yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
perineum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin perinaeum, from Ancient Greek περίναιον (perínaion, “space between the anus and scrotum”), from Ancient Greek περίνεος, περίνεοι (períneos, períneoi, “male genitals”), itself from earlier Ancient Greek περίς (perís, “penis”) through influence from Ancient Greek πηρίς (pērís, “scrotum”).
Inflected forms:
form: perineums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perinea
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perinaeum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: perinæum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The region between the genitalia and anus.
pos: noun
examples: He was attacked with complete retention of urine, after a debauch, and six weeks afterwards an abscess formed in the perineum, which eventually burst, leaving a fistulous opening, through which the urine continued to be discharged to the period of his admission into the Hospital.
The prostate is surrounded by venous plexi and the perineum has a rich blood supply.
The perineum is diamond shaped and stretches from the pubic symphysis to the coccyx.
Translations:
perineal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: perinæal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Referring to the region of the perineum.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His bicycle seat produced a great deal of perineal discomfort.
Many mothers find the use of perineal massage eases their childbirth.
Translations:
starveling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English starve
English -ling
English starveling
From starve + -ling.
Inflected forms:
form: starvelings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more starveling
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most starveling
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: One who is thin from lack of food.
pos: noun
examples: If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling.
The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form.
gloss: Starving; suffering from starvation.
pos: adj
examples: As for the starveling rebels of our region, they soon began to reappear in town, more starved and abject, their blackened rags hanging on them[…]
gloss: Meagre; scanty.
pos: adj
examples: [A] few meetings in the cape-broom, a starveling allowance of kisses in a very ill-advised publicity.
Translations:
doyen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French doyen, from Late Latin decānus, from Latin decem. Compare the doublet dean.
Inflected forms:
form: doyens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A commander in charge of ten men.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The senior, or eldest male member of a group.
pos: noun
examples: At every turn, Collyers's aggressive new management in London was out-maneuvering and out promoting the double doyens of the rarefied art auction world. Old-timers at Collyers referred to Christie's and Sotheby's as “the Cow and the Sow,” lumping them together in frequent attitudes of disdain, in an attempt to make up for decades of being the brunt of bad jokes.
Conant's sense of science's world-historic mission did not especially endear him to Harvard's doyens, most of whom still operated with a liberal arts college model of the university in which the humanities reigned supreme and even the natural sciences were treated more as teaching than research subjects.
On the domain level, two doyens, called “Lords of the Land” were entitled to some further specific prerogatives, including the right to lead rituals on behalf of all the villages of the domain (i.e. the domain of the clan of the doyen and, therefore, the clan considered the founder of the oldest village).
Every prison has its doyen, and for us politicals it was Denis Goldberg.
gloss: A leading light, or exemplar of a particular practice or movement.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Unlike the latter, however, Shifu's seriousness allowed no compromise; his criticism of Zhang ji even brought him into conflict with Wu Zhihui, one of the doyens of anarchism in China.
2008 July 3, Amanda Schaffer, “The Sex Difference Evangelists”, part 3: “Mars, Venus, Babies, and Hormones”, in Slate,
In an interview, even Simon Baron-Cohen, another doyen of sex-difference claims, offered up some caution.
For these doyens of the field, the Burmese conceptual landscape was a sophisticated and complex array of beliefs, exhibiting the ability of communities to adapt, appropriate, and reshape external influences throughout history.
Prof Sir John Curtice, the doyen of British political pollsters, has also noted that MRPs suggest Labour would lose proportionally more votes in seats it currently holds – and more again in seats it holds where Reform came second in 2024.
Related words: dean
doyenne
Translations:
cad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Short for caddie, from Scots, from French cadet, from dialectal capdet (“chief, captain”), from Latin capitellum, diminutive of caput (“head”).
Inflected forms:
form: cads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A low-bred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow, especially one that cannot be trusted with a lady.
pos: noun
examples: The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
I make him sound like a cad, but he’s not. Early on, when I fell seriously ill, he cared for me devotedly. He’s witty, sweet, a great cook and easy on the eyes.
gloss: A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; a bus conductor.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: We will back the machine in which we make our daily peregrination from the top of Oxford-street to the city, against any buss on the road, whether it be for the gaudiness of its exterior, the perfect simplicity of its interior, or the native coolness of its cad.
I’ve fallen asleep on my step as the ’bus was going on, and almost fallen off. I have often to put up with insolence from vulgar fellows, who think it fun to chaff a cad, as they call it.
gloss: An idle hanger-on about innyards.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
obsolete
slang
Related words: no way to treat a lady
Derived words: caddess
caddish
caddism
Translations:
rubble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English rouble, rubel, robel, robeil, from Anglo-Norman *robel (“bits of broken stone”). Presumably related to rubbish, originally of same meaning (waste material, bits of stone, rubble). Ultimately presumably from Old Norse rubba (“to huddle, crowd together, heap up", possibly also "to rub, scrape”), from Proto-Germanic *rubbōną (“to rub, scrape”), related to Proto-Germanic *reufaną (“to tear”), *raubōną (“to rob, steal, plunder”), perhaps via Old French robe (English rob (“steal”)) in sense of “plunder, destroy”; see also Middle English, Middle French -el.
Inflected forms:
form: rubbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rubbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rubbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rubbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rubbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The broken remains of an object, usually rock or masonry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The main East Coast line from Edinburgh to Berwick was blocked at Cockburnspath and Grantshouse by flood water, which washed away part of an embankment, and by the collapse of about 300 tons of rubble on to the track.
The old boulevard now was a sagging ruin, waiting for the wreckers. … You'd have to loathe yourself vividly to be indifferent to such destruction or, worse, rejoice at the crushing of the locus of these middle-class settlements, glad that history had made rubble of them.
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
gloss: A mass or stratum of fragments of rock lying under the alluvium and derived from the neighbouring rock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The overlying beds are composed of such calcareous rubble and flints, rudely stratified
gloss: The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dialectal
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: To break down into rubble.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: rubbish
Derived words: bounce rubble
bounce the rubble
rubble crab
rubble pile
rubblestone
rubblework
rubblization
rubblize
rubbly
Translations:
ballistics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From ballista + -ics. By surface analysis, ballistic + -s.
Base: ballista
Affixes: -ics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science of objects that predominantly fly under the effects of gravity, momentum and atmospheric drag, and dealing with details of their behaviour at the origin and destination of their flight, as of bullets or missiles or rockets.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
drunkard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier droncarde, from Middle English *druncard (attested as a surname, Druncard), possibly from Middle Low German drunkert, equivalent to drunk + -ard (“pejorative agent suffix”). Compare German Trunkart. Compare braggart.
Base: drunk
Affixes: -ard
Inflected forms:
form: drunkards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drunkerd
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who is habitually drunk.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Antonyms: on the wagon
pioneer
teetotaller
teetotaler
Translations:
blend
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English blenden, either from Old English blandan, blondan, ġeblandan, ġeblendan or from Old Norse blanda (“to blend, mix”) (which was originally a strong verb with the present-tense stem blend; compare blendingr (“a blending, a mixture; a half-breed”)), whence also Danish blande, or from a blend of the Old English and Old Norse terms; both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *blandaną (“to blend; mix; combine”). Compare Middle Dutch blanden (“to mix”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (blandan), Old Church Slavonic блєсти (blesti, “to go astray”).
Inflected forms:
form: blends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blended
pos: verb
tags: past
form: blent
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
poetic
form: blent
pos: verb
tags: past
poetic
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of two or more things.
pos: noun
examples: Their music has been described as a blend of jazz and heavy metal.
Our department has a good blend of experienced workers and young promise.
gloss: A word formed by combining two other words; a portmanteau word.
pos: noun
examples: Blends, also known as portmanteau words, are not an original part of English. That is, none occur in Old or Middle English, nor even in Elizabethan English, with the earliest known example being the rare and now obsolete term tomaxe, a blend of tomahawk and axe.
gloss: To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To make hummus you need to blend chickpeas, olive oil, lemon juice and garlic.
gloss: To be mingled or mixed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality.
To feel no other breezes than are blown / Through its tall woods with high romances blent
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
gloss: To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: These stormes, which now his beauty blend,
Shall turn to calmes.
Derived words: blend shape
blend time
cotton blend
idiom blend
loanblend
nanoblend
polyblend
preblend
blendability
blendable
blended
blender
blendery
blend in
blendingly
blend into the woodwork
blendshape
blendstock
blend up
blendy
blorph
blunder
deblend
downblend
interblend
misblend
reblend
Translations:
Frankenstein
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Frankenstein, various places named for Franken (“Franks, Frankish”) + Stein (“stone”). The use of referencing mad scientists derives from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus, where Victor Frankenstein assembles a man from pieces of various corpses and brings him to life with electricity. Use of the reference to the monster itself is an ellipsis of the earlier Frankenstein's monster, with the monster's usual modern appearance derived from Boris Karloff's performance in the 1931 film Frankenstein.
Inflected forms:
form: Frankensteins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: frankenstein
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Frankensteins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Frankensteining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Frankensteined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Frankensteined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: frankenstein
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A monster composed of body parts from various corpses attached and brought back to life by a mad scientist, typically strong, unable to speak clearly, and misunderstood.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
sometimes
examples: "Such loveliness as I possess can only truly shine In Hollywood!" Aunt Sponge declared. "Oh, wouldn't that be fine! I'd capture all the nations' hearts! They'd give me all the leading parts! The stars would all resign!" "I think you'd make," Aunt Spiker said, "a lovely Frankenstein."
gloss: Synonym of mad scientist.
pos: noun
gloss: To combine two or more similar elements into a consistent entity, or a cohesive idea.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: In the middle of the Formica-topped table, on the other side of Kimball's oatmeal but still at arm's length, was an approximation of a laptop Kimball had Frankensteined from computers so obsolete that cash-strapped schools wouldn't even accept them as donations.
Translations:
corvus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin corvus (“crow”), named for the resemblance to a crow's beak.
Inflected forms:
form: corvuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corvi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hooked ram for destroying walls.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A grappling hook in Ancient Roman naval warfare.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
lab
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Clipping of laboratory.
Inflected forms:
form: labs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: labs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: labbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: labbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: labbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A laboratory.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster, from his slab, began to rise
And suddenly, to my surprise
He did the Mash
He did the Monster Mash.
A man dressed as a lab tech, his blue scrubs startlingly pale against the vivid red and black chaos, moved into sight from behind the SUV. He carried an assault rifle.
The NIAID supports projects at universities and research organizations around the United States as well as a network of 21 NIAID labs across the country.
Since the lab has been "doged," a petition posted to Change.org by Evgeny Stambulchik asked for signatures to oppose the layoff of the NIST Atomic Spectroscopy Group and has garnered 2,500 signatures as of reporting time. There is also a campaign website.
gloss: Laboratory experiment, test, investigation or result.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: I dropped my mixture while doing my lab, so I had to start over.
gloss: To practise experimentally outside of competitive play.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Derived words: biolab
clan lab
computer lab
drug lab
dry lab
dry-lab
fab lab
hacklab
homelab
hot lab
lab assistant
labbie
lab coat
lab dip
labful
lab-grown
lab lit
labmate
lab mouse
lab on a chip
lab rat
labside
lab tech
labware
lab work
language lab
medlab
meth lab
minilab
nonlab
photolab
prelab
science lab
sealab
skylab
Skylab
superlab
wet lab
wet-lab
Translations:
yokel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First use appears c. 1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob, cf. Yankee (“little John”) and jacquerie (“a peasant uprising”). Alternatively, from dialectal English yokel, yuckle (“a European green woodpecker”), itself probably a variant of hickwall.
Inflected forms:
form: yokels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated or naive.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: They love the scenery near their summer home, but have no desire to mix with the local yokels.
“[…] my opinion at once is […] that this [robbery] wasn’t done by a yokel―eh, Duff?”
“Certainly not,” replied Duff.
“And, translating the word yokel, for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be that this attempt was not made by a countryman?” said Mr. Losberne with a smile.
[…] and yokels looking up at the tinselled dancers and poor old rouged tumblers, while the light-fingered folk are operating upon their pockets behind.
He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.
"God damn and blast all you hamfisted yokels!" he was saying. "And you, sir, down there. Take that grin off your face and be more careful, or I'll have you clapped under hatches to sail with us today. Easy, there, easy! Christ, rum at seven guineas an anker isn't meant to be dropped like pig iron!"
I went to New York and bought myself a secondhand stretch limousine twenty-eight feet long, calculated to reduce the most blasé country-club sophisticates to bug-eyed yokels.
You may think that because you live in Brahmpur you have seen the world―or more of the world than we poor yokels see. But some of us yokels have also seen the world―and not just the world of Brahmpur, but of Bombay. […]
Some folk'll never eat a skunk, but then again some folk'll, like Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel.
Translations:
eliminate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: accounting
business
finance
government
medicine
military
physiology
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēlīminātus, perfect passive participle of ēlīminō (“to turn out of doors, banish”), from ē- + līmen (“a threshold”, līmin- in compounds) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), akin to Latin līmes (“a boundary”); see also English limit and limen.
Base: līmen
Affixes: ex-
-ō
Inflected forms:
form: eliminates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eliminating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eliminated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eliminated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To completely remove, get rid of, put an end to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The air-handling equipment humidifies, dehumidifies, and distributes the correct amount of fresh air into every zone and eliminates all smoke, dust, and odors, with electric precipitrons.
The real savings of OCR come from the elimination of redundant keyboardings of the same data; from eliminating multiple verification steps; from reducing the number of documents needed to complete a transaction; […]
[…] it should be possible to eliminate most of these mental "costs" by improving the e-shopping systems.
“The Budget proposes eliminating Supporting Effective Instruction (SEI) State Grants (Title II State grants), a program that provides formula funds to States to improve the quality and effectiveness of teachers, principals, and other schools leaders. SEI grants are poorly targeted and funds are spread too thinly to have a meaningful impact on student outcomes.
Last year, the company eliminated hundreds of jobs and asked some of the remaining staff to take on the responsibilities of those who were let go.
gloss: To render (a facility) unusable, to destroy it; to disable (a soldier), make them unable to fight (typically but not necessarily by killing)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To kill (a person or animal).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: a ruthless mobster who eliminated his enemies
gloss: To excrete (waste products).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: In one study, 65.8% of the cat owners relinquishing a cat thought that their cat eliminated outside the litter box or destroyed furniture to spite them.
gloss: To exclude (from investigation or from further competition).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bill was eliminated as a suspect when the police interviewed witnesses.
John was eliminated as a contestant when it was found he had gained, rather than lost, weight.
gloss: To record amounts in a consolidation statement to remove the effects of inter-company transactions.
pos: verb
Related words: eliminable
eliminant
elimination
eliminative
eliminator
eliminatory
Derived words: eliminatrix
Translations:
wordy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wordy, woordi, from Old English wordiġ (“wordy, verbose”), equivalent to word + -y. Cognate with Icelandic orðigur (“wordy”).
Base: word
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: wordier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wordiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Using an excessive number of words.
pos: adj
examples: The story was long and very wordy.
And wordy attacks against slavery drew sneers from observers which were not altogether undeserved. The authors were compared to doctors who offered to a patient nothing more than invectives against the disease which consumed him.
Translations:
enormous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin ēnormis. An assimilated form of ex- (“out of”) + norma (“rule, norm”) + -ous.
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: more enormous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most enormous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Deviating from the norm; unusual, extraordinary.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: all shall be rather enforced than hindered, except they be dismembered, or grievously deformed, infirm, or visited with some enormous hereditary disease is body or mind […].
gloss: Exceedingly wicked; atrocious or outrageous.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: how apt wee are to receive all impressions, and chiefly the most wicked and enormous.
Men would prove wolves and vipers; tigers and dragons mixt in one and the same person to each other. O bless God for this great gift of Princes and Judges to rule the wicked and enormous world and to sway the scepter of righteousness […]
Protestant Christian people are largely ignorant or indifferent to the wicked and enormous religious claims of Romanism. As a so-called religious organization, Romanism is not only the foe of Protestantism, but […]
gloss: Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc.
pos: adj
examples: The enormous Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System.
He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.
Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages. Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.
Piecing together Corbynomics is difficult, not least because it has evolved during Mr Corbyn’s time in charge of Labour. The gulf between the Labour leadership’s past positions and the milder proposals in the manifesto means that enormous uncertainty hangs over what a Corbyn-led government would do in office.
Synonyms: huge
gigantic
humongous
massive
tremendous
Antonyms: tiny
Derived words: enormance
enormously
enormous Lyman-alpha nebula
enormousness
ginormous
hunormous
superenormous
Translations:
gigantic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γιγαντικός (gigantikós), ultimately from γίγας (gígas, “giant”). According to the Poly-Olbion project coined by Michael Drayton in 1612.
Inflected forms:
form: more gigantic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gigantic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gigantick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Very large.
pos: adj
examples: Thou Genius of the place (this most renowned Ile)
Which livedst long before the All-earth-drowning Flood,
Whilst yet the world did swarme with her Gigantick brood;
It is in solitude that the imagination exercises its gigantic power; and where are a woman's feelings nurtured but in solitude?
gloss: Excellent; very good or exciting.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: This band is going to be gigantic.
gloss: In the manner of a giant.
pos: adj
Synonyms: gigantesque
Related words: giant
Derived words: gigantically
giganticism
gigantic jet
giganticness
gigantification
gigantism
gigundous
ginormous
hugantic
supergigantic
ungigantic
Translations:
performer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English perform
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 performer
From perform + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: performers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who performs for, or entertains, an audience.
pos: noun
gloss: One who performs or does anything.
pos: noun
examples: the performer of an action
It is imperative that these forms are completed accurately for work performed by you bearing your unique performer number, […]
Derived words: autoperformer
cyberperformer
nonperformer
performerly
street performer
Translations:
exactly
Part of speech: adv
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From exact + -ly.
Base: exact
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more exactly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most exactly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without approximation; precisely.
pos: adv
examples: Measure exactly so we can be sure it is right.
The edge is not exactly straight.
He divided the coins exactly in half.
He, that would write exactly, muſt avoid a Barbarous Pronunciation, and conſider for facility, or thorow miſtake, many words are not ſounded after the beſt dialect. Such as […] Wun, one.
gloss: Precisely, used to provide emphasis.
pos: adv
tags: focus
examples: He did it that way exactly to prove the point.
His hair is a semilong dull red and pulled back in a sloppy pony at the base of his neck, and his face is riddled with small freckles and grease, but out here I can see personal hygiene isn't exactly at the top of the priority list.
gloss: Signifies agreement or recognition.
pos: intj
examples: So you're saying that we have only three days left? — Yes, exactly!
Synonyms: exact
perfectly
correctly
dead-nuts
definitely
directly
even
exactly
fully
incisively
just
jump
on target
on the button
on the dot
on the mark
on the money
on the nose
plump
plunk
precisely
punctually
right
sharp
slap
slap bang
squarely
Antonyms: approximately
imprecisely
inaccurately
incorrectly
inexactly
Derived words: do exactly what it says on the tin
eggsactly
exacatically
exactically
exactually
my point exactly
not exactly
perxactly
perzackly
perzactly
prexactly
prezackly
prezactly
Translations:
externality
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: From external + -ity. In the economic sense coined by British economist Alfred Marshall in 1890.
Base: external
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: externalities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being external or externalized.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: But according to the theory of the externality of relations, terms acquire from their new relations an added character, which does not either condition, or necessarily alter, the character which they already possess.
gloss: A thing that is external relative to something else.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An impact, positive or negative, on any party not involved in a given economic transaction or act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Waste is a negative externality arising from consumption.
"(1) Each agency shall identify in writing the specific market failure (such as externalities, market power, lack of information) or other specific problem that it intends to address (including, where applicable, the failures of public institutions) that warrant new agency action, as well as assess the significance of that problem, to enable assessment of whether any new regulation is warranted."
Pigouvian taxes are meant to internalize ‘externalities’, generally understood to be positive or negative side-effects from economic production that are not reflected in the price of production.
Related words: collateral damage
Derived words: network externality
nonexternality
production externality
Translations:
offbeat
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From off- + beat; not following the beat (e.g., of a drum that sounds out cadence).
Base: beat
Affixes: off-
Inflected forms:
form: offbeats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: off-beat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: off beat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more offbeat
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most offbeat
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: off-beat
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: off beat
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The beats not normally accented in a measure.
pos: noun
examples: The congregation clapped along on the offbeat.
gloss: An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: No one dignified such offbeats by responding to their outcries. Today, the "knockers of progress" have become a force that cannot be ignored.
Being an oddball, an offbeat, or a creative person, as Jourard sees the committed professional, is something all nurses should risk.
In addition to creating a web of stories that will be passed through many generations, these offbeats usually strengthen the fiber of their particular hobby […]
gloss: Unusual; unconventional; not ordinary.
pos: adj
examples: He has such an offbeat sense of humor that hardly anyone finds his jokes amusing.
Translations:
toothsome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tooth + -some.
Base: tooth
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more toothsome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most toothsome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Delicious.
pos: adj
examples: "It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls, how many bites each girl would have.
‘I had the happy notion of adding an egg,’ Williams shouted back. ‘It poaches in the soup. Not unlike an Italian stracciatella. Singularly toothsome.[…]’
gloss: Sexually attractive.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: In 1919 he had been waiting at a bus stop, en route to his initiation as a Freemason: a toothsome blonde had crossed his path, and he had stalked off after her instead.
gloss: Having a pleasing texture when bitten.
pos: adj
examples: Once the pasta is firmly al dente (toothsome but not snappy), add it into the pan, with a bunch of cheese, and cook til it all becomes glossy.
Bagels are fine, but give me a warm bialy any time. With its crisp bits of onion nestled snugly into a golden pillow of toothsome chewiness, this is the ideal substrate for lox and a schmear—or just on its own.
CARNEVALE MACCHERONI WITH FIVE HOLES { Maccheroni con cinque buchi } SERVES 4 | REGION: Sicily, especially the Catania province It just wouldn't be Carnevale in Sicily without a plate of this decadently rich pork ragù served on Martedí Grasso, Fat Tuesday. The sauce is flavored with pork rind and, while that's not essential, it is really sinfully delicious. Yes, it's rich, but heck—it's called Fat Tuesday for a reason! This is traditionally served with short, fabulously thick pasta called maccheroni con cinque buchi, which has one large hole in the center and four smaller holes around it. It's very toothsome and pretty, but if you can't find it, you can of course substitute any pasta shape.
gloss: Showing lots of teeth; toothy.
pos: adj
Derived words: toothsomely
toothsomeness
untoothsome
Translations:
howler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From howl + -er. Some senses are derivatives of the intensifier "howling", as in "howling wilderness", (Deuteronomy 32:10)
Base: howl
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: howlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
pos: noun
gloss: A person hired to howl in mourning at a funeral.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A painfully obvious mistake.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Given what we know about cognitive psychology, utility maximization is a ludicrous concept; equilibrium pretty foolish outside of financial markets; perfect competition a howler for most industries.
I should like to thank Jianmei Piao of the Stanford University Libraries for reading the entire translation and checking it against the Chinese. Jianmei caught some howlers for which I am very grateful.
A howler is a glaring mistake, a mistake that cries out to be noticed.
gloss: A hilarious joke.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A bitterly cold day.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A person who expresses aggression openly in the form of threats.
pos: noun
examples: Although their behavior does not have the same impact as hunters, howlers nevertheless distract the public figure and compel security and law enforcement […]
Hunters stalk their targets, make detailed plans, acquire and practice with weapons, and try to hurt or kill people. Howlers make bomb threats to schools, malls, churches, businesses, and government offices.
gloss: A heavy fall.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
sometimes
gloss: A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler; compare come a cropper).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Our hansom came a howler.
gloss: A tremendous lie (especially an obvious one); a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Trump has been trying to sell the howler that India offered a zero tariffs deal, when Modi isn’t even willing to take Trump’s repeated calls.
gloss: A fashionably but extravagantly overdressed man, a "howling swell".
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
gloss: A 32-ounce ceramic, plastic, or stainless steel jug used to transport draft beer.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A small child.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I wanted Leesa to pick up her children, not Child Protective Services. After thirty minutes, I had the two howlers fed and settled down for naps.
What are we doing to our children? But the howlers seem okay, maybe even happy. This makes me feel a little better about the future.
Derived words: calamity howler
black howler
ursine howler
Translations:
fab
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂ti
Proto-Italic *fāōr
Latin for, fā-
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlomder.
Latin -bula
Latin fābula
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Latin fābulōsusder.
Middle English fabulous
English fabulousclip.
English fab
From fabulous, by shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: fabber
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: fabbest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fabs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fabbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fabbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fabbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Fabulous (great or spectacular).
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The chip fab will double its production next year.
gloss: To fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: It uses digital data from a computer to “fab” products and models of new products.
Translations:
cynocephalus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin cynocephalus; by surface analysis, cyno- + translingual -cephalus.
Inflected forms:
form: cynocephali
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A creature with the head of a dog or jackal and the body of a human.
pos: noun
gloss: A creature with the head of a dog or jackal and the body of a nonhuman ape.
pos: noun
Translations:
faux
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin fallō
Latin falsus
Old French fals
Middle French faulx
French fauxubor.
English faux
Unadapted borrowing from French faux. Doublet of false.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fake or artificial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He modernizes the faux-archaic “withouten wind, withouten tide” to the more pointed and concrete “without a breeze, without a tide.”
Because mahoganies yield a supple fine-grained wood, they are often used as veneer wood. With proper technique and graining tools, all of these variations can be produced in faux wood.
Run grapes, either frozen, chilled, or room temperature, through your juicer for an incredible grape faux wine.
The pregame crew then showed a pair of faux-Super Bowl ads, including an unnecessarily woke Cheez-It commercial and a Papa John’s ad that fully embraces Pizzagaters.
Its faux burgers and sausages were landing on dinner plates in homes throughout the United States and on the menu boards of chans like Subway, Carl’s Jr. and Starbucks.
Translations:
underwhelming
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Facetious play on overwhelm, with under.
Inflected forms:
form: more underwhelming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most underwhelming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Failing to interest; not as exciting as promised or expected.
pos: adj
examples: If I grant you that the German language is spoken by the overwhelming majority of the German people you will agree with me that the best music of Germany has been composed by the underwhelming minority. Now, if the overwhelming majority of Germans are enemies, it follows that the underwhelming minority of Germans must be friendly.
Davis, plush as ever, is a little whiny and underwhelming as Murray's girlfriend, who spends much of her time nurturing Quaid, doing his familiar sweet-natured lummox.
But in Washington and just about everywhere else, sales of "The Secret Man," Bob Woodward's story of the source known as Deep Throat, have been underwhelming.
When compared with the superb ÖBB Railjet or Italy's Frecciarossa (Red Arrow), to cite just two examples, the Government-procured Intercity Express Trains (IETs) are somewhat underwhelming.
Antonyms: overwhelming
Translations:
metro
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French métro, clipping of métropolitain (from Ancient Greek μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”)), as in the Chemin de fer métropolitain, an early name for the Paris Métro. This name was a direct translation of "Metropolitan Railway", which was the original name of the earliest part of the London Underground, constructed in 1863.
Inflected forms:
form: metros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: métro
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more metro
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most metro
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A rapid transit rail transport system, or a train in such systems, generally underground and serving a metropolitan area.
pos: noun
tags: general
examples: He is going to the stadium by metro.
Recalling that Davide Lungo returned the van at the airport, Pizo descended the nearby stairs to the underground metro, and boarded the next metro stopping there.
I hurry to the underground. ... I am waiting for the next metro; I'll take it.
What we entered into here was well lit and had clean silver curvy walls that ended in nice automatic elevators that took you underground. The walls are not infested with graffiti and advertisements; they were clean and shiny. We waited on nice benches until the metro arrived.
gloss: An urban rapid transit rail transport system, normally with lighter track and light trains (i.e. an S-Bahn or similar), or a train in such systems.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: Informs how long the passenger has to wait for the next metro
With the weather clear and warm for a change, I decided to catch the next metro to the outskirts of town by myself.
I boarded the Yellow Line Metro, beaming with confidence. I got down at Rajiv Chowk to continue my journey towards Noida City Centre (NCC). The next metro arrived.
gloss: metropolitan
pos: adj
Derived words: Frutiger Metro
metro aide
MetroCard
metroisation
metro station
Metro Toronto
nonmetro
premetro
semi-metro
Translations:
oculus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin oculus (“eye”). Doublet of occhio.
Inflected forms:
form: oculi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
pos: noun
gloss: A window or other opening that has an oval or circular shape (as of an eye).
pos: noun
examples: One can glimpse the sky through the oculus of the Pantheon in Rome.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: кръгъл прозорец
roman: krǎgǎl prozorec
lang: Catalan
word: ull de bou
lang: Catalan
word: òcul
lang: French
word: œil-de-bœuf
lang: German
word: Oculus
lang: German
word: Ochsenauge
lang: German
word: Rundfenster
lang: Hebrew
word: אוֹקוּלוּס
roman: okulus
lang: Italian
word: opaion
lang: Japanese
word: 目
roman: me
lang: Japanese
word: 眼
roman: me
lang: Polish
word: oculus
lang: Spanish
word: óculo
lang: Swedish
word: oculus
lang: Swedish
word: oxöga
thyrsus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin thyrsus, from Ancient Greek θύρσος (thúrsos). Doublet of thyrse, torse, and torso.
Inflected forms:
form: thyrsi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A staff topped with a conical ornament, carried by Bacchus or his followers.
pos: noun
examples: 1882, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Poet's Calendar
In my hand I bear / The thyrsus, tipped with fragrant cones of pine.
As good to grow on graves / As twist about a thyrsus.
The champagne was done, and she upturned the bottle to hold it like a thyrsus.
gloss: A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.
pos: noun
Derived words: thyrsiform
thyrsoid
Translations:
grieve
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English greven, from Old French grever (“to burden”), from Latin gravō, gravāre, from adjective gravis (“grave”).
For the meaning development compare Russian тяготи́ть (tjagotítʹ, “to be a burden (on), to oppress”), Russian тужи́ть (tužítʹ, “to experience grief”), related to тяжёлый (tjažólyj, “heavy, grave”), тя́жкий (tjážkij).
Inflected forms:
form: grieves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grieving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grieved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grieved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: grieves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cause sorrow or distress to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thy maidens griev'd themselves at my concern.
gloss: To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to grieve one's fate
gloss: To experience grief.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To harm.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To submit or file a grievance (about).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Even if the executive director rules against the employee on appeal, the employee can still grieve the termination to the superintendent followed by an appeal to the … Board of Trustees.
gloss: A governor of a town or province.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: 1559-1566, John Knox, History of the Reformation in Scotland
[A prince] is nothing but a servant, overseer, or grieve, and not the head, which is a title belonging only to Christ.
[T]heir children were horsewhipped by the grieve when found trespassing; […]
Related words: grief
grievance
grievous
Derived words: begrieve
engrieve
grievable
grieved
grieven
griever
grievesome
grievingly
grievor
misgrieve
un-grieve
ungrieve
ungrieving
grieveship
Translations:
limousine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French limousine, from region Limousin, originally an adjective referring to the city Limoges, from Latin Lemovices (adjective Lemovicīnus), name of a Gaulish tribe in central France, most likely a reference to their elm bows and spears, of same ultimate origin as elm.
Inflected forms:
form: limousines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An automobile body with seats and permanent top like a coupe, and with the top projecting over the driver and a projecting front.
pos: noun
gloss: An automobile with such a body.
pos: noun
gloss: A luxury sedan or saloon car, especially one with a lengthened wheelbase or driven by a chauffeur.
pos: noun
examples: It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
gloss: An automobile for transportation to or from an airport, including sedans, vans, and buses.
pos: noun
Derived words: limo
limousine liberal
limousinelike
stretch limousine
Translations:
coupe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French coupe. Doublet of cup, hive, and keeve.
Inflected forms:
form: coupes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shallow glass or glass dish, usually with a stem, in which sparkling wine or desserts are served.
pos: noun
examples: These are champagne glasses, says Peggy.
No, I mean the tall ones, Jamie says.
You're thinking of flutes, says Peggy. These are coupes.
gloss: An ice cream dessert served in a coupe glass.
pos: noun
gloss: An area of forest where harvesting of wood is planned or has taken place.
pos: noun
Related words: coupe-gorge
Derived words: champagne coupe
Translations: