yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
tang
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
Etymology: Imitative
Inflected forms:
form: tangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tanging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tanged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tanged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper.
pos: verb
tags: dated
gloss: To make a ringing sound; to ring.
pos: verb
examples: let thy tongue tang arguments of state
Translations:
tanner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tannere, from Old English tannere; and Old French tannour, equivalent to tan + -er.
Base: tan
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: tanners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who applies a tan (especially a spray tan) on someone's skin.
pos: noun
examples: Eighty-one-year-old [Martha] Stewart says that a spray tan before her debut Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover boosted her confidence. Ryan Gosling, who plays Ken in Barbie, had a personal tanner on set.
gloss: A long-horned beetle of species Prionus coriarius.
pos: noun
Translations:
tasty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From taste + -y. The Philippine sense is due to a genericized trademark from Taystee Bread Company, a defunct American company.
Base: taste
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: tastier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tastiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tasties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a pleasant or satisfying flavor.
pos: adj
examples: You could make this tasty meal for breakfast.
Now, with all these provisos in mind, what’s the best way to put spinach to work? All due respect to Popeye, a can may not be the tastiest way to introduce it to your table. […] Lightly sautéing fresh spinach in a drizzle of olive or avocado oil meets this baseline, and it’s tasty and nutritious as well.
As Trevor Corson, author of “The Story of Sushi” explains, in Japan, sushi is typically eaten at a bar, where it’s customary for the customer to chat with the chef, who can recommend what’s in season. The short window during which the fish is fresh also makes it more likely to be tastier in Japan.
gloss: Having or showing good taste; tasteful.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: These items will make an attractive and tasty display.
we wait until the palace is half-way up, and then we pay some tasty architect to run us up an ornamental mud hovel, right against it
gloss: Appealing; when applied to persons, sexually appealing.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Country fans probably remember Stu best for a tasty tune he wrote and recorded but didn't want released.
gloss: Skillful; highly competent.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
gloss: Potentially violent.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
examples: I watched it all unfold live on Sky News. Ed Miliband was there, but so were the usual bunch of troublemakers and I, for one, was expecting it to kick off.¶ Sure enough, it all got a bit tasty in the afternoon at about the time I should have been polishing off my tinned tuna. Only there was no one about to dish out my grub.¶ They were all glued to the telly watching a gang of blokes wearing balaclavas smash the windows of a Porsche showroom in Park Lane.
No, I wouldn't take a bullet for him, or any of them,I wasn't paid enough to go that far, but I would break up a scrap if it all got a bit tasty and, yeah, it was a great at the bar that night getting the drinks in.
These empires of rusting metal have long been portrayed in film, fiction and TV as a haunt of the wide boy, the tasty geezer, and many other variants of ne'er-do-well
gloss: Something tasty; a delicious article of food.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The mate had procured other tasties too, olives and such, for later in the evening.
Sean then made up the most delicious pâté to have with biscuits and various other tasties.
gloss: A loaf of bread.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
dated
Related words: taste
tasteful
Derived words: tastily
tastiness
tasty cheese
Translations:
teak
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) / Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku).
Inflected forms:
form: teaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: teek
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: teek
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: A tree of the species in the genus Tectona.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: A yellowish brown colour, like that of teakwood.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: African teak
Australian teak
bastard teak
nonteak
Rhodesian teak
teak moth
teak oil
teakwood
teaky
tough as teak
white teak
Translations:
telepathy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
Etymology: From tele- + -pathy.
Base: tele
Inflected forms:
form: telepathies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The capability to communicate directly by psychic means; the sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Gerwin Schalk and Anthony Ritaccio, at the Albany Medical Center, are working under a multimillion-dollar grant from the U.S. military to design and develop devices that enable soldiers to communicate telepathically. Although this seems like something out of a science fiction story, the Pentagon believes that these so-called telepathy helmets are sufficiently feasible that it is devoting more than $6 million to the project. The target date for completion of the prototype device is 2017.
Translations:
tenacity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From tenac(ious) + -ity, from Middle French ténacité, from Latin tenācitās.
Base: tenacious
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: tenacities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being tenacious, or persistence of purpose; tenaciousness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Like the Cuscus of the Moluccas, the Galeopithecus feeds chiefly on leaves, and possesses a very voluminous stomach and long convoluted intestines. The brain is very small, and the animal possesses such remarkable tenacity of life, that it is exceedingly difficult to kill it by any ordinary means.
— Our opponents may be younger, faster and less out of shape than we are, but we have something they’ll never have!
— Tenure?
— Tenacity!
gloss: The quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force, as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The effect of this attraction, cohesiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness, viscosity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: cohesiveness
Antonyms: brittleness
fragility
mobility
Related words: tenacious
tenaciously
Translations:
tend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English *tenden, from Old French tendre (“to stretch, stretch out, hold forth, offer, tender”), from Latin tendere (“to stretch, stretch out, extend, spread out”).
Inflected forms:
form: tends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
pos: verb
gloss: To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning.
pos: verb
tags: auxiliary
examples: They tend to go out on Saturdays.
It tends to snow here in winter.
I was tending to get up later and later after the breakup.
Difficult broken country extends almost to the coast between Swatow (Shant’ou) on the south and Hangchow on the north, and this succession of barriers has tended to cut off southeast coastal China from the main body of the country.
gloss: To contribute to or toward some outcome.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Lords in 1722 declared that annexing such Clauses tends to the destruction of this government. And yet there are such bills every session and you pass them.
Related words: intend
tense
tension
tent
be given to
Derived words: tendency
Translations:
tent
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”), or contracted from *tendita as an alternate past participle. Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).
Inflected forms:
form: tents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
pos: noun
examples: We were camping in a three-man tent.
We bought a new tent that can be put up in five seconds, but it took about twenty minutes to take it down and pack it away.
gloss: The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.
gloss: A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
pos: noun
examples: […] feeling his erection making a tent in his pants.
gloss: To go camping.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.
gloss: To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
pos: verb
gloss: To form into a tent-like shape.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sheet tented over his midsection.
gloss: Synonym of fumigate.
pos: verb
Related words: camp
lean-to
lodge
pavilion
pavillion
pitch
tarp
Derived words: bell-tent
big-tent
cook-tent
cooktent
eastern tent caterpillar
fold like a cheap tent
fold one's tent
pitch a tent
strike the tent
tentage
tent bed
tent camping
tent caterpillar
tented arch
tent embassy
tentful
tentiform
tentism
tentless
tentlet
tentlike
tentmaker
tent-maker
tentmaking
tentmate
tent meeting
tent peg
tent pegging
tentpole
tent pole
tent pole movie
tent revival
tent rock
tent-sack
tentwallah
tentward
tentwards
tentwise
tentwort
untent
were you born in a tent
Translations:
tentative
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin tentātīvus (“trying, testing”), from tentō, past participle tentātus (“to try, test”); see tent, tempt.
Inflected forms:
form: tentatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more tentative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tentative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A trial; an experiment; an attempt.
pos: noun
gloss: A schedule for an event or a programme.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
gloss: Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
pos: adj
gloss: Uncertain; subject to future change.
pos: adj
examples: He gave a tentative answer, unsure of the final outcome.
We have a tentative plan for the weekend, but nothing is confirmed yet.
Meanwhile, a bunch of hungry directors with digital cameras, time on their hands and not much money are making free-form studies about tentative hookups and long conversations among actual, overeducated, undermotivated young folks.
Hegseth's reference to the report being "low confidence" suggest it is tentative and its findings may change as more detail emerges.
gloss: Restrained; polite; feeling one's way, not using full force.
pos: adj
examples: Her tentative steps showed her nervousness as she entered the room.
Antonyms: conclusive
definitive
certain
Derived words: pretentative
tentatively
tentativeness
tentative wound
Translations:
terminology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French terminologie or German Terminologie and their source, New Latin terminologia, from Medieval Latin terminus (“a term”) + -ologia (“study of”), from -o- (“(interconsonantal)”) + -logia, from Ancient Greek -λογία (-logía, “-logy, branch of study, to speak”).
Inflected forms:
form: terminologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A treatise on terms, especially those used in a specialised field.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The set of terms actually used in any business, art, science, or the like; nomenclature; technical terms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ad for advertisement is struggling hard for general recognition; some of its compounds, e. g., ad-writer, want-ad, display-ad, ad-card, ad-rate, column-ad and ad-man, are already accepted in technical terminology.
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.[…]Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, and that in several cases these bacteria were dividing and thus, by the perverse arithmetic of biological terminology, multiplying.
Language is always changing — but it shouldn’t become inflexible, especially when new terminologies, in the name of inclusion, sometimes wind up making others feel excluded.
gloss: The scientific study of such terms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: nomenclature
vocabulary
language
wording
phraseology
jargon
lingo
-ese
Related words: argot
jargon
terminism
terminist
Derived words: terminological
terminologically
terminologist
terminologization
terminotics
Translations:
thane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English theyn, thein, þein, from Old English þæġn, þeġen, þeġn, from Proto-West Germanic *þegn (“man, warrior”), from Proto-Germanic *þegnaz (“man, warrior”), from Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- (“to give birth”); akin to Dutch degen, German Degen, Old Norse þegn and Ancient Greek τέκνον (téknon, “child”).
Inflected forms:
form: thanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thegn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thayn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: thein
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: theine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Sonnes, Kinsmen, Thanes, / And you whose places are the nearest, know, / We will establish our Estate vpon / Our eldest, Malcolme, whom we name hereafter, / The Prince of Cumberland: […]
The Anglo-Saxon thanes were in all respects the predecessors of the Norman barons.
The title of thane seems to have supplanted that of gesith, which appears only in the earner Anglo-Saxon laws, a denomination that may originally have designated the attendants or companions of the king, and whose wergild being triple that of the simple freeman, were, therefore, denominated not only gesithcund men, but six-hynde men.
The little island of Iona became the refuge of the sons and some thanes of Athelfrith, banished by Edwin.
Never need you fear
for a single thane of your sept or nation,
young warriors or old.
2000, Wulfstan, Robert Boenig (editor and translator), Sermo Lupi ad Anglos, Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings, page 144,
Although some serfs escape from their lord and turn away from Christendom to the Vikings and after this it happens that the clash of swords becomes common to thane and serf, if the serf utterly kills the thane, he lies unpaid by all of the serf's kin.
Translations:
thatch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of thack, from Middle English thache, thach, from Old English þæc (“roof-covering”), from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“covering”), from (o-grade of) Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“cover”).
Cognate with Icelandic þak, Dutch dak, German Dach, Norwegian tak, Swedish tak, Danish tag; and with Latin toga, Albanian thak (“awn, beard, pin, peg, tassel, fringe”), Lithuanian stogas (“roof”), Welsh to (“roof”). Related to Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof”) and στέγη (stégē, “roof”). See also English deech, deck.
Inflected forms:
form: thatches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thatches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thatching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: thatched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: thatched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Just over halfway up, we reached the Human settlement with its houses of stone and wood and thatch. This was a prewar place.
gloss: Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
pos: noun
tags: Caribbean
countable
uncountable
gloss: A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mark Ladd, the venue’s assistant director of operations, notes that the fake greenery looks authentic: the height and colour of the blades are varied, with a few brown ones thrown in to emulate dead thatch.
gloss: Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: Brown was a compact dark-skinned man in his forties, with strong features and a dense thatch of brown hair that sprang from his crown at an angle, though it had been brushed to either side of an indeterminate part.
An outgoing, story-telling Irishman from Butte, Montana, with his thatch of red hair and sandpapered face, Matt was the quintessential imp.
gloss: To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.
pos: verb
Derived words: big thatch
dethatch
overthatch
silver thatch
thatchless
thatchlike
thatch rake
thatch-rake
thatchwork
thatchy
underthatch
Translations:
thyme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tyme, from Old French thym, from Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek θύμον (thúmon). Displaced native Old English boþen.
Inflected forms:
form: thymes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the labiate genus Thymus, such as garden thyme (Thymus vulgaris), a warm, pungent aromatic, that is much used to give a relish to seasoning and soups.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tint
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tinctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.
Inflected forms:
form: tints
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tinted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A slight coloring.
pos: noun
gloss: A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
pos: noun
gloss: A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
pos: noun
examples: Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
gloss: A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
pos: noun
gloss: A vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.
I'd watch as cars marched by like a line of ants. Cars with those cool hydraulics. Cars with tints so dark, you couldn't see anything inside.
gloss: To shade, to color.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
Derived words: Camotint
demitint
electrotint
half-tint
lithotint
monotint
overtint
papyrotint
tintage
tint block
tintless
tintometer
tint tool
tinty
undertint
untint
mistint
tintable
Translations:
toupee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1727, from French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Middle French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), from Old French toupet (“small tuft of hair, forelock”), diminutive of toupe, top (“tuft of hair”), from Frankish *topp (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), from Proto-Germanic *tuppaz (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”). Cognate with Old Dutch topp (“top”) (Dutch top), Old Frisian top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old English top (“summit, crest, tuft of hair”), Old High German zopf (“end, summit, tuft of hair”), Old Norse toppr (“tuft of hair, forelock”). More at top.
Inflected forms:
form: toupees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toupe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toupée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: toupet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A wig of false hair worn to cover a bald spot, especially as worn by a man.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: hair system
gloss: A small tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig, worn by both sexes.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.
Derived words: toupeed
toupee fallacy
Translations:
towel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English towayle, towel, towail, towaille, from Old French toaille (“towel”) (modern French touaille), Medieval Latin toallia, from Frankish *þwahilu (“cloth”), from Proto-Germanic *þwahaną (“to wash”). Cognate with Old High German dwahila (“towel”) (modern dialectal German Zwehle), Dutch dwaal (“towel”), dweil (“mop”), Low German Dweel (“towel”), Old English þwǣle (“band; ribbon; fillet”), Old English þwēan (“to wash”).
Inflected forms:
form: towels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: towels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toweling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: towelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: toweled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: toweled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: towelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: towelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath.
pos: noun
examples: He needed a towel for wiping the slippery floor.
gloss: To dry by using a towel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He got out of the shower and toweled himself dry.
gloss: To hit with a towel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We would open the windows, towel the door, and turn my bedroom into an Allman Brothers concert.
gloss: To beat with a stick, or "oaken towel".
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
transitive
Derived words: towel down
towel off
towel up
untoweled
untowelled
Translations:
tractable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English tractable, tractabel, from Latin tractābilis (“that may be touched, handled, or managed”), from tractō (“take in hand, handle, manage”), frequentative of trahō (“draw”).
Inflected forms:
form: more tractable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tractable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed.
pos: adj
examples: "Tess is queer." "But she's tractable at bottom. Leave her to me."
But once in London Jane Porter was no more tractable than she had been in Baltimore. She found one excuse after another, […]
gloss: Easy to deal with or manage.
pos: adj
examples: I have always found horses, an animal I am attached to, very tractable when treated with humanity and steadiness.
Of all the tractable, equal-tempered, attached, and faithful beings that ever lived, I believe he was the most so.
[T]his matter of the vanishing bridge must have been arranged in order to put him in a properly subdued and tractable frame of mind.
Some masters can be quite kind if you're meek and tractable.
gloss: Capable of being shaped; malleable.
pos: adj
examples: I need not point out the advantages of modelling in a material as durable as stone. . . . Mixed up with just enough water to form a stiff paste, it accommodates itself to the touch of the modelling tool. . . . There are two inherent difficulties in using it—one, it is not so tractable as clay. . . .
gloss: Capable of being handled or touched.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: At leaſt five Hundred of theſe reforming Vultures are daily plundering our Pockets, and ranſacking our Houſes, leaving me ſometimes not one pair of Tractable Buttocks in my Vaulting-School to provide for my Family, or earn me ſo much as a Pudding for my next Sundays Dinner : [...]
gloss: Sufficiently operationalizable or useful to allow a mathematical calculation to proceed toward a solution.
pos: adj
examples: This assumption is in the Raiffa and Schlaifer (1961, p. 72) spirit of using ‘a little ingenuity. . . to find a tractable function’ to quantify risk-preferences and probability judgments so as to make the analysis feasible.
gloss: Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
pos: adj
Antonyms: intractable
Related words: tractability
tractableness
tractably
Translations:
traditional
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tradition
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 traditional
From tradition + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more traditional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most traditional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or derived from tradition.
pos: adj
examples: This dance is one of the traditional customs in the area.
I think her traditional values are antiquated.
For centuries, the nomadic tribes of Central Asia used colorful textiles called suzanis as seating, prayer mats, bedding and dividers in their yurts – the traditional tents that were their homes.
gloss: Communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only.
pos: adj
examples: traditional expositions of the Scriptures
gloss: Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
pos: adj
examples: Ryoteis usually look like traditional Japanese inns or even private homes.
gloss: In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to traditional Chinese.
pos: adj
examples: The traditional form of the character has twice as many strokes as the simplified form.
Synonyms: traditionary
time-honored
Antonyms: nontraditional
non-traditional
untraditional
Related words: oral tradition
tradition
catholic
conservative
epic
folk
historical
legendary
ordinary
original
puritanical
regular
saga
standard
stereotypical
typical
usual
Derived words: African traditional religion
antitraditional
Chinese traditional medicine
traditional Chinese medicine
detraditionalize
ethnotraditional
neotraditional
nontraditional
non-traditional
pretraditional
protraditional
pseudotraditional
quasi-traditional
semitraditional
tradigital
traditional agriculture
traditional art
traditional birth attendant
Traditional Chinese
traditional climber
traditional climbing
traditional county
traditional dry red
Traditional Egyptian
traditional grip
traditionalise
traditionalize
traditionalism
traditionalist
traditionalistic
traditionality
traditional jazz
traditionally
traditional marriage
traditional medicine
traditionalness
traditional owner
traditional publisher
traditional right
traditional student
ultratraditional
untraditional
Translations:
traitor
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English traitor, traitour, traytour, from Old French traïtor (French traître), from Latin trāditor. Displaced native Middle English swike from Old English swica (“traitor”), and Middle English proditour and traditour borrowed directly from Latin. The general Old English word denoting "traitor" was lǣwa or lǣwend. Doublet of traditor.
Inflected forms:
form: traitors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: traitour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: traitors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: traitoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: traitored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: traitored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: traitour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more traitor
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most traitor
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: traitour
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to their defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished.
pos: noun
examples: After World War I, the communists and Jews were accused to be traitors by the German right wing (the "stab-in-the-back myth"), ultimately culminating in their persecution and massacre.
My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]
Yes, that was Vice President Spiro Agnew commemorating the "loyalty" of literal traitors. But what can you really expect from a man whose name rearranged spells "grow a penis."
gloss: Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country.
pos: noun
gloss: One who betrays any confidence or trust.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: It's second nature now to think myself a traitor
To myself, to all I've ever burdened with my rotting visage
I can't breathe, the weight of all I've disappointed crushes me
If I were happy, it would feel as if I couldn't trust me
It took you two weeks
To go off and date her
Guess you didn't cheat
But you're still, you're still a traitor
Yeah, you're still a traitor
gloss: To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
pos: verb
gloss: Traitorous.
pos: adj
examples: to find a subject staid and wise
Already half turn'd traitor by surprise
Synonyms: Benedict Arnold
quisling
Judas
Derived words: archtraitor
cotraitor
race traitor
traitordom
traitoress
traitorhood
traitorish
traitorism
traitorize
traitorless
traitorlike
traitorly
traitorous
traitorship
traitorsome
traitor tracing
traitorwise
traitor within the gates
turn traitor
Translations:
transcript
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
education
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin transcriptum, from transcribere.
Inflected forms:
form: transcripts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which has been transcribed; a writing or composition consisting of the same words as the original; a written copy.
pos: noun
examples: When he had finished she held out her hand for the transcript of the message that he had already made.
gloss: A copy of any kind; an imitation.
pos: noun
examples: The Grecian learning was but a transcript of the Chaldean and Egyptian.
gloss: A written version of what was said orally
pos: noun
examples: the transcript of a trial
gloss: A molecule of RNA produced by transcription.
pos: noun
examples: Some transcripts were exclusively expressed in specific organs, such as female protarsus, whereas others were universally expressed, this varied expression profile may provide insights into the specific functions mediated by chemoreception proteins in insects.
gloss: An official certified record of a student's academic performance throughtout their course of study, including all courses taken and grades received.
pos: noun
examples: The grading policy now specifies that all students enrolled before the spring 1982 semester in classes of less than 40 students will receive written evaluations, with either a nonletter grade (honors, pass or no credit) or a letter grade on their transcripts. Under the old system, the no-credit notation did not appear on the transcript.
Related words: transcribe
transcription
Derived words: metatranscript
mistranscript
multitranscript
primary transcript
retrotranscript
selenotranscript
transcriptase
transcriptome
transcriptomics
transcriptosome
Translations:
trapeze
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
geometry
mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French trapèze, from Latin trapezium. Doublet of trapezium.
Inflected forms:
form: trapezes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trapezes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trapezing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trapezed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trapezed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A trapezium.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A swinging horizontal bar suspended at each end by a rope, used by circus artists.
pos: noun
gloss: The trapezium bone.
pos: noun
examples: […] the distance between the top of the flexor retinaculum and an imaginary line drawn between the trapeze and the hamate.
gloss: A certain yo-yo trick.
pos: noun
examples: I begin a roller-coaster trick by throwing a trapeze, making the yo-yo loop around the finger of my left hand and then land back on the string.
gloss: To swing on or as on a trapeze.
pos: verb
Derived words: trapeze artist
trapeze dress
trapezelike
trapezist
Translations:
trapper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
mining
skating
sports
Etymology: From trap + -er, compare french trappeur.
Base: trap
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: trappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.
pos: noun
examples: The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps.
gloss: A worker (usually a child) who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.
pos: noun
gloss: A drug dealer.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Wanna be a trapper? Never serve a nigga where you live
gloss: A performer of trap music.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Synonym of catcher.
pos: noun
Derived words: honey trapper
trapper hat
Translations:
treacle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English triacle, partly from Old French triacle, and partly from Old English tyriaca, both from Late Latin *triaca, *tiriaca, late form of theriaca, ultimately from Ancient Greek θηριακή (thēriakḗ, “antidote”), feminine form of θηριακός (thēriakós, “concerning venomous beasts”), from θήρ (thḗr, “beast”). Doublet of theriacle, equivalent to theriac + -le.
Base: theriac
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: treacles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: treacles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: treacling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: treacled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: treacled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A syrupy byproduct of sugar refining; molasses or golden syrup.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
uncountable
examples: Didn’t you see how the cub was ashamed of the thick bread-and-butter? I dare say they’re going to have treacle if they are good.
gloss: Cloying sentimental speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The public tributes to Griffith were over-the-top in a way his acting never was, spreading treacle from the evening newscasts to the front page of the New York Times.
gloss: Sweetheart (from treacle tart).
pos: noun
tags: Cockney
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Listen, treacle, this is the last time I'll warn you!
gloss: Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: CHEWING-BALLS, a kind of balls made of aſafœtida, liver of antimony, bay-wood, juniper-wood, and pellitory of Spain; which being dried in the ſun, and wrapped in a linen-cloth, are tied to the bit of the bridle for the horſe to chew: they create an appetite; and it is ſaid, that balls of Venice treacle may be uſed in the ſame manner with good ſucceſs.
gloss: Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
historical
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Synonym of theriac: an antidote for poison, especially snakebite; a supposedly universal antidote.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
historical
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To apply treacle to a surface, so as to catch flies or moths, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: mithridate treacle
treacle bread
treaclelike
treacle mustard
treacle paper
treacle pudding
treacler
treacle sleep
treacle tart
treacle water
treaclewort
treacly
Venice treacle
Translations:
treadmill
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From tread + mill. Its figurative senses refer to the idea that running on a treadmill requires continued effort and motion to remain in the same place.
Compound parts: tread
mill
Inflected forms:
form: treadmills
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: treadmills
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: treadmilling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: treadmilled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: treadmilled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of indoor sporting equipment used to allow for the motions of running or walking while staying in one place.
pos: noun
gloss: A mill worked by persons treading upon steps on the periphery of a wide wheel having a horizontal axis. It was used principally as a means of prison discipline.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Their paternal house of Drummington, Foker could very seldom be got to visit. He swore he had rather go on the treadmill than stay there.
gloss: A mill worked by horses, dogs, etc., treading an endless belt.
pos: noun
examples: Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
gloss: A process or situation in which continued effort leads to or is required for remaining at a particular state or level without moving ahead.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 1 As a result, people can easily find themselves alternating between various treadmills: the hedonic treadmill of pursuing happiness, the status treadmill requiring conspicuous consumption, and the treadmill of work undertaken to finance one's activity on the other two treadmills.
Elizabeth Schor (1999) has long argued that this status treadmill, even if not universal, has worked to “ratchet” global conceptualizations of need and desire upward over time.
gloss: To exercise on a treadmill.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To keep busy, for example, with work or with other tasks, without being able to get ahead or make progress towards long-term goals.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
intransitive
examples: Most of us are so busy "earning each day our daily bread" that we have but little "open" time. […] Occasionally one wonders "What's it all for, anyway?" For years he's been treadmilling it, day in and day out, and presently the graying hair at the temples will shock him into the grim reality that he is getting old—and getting little else.
Back we were in the rat race, treadmilling sixty hours a week and sleeping forty, our sex life was like that of most busy cohabiters I suppose: fun, frolicky, and squeezed in haphazardly when we had a minute—or thirty.
Related words: treadwheel
Red Queen hypothesis
treadmilling
Derived words: dreadmill
euphemism treadmill
hedonic treadmill
treadmiller
Translations:
trenchant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French trenchant, the present participle of trenchier (“to cut”).
Inflected forms:
form: more trenchant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most trenchant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trenchaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, / For want of fighting was grown rusty, / And ate into itself, for lack / Of somebody to hew and hack.
gloss: Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The trenchant talonid is a character of some miacids and distinguishes these teeth from the hyaenodontids and oxyaenids.
gloss: Keen; biting; vigorously articulate and effective; severe.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: trenchant wit
His eyes, of the usual blue, were perhaps remarkably cold, and he certainly could make his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe.
His trenchant criticisms of the Church's repression […] include a discussion of the considerable 1938 success of the fledgling NODL in getting magazines removed from various points of sale.
Derived words: intrenchant
trenchantly
trenchantness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: рязко очертан
roman: rjazko očertan
lang: Finnish
word: pureva
lang: Finnish
word: terävä
lang: French
word: tranchant
lang: German
word: schneidend
lang: Ido
word: tranchiva
lang: Ido
word: tranchema
lang: Polish
word: ostry
lang: Portuguese
word: cortante
lang: Portuguese
word: afiado
lang: Russian
word: о́стрый
roman: óstryj
lang: Swedish
word: skarp
tress
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tresse, from Old French tresce, of uncertain origin; possibly from Vulgar Latin *trichia, from Ancient Greek τριχία (trikhía, “rope”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”). Compare French tresse, Italian treccia.
Inflected forms:
form: tresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A braid, knot, or curl, of hair; a ringlet.
pos: noun
examples: nor was the doom / of guilty deed, but of a hapless wight / to sudden madness stung, ere ripe to die, / therefore the Queen of Hades had not shorn / the fair tress from her forehead, nor assigned / that soul to Stygian dark.
“Mercy! If I had a husband whose business it was to look at women's beautiful eyes, peachy cheeks, and luxurious tresses, I should go crazy! […]”
Even without theatrical shoes on, Erlys was taller than Luca Zombini, and kept her fair hair in a Psyche knot, out of which the less governable tresses continued, with the day, to escape.
gloss: A long lock of hair.
pos: noun
gloss: A knot or festoon, as of flowers.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: To braid or knot hair.
pos: verb
Derived words: mermaid's tresses
tressful
tressless
tresslike
tressy
untress
Translations:
trice
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English trīcen, trice, trise (“to pull or push; to snatch away; to steal”), from Middle Dutch trīsen (“to hoist”) (modern Dutch trijsen) or Middle Low German trissen (“to trice the spritsail”); further etymology uncertain. The word is cognate with Danish trisse, tridse (“to haul with a pulley”), Low German trissen, tryssen, drisen, drysen (“to wind up, trice”), German trissen, triezen (“to annoy or torment”).
Inflected forms:
form: trices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tricing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: triced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: triced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: trise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: trices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To pull, to pull out or away, to pull sharply.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The tent is made of light, close, unbleached duck, […] A window, six inches square, is fitted at the upper end with a flap to trice up or haul down.
gloss: To drag or haul, especially with a rope; specifically (nautical) to haul or hoist and tie up by means of a rope.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ... the fold of his double chin hung like a bag triced up close under the hinge of his jaw.
One of the two men landed had shot and wounded the mate, and the other, known as "Doublin Jack," had knocked the second mate down with a handspike. Captain Low put both these men in irons, triced them up in the mizzen rigging, and gave them each four dozen lashes of ratline stuff, which they had well earned.
gloss: Now only in the phrase in a trice: a very short time; the blink of an eye, an instant, a moment.
pos: noun
examples: Miſtruſtfully he truſteth, and he dreadingly did dare, / And fortie paſſions in a trice in him conſort and ſquare.
This is most ſtrange, that ſhe, who even but now / Was your beſt object, the argument of your praiſe, / Balme of your age, moſt beſt, moſt deereſt, / Should in this trice of time commit a thing / So monſtrous, to diſmantell ſo many foulds of fauour, […]
He saw a Turnkey in a trice / Unfetter a troublesome blade;
Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May." / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here," said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."
And in a trice he has clambered onto the kitchen dresser and is reaching for the top shelf.
Perhaps images then, not words? Of terrified young people who in a trice went from dancing to frantic running in a futile attempt to escape the spray of bullets; […]
Derived words: trice up
untrice
Translations:
troublesome
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trouble + -some.
Base: trouble
Affixes: -some
Inflected forms:
form: more troublesome
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most troublesome
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing trouble or anxiety.
pos: adj
examples: The computer has been very troublesome for me. It never works when I need to use it.
As was the case with the "Merchant Navy" locomotives, some of these features have proved troublesome, and this in turn at times has reflected on performance as well as on maintenance.
The problem is that the likes of Shapps and his boss Boris Johnson are eager for a fight with the unions. They are being deliberately provocative, so they can portray railway workers as 'troublesome trots'.
Antonyms: untroublesome
nontroublesome
Translations: