yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
later
Part of speech: adv
adj
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: * Adverb: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lator, equivalent to late + -er.
* Adjective: From Middle English later, latere, from Old English lætra, equivalent to late + -er.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian leeter (“later”), West Frisian letter (“later”), Dutch later (“later”), German Low German later (“later”).
Base: late
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
pos: adv
examples: My roommate arrived first. I arrived later.
I arrived later than my roommate.
gloss: At some unspecified time in the future.
pos: adv
examples: I wanted to do it now, but I’ll have to do it later.
gloss: What if (something problematic or unanticipated happens); if not (something undesirable will happen).
pos: adv
tags: Manglish
Singlish
examples: Compare Malay nanti (“later; if not”)
Later you fall asleep how?
gloss: Coming afterward in time (used with than when comparing with another time).
pos: adj
examples: The Victorian era is a later period of English history than the Elizabethan era.
The eldest son was usually given the name of his paternal grandfather, later children those of other relatives.
gloss: Coming afterward in distance (following an antecedent distance as embedded within an adverbial phrase)
pos: adj
examples: I felt some leg pain during the first mile of my run and I strained my calf two miles later.
gloss: At some time in the future.
pos: adj
examples: The meeting was adjourned to a later date.
gloss: See you later; goodbye.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: Later, dude.
Synonyms: hereafter
someday
Antonyms: earlier
once
Derived words: catch you later
I kill you later
neverthelater
no later than
you later alligator
shoot first and ask questions later
smell ya later
smell you later
sooner rather than later
sooner than later
to be named later
Translations:
probable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English probable, from Old French probable, from Latin probābilis (“that may be proved, credible”), from probāre (“to test, examine”); see probe, probity, prove. Compare recent doublet provable.
Inflected forms:
form: more probable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most probable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: probables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Likely or most likely to be true.
pos: adj
examples: It's probable that it will rain tomorrow.
The probable source of the failure was the mass of feathers in the intake manifold.
A major accident and embezzlement of its funds seem to have been the only disasters it escaped; and as to the latter, the most probable reason is that it never had any quantity of funds worth embezzling.
gloss: Likely to happen.
pos: adj
examples: With all the support we have, success is looking probable.
gloss: Supporting, or giving ground for, belief, but not demonstrating.
pos: adj
examples: probable evidence
From an examination of the Teutonic words for "temple" Grimm has made it probable that amongst the Germans the oldest sanctuaries were natural woods.
gloss: Capable of being proved.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Something that is likely.
pos: noun
examples: Four of the 32 251 Ku aircraft turned back, but the other 28 fought for 20 minutes against a reported 100 enemy aircraft, claiming 18 destroyed and five probables.
gloss: A person who is likely to appear or do a certain thing.
pos: noun
Antonyms: improbable
Related words: possible
probeable
Derived words: equiprobable
nonprobable
probabilify
probabilistics
probability
probable cause
probable error
probableness
probably
unprobable
Translations:
throat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English throte, from Old English þrote, þrota, þrotu (“throat”), from Proto-West Germanic *þrotu, from Proto-Germanic *þrutō (“throat”), from Proto-Indo-European *trud- (“to swell, become stiff”). Cognate with Dutch strot (“throat”), German Drossel (“throttle, gorge of game (wild animals)”), Faroese troti (“swelling”), Icelandic þroti (“swelling”), Norwegian trut (“mouth”), Swedish trut.
Inflected forms:
form: throats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: throating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: throated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: throated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: throate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: throte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To utter in or with the throat.
pos: verb
tags: uncommon
examples: He beat about and pecked the net until his mate was liberated, and, throating a song of gratitude, the bird he freed flew to the sky.
As you know, I have gone in for the more manly athletics here with my visual enthusiasm, throating a nasty tenor on the Glee Club and shaking a vicious hoof on our dancing team. Well, last night the Intercollegiate Shimmy Contest with Goofy ...
Tariq wants to be tactful and refrains from his natural impulse to throat his pain and curse her loudly in French. The girl looks devastated.
to throat threats
So Hector hereto throated threats, to go to sea in blood
gloss: To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.)
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: The Roman began to throat his rigid flagpole of a mancock, making groaning noises.
His head leaned back, water splashing his face as I throated his solid pipe. Those giant hands found the back of my head as he worked his hips back and forth to pump further and further into my mouth.
gloss: To mow (beans, etc.) in a direction against their bending.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
Translations:
cuirass
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First use appears c. 1464. From Middle English curasse, curesse, from Old French cuirace, spelling influenced by modern French cuirasse.
Inflected forms:
form: cuirasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cuirasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cuirassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cuirassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cuirassed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
pos: noun
examples: The cuirass covered the body before and behind, it consisted of two parts, a breast and back piece of iron, fastened together by means of straps and buckles, or other contrivances. They were originally as the name imports, made of leather, but afterwards of metal, both brass and iron.
gloss: The breastplate taken by itself.
pos: noun
examples: Lady Orkney's history, to whose house we are going, is a curious one. As Miss Elizabeth Villiers, by her charms she pierced the cuirass that enveloped the well-disciplined heart of William III.
gloss: To cover with defensive armor; to armor-plate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: cuirie
cuir bouilli
Translations:
brigandine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brigandyn, brigantien, attested by 1456 (eventually displacing the slightly earlier synonym brigander), from Old French brigandine, from brigand + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: brigandines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brigantine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: brigander
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A coat of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, sewn or riveted under or onto canvas or linen or other material.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
The brigandine takes its name from the troops, by which it was first worn, who were called brigans, they were a kind of light armed irregular foot, much addicted to plunder, whence it is probable the appellation of brigands was given to other freebooters.
Red-haired and freckled, he wore a studded brigantine, high boots, fingerless leather gloves, and a quiver on his back.
Translations:
chauvinism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French chauvinisme (“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”), named for Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. The figure of Chauvin became especially famous as a character in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers.
Inflected forms:
form: chauvinisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: (C. S.) Lewis occasionally expressed a somewhat tongue-in-cheek chauvinism towards the English. Describing an encounter with a fellow Irishman, he wrote: "Like all Irish people who meet in England, we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race.
gloss: Unwarranted bias, favoritism, or devotion to one's own particular group, cause, or idea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: Feminists say that male chauvinism is still prevalent in cultures worldwide.
“This is an outrageous example of unconscious racial chauvinism!” Jack said.
Synonyms: jingoism
Related words: chauvinist
bigotry
Chauvinism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Derived words: antichauvinism
carbon chauvinism
female chauvinism
male chauvinism
Translations:
corselet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From French corselet, from cors, an archaic spelling of corps (“body”).
Inflected forms:
form: corselets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corcelet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: corselette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: corslet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Armor for the body, for example a breastplate and backpiece taken together.
pos: noun
gloss: An entire suit of armor, made up chiefly of the breastplate and backpiece worn with a headpiece and with a gorget, pauldrons, vambraces, gauntlets, and tassets attached.
pos: noun
examples: Strictly speaking, the word corcelet meant only that part which covered the body, but was generally used to express the whole suit, under the terms of a corselet furnished, or complete.
gloss: A tight-fitting item of clothing which covers the body and not the limbs.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of women's underwear, combining a bra and a girdle in one garment; a corselette.
pos: noun
gloss: The thorax of an insect.
pos: noun
examples: With the added suggestion of her goggles it reminded her pupil of the polished shell or corslet of a horrid beetle.
Derived words: corseleted
Translations:
tasse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English tasse (“armor plate protecting the hip”), derived from Old French tasse, tasche (“purse; pouch”), derived from Frankish *taskā (“pouch”), derived from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Cognate with Old High German tasca (“pouch”), German Tasche (“pocket; pouch; bag”), Dutch tas (“bag”).
Inflected forms:
form: tasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tace
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A piece of armor for the hips and thighs: one of a set of plates (each being of one piece or segmented) hanging from the bottom of the breastplate or from faulds.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: This included the head-piece and gorgett, the back and breast, with skirts of iron called tasses or tassets covering the thighs, as may be seen in the figures, representing the exercise of the pike, published anno 1622, by the title of the Military Art of Training; the same kind of armour was worn by the harquebusiers.
The tasse, meant only to cover the hips, was so long that its edges scraped against the floor.
Translations:
codpiece
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cod (“bag, pouch, scrotum”) + piece.
Compound parts: cod
piece
Inflected forms:
form: codpieces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cod-piece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A part of male dress in the 15th and 16th centuries, worn in front of the breeches to cover the male genitals.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: , Act III, Scene III, line 130.
Borachio: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
Once Francis lifts her hand. She pulls back, half-resisting, and for one moment it seems he intends to lay her little fingers upon his unspeakable codpiece.
[David] Lynch’s film is actually much better than its terrible reputation, but Sting in a codpiece and a Toto soundtrack will never match the potential greatness of [Alejandro] Jodorowsky’s unmade epic.
gloss: A conspicuous protection for the male genitals in a suit of plate armor.
pos: noun
examples: On some suits were screwed large iron cod-pieces; these, according to tradition, were intended to prevent the ill consequences of those violent shocks received in charging, either in battle, or at a tournament. Same say, they were meant to contain sponges for receiving the water of knights, who in the heat of an engagement might not have any more convenient method of discharging it. But most probably, they were rather constructed in conformity to a reigning fashion in the make of the breeches of those times.
Related words: merkin
Derived words: codpieced
Translations:
rickshaw
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Chinese 人力
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Proto-Tocharian *kuk(ä)lebor.?
Middle Chinese 車
Japanese 人力車clip.
Japanese 力車bor.
English rickshaw
Borrowed from Japanese 力(りき)車(しゃ) (rikisha), a clipping of 人(じん)力(りき)車(しゃ) (jinrikisha), from Middle Chinese 人力 (nyin lik, “human power”) + 車 (t͡ʃʰæ, “cart”) (compare Mandarin 人力車 /人力车 (rénlìchē)).
Compound parts: 人力
車
Inflected forms:
form: rickshaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ricksha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rikisha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rikshaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'rickshaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: riksha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ricsha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rickshaws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rickshawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rickshawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rickshawed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ricksha
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rikisha
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: rikshaw
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: 'rickshaw
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: riksha
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ricsha
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A two-wheeled carriage pulled along by a person.
pos: noun
gloss: To move someone by means of a rickshaw.
pos: verb
Translations:
loyal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French loyal, from Old French loial, leial, leal, from Latin lēgālis. Doublet of legal and leal.
Inflected forms:
form: more loyal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most loyal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: loyall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having or demonstrating undivided and constant support for someone or something.
pos: adj
examples: Dogs are very loyal animals, which is why they make wonderful pets.
George is a loyal and loving husband.
gloss: Firm in allegiance to a person or institution; allegiant.
pos: adj
gloss: Faithful to a person or cause.
pos: adj
examples: We must remain loyal to the mission.
Antonyms: disloyal
fickle
treacherous
Related words: loyalty
Derived words: loyalise
loyalism
loyalist
loyalization
loyalize
loyally
loyalness
loyal toast
nonloyal
overloyal
semiloyal
superloyal
ultraloyal
unloyal
Translations:
teat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English tete, from Old French tete (“teat”) (compare French tette), from Frankish *tittā, *tittō, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), ultimately of expressive origin. Compare Old High German zizza ("teat"; modern German Zitze), whence also Italian zizza (“teat”).
It heavily displaced Old English titt, a cognate of the same origin, which survives as tit, but in more vulgar use. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze (“teat”).
Inflected forms:
form: teats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted.
pos: noun
examples: Milk formed their chief diet, and this they were supposed to imbibe from the witch herself, from a third "teat" which had been made beneath the arm by a nip from the Devil's pincers.
gloss: Something resembling a teat, such as a small protuberance or nozzle.
pos: noun
gloss: An artificial nipple used for bottle-feeding infants.
pos: noun
Related words: breast
mammary gland
tit
udder
Derived words: cold as a witch's teat
glass teat
hind teat
mare's teat
mare's teat grape
teated
teatless
teatlike
witch's teat
Translations:
merkin
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1617, probably a variant form of malkin, from Malde + -kin.
Base: Malde
Affixes: -kin
Inflected forms:
form: merkins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more merkin
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most merkin
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: 'merkin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Merkin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 'Merkin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: murkin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 'murkin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Murkin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: 'Murkin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A woman's pubic wig. Worn for nude stage appearances and by women, originally after shaving their pubic hair to eliminate lice or for other reasons, now often as a fashion item.
pos: noun
examples: ... his penis squashed invisible under a flesh-colored leather jockstrap, over which he wears a false cunt and merkin of sable both handcrafted in Berlin by the notorious Mme. Ophir, the mock labia and bright purple clitoris molded of — Madame had been abject, pleading shortage — synthetic rubber and Mipolam, the new polyvinyl chloride...
gloss: A mop for cleaning cannon.
pos: noun
gloss: The male counterpart of a beard, a companion to a lesbian to feign her straightness.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Well, I seem to recall Tori and Patrick being seen together, and a reference in People comes to mind, with a photo attached. I'm not for sure that Patrick is completely gay, but he's at least bi according to a person I know with first hand experience. Perhaps we have a dual merkin-beard relationship here, eh?
gloss: American.
pos: adj
tags: UK
derogatory
slang
examples: [P]robably a merkin reference which it is expected that the rest of the world will understand?
it's got very merkin lately... too much time on the international circuit probly?
It is also very merkin (remember the cheese eating surrender monkeys?). Who in the UK yells, "assholes" at another driver? I can think of a lot of other words to yell but "assholes" isn't very UK-ish.
Related words: codpiece
lavender marriage
Translations:
wig
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!
Inflected forms:
form: wigs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wigs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wigging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wigged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wigged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
pos: noun
gloss: A bigwig.
pos: noun
examples: Ye’ve been grossly deceived and put upon, Milly, and it’s my belief his old ruffian of an uncle in a wig is in the plot against us.
gloss: Among fishermen, an old seal.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
pos: verb
gloss: To upbraid, reprimand.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
gloss: To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
slang
examples: That guy must be high. Look how he's wigging.
gloss: To shoot in the head.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
slang
transitive
examples: And I don't know nothin bout slippin
Zombie killer or rambo twinnin
Or a long pole like scaffold
Just tryna rise and aim and wig him
gloss: An expression of shock.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
Synonyms: hairpiece
periwig
peruke
toupe
toupee
toupée
toupet
Related words: wiggins
wig onto
wig on to
wig out
Derived words: bag wig
bald wig
bewigged
bigwig
blow one's wig
bob wig
campaign wig
Cleopatra wig
curly wig
flip one's wig
fright wig
get one's wig split
gooseberry wig
have one's wig snatched
landlady's wig
lawyer's wig
scratch wig
trick wig
wig and falsies
wig block
wig cap
wiggy
wig head
wigless
wiglike
wiglomeration
wigmaker
wig out
wig-picker
wig tree
wig tree fern
Translations:
blag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown. The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: blags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An armed robbery or robbery involving violence; also, theft.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: 'What's he do, Micky?' / 'Armed blags is what I hear – s'posed to be one or two nice little tucks down to him that he didn't go for. He keeps well active. Someone told me he's putting one together now.[…]'
Through Lenny I had met a character whom I shall call Billy. He was part of a blag team famous for a series of large-scale wage snatches.
They're turning over any business that couldn't go running back to the Other People, sex shops and massage parlours, doing blags long after they went outta fashion, doing loads of drugs and not giving a fuck about keeping a low profile.
Darlin' – I know your old man's keen for you to learn the ropes an' all that, but let's not forget who's running this blag, shall we?
gloss: To obtain (something) through armed robbery or robbery involving violence, or theft; to rob; to steal.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
Derived words: blagger
blagging
Translations:
baldness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ballednesse, equivalent to bald + -ness.
Base: bald
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: baldnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or state of being (or becoming) bald.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My baldness was the result of radiotherapy.
We turn next to the puzzle of borderlineness: If Harry is intermediate between clear cases and clear noncases of baldness, “Is Harry bald?” seems to have no good, direct, answer.
Translations:
ribbit
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: ribbits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ribbits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ribbiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ribbitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ribbited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ribbited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ribbitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ribbitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
pos: intj
tags: onomatopoeic
examples: Widow Toad: Looks kinds puny to me. Looks like a breeze could carry her off. Ribbit, ribbit. Maybe she could cook and clean my house.
Frogs croaking ribbit, ribbit
Trees rustling sssshh, ssshh
Water rushing over rapids splash, clash.
gloss: Used to anonymously and disrespectfully break silence, as in educational or ceremonial settings.
pos: intj
examples: The students fell momentarily silent while he finished writing on the board. Then, "Ribbit!"
gloss: The vocal sound made by a frog or toad.
pos: noun
gloss: To make the sound of a frog or toad.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
oink
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative of the sound.
Inflected forms:
form: oinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oinked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oinked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Representing the grunting sound made by a pig.
pos: intj
gloss: Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).
pos: intj
examples: Mom swallowed a spoonful of pudding and looked Daddy straight in the eye. "Oink, oink," she said, to let him know he was being a male chauvinist pig.
"The tub is too small!" "Then, I'll go first and you'll have to wait!" "Chauvinist pig!" "Oink, oink!"
You are such a male chauvinist oink, oink. You think that you are the only one who can drive a car or fly an airplane.
gloss: The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.
pos: noun
examples: The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks.
gloss: Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.
Synonyms: grunt
Translations:
oesophagus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek οἰσοφάγος (oisophágos), from οἴσω (oísō), future form of φέρω (phérō, “to carry”) + ἔφαγον (éphagon, “to ate”).
Inflected forms:
form: oesophagi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oesophaguses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: esophagus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: œsophagus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: The tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
pos: noun
examples: Graham, who lived in Somersham, Cambridgeshire, donated his oesophagus to the MRC cancer unit at Cambridge University, for research.
Translations:
lingual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
dentistry
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin linguālis, from lingua (“the tongue; a language, speech”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to lingua + -al. Doublet of lingualis.
Base: lingua
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: linguals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Related to, near, or on the side toward the tongue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Related to, near, or on the side toward the tongue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Related to language or linguistics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: A sound articulated with the tongue.
pos: noun
Synonyms: tonguely
Derived words: linguality
lingualize
lingually
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: لِسَانِيّ
roman: lisāniyy
lang: Belarusian
word: язы́чны
roman: jazýčny
lang: Belarusian
word: языко́вы
roman: jazykóvy
lang: Bulgarian
word: ези́чен
roman: ezíčen
lang: Catalan
word: lingual
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 舌的
roman: shé de
lang: Czech
word: lingvální
lang: Esperanto
word: langa
lang: Finnish
word: kieli-
lang: Finnish
word: kielen-
lang: Finnish
word: linguaalinen
lang: French
word: lingual
lang: Galician
word: lingual
lang: German
word: lingual
lang: German
word: Zungen-
lang: Greek
word: γλωσσικός
roman: glossikós
lang: Hebrew
word: לְשׁוֹנִי
roman: l'shoní
lang: Irish
word: teangach
lang: Irish
word: teangúil
lang: Italian
word: linguale
lang: Kashmiri
word: زیٚوؠ
roman: zev'
lang: Latin
word: linguālis
lang: Macedonian
word: јазичен
roman: jazičen
lang: Polish
word: językowy
lang: Portuguese
word: lingual
lang: Russian
word: язы́чный
roman: jazýčnyj
lang: Russian
word: лингва́льный
roman: lingválʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: языково́й
roman: jazykovój
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: јѐзичнӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: јѐзичкӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jèzičnī
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jèzičkī
lang: Slovak
word: jazykový
lang: Slovene
word: lingválen
lang: Slovene
word: jezíčen
lang: Spanish
word: lingual
lang: Swedish
word: tung-
lang: Swedish
word: lingval
lang: Ukrainian
word: язико́вий
roman: jazykóvyj
lang: Volapük
word: linegik
lang: Welsh
word: tafodol
latest
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lateste, from Old English latost, latest, lætest, superlative of læt, whence English late. Doublet of last.
Inflected forms:
form: latests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Last, final.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: Whiles the sad pang approching she does feele, / Brayes out her latest breath, and vp her eyes doth seele.
gloss: Most recent.
pos: adj
examples: Here is the latest news on the accident.
My latest album, which is being published next week, is even better than my last one.
It's the latest fashion, ma'am.
Equally I can stand in a station like Lucerne in Switzerland, and watch with ill-concealed admiration the majestic entry of one of the latest Gotthard "Ae 6/6" electrics, packing 6,000 horsepower within its 60 ft. of length and 121 tons of weight, with its sleek dark green sides and handsome stainless steel bands and front wings.
gloss: At the latest.
pos: adv
examples: Complete the XYZ task latest by today 5:00PM.
gloss: The most recent thing, particularly information or news.
pos: noun
examples: Have you heard the latest?
What's the latest on the demonstrations in New York?
Have you met Jane's latest? I hear he's a hunk.
And like other futile edifices of man these are inhabited for a brief space giving glory to the proprietor of the most unusual or striking and then left to melt back to dust and be forgotten, or worse yet, to become curiosities for generations with other "latests".
It has often been said that Philadelphia is the city of firsts, Boston of bests, and New York of latests.
Derived words: latest and greatest
latestly
Translations:
heck
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late 19th century, originally dialectal northern English, from a euphemistic alteration of hell.
Inflected forms:
form: hecc
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hecc
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hecked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hecc
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Hell.
pos: intj
tags: euphemistic
examples: Heck, what did I expect? It's too muddy out to go biking today.
gloss: Hell.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
uncountable
examples: You can go to heck as far as I'm concerned.
"And the railway industry needs a heck of a lot of people to be up-skilled," notes Darroch.
gloss: to break, to destroy
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: to mess up
pos: verb
tags: informal
Derived words: heck up
Translations:
cicala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Classical Latin cicādader.
Early Medieval Latin cicāla
Italian cicalader.
Occitan cicalader.
English cicala
Derived from Italian cicala and Occitan cicala. Doublet of cicada.
Inflected forms:
form: cicalas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cicale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cicada.
pos: noun
examples: The shrill cicalas, people of the pine, / Making their summer lives one ceaseless song […]
She recalled the old hall, with its storied frescoes—the woods, where so many mornings had passed so happily away—the little river, where they used to launch their light boats, made of the green rushes which grew beside; she recalled the blithe chirp of the cicala in the fragrant grass—and the gleam of the fire-flies, glittering by twilight amid the boughs of the myrtle.
Translations:
masala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani مصالحہ (maṣālḥa, maṣāliḥa) / मसाला (masālā, “spice(s)”), from Classical Persian مصالح (masālih, “affairs, materials, spices”), plural of مصلحت (maslahat, “affair, policy, best thing to do”), both from Arabic, derived from صَلَحَ (ṣalaḥa, “be fit, competent, usable”).
Inflected forms:
form: masalas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: masale
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mussalla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of many blends of spices used in Indian cuisine, most often containing cardamom, coriander, mace together with pepper, nutmeg, fennel seeds, jeera etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A couple of vegetables, sambar (spicy and sour lentils and vegetables boiled with masalas and spices), rasam (a hot and fiery lentil soup-like dish) and curds (yoghurt) served with heaps of rice and eaten in that order. […] Basically, it’s a juicy naan bread with an egg coating, stuffed with mutton or chicken, rolled up and sprinkled with a unique masala that gives it its special flavor.
When she cooked, she reached out for bottles and masalas without glancing up.
gloss: Any dish prepared with such spices.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We ordered two lamb bhunas and a masala.
gloss: Any powder of ground ingredients, not necessarily used in cuisine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: garam masala
masala chai
masala film
tikka masala
Translations:
trehalose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From trehala + -ose.
Base: trehala
Affixes: -ose
Inflected forms:
form: trehaloses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disaccharide formed from two glucose units; it is an isomer of maltose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The most important of these is the common sugar furnished by the sugar cane, hence termed cane sugar, related to which are some others of small importance, viz., trehalose, melezitose, and melitose, represented by the general formula (C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁,xH₂O).
The researchers fed a natural sugar called trehalose to mice genetically engineered to have a severe version of Huntington's disease.
Major components of the polar lipids are the acylated trehaloses which differ considerably in their acylation patterns to trehalose and in fatty acid content.
Two bacterial strains that have plagued hospitals around the country may have been at least partly fueled by a sugar additive in our food products, scientists say. Trehalose, a sugar that is added to a wide range of food products, could have allowed certain strains of Clostridium difficile to become far more virulent than they were before, a new study finds.
Translations:
pala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin pāla. Doublet of peel.
Inflected forms:
form: palae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A part of an insect's leg that is spade-shaped and can be used as a scoop for feeding.
pos: noun
Translations:
tala
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *dalą
Proto-West Germanic *dal
Old High German tal
Middle High German tal
German Tal
German Talerder.
Middle Low German dālerbor.
Dutch dalerbor.
English dollarbor.
Samoan tālābor.
English tala
Borrowed from Samoan tālā, in turn from English dollar.
Inflected forms:
form: talas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The currency of Samoa, divided into 100 sene.
pos: noun
Translations:
laya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: tempo in Indian music.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
matra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit मात्रा (mātrā, “measure, small quantity”).
Inflected forms:
form: matras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
pos: noun
gloss: In Indian poetics and linguistics, a measure of the length of a syllable; equivalent to mora.
pos: noun
gloss: The characteristic horizontal line drawn above characters in some Indic scripts.
pos: noun
gloss: An intra-syllabic vowel symbol in Indic scripts.
pos: noun
Related words: laya
tala
Translations:
lang: Bengali
word: মাত্রা
roman: matra
lang: Hindi
word: मात्रा
roman: mātrā
lang: Hindi
word: शिरोरेखा
roman: śirorekhā
lang: Russian
word: ма́тра
roman: mátra
Maler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malto, meaning "hill people".
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A people of northern India who speak the Malto language.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
shimada
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Japanese 島田bor.
English shimada
Borrowed from Japanese 島田.
Inflected forms:
form: shimadas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional type of formal hairstyle for unmarried women in Japan, whereby the hair is gathered together and fastened to the top of the head.
pos: noun
Translations:
industrious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French industrieux, from Late Latin industriosus (“diligent, active, industrious”), from Latin industria (“diligence, industry”); see industry.
Inflected forms:
form: more industrious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most industrious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hard-working and persistent.
pos: adj
examples: He was a very industrious student at school.
The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
Antonyms: lazy
absent-minded
changeable
distractible
fickle
flighty
Translations:
passional
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English passional, from Late Latin passiōnālis; equivalent to passion + -al.
Base: passion
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: passionals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more passional
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most passional
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: a book describing sufferings of martyrs
pos: noun
gloss: characterized by passion
pos: adj
examples: 1957: the promise of a release in her passional self — Lawrence Durrell, Justine, p.71 (Faber)
Translations:
maidan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindustani میدان (medān) / मैदान (maidān), and its source, Persian میدان (meydân, maydān, “town-square or central place of gathering”), from Arabic مَيْدَان (maydān), itself an Iranian borrowing (see the Arabic entry for more), from Proto-Iranian *madyānah, from *mádyah (“middle”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mádʰyas, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos. Compare Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬌𐬜𐬌𐬌𐬀 (maⁱδiia), Sanskrit मध्य (madhya), Latin medius.
Inflected forms:
form: maidans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maidaun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: meidan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: meidaun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: midan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mydan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A marketplace or other open space in or by a city or town; an esplanade.
pos: noun
tags: South-Asia
examples: Inland, the prospect alters. There is an oval maidan, and a long sallow hospital.
Below on the amorphous brown-violet meidan by the railway station […].
M. Crawford
a gallop on the green maidan
Translations:
tamped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tamped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tamped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: pounded hard
pos: adj
gloss: packed down
pos: adj
examples: whose floor was of tamped earth —
Derived words: untamped
Translations:
deckle-edged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a deckle edge.
pos: adj
examples: From-time to time the book tilted and wobbled in his lap, and the weight of the deckle-edged pages pressed on his erection through the sleek black nylon.
gloss: Rough-edged like uncut paper.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: We turn a corner and the world becomes a pattern of arteries, splashed with silver and deckle-edged with shadow.
Related words: deckle
deckled
deckle edge
deckled-edge
Translations:
military
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English militari, from Old French militaire, from Latin mīlitāris, from mīles (“soldier”) + -āris (whence -ary). Doublet of militaire.
Base: -ary
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: more military
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most military
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: milertary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
pronunciation-spelling
form: military
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: militaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: milertary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: She was dishonorably discharged from all military duties.
"My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a result."
At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Poirot was an extraordinary looking little man. He was hardly more than five feet, four inches, but carried himself with great dignity. His head was exactly the shape of an egg, and he always perched it a little on one side. His moustache was very stiff and military. The neatness of his attire was almost incredible.
gloss: Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
usually
examples: If you join a military force, you may end up killing people.
gloss: Relating to war.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The only goal pursued by Western defense strategy — to cause the Warsaw Pact to break off an attack — is more military than political in nature.
gloss: Relating to armies or ground forces.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Armed forces.
pos: noun
examples: He spent six years in the military.
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
Translations:
rumba
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish rumbabor.
English rumba
Borrowed from Spanish rumba.
Inflected forms:
form: rumbas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rumbas
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rumbaing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rumbaed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rumbaed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A slow-paced Cuban partner dance in 4:4 time.
pos: noun
examples: The music of Cuba has had a worldwide influence on forms of song and dance. René Buch who conceived and directed a musical “collage” called “¡Habana!” at the Repertorio Español on East 27th Street, points out the influence on Spain, for example, which received ‘habaneras’ and ‘contradanzas’ from Cuba; in this century, in the 1920's, the “rumba” and such songs as “El Manisero” and “Siboney” made their way north to become part of United States culture.
gloss: To dance the rumba.
pos: verb
Translations:
apeshit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ape + shit, possibly from the tendency of certain primate species to throw faeces when extremely annoyed.
Base: ape
Inflected forms:
form: more apeshit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most apeshit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ape shit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Out of control due to anger or excitement.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: I told him the bad news, and he went apeshit.
Naturally, the touchy airline crew went apeshit and when the plane landed, the LAPD was waiting for Mr. Zizza.
gloss: awesome
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: This dope is apeshit.
Synonyms: bananas
batshit
berserk
insane
nuts
Derived words: go apeshit
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: dziki
lang: Swedish
word: bli skogstokig
fabrica
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fabrica. Doublet of fabric and forge.
Inflected forms:
form: fabricas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fabricae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A workshop in an ancient Roman fort.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
gusset
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
business
construction
engineering
government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
mechanical
mechanical-engineering
monarchy
natural-sciences
nobility
physical-sciences
politics
roofing
Etymology: From Middle English gusset, gysset, from Old French gosset, gousset (“the hollow of the armpit”), diminutive of gose, gosse (“bean pod, hull, husk”).
Inflected forms:
form: gussets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gousset
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gussets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gusseting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gusseted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gusseted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gousset
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
pos: noun
gloss: A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of bracket, or angular part, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
pos: noun
gloss: An ordinary on a coat of arms, resembling a gusset (see usage notes).
pos: noun
gloss: A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations.
pos: noun
gloss: An intercellular space at an angle where more than two cells meet.
pos: noun
gloss: To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: gussetless
gusset plate
Translations:
lang: German
word: Kettengeflechtsegment
epiglottis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Hellenic *epí
Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí)
Ancient Greek ἐπῐ- (epĭ-)
Proto-Hellenic *glṓťťā
Ancient Greek γλῶσσᾰ (glôssă)
Ancient Greek -ις (-is)
Ancient Greek γλωσσῐ́ς (glōssĭ́s)
Ancient Greek ἐπῐγλωσσῐ́ς (epĭglōssĭ́s)
Ancient Greek ἐπῐγλωττῐ́ς (epĭglōttĭ́s)bor.
New Latin epiglōttislbor.
English epiglottis
Borrowed from New Latin epiglōttis, from Ancient Greek ἐπῐγλωττῐ́ς (epĭglōttĭ́s, “valve covering the larynx”), from ἐπῐ- (epĭ-, “upon, over”) + γλωττῐ́ς (glōttĭ́s, “glottis, mouth of the windpipe”); equivalent to epi- (“upon; above”) + glottis.
Base: γλωττῐ́ς
Affixes: ἐπῐ-
Inflected forms:
form: epiglottises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: epiglottides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cartilaginous organ in the throat of terrestrial vertebrates covering the glottis when swallowing to prevent food and liquid from entering the trachea, and in Homo sapiens also a speech organ.
pos: noun
examples: My epiglottis is full of bees!
Translations: