yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
lilt
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lilten, lulten.
Inflected forms:
form: lilts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lilting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lilted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lilted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lilts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Whether the bird flit here or there,
O'er table lilt , or perch on chair
gloss: To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, / With scraps of thunderous epic lilted out / By violet-hooded doctors.
gloss: Animated, brisk motion; spirited rhythm; sprightliness.
pos: noun
gloss: A lively song or dance; a cheerful tune.
pos: noun
gloss: A cheerful or melodious accent when speaking.
pos: noun
examples: Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.
Related words: brogue
drawl
lisp
twang
Translations:
limbic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: From French limbique, from Latin limbus (“edge, border”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the limbic system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
linter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lint
English -er
English linter
From lint + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: linters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The short fibres that cling to cottonseeds after the first ginning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A machine for removing these fibres.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A person or device that collects lint for use in making hats etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: lint doctor
lint roller
Translations:
lipid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leyp-
Proto-Hellenic *lípos
Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos)
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idusbor.
French -ide
French lipidebor.
English lipid
Borrowed from French lipide, coined in 1923 by Gabriel Bertrand from Ancient Greek λῐ́πος (lĭ́pos, “animal fat”) + French -ide.
Inflected forms:
form: lipids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water.
pos: noun
examples: Without lipids your body eats your fat and then your muscles, and the brain is pure fat and the heart is a muscle. You become a feedback loop, and then you fall over.
Translations:
lithic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
archaeology
chemistry
geography
geology
history
human-sciences
inorganic-chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From lith- + -ic.
Base: lith
Inflected forms:
form: more lithic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lithic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lithics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to stone.
pos: adj
examples: lithic architecture
gloss: Relating to rock.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to lithium.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to the formation of uric acid concretions (stones) in the bladder and other parts of the body.
pos: adj
examples: lithic diathesis
gloss: pertaining to Native American culture before circa 8,500 BCE.
pos: adj
tags: capitalized
often
gloss: A stone tool or projectile.
pos: noun
gloss: A medicine that prevents stone in the bladder.
pos: noun
gloss: A lithic fragment: a piece of another rock eroded down to sand size.
pos: noun
examples: Silty fine sandstone: poorly sorted; 50% quartz, 30% fossils, 10% lithics, 10% feldspar
Derived words: abyssolithic
antilithic
cystolithic
endolithic
heliolithic
lithate
lithic acid
lithic mulch
paralithic
polylithic
siderolithic
Translations:
litmus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English litmose, lytmose, litemose, from Old Norse litmosi (“moss used for dyeing”), from lita (“to dye, stain”) + mosi (“moss”), the former from litr (“colour, dye, blee”), from Proto-Germanic *wlitiz, *wlituz (“appearance, blee”), from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to see”). Cognate with Old English wlite (“appearance, form, brightness, countenance”). More at moss.
Compound parts: lita
mosi
Inflected forms:
form: litmuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens, that changes color when exposed to pH levels greater than or less than certain critical levels.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A simple test of acidity in a liquid using litmus, usually in the form of litmus paper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A simple test of any attribute; a litmus test.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: indicator
Related words: acidic
alkaline
pH
Roccella tinctoria
Roccella fuciformis
Roccella pygmaea
Roccella phycopsis
Lecanora tartarea
Variolaria dealbata
Ochrolechia parella
Ochrolechia tartarea
Parmotrema tinctorum
Parmelia
Roccella montagnei
Dendrographa leucophoea
Derived words: azolitmin
litmus milk
litmus paper
litmus test
Translations:
loam
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
crafts
engineering
geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English lome, lame, lam, from Old English lām (“clay, mud, mire, earth”), from Proto-West Germanic *laim, from Proto-Germanic *laimaz, *laimô (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Leem (“loam”), West Frisian liem (“loam”), Dutch leem (“loam”), German Lehm (“loam”). Related also to lime.
Inflected forms:
form: loams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loamed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander
returneth to dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make
loam, and of why that loam whereto he was converted
might they not stop a beer-barrel?
gloss: A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To cover, smear, or fill with loam.
pos: verb
gloss: Made of loam; consisting of loam.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: loamless
Loamshire
loamy
Translations:
loamy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English loam
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English loamy
From loam + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: loamier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: loamiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Consisting of loam; partaking of the nature of loam; resembling loam.
pos: adj
examples: Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
Translations:
lobar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lobe
English -ar
English lobar
From lobe + -ar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a lobe.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lobe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French lobe in early 16th century, from New Latin lobus (“a lobe”), from Ancient Greek λοβός (lobós, “the lobe of the ear or of the liver, the pod of a leguminous plant”).
Inflected forms:
form: lobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
pos: noun
examples: A lobe of lava was crawling down the side of the volcano.
He then broke the kola nut and threw one of the lobes on the ground for the ancestors.
gloss: A clear division of an organ that can be determined at the gross anatomy level, especially one of the parts of the brain, liver or lung.
pos: noun
examples: The yawning gap in neuroscientists’ understanding of their topic is in the intermediate scale of the brain’s anatomy. Science has a passable knowledge of how individual nerve cells, known as neurons, work. It also knows which visible lobes and ganglia of the brain do what. But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure.
gloss: A semicircular pattern left on the ice as the skater travels across it.
pos: noun
Synonyms: lobe
Related words: lobate
lobotomy
Derived words: axial lobe
bilobe
earlobe
flocculonodular lobe
interlobe
intralobe
limbic lobe
lobal
lobar
lobate
lobation
lobectomy
lobed
lobefin
lobe-finned
lobefoot
lobeless
lobelet
lobelike
lobe-shaped
lobing
lobule
midlobe
multilobe
pleural lobe
right middle lobe syndrome
Roche lobe
seed-lobe
side-lobe
sidelobe
Spigelian lobe
trilobite
Translations:
lobule
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lobe
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, *-dʰlom
Latin -ulader.
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulusder.
▲
Latin -ulader.
▲
Proto-Indo-European *-tlomder.
Latin -ulumder.
French -uleder.
English -ule
English lobule
From lobe + -ule (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: lobules
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lobula
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lobulus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Diminutive of lobe:
pos: noun
gloss: Diminutive of lobe:
pos: noun
examples: The Jubulaceae have a leaf whose lobule, usually transformed into a water-sac, is normally very narrowly attached to the stem and to the dorsal lobe; indeed some Frullania taxa reproduce vegetatively by dropping the dorsal lobes, but not the lobules, and Neohattoria has caducous lobules but persistent lobes.
gloss: Diminutive of lobe:
pos: noun
Derived words: lobular
lobulation
lobulette
lobuloalveolar
lobulocentric
lobulogenesis
microlobule
pseudolobule
Translations:
logan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably cognate with Danish logre, "to wag the tail".
Inflected forms:
form: logans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loggan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: roggan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rocking or balanced stone.
pos: noun
Translations:
loge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French loge (“arbor, covered walk-way”) from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”). Akin to Old High German loub (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of lobby, loggia, and lodge. More at lobby, loggia, leaf, lodge.
Inflected forms:
form: loges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A booth or stall.
pos: noun
gloss: The lodge of a concierge.
pos: noun
examples: About three in the morning, Nora knocked at the little glass door of the concierge's loge, asking if the doctor was in.
gloss: An upscale seating region in a modern concert hall or sports venue, often in the back lower tier, or on a separate tier above the mezzanine.
pos: noun
examples: In major league stadiums the press box is usually located between the first and second decks in the loge level.
gloss: An exclusive box or seating region in older theaters and opera houses, having wider, softer, and more widely spaced seats than in the gallery.
pos: noun
examples: Pickle gladly embraced this opportunity of becoming acquainted with a person of such rank, and ordering his own chariot to follow, accompanied the count to his loge, where he conversed with him during the whole entertainment.
Patte notes that the spectators who were seated there were too close to the action to frame it as real, and that the loges in the avant-scène hampered the effect of the voice.
Translations:
loll
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lollen, lullen (“to lounge idly, hang loosely”), of uncertain origin; the Middle English Dictionary suggests a derivation from Middle Dutch lollen, lullen (“to doze; to mumble, talk nonsense”), though the words could merely be cognate. Compare modern Dutch lol (“fun”)), Icelandic lolla (“to act lazily”). See also lull.
Inflected forms:
form: lolls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And think'ſt thou, Jove himſelf, with Patience then / Can hear a Pray'r condemn'd by wicked Men? / That, void of Care, he lolls ſupine in State, / And leaves his Bus'neſs to be done by Fate?
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but [Ice Age:] Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
Liv's head lolled to the side and rested on his shoulder.
gloss: To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Nor thy reſiſtleſs Arm the Bull withſtood: / Nor He the roaring Terror of the Wood. / The triple Porter of the Stygian seat, / With lolling Tongue, lay fawning at thy Feet: / And, ſeiz'd with Fear, forgot his mangled Meat.
Crouching on its stomach, the dog moved with him, teeth glittering, tongue lolling.
gloss: To let (the tongue) hang from the mouth.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The ox stood lolling in the furrow.
The combatants with rage most horrible
Strove, and their eyes started with cracking stare,
And impotent their tongues they lolled into the air,
Flaccid and foamy, like a mad dog’s hanging; […]
[W]hen he saw the hundreds of heads of cattle lolling their greedy way through his grass, he ran towards them wildly, waving his arms, screaming.
Derived words: aloll
loll about
loll around
loller
Translations:
lolly
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: A clipping of lollypop.
Inflected forms:
form: lollies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lollier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lolliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A piece of hard candy on a stick; a lollipop.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Trim the lolly sticks, so that you have a stem of about 3–4cm to stick into the cake, and then plunge the sticks of the foreshortened lollies into the cake so that the ghoulish faces leer out from their black-frosted graveyard.
gloss: An ice lolly; a popsicle.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
uncountable
gloss: Any confection made from sugar, or high in sugar content; a sweet, a piece of candy.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
countable
uncountable
examples: Leaving the Domain, I walked back to the hotel, noticing the queer signs by the way. One was “Lollies for Sale.” It was over the door of a confectioner′s store where all sorts of candies were displayed.
Organise the students into small groups. Send a letter home to the parents stating that the science lesson will involve students eating a small amount of lollies. Check which students are allowed to eat lollies. Students with diabetes will only be able to observe or they could bring their own ‘special’ sweets from home.
He looked straight into Frau Diller′s spectacled eyes and said, ‘Mixed lollies, please.’
Frau Diller smiled.[…]‘Here,’ she said, tossing a single lolly onto the counter. ‘Mix it yourself.’
gloss: An easy catch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
UK
slang
uncountable
gloss: A lump.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Eliciting a response of LOL; funny.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
Derived words: cough lolly
eucalyptus lolly
ice lolly
lolly cake
lolly ice
lolly legs
lolly scramble
lolly up
lolly water
trough lolly
Translations:
looper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English loop
English -er
English looper
From loop + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: loopers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instrument or tool, such as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn or cord, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A moth having a caterpillar which arches its body into a loop in order to bring the back part of the body forward as it walks due to having fewer prolegs, including inchworms or measuring worms in the family Geometridae and some species in the family Noctuidae.
pos: noun
gloss: A (usually electronic) tool for creating music loops.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of blooper (“a fly ball that is weakly hit just over the infielders”).
pos: noun
examples: With one out and runners on second and third, Cavan Biggio hit a looper up the middle that eluded hustling shortstop Tim Anderson in short centre field.
gloss: A golf caddy
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "There ain't much to tell. I'm the king of the caddies, the greatest fucking looper who ever packed a bag."
"Carl Spackler: So I jump ship in Hong Kong and I make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. Angie D’Annunzio: A looper? Carl Spackler: A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock."
gloss: A crazy person; a maniac.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
derogatory
slang
Derived words: cabbage looper
green looper
looper caterpillar
mesquite looper moth
red-lined looper
semi-looper
Translations:
lop
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: lops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lopt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lopt
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
examples: Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,
In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,
Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
gloss: To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
pos: verb
gloss: To allow to hang down.
pos: verb
examples: to lop the head
gloss: That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
pos: noun
examples: Why, we take,
From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber
I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow
Derived words: alop
lop down
lop-eared
lop off
lopper
loppers
loppy
lopseed
unlopped
Translations:
lope
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.
Inflected forms:
form: lopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To travel an easy pace with long strides.
pos: verb
examples: He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
Scott hurried down the dark path, lifted the canoe from the muddy rock to the moss, took out the packs, and loped back. toward the cabin. As he passed the window he glanced inside.
And as we waited in the car Victor got out and loped over to the house and said a few words to an old lady, […]
“And the holidays?” Murgo proposed one evening as they loped down a bridlepath past lovers fondling in the grass. “Fun, are they? High living?”
gloss: To jump, leap.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: And as he cam by a ryver, in hys woodnes he wolde have made hys horse to have lopyn over the watir; and the horse fayled footyng and felle in the ryver
1621-22, Thomas Middleton et al, The Spanish Gypsy
he that lopes on the ropes
gloss: An easy pace with long strides.
pos: noun
examples: Hares have larger, leaner bodies, longer legs, and longer ears than the true rabbit. They also run with a lope instead of a hop. It is thought that they developed this more stream-lined body and swifter gait from running on the plains […]
Then he was gone, not with the flashing quick steps that Lao Bingyi and Wei Jintai had employed but with the long lope of a wolf that knows to pace himself for a hunt.
Related words: elope
interlope
Derived words: loper
lopingly
Translations:
lopper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lop + -er.
Base: lop
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: loppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loppers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loppering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loppered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loppered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who lops.
pos: noun
gloss: A gardening tool used for lopping.
pos: noun
gloss: To turn sour and coagulate from too long standing, as milk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
lossy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
communications
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Etymology tree
English loss
English -y
English lossy
From loss + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: lossier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lossiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a communication channel, subject to loss of signal strength.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an electricity transmission line, subject to various forms of power loss.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an algorithm for converting or compressing data, reducing the amount of information in data.
pos: adj
examples: JPEG is a lossy image compression format.
Antonyms: lossless
Derived words: lossily
lossiness
unlossy
Translations:
louver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lover, from Old French lovier, lover (“skylight”), from Medieval Latin *lōdārium (attested as lōvārium), extension of lōdium, of unclear origin, but probably of Germanic origin and related to Frankish *laubijā (“shelter”).
Inflected forms:
form: louvers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loover
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: louvre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
mainly
form: lover
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lovour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: luffer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of turret on the roof of certain medieval buildings designed to allow ventilation or the admission of light.
pos: noun
examples: But darknesse dred and daily night did hover / Through all the inner parts, wherein they dwelt; / Ne lightned was with window, nor with lover, / But with continuall candle-light […].
gloss: A series of sloping overlapping slats or boards which admit air and light but exclude rain etc.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: Any of a system of slits, as in the hood of an automobile, for ventilation.
pos: noun
Related words: jalousie
Derived words: louvered
louvred
Translations:
lowboy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
furniture
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Possibly from low + French bois (“wood”).
Inflected forms:
form: lowboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: low-boy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A low chest of drawers.
pos: noun
examples: Puffing rhythmically, Jones set one of his beautiful dragon-entwined flambeaux on the low-boy with the gleaming drinks […].
gloss: A semi-trailer designed for hauling vehicles and other mobile equipment, with two drops in deck height: one right after the gooseneck and one right before the wheels; so named because the trailer's main deck is situated close to the ground for easy loading and unloading of vehicles and equipment.
pos: noun
examples: Before the grave was half filled a truck entered the cemetery gates towing a lowboy with a tractor chained to the bed.
gloss: A precursor to the hi-hat drum, with a pair of cymbals low to the ground that are struck with a foot pedal.
pos: noun
Translations:
luge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from Swiss French or Franco-Provençal luge, from Medieval Latin scludia, from Late Latin sclodia, of Celtic origin, from Gaulish *stludio, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slide, slip; to be slick or slippery”). If so, it is related to sled and sleigh.
Sense 2.2 (“drinking utensil”) is from its resemblance to the tracks on which luges race.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Cognates
* Irish slaod (“raft, float”)
* Old Breton stloit (“sliding; traction”) (modern Breton stlej (“sleigh”))
* Welsh llithr (“slide, slippage”)
Inflected forms:
form: luges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: luges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: luging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lugeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: luged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: luged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A racing sled for one or two people that is ridden with the rider or riders lying on their back.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
countable
gloss: The sport of racing on luges.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
broadly
uncountable
gloss: A piece of bone, ice or other material with a channel down which a drink (usually alcoholic) can be poured into someone's mouth.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
broadly
countable
examples: The luge was a block of ice, sometimes up to three-and-one-half feet long, which had narrow grooves etched into it. Alcohol was poured onto one end of the luge and as the alcohol traveled down the narrow grooves in the block of ice, it was cooled and then ran directly into the mouth of the waiting drinker on the other end.
Kegs of beer were set up around every corner. There was also a liquor luge—a giant block of ice, slanted at a 45-degree angle and carved with a convenient path for shots to be poured down and into the mouths of anyone who was thirsty.
From restaurant openings and closings to how to do a "Bone Marrow Luge," you'll want to check him [Dave Cathey] out for the latest on the gastronomic scene.
The Torres opened their first location in 2010 in Boyle Heights—the area squished between Downtown and East L.A.—and on their Chef's Night Out, we captured some quality father–son time as each Armando showed the other his generation's Boyle Heights. For Junior that meant creative-Italian appetizing at Bestia (technically in the "Arts District") and something called a "bone luge," where a sommelier pours sherry down your gullet via a recently scraped cow femur.
gloss: To ride a luge; also, to participate in the sport of luge.
pos: verb
tags: also
attributive
intransitive
gloss: To slide or slip down a slope.
pos: verb
tags: also
attributive
figuratively
intransitive
examples: [Norman] Ollestad was only 11 when a small plane carrying him, his father and his father's girlfriend to a ski race slammed into the San Gabriel Mountains west of Los Angeles during a blizzard. […] After the girlfriend luged to her death halfway down the icy slope, Ollestad had to pick his way down alone, following the trail of her blood.
Derived words: ice luge
street luge
vodka luge
lugeing
luging
luger
Translations:
lugger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lug + -er. Attested since the early 17th century.
Base: lug
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: luggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
pos: noun
examples: The horse was a lugger – lugging into the rail all the time. I had to fight hard to keep him running straight
gloss: One who lugs, especially one whose job entails pulling or moving heavy objects.
pos: noun
examples: Robert Taillon, a lugger at Rapid, testified that in December 1997, Carlos Diaz and Michel Labrosse began to train Rene Delage as a lugger for the large transformers.
gloss: A conman.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
US
slang
gloss: A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
pos: noun
examples: An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.
Translations:
lull
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
surfing
transport
Etymology: From Middle English lullen, lollen. Originally, perhaps expressive in origin from la-la-la or lu-lu-lu sounds made in calming a child. Compare Finnish laulaa (“to sing”) and Hiligaynon lala (“to sing a lullaby”).
Cognate with Scots lul, lule, loll (“to lull, put to sleep, howl, caterwaul”), Dutch lollen (“to sing badly, caterwaul”), Dutch lullen (“to chatter, prate, cheat, deceive”), Low German lullen (“to lull”), German lullen (“to lull”), Danish lulle (“to lull, sing to sleep”), Swedish lulla (“to lull”), Icelandic lúlla (“to lull”).
Inflected forms:
form: lulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lulls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lulling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lulled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lulled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A period of rest or soothing.
pos: noun
gloss: A period of reduced activity; a respite.
pos: noun
examples: After this departure there is a lull—one can almost feel the weary station breathing thankfulness!—broken only by the car-sleeper departing at 10.25 from Platform 6 […]. There is normally another lull from 1.45 to 4.30 a.m. till the daily round begins again, […].
gloss: A period without waves or wind.
pos: noun
examples: […] during the lull, wind shifted to S. E. […]
After the lull the wind does not appear to have blown with any great strength […]
The air under each cloud has spent time near the surface, has been slowed and backed by friction—it is a lull.
gloss: An extended pause between sets of waves.
pos: noun
examples: It is advisable to leave the surf zone during the lull between sets of larger waves, waiting outside the surf zone for a lull.
About 2 hours in, a long lull cleared everyone out, and then it started getting a little more consistent and pushing chest ta neck high.
gloss: To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: To lull him soft a sleepe
Such ſweet compulſion doth in muſick ly, / To lull the daughers of Neceſſity,
To lull with song an aching heart
gloss: To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The storm lulled.
gloss: To give somebody a false sense of security so that an unpleasant situation takes the person by surprise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They lulled us into thinking we still had time.
Derived words: lull before the storm
belull
lullable
lullaby
luller
lullful
lullingly
lullsome
unlulled
Translations:
lulu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from American stage magician Lulu Hurst (1869–1950).
Inflected forms:
form: lulus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A remarkable person, object, or idea.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The funny part was, though, we were the worst skaters on the whole goddam^([sic]) rink. I mean the worst. And there were some lulus, too.
Mon-sewer, you are a lulu!
Seriously, I mean it: From Russia, With Love is a real wowser, a lulu, a dilly and a smasheroo.
The job: a real lulu. The heiress to a cheese fortune has run off with a clarinet player in a swing band, and Hicks is dispatched to bring her home.
gloss: A very attractive or alluring person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A very bad mistake or error.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
lummox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. First attested in 1825 in East Anglian slang. Perhaps from "dumb ox", influenced by lumbering; or from or cognate to dialectal verb lummock (“move about heavily or clumsily”), itself a word of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: lummoxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lummock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lummocks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lummux
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A clumsy, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: You've broken the plates, you great lummox!
As a rule, a knight is a lummux, and sometimes even a labrick, and hence open to pretty poor arguments when they come glibly from a superstition-monger, but even he could see the practical side of a thing once in a while; […]
I love you, Gal. You're lovable. Big lovable bloke. Loveable lump. Loveable lummox. Gal Dove, party boy. Big oaf.
Translations:
lumper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lump
English -er
English lumper
From lump + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: lumpers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extra laborer hired to assist in the loading or unloading of a truck or a ship.
pos: noun
examples: There were owners of lines of schooners, large contributors to the societies, and small men, their few craft pawned to the mastheads, with bankers and marine-insurance agents, captains of tugs and water-boats, riggers, fitters, lumpers, salters, boat-builders, and coopers, and all the mixed population of the water-front.
gloss: A scientist in one of various fields who prefers to keep categories such as species or dialects together in larger groups.
pos: noun
gloss: A militiaman.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: Synonym of lumpman (“type of salt worker”).
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
lutz
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the surname of Austrian skater Alois Lutz, who invented the jump.
Inflected forms:
form: lutzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A jump in which the skater takes off from the back outside edge of one skate, rotates counterclockwise and lands on the back outside edge of the other skate.
pos: noun
examples: Meissner fell three times, on two triple lutzes and a triple flip, to drop from fourth, the worst performance by a defending champion in at least 50 years.
Translations:
luxe
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French luxe, from Latin luxus. Cognate with English lock.
Inflected forms:
form: luxier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: luxest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: luxiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Luxury.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: When it comes to advertising, he says, the much talked-about idea that luxe is recession-proof has been proven not to be the case.
With sleek bucket bags, totes and backpacks priced from $460 to $950, Mansur Gavriel is targeting women who want low-key luxe and value without overt logos or labeling.
gloss: Luxurious, sophisticated.
pos: adj
examples: A pair of luxe Scottish golf resorts operated by Donald Trump suffered millions of dollars in losses during 2015, according to recent filings with a U.K. government agency, adding another complication to Trump's pitch for the White House, in which he has frequently emphasized his business acumen.
The luxe department store Barneys New York announced this week that it would launch a new Instagram-ready cannabis department called The High End.
Lots of shows at fashion week utilize dry brushing nail techniques on the models because it gives a super luxe finish with minimal effort.
"The quality and the tailoring is what makes it so luxe," Mr. [Michael] Reynolds said. "Like a piece you'd see created by Hermès, it's not over the top."
As a designer and brand builder, [Greg] Chait has turned The Elder Statesman into the coolest of cool and the luxe-est of luxe; the proof is in the many copycats of his tie-dye knitwear and slouchy casual spirit.
I found it extremely luxe that there was a stack of large-format Moleskines you could take at your whim from the cabinet behind the receptionist.
Wrap yourself in this ultra-soft and lightweight waffle robe, inspired by some of the most luxe spas.
Translations:
lye
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English leye, lye, from Old English lēah, lēag (“lye”), from Proto-West Germanic *laugu, from Proto-Germanic *laugō, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (“to wash”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Loge, Looie (“lye”), Dutch loog (“lye”), German Low German Loge, Loje, Loog (“lye”), German Lauge (“lye”).
Compare typologically Ancient Greek ῥύμμα (rhúmma) < ῥύπτω (rhúptō, “to cleanse, to wash”); Russian м́ыло (ḿylo) (a nomen instrumenti of мыть (mytʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: lyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lyes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lyeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An alkaline liquid made by leaching ashes (usually wood ashes).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Potassium or sodium hydroxide (caustic soda).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She had not left the lye in too long so that the hair would fall out in clumps later.
gloss: To treat with lye.
pos: verb
Derived words: chamber lye
lyed
potash lye
soda lye
Translations:
lysine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-der.
Ancient Greek λύω (lúō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σις (-sis)
Ancient Greek λῠ́σῐς (lŭ́sĭs)der.
Latin lysisbor.
English lysis
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English lysine
From lysis + -ine, in reference to its tendency to participate in catalysis.
Base: lysis
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: lysines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An amino acid, C₆H₁₄N₂O₂, in L- or D-forms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An amino acid, C₆H₁₄N₂O₂, in L- or D-forms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Lysine is an essential amino acid required for many body functions, including growth and bone development in children; calcium absorption and maintenance of the correct nitrogen balance in the body; maintenance of lean body mass; production of antibodies, hormones, and enzymes; collagen formation and repair of tissue.
Derived words: acetyllysine
alkyllysinase
borolysine
dilysine
dimethyllysine
hydroxylysine
insulin glulisine
insulin lispro
liraglutide
lisinopril
lypressin
lysinuric
lysopine
lysyl
methyllysine
nonlysine
pentalysine
polylysine
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: лизин
roman: lizin
lang: Catalan
word: lisina
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 賴氨酸 /赖氨酸
roman: lài'ānsuān
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 離胺酸 /离胺酸
roman: lí'ānsuān
lang: Czech
word: lysin
lang: Dutch
word: lysine
lang: Esperanto
word: lizino
lang: Finnish
word: lysiini
lang: French
word: lysine
lang: German
word: Lysin
lang: Greek
word: λυσίνη
roman: lysíni
lang: Hebrew
word: ליזין
roman: lisin
lang: Hungarian
word: lizin
lang: Ido
word: lisin
lang: Italian
word: lisina
lang: Japanese
word: リシン
roman: rishin
lang: Kazakh
word: лизин
roman: lizin
lang: Kyrgyz
word: лизин
roman: lizin
lang: Latin
word: lysina
lang: Latvian
word: lizīns
lang: Lithuanian
word: lisinas
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Lysin
lang: Persian
word: لیسین
roman: lisin
lang: Polish
word: lizyna
lang: Portuguese
word: lisina
lang: Romanian
word: lizină
lang: Russian
word: лизин
roman: lizin
lang: Slovak
word: lyzín
lang: Spanish
word: lisina
lang: Swedish
word: lysin
lang: Turkish
word: lizin
lang: Ukrainian
word: лізин
roman: lizyn
macer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English macer, from Anglo-Norman macer, from mace (“mace”).
Inflected forms:
form: macers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mace bearer; specifically, an officer of a court in Scotland.
pos: noun
Translations:
macho
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish macho (“male”), from Latin masculus. Doublet of male.
Inflected forms:
form: more macho
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most macho
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: machos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way. Very masculine.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: macho culture
I like sports because I enjoy knowing that many of these macho athletes have to vomit before a big game. Any guy who would take a job where you gotta puke first is my kinda guy.
The government’s “bullish” and “macho” approach to Brexit should not stop Conservative backbenchers from tabling amendments to the crucial repeal bill, a leading Tory remainer has said.
Joseph Biden has described Donald Trump’s refusal to wear a mask as “macho”, an insult unlikely to wound a president, who, before his illness, began rallies with speakers blasting the Village People’s 1979 song Macho Man.
gloss: A macho person; a man who is masculine in an overly assertive or aggressive way.
pos: noun
examples: You can tell a macho, he has a funky walk / His western shirts and leather, always look so boss
gloss: A very masculine man.
pos: noun
gloss: Machismo
pos: noun
examples: […] about how the military is anti-gay and uses intimidation and peer pressure. How it promotes a sense of false macho and patriotism.
Though there was plentiful evidence to the contrary that should have made plain to him the hairy masculine macho of German gays, Hitler's stereotyped image perceived them as woman-like, surrendering, and therefore essentially weak.
On this day, when tens of millions of men, and women, are watching this yearly celebration of American macho, we'd like them to stop and think about the prevalence of male violence against women and what they can do to end it.
gloss: The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil mexicanus).
pos: noun
gloss: A male llama.
pos: noun
Related words: machismo
masculinist
Derived words: antimacho
hypermacho
macho dancer
machodom
machoflops
machohood
macho-ish
machoism
machoistic
machoistically
macho man
machoness
machosexual
macho up
nonmacho
supermacho
ultramacho
unmacho
Translations:
machos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of machismo.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
magma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ǵyéti
Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μα (-ma)
Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma)der.
English magma
From Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma, “paste”).
Inflected forms:
form: magmas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: magmata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mixture of molten silicate rock, crystals, and gas within the earth, which may be erupted as lava or cool in place to form igneous intrusions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magma – beneath the volcano.
gloss: A basic algebraic structure consisting of a set equipped with a single binary operation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any soft doughy mass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The residuum after expressing the juice from fruits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: cryomagma
magma chamber
magmalike
magmasphere
magmic
postmagma
quagma
Translations:
malted
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: malteds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Processed into malt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A malted milk; a milkshake with malted milk powder.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Among the most popular from the late nineteenth century on were malteds, milkshakes, and ice cream floats. […] Malted milk beverages were viewed as healthy, complete meal drinks that had particular appeal for men […]
Translations:
mambo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Haitian Creole manbo (“voodoo priestess”) (ultimately from Yoruba mambo (“to talk”)), in later senses via Cuban Spanish mambo (“dance”).
Inflected forms:
form: mambos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mamboes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manbo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mambos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mamboing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mamboed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mamboed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A voodoo priestess (in Haiti)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The mambo next presented a container of water to the cardinal points, then poured libations to the centerpost of the peristyle, the axis along which the spirits were to enter.
The manbo showed her how to take small handfuls of liquid and spread it on her skin always moving in the upward direction.
In the 1950s, Ukrainian American filmmaker Maya Deren traveled to Haiti and became initiated as a manbo (priestess) in Haitian Vodou.
gloss: A Latin-American musical genre, adapted from rumba, originating from Cuba in the 1940s, or a dance or rhythm of this genre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To perform this dance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: horizontal mambo
mambo sauce
Translations:
marc
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French marc, from Old French marcher (“to trample”).
Inflected forms:
form: marcs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: There were a few men in the café sitting with coffee and glasses of kirsch or marc on the tables.
The fire was restoked and the army of wine-bottles gave way to a smaller phalanx of brandies, Armagnacs and Marcs, to offset the large bowls of coffee from which rose plumes of fragrance.
Translations:
marcel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Apparently from the French name Marcel, but accounts vary regarding who invented the style.
Inflected forms:
form: marcels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marcels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marcelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marcelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marcelled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hairstyle characterized by deep waves made by a curling iron.
pos: noun
gloss: A marcel wave.
pos: noun
gloss: To wave (hair) by the marcel method.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Like women sitting for two hours under the marcelling irons only to wonder two days later how soon they would need another appointment.
gloss: To wave.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
Related words: marcel wave
Translations: