Pryor suffered third degree burns allegedly while using a butane torch to heat cocaine freebase he had prepared with ether.
2007, Jared Ledgard, A Laboratory History of Narcotics, Volume 1: Amphetamines and Derivatives, page 108,
Note: this freebase methedrine will actually be a mixture of the DL and L-forms, from which the L-form is the most common used in the preparation of methamphetamine.
gloss: The purified, dry form of certain illegal drugs, especially cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
specifically
uncountable
examples: That day, I gave a class on making and using freebase. This was one thing that was to be done perfectly, or you could end up with glass and freebase all over you.
gloss: To purify a drug by crystallization.
pos: verb
gloss: To use a purified drug, especially cocaine, by heating it and inhaling the fumes produced.
pos: verb
examples: Richard, one of my friends in L.A., claimed to have invented freebasing— smoking cocaine in its base form—though it's likely that what he meant was that he introduced a whole bunch of people to the process.
With his nostrils ravaged, Crosby turned to drinking Cocaine mixed in glasses of wine, then took to smoking it by the novel technique of freebasing, where the drug is distilled down to its purest form through a process of filtration using ammonia and ether.
Roger Ebert pretty much agrees with Siskel's dismissive attitude toward the film, saying he only watched it because it was about freebasing cocaine and he wanted to see that, since he had heard so much about it.
Related words: crack cocaine
based
Derived words: basehead
freebaser
Translations:
freeborn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From free + born.
Compound parts: free
born
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Born free rather than in bondage or as a slave
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot.
Translations:
free-form
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: free + form
Inflected forms:
form: more free-form
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most free-form
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: freeform
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: free form
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: free-forms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: freeform
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: free form
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having an unconventional, variable or asymmetric form.
pos: adj
examples: This annual March gathering of the digital elite, held at a resort near Tucson, is a combination of a three-day free-form think tank and schmooze-athon where the latest trends are dissected and, in the corridors or on the golf course, deals are hatched.
gloss: Referring to a roleplaying game which does not use a formal system of rules.
pos: adj
gloss: A free-form shape or artwork.
pos: noun
examples: The background shapes are also called 'negative' shapes and are found between the positive shapes – in this case, the rectangles, triangles, circles and freeforms.
Translations:
lochia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lochia, from Ancient Greek λοχεία (lokheía), neuter plural of λοχείος (lokheíos, “of childbirth”), from λόχος (lókhos, “childbirth”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Normal post-partum vaginal discharge; blood, mucus, and placental tissue that are discharged from a female's vagina (similar to menstruation) for several weeks after she has given birth.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: In April 1819, I attended a young married lady in her first pregnancy, in whose case the lochia began to diminish on the seventh day after parturition, [...]
Variations in the quantity, quality, or odour of the lochia not unnaturally excite great alarm in the mind of the patient, who regards any deviation in this secretion as a proof of serious disease. Yet very remarkable differences do occur, without any morbid affection of the uterus or vagina.
In three or four days the distinctly bloody character of the lochia is altered. They have a reddish watery appearance, and are known as the lochia rubra or cruenta [...]
1921, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, published by the American Gynecological Society
On the fifth day the coryza, cough and rash were all improved, but the patient was irrational; the lochia were thin, watery and odorless; …
1924: The Canadian nurse, published by the Canadian Nurses' Association
Check lochia and change sterile pad. If the patient's pulse is under 90, the fundus is firm and the lochia is normal, the patient may be left at the end ...
1927, The Indian Veterinary Journal, published by the Indian Veterinary Association
In one Magra ewe which gave birth to twins, lochia continued for 8 days …
1946: Nicholson Joseph Eastman and Emil Novak, Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey
By the fifth day, however, the lochia was normal in most of the patients and in only 4 patients was it heavy.
For the first three or four days after delivery the lochia are red; [...] three different types of lochia are distinguished: ‘lochia rubra’ or ‘red lochia’, ‘lochia serosa’ ‘serous lochia’, which appears five to six days after delivery, and ‘lochia alba’ meaning ‘white lochia’, the final lochial discharge [...]
Translations:
curiosa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late 19th century: from Latin, neuter plural of curiosus (see curious).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Curiosities, especially erotic or pornographic books or articles.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
dosing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dosings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The administration of a dose
pos: noun
Translations:
delicata
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: So named because of its delicate skin that does not need to be peeled before cooking and can be eaten.
Inflected forms:
form: delicatas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An heirloom variety of winter squash, oblong in shape and having a cream-colored skin with green stripes
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: But once you've tasted the sweet flesh of a delicata or slipped the strands of a spaghetti squash out of its shell, you'll never again regard winter squash as merely an agricultural art piece.
You will need one medium butternut or two or three delicatas.
The best winter squashes (delicata, for example) have edible skins and are amazing just chunked and roasted with a little oil[…].
Translations:
hegemonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hegemony
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English hegemonic
From hegemony + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more hegemonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hegemonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to hegemony.
pos: adj
examples: “It may be that people’s attitudes, especially about masculinity, were shaped by Trump becoming president,” Feinberg said via email. “Many people held their nose and voted for him in 2016, choosing to vote for their preferred party in spite of Trump’s behavior and his representation of hegemonic masculinity.
A more than 13,000-word policy document released by Beijing in September outlines China’s vision for global governance and identifies what it sees as the source of current global challenges: “Some countries’ hegemonic, abusive, and aggressive actions against others … are causing great harm” and putting global security and development at risk, it reads.
Translations:
saddening
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more saddening
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most saddening
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: saddenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Causing feelings of sadness.
pos: adj
gloss: The darkening of a colour during dyeing.
pos: noun
Translations:
end-of-life
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
commerce
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: end of life
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: end-of-lifes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: end-of-lifing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: end-of-lifed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: end-of-lifed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: end of life
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The termination of the sale of or support for goods and services.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
uncountable
examples: That operating system version is approaching end-of-life.
gloss: The time near death; (attributively) concerning medical care options for patients who are considered critically ill with prognosis of approaching death.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
uncountable
examples: end-of-life palliative care
This is but one example of the hard decisions that must be made near end of life.
Hospice provides end-of-life care for a period usually lasting a few days or a few weeks; occasionally patients recover unexpectedly.
gloss: To terminate the sale of or support for (a product or service).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: system pull
Translations:
hard-pressed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hard-pressed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hard-pressed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hard pressed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hardpressed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Barely able; having difficulty doing something.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
usually
examples: Although they are still available, I think we would be hard-pressed to find one on short notice.
From the 'fifties onwards the development of the South Wales & Monmouthshire coalfield went on at terrific speed, and railway construction was hard pressed to keep pace with it.
These units will replace the 2,800 h.p. motor coaches on the fast and heavy Zurich-Berne-Lausanne-Geneva push-and-pull expresses, which in their turn have been relieving the hard-pressed 2,520 h.p. Bo-Bo locomotives of the Re 4/4 type.
gloss: Experiencing financial difficulty or difficulty in surviving.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: The earthquake left the residents hard-pressed.
Speaking to Parliament on March 23, Sunak announced a temporary cut in fuel duty of 5p per litre to hard-pressed motorists who have faced spiralling prices for diesel and petrol in recent weeks.
Translations:
wastebasket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From waste + basket.
Compound parts: waste
basket
Inflected forms:
form: wastebaskets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wastebaskets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wastebasketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wastebasketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wastebasketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A usually small indoor receptacle for items that are to be discarded; a rubbish bin.
pos: noun
gloss: Any region or grouping that is worthless or meaningless.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: The order Insectivora provides such a taxonomic wastebasket in classifications of the placental mammals.
For these reasons, the study of idioms, proverbs, stock metaphors, and other conversational gambits has been mostly discouraged, and at best relegated to research in pragmatics, or the “linguistic wastebasket” […]
gloss: To discard in a wastebasket.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I was aweary, aweary, and I put it in the waste basket. Ten days later the bill came again, and with it a shadowy threat. I waste-basketed it.
Derived words: wastebasket taxon
Translations:
bobblehead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bobble + head. Sense 3 derives from a common gesture found in South Asian cultures, most notably in India.
Compound parts: bobble
head
Inflected forms:
form: bobbleheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bobble head
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A collectible doll with a bobbing head.
pos: noun
gloss: A thoughtless person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
examples: Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.
Will Trump and his G.O.P. bobbleheads ever wake up to that? Maybe — when it’s too late.
gloss: An Indian.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
ethnic
offensive
slang
slur
uncommon
Derived words: bobble-head doll syndrome
bobbleheaded
Translations:
gloriosa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the genus name.
Inflected forms:
form: gloriosas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the lilies of the genus Gloriosa.
pos: noun
Translations:
freehand
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From free + hand.
Compound parts: free
hand
Inflected forms:
form: freehands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freehanding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freehanded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freehanded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Drawn using the hand without any helping device.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Using the hand without any helping device.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The grafts were cut freehand with a large knife, which made it difficult to standardize the thickness, in spite of instruments created especially for the purpose.
gloss: Without using the hands; hands-free.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To conduct a procedure involving use of the hands without any helping device or guide.
pos: verb
Translations:
freeholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English free holder, freholdere, equivalent to freehold + -er. Compare Old Northern French fraunc tenaunt.
Base: freehold
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: freeholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who holds tenure by freehold
pos: noun
Translations:
free-living
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of an organism: living independently of other organisms rather than as part of a symbiotic or parasitic relationship, either as a life stage (for example, in some parasites) or for the organism's entire lifespan.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see free, living.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
freeload
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from freeloader.
Inflected forms:
form: freeloads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freeloading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freeloaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freeloaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To exploit the generosity of others without giving anything in return.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
intransitive
Translations:
freewill
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Voluntary, done of one's own accord.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Either a bullocke, or a lambe that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a free will offring
Translations:
freezable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English freeze
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English freezable
From freeze + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more freezable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most freezable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: freezables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being frozen; especially capable of use after subsequent thawing.
pos: adj
gloss: Any food item that can be frozen.
pos: noun
Translations:
freeze-dried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has been subjected to the freeze-drying process.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
freeze-dry
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: freeze-dries
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freeze-drying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freeze-dried
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freeze-dried
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove volatile liquid from (a substance) by sublimation, normally under vacuum, from the frozen state.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
frequenter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English frequent
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 frequenter
From frequent + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: frequenters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who frequents; a regular visitor.
pos: noun
examples: a frequenter of nightclubs
In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
Translations:
freshener
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English freshen
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 freshener
From freshen + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: fresheners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that freshens
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-compounds
often
uncountable
gloss: air freshener
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I sprayed freshener around the bathroom.
Translations:
fritz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. See on the fritz, which appeared in 1902. Possibly from German name Fritz, or onomatopoeia.
Inflected forms:
form: fritzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fritzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fritzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fritzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The state of being defective.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-US
informal
uncountable
gloss: A type of processed meat sausage; devon
pos: noun
tags: Australia
South
uncountable
examples: Generally, cooked deli products include Devon, Strasbourg sausage, Polish sausage, fritz, cabanossi or cabana, mortadella, and well-cooked roast beef (brown/grey in colour).
gloss: To go wrong or become defective.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: One clip, of Talking Heads playing “Born Under Punches” in Rome in 1980, is shot largely at groin level, amid sound equipment that is being manipulated for feedback squeals and other effects; it’s like being close to the crooked spine and fritzed nervous system of a body that’s simultaneously pushing its sex appeal.
My brain was fritzing like an elderly TV set about to die. I hit the side of my head with the heel of my hand. Percussive maintenance. It didn't work.
Translations:
frolicsome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From frolic + -some.
Base: frolic
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more frolicsome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frolicsome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: frolicksome
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characterised or marked by frolicking; playful.
pos: adj
examples: A rollicksome frolicsome rare old cock / As ever did nothing was our dog Jock; / A gleesome fleasome affectionate beast, / As slow at a fight, as swift at a feast […]
To some, the very word "playsuit", with its frolicsome associations, will induce the conviction that this is not an item of clothing to be seen alive in.
Translations:
frontage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English front
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English frontage
From front + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: frontages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The front part of a property or building that faces the street.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Put your little reception-room here beside the door, and get the whole width of your house frontage for a square hall, and an easy low-tread staircase running up the sides of it.
Hotel Corones, which has risen phoenix-like on the site of the old Norman Hotel, has a frontage of 210 feet[.]
BishopsCourt appeared sometimes to want to rival the Canon's house. It looked a house-boat despite its guard of whitewashed stones and luxuriant flowers, its wooden fretwork frontage almost wholly immersed in bougainvillaea.
gloss: The land between a property and the street.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The length of a property along a street.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Property or territory adjacent to a body of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And here he brought up the entire subject of geopolitics in the Baltic, a sea which Germany in wartime must control to be able to assure herself of shipments of Swedish iron ore needed for her war factories, a sea on which Soviet Russia has a frontage of only 75 miles […]
It is important to keep municipally owned land, especially lake frontage, in the hands of the municipality.
gloss: The front part generally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] to the eyes of his mother and his aunt, who occupied wicker chairs at a little distance, he was almost indistinguishable except for the stiff white shield of his evening frontage.
War looks but to the frontage, the appearance.
gloss: A woman's breasts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: "Bes dear," said Throttler, patting her breasts. "Do you think I should get one of those boob-jobs?"
Bes looked at his hands, at her frontage, at his hands. "They say that more than a handful is a waste."
I'd go running in, pretend-breathless, nuzzle her neck, reach around to cup her frontage.
gloss: a front: a public and perhaps false face or façade to some hidden, covert reality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Promises and oaths were nothing but a rather awkwardly construed frontage with which to cover up, and win time for, an even more inept intrigue contrived towards the breaking of all promises and all oaths.
Synonyms: breasts
Derived words: frontager
frontage road
waterfrontage
Translations:
fruited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHg-
Proto-Italic *frūgjōr
Latin fruor
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin frūctus
Old French fruitbor.
Middle English fruyt
English fruit
English -ed
English fruited
From fruit + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more fruited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fruited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing fruit; bearing fruit.
pos: adj
examples: O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber wafes of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
Jim, importuned, had come with his axe and at her wish had felled it with the fruited but unripe mistletoe.
Sea Bass With Fruited Tomatillo Salsa
Kikuchi (1946) classified Pyrus species into three groups, small fruited species with two carpels, large fruited species with five carpels, and their hybrids with 3-4 carpels.
gloss: Containing fruit; bearing fruit.
pos: adj
examples: […] the first gules, a chevron or, between three heads erased; the second vert, an oak tree, fruited or[…]
[…]; Or, an olive tree eradicated proper, by the name of Montolivet; Or, on a mound a pear tree fruited proper, by the name of Pyrton; Sable, an apple tree or, fruited gules, by the name of Verse, in Flanders.
A white horse holding in his mouth a sprig of oak. 2. The same galloping before an oak-tree fruited or (Fig. 178).
Azure , on a mount an apple tree fruited proper, are the armes parlantes of the Dutch APPELBOOMS, and of the Barons APFALTRER.
Gold a pear tree fruited gules
Derived words: leafy-fruited nightshade
unfruited
Translations:
fuddle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Dutch vod (“soft”), German dialect fuddeln (“to swindle”).
Inflected forms:
form: fuddles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fuddling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fuddled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fuddled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fuddles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To confuse or befuddle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She's fuddled my fancy, she's muddled me good / I've taken to drinking, and given up food
gloss: To intoxicate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If an author fuddles himself, I don’t know why he should be let off a headache the next morning […]
There was a kind of festival going on, and the people fuddled themselves with caxirí, an intoxicating drink invented by the Indians. It is made by soaking mandioca cakes in water until fermentation takes place, and tastes like new beer.
gloss: To become intoxicated; to get drunk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Pipes I blew, on malt I fuddled, / A lushy man! / Till my mind and head got muddled, / Dissipated man!
gloss: Intoxication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Intoxicating drink; liquor.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Muddle, confusion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A party or picnic where attendees bring food and wine; a kind of potluck.
pos: noun
tags: Derbyshire
UK
countable
dialectal
uncountable
examples: Yesterday we were invited to a fuddle. This is a new word & was a new experience for us. Very pleasant it was too.
When I was I work I loved the time when we had a fuddle. Everybody decided what they were going to bring so we had an even balance of grub. We had sandwiches or cobs of ham, cheese and pate, crisps, sausage rolls, pickled onions cocktail sausages, vol au vonts, swiss roll, and mince pies. We weren’t allowed booze on the premises but we made do with alcohol free drink. We were as stuffed as pigs and had a job to work for the rest of the day.
My husband has to take some food into his work for a Christmas fuddle.¶ I suggested he make Christmas pudding cupcakes, but he wasn't impressed.¶ What would you make and take?
Translations:
full-blooded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: fullblooded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of purebred ancestry.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Blood quantum rules — which began as a colonizer practice designed to limit tribal citizenship but were later adopted by some Native peoples as a means of preserving cultural identity — require the tribe’s members to be at least one-eighth S’Klallam and to have at least one full-blooded S’Klallam ancestor.
gloss: Having a florid or ruddy complexion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Hearty or lusty.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And when it was quickly returned to Jarvis, with United failing to mark properly, his clean cross was met with a full-blooded header by former Colchester defender Elokobi, who had to stretch his neck back to add power.
Synonyms: pedigree
pedigreed
purebred
pure-breed
thoroughbred
Derived words: full-bloodedness
Translations:
full-grown
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English *fulgrowen, fulgrowe, ful growe, equivalent to full + grown. Compare Middle English fulwaxen, fullwaxen (“full-grown”), from Old English fullweaxen (“full-grown”).
Compound parts: full
grown
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fully developed; adult.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Fully developed in a broader sense; complete, at one’s height.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: full-fledged, full-blown, full-bore, full-on
[…] And, doubtless, unto thee is given
⁠A life that bears immortal fruit
⁠In such great offices as suit
The full-grown energies of heaven.
Synonyms: adult
big
developed
full-grown
grown
grown-ass
grown up
grownup
mature
Antonyms: immature
juvenile
ungrown
Derived words: full-grownness
Translations:
indigena
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: indigenae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native, local, indigenous inhabitant, aboriginal.
pos: noun
Translations:
indigene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French indigène, from Latin indigena.
Inflected forms:
form: indigenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An indigenous person; a native.
pos: noun
examples: While Manuel sat skinning his birds of an afternoon, generally surrounded by a little crowd of Malays and Sassaks (as the indigenes of Lombock are termed), he often held forth to them with the air of a teacher, and was listened to with profound attention.
The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him.
Translations:
full-length
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: art
arts
business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From full + length.
Compound parts: full
length
Inflected forms:
form: full-lengths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not shortened; complete and uncut.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: All tracks in both the running shed and repair shop are provided with full-length inspection pits.
gloss: Covering the full height of the body.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a painting, sculpture or a photograph, representing the full height of the body.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: At full stretch, requiring the whole body.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The goalkeeper made a full-length save to deny the United attacker.
gloss: A full-length portrait.
pos: noun
examples: Below was a full-length of James II., at whose feet was a sort of throne, on which the duchess was placed.
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kokovartalo-
lang: French
word: en pied
lang: Irish
word: lánfhada
lang: Polish
word: pokazujący całe ciało
full-size
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Inflected forms:
form: fullsize
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Being the normal or standard size for its type.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: (of a representational artwork or model) Being the same size as the original.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As well as demonstrating operating facilities, full-size car body models are used for experimenting with new types of interior finish, systems of lighting, positioning of route diagrams and advertisements, and the best form of windscreens at doorways, and the height and location of handgrips and handrails.
gloss: (of an automobile) Large; specifically, designed to be comfortable for long-distance driving with six occupants and their luggage.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
gloss: The size of a full bed.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
Translations:
furbish
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Frankish *furbēnbor.
Old French forbirbor.
Middle English furbisshen
English furbish
From Middle English furbisshen, from Old French forbir (stem furbiss-, “to clean, polish”), from Frankish *furbēn (“to clean, polish”).
Inflected forms:
form: furbishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: furbishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: furbished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: furbished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To polish or burnish.
pos: verb
gloss: To renovate or recondition; to refurbish.
pos: verb
examples: I do not indeed suppose that anyone can at this time of day effect that which the sense of all good men failed to effect while he lived--I mean the final killing of those rumours; nor is a plain tale likely to persuade those, with whom idle reports, constantly furbished up, of letters seen in France, weigh more than a consistent life.
Synonyms: repair
Derived words: furbisher
furbish up
refurbish
Translations:
furred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more furred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most furred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having fur.
pos: adj
gloss: Made with fur.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a covering of thin, soft, short hair.
pos: adj
examples: She had a lot of dark hair pinned untidily back from a small well-formed brow, and her tilted nose and large embarrassed eyes had survived intact from the mistrusts and agitations of a schoolgirl, which maturity had striven to defeat by lengthening her chin and tightening her lips, while giving her skin the faintly furred matt surface of pickled virginity.
gloss: Coated as if with fur
pos: adj
gloss: Coated as if with fur
pos: adj
Derived words: brush-furred mouse
long-furred
unfurred
Translations:
furring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
Inflected forms:
form: furrings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Parts of clothing made from fur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A coating that resembles fur.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a furring of the tongue
gloss: A strip of material used to prepare a wall for plastering, or to provide an air space.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Double planking of a ship's side.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
fusee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French fusil, ultimately from Late Latin focus (“fire”).
Inflected forms:
form: fusees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fuzee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of fusil, a light musket or firelock.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He had not been many days at the chateau, when he perceived, with surprize and consternation, that his steps were continually watched by two servants armed with fusees.
Breakfast being over, my father took me into his study, where, after fervently recommending me to the care of a protecting providence, he gave me a beautiful fusee, which cost him forty guineas, a pair of pistols of exquisite workmanship, and a purse containing fifty guineas in cash and a twenty-five pounds banknote.
After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
gloss: Synonym of fusilier, a soldier armed with a musket or firelock.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Translations:
fusilier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French fusilier, from fusil.
Inflected forms:
form: fusiliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fusileer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An infantryman armed with a form of flintlock musket.
pos: noun
gloss: A soldier in any of several regiments that once fought with such weapons.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A fish in family Caesionidae, related to snappers.
pos: noun
Related words: fusil
Derived words: McAlpine's Fusiliers
yellowback fusilier
Translations:
futurology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From future + -ology. Attested once in 1934 as the title of play, Futureology; in later use, after German Futurologie, suggested in a 1942 letter to the American scholar John H. Herz by the German political scientist Ossip K. Flechtheim, who used futurology in a 1943 Phylon article.
Base: future
Affixes: -ology
Inflected forms:
form: futurologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The scientific forecasting of future trends in science, technology or society
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
futurologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English futurology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English futurologist
From futurology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: futurologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who practices futurology.
pos: noun
examples: Although I do not pretend to be a futurologist, I would be embarrassed if my view of the trends and causes of social life in the United States had become invalid in such a short interval. (It is easy to be a success as a futurologist as long as your predictions are about what's going to happen fifty years ahead. No one can prove you wrong until fifty years go by. […])
Translations:
futz
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From German herumfurzen (literally “to fart around”) (herum- + furzen), perhaps via Yiddish אַרומפֿאַרצן (arumfartsn); alternatively, a euphemism for fuck.
Base: furzen
Affixes: herum-
Inflected forms:
form: futzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: futzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: futzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: futzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be frivolous and waste time.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-US
gloss: To experiment by trial and error.
pos: verb
Derived words: futz with
Translations:
integrative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English integrate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English integrative
From integrate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more integrative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most integrative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending toward or promoting integration.
pos: adj
examples: an integrative approach
Objective 1: Conduct integrative taxonomic research on adult and immature moths that incorporate morphological and molecular data to describe species and inform their phylogeny and classification.
Translations:
intermedia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + media; a concept employed in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins.
Base: media
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: interdisciplinary activities between media, such as those between drawing and poetry, or between painting and theatre
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
malate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English malic
English -ate
English malate
From malic + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: malates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt or ester of malic acid.
pos: noun
Translations:
mah
Part of speech: particle
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Cantonese 嘛 (maa³).
Inflected forms:
form: ma
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Asserts that there is a straightforward or self-evident reason for something.
pos: particle
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: — The plants are all dying already.
— No one here to water them mah...
[…] Alternatively train SBS bus drivers to become pilots also since they are already bus captains. Anyone can become a pilot mah. Its so easy. Everybody should give it try-but not with me on board.
Especially today—we holiday, mah, so don’t bring them to town until tomorrow.
In response, I ask if he thinks that his future child would be embarrassed about the online reputation that he has built for himself after all these years. “Why? All of this is just acting mah, I got nothing to be ashamed about.”
If I’m running around for errands, I want to look cute also mah. I used to wear shorts, but now I’d rather not. It’ll look like I’ve got thousands of cat scratches.
Translations:
nudi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of nudibranch, possibly with influence of the diminutive suffixes -y and -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: nudis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nudibranch.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Daco & Miquel looking for nudis. Finding nudibranchs is no easy task, they are masters of camouflage.
[…] there is less enthusiasm for "nudis" sold in the seawater aquarium market.
Translations:
nightstand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From night (“the conventional time for a person to be in bed”) + stand (“an object which supports things”).
Compound parts: night
stand
Inflected forms:
form: nightstands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night stand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: night-stand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small table or cabinet, often with one or more drawers or shelves, placed beside the head of a bed.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: He always kept a full glass of water on the nightstand.
Translations:
meanly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English meneli, meneliche, equivalent to mean + -ly.
Base: mean
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: meanlier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more meanly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: meanliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most meanly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Humbly, of or from low social status; basely.
pos: adv
examples: Iphicrates and Marius were meanly born.
gloss: Poorly or inadequately.
pos: adv
gloss: In a mean manner; ill-willed, nastily.
pos: adv
examples: He meanly refused to ever make a charitable donation.
Translations:
reflectively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reflective
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English reflectively
From reflective + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more reflectively
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most reflectively
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a reflective manner; meditatively.
pos: adv
examples: "I should say yes," agreed George. "And talk about speed!" he added. "Wow! One ball he threw soaked me in the ear. I can feel it yet!" and he rubbed the side of his head reflectively.
"Spuds - Jim - Jimmy?" he ran his fingers reflectively through his hair, and frowned. "Bowles," he added triumphantly.
Blake picked his teeth reflectively with the point of a clasp knife.
gloss: By means of reflection.
pos: adv
examples: In JIT compilation, the running program is reflectively modified by an embedded compiler, which only uses two reflective operations […]
Translations:
daphne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From translingual Daphne, from Ancient Greek δάφνη (dáphnē, “laurel”).
Inflected forms:
form: daphnes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.
pos: noun
Translations: