yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
sunscreen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sun + screen.
Compound parts: sun
screen
Inflected forms:
form: sunscreens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sunscreens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sunscreening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sunscreened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sunscreened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A topical substance formulated to protect the skin from the harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation by absorbing, reflecting or scattering ultraviolet rays.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Jill had Mark apply sunscreen to her back.
"Bet these river guides get a lot of skin cancer", he said. He had a slappy, unpleasant way of doing it, and she struggled to keep her balance.
Chemical ingredients — such as avobenzone, oxybenzone and homosalate — absorb the UV rays. Both types of sunscreen can degrade or wash off over time, so it’s important to reapply every two hours, and more frequently if you’re swimming or sweating.
As for daytime sun protection, Dr. Bowe said mineral sunscreens made with zinc oxide may be gentler on sensitized skin than chemical formulas.
gloss: To apply sunscreen to (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He glanced over his shoulder as I sunscreened his back.
Translations:
meretricious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin meretrīcius, from meretrīx (“harlot, prostitute”), from mereō (“earn, deserve, merit”) (English merit) + -trīx (“(female agent)”) (English -trix).
Inflected forms:
form: more meretricious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most meretricious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tastelessly gaudy; superficially attractive but having in reality no value or substance; falsely alluring.
pos: adj
examples: I discovered even, by his conversation, when intoxicated that his favourites were wantons of the lowest class, who could by their vulgar, indecent mirth, which he called nature, rouse his sluggish spirits. Meretricious ornaments and manners were necessary to attract his attention.
It might be reasonably objected elsewhere, that some of the tombs are meretricious and too fanciful; but the general brightness seems to justify it here; and Mount Vesuvius, separated from them by a lovely slope of ground, exalts and saddens the scene.
Gloriani’s statues were florid and meretricious; they looked like magnified goldsmith’s work.
There is nothing showy or meretricious about the man.
What is art beside love? I respect and applaud your indifference to fine poetry when you can contemplate the meretricious charms of this young person.
He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
When I lifted my eyes from the page, there was none of the meretricious argument London always offers that the sole real purpose in life is to hustle for a buck.
Murrow's later death from lung cancer was both tragic and ironic, for during World War II Murrow had been an articulate opponent of meretricious balance in reporting.
gloss: Involving unlawful sexual connection or lack of consent by at least one party (said of a romantic relationship).
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Related words: merit
Derived words: meretriciously
meretriciousness
unmeretricious
Translations:
celt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin celtis (“chisel”), very probably a ghost word originating from a copyist's error in the Vulgate Bible, but taken as genuine and subsequently used in Medieval Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: celts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prehistoric chisel-bladed tool.
pos: noun
examples: The later division of the Bronze age is characterised by the appearance of swords, spears, palstaves, and socketed celts.
Translations:
upriver
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English river
English upriver
From up- + river.
Inflected forms:
form: further upriver
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farther upriver
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: furthest upriver
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: farthest upriver
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: up-river
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: further upriver
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther upriver
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furthest upriver
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest upriver
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: up-river
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Towards the source of a river.
pos: adv
gloss: Against the current.
pos: adv
gloss: Towards the source of a river.
pos: adj
Antonyms: downriver
downstream
Translations:
cladding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: From clad + -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source.
Base: clad
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: claddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Clothing; clothes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fibre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bowman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archery
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English boweman, bouman, boughman, equivalent to bow + -man.
Base: bow
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: bowmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bowsman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man who uses a bow; an archer.
pos: noun
examples: The whole londe ſhal fle, foꝛ the noyſe of the hoꝛſmen and bowmen: […]
The walls are slitted with embrasures through which bowmen could fire, indicating that the belfry also served as a stronghold during border skirmishes.
Translations:
Upanishad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Sanskrit उपनिषद् (upaniṣad)bor.
English Upanishad
Borrowed from Sanskrit उपनिषद् (upaniṣad).
Inflected forms:
form: Upanishads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a set of authorless Hindu religious and philosophical texts considered to be an early source of the religion, found mostly as the concluding part of the Brahmanas and in the Aranyakas.
pos: noun
Translations:
upbringing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English upbringinge, equivalent to upbring + -ing.
Base: upbring
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: upbringings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The traits acquired during one's childhood training
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The raising or training of a child.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Through her upbringing, Mildred's father had carefully programmed her to expect very little from life.
Related words: bring up
Translations:
uphill
Part of speech: adv
adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
Etymology: From up + hill.
Compound parts: up
hill
Inflected forms:
form: further uphill
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farther uphill
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: furthest uphill
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: farthest uphill
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: further uphill
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther uphill
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furthest uphill
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest uphill
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uphills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: uphills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uphilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uphilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uphilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Up a slope, towards higher ground.
pos: adv
gloss: With difficulty.
pos: adv
tags: broadly
gloss: Located up a slope or on a hill.
pos: adj
gloss: Going up a slope or a hill.
pos: adj
examples: “There’s a lot of uphill about a bicycle tour,” said he, “and the wind is against you.”
“So there is downhill, and the wind behind you,” said Harris.
The engine seemed a little sensitive to wet rails, and in consequence the uphill work was not so good north of Dundee as it had been earlier. But I have noted this same "touchiness" on the part of the "A4s", and other modern British 4-6-2s, so that in this respect No. 2006 proved no exception.
gloss: Difficult or laborious.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: For a large part of this game, England once again looked like a team suffering from the rigours of a long season and faced an uphill task when Hofmann put Germany in front.
gloss: An uphill route.
pos: noun
gloss: To travel uphill.
pos: verb
Antonyms: downhill
Derived words: push shit uphill
push string uphill
push water uphill
uphill battle
uphill climb
uphill gardener
Translations:
upholder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English uphold
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 upholder
From uphold + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: upholders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who upholds something.
pos: noun
examples: an upholder of ethical principles
Libraries have been burnt and whole religious movements wiped out because their belief and myths have been considered to be of dubious origin by the upholders of orthodoxy[.]
gloss: A dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
secondhand
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From second + hand.
Compound parts: second
hand
Inflected forms:
form: second-hand
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: second hand
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: secondhanded
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: second-handed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 2ndhand
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: second-hand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: second hand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: secondhanded
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: second-handed
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 2ndhand
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: second-hand
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: second hand
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: secondhanded
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: second-handed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: 2ndhand
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not new; previously owned and used by another.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Dealing in such merchandise.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Indirect; from a secondary source; not firsthand.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: In the light of recent history it is somewhat curious that this decisive power of the professional secondhand dealers in ideas should not yet be more generally recognized.
What's love got to do, got to do with it? / What's love but a secondhand emotion?
So nearly every name comes from a second hand source. The exception to this rule has been the vigilantes themselves. Rube Mathis and Jack Wells, both admitted to participating, and Mathis identified his brother.
However, Partridge’s information is second-hand, and requires verification.
The relation of Tristram's death is thus distanced from the narrative to which it belongs, and it is also distanced in that we do not see it happen with our own eyes, but hear of it by a second-hand report which introduces it incidentally, not for its own sake.
gloss: Inhaled from the air near someone else smoking.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: exposure to secondhand smoke from cigarette-smoking colleagues
gloss: Secondhand goods (especially clothes) collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Childrenswear is now the fastest growing sector of secondhand. […] The huge increase in the market for childrenswear shows another way in which older generations are getting into secondhand.
gloss: In a used or previously-owned condition.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was almost an article of faith with McEwen never to buy new if he could buy secondhand.
He glanced back at the Jeep, which he'd bought secondhand a dozen years ago and now, fifteen years old, was gaining on "classic" status.
gloss: Indirectly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Related words: firsthand
thirdhand
vicarious
Derived words: secondhand bookshop
secondhanded
secondhandedness
secondhand embarrassment
secondhand smoke
second-hand store
second-hand vape
Translations:
upholster
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from upholsterer (“tradesman who finishes furniture”), from Middle English upholdester, variant of Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”); equivalent to uphold + -ster. Sense development as well as form may have been influenced by conflation with unrelated bolster.
Base: uphold
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: upholsters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upholstering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upholstered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upholstered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fit padding, stuffing, springs, webbing and fabric covering to (furniture).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
upholsterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From upholster + -er, from Middle English upholdester, upholster, from Middle English upholder (“dealer in small goods”), from upholden (“to repair, uphold”). By surface analysis, uphold + -ster + -er.
Base: upholster
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: upholsterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who upholsters furniture, especially a trained craftsman who does so as an occupation.
pos: noun
Translations:
upholstery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First recorded in 1597; from upholster (noun) or upholster(er) + -(er)y or -y.
Base: upholsterer
Affixes: -ery
Inflected forms:
form: upholsteries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The craft or business of upholstering furniture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The materials used in upholstering furniture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: reupholstery
upholdster
upholster
upholsterer
Translations:
upland
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English upland, from Old English ūpland (“the country”); equivalent to up- + land.
The word as an adjective developed in Middle English.
Base: land
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: uplands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: highland, upcountry
gloss: The country, as contrasted with the town.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the race of upland giants
Sometimes with secure delight / The upland hamlets will invite,
Derived words: Dnieper Upland
Kersey Upland
Southern Uplands
sunlit uplands
sunny uplands
upland cotton
uplander
uplandish
upland moccasin
upland sandpiper
upland sumach
Translations:
uplander
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English upland
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 uplander
From upland + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: uplanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from the uplands.
pos: noun
Translations:
upmost
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English upmest; equivalent to up + -most.
Base: up
Affixes: -most
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Uppermost.
pos: adj
examples: But the disjuncture between addressor and addressed such scenarios emphasise was not always (or even often) upmost in users' minds […]
Translations:
uppermost
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English upper-moste; equivalent to upper + -most.
Base: upper
Affixes: -most
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In the highest position.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
righteous
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier rightuous, rightwose, rightwos, rightwise, from Middle English rightwise, rightwis, from Old English rihtwīs (“righteous, just”), corresponding to right + -wise (with assimilation of second element to -ous), or to right + wise (“way, manner”). Cognate with Scots richtwis (“righteous”), Old High German rehtwīsic (“righteous, just”), Icelandic réttvíss (“righteous, just”). Compare also thefteous, mighteous.
Base: right
Affixes: -wise
Inflected forms:
form: more righteous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most righteous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rightuous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rightwise
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: righteouses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: righteousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: righteoused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: righteoused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rightuous
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rightwise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Free from sin or guilt.
pos: adj
examples: The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bolde as a lyon.
gloss: Moral and virtuous, perhaps to the point of sanctimony.
pos: adj
examples: Human beings should take a righteous path, and so should art. We should promote kindness and beauty through art.
gloss: Justified morally.
pos: adj
examples: righteous indignation
gloss: Awesome; great.
pos: adj
tags: US
slang
examples: The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
He sold me a bulging paper sack full of Cambodian Red for two dolla' MPC. A strange experience, copping from a kid, but it was righteous weed.
Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.
gloss: Major; large; significant.
pos: adj
tags: US
slang
examples: He found Richard in one piece near a large circular container, thankfully, staring at a righteous mess of blood and gore.
gloss: To make righteous; specifically, to justify religiously, to absolve from sin.
pos: verb
examples: Thus for the purposes of being ‘righteoused’, the Law was irrelevant; yet Paul could not bear to see all the Law disappear.
Related words: lefteous
Derived words: overrighteous
Righteous Among the Nations
righteously
righteousness
self-righteous
unrighteous
uprighteous
Translations:
uprightness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English upright
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English uprightness
From upright + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: uprightnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being honest, honourable, and moral.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: You are responsible only for your own uprightness. See to that and all else will take care of itself. - Miles Williams Mathis
[S]uch as therefore ſhould not be adventured vpon vvithout mature and vnpartiall diſquiſition of the vprightneſſe of our affections therein, […]
gloss: The state of being erect or vertical.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It is singular how forcibly this passage in my narrative brings to my mind a picture which used to be, some years ago, at a broker's—that charnel-house of the comforts and graces of life. It had been taken out of its frame, and leant in a dark and dusty corner against a perpendicular armchair, whose rigid uprightness seemed suited only to the parlour of a dentist, repose being the last idea it suggested.
gloss: The product or result of being upright.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
uproar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Calque of Dutch oproer or German Aufruhr, as up + roar.
Compound parts: up
roar
Inflected forms:
form: uproars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: uproars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uproaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uproared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uproared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Tumultuous, noisy excitement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Loud, confused noise, especially when coming from several sources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A loud protest, controversy, or outrage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This highly-aggressive approach had results, but briefly caused a major uproar in parts of the United States, which was mitigated by the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, which formalised the U.S. Navy's contribution to the antislavery efforts.
gloss: To throw into uproar or confusion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.
gloss: To make an uproar.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] through their Tumultuous Uproaring have they caused the peaceable and harmless to suffer […]
[…] the landlady entering at this very time with news that his wife had been delivered of a dead child, he yielded to the most furious ebullitions; while, in accordance with him, all howled and shrieked, and bellowed and uproared, with double vigor.
When red-mouth’d cannons to the clouds uproar,
And gasping hosts sleep shrouded in their gore,
Officers, as well as men, now mingle in the uproaring strife, and snatching the weapons of the slain, swell the horrid carnage.
Synonyms: hue and cry
Derived words: get one's bowels in an uproar
uproarious
uproarish
Translations:
basting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: bastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which a food item is basted.
pos: noun
examples: Use repeated bastings to prevent the chicken from drying out.
gloss: A (physical) beating.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The use of long or loose stitches; the act by which something is basted.
pos: noun
Translations:
jinx
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From jynx in the transferred sense “a charm or spell”.
Inflected forms:
form: jinxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jinxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jinxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jinxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jinxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hex; an evil spell.
pos: noun
gloss: A person or thing supposed to bring bad luck.
pos: noun
gloss: To cast a spell on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To bring bad luck to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cause something to happen by mentioning it. Often used sarcastically.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: “So you'll all be near New York!” Maggie says. “We don't know for sure yet.” Sara stresses. “Don't jinx it.”
I've no idea if she guessed what I was intending to do. I don't know why I was so reluctant to talk about it, even to her. Maybe I was afraid that verbalising my intentions would jinx it in some way.
gloss: To cause a bad outcome through verbal expression of certainty about a good situation or result. See knocking on wood, which is supposed to mitigate this effect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Used after the same thing is said by two people simultaneously.
pos: intj
examples: Bart: I'm telling Mom and Dad! / Lisa: You're telling who? / Bart: Mom and Dad! / Girls: MOM AND DAD? JINX! / Janey Powell: Now you can't talk, 'til somebody says your name!
Derived words: reverse jinx
jinxee
jinxer
unjinx
Translations:
ESL
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Learning English as a second or foreign language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
COBRA
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Inflected forms:
form: COBRAs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Cobra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cabinet committee meeting that would use a COBR room
pos: noun
tags: UK
broadly
gloss: A cabinet committee that would meet using a COBR room
pos: noun
tags: UK
broadly
Related words: cobra
Translations:
FOIA
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: First use appears c. 1968, in the publication Administrative Law Review.
Inflected forms:
form: FOIAs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: FOIAing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: FOIAed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: FOIAed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To request or obtain records using the Freedom of Information Act.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: FOI
Translations:
liaise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from liaison, itself from French liaison (“binding”).
Inflected forms:
form: liaises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: liaising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: liaised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: liaised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To establish a liaison.
pos: verb
gloss: To act between parties with a view to reconciling differences.
pos: verb
gloss: To cooperate, consult and discuss in order to come to a common solution.
pos: verb
examples: As of May 12, Crossrail was liaising with contractors to enable physical work at stations to restart. This had been suspended on March 24 due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Translations:
uproarious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From uproar + -ious (a variant of -ous (“suffix forming adjectives from nouns, to denote possession or presence of a quality in any degree, commonly in abundance”)).
Base: uproar
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more uproarious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uproarious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing, or likely to cause, an uproar.
pos: adj
examples: “Oh! there's no fear of him,” said Burgess, cheerily; “if he grows uproarious, we'll soon give him a touch of the cat.”
gloss: Characterized by uproar, that is, loud, confused noise, or by noisy and uncontrollable laughter.
pos: adj
examples: The noise in this room was perfectly tumultuous, […] every child was conducting itself like forty. The consequences were uproarious beyond belief; but no one seemed to care; on the contrary, the mother and daughter laughed heartily, and enjoyed it very much; and the latter, soon beginning to mingle in the sports, got pillaged by the young brigands most ruthlessly.
One "set" off, another takes its place, he or she remaining longest on the floor receiving the most uproarious commendation, and so the dancing continues until broad daylight. It does not cease with the sound of the fiddle, but in that case they set up a music peculiar to themselves.
The two bushes looked up in surprise, and when they saw Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion and Sir Hokus, they fell into each other's branches and burst into the most uproarious laughter.
At the uproarious cheering which greeted his appearance, [Maximilien] Robespierre advanced into the open, whilst a sudden swift light of triumph darted from his narrow, pale eyes.
gloss: Extremely funny; hilarious.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Yet as with Booksmart, the summer's earlier riff on that Apatovian classic, there are times when Good Boys feels a little too nice to actually be uproarious. In more ways than one, it's the training wheels for a better comedy—a slightly edgier and funnier one.
gloss: In a mess; dishevelled, untidy.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Related words: uproar
uproarish
uproarishly
uproarishness
Derived words: uproariously
uproariousness
Translations:
upstart
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English upstarten, upsterten, equivalent to up- + start.
Base: start
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: upstarts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more upstart
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most upstart
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: upstarts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upstarting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upstarted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upstarted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who has suddenly gained wealth, power, or other prominence, but either has not received social acceptance or has become arrogant or presumptuous.
pos: noun
examples: upstarts […]they call in reproach mushrooms
[S]he has no fair pretence of family or blood. She was nobody when he married her, barely the daughter of a gentleman; but ever since her being turned into a Churchill she has out-Churchill’d them all in high and mighty claims: but in herself, I assure you, she is an upstart.”
But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
Where the Czech upstart [Lukáš] Rosol, ranked 100 in the world, all but blew [Rafael] Nadal's head off with his blunderbuss in a fifth set of unrivalled intensity on Thursday night, [Julien] Benneteau, a more artful citizen, used a rapier to hurt his vaunted foe before falling just short of a kill. In the end, it was he who staggered from the scene of the fight.
gloss: The meadow saffron.
pos: noun
gloss: Acting like a parvenu.
pos: adj
gloss: Self-important and presumptuous.
pos: adj
gloss: To rise suddenly, to spring
pos: verb
examples: Th' Elfe therewith astownd,
Upstarted lightly from his looser make,
And his unready weapons gan in hand to take.
the beauteous beast
Scared by the noise upstarted at our feet
"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting—
Synonyms: arriviste
nouveau riche
parvenu
Translations:
farb
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Disputed. Various explanations of the origin are given:
* That it is a contraction of the phrase "far be it from me to criticize anyone, but...", or of "far below" (the expected standard).
* That it comes from the German word Farbe ("colour") (many fabrics dyed with modern dyes are "too colourful" to be authentic, by comparison with their historical originals).
* There exists a letter dated 1 April 1863 from an A.R. Crawford in the 76th Illinois Infantry, Co D, that uses the phrase, "fallacious accoutrements & reprehensible baggage," in description of six children posing in phony military gear during a sham reenactment that took place during the actual Civil War. Many point to this phrase as the origin of the word, citing "farb" as an acronym.
* Many early replica rifles were marked with what looked like "F.A.R.B." among the proofmarks. Removing this would make the rifle look more authentic.
Inflected forms:
form: farbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: farbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: farbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: farbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: farbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A historical reenactor (especially an American Civil War reenactor) whose efforts at a historically accurate portrayal are, in the opinion of the speaker, inadequate (for example, wearing a modern wristwatch with period costume). The opposite of farb is "hard-core" (or hardcore), someone who is, in the opinion of the speaker, an "authenticity fanatic".
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: "Farb was the worst insult in the hardcore vocabulary. It referred to reenactors who approached the past past with a lack of verisimilitude.
gloss: To act like a farb; to portray a historical character in an inauthentic way.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
slang
Translations:
andragogy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From andr- + -agogy, after German Andragogik.
Affixes: andr-
-agogy
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The methods or techniques used to teach adults; adult education.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
moodily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English moody
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English moodily
From moody + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more moodily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most moodily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a moody manner.
pos: adv
examples: The Inspector left the door and came back moodily to his old position.
Translations:
cankle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of calf + ankle.
Compound parts: calf
ankle
Inflected forms:
form: cankles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kankle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An obese or otherwise swollen ankle that blends into the calf without clear demarcation.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
usually
examples: Hey, all l’m saying is she’s got cankles, for God’s sake. What? Cankles! She’s got no ankles. It’s like the calf merged with the foot, cut out the middleman.
The “cankle” (or the appearance of not having an ankle, but the calf of the leg just connecting to the foot) is a look that many women have and most could live without.
They’d pass me magazines and ask how my cankle recovery was progressing. They’re ankles, not cankles. I don’t have cankles!
Now that's a cankle! Where does the calf fat end and the ankle fat begin? Who knows, that's the fun!
Stop saying I have cankles!
Laserassisted lipolysis for cankle remodelling: A prospective study in 30 patients. Lasers Med Sci 2014; 29:131–136. Leclère FM, Trelles M, MorenoMoraga J, Servell P, Unglaub F, Mordon SR. 980nm laser lipolysis (LAL): About 674[…]
Translations:
infringement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English infringe
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English infringement
From infringe + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: infringements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A violation or breach, as of a law.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements, but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.
gloss: An encroachment on a right, a person, a territory, or a property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The pattern of services over these lines today still pays homage to their history, which derived in considerable measure from the L.B.S.C.R.'s efforts to prevent infringement of its monopoly at Brighton and Eastbourne.
As a reward for their [the Levites'] devotion, they were made the guardians of the shrine from infringement.
As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase a woman's body.
Related words: infringe
infringer
Derived words: copyright infringement
reverse infringement
trademark infringement
Translations:
ovoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ōvum (“egg”) + -oid (“resembling”).
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: more ovoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ovoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ovoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like an oval.
pos: adj
examples: That was the way my mind lurched and stumbled, among the sharp rs and ts, sliding over the ovoid vowels as if on pebbles.
gloss: Egg-shaped; shaped like an oval, but more tapered at one end; ovate.
pos: adj
examples: And then they were looking at him, Mrs. Ansen's ovoid black eyes behind bifocals attached to a chain, Baffi's beautiful hazel eyes bright with the promise of fun and friendly competition, and what else could Patrick say, other than no, he didn't have anything else going on this afternoon, and yeah, come to think of it, Cokes and leftover pizza would be nice.
gloss: Something that is oval in shape.
pos: noun
Synonyms: egg-shaped
oval
ovate
oviform
Related words: oval
ovum
Derived words: nonovoid
ovoid-cylindrical
semiovoid
subovoid
Translations:
motorbike
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Latin moveō
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin mōtorder.
Middle English motour
English motor
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Proto-Italic *dwis
Old Latin duis
Latin bisder.
French bi-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
Late Latin cyclusder.
Middle French
French cycle
French bicyclebor.
English bicycleclip.
English bike
English motorbike
From motor + bike.
Inflected forms:
form: motorbikes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: motorbikes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: motorbiking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: motorbiked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: motorbiked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A motorcycle.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Driving fuel-efficient vehicles and using motorbikes when possible to replace or supplement vehicles are two of the ways Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees are attempting to become less fuelish and to lower transportation costs.
Jumping on the Metro and then a local train, we headed out to National Central University at Jhongli, where I had been invited to take a look at a motorbike powered by compressed air.
gloss: A small and light motorcycle.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To ride a motorbike; to travel by motorbike.
pos: verb
examples: We motorbiked all over the US that summer.
Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.
Derived words: e-motorbike
litrebike
motorbiker
motorbike sport
Translations:
bejesus
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A reduced form of by Jesus.
Inflected forms:
form: bejaysus
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bejeebus
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bejeesus
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bejeezus
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bejaysus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bejeebus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bejeesus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bejeezus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express surprise, annoyance, dismay, or anger.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
examples: The young stinker and smeller dug in his pocket, pulled something out, and, bejesus, the young stinker and smeller was giving him something.
gloss: Used for emphasis, similar to crap, shit or wits.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: The bear scared the bejesus out of us.
He said you confused the bejesus out of him.
This old lady just completely slapped the bejesus out of him.
That screaming, flaming skull in the closet totally scared the bejesus out of me!
But they give me clothes for my body, and food for my belly, and tonight, I'm so happy, I could beat the living bejesus outa this goddam drum.
Nixon: You see what I mean? We can’t take it.
Kissinger: I agree. That’s why we’ve got to blast—
Nixon: That’s right.
Kissinger: —the living bejeezus out of North Vietnam. We will gain nothing for restraint—.
Nixon: That’s right
Martial arts mean beating the bejesus out of people.
The dorsal fin is one of the animal kingdom’s masterstrokes of branding; it looks like a tooth, and we don’t need to see the rest of the shark to have the bejesus scared out of us.
Translations:
upstroke
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From up + stroke.
Compound parts: up
stroke
Inflected forms:
form: upstrokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The upward stroke of a pen, brush, piston, etc.
pos: noun
Antonyms: downstroke
Translations:
upsurge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English surge
English upsurge
From up- + surge.
Inflected forms:
form: upsurges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: upsurges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upsurging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upsurged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upsurged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sudden strong rise or flow.
pos: noun
examples: Our South Wales correspondent expects the current upsurge of coal traffic in South Wales to swell BR tonnage in the area by 20 per cent this year compared with 1963 carryings.
gloss: to surge up, or to become stronger or greater
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
upswept
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English swept
English upswept
From up- + swept.
Inflected forms:
form: more upswept
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most upswept
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: curved or swept upwards
pos: adj
examples: 'Phil Cornish' [a snowdrop variety] is like a cross between a pixie hat and a pagoda, with elegant upswept outers marked in a green colour-wash at the top and warpaint slashes at the lower end.
Translations:
upswing
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English swing
English upswing
From up- + swing.
Inflected forms:
form: upswings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: upswings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upswinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upswung
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upswung
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An upward swing.
pos: noun
gloss: An upward trend or an increase in activity.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Newspapers reported an upswing in the company's sales last month.
Terrorist bombing in the 1970s wrecked this area, […]. Now, more than 30 years on, Translink has been able to capitalise on the upswing in rail use to reconfigure the station as the North West Multimodal Transport Hub.
gloss: To swing upward.
pos: verb
Antonyms: downswing
Translations:
uptake
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English uptaken (“to take up, lift”), partial calque of earlier Middle English upnimen (“to take up, lift”), equivalent to up- + take. Compare Swedish upptaga, uppta (“to take up”).
Base: take
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: uptakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: uptakes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uptaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uptook
pos: verb
tags: past
form: uptaken
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Understanding; comprehension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Absorption, especially of food or nutrient by an organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of lifting or taking up.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A chimney.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: The design provides for continuous smoke troughs of reinforced concrete, vented by circular uptakes, and the turntable area will be covered, using precast reinforced concrete bars down both sides of each track.
gloss: The upcast pipe from the smokebox of a steam boiler towards the chimney.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: To take up, to lift.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: He hearkned to his reason, and the childe
 Vptaking, to the Palmer gaue to beare [...].
gloss: To absorb, as food or a drug by an organism.
pos: verb
gloss: To accept and begin to use, as a new practice.
pos: verb
Derived words: on the uptake
quick on the uptake
slow on the uptake
reuptake
Translations:
uptown
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: uptowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: further uptown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther uptown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more uptown
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furthest uptown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest uptown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most uptown
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: further uptown
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farther uptown
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more uptown
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: furthest uptown
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: farthest uptown
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most uptown
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The residential part of a city, away from the commercial center.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
gloss: The commercial center of town (in Charlotte, North Carolina).
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Charlotte / Douglas International Airport, a U.S. Air hub, is about twenty minutes from uptown and is the[…]
Charlotte has a number of museums that give visitors an insider's perspective on the region, most of which are […] in uptown, and the Mint Museum of Art, 2730 Randolph Rd., […]
gloss: In the upper part of a town.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
usually
gloss: Of or relating to an affluent area or population.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
broadly
not-comparable
usually
examples: uptown problems
She's been living in her uptown world / I bet she's never had a backstreet guy
gloss: In or of the central commercial center of Charlotte, North Carolina.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
usually
examples: Thus when he raised hell and got a toilet in uptown Charlotte for Negroes, he was not regarded as an agitator but as a public-spirited citizen.
[…] he was operating a mobile unit in uptown Charlotte when he received a call at approximately 7:00 p.m. […]
[…] you might want to also check into Charlotte's uptown development corporation, which is a very similar set up[…]
[…] in uptown Charlotte in this period.
[…] Charlotte staffed currently by 7,000 employees. Additionally, this bank has 6,000 or so employed uptown. Bank of America has in excess of 10,000 workers in uptown Charlotte and has opened a service center near High Point with another[…]
Charlotteans produced iron, tobacco, doors, spokes and handles, wagons, carriages, harnesses and marble works. And, on uptown streets, there were numerous saloons. Charlotte was known as "a bustling, prosperous city"[…]
Charlotte needed “cross-town boulevards” to relieve congestion on uptown streets. Mayor Baxter knew that Charlotte had become a major trucking and distribution center […]
[…] Charlotte city executive in 1968, was demonstrating that banks had a humanistic side. At his behest, NCNB started opening new lines of business in areas previously considered off-limits for major uptown banks. In Charlotte, the[…]
gloss: To or in the upper part of a town.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
usually
examples: Let's go uptown and try out that new restaurant.
Related words: Uptown
Translations:
uptrend
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English trend
English uptrend
From up- + trend.
Inflected forms:
form: uptrends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: uptrends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uptrending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uptrended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uptrended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An upward trend, or an upturn.
pos: noun
gloss: To undergo an upward trend.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Livestock was roughly equal in importance but uptrended more nationally after 1953.
Translations:
upturn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English upturnen, equivalent to up- + turn.
Base: turn
Affixes: up-
Inflected forms:
form: upturns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: upturns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: upturning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: upturned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: upturned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An upward turn or trend, especially in business activity or profit.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: increase; improvement
gloss: To turn (something) up or over.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Near-synonym: turn over
Translations: