yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
peal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pele, peil, probably an apheretic variant of Middle English apel, appel, from Old French apel (“an appeal; pealing of bells”). Compare appeal.
Inflected forms:
form: peals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: peals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pealing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pealed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pealed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Whether thoſe peales of praiſe be his or no.
a fair peal of artillery
and the deep thunder, peal on peal, afar
Mrs. Green burst out into one of those peals so peculiarly British.
And, falling on a bench, he laughed until the tears ran down his cheeks, I could not help joining; and we laughed together, peal after peal[…]
And she has half a mind to weep again now, for Jack Brotherhood, as the front doorbell sounds through the house like a bugle call, three short peals as ever.
gloss: A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale.
pos: noun
tags: collective
examples: Ingulphus, the chronicler of Croyland Abbey, mentions that a peal of seven bells was put up there in the tenth century, and that there was not such a harmonious peal in the whole of England; which implies that rings of bells were then common.
gloss: The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes.
pos: noun
gloss: To sound with a peal or peals.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Then pealed the bells more loud and deep...
To the church we'll swiftly steal, then our wedding bells will peal, / You can go as far you like with me, in my merry Oldsmobile
The bell pealed 20 times, clanging into the dusk as Mr. Bush’s motorcade drove off.
gloss: To utter or sound loudly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The warrior's name, / Though pealed and chimed on all the tongues of fame.
gloss: To assail with noise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Nor was his ear less pealed.
gloss: To resound; to echo.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: And the whole air pealed / With the cheers of our men.
gloss: To appeal.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: To A baron of chekker þay mun hit pele'.
Derived words: dumb peal
peal of bells
thunderpeal
outpeal
peal out
unpealed
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: sonorilaro
lang: Bulgarian
word: камбанен звън
roman: kambanen zvǎn
lang: Czech
word: vyzvánění
lang: Czech
word: zvonění
lang: Galician
word: picada
lang: Galician
word: badalada
lang: Russian
word: звон
roman: zvon
lang: Spanish
word: campanada
lang: Spanish
word: campaneo
lang: Spanish
word: tañido
lang: Spanish
word: repique
lang: Spanish
word: repiqueteo
lang: Tagalog
word: dupikal
lang: Tagalog
word: kalembang
pelter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pelt
English -er
English pelter
From pelt + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pelters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who pelts.
pos: noun
examples: With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.
Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter.
Young stone-pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several.
gloss: A pelting; a shower of missiles, rain, anger, etc.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
sometimes
gloss: A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Derived words: agropelter
Translations:
pelvic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, pelv- + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: pelvics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: pelvic cellulitis
pelvic movement
gloss: pelvic fin
pos: noun
gloss: a pelvic examination
pos: noun
examples: 2022 Sunshine Smith, quoted in Spencer Beswick, "The model for mobilizing to protect abortion rights beyond voting", The Washington Post, May 17.
[W]omen learn the basics of self-cervical exams, do pelvics on each other, and learn how to do menstrual extraction.
Translations:
penna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin penna (“feather”). Doublet of panne, pen, and pinna.
Inflected forms:
form: pennae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a contour feather
pos: noun
Translations:
penner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pen
English -er
English penner
From pen + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: penners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who pens; a writer.
pos: noun
examples: the penners of those bookes
gloss: A case for holding pens.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He collects his penner that holds his writing quills, his knife, and his horn tube containing ink. He carries these in his belt[…]
Translations:
pep
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation of pepper (“spice”).
Inflected forms:
form: peps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pepping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pepped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pepped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: peps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To inject with energy and enthusiasm.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: At least a couple of weeks since I last slept,
Kept takin' sleepers, but now I keep myself pepped.
gloss: Energy, high spirits.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: She was particularly pleased with the wine, which at not infrequent intervals she tasted. Beyond all doubt it promised to be of vintage quality. Clearly the long hot summer had put more than a little pep into the berries.
Translations:
pewee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of the vocalisations of various birds. For the passerine, originally imitative of the vocalisations of the eastern wood pewee, later extended to other members of the same genus.
Inflected forms:
form: pewees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various tyrant flycatchers of the genus Contopus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A woodcock.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
dialectal
gloss: An American version of the children's game gilli-danda.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He was clumsy at the new games, but his teachers did not hoot at him. Instead they quarreled for the privilege of showing him how to hold the pewee stick. There are several schools of technique in pewee.
Derived words: eastern wood pewee
western wood pewee
wood pewee
smoke-colored pewee
Translations:
phenol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)der.
French phènebor.
English phenol
From French phène, from Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to clear”), as it was used for illumination, name given by Auguste Laurente in 1836.
By surface analysis, pheno- + -ol.
Inflected forms:
form: phenols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A caustic, poisonous, white crystalline compound, C₆H₅OH, derived from benzene and used in resins, plastics, and pharmaceuticals and in dilute form as a disinfectant and antiseptic; once called carbolic acid
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any of a class of aromatic organic compounds having at least one hydroxyl group attached directly to the benzene ring (or other aromatic ring)
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: benzenol
hydroxybenzene
Related words: phenyl
Derived words: allylphenol
aminophenol
benzeneazophenol
biophenol
biphenol
bisphenol A
bisphenol S
bromophenol
diaminophenol
dimethylphenol
diphenol
ethylphenol
fenoldopam
fluorophenol
halophenol
iodophenol
lactophenol
methoxyphenol
methylenedioxyphenol
monophenol
orthophenylphenol
oxyphenol
phenolamine
phenolase
phenolated
phenolether
phenol formaldehyde resin
phenolic
phenolize
phenoloxidase
phenol oxidase
phenol phthalein
phenol red
phentolamine
pholedrine
phytophenol
polyhydroxyphenol
profadol
propenylphenol
tetrachlorophenol
tetraphenol
thiophenol
trinitrophenol
vinylphenol
Translations:
phenyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰáňňō
Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō)der.
French phéno-
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
French -yle
French phénylebor.
English phenyl
Borrowed from French phényle, derived from the root of Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to shine”) plus ὕλη (húlē, “wood; material, substance”). Equivalent to phen- + -yl.
Affixes: pheno-
-yl
Inflected forms:
form: phenyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A univalent hydrocarbon radical, C₆H₅ (benzene minus one hydrogen atom), and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives.
pos: noun
Translations:
phloem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1872. From German Phloëm, coined by Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli in 1858 from Ancient Greek φλόος (phlóos, “husk, bark”) + a Greek-sounding ending -em (cf. System).
Inflected forms:
form: phloems
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phlœm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: phloëm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: phlöem
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A vascular tissue in land plants primarily responsible for the distribution of sugars and nutrients manufactured in the shoot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
phobic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From phobia + -ic, see -phobic.
Base: phobia
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more phobic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most phobic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: phobics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a phobia.
pos: adj
examples: Anything can become a phobic stimulus.
gloss: Experiencing or expressing phobia (strong fear and/or dislike).
pos: adj
examples: The mail carrier was phobic of dogs.
Even so, in many cases the homophobe truly is phobic of gays and lesbians, […]
Yes, our society is backwards, full of violent phobic unexamined idiot fear people constantly throw at innocent others.
gloss: A person who has a phobia.
pos: noun
Derived words: antiphobic
counterphobic
multiphobic
nonphobic
phobically
phobic avoidant
Translations:
phon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: phons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of apparent loudness, equal in number to the intensity in decibels of a 1,000-hertz tone judged to be as loud as the sound being measured.
pos: noun
Translations:
phonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”) + -ic.
Base: φωνή
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
phonon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From phono- + -on. From Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound”). Modelled after photon.
Base: phono
Inflected forms:
form: phonons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quantum of acoustic or vibrational energy (sound), considered a discrete particle rather than a wave.
pos: noun
Translations:
photon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From photo- + -on. Coined by American physicist Leonard Troland in 1916 as a unit of light hitting the retina, and later popularized in a more modern sense by Gilbert N. Lewis, with the term gaining acceptance in the physics community by the late 1920s.
Affixes: photo-
-on
Inflected forms:
form: photons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quantum of light and other electromagnetic energy, regarded as a discrete particle having zero rest mass, no electric charge, and an indefinitely long lifetime. It is a gauge boson.
pos: noun
tags: particle
examples: The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.
Translations:
pica
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pīca (“jay; magpie”). Doublet of pie (“magpie”).
* (pathology): From the idea that magpies will eat almost anything.
Inflected forms:
form: picas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disorder characterized by appetite and craving for non-edible substances, such as chalk, clay, dirt, ice, or sand.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The three most common nonfood picas were eating of strings and rags; feces, vomit, and urine; and paper, cigarettes, and soil.
gloss: A magpie.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Translations:
piked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Furnished with a pike; ending in a point.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Describing a dive in which the knees are kept straight, but the body is bent at a right-angle at the hips.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: unpiked
Translations:
piker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From pike + -er. In some senses, it has been linked etymologically to the word pikey as well as to Pike County in eastern Missouri https://web.archive.org/web/20051111194645/http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/p/p0300200.html. In the latter instance the term originally denoted poor immigrants to California.
Base: pike
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: pikers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Upstairs in a waiting room there were pikers whose tunics echoed Baudricourt′s gold lion shield painted up and down the rafters.
By 1600, the ratio of pikers to gunmen was roughly 3:2. By mid-century the ratio was only 1:2, and by 1670 there was just one piker to every three gunmen in the French Army.
gloss: One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money.
pos: noun
examples: “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”
Bud swelled his chest and laid his hand on Jeff′s shoulder. “Just to show you I′m not a piker,” he cried recklessly, “I′ll bet you twenty-five dollars I can beat your Skeeter with my Smoky horse that I rode in here. Is it a go?”
“Now, boys,” said Marie walking up and down the bar, once or twice lifting her skirt to her knees and laughing. “The last bid′s $5,000. Say, ain′t you pikers a-goin′ to bid higher than that for this?" And another flick of her skirts. “Here′s a nice plump chicken awaiting for a home.”
gloss: A stingy person; a cheapskate.
pos: noun
examples: “And if you′ve got to be a piker,” said Dolly, “don′t be ashamed to be a piker. We′re not spending a hundred dollars because we can afford it, but because you dreamt a dream.”
The golden nuggets in the stream at Sutter′s Mill in California made Croesus look like a piker, and Australia, the Klondike, and South Africa were yet to come.
Whatever else this cupcake might be up to, she was no piker. For everything the Q′s ordered, she added on more of the same.
gloss: An amateur.
pos: noun
gloss: A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.)
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: ‘There's always a few old piker bullocks find their way into this country. But mostly cattle don't come this far.’
gloss: One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken".
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: Mate, don't be a piker! Come to Angie′s birthday party tonight!
gloss: One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise).
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
gloss: A male freshman at Cornell University.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
gloss: A tramp; a vagrant.
pos: noun
Translations:
pilfer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier pilfre, from Middle English pilfre (“booty”), from Old French pelfre (“plunder, booty, spoils”), of unknown origin. Compare pelf.
Inflected forms:
form: pilfers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pilfering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pilfered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pilfered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pilfre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To steal in small quantities, or articles of small value; to practise petty theft.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: pilfer goods
pilfer from a store
pilfer small items
The boy tried to pilfer sweets from the shop.
Office supplies often get pilfered by employees.
The truck carrying 413,793 units of a “new chocolate range”, about 12 tons of chocolate bars, was pilfered while driving through Europe on 26 March, Agence France-Presse reported.
Translations:
pinger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ping
English -er
English pinger
From ping + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pingers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that emits a short, high-pitched sound burst, such as in sonar or other echo location systems.
pos: noun
examples: We couldn't take the boat into the shallows near the reef because our sonar pinger was broken.
gloss: A device that periodically emits a signal that can be monitored to permit movement tracking.
pos: noun
examples: The scientist attached a pinger to the carapace of the sea turtle to track its migration.
gloss: A computer program that sends a ping message over a network.
pos: noun
examples: Some people like fancy pingers with extra features, but I always use the default ping application.
gloss: A user of a ping program; one who pings.
pos: noun
examples: Every time we replace the main page, we get flooded with pingers making sure our web site is still there.
gloss: An illicit drug, especially ecstasy, taken for recreational purposes.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That was a great party. Everyone took a pinger or two.
Translations:
pinner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pynner, pynnere, pinnere, equivalent to pin + -er.
Base: pin
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: pinners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A headdress like a cap, with long lappets.
pos: noun
gloss: A cloth band for a gown.
pos: noun
examples: Inſtead of Home-ſpun quoifs were ſeen / Good Pinners, edg'd with Colberteen: [...]
If by the dairy's hatch I chance to hie, / I ſhall her goodly countenance eſpie, / For there her goodly countenance I've ſeen, / Set off with kerchief ſtarch'd and pinners clean.
Derived words: pinner-up
Translations:
pion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From pi + -on, as alteration of pi-meson.
Base: pi
Affixes: -on
Inflected forms:
form: pions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of three semistable mesons, having positive, negative or neutral charge, composed of up and down quarks/antiquarks.
pos: noun
tags: particle
Translations:
pitman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *puti
Old English pytt
Middle English pit
English pit
English -man
English pitman
From pit + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: pitmans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pitmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who works in a pit, as in mining, in sawing timber, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The train proceeded to North Pittington Colliery, 600 yd. away, where the Duke viewed the new winning, examined the pumping and drawing engines, and saw how pitmen descended and ascended the shaft.
gloss: A connecting rod in machinery, especially in a sawmill.
pos: noun
Derived words: pitman arm
Translations:
plasm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin plasma (“mold”) or Ancient Greek πλάσμα (plásma, “something formed”), in some cases via German Plasma or French plasme, like English plasma.
Inflected forms:
form: plasms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Protoplasm.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: "And that the germ plasm is different from the parthenogenetic egg?" "Why, surely!" I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.
gloss: A mold or matrix in which anything is cast or formed to a particular shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A man very rarely has an image of a person with whom he is livingly, vitally connected. He only has dream-images of the persons who, in some way, oppose his life-flow and his soul's freedom, and so become impressed upon his plasm as objects of resistance.
gloss: A membrane or cell layer, especially one in an embryo that later develops into a structure; the constituent cells of such a layer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1990, Robert Wall, This Side Up: Spatial Determination in the Early Development of Animals, Cambridge University Press, 2005, paperback, page 96,
The last chapter showed severe limitations in the concept of 'mosaic' development as it applies to spiralian embryos. It did, however, demonstrate differential segregations occurring at cleavage there, and seen for visibly distinct plasms, some macromolecules and determinants inferred from experimental studies.
Shortly after fertilization the cytoplasmic components of the ascidian oocyte are redistributed according to a certain pattern and form five distinct territories or plasms (Figure 4.7). During cleavage these plasms become compartmentalized into different blastomeres which in turn give rise to the various cell lines.
Related words: cytoplasm
ectoplasm
mictoplasm
-plasm
plasma
plasmodium
protoplasm
Derived words: alloplasm
chordoplasm
germplasm
germ plasm
heteroplasm
hyaloplasm
karyoplasm
myoplasm
neoplasm
nucleoplasm
plasmolysis
plasome
pole plasm
somatoplasm
teleplasm
xenoplasm
Translations:
platen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From French platine, from plat (“flat”). See plate, and compare platin.
Inflected forms:
form: platens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
pos: noun
examples: And the form is inked, the paper is applied, the bed is slid, and the platen is levered down and the proof is printed.
gloss: The part of a typewriter or printer on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
pos: noun
gloss: The movable table of a planer or other machine tool, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool.
pos: noun
gloss: The flat glass surface of a scanner or photocopier on which operators place items to be scanned.
pos: noun
Translations:
playa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish playa (“beach”). Doublet of plage.
Inflected forms:
form: playas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Beyond the valley below lay a playa, a vast dried-white lake bed, its ends reaching farther than they could see.
“We are also deploying buses to Gerlach to take people to Reno who might walk off the playa. See our recommendations on when walking is viable or not. This is not likely a 24-hour operation at this time.”
Translations:
pleura
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin pleura.
Inflected forms:
form: pleuras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pleurae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Each of a pair of smooth serous membranes which line the thorax and envelop the lungs in humans and other mammals.
pos: noun
examples: The lungs […] may be said to be inclosed in separate bags, or to have distinct pleuras.
gloss: A lateral part in an animal body or structure.
pos: noun
Related words: pleurisy
Derived words: endopleura
pleural
pleurectomy
pleuretic
pleuritis
pleurosis
pulmonary pleura
Translations:
plumb
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
Etymology: From Middle English plumbe, plumme, from Old French *plombe, from Latin plumba, plural of plumbum.
Inflected forms:
form: plumbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more plumb
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plumb
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: plumbs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plumbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plumbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plumbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A little mass of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction.
pos: noun
gloss: A weight on the end of a long line, used by sailors to determine the depth of water.
pos: noun
gloss: The perpendicular direction or position.
pos: noun
examples: Customers turned away from rickety chairs, stands of drawers that refused to open, or had no handles, lop-sided wardrobes whose doors were out of plumb or whose mirrors were cracked.
gloss: Truly vertical, as indicated by a plumb line.
pos: adj
gloss: Describing an LBW where the batsman is hit on the pads directly in front of their wicket and should be given out.
pos: adj
gloss: In a vertical direction; perpendicularly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Plumb down he drops.
gloss: Squarely, directly; deeply, completely.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: It hit him plumb in the middle of his face.
Years ago the well plumb dried out, not a drop of water in there since.
'Are you sure of that, M. Hardman?' 'I'm plumb certain.'.
gloss: To determine the depth, generally of a liquid; to sound.
pos: verb
gloss: To attach to a water supply and drain.
pos: verb
examples: The kitchen sink is now plumbed in / up.
gloss: To think about or explore in depth, to get to the bottom of.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: to plumb the depths of
Delving to the core of her heart, his blue-green eyes plumbed her psyche, stripping it of all defenses, all resolve.
The pressure had been on City, on Guardiola, to deliver the trophy that Sheikh Mansour has craved since his takeover in 2008 but it was an occasion when the manager found a new way to lose, to plumb fresh depths of frustration.
gloss: To use a plumb bob as a measuring or aligning tool.
pos: verb
gloss: To accurately align vertically or horizontally.
pos: verb
gloss: To seal something with lead.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To work as a plumber.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fall or sink like a plummet.
pos: verb
tags: rare
gloss: To trace a road or track; to follow it to its end.
pos: verb
tags: US
colloquial
figuratively
obsolete
gloss: To position vertically above or below.
pos: verb
Synonyms: plummet
plumb bob
plumb line
Derived words: off plumb
out of plumb
plumb bob
plumb line
plumb rule
plumbness
unplumb
plumb crazy
plumbable
plumbless
replumb
Translations:
plushy
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plush
English -y
English plushy
From plush + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: plushies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plushier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: plushiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of plushie.
pos: noun
gloss: Like plush; soft and shaggy.
pos: adj
gloss: Plush; sumptuous.
pos: adj
examples: one saw and felt a vanished Broadway, plains covered with cattle and cowboys, jungles and native villages, and a great shining city of hansom-cabs, political intrigue and plushy champagne-suppers, as if one were walking through them oneself in the company of a superb raconteur and inspired liar.
Derived words: plushily
plushiness
Translations:
pluton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from Plutonic.
Inflected forms:
form: plutons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A body of igneous rock formed beneath the surface of the earth by consolidation of magma
pos: noun
Translations:
podded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pod
English -ed
English podded
From pod + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: having pods (of a particular kind)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: edible-podded peas
Translations:
poi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian poi.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The traditional staple food of Hawaii, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.
pos: noun
tags: Hawaii
uncountable
examples: It was a far cry from the traditional Hawaiian feast, which always included the beloved poi, a purplish paste made from pounded taro root […].
gloss: A creamy Samoan dessert of ripe bananas mashed with coconut cream.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
pol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of politician.
Inflected forms:
form: pols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A politician.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Journalists and pols were cozier then. President Kennedy sipped 1945 Lafite-Rothschild at the Alsops' Georgetown home, and the Alsops dined at the White House.
The knights-errant of politics could "tsk, tsk" all they wanted, but most experienced pols recognized that patronage was the lifeblood of their profession.
Translations:
poling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: polings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the poling of beans
the poling of a boat
gloss: The operation of dispersing wormcasts over the walks with poles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: double poling
poling around
poling boat
Translations:
poller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English poll
English -er
English poller
From poll + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pollers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: one who polls or lops trees
pos: noun
gloss: one who cuts hair; a barber
pos: noun
gloss: one who votes
pos: noun
gloss: one who registers voters or conducts a poll
pos: noun
gloss: a task or process that periodically checks for a condition being satisfied, such as the availability of new data
pos: noun
Translations:
pomade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French pommade, from Italian pomata (“ointment, pomade”), from pomo (“apple”) + -ata (“-ade, -ate: forming nouns”), from Latin pōmum (“fruit, apple”). Doublet of pomatum, pomate, and pomace. Early pomades tended to be various kinds of fat mixed with apples for a more pleasing scent.
Inflected forms:
form: pomades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pomades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pomading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pomaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pomaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A greasy or waxy substance that is used to style hair, making it look slick and shiny.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So saying, Lady Mandeville turned to the toilette, and mercilessly tied up in her handkerchief the various brushes, combs, oils, pomade, and rouge, with which the table was profusely covered.
The rain beat my hair, run down my face and into my mouth so that I can taste the coconut oil pomade from my hair.
gloss: Synonym of ointment, particularly thick waxy ointments scented with fruit used to beautify the skin or hair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
obsolete
uncountable
examples: With this excellent Pomade you may Anoint your Face at night, and waſh it off the next day in the morning with Rain-water.
gloss: Synonym of cider, a soft or hard drink made from apples.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To apply pomade to style hair.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He pomaded his hair until it looked like a piece of shiny plastic.
gloss: Synonym of anoint, to apply ointment.
pos: verb
tags: historical
obsolete
transitive
Synonyms: pomatum
pomate
Derived words: pomade divine
Translations:
pomp
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English pomp, pompe, from Old French pompe, from Latin pompa (“pomp”), from Ancient Greek πομπή (pompḗ, “a sending, a solemn procession, pomp”), from πέμπω (pémpō, “to send”).
The verb is derived from Middle English pompen, from pomp, pompe (see above).
Inflected forms:
form: pomps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Show of magnificence; parade; display; power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 'Tis a gross visible errour, which Tertullian teaches in his Book of Idolatry cap. 18. That all the marks of Dignity and Power, and all the ornaments annexed to Office, are forbid Christians, and that Jesus Christ hath plac'd all these things amongst the pomps of the Devil, since he himself appeared in a condition so far from all pomp and splendour.
The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.
In its pomp Victoria had 17 platforms, but many of the through platforms were demolished in the early 1990s to make way for the Manchester Arena.
gloss: A procession distinguished by ostentation and splendor; a pageant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] a more beautiful expression of joy and thanksgiving than could have been exhibited by all the pomps of a Roman triumph.
Related words: pompous
pomposity
hypnopompic
Derived words: in one's pomp
outpomp
pomp and circumstance
pompless
Translations:
ponce
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain, but probably an aphetic form of French alphonse (“kept man”), from the male given name Alphonse. Also sometimes connected to pounce or French pensionnaire (“pensioner, person living without working”).
Inflected forms:
form: ponces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ponces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: poncing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ponced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ponced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: A man living off another's earnings, especially a woman's.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: Synonym of poof: an effeminate gay man; any similarly effeminate man.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: Thanks Don, see you Don, off to sunny Spain now Don, fuck off Don. Lying in your pool like a fat blob laughing at me, you think I'm gonna have that? You really think I'm gonna have that, ya ponce.
gloss: To act as a pimp.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: To try to get rid of or sell something.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
broadly
derogatory
slang
gloss: To borrow (something) from somebody without returning it.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: To cadge.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
gloss: To behave in a posh or effeminate manner.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: The interior was warm and dim, cluttered with flying brass pigs and poncing felt mannequins.
Synonyms: hustler
mack
nelly
girlyman
quiche-eater
whore out
Derived words: ponce wheel
poncy
Translations:
lang: German
word: Zuhälter
lang: German
word: Gigolo
lang: German
word: Schnorrer
lang: Hungarian
word: strici
lang: Hungarian
word: futtató
lang: Hungarian
word: kerítő
lang: Hungarian
word: dzsigoló
lang: Hungarian
word: selyemfiú
poplin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An alteration (taken as related to Pope) of French papeline, a distortion of Poperinge, a town in Flanders which was a centre for textile production.
Inflected forms:
form: poplins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted; used especially for women's dresses.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Actress Pat Ast, who used to model for Halston, says she disguises her 220 pounds by wearing loose cotton knit or khaki poplin vests, night and day, always in solid colors.
Translations:
posit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin positus, perfect participle of pōnō (“put, place”). Noun sense 3 (type of number format) was coined by American computer scientist and businessman John Gustafson in 2017.
Inflected forms:
form: posits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: positing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: posited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: posited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To assume the existence of; to postulate.
pos: verb
examples: some who posit both this cause and besides this the source of movement, which we have got from some as single and from other as twofold.
gloss: To propose for consideration or study; to suggest.
pos: verb
examples: Ray's natural theology posited that God was responsible for the near-perfect match between an animal and its environment and encouraged readers to seek evidence for God through the study of nature.
gloss: To put (something somewhere) firmly; to place or position.
pos: verb
examples: Among many Indians, however, an exonormative view, which even today posits British English as the target model, appears to be firmly in place.
Derived words: positer
positor
prepositor
superposit
unposited
Translations:
posy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Syncopic form of poesy (“poetry”).
Inflected forms:
form: posies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flower; a small bouquet; a nosegay.
pos: noun
examples: And I will make thee beds of roses, / And a thousand fragrant posies;
'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
gloss: A verse of poetry, especially a motto or an inscription on a ring.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Is this a Prologue, or the Poeſie of a Ring?
Related words: nosegay
corsage
bouquet
Derived words: posied
posy ring
posy sniffer
Translations:
preen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pren, from Old English prēon, from Proto-Germanic *preunaz (compare Icelandic prjónn (“pin, knitting-needle”), Danish pryne (“needle, eel-spear”)), of uncertain origin, but perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *brewn- (“protrusion, tip, edge”) (compare Lithuanian briaunà (“edge”), Albanian brez (“belt, girdle”)). Cognate with German Pfriem.
The verb is from Middle English prenen, from pren (“a preen”), akin to German pfriemen.
Inflected forms:
form: preens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: preens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: preening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: preened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: preened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: A forked tool used by clothiers for dressing cloth.
pos: noun
gloss: A pin.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; […]
gloss: A bodkin; brooch.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
gloss: To pin; fasten.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
prexy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier prex + -y.
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: prexies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A president, especially of a college or university.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Irving Green, prexy of Mercury Records, described the development and perfection of stereo as “a man-sized job.”
Stanford University's new president, angered by what he calls a "journalistic atrocity," wants student financial support withdrawn from the Stanford Daily.
Translations:
preyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prey
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English preyer
From prey + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: preyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, preys
pos: noun
Translations:
prig
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: UK 16th century. Of unknown origin. Earlier noun senses ("tinker" and "thief"), as hyponyms of "undesirable person", may have informed later senses ("conceited person").
Inflected forms:
form: prigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner.
pos: noun
examples: What spruce prig is that?
I have always had a regard for dunces; — those of my own school-days were amongst the pleasantest of the fellows, and have turned out by no means the dullest in life; whereas many a youth who could turn off Latin hexameters by the yard, and construe Greek quite glibly, is no better than a feeble prig now, with not a pennyworth more brains than were in his head before his beard grew.
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
gloss: A conceited dandy; a fop.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: A rap now at the door made all resound, / And in two bouncing blowings did rebound, / With two flash-men, a dandy, and a prig', / With whom they had been running of the rig.
The manner of the scholar had nearly disappeared; still more the manner of the drawing-room young man. A prig would have said that he had lost his culture, and a prude that he had become coarse.
gloss: A tinker.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
archaic
examples: These droncken Tynckers, called also Prygges.
gloss: A petty thief or pickpocket.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
archaic
examples: Out upon him! Prig, for my life, prig! He haunts / wakes, fairs, and bear-baitings.
Oh, why didn't he rob some rich old gentleman of all his walables, and go out as a gentleman, and not like a common prig, without no honour nor glory!
But a policeman captur'd the naughty boy, / And gave the goose to Smiggs, / And said he was greatly bother'd / By a set of juvenile prigs.
gloss: To filch or steal.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
slang
examples: to prig a handkerchief
Now, this Trailer he bestrides the horse which he priggeth, and saddles and bridles him as orderly as if he were his own, and then carieth him far from the place of his breed, and ther sels him.
Higgen hath prig'd the Prancers in his Days
If she'd ha' taken herself off and stopped at that I dunno as I should have any occasion to grumble; but she prigged the furniture that I'd laid in agin getting married.
gloss: To ride.
pos: verb
gloss: To copulate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Wapping thou I know does love, / Else the ruffin cly the mort; / From thy stampers then remove, / Thy drawers, and let's prig in sport.
Related words: prigger
prigman
Derived words: parish prig
prig and buz
prigdom
priggery
priggess
priggish
priggishly
priggism
prighood
prig napper
prig-star
work on the prig
Translations:
primp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 16th century, a variant of prim.
Inflected forms:
form: primps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: primping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: primped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: primped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Then I promise I'll let you take your bath and primp all day for your date."
gloss: To dress in an affected manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tonight, Moses was the center of attraction, attended to by a dozen Green Berets who prepped and primped him like a stage crew fluttering about a Hollywood star.
Related words: preen
Derived words: primper
primpingly
primp up
primpy
Translations:
prim
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of uncertain origin.
In the verb sense, first appeared in Thomas D'Urfey's A Fool's Preferment in the year 1688.
In the noun sense, first appeared in A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew in the year 1699, meaning "prig." Now obsolete.
In the adjective sense, first appeared in Sir Richard Steele's The Funeral in the year 1702, meaning "consciously or affectedly strict or precise; stiffly formal and respectable."
Oxford English Dictionary proposed a relation with primp and prink. Chiefly Scottish and U.S.
Inflected forms:
form: primmer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: primmest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, their manner or appearance: Formal and precise; stiffly decorous.
pos: adj
examples: Philemon was in great Surprize,⁠
And hardly could believe his Eyes,
Amaz’d to ſee her look ſo prim;
And ſhe admir’d as much at him.
God damn it, what does she want of me, this sad, beautiful bridgeplayer of the Fifth Floor, with her air of lost love and her prim carnality?
And although Paul shares an apartment with his prim wife, aptly named Prudence, they rarely see or speak to each other.
gloss: Of a person: Prudish; straight-laced.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Of things: Neat; trim.
pos: adj
examples: prim regularity
Derived words: prim and proper
primly
primness
prissy
Translations:
propyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French propionique
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
French -yle
French propyl-der.
English propyl
From the chemical prefix propyl-, from propylic or directly from earlier French propylique, from prop(ionique) + -yle + -ique, where -yle, as in French méthylène, is from ὕλη (húlē, “wood, substance”).
Compound parts: propionique
-yle
-ique
Inflected forms:
form: propyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₃H₇, formally derived from propane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
pos: noun
Translations:
prow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle French proue, proe, from Ligurian prua, proa, from Latin prōra, from Ancient Greek πρῷρα (prōîra).
Inflected forms:
form: prows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The front part of a vessel.
pos: noun
examples: The floating vessel swum / Uplifted, and secure with beaked prow / rode tilting o'er the waves.
We were already rather close in; but I ordered the U-33's prow turned inshore and we crept slowly along, constantly dipping up the water and tasting it to assure ourselves that we didn't get outside the fresh-water current.
gloss: A vessel.
pos: noun
Derived words: prowed
prowfish
prowlike
Translations: