yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
limited
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Inflected forms:
form: more limited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most limited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: limiteds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: With certain (often specified) limits placed upon it.
pos: adj
gloss: Restricted, small, few, not plentiful.
pos: adj
examples: There are limited places available. Enrol now or you will miss out.
I have a limited understanding of quantum physics.
Secondly, I continue to base my concepts on intensive study of a limited suite of collections, rather than superficial study of every packet that comes to hand.
gloss: An express train that only halts at a limited number of stops.
pos: noun
examples: Twentieth Century Limited
Synonyms: finite
Antonyms: boundless
endless
infinite
unlimited
Related words: Ltd.
Derived words: bandlimited
feature-limited
illimited
limited-access highway
limited atonement
limited company
limited democracy
limited edition
limited hangout
limited-liability
limited liability
limited liability company
limitedly
limited monarchy
limitedness
limited overs cricket
limited partnership
limited-slip differential
limited-stop
nonlimited
overlimited
private limited liability company
public limited company
public limited liability company
self-limited
semilimited
sex-limited
third person limited
time-limited
Translations:
slacker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From slack + -er; compare especially slack off.
Base: slack
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: slackers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who procrastinates or is lazy; one who does not do their fair share or pull their own weight.
pos: noun
examples: Some evil fellows said behind his back that Beowulf was white-livered and a slacker.
gloss: A person lacking a sense of direction in life; an underachiever.
pos: noun
examples: You're a slacker, McFly. You've got aptitude, but you don't apply yourself. You remind me of your father: He was a slacker, too.
“I don’t think this is a generation of slackers,” said Carl Van Horn, a labor economist at Rutgers. “This image of the kid who goes off and skis in Colorado, I don’t think that’s the correct image. Today’s young people are very focused on trying to work hard and to get ahead.”
gloss: A member of a certain 1990s subculture associated with Generation X.
pos: noun
examples: Kevin Smith wrote and directed the slacker hits “Clerks,” “Dogma” and “Chasing Amy,” but lately it is his other life—maintaining six Web sites that he describes as “devoted to my fans and my films”—that seems to consume him.
Gen Xers were said to be lazy—“slackers” in the parlance of the time—who didn’t exhibit the straightforward work ethic of their predecessors.
gloss: A person who seeks to avoid military service.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
examples: [S]everal hundred prisoners captured in North Jersey slacker raids last week and sent to this camp are being Inducted into military service today[…]
Senator Burton K. Wheeler opened his fight in the Senate today[…], raising the cry of "slackers" against deferred workers in Government establishments and industry.
gloss: A user of the Slackware Linux distribution.
pos: noun
tags: rare
slang
examples: I'm a slacker from way back btw
Hope you become a happy slacker.
Any real Slacker would know better than to top-post, AND post a bunch of HTML-crap to boot. You're not worthy.
Derived words: cyberslacker
slackcom
slackerdom
slackerish
slackerism
slackerly
slackery
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: мързеливец
roman: mǎrzelivec
lang: Catalan
word: gandul
lang: Dutch
word: luiaard
lang: Finnish
word: velttoilija
lang: Finnish
word: laiskimus
lang: French
word: paresseux
lang: French
word: feignasse
lang: French
word: tire-au-flanc
lang: French
word: glandeur
lang: German
word: Faulpelz
lang: Hebrew
word: בַּטְלָן
roman: batlán
lang: Hindi
word: कामचोर
roman: kāmcor
lang: Hungarian
word: lógós
lang: Ingrian
word: vetelys
lang: Macedonian
word: клошар
roman: klošar
lang: Māori
word: inukorokoro
lang: Māori
word: karioi
lang: Māori
word: kaikora
lang: Polish
word: leń
lang: Portuguese
word: folgado
lang: Portuguese
word: preguiçoso
lang: Romanian
word: leneș
lang: Russian
word: безде́льник
roman: bezdélʹnik
lang: Russian
word: лентя́й
roman: lentjáj
lang: Russian
word: ло́дырь
roman: lódyrʹ
lang: Spanish
word: perezoso
lang: Spanish
word: holgazán
lang: Spanish
word: vago
lang: Spanish
word: huevón
lang: Spanish
word: haragán
lang: Swedish
word: latmask
lang: Swedish
word: slöfock
explosive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin explōs-, stem of the perfect passive participle of explōdō + the suffix -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more explosive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most explosive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: explosives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to, or likely to, explode.
pos: adj
examples: an explosive device
gloss: Having the character of an explosion.
pos: adj
examples: an explosive fire
gloss: Having the character of an explosion.
pos: adj
examples: Notes: A rule set that (very probably) results in explosive growth; certainly in area if not population.
For example, putting a 1 at (0: 1,1) will cause explosive growth in all directions, putting a 1 at (0: 0,2A) will cause pairs of diagonal cells in a 2x2 square to alternate on and off, putting a 1 at (1: 4,4) will cause all solid 1 areas to stay 1 for another cycle, etc.
If the rule is further chosen so that active cells can (and must) expand on an inactive background but inactive cells can't do so on an active background (or vice versa), then non-explosive growth becomes possible.
gloss: Rapidly accelerating.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Near-synonym: plyometric
explosive movements
gloss: Shocking; startling.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: an explosive accusation
gloss: Easily driven to anger, usually with reference to a person.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: He has an explosive personality.
gloss: Synonym of plosive.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: the explosive consonants
gloss: Any explosive substance.
pos: noun
gloss: A plosive.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: The words of these songs were either without meaning, or derived from an idiom with which Watt, a very fair linguist, had no acquaintance. The open a sound was predominant, and the explosives k and g.
Related words: explode
Derived words: autoexplosive
cryptoexplosive
electroexplosive
explosive belt
explosive bolt
explosive cyclogenesis
explosive decompression
explosive gelatin
explosive lens
explosively
explosiveness
explosive sadism
improvised explosive device
inexplosive
intermittent explosive disorder
microexplosive
nonexplosive
superexplosive
superexplosively
unexplosive
contact explosive
Favier explosive
high explosive
low explosive
plastic explosive
primary explosive
secondary explosive
sila-explosive
Sprengel explosive
tertiary explosive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: взри́вен
roman: vzríven
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 爆炸的
roman: bàozhà de
lang: Czech
word: výbušný
lang: Danish
word: eksplosiv
lang: Danish
word: eksplosionsagtig
lang: Finnish
word: räjähdysmäinen
lang: Galician
word: explosivo
lang: Greek
word: εκρηκτικός
roman: ekriktikós
lang: Portuguese
word: explosivo
lang: Russian
word: взрывно́й
roman: vzryvnój
lang: Spanish
word: explosivo
lang: Swedish
word: explosiv
lang: Swedish
word: explosionsartad
lang: Turkish
word: patlayıcı
lang: Welsh
word: ffrwydrol
mox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
video-games
Etymology: Clipping of moxie.
Inflected forms:
form: moxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moxen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Energy, vigor, courage, pluck.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: A gemstone with magical properties.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: WE MADE IT UP
 The word "mox" was derived from the English slang term "moxie." In case you didn't know, "moxie" has long been associated with energy and vigor. The origin of this word traces back to the early 1930s, when America's most popular soft drink was called Moxie.
Related words: mox nix
Translations:
carb-face
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A condition in which the face swells, attributed to water retention caused by carbohydrate intake.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
priapus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin, from Ancient Greek Πρίαπος (Príapos).
Inflected forms:
form: priapi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: priapuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An image of the god Priapus, often used as a scarecrow in ancient gardens.
pos: noun
gloss: A representation of a phallus.
pos: noun
examples: In the digging of the Ruins & foundations of London (after the great Conflagration) there were found severall little Priapusses of Copper about an inch long, w^ch the Romans did weare about their necks.
Translations:
priapism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin priapismus, from Priapus (“the god of procreation, the penis”) + -ism, from Ancient Greek πριαπισμός (priapismós).
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: priapisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A potentially painful or harmful medical condition in which the erect penis does not return to its flaccid state (despite the absence of both physical and psychological stimulation), often as a result of a spinal injury.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An instance of this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Phosphorus has long been considered a powerful stimulant. It acts upon the generative organism, it is recorded, in a manner to cause the most violent priapisms.
gloss: The obsessive focus on one's genitals or on the need for genital gratification.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: [M]any on the right have found themselves justifying our current president's priapism with the same arguments that liberals once used to excuse Clinton.
Related words: priapic
erectile dysfunction
permaboner
Derived words: priapismic
Translations:
silicate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English silicic acid
English -ate
English silicate
From silicic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Inflected forms:
form: silicates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any salt of silica or of one of the silicic acids; any mineral composed of silicates.
pos: noun
Translations:
equipartition
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *aikʷos
Latin aiquos
Latin aequus
Latin aequi-der.
English equi-
English partition
English equipartition
From equi- + partition.
Inflected forms:
form: equipartitions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: equipartitioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: equipartitioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: equipartitioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To divide into equal parts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
kibitzing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kibbitzing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to kibitz.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
enervate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ēnervātus, past participle of ēnervō (“to weaken”).
Inflected forms:
form: enervates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enervating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enervated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enervated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more enervate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enervate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After being laid off three times in a row, she felt too enervated to look for another job.
gloss: To weaken morally or mentally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To partially or completely remove a nerve.
pos: verb
tags: uncommon
gloss: Made feeble; weakened.
pos: adj
Antonyms: strengthen
revive
bolster
Related words: nerve
Derived words: enervator
Translations:
derision
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French derision, from Latin dērīsiōnem, accusative of dērīsiō, from dērīdēre ("to mock, to laugh at, to deride").
Inflected forms:
form: derisions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Act of treating with disdain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was just a touch of derision in the Don's voice and Hagen flushed.
One of the darlings of the early vegetarian movement (particularly in its even sadder form, the cutlet), it was on the menu at John Harvey Kellogg's Battle Creek Sanitarium [sic], and has since become the default Sunday option for vegetarians – and a default source of derision for everyone else.
gloss: Something to be derided; a laughing stock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Miss Briggs was not formally dismissed, but her place as companion was a sinecure and a derision […]
Synonyms: sport
Related words: deride
derider
ridicule
ridiculous
ridiculosity
Derived words: hold in derision
Translations:
undergird
Part of speech: verb
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-
English gird
English undergird
From under- + gird.
Inflected forms:
form: undergirds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: undergirding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: undergirded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: undergirded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: undergirt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: undergirt
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strengthen, secure, or reinforce by passing a rope, cable, or chain around the underside of an object.
pos: verb
gloss: To give fundamental support; provide with a sound or secure basis; provide supportive evidence for.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: For fiction, documentary, verse, and essay, she undergirds entertaining images and stories with profound themes of ecological responsibility and challenge to the suppression of human rights.
“I’m not being cynical about Tim Scott individually. I am maybe suggesting that the rhetoric of ‘can’t we all get along?’ – and those quotes you made about, you know, from my speech in 2004 about there’s a ‘United States of America’ – that has to be undergirded with an honest accounting of our past and our present,” Obama told Axelrod, his former senior adviser, adding that he hadn’t listened the South Carolina Republican’s 2024 campaign speeches.
gloss: To lend moral support to.
pos: verb
gloss: To secure below or underneath.
pos: verb
Synonyms: fortify
shore up
succour
Antonyms: undermine
Translations:
hitchhike
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hitch + hike.
Compound parts: hitch
hike
Inflected forms:
form: hitchhikes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hitchhiking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hitchhiked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hitchhiked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hitch-hike
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To try to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road, generally by either sticking out one's finger or thumb or holding a sign with one's stated destination.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She made a great many photographs, and hitchhiked her way back to Lanchow again, and thence to Peking.
Holly came from Miami, F-L-A / Hitchhiked her way across the U.S.A.
Tens of thousands of people had come to Washington the night before. They hitchhiked. They hopped on trains. They came in caravans of buses, through the night.
gloss: To try to get (a ride) in this manner.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: Pamela hitchhiked a ride to New York.
“I’m not goin’ to tell you what happened to me,” Asey said, “from the time I found her till I finally managed to hitchhike a ride to town. I want to forget that period of my life. […]”
gloss: To be carried along with something else.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
examples: In genetic hitchhiking, a gene is propagated because it occurs in conjunction with a favourable mutation.
In cultural hitchhiking, a cultural trait spreads with a technologically advanced population.
We are constantly being exposed to fungi, whether by picking up spores on our skin or eating food on which fungi are hitchhiking. Most of them won’t take up residence in our bodies.
Synonyms: hitch
hitch a ride
thumb a lift
thumb a ride
Translations:
iguana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.
Inflected forms:
form: iguanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
pos: noun
examples: The problem with keeping the green iguana as a pet is that they are often misfed. For example, some will feed them meat or meat-based foods […]
gloss: Any member of the genus Iguana.
pos: noun
gloss: In America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Marine iguanas line the shores of the islands, and are usually seen sprawled over lava rocks near the sea.
gloss: In Africa, any large member of the genus Varanus, especially the aquatic Nile monitor (see leguan).
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Any member of the genus Varanus (see goanna).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The last they had had, was an iguana one of the blacks had brought in; and though he felt disgusted at the idea of eating it, he made up into a kind of stew, and they both enjoyed it immensely.
Derived words: American iguana
black iguana
black spiny-tailed iguana
blue iguana
desert iguana
eastern casquehead iguana
Fiji banded iguana
Fiji crested iguana
green iguana
ground iguana
guana
helmeted iguana
iggie
iggy
iguaniform
iguanoid
iguanomorph
Jamaican iguana
land iguana
lesser antillean iguana
marine iguana
Mona island iguana
pink iguana
rhino iguana
rhinoceros iguana
ringed spinytail iguana
rock iguana
Tarapaca Pacific iguana
Translations:
zebu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Classical Tibetan མཛོ (mdzo)
Classical Tibetan པོ (po)
Classical Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po)
Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po)bor.?
French zébubor.
English zebu
Borrowed from French zébu, probably from Tibetan མཛོ་པོ (mdzo po, “male bull–yak hybrid”), whence also zobo.
Inflected forms:
form: zebus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A domesticated ox native to Asia and Africa, having a large fleshy hump on its back and a dewlap (Bos taurus indicus).
pos: noun
Translations:
idiosyncrasy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1604, in modern sense since 1665, from Ancient Greek ἰδιοσυγκρασία (idiosunkrasía, “one’s own temperament”), from ἴδιος (ídios, “one’s own”) + σύν (sún, “together”) + κρᾶσις (krâsis, “temperament”). By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -crasy.
Inflected forms:
form: idiosyncrasies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A behavior or way of thinking that is characteristic of a person or a group.
pos: noun
examples: This mode of death had been an idiosyncrasy with his family, for generations past; not often occurring, indeed, but, when it does occur, usually attacking individuals about the Judge’s time of life, and generally in the tension of some mental crisis, or, perhaps, in an access of wrath.
Every village has its idiosyncrasy, its constitution, often its own code of morality.
If he expresses himself such as he is, an idiosyncrasy affected but not annihilated by education, he may say that his books are his own.
She's flying in from Stockholm on Thursday. She apparently has certain sexual idiosyncrasies.
When we situate climax during intercourse as the bullseye, we gate off the idiosyncrasy and experimentation that are the wellspring of sexual pleasure.
The trouble with this question is that it removes the focus from the substance of whatever event or debate is being discussed, redirecting it to the speaker’s or writer’s personal perceptions or expectations about it — away from facts and toward idiosyncrasy.
gloss: A peculiar individual reaction to a generally innocuous substance or factor; a risk factor.
pos: noun
examples: […]I have no antipathy, or rather Idio-ſyncraſie, in dyet, humour, ayre, any thing; […].
There are, however, distinct differences between diatheses and idiosyncrasies; diatheses definitely tend to the development of disease, for example the scrofulous diathesis of our forebears favours the onset of tuberculosis; idiosyncrasies are abnormal reactions but do not necessarily dispose to disease.
gloss: A peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify.
pos: noun
examples: He mastered the idiosyncrasies of English spelling and speech.
Derived words: idiosyncratic
idiosyncratically
Translations:
caribou
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Canadian French caribou, from Mi'kmaq qalipu (“caribou”; compare qalipi, “to shovel snow”), from Proto-Algonquian *maka·lipowa (“caribou”, literally “it shovels snow”).
Inflected forms:
form: caribous
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caribou
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several North American subspecies Rangifer tarandus of the reindeer.
pos: noun
Translations:
disown
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English own
English disown
From dis- + own.
Inflected forms:
form: disowns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disowning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disowned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disowned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Lord Capulet and his wife threatened to disown their daughter Juliet if she didn’t go through with marrying Count Paris.
Here is a Proclamation for a Prince: that proclaims him in whoſe name it is emitted [James II of England], to be the greateſt Tyrant that ever lived in the world, and their Revolt who have diſowned him to be the juſteſt that ever was.
gloss: To repudiate any connection to; to renounce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He disowns me, and he scorns me / But when we're alone he tells me I'm his very own
gloss: To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.
pos: verb
tags: Unix
transitive
Derived words: disownable
disownee
disowner
disownment
undisowned
Translations:
populace
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French populace, from Italian popolaccio, from popolo + -accio (“pejorative suffix”), from Latin populus.
Base: popolo
Affixes: -accio
Inflected forms:
form: populaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The common people of a nation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The populace despised their ignorant leader.
Throughout the 1500s, the populace roiled over a constellation of grievances of which the forest emerged as a key focal point. The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.
gloss: The inhabitants of a country or one of its administrative divisions (such as a state, province, or county).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thomas Brassey (1805-70) should be equally famous, yet he is unknown to swathes of the greater populace. His plaque is at Chester.
Derived words: populicide
Translations:
contiguous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin contiguus (“touching”) + -ous, from contingere (“to touch”); see contingent, contact, contagion.
Base: -ous
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Connected; touching; abutting.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
sometimes
examples: It was in this haphazard way that Mr Carrados was fated to be drawn into the curious Shakespeare case—a gossipy letter from an American friend coupled with the Stratford-on-Avon outrage, and the contiguous circumstance that his secretary's sister happened to be in the council of the 'militants'.
gloss: Adjacent; neighboring.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 1730–1774, Oliver Goldsmith, Introductory to Switzerland
Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,
He sees his little lot the lot of all;
Sees no contiguous palace rear its head
To shame the meanness of his humble shed;
[…] the usual quietness of the day, with us, was broken in upon by the shout of success from the pursuing boats, followed by vehement respondings from the contiguous ship.
gloss: Connecting without a break.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the forty-eight contiguous states
Supposing three such houses to be contiguous to a central one, each separated from the latter by a straight wall.
Related words: contiguity
coterminous
Derived words: contiguosity
contiguous 48
contiguously
contiguousness
contiguous United States
discontiguous
incontiguous
multicontiguous
non-contiguous
noncontiguous
overcontiguous
pseudocontiguous
semicontiguous
subcontiguous
uncontiguous
Translations:
contagious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French contagieus, from Late Latin contagiosus, from contagio.
Inflected forms:
form: more contagious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contagious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Easily transmitted to others.
pos: adj
examples: Last year's flu strain was so contagious that everybody in town got sick!
gloss: Easily passed on to others.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: contagious enthusiasm; infectious laughter
Wearing jeans was a contagious fad at that time.
The taverns of our ancestors would ill bear contrasting with the clubs of to-day; but many a gay midnight was past in the former:—midnights, whose mirth has descended even to us; half the jests, whose gaiety is still contagious; half the epigrams, whose point is yet felt, were born of those brief and brilliant hours.
Cause love is contagious, when it's alright / Love is contagious, when it's alright / Love is alright
One such investigation described how kindness can be contagious.
gloss: Having a disease that can be transmitted to another person.
pos: adj
examples: They were highly contagious, spreading bacteria to other people.
gloss: Contiguous.
pos: adj
examples: In Agypt's land contaygious to the Nile / Old Pharao's daughter went to bathe in style,
Synonyms: catching
Antonyms: non-contagious
noncontagious
noninfectious
nontransmissible
Derived words: anticontagious
contagion
contagious abortion
contagious fire
contagiously
contagious magic
contagiousness
contagious shooting
uncontagious
Translations:
millinery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English milliner
English -y
English millinery
From milliner + -y (nominalizer).
Inflected forms:
form: millineries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Women's hats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The show is worth watching for Agnes van Rhijn’s withering propriety and Bertha Russell’s dresses and millinery alone.
gloss: A shop selling women's hats.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The business and work that a milliner engages in.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They used to tell one about a kid asking his grumpy old man when they were walking to the park, "What's the name of this flower, Papa?" And the old guy is peevish and he yells, "How should I know? Am I in the milinery business?"
Related words: haberdashery
Translations:
faucet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English faucet, fawcett, from Old French fausset, of uncertain origin:
* Possibly from Late Latin falsāre (“to falsify”) or from a diminutive of Latin faux, faucēs (“throat”).
* Alternatively, from Old Norse foss, fors (“waterfall”), thus, cognate with English force, foss.
Inflected forms:
form: faucets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exposed plumbing fitting; a tap or spigot; a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid from a reservoir.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Wallace beats his palm against the reluctant handle of the faucet until it gives way, and the water comes out too hard, too fast.
gloss: One or several systems that inject currency into the game's economy, thus controlling or preventing inflation
pos: noun
gloss: A tapered tube, designed to be forced into a matching hole in a barrel, with the outer end holding a plug cock for decanting liquid from the barrel.
pos: noun
examples: The pipe or faucet or rather fast set, so called, because it is set fast in.
Derived words: Bitcoin faucet
faucet aerator
faucetless
faucetlike
health faucet
Translations:
petulant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French, from Latin petulāns, akin to petō (“to ask for”).
Inflected forms:
form: more petulant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most petulant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Childishly irritable.
pos: adj
examples: Lack of sleep is causing Dave's recent petulant behavior.
But when your praying has troubled the silence long it may be that some god as he strolls in Pegāna’s glades may come on one of our lost prayers, that flutters like a butterfly tossed in storm when all its wings are broken; then if the gods be merciful they may ease our fears in Sidith, or else they may crush us, being petulant gods, and so we shall see trouble in Sidith no longer, with its pestilence and dearth and fears of war.
Former associates have described Musk as petty, cruel and petulant, particularly when frustrated or challenged.
Green Day’s petulant pop-punk album Dookie came out three years after that and moved another 10 million, as did a sweeping 1995 double album by Smashing Pumpkins.
gloss: Forward; pert; insolent; wanton.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Who hath not like cause to complain, and is not so troubled, that shall fall into the mouths of such men? for many are of so petulant a spleen
Derived words: petulantly
unpetulant
Translations:
fresher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a clipping of freshman + -er (Oxford -er).
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: freshers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A first-year student at a university.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A fresh graduate looking for his/her first job.
pos: noun
tags: India
Derived words: fresherdom
freshers' week
Translations:
amalgamate
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Medieval Latin amalgamātus, past participle of amalgamāre, amalgama.
Inflected forms:
form: amalgamates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: amalgamating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: amalgamated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: amalgamated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more amalgamate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most amalgamate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: amalgamates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To merge, to combine, to blend, to join.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: to amalgamate two races
to amalgamate one race with another
Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one.
At length, the two schemes were amalgamated to form the Manchester & Birmingham, which was to pass through the Potteries and join the Grand Junction at Chebsey, a few miles north of Stafford.
gloss: To make an alloy of a metal and mercury.
pos: verb
gloss: To combine (free groups) by identifying respective isomorphic subgroups.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Coalesced; united; combined.
pos: adj
gloss: The substance resulting from a process of amalgamation.
pos: noun
Related words: amalgam
amalgamation
Derived words: reamalgamate
unamalgamating
Translations:
relevant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots relevant meaning "legally pertinent," used in Scottish legal circles starting in the early 1500s, and first used in English in the 1700s. Borrowed from Latin relevāns, relevāntem, present active participle of relevō (“lift up again, lighten, relieve”), from re- (“again”) + levō (“lift”).
Inflected forms:
form: more relevant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most relevant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.
pos: adj
gloss: Related, connected, or pertinent to a topic.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: His mother provided some relevant background information concerning his medical condition.
Although autistic women with AN have cited concerns with weight/shape as less relevant in the development of their ED (Kinnaird, Norton, Stewart, et al., 2019), these could still have been a contributing factor.
gloss: Not out of date; current.
pos: adj
examples: The message of Christmas is still relevant as we near the end of a troubled year and the beginning of an uncertain but challenging new year.
Motorola was quickly losing the cell-phone battle to Nokia for a time. When they launched the RAZR phone and combined it with their "Hello Moto" campaign, it made the brand relevant again.
gloss: Famous, popular, or noteworthy in a contemporary context.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
slang
Synonyms: germane
in point
pertinent
salient
Antonyms: irrelevant
Related words: relevance
relevancy
relief
relieve
reliever
Derived words: biorelevant
immunorelevant
nonrelevant
omnirelevant
relevantly
safety-relevant
unrelevant
Translations:
dross
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English drosse, dros, from Old English drōs, from Proto-Germanic *drōhs (“dregs, sediment”).
Also compare Old English drōsna, drōsne (“a ground, sediment, lees, dregs, dirt, ear wax”), from Proto-Germanic *drōhsnǭ, *drōhsnō (“dregs, sediment”), derived from *drōhs. Alternatively, this may be from *dragjō + *-snō (“yeast, sediment”; compare *dragjō (“yeast”)), as if from *drēcg + -sn.
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“sediment, yeast”).
Cognate with Scots dros, drose, drosse (“small particles, fragments, dross”), Middle Dutch droes (“dregs”), Dutch droesem (“dregs”), German Drusen (“lees, dregs”), Latin fracēs (“grounds or dregs of oil”). Related also to drast, dregs.
Inflected forms:
form: drosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drosse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: drosses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drossing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drossed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drossed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: drosse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Waste or impure matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Waste or impure matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Waste or impure matter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Dross is related with the incomplete expulsion of the melt from the bottom of the kerf. For precision applications where the clean cutting edges are important the formation of dross at the bottom of the cutting kerf must be controlled. This requires deep understanding of the mechanisms of dross formation and the various materials and laser-cutting parameters which potentially control the formation of dross. For example, the highly cleaned (dross-free) cutting edges can be obtained in […]
One of the main problems with recycling and melting magnesium is the presence of particles in the melt which lead to the formation of dross and sludge. To be more precise, the necessary removal of dross and sludge greatly increase the costs of the facility. And, material is lost.
gloss: Worthless or trivial matter.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: What thou lovest well remains,
 the rest is dross
gloss: Residual raw opium left in an opium pipe which can be recycled for further sale or use.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
gloss: To remove dross from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: drosser
drossless
drossy
human dross
Windross
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отпадъци
roman: otpadǎci
lang: Czech
word: odpad
lang: Czech
word: škvár
lang: Czech
word: brak
lang: Czech
word: šmejd
lang: German
word: Müll
lang: German
word: Schrott
lang: Greek
word: περιττό
roman: perittó
lang: Persian
word: تفاله
roman: tofâle
lang: Persian
word: لوث
roman: lows
lang: Polish
word: nieczystości
lang: Polish
word: odpady
lang: Russian
word: отбро́сы
roman: otbrósy
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̏тпа̄д
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̀тпадак
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ȍtpād
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: òtpadak
lang: Swedish
word: slagg
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بوق
roman: bok
cristobalite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Named for the type locality at Cerro San Cristóbal, Mexico, + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: cristobalites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mineral of volcanic rocks that solidified at a high temperature. Cristobalite is chemically identical to quartz, with the chemical formula SiO₂, but has a different crystal structure. Crystals are always microscopic, and usually form small rounded masses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
paranoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English paranoia
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English paranoid
From paranoia + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: more paranoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most paranoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: paranoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or suffering from clinical paranoia.
pos: adj
gloss: Exhibiting excessive fear, suspicion, or distrust.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: But can the people on TV see me or am I just paranoid?
People generally want to believe good news, and Max was so paranoid about germs that he'd really love to believe Plum Island was spewing antibiotics and vaccine into the air.
“As an autocrat, you have to be paranoid. You’re constantly at risk,” he said. “Everyone around you is lying all the time. You never know who is authentically loyal and who is lying to you.”
gloss: A person suffering from paranoia.
pos: noun
Derived words: nonparanoid
paranoidly
paranoidness
paranoid personality disorder
paranoid schizophrenia
paranoid schizophrenic
technoparanoid
ultraparanoid
unparanoid
Translations:
snarky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From snark + -y; 1906, as “irritable”, from snark (“to snort”), by onomatopoeia (1866). Compare Low German snarken (“to snore”), North Frisian snarke, Swedish snarka. In the sense “sarcastic” popularized in the late 1990s.
Base: snark
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: snarkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: snarkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Snide and sarcastic; usually out of irritation.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
informal
often
examples: In spite of its inherent banality, and because my editors let me relieve my dyspepsia by writing snarky captions, it is regularly one of the more popular destinations on the Globe and Mail website.
gloss: Irritable, irritated.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 'I hate you,' she said briefly, and Philip understood. 'I couldn't help it,' he said; 'I did want to do something by myself.' And Lucy understood. 'And besides,' he said, 'I was coming back for you. Don't be snarky about it, Lu.
'E barks. "I'll do me work meself, yeh 'ear?" An' then 'e gits so snarky that I clear.
Derived words: snarkcastic
snark
snarkily
snarkiness
snarkism
Translations:
perigee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French périgée via Latin perigeum, perigaeum, ultimately from Ancient Greek περί (perí, “near”) + γῆ (gê, “Earth”).
Inflected forms:
form: perigees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The point, in an orbit about the Earth, that is closest to the Earth: the periapsis of an Earth orbiter.
pos: noun
examples: As the moon wheels around Earth every 28 days and shows us a progressively greater and then stingier slice of its sun-lightened face, the distance between the moon and Earth changes, too. At the nearest point along its egg-shaped orbit, its perigee, the moon may be 26,000 miles closer to us than it is at its far point.
gloss: The point, in an orbit about any planet, that is closest to the planet: the periapsis of any satellite.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Conjunctions of I and II [Io and Europa] occur when they are near perigee and apogee respectively; conjunctions of II and III [Europa and Ganymede] occur when II [Europa] is near perigee.
The resolution of the images obtained by this American probe [Messenger] will depend on its altitude [above Mercury] at any one time: about ten meters at perigee (200km altitude), but only one 1 km at apogee (15000km).
[Nereid’s] apogee—farthest point from Neptune—is five times the distance of its perigee—its closest point.
gloss: The point, in any trajectory of an object in space, where it is closest to the Earth.
pos: noun
Antonyms: apogee
Related words: periapsis
periastron
perihelion
Derived words: perigeal
perigean
perigee moon
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: перигей
roman: perigej
lang: Finnish
word: periapsis
piccolo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian piccolo (“small”).
Inflected forms:
form: piccolos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: piccoli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A transverse flute that is smaller than a Western concert flute and pitched nearly an octave higher.
pos: noun
gloss: An organ stop with the tone of a piccolo flute.
pos: noun
gloss: A piccolo piano.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A waiter’s assistant in a hotel or restaurant.
pos: noun
examples: [A]s I fled I felt Laploshka's reproachful eyes watching the amount that I gave to the piccolo—out of his two francs.
gloss: A coin-operated gramophone; a jukebox.
pos: noun
tags: New-York
Southern-US
US
gloss: A bottle of champagne containing 0.1875 litres of fluid, one quarter the volume of a standard bottle.
pos: noun
gloss: Designating the highest-pitched or smallest of a family of musical instruments.
pos: adj
examples: There is also the Piccolo Trumpet, built in D, which can with ease attack high notes which are outside the range of the ordinary B flat instrument, as well as the rarely used Bass Trumpet.
Derived words: piccoloist
puccalo
Translations:
buzzword
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined in the 1970s in the United States, from
buzz + word.
Base: buzz
Inflected forms:
form: buzzwords
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buzz word
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: buzz-word
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A word drawn from, or imitative of, technical jargon, used more to impress others than to convey meaning.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: Their salespeople know all the right buzzwords, but they can't really help you solve your problems.
Ideology is a [George Cabot] Lodge buzzword, as they say in business schools, the first word that sends many executives and students who would emulate them, into fury.
Have you tried doing it yourself? It's not easy. I was hoping to illustrate this article with some self-created buzzwords for leftwingers to use. The first one I came up with was "molehill mountaineer", a pejorative term to describe the sort of perpetually furious rightwing weevil who spends their life calculatedly conflating issues such as the "Ground Zero mosque" into gigantic media crapgasms. […] Because in today's 2,000mph technological freefall, he who coins the catchiest buzzword generally wins the debate by default.
There is great confusion and debate about what a blockchain even is—some people argue it’s become a meaningless buzzword—but the standard definition describes a shared, decentralized, cryptographically secure, immutable digital ledger.
Translations:
airball
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: * From air + ball.
* The first recorded use of the "airball" chant was on February 24, 1979, during a college basketball game between the Duke University Blue Devils and the North Carolina Tar Heels after the Tar Heels' Rich Yonakor took a shot which missed the rim.
Base: air
Inflected forms:
form: airballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: airballs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: airballing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: airballed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: airballed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A shot that misses the backboard, rim and net entirely.
pos: noun
examples: As soon as the shot left his hands, the spectators could see it was going to be an airball.
Johnson also could have tied the game, at 66-66 with 14 seconds left. But his jump shot was an airball. From that scramble Lopez emerged with the first of his key foul shots.
Bryant’s path to becoming a champion, after all, began with a series of infamous misses: his playoff airballs as a rookie against Utah. Clarkson sees those airballs as a metaphor for Bryant’s clunky start against the Jazz two decades later.
gloss: An unfunny joke or remark.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To throw an airball.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tatum struggled with fatigue through the final two rounds of the postseason and was exhausted to the point he was airballing shots by the time the Warriors were closing out the championship.
The Timberwolves lost 128-125 when KAT airballed a falling 30-footer at the buzzer.
gloss: To make an awfully unfunny joke or remark.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Translations:
nang
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Multicultural London English, from Jamaican English, from Jamaican Creole nyanga, potentially from West African languages, such as Mende (Sierra Leone) nyanga (“ostentation; showing off”) or Hausa yanga (“boastfulness”).
Inflected forms:
form: nangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more nang
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nang
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A metal bulb filled with nitrous oxide gas, inhaled for its disassociative effects, normally intended as a propellant for whipped cream.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: I reckon the thing that brings on a trip the quickest is definitly^([sic]) a nang (nitrous oxide bulb) while listening to REALLY intense music
"helicopters" these days refers to those silly hats with propellers on top, which come with a free ounce of smack at any local K-mart.^([sic]) Y'know, next to the nangs (or bulbs - nitrous oxide for whipped cream).
gloss: excellent; awesome; masterful; deeply satisfying.
pos: adj
tags: Multicultural-London-English
UK
slang
examples: That was well nang!
The wings were seriously a peng ting. The chips were nang. Burger was sick – the assembly was on point. The fillet was a serious ting – the thickness was there. Bossman did well.
Translations: