yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
brant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin/Medieval Latin Branta, latinized form of Old Norse brandgás (“sheldrake”), literally "burnt (black) goose," from Proto-Germanic *brandaz (“burning”) + *gans (“goose”).
Inflected forms:
form: brants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brant
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more brant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brent
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several wild geese, of the genus Branta, that breed in the Arctic, but especially the brent goose, Branta bernicla.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: I have given you roe and reindeer, / I have given you brant and beaver, / Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, / Filled the rivers full of fishes; / Why then are you not contented? / Why then will you hunt each other?
gloss: steep, precipitous.
pos: adj
tags: dialectal
examples: Grapes grow on the brant rocks so wonderfully that ye will marvel how any man dare climb up to them.
gloss: smooth; unwrinkled
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
examples: Your bonnie brow was brent.
Translations:
brassy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From brass + -y (suffix forming adjectives meaning “having the quality of”).
Base: brass
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: brassier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: brassiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling brass.
pos: adj
examples: The cup had a brassy color.
gloss: Impudent; impudently bold.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Don’t get brassy with me, young lady!
There's more than one way to declare independence, after all, and whereas Beyoncé announced hers with a brassy single, Ashanti tucks a similar spirit into every not-quite-heartbroken lyric.
gloss: Unfeeling; pitiless.
pos: adj
gloss: Harsh in tone.
pos: adj
examples: an organ stop with a brassy tone
Synonyms: brassish
brazen
sassy
Related words: brass
brazen
Derived words: brassily
brassiness
Translations:
brayer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bray
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English brayer
From bray + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: brayers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hand printing tool, in the US often a roller, used to spread a thin even layer of ink. Early brayers, consisting of a vertical cylinder with a single handle, were designed to break up thick inks before spreading.
pos: noun
gloss: One who brays, or makes the sound of a donkey.
pos: noun
examples: Sound forth my Brayers, and the welkin rend
Translations:
bub
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably imitative of the sound of drinking.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An alcoholic malt liquor, especially beer.
pos: noun
tags: historical
slang
uncountable
examples: Bub is made from ground barley and strong worts, and sometimes from strong small worts from the coolers, properly blended and boiled with some hops, in the proportion of one pound to a barrel of worts.
"You can't remember your *name*? Heh. Well, NEXT time you spend a night in this berg, go easy on the bub."
Translations:
bulger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
golf
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bulge
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bulger
From bulge + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bulgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that has a bulge.
pos: noun
gloss: Something that has a bulge.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything very large; a whopper.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: It's certainly a bulger of a place. There are thousands an' thousands of houses, an' you can't count the sails in the bay.
Translations:
bulled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bulled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bulled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Swollen.
pos: adj
Translations:
bumble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeia. Compare bungle, jumble, and fumble.
Inflected forms:
form: bumbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bumbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bumbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bumbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bumbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A confusion; a jumble.
pos: noun
gloss: To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Spiders build webs and wait for insects to bumble into them.
gloss: To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: bungle
fumble
jumble
Derived words: bumble along
bumble-bee
bumblefoot
Bumblefuck
bumbleheaded
bumble puppy
bumbler
bumblesome
bumbly
Translations:
bunt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
ball-games
baseball
business
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
softball
sports
transport
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.
Inflected forms:
form: bunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bunted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bunt of the sail was green.
gloss: A push or shove; a butt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bunt was fielded cleanly.
gloss: The act of bunting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
gloss: The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To push with the horns; to butt.
pos: verb
gloss: To spring or rear up.
pos: verb
gloss: To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jones bunted the ball.
gloss: To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Jones bunted.
gloss: To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the “Bunt Club”, who had successfully bunted their aircraft—that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.
gloss: To swell out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sail bunts.
gloss: To headbutt affectionately.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunt.
Related words: bunting
Derived words: buntline
drag bunt
English bunt
push bunt
sac bunt
Translations:
lang: Italian
word: smorzare
lang: Korean
word: 번트하다
roman: beonteuhada
lang: Spanish
word: toque
bunter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bunt
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English bunter
From bunt + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bunters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who bunts.
pos: noun
examples: Glavine was a renowned bunter of the ball.
Translations:
burl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English burle (“a knot or flaw in cloth”), from Old French bourle (“flocks or ends of threads which disfigure cloth”), diminutive of Old French bourre, from Medieval Latin burra (“flock of wool, coarse hair”).
Inflected forms:
form: burls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: burr
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: burls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: burling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: burled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: burled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: burr
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A knot or lump in thread or cloth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To remove the knots in cloth.
pos: verb
Derived words: burler
burlwood
burly
Translations:
burley
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Compare the personal name Burley.
Inflected forms:
form: burleys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tobacco grown mainly in Kentucky, used in making cigarettes.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: The price received by farmers at the auctions for burley has decreased, other conditions being about average, around 1.45 cents for each 10-million-pound increase in the production of burley
gloss: Blood and offal used by fishermen to attract fish.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
uncountable
examples: Fish will swim up your burley trail looking for the source which should be where your baits are placed, instead of dumping a heap of burley at once where the fish will feed on it quickly and move on.
gloss: Burlesque.
pos: adj
examples: Burley shows came to Times Square after vaudeville started its decline, and took over many of the darkened old theaters. The Minsky family had become synonymous with burlesque beginning in its earliest days, was hugely profitable.
The Western Vaudeville Managers' Association (WVMA) and the Orpheum soon merged. [...] opined, "that the top all-around artist of today is Jim Barton, who was a burley comic, a skater, a storyteller, a dancer, a singer,[…]"
It can vary anywhere from burley (burlesque) to Phi Beta Kappa. […]
Translations:
butane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
IUPAC nomenclature, from but- (“four carbon prefix”) + -ane (“alkane suffix”), the former is derived from the same stem as the foul-smelling carboxylic acid liberated in rancid butter, "butyric acid", hence cognate with butter.
Affixes: but-
-ane
Inflected forms:
form: butanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hydrocarbon (either of the two isomers of C₄H₁₀, n-butane and 2-methylpropane) found in gaseous petroleum fractions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The n-butane isomer only.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: E943a
Related words: alkane
ethane
methane
pentane
propane
Derived words: bromobutane
butanediol
butanedione
butanethiol
butanoic
butanol
butyl
chlorobutane
cyclobutane
dibromobutane
dichlorobutane
iodobutane
isobutane
n-butane
Translations:
butene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂rós
Proto-Hellenic *tūrós
Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós)
Ancient Greek βούτῡρος (boútūros)der.
English but-
English -ene
English butene
From but- + -ene.
Inflected forms:
form: butenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several forms of butylene.
pos: noun
Translations:
butyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws
Proto-Hellenic *gʷous
Ancient Greek βοῦς (boûs)
Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Indo-European *tuh₂rós
Proto-Hellenic *tūrós
Ancient Greek τῡρός (tūrós)
Ancient Greek βούτῡρος (boútūros)der.
English but-
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
Frenchder.
English -yl
English butyl
From but- + -yl.
Affixes: but-
-yl
Inflected forms:
form: butyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of four isomeric univalent hydrocarbon radicals, C₄H₉, formally derived from butane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
pos: noun
gloss: A synthetic rubber made by the polymerization of isobutylene.
pos: noun
Derived words: aminobutyl
bromobutyl
buciclovir
bucricaine
buformin
bupivacaine
bupropion
buspirone
butanilicaine
butidrine
butopamine
butylacetate
butyl alcohol
butylamine
butylammonium
butylate
butylbenzene
butylcinnoline
butyldimethylsilyl
butylene
butylfuran
butylhydroxytoluene
butyllithium
butylmagnesium
butylmethoxydibenzoylmethane
butyl methoxydibenzoylmethane
butylparaben
butyl rubber
butylscopolamine
butylthiophene
dibutyl
dibutylstannylene
dobutamine
iodobutyl
isobutylmethylxanthine
methyl t-butyl ether
methyl tert-butyl ether
methyl tertiary butyl ether
monobutyl
secbutabarbital
t-butyl
terbutaline
tertbutyl
tert-butyl
tertiary butyl
tetrabutyl
tetrabutylammonium
tributyl
tributylphosphine
Translations:
cabana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cabaña and Portuguese cabana, both from Late Latin capanna. Doublet of cabane and cabin.
Inflected forms:
form: cabanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cabin or hut for relaxing.
pos: noun
gloss: A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
US
examples: “So what's new in the whiskey business?” one of the fat men finally says by way of welcome, and the blonde stands up, arches one foot and dips it into the pool, looking all the while at the cabana where Baby Pignatari is talking on the telephone.
Related words: cabin
Derived words: cabana boy
cabana set
cabana shirt
Translations:
caddis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. See dialect forms caddew, caddy, cad-bait.
Inflected forms:
form: caddises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The larva of a caddis fly. They generally live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with debris.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
caddy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: An alteration of catty (“(unit of) weight used in China, equivalent to 1⅓ pounds avoirdupois (about 0.605 kilograms)”), borrowed from Malay kati (“weight used in China, Indonesia, and Japan”), from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi, “measure of weight; clod, lump”), from கட்டு (kaṭṭu, “to coagulate, congeal, or consolidate (into a concretion); to harden”).
Inflected forms:
form: caddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caddie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: caddies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caddying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caddied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caddied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small box or tin (can) with a lid for holding dried tea leaves used to brew tea.
pos: noun
tags: also
attributive
examples: The Carneses imported lacquer teapoys in sets. These sets could be easily stacked in a corner of the drawing room and brought out at teatime to hold a teacup, a set, or a caddy. The Carneses purchased lacquered teapoys sets for four dollars in China and probably sold them for twice that amount in America.
gloss: A (usually small) box, chest, or tin with a lid, and often with partitions, used to keep things in.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: A sauce caddy brought with the tacos offers a choice of salsa cruda, a thin puree of tomatillos, and an emulsion of red chilies.
gloss: A small lidded bin for food waste.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A movable tray or other mechanism for holding (sometimes within a piece of equipment or machinery), securing, and transporting a removable component.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Place the disc in the DVD caddy.
gloss: A lightweight wheeled cart; specifically, one attached to a bicycle as a conveyance for a child, or pulled by hand and used to transport groceries away from a shop.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Chiefly followed by for: alternative spelling of caddie (“to serve as a caddy (noun sense) for a golfer”)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I was honored to caddy for Tiger Woods at a charity golf game.
We took turns caddying, one caddying, two playing. We went out across the river to the teeing ground of the first hole.
The next day the thirty-two qualifying players were paired off into sixteen sets of opponents. Charlotte was matched against a girl from California. After the first few minutes, the result was never in doubt. "Take it easy, miss," said the highly gratified Mr. Ogilvie, who was caddying for Charlotte. "You hold her in the hollow of your hand."
The scheme had been, if I remember, that after lunch I should go off and caddy for Honoria on a shopping tour down Regent Street; but when she got up and started collecting me and the rest of her things, Aunt Agatha stopped her.
Derived words: caddy ole punch
caddy spoon
desk caddy
tea caddy
Translations:
cager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cage
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English cager
From cage + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: cagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or machine responsible for managing a mineshaft cage.
pos: noun
gloss: A basketball player, from the time when games were played in a wire mesh enclosure.
pos: noun
tags: dated
informal
examples: In 1946, Athletic Director Chandler reliquished his position as head basketball coach at the school to one of his most proficient former players, Julius Rubin. Despite the fact that Rubin had never coached a cager squad before, he became a well-liked leader for the players assembled to start the 1946-1947 season.
gloss: A person who drives an automobile, particularly for commuting.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: Motorcycles can go where cars can’t. Obscure places, remote singletrack trails, off-road tracks too narrow for four wheels – on a bike, you can literally go anywhere and access places no car ever would feeling like an explorer and discovering wild spots off-limits for cagers.
Translations:
cagey
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Initially US colloquial, of unknown origin. A connection with the behavior of caged prisoners (wary and closed-lipped) and caged animals (wary) has been speculated. If so, by surface analysis, cage + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: cagier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: cagiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cagy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Wary, careful, shrewd.
pos: adj
examples: We move like cagey tigers / Oh, we couldn't get closer than this
Samara: I will be in the shadows watching, Shepard. You will never be alone -- this I swear. But you cannot barge in with guns and allies.
Samara: Morinth is far too cagey -- she'd simply disappear. This is a subtle, delicate act. Trust me.
But with both sides in the Premier League's bottom three before the game began, the three points at stake made for a cagey match.
gloss: Uncommunicative; unwilling or hesitant to give information.
pos: adj
examples: John F Kennedy’s secret talks with Soviet intelligence, surreptitious tape recordings and “girlfriend system” create a new portrait of a cunning and cagey JFK, according to a historian who has researched a treasure trove of recently released recordings and papers of the late president.
During a long interview about the startup, Bader and his co-founder Sean Dadashi were cagey about exactly how Ikaria works, as it’s still in development.
Derived words: cageyness
cagily
caginess
Translations:
calla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: callas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A marsh plant native to cooler areas throughout the northern hemisphere, Calla palustris, having pale green flowers in a white spathe.
pos: noun
gloss: A calla lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica).
pos: noun
Translations:
cam
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: PIE word
 *ǵómbʰos
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵembʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos
Proto-Germanic *kambaz
Proto-West Germanic ᚲᚨᛒᚨ
Proto-West Germanic *kamb
Old Dutch *kamb
Middle Dutch kamp
Dutch kamder.
English cam
Recorded since the 16th century, from Dutch kam (“cog of a wheel; originally, comb”) (cognate with English comb, and preserved in modern Dutch compounds such as kamrad, kamwiel (“cog wheel”)). Doublet of comb.
Inflected forms:
form: cams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: camming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cammed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
pos: noun
gloss: A turning or sliding piece which imparts motion to a rod, lever or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it.
pos: noun
gloss: A ridge or mound of earth.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: Cum doun t' cam' soid
gloss: A spring-loaded camming device, a spring-loaded device for effecting a temporary belay in a rock crevice.
pos: noun
gloss: To go on webcam with someone.
pos: verb
Derived words: cam band
cambelt
cambox
cam out
camshaft
camwheel
heart cam
overhead cam
rock cam
twincam
twin-cam
variable cam timing
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 凸輪 /凸轮
roman: tūlún
lang: Czech
word: vačka
lang: Danish
word: kam
lang: Dutch
word: nok
lang: Esperanto
word: kamo
lang: Finnish
word: epäkesko
lang: Finnish
word: nokka
lang: Finnish
word: nostovarsi
lang: French
word: came
lang: German
word: Nocken
lang: Italian
word: camma
lang: Japanese
word: カム
roman: kamu
lang: Korean
word: 캠
roman: kaem
lang: Portuguese
word: came
lang: Portuguese
word: camo
lang: Romanian
word: camă
lang: Russian
word: эксце́нтрик
roman: ekscéntrik
lang: Russian
word: кулачо́к
roman: kulačók
lang: Slovak
word: vačka
lang: Spanish
word: leva
lang: Swedish
word: kam
lang: Welsh
word: cam
camber
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
architecture
automotive
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”).
Inflected forms:
form: cambre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cambers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cambering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cambered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cambered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cambre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A slight convexity, arching or curvature of a surface of a road, beam, roof, ship's deck etc., so that liquids will flow off the sides.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: From end to end, just behind the houses, ran the broad gravel walk, with its emphatic camber and its metal-edged gutters where a child's ball would come to rest and the first few plane leaves, dusty but still green, were already falling, since the summer had been so hot and rainless all through.
The track was stony with a grassy camber up the middle.
gloss: The slope of a curved road created to minimize the effect of centrifugal force.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Again we were stricken of our palsy, slowed down, re-accelerated, and there, at last, were the few huts of a hamlet, with the lorry, lying at an angle in the road's camber, outside a tea-shop.
Even a small camber one way caused the whole outfit to list alarmingly.
gloss: An upward concavity in the underside of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The alignment on the roll axis of the wheels of a road vehicle, where positive camber signifies that the wheels are closer together at the bottom than the top.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The curvature of an airfoil.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A small enclosed dock in which timber for masts (etc.) is kept to weather.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To curve upwards in the middle.
pos: verb
gloss: To adjust the camber of the wheels of a vehicle.
pos: verb
examples: Because he cambered the tires too much, he had less control on the turns.
Derived words: camber angle
camber arch
camber beam
camber-keeled
recamber
Translations:
canna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Canna, from Latin canna (“reed”), from Ancient Greek κᾰ́ννᾰ (kắnnă, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒂵𒉡𒌑𒌝 (qanûm). Cognates Biblical Hebrew קָנֶה (qané), Aramaic קַנְיָא (qanyā), Classical Syriac ܩܢܝܐ (qanya), and English canon, cannon, canal, and channel. Doublet of cane and kaneh.
Inflected forms:
form: cannas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.
pos: noun
examples: A palisade of Canary palms formed an honour guard along the verges, while beds of golden cannas flamed from the central reservation.
Still, some of Mr. Cooper’s tender salvias are wintering over, and he plans to leave a few clumps of cannas in the ground next fall.
Translations:
cannel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: cannels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bituminous coal that burns brightly with much smoke.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Cannel is dull black in colour while boghead is dull brownish.
Translations:
canto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian canto (“song”). Doublet of chant.
Inflected forms:
form: cantos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the chief divisions of a long poem; a book.
pos: noun
gloss: The treble or leading melody.
pos: noun
gloss: The designated division of a song.
pos: noun
Derived words: canto fermo
Translations:
capo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of capotasto, from Italian.
Inflected forms:
form: capos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A movable bar placed across the fingerboard of a guitar and used to raise the pitch of all strings.
pos: noun
Translations:
carboy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Persian قرابه (qarrâbeh, qarrâbah). Doublet of carafe.
Inflected forms:
form: carboys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carboys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carboying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carboyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carboyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large, rigid bottle, originally made of glass and mainly used for fermentation, and now commonly made of plastic and used to store liquids.
pos: noun
examples: A few of them then boarded her and were busily engaged in what appeared, from my distant position, as the emptying of the contents of various carboys upon the dead bodies of the sailors and over the decks and works of the vessel.
gloss: To bottle in a carboy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Juice bottled or carboyed at this high temperature is difficult to cool rapidly because of the danger of breakage of glass.
Translations:
careen
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin carīna
Italian carenabor.
French carènebor.
English careen
First attested in the late 16th century, from French carène (“keel”), from Italian carena, from Latin carīna (“keel of a ship”). Doublet of carene and carina.
Inflected forms:
form: careens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: careening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: careened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: careened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: careens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: However, to avoid ſome inconveniencies relating to port duties, which would have been demanded in the port of Canton, and could not, in honour to the British flag, be complied with by us, he adviſed Mr Anſon to put into the harbour of Typa, about ſix miles from Macao, where he might careen his ſhip without diſturbance ; and actually ſent us a pilot to conduct us ſafe to the intended birth.
gloss: To tilt on one side.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To lurch or sway violently from side to side.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They were not motionless, but swayed to and fro above her head, thronging out of one sky-light into another, as if the universe and not the air-ship was careening.
gloss: To tilt or lean while in motion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
gloss: To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
examples: The car in which I had taken Olivia to dinner and then out to the cemetery — a historic vehicle, even a monument of sorts, in the history of fellatio's advent onto the Winesburg campus in the second half of the twentieth century — went careening off to the side and turned end-over-end down Lower Main until it exploded in flames...
He tries for a lot of things, careening wildly from earnest romance to feel-good comedy to hackneyed suspense, all the while leaving it up to the audience to suss out the moral complexity and existential terror underneath the glossy surface.
gloss: The position of a ship laid on one side.
pos: noun
Derived words: careenage
careener
Translations:
caret
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Latin caret (“it lacks”), the third-person singular present active indicative form of careō (“to lack”).
Inflected forms:
form: carets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mark ⟨ ‸ ⟩ used by writers and proofreaders to indicate that something is to be inserted at that point.
pos: noun
gloss: An exponentiation symbol or operator ⟨＾⟩.
pos: noun
gloss: An indicator, often a blinking line or bar and usually called a cursor, indicating where the next insertion or other edit will take place.
pos: noun
gloss: A circumflex ⟨ ˆ ⟩.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
gloss: A háček ⟨ ˇ ⟩.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
examples: […] the more conventional semivocalic j and the caret (ˇ) respectively.
The caret (ˇ), háček, is used over the following consonants: c, d, n, t, r, s, and z to indicate the soft sound. The caret (ˇ) is also used over the vowel e (See Pronunciation II, b, p, v).
In contemporary Czech, the “hook” or caret is no longer in use for lower-case t and d when the latter are palatal; instead, an apostrophe is used (t’, d’) This development is clearly connected with the practical difficulty encountered in printing a caret over letter stems that are too thin.
Derived words: caret notation
caretlike
Translations:
carl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English carl, from Old English carl, a borrowing from Old Norse karl (“man, husband”), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Doublet of ceorl, churl, and karl.
Inflected forms:
form: carls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rude, rustic man; a churl.
pos: noun
examples: In Lent noblemen and carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves.
gloss: A stingy person; a niggard.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
obsolete
Related words: housecarl
wife-carl
Translations:
casbah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba)bor.
English casbah
Borrowed from Arabic قَصَبَة (qaṣaba).
Inflected forms:
form: casbahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cusbah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kasbah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: qasbah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The fortress in a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
pos: noun
gloss: The medina, the older part of a city in North Africa or the Middle East.
pos: noun
examples: The king called up his jet fighters / He said, "You better earn your pay / Drop your bombs between the minarets / Down the casbah way"
gloss: A person's house or flat/apartment.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He gave me an earth-shattering kiss and whispered, “Come to my casbah and let me ply you with cupcakes.” […] We made good time getting to his apartment.
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قَصَبَة
roman: qaṣaba
lang: Bulgarian
word: касаба́
roman: kasabá
lang: Esperanto
word: kasbaho
lang: Esperanto
word: citadelo
lang: Finnish
word: kasba
lang: French
word: casbah
lang: French
word: kasbah
lang: Hungarian
word: kaszba
lang: Italian
word: casba
lang: Japanese
word: カスバ
roman: kasuba
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kasbah
lang: Persian
word: قَصَبَه
roman: qasaba
lang: Iranian Persian
word: قَصَبِه
roman: ġasabe
lang: Polish
word: kazba
lang: Portuguese
word: casbá
lang: Russian
word: ка́сба
roman: kásba
lang: Tajik
word: қасаба
roman: qasaba
lang: Turkish
word: kasaba
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قصبه
roman: kasaba
casein
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French caséine, formed from Latin cāseus (“cheese”) + -ine.
Inflected forms:
form: caseins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caseine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since writing this report, we found that the intravenous injection of nucleoprotein, casein, and probably also other albuminous substances may produce small necroses of liver tissue in the guinea pig. This observation points to a possible danger in the use of casein solutions."
It’s the clumping nature of the caseins that makes possible most thickened milk products, from yogurt to cheese. The whey proteins play a more minor role; they influence the texture of casein curds, and stabilize the milk foams on specialty coffees.
Translations:
catkin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle Dutch katteken (“catkin”, literally “little cat”). So named due to the resemblance of lengthier kinds to a kitten's tail, or, perhaps more probably, the fine fur found on some catkins (compare the pictures). Cognate with German Kätzchen, modern Dutch katje; compare French chaton (“kitten”; “catkin”). By surface analysis, cat + -kin.
Inflected forms:
form: catkins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of inflorescence, consisting of an axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar.
pos: noun
Translations:
ceil
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps related to Latin cēlō (“to hide”).
Inflected forms:
form: ceils
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ceiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ceiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ceiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ciel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is nearly always old and bare, built of rough boards, and neither plastered nor ceiled.
Translations:
cerise
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French cerise (mid 19th century), itself from Vulgar Latin ceresia, from Latin cerasium. Doublet of cherry and kirsch.
Inflected forms:
form: cerises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more cerise
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cerise
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A deep, bright red colour tinted with pink.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Before us lay the autumn tinted woods glimmering in gold, purple, green, and cerise.
His bold patterns in vivid colours predated the arrival in Paris of the Ballets Russes, though his later designs reflect the canary yellows, bright blues, jades, cerises […]
gloss: Cherry-colored; a light bright red.
pos: adj
Translations:
cervix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cervīx (“neck”), see below.
Inflected forms:
form: cervixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cervices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The neck.
pos: noun
examples: I put my hands on Madeleine's hot cheeks, making a prize cup of my hands and her cervix, and tilted her head to one side.
gloss: The necklike portion of an organ or part of the body.
pos: noun
gloss: The cervix uteri, or lower, narrow portion of the uterus where it joins with the top end of the vagina.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: Screening involves taking a small sample of cells from the cervix and looking for high-risk HPV that could develop into cancer if left untreated.
Derived words: cervical
cervicalgia
cervicectomy
cervicitis
cervix uteri
ectocervix
endocervix
exocervix
neocervix
paracervix
retrocervix
Translations:
chard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From earlier card (remodelled after chardoon, obsolete form of cardoon), from Middle French carde, from Latin carduus (“thistle”). Doublet of cardoon.
Inflected forms:
form: chards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An edible leafy vegetable, Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, with a slightly bitter taste.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Artichoke leaves and shoots, blanched to eat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: rainbow chard
Swiss chard
Translations:
chert
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Unknown.
Inflected forms:
form: cherts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Massive, usually dull-colored and opaque, quartzite, hornstone, impure chalcedony, or other flint-like mineral.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A flint-like tool made from chert.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: chalcedony
flint
jasper
quartzite
silicate
Derived words: chertification
chertified
chertify
cherty
metachert
Translations:
chevy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is probably derived from the title of The Ballad of Chevy Chase, first published in The Complaynt of Scotland (1549); the ballad is about a hunt taking place on a chase (“large country estate where game may be hunted”) in the Cheviot Hills between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders, and is thought to allude to the Battle of Otterburn in 1388.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: chevies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chivy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: chivey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hunt or pursuit; a chase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The sergeants-major were always on the watch to report us if we went out of bounds. […] The moment we saw the sergeant-major, off we scampered over hedge, ditch, bog, and ploughed land, leaving him to catch or identify us if he could! […] Of all the serjeants-major, Howe, of the C company, ran the swiftest. Howe enjoyed these chivies. He frequently omitted to report us if we gave him a good breathing.
gloss: A cry used in hunting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The game of prisoners' bars.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
chinch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish chinche (“bedbug”) or Portuguese chinche, from Latin cimex (“bedbug”). Doublet of cimex.
Inflected forms:
form: chinches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chinches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chinching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chinched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chinched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The bedbug (Cimex lectularius).
pos: noun
gloss: To fill up.
pos: verb
tags: Newfoundland
transitive
Translations:
chit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *ċytten, *ċietten, *ċitten, from Proto-West Germanic *kittīn, from Proto-Germanic *kittīną (“young animal, fawn, kid”).
Cognate with Scots chit (“chit”), Low German kitte (“young animal”), German Kitz (“fawn, kid”). See also kid.
Inflected forms:
form: chits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
pos: noun
examples: Madam was a little chit of a woman, not five feet in her highest headdress and shoes, and Mr. Washington a great tall man of six feet two.
“These are returns,” I said, “quite fit
To me, who nursed you when a chit.
For shame, lay by this envious art;
Is this to act a sister's part?”
[…] he seemed to come forward from an era of sexual defiance and fighting alliances and to cast a dismissive eye over a little chit like Nick, who had never fought for anything.
gloss: A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.
pos: noun
examples: Hilda drove in silence for some time after this piece of unheard-of insolence from that chit Connie.
Derived words: chitty
Translations:
chub
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), from Middle English chubbe (“chub (the river fish)”), recorded since c.1450, probably an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), see kobbi.
Cognate with Icelandic kubbur (“block, cube”), Norwegian kubb, kubbe (“block, stump, log”), Swedish kubb (“block, log”), and perhaps to Icelandic kubba (“to hew, chop, lop”) and Russian кубышка (kubyška). More at cob, kibble.
Inflected forms:
form: chubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chub
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
pos: noun
gloss: One of various species of freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae or carp family, especially:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Any of various vaguely related marine or freshwater fishes.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: To stop a bill from being passed using procedural delays.
pos: verb
tags: Texas
US
examples: The Texas House, where, with the 140-day legislative session nearing an end, the Democratic minority "chubbed" a voter ID bill, and coincidentally more, to death.
Did You Know? in 2009, House Democrats chubbed to death a bill to require voters to present valid ID at the polls because they feared that it would keep low-income and elderly citizens from voting.
In the House, as the session approached its end, Democrats "chubbed" the bill to death (a tactic similar to filibustering) – and, in the process, killed many other bills that were waiting in line behind it.
Derived words: Bermuda chub
bonytail chub
chub bread
chubby
chubhead
chub mackerel
chubsucker
common chub
Cortez sea chub
creek chub
European chub
flathead chub
hornyhead chub
humpback chub
lake chub
pale chub
river chub
sea chub
silver chub
Virgin chub
Translations:
chug
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
video-games
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, in imitation of a working steam engine. The racial slur sense derives from the stereotype of Native Americans chugging alcohol.
Inflected forms:
form: chugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chugged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine.
pos: noun
gloss: A large gulp of drink.
pos: noun
examples: He drank his beer in three chugs.
gloss: A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival.
pos: noun
gloss: A person of Native American descent.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
ethnic
slur
gloss: A palm muted note on a distorted electric guitar.
pos: noun
gloss: To make dull explosive sounds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To move or travel whilst making such sounds.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We were chugging along a back road when the engine cut out.
The inn also offers adventure packages, including ziplining and a truck safari, where a military vehicle chugs up the side of a muddy mountain.
gloss: To move or travel at a steady, although not especially fast, pace.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
examples: Outside, beyond the sun-baked station yard, a rice mill chugged away in the distance, and sweating coolies unloaded bags of rice from creaking bullock carts.
Before the year was out, the girls were out of school and the foursome's "Tell Him" was chuggin’ up the charts.
As the escort carriers chug away south, their single 5-inch rear guns are now cleared to open fire as the range closes.
I kept chugging away on ion, adjusting my path so I'd hit perikron in the B ring with orbital velocity.
For thousands of years, human progress was indexed to the ease and speed of our mobility: our capacity to walk on two legs, and then to ride on animals, sail on boats, chug across the land and fly through the air, all to procure for ourselves the food and materials we wanted.
gloss: To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. Usually chanted at the person who is drinking.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
transitive
examples: Chug! Chug! Chug!
I can't believe he chugged three beers.
gloss: To function or perform with difficulty, typically due to inadequate resources or performance limitations.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: My game chugs every time too many NPCs are onscreen.
Derived words: chugalug
chuggy
chug-wagon
kerchug
butt chug
chug away
chuggable
chugger
chuggingly
plug and chug
Translations: