yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
cap-a-pie
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French (de) cap a pié (Modern French de pied en cap).
Inflected forms:
form: cap-à-pie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: cap-à-piè
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: cap-à-pié
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: cap-a-pe
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: cap-a-pee
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: cap-apée
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: capapie
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: From head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: If twenty thousand naked Americans were not able to resist the assaults of but twenty well-armed Spaniards, I see little possibility for one honest man to defend himself against twenty thousand knaves, who are all furnished cap-a-pie with the defensive arms of worldly prudence, and the offensive, too, of craft and malice.
I sallied forth cap-à-pie in my Madras regimentals, intending to accompany Brent to Westminster Abbey, and to take a coach at the first stand we came to.
Miss Thorne when fully dressed might be said to have been armed cap-a-pie, and she was always fully dressed, as far as was ever known to mortal man.
Translations:
point-in-line
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Inflected forms:
form: point-in-lines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An established threat made with the extended arm.
pos: noun
Translations:
capitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin capitātiōnem, from caput (“head”).
Inflected forms:
form: capitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Performing a headcount; the counting of people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A head tax.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed (and capped) periodic payment for each enrollee (i.e., per capita).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Capitation started out as a popular method for reimbursing primary care physicians/gatekeepers. Now capitated contracts can be seen in every area of healthcare... ... because of varying volumes, not all specialty care providers should be capitated at the same time. For example, higher volume services (e.g., laboratory, radiology, orthopedics, and cardiology) are usually first to be capitated. Specialists and other medical services that are used infrequently (e.g., neonatologists, neurosurgeons) or "high ticket" specialists (e.g., open heart surgeons) are usually capitated last, if at all. The cost of their services is relatively high and a miscalculation in projected membership or actual utilization can have a large financial impact.
gloss: A donation made to an educational institution to obtain admission.
pos: noun
tags: India
countable
euphemistic
uncountable
Related words: capitated
per capita
Translations:
pronation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
medicine
military
politics
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: From French pronation, from Latin pronatio.
Inflected forms:
form: pronations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Walking on the inner edge of the foot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned down or back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The position of the sword hand when the palm is facing down.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: pronate
prostrate
supination
Derived words: antipronation
hyperpronation
overpronation
semipronation
underpronation
Translations:
supination
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
medicine
military
politics
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English supine
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English supination
From supine + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: supinations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or state of lying face upward, on one's back.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of rotating the forearm so that the palm of the hand is turned up or forward, or the resulting state of the forearm
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or state of combined adduction and inversion of the foot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The position of the sword hand when the palm is facing up.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: pronation
semi-supination
supine
Derived words: oversupination
semisupination
Translations:
remise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman remis, Middle French remis, past participle of remettre (“to remit”); Middle French remise (noun), from feminine past participle of remettre (“to remit”).
Inflected forms:
form: remises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: remising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: remised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: remised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To send or give back.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
gloss: To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed; to quitclaim.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
reprise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
construction
entertainment
fencing
government
hobbies
law
lifestyle
manufacturing
martial-arts
military
music
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English reprise (noun) and reprisen (verb), from Old French reprise, from reprendre. In some senses borrowed anew from Modern French reprise.
Inflected forms:
form: reprises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reprises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reprising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reprised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reprised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A recurrence or resumption of an action.
pos: noun
gloss: A repetition of a phrase, a return to an earlier theme, or a second rendition or version of a song in a programme or musical.
pos: noun
gloss: A renewal of a failed attack, after going back into the en garde position.
pos: noun
gloss: A taking by way of retaliation.
pos: noun
examples: Your care about your banks infers a fear
Of threatening floods ,and inundations near;
If so, a just reprise would only be
Of what the land usurped upon the sea
gloss: Deductions and duties paid yearly out of a manor and lands, as rent charge, pensions, annuities, etc.; also spelled reprizes.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: A ship recaptured from an enemy or from a pirate.
pos: noun
gloss: In masonry, the return of a moulding in an internal angle.
pos: noun
gloss: To take (something) up or on again.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: How to take life from that dead-liuing swaine, / Whom still he marked freshly to arize / From th'earth, & from her wombe new spirits to reprize.
gloss: To repeat or resume an action or a role.
pos: verb
examples: The aging actress played the role she played in her youth, as if to reprise it.
The notion of a "psychological wage" originated with Du Bois, was later employed by Fredrickson, and has been reprised in the context of northern industrialism by Roediger.
gloss: To recompense; to pay.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: reimburse
Related words: reprehend
reprieve
reprisal
Derived words: reprisable
Translations:
frontispiece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
media
publishing
Etymology: From Middle French frontispice, from Italian frontespizio or Medieval Latin frontispicium, from Latin frōns (“forehead”, oblique stem in front-) + -spic- (“to watch”, combining form of speciō) + -ium. Spelling altered due to folk etymology, influenced by piece.
Compound parts: frōns
speciō
-ium
Inflected forms:
form: frontispieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: frontispice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.
pos: noun
examples: The viaduct was illustrated as a frontispiece to THE RAILWAY MAGAZINE of September, 1938. [In this case, the frontispiece is between the title page and the first article.]
gloss: The title page of a book.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A façade, especially an ornamental one.
pos: noun
gloss: A small ornamental pediment, especially at the top of a window or door.
pos: noun
gloss: A person's face.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
humorous
slang
examples: He carries on his frontispiece the indubitable marks of a money-dealer. His is one of those peculiar faces […]
Translations:
fasting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, fast + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: fastings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Long vigils—fastings that wore away the strength of day—prayers that banished sleep from night—hoarded vengeance, that, like a fire, consumed its abode—affections crushed to the very earth—a memory whose love was with the grave,—a faith that had coloured itself with mortal passion,—all these had pressed too heavily on the springs of life and thought;...
Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.
gloss: Abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an obese patient while he was undergoing fasting for weight reduction
Derived words: fasting blood sugar
fasting glucose
fasting spittle
nonfasting
prefasting
skin fasting
unfasting
Translations:
corps-a-corps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French corps-à-corps (literally “body to body”). Compare corps, corpse, corpus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The action of two fencers coming into physical contact with one another with any portion of their bodies or hilts.
pos: noun
Translations:
plastron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
natural-sciences
politics
sports
war
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from French plastron, from Italian piastrone, augmentive of piastra (“breastplate”), from Latin emplastrum (“plaster”), from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron), from ἔμπλαστος (émplastos, “daubed, plastered”), from ἔμπλασσειν (émplassein, “to mould, form”).
Inflected forms:
form: plastrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace.
pos: noun
examples: The great tortoise that in myth is said to support the world and is thus an embodiment of the galaxy, without whose swirling order we would be a lonely wanderer in space, is supposed to have revealed in ancient times the Universal Rule, since lost, by which one might always be sure of acting rightly. Its carapace represented the bowl of heaven, its plastron the plains of all the worlds.
gloss: A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
pos: noun
gloss: A man's shirt-bosom.
pos: noun
gloss: An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
pos: noun
examples: I bought here a wedding dress perhaps twenty or thirty years old [...] a sequin plastron to be worn over the womb as a feminine equivalent to a cod-piece, and a gauze veil embroidered in purple and gold.
gloss: A breastplate.
pos: noun
examples: "Why, compared to what thou wast, Hugo, thou art as a deerskin coat to a steel plastron.-- Art thou not in love, man? Answer me!" "Something like, I fear me, beau sire,” replied the squire.
He therefore persuaded the Casa de Antillas to supply him with a hundred steel plastrons or corselets, with armlets and shoulder plates, and a hundred morions, or pikemen's helmets. This heavy armor was suitable […]
gloss: A film of air trapped by specialized hairs against the body of an aquatic insect, and which acts as an external gill.
pos: noun
examples: The plastron of a diving beetle is not directly a source of oxygen, but acts as a gill, acquiring oxygen from the surrounding water.
Total independence of atmospheric air is possible only if insects have a permanent gas store or incompressible gas gill, called a plastron. Unlike compressible gas stores, the volume of a plastron remains constant and it is incompressible.
2013, Jon F. Harrison, Lutz T. Wasserthal (revisions & updates), 17: Gaseous Exchange, R. F. Chapman, Stephen J. Simpson (editor), Angela E. Douglas (editor), The Insects: Structure and Function, 5th Edition, page 535,
The plastrons of other insects are generally less efficient than that of Aphelocheirus as they have a less dense hair pile from which the air is more readily displaced.
Derived words: entoplastron
epiplastron
hyoplastron
hypoplastron
mesoplastron
plastromancy
plastromantic
plastronal
xiphiplastron
Translations:
debenture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From earlier debentur, from Latin debentur (“they are owing”), supposedly the first word of such a document in early times. The ending was apparently influenced by words in -(t)ure.
Inflected forms:
form: debentures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A certificate that certifies an amount of money owed to someone; a certificate of indebtedness.
pos: noun
examples: This was the West Lancashire Railway, an ambitious but feckless little concern which, in a life lasting a quarter of a century, never earned a dividend, failed to keep up its debenture payments (despite a dangerous attempt to do so by issuing more debentures) and ended up in the hands of a receiver.
gloss: A certificate of a loan made to the government; a government bond.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Madame Corre, who made the important decisions after her plodding husband had spent hours on the ledger, sold the family debentures and put the money into Dutch decurities.
gloss: A type of debt instrument secured only by the general credit or promise to pay of the issuer, not involving any physical assets or collateral, now commonly issued by large, well established corporations with adequate credit ratings.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A document granting lenders a charge over a borrower’s physical assets, giving them a means to collect a debt, as part of a secured loan.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
Derived words: debenture bond
debentured
debenture holder
debenture stock
Translations:
half-jacket
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
English half-
English jacket
English half-jacket
From half- + jacket.
Inflected forms:
form: half-jackets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A short coat or jacket.
pos: noun
gloss: A short bullet jacket which leaves some of the bullet in contact with the bore.
pos: noun
Translations:
inboard
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
Inflected forms:
form: inboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Situated within the hull of a vessel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Positioned nearer to the centre line of a vessel.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Airbus A380 only has thrust reversers on its inboard engines.
gloss: An engine located within the hull of a ship.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: outboard
gloss: A boat with such an engine.
pos: noun
examples: Coordinate term: outboard
gloss: To discount a product in order to increase sales.
pos: verb
Translations:
ataxic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ataxia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English ataxic
From ataxia + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: ataxics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to ataxia
pos: adj
examples: Mr Lackersteen tottered after her, with a strange ataxic step caused partly by earth-tremors and partly by gin.
gloss: Not eutaxic
pos: adj
gloss: A person suffering from ataxia.
pos: noun
Synonyms: atactic
Derived words: ataxically
ataxic fever
ataxic respiration
preataxic
Translations:
chiastic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more chiastic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chiastic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to chiasmus.
pos: adj
examples: 1981 [Gerstenberg/Research Press], John W. Welch, Chiasmus In Ancient Greek and Latin Literatures, John W. Welch (editor), Chiasmus in Antiquity, 2020, Wipf and Stock, page 261,
In the Aeneid, Vergil uses chiasmus in order to make his poetry smoother and more picturesque. Many lines could be quoted in which a chiastic order of words was necessary to maintain the dactylic hexameter.
2009 [Ashgate Publishing], William E. Engel, Chiastic Designs in English Literature from Sidney to Shakespeare, 2016, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 22,
Looking at David in this way has more to do with mnemotechnics than chiasmus, and yet the process by which earlier themes attach themselves to David and then are rendered differently by the poets does bespeak a movement that bears an affinity with the chiastic pattern of presenting something in a set order only to play it back differently so as to imbue it with different implications.
gloss: Pertaining to the position of two things relative to one another.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: A chiastic⁹⁸ plotting of the passage illustrates beyond doubt that the disciple has to be identified with the Master.
Immediately one realizes that Bonjour's and Braunmuller's idea of chiastic plotting in King John bears no resemblance to the standard definition of rhetorical chiasmus: the falling character King John and the rising character Philip Faulconbridge could theoretically be said to cross paths at one point[…].
Derived words: chiastically
Translations:
towing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: towings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is towed.
pos: noun
Translations:
niggard
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nigard, nygard (“miser”), from nig (“niggardly person”), possibly of Scandinavian origin;
compare Old Icelandic hnøggr (“miserly, stingy”), Old Norse *hniggw, with descendants Swedish njugg (“stingy”), dialectal Swedish niggla (“be stingy”), dialectal Norwegian nigla.
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *hnauwjaz, source of Old English hneaw (“stingy”), replaced by Middle English nig.
Possibly cognate to niggle (“miser”).
Compare German Knicker (“niggard”), knickerig (“niggardly”). Unrelated to the word nigger, but see the usage notes.
Inflected forms:
form: more niggard
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most niggard
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: niggards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: niggards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: niggarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: niggarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: niggarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Sparing; stinting; parsimonious.
pos: adj
gloss: Miserly or stingy.
pos: adj
examples: It was, however, the pleasure of his niggard and unhappy fortune, that in seeking a place proper for his accommodation, he and Dapple tumbled into a deep and very dark pit, among a number of old buildings.
[H]is heart swelled within him, as he sat at the head of his own table, on the occasion of the house-warming, dispensing with no niggard hand the gratuitous viands and unlimited beer, which were at once to symbolise and inaugurate the hospitality of his mansion.
gloss: A miser or stingy person; a skinflint.
pos: noun
examples: Then beautious nigard why dooſt thou abuſe / The bountious largeſſe giuen thee to giue?
All his pleasures were social; and while health and fortune smiled upon him, he was no niggard either of his time or talents to those who needed them.
‘No niggard are you, Éomer,’ said Aragorn, ‘to give thus to Gondor the fairest thing in your realm!’
gloss: A false bottom in a grate, used for saving fuel.
pos: noun
examples: 1833, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Godolphin
It was evening: he ordered a fire and lights; and, leaning his face on his hand as he contemplated the fitful and dusky upbreakings of the flame through the bars of the niggard and contracted grate […]
1851, From a catalog of the Great Exhibition
Cooking apparatus, adapted for an opening eight feet wide, by five feet high, and containing an open-fire roasting range, with sliding spit-racks and winding cheek or niggard;
Neither this nor the Brompton house have a kitchen-range (that is, Grate like the Miles's), but only a grate with moveable niggards etc.
A niggard was a movable side to the kitchen grate which could be wound up with a handle so as to make the fire […]
gloss: To hoard; to act stingily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Within thine owne bud burieſt thy content, / And tender chorle makſt waſt in niggarding: […]
Translations:
prematurely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English premature
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English prematurely
From premature + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more prematurely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most prematurely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a premature manner; too soon or too early.
pos: adv
examples: publish an obituary prematurely
prematurely rejected
prematurely sacked
Antonyms: belatedly
punctually
Translations:
porous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French poros, from Latin porus (“an opening”). By surface analysis, pore + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more porous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most porous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
pos: adj
examples: Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.
Concrete is porous, so water will slowly filter through it.
gloss: With many gaps or loopholes.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: However, Wolves ^([sic]) porous defence opened up again to gift Sunderland a foothold in the game - Sessegnon sweeping in a Zenden corner that was inexplicably allowed to bounce in the six-yard box.
[…] a porous border consequently positioned migrants from Mexico and ethnic Mexicans residing in the United States as potential terrorists.
Derived words: aporous
biporous
electroporous
hyperporous
imporous
macroporous
mesoporous
microporous
monoporous
multiporous
nanoporous
nonporous
polyporous
poromeric
porosity
porously
porousness
porous portal
pseudoporous
semiporous
subporous
uniporous
unporous
Translations:
rift
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rift, of North Germanic origin; akin to Danish rift, Norwegian Bokmål rift (“breach”), Old Norse rífa (“to tear”). More at rive.
Inflected forms:
form: rifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rifts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rifting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rifted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rifted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A chasm or fissure.
pos: noun
examples: The Grand Canyon is a rift in the Earth's surface, but is smaller than some of the undersea ones.
Where ashes are heaped in drifts / Over vineyard and field and town, / Whenever he starts and lifts / His head through the blackened rifts / Of the crags that keep him down
As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests.
Far back in the dim geologic ages, when the sediments of the old seas were being gathered and outspread in smooth sheets like leaves of a book, and when these sediments became dry land, and were baked and crumbled into the sky as mountain ranges; when the lava-floods of the Fire Period were being lavishly poured forth from innumerable rifts and craters;[…].
gloss: A lack of cohesion; a state of conflict, incompatibility, or emotional distance.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: My marriage is in trouble: the fight created a rift between us and we can't reconnect.
Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, has opened a new rift with Donald Trump by denouncing the US president’s tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination”.
gloss: A break in the clouds, fog, mist etc., which allows light through.
pos: noun
examples: I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn.
gloss: A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
pos: noun
gloss: To form a rift; to split open.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cleave; to rive; to split.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to rift an oak
to the dread rattling thunder / Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak / With his own bolt
The Mother—her thou must have seen, / In spirit, ere she came / To dwell these rifted rocks between.
1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
he stopped rigid as one petrified and gazed through the rifted logs of the raft into the water.
Derived words: palaeorift
paleorift
riftless
rift saw
riftsawn
rift valley
rifty
rift zone
Translations:
panting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pantings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who pants.
pos: noun
examples: Now here, now there, moved by the straggling wind, / Came ever and anon a breathlike sound, / Quick as the pantings of the faithful dog […]
Translations:
coital
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From coitus + -al.
Base: coitus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to coitus (sexual intercourse).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sexual virility, coital potency rides high and arrogant over the commercial, artistic, social strivings of contemporary society[.]
Translations:
chancla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish chancla.
Inflected forms:
form: chanclas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A slipper or flip-flop
pos: noun
Translations:
fencible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin defendere (“to defend”).
Inflected forms:
form: fencibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being defended
pos: adj
gloss: A militia unit raised for homeland defense.
pos: noun
gloss: A soldier in such a unit.
pos: noun
Translations:
insufferable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Middle English insufferable (“unbearably painful, intolerable”), and then either:
* from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”) (from Anglo-Norman sufferable, souffrable, and Old French souffrable, suffrable (“sufferable, tolerable”)); or
* from Old French insouffrable (“which cannot be endured or suffered; something insufferable or unendurable”) (now dialectal), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + souffrable, suffrable.
From Old French souffrable, suffrable are derived from Medieval Latin sufferābilis, from Latin sufferre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while sufferre is the present active infinitive of sufferō, subferō (“to bear or carry under; to bear, endure, suffer, undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, under’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to endure, suffer, tolerate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable.
Base: sufferable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more insufferable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most insufferable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.
pos: adj
examples: No, his good Meen, his Youth, and blooming Face / Tempt him to think, that vvith a better grace / Himſelf might ſit, and thou ſupply his place. / Behold there yet remains, vvhich muſt be born, / Proud Servants more inſufferable Scorn.
She is sensible that a vain person is the most insufferable creature living in a well-bred assembly.
This is insufferable! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before, and must relieve myself by writing to you, who I know will enter into all my feelings.
"She had better have stayed at home," cried Elizabeth; "perhaps she meant well, but, under such a misfortune as this, one cannot see too little of one's neighbours. Assistance is impossible; condolence, insufferable. Let them triumph over us at a distance, and be satisfied."
He heard and saw, and sought to free / His strain'd eye from the sight: / But Heaven's high magic bound it there, / Still gazing, though untaught to bear / Th' insufferable light.
It was of course familiar to me that Saltram was incapable of keeping the engagements which, after their separation, he had entered into with regard to his wife, a deeply wronged, justly resentful, quite irreproachable and insufferable person.
That the illumination should have been kindled by his cousin's husband was not precisely agreeable to Marvell, who thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms.
The oppressive heat has become insufferable in Syria – and as the temperature climbs, emotions get harder to contain.
It became clear to me: guys who like Kafka—it’s never women—are insufferable.
Translations:
crome
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *krumpaz (“bent, crooked, curved”).
Inflected forms:
form: cromes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cromes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: croming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cromed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cromed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A garden or agricultural implement with three or four tines bent at right angles, resembling a garden fork with bent prongs, and used for breaking up soil, clearing ditches, raking up shellfish on beaches, etc.
pos: noun
tags: East-Anglia
UK
examples: … a crome is a tool with a long handle and long metal teeth or tines, hooked for raking loose the bottom of ditches.
gloss: To use a crome.
pos: verb
tags: East-Anglia
UK
Translations:
sawbones
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From saw + bones.
Compound parts: saw
bones
Inflected forms:
form: sawbones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sawboneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A surgeon.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
gardening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
ball-games
business
cricket
games
hobbies
horticulture
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English garden
English -ing
English gardening
From garden + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: gardenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: His hobby was gardening.
Gardening, then, is a sort of refined farming upon a limited scale.
Warm ambient air, loiterings abroad, gardenings, flowers to take about, and preserves to make, soothed the wicked imp to slumber in the parish of Hollingford in summer-time.
gloss: Any process of care, maintenance, or curation, especially digitally.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
examples: wiki gardening
digital gardening
Several special pages help with the wiki gardening task:¶ ❑ Uncategorized pages (Special:Uncategorizedpages): These are pages that do not have one or more categories assigned. Use this page to ensure that all pages are categorized.
Tom Critchlow, a consultant who has been cultivating his digital garden for years, spells out the main difference between old-school blogging and digital gardening.
gloss: The act of a batsman prodding at the pitch with their bat, typically in order to flatten any bumps.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The sowing of mines in water from low altitude.
pos: noun
tags: historical
slang
uncountable
usually
Derived words: atomic gardening
cardening
digital gardening
forest gardening
gardening leave
guerrilla gardening
landscape gardening
market gardening
nongardening
window gardening
Translations:
manna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Biblical Hebrew מָן (mān)bor.
Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna)der.
Late Latin mannader.
Old English manna
Middle English
English manna
From Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin manna, from Ancient Greek μάννα (mánna), from Hebrew מן (mān, “'manna”).
Inflected forms:
form: mannas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: archaic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
In the juriſdiction of Huquang there are ſeveral places where they gather up great store of Manna, which the Natives take for a Frozen Dew.
The leaves of the foreſt were loaded with manna, pure amber dropped from every bough, honey diſtilled from the rifted rock, and the humming bee, drunk with joy, ſtrayed from flower to flower, forgetful of his burſting cells.
gloss: Any boon which comes into one's hands by good luck.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way / Of starved people.
The introduction of technical progress in this model can be made in a very simple manner if we assume that it is of the ‘disembodied’ type, that is, something like manna that falls from heaven on all capital goods, old and new. [emphasis in original]
gloss: The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1966, Bill Beatty, Tales of Old Australia, National Distributors, →ISBN, page 14, discussing old Australian foods
The icing on the cake was made from manna, which was gathered under the manna gums. Manna mixed with milk made a splendid icing.
Derived words: Australian manna
manna ash
manna croup
manna from heaven
manna grass
mannagrass
manna gum
mannalike
manna mealybug
manna scale
manniferous
mannitate
mannitol
mannose
Persian manna
tamarisk manna scale
Translations:
bradycardia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βραδύς (bradús, “slow”) + καρδία (kardía, “heart”), equivalent to brady- + -cardia.
Affixes: brady-
-cardia
Inflected forms:
form: bradycardias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of having a slow heartbeat, defined as under 60 beats per minute for an adult.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Both CRT-Ds and ICDs are implanted under the skin, in the patient’s upper chest area. The devices have wires called leads that attach to the heart and regulate the rhythm of the muscle. Defibrillators help patients with bradycardia – a slow heartbeat – by pacing the heartbeat and those with tachycardia – a fast heartbeat – by delivering shocks that reset heartbeats to normal.
When your resting heart rate is under 60 bpm, providers call it bradycardia.
Translations:
croupier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French croupierbor.
English croupier
Borrowed from French croupier.
Inflected forms:
form: croupiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person who collects bets and pays out winnings at a gambling table, such as in a casino.
pos: noun
examples: As a matter of fact, the mob was playing in exceedingly foul fashion. Indeed, I have an idea that sheer robbery was going on around that gaming-table. The croupiers who sat at the two ends of it had not only to watch the stakes, but also to calculate the game—an immense amount of work for two men! As for the crowd itself—well, it consisted mostly of Frenchmen.
Every time the little gate creaks—I'm in the shed with the tanks at the end of the garden—I wonder from which of my pasts the person is arriving, seeking me out even here: maybe it is only the past of yesterday and of this same suburb, the squat Arab garbage collector who in October begins his rounds for tips, house by house, with a Happy New Year card, because he says that his colleagues keep all the December tips for themselves and he never gets a penny; but it could also be the more distant pasts pursuing old Ruedi, finding the little gate in the Impasse: smugglers from Valais, mercenaries from Katanga, croupiers from the Veradero casino and the days of Fulgencio Batista.
gloss: One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.
pos: noun
Derived words: croupier stick
Translations:
courier
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a convergence of Middle English corour, currour, from Old French coreor, agent noun of corir (“to run”), and Middle English courier, a borrowing of Middle French courrier, from Italian corriere.
Inflected forms:
form: couriers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: couriers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: couriering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: couriered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: couriered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who delivers messages.
pos: noun
gloss: A company that delivers messages.
pos: noun
gloss: A company that transports goods.
pos: noun
gloss: A user who earns access to a topsite by uploading warez.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: You can always find musicians. There are more trackers than coders, pixelers, organizers, couriers, and designers combined.
These sites have enormous hard drives and bandwidth for couriers to distribute the software from one site to the next.
gloss: A person who looks after and guides tourists.
pos: noun
examples: "A courier!" cried Muscari, laughing. "Is that the last of your list of trades? And whom are you conducting?"
gloss: To deliver by courier.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We'll have the contract couriered to you.
Workcest is a huge no no, things will never go back to their easy ways and all of a sudden your report that’s meant to be couriered to Belfast is taking snail mail… through Thailand.
Derived words: courier bag
van courier
Translations:
horticulture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórtos
Proto-Italic *hortos
Latin hortus
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
English horticulture
17th century, from the Latin word hortus (“garden”) + culture (on the model of agriculture). By surface analysis, horti- + cult + -ure.
Inflected forms:
form: horticultures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art or science of cultivating gardens; gardening.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Let any one compare the fruit of one of the largest varieties exhibited at our Shows with that of the wild wood strawberry, or, which will be a fairer comparison, with the somewhat larger fruit of the wild American Virginian Strawberry, and he will see what prodigies horticulture has effected.
gloss: Small-scale agriculture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: agrohorticulture
horsiculture
horticultural
horticulturally
horticulturism
horticulturist
Translations:
horticultural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórtos
Proto-Italic *hortos
Latin hortus
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
English horticulture
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English horticultural
From horticulture + -al.. By surface analysis, horti- + cult + -ure + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more horticultural
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most horticultural
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to horticulture; connected with gardening.
pos: adj
examples: Throughout the garden there was, indeed, much arrangement, and much art; from the water-jet, trained to fling its silvery cascade, to the yew trees shaped into peacocks; still it was arrangement prompted by taste, and art that loved the nature which it guided. And if the horticultural skill, on which Mrs Churchill piqued herself, might have escaped the stranger's observation, the little knot now gathered before her terrace would inevitably have caught his attention.
Translations:
horticulturally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórtos
Proto-Italic *hortos
Latin hortus
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
English horticulture
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English horticultural
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English horticulturally
From horticultural + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With respect to horticulture.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Ripeness can be trusted. Young women are green. I spoke horticulturally. My metaphor was drawn from fruits.
Translations:
horticulturist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰórtos
Proto-Italic *hortos
Latin hortus
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
English horticulture
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English horticulturist
From horticulture + -ist.. By surface analysis, horti- + cult + -ure + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: horticulturists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gardener; a person interested in or practicing horticulture.
pos: noun
examples: […] [I]nfected tulips are weakened by the viruses that cause the very patterns and swirls that fascinated horticulturists and investors in the first place.
Translations:
glasshouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English glasehows, glashous, glashows; equivalent to glass + house.
Compound parts: glass
house
Inflected forms:
form: glasshouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A greenhouse, especially one for commercial use.
pos: noun
gloss: A building where glass or glassware is manufactured.
pos: noun
examples: The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.
gloss: A military prison.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Synonyms: greenhouse
Related words: people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Translations:
exfoliate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin exfoliō (“to strip of leaves”), from ex- (“out of”) + folium (“leaf”); compare effoliate and French exfolier.
Inflected forms:
form: exfoliates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exfoliating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exfoliated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exfoliated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove the leaves from a plant.
pos: verb
gloss: To remove a layer of dead skin cells, as in cosmetic preparation.
pos: verb
gloss: To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales as the result of heat or decomposition.
pos: verb
Derived words: exfoliable
exfoliant
exfoliatin
exfoliating
exfoliation
exfoliative
exfoliator
foliate
foliation
overexfoliate
unexfoliated
Translations:
Davy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Davies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Davys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Davie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Davy lamp.
pos: noun
examples: […] the experience of more than one of the best-regulated collieries of the north of England, where a vast number of Davies are in daily use.
Translations:
sopranino
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian soprano + -ino (diminutive).
Inflected forms:
form: sopraninos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sopranini
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a musical instrument, especially a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class
pos: noun
Translations:
clavichord
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From German Klavichord, from Renaissance Latin clavichordium, from clāvis (“key”) + chorda (“cord, string”).
Inflected forms:
form: clavichords
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades (called tangents) attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings.
pos: noun
Translations: