yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
animus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin animus (“the mind, in a great variety of meanings: the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul”), from Proto-Italic *anamos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁mos, from *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”). Closely related to Latin anima, which is a feminine form.
Inflected forms:
form: animuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The basic impulses and instincts which govern one's actions.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A feeling of enmity, animosity or ill will.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The current row arose swiftly, sparked both by historical animus and jockeying over future power and place in Asia - and it surprised many observers in the depth of antipathy on both sides.
However, the Republican party's anti-ESG animus has undoubtedly played a role, according to Bloy.
Despite the animus against him, Mélenchon came within an inch of making the presidential election run-off in 2022, just behind Le Pen.
gloss: Intention, motivation (of a legal person).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The masculine aspect of the feminine psyche or personality.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: In the Jungian model of the psyche, the male has an internalized female counterpart, the anima; while the female has an internalized masculine counterpart, the animus.
Related words: anima
animose
animosity
equanimity
unanimous
Derived words: animus furandi
animus injuriandi
animus nocendi
Translations:
turning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English turnyng, turnynge, from Old English tyrning, turnung, equivalent to turn + -ing.
Base: turn
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: turnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A turn or deviation from a straight course.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: Take the second turning on the left.
Except for turnings with a deflated rear tire as an outerside tire, difference in the performance is small between fixed control and manual control.
gloss: At hockey, a foul committed by a player attempting to hit the ball who interposes their body between the ball and an opposing player trying to do the same.
pos: noun
gloss: The cutting of wood or metal on a lathe to shape it as needed.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of one who turns (rotates or twists).
pos: noun
examples: Still talking—more to herself than to the children—she swam into a majestical dance of the stateliest balancings, the haughtiest wheelings and turnings aside, the most dignified sinkings, the gravest risings, all joined together by the elaboratest interlacing steps and circles.
A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.
gloss: One of the four eras, each lasting for about 21 years, that make up a saeculum according to the Strauss-Howe generational theory.
pos: noun
examples: Howe and Strauss predicted that in the Fourth Turning, Millennials would unite behind their president.
gloss: Shavings produced by turning something on a lathe.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: The turnings get into your trouser turnups!
Derived words: by-turning
engine turning
it's a long road that has no turning
table-turning
turning approver
turning away
turning-away
turning-beam
turning center
turning circle
turning evil
turning gear
turning joint
turning number
turning point
turning post
turning rest
turning steel
turning tool
upturning
woodturning
Translations:
beag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English bēag (“circular jewelry worn on the body: ring, armlet, crown, collar”), from Proto-West Germanic *baug, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognate with dialectal German Baug (“ring, collar”), Icelandic baugur (“ring, circle”). Doublet of bee (“ring”). Related to bagel.
Inflected forms:
form: beags
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ring.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: It was a mark of nobility among the German races — by some considered the origin of our coronets — and had even about it a quasi-religious character in memory of the "holy beag" (holy ring), the oath upon which was tantamount to the oath upon Thorr's hammer.
[...] and the description of that monarch in his anonymous Vita as coronatus lauro probably indicates a beag which was lighter than the formal diadema.
Translations:
trawler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trawl
English -er
English trawler
From trawl + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: trawlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish.
pos: noun
gloss: A fisherman who uses a trawl net.
pos: noun
Related words: troller
Derived words: otter trawler
supertrawler
trawlerman
Translations:
preggers
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Shortening of pregnant + -ers.
Base: pregnant
Affixes: -ers
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pregnant; carrying developing offspring within one's body.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Michael's troubles may be over soon, except that Christal claims to be preggers with triplets.
Translations:
chryselephantine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χρυσελεφάντινος (khruselephántinos), from χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) + ἐλεφάντινος (elephántinos, “of ivory”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Made of gold and ivory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I drew near and perceived that the light came from a precious stone as big as an ostrich egg, set at the upper end of the alcove upon a little chryselephantine couch of ivory and gold; and this jewel, blazing like the sun, cast its rays wide and side.
Translations:
taps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From tap (noun) + -s. Noun 1 sense 1 (“signal for extinguishing all lights in soldiers’ quarters and retiring to bed”) is from the fact that the signal was originally made using a drum.
Base: tap
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A signal, by drum or trumpet, for extinguishing all lights in soldiers' quarters and retiring to bed, usually given about a quarter of an hour after tattoo; the signal is sometimes also given during the funeral of a soldier.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
holding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: holdings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds.
pos: noun
examples: Although this survey lists only a small number of representative materials in the Hoover Library's Baltic Collection, a comprehensive view of the library's holdings can be gained from the Hoover Institution's card catalog or its printed equivalent
Italy's right-wing prime minister was about to cure his biggest headache by selling the state's holding in a troubled airline, Alitalia.
The defender at third position is supposed to keep the partner informed of his holdings in that suit.
gloss: A determination of law made by a court.
pos: noun
gloss: A tenure; a farm or other estate held of another.
pos: noun
examples: Take again
From this my hand, as holding of the Pope
Your sovereign greatness and authority.
gloss: Logic; consistency.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: This has no holding,
To swear by him whom I protest to love
That I will work against him.
gloss: A foul consisting of impermissibly restricting the movement of an opposing player with the hands or stick.
pos: noun
gloss: The burden or chorus of a song.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Make battery to our ears with the loud music;
The while I'll place you; then the boy shall sing.
The holding every man shall beat as loud
As his strong sides can volley.
gloss: That which holds, binds, or influences; hold; influence; power.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: This is one of the principal holdings of that destructive system, which has endeavoured to unhinge all the virtuous, honourable, and useful connexions in the kingdom.
gloss: A holding company, or other kind of company (by back-translation from Russian холдинг (xolding)).
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
Translations:
traditionally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English traditional
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English traditionally
From traditional + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more traditionally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most traditionally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a traditional manner.
pos: adv
gloss: From the beginning.
pos: adv
examples: The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about[…]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention. Partly, this is a result of how online advertising has traditionally worked: advertisers pay for clicks, and a click is a click, however it's obtained.
Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.
Antonyms: nontraditionally
untraditionally
Translations:
crackle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle English crakelen, equivalent to crack + -le (frequentative suffix). The physics sense is part of a facetious sequence "snap, crackle, pop", after the mascots of Rice Krispies cereal.
Base: crack
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: crackles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crackles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crackling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crackled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crackled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A prolonged, frequent cracking sound; a fizzing, popping sound.
pos: noun
examples: I heard a crackle from the frying pan as I was frying bacon.
There was an annoying crackle during the phone call, due to poor connection.
Then a superincumbent bundle rolled down, with a whisking noise, flames elongated, and bent themselves about with a quiet roar, but no crackle.
The best clothes which every one put on helped the general effect; it seemed that no lady could sit down without bending a clean starched petticoat, and no gentleman could breathe without a sudden crackle from a stiff shirt-front.
gloss: A style of glaze giving the impression of many small cracks.
pos: noun
examples: The Chinese attach great value to their crackle, which, though it looks like damaged glaze, is produced by art; […].
gloss: The fifth derivative of the position vector with respect to time (after velocity, acceleration, jerk, and jounce), i.e. the rate of change of jounce.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of crackling (“crispy rind of roast pork”).
pos: noun
examples: By the look on my face I must have anticipated the joy of the crackle, apparently having come to look forward to the roast pig that appeared only at gatherings such as this. I bet I asked for another piece once I was done.
gloss: To make a prolonged, frequent cracking sound which sounds like fizzing or popping.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: a crackling fire
the unknown ice that crackles underneath them
He felt the stress and strain of life, its fevers and sweats and wild insurgences—surely this was the stuff to write about! He wanted to glorify the leaders of forlorn hopes, the mad lovers, the giants that fought under stress and strain, amid terror and tragedy, making life crackle with the strength of their endeavor.
gloss: To be full of tension or emotion.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The last scenes of the film crackle with repressed sexual energy.
Related words: craze
Derived words: chocolate crackle
crackle glass
crackleware
pork crackle
crackling
cracklingly
crackling microstar
crackly
Translations:
castaway
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cast awaydeverb.
English castaway
Deverbal from cast away.
Inflected forms:
form: castaways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After the mutiny, the castaway ship's officers suffered a month at sea in the lifeboat.
gloss: Shipwrecked.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The storm left them castaway on an uninhabited island.
gloss: Cast out; rejected or excluded from a group.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A shipwrecked sailor.
pos: noun
examples: Robinson Crusoe was a famous fictional castaway.
gloss: A discarded person or thing.
pos: noun
examples: This old coat was a castaway in someone's trash.
gloss: An outcast; someone cast out of a group or society.
pos: noun
examples: These homeless people are society's castaways.
Related words: cast away
Derived words: Blastaway
Lostaway
Translations:
homophobe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from homophobia, equivalent to homo- + -phobe (notice in Greek it would refer to a self-hater).
Affixes: homo-
-phobe
Inflected forms:
form: homophobes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is prejudiced against homosexual people, or LGBTQ people in general; one who exhibits homophobia.
pos: noun
examples: That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, "I am a homophobe!"
To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie — culturally and psychologically — but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.
Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists.
Translations:
majolica
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian maiolica, named after the Island of Mallorca (formerly known as Maiòlica), which was once a commerce center for work produced in Valencia, Spain. Doublet of Mallorca and Majorca.
Inflected forms:
form: majolicas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maiolica
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Earthenware decorated with coloured lead silicate glazes applied directly to an unglazed body, a process invented in Victorian England.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Italian Vase [top, left, p.8] is Majolica, […] The Ewer [bottom, middle, p.8] is a Palissy vase.
Majolica was produced for the first time by Messrs. Minton, in 1850, and they have been for many years the only producers of this article. The name of majolica is now applied indiscriminately to all fancy articles of coloured pottery. When, however, it is decorated by means of coloured glazes, if these are transparent, it ought to be called Palissy ware […].
[Minton] employed no less than 1500. The various branches he developed were earthenware and ordinary soft porcelain, hard porcelain, parian, coloured and enamelled tiles, mosaics, Della Robbia ware, majolica, and Palissy ware.
[…] the coloured glaze decorated wares which we now call majolica, but which Minton referred to as Palissy wares.
Majolica is the term used to describe pottery made of an earthenware body coated with semi-translucent coloured lead glazes. It was developed at the Minton factory in the late 1840s by Léon Arnoux, who had come to the Potteries in 1848.
gloss: Earthenware coated with opaque white tin-glaze, decorated with coloured metal oxide enamel, first created in Renaissance Europe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Italian pottery, generally known under the names of Majolica, Raffaelle ware, and sometimes by the term of "Umbrian ware," through the production of the fifteenth century […].
Enamel - A vitrifiable substance; opaque, generally Stanniferous majolica […]
[…] the use of the word majolica will be restricted to its original meaning of lustred stanniferous glazed pottery.
The word Majolica, or Maiolica […] was applied to all Stanniferous faience of Italy and Spain.
Minton did not use the word maiolica themselves, relying instead on the Victorian version, majolica, which they used to mean wares of Renaissance inspiration, featuring hand painting on an opaque white glaze.
2013, S. De la Vega, A. Castaneda-Gomez del Campo, M. Jimenez-Reyes, A. Tellez-Nieto, D. Tenorio, Majolica ware in the New Spain: an evaluation through NAA. The results of a study about [Tin-glaze] Majolica ceramics recovered from three sites located in Mexico City, Akademiai Kiado´, Budapest, Hungary
The [tin-glaze] Majolica manufacture process has remained practically unchanged through time: shaping is done with a potter’s wheel; drying must be slow […] two firings […] the first one for biscuit-sintering and the second for the glaze used as a surface for decoration.
Derived words: majolicaware
Translations:
homophobic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *somHós
Proto-Hellenic *homós
Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós)der.
English homo-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰegʷ-
Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -φοβία (-phobía)der.
Latin
New Latinbor.
English -phobia
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English -phobic
English homophobic
From homo- (“homosexual”) + -phobic.
Inflected forms:
form: more homophobic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most homophobic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: homophobics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting homophobia; characteristic of homophobes.
pos: adj
examples: homophobic abuse
The nail bomber who killed three people and injured dozens of others in a terrifying campaign last spring told police he was a homophobic Nazi, and that he hoped the explosions would "set fire to the country and stir up a racial war", the Old Bailey heard yesterday.
gloss: Inconvenient, annoying, irritating.
pos: adj
tags: excessive
humorous
examples: My bus left right as I got to the station. It's so homophobic of the driver to not wait for me!
It's homophobic that I'm not cuddling my girlfriend right now.
gloss: Having different colored eyes. Deliberate misspelling of heterochromic.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
humorous
examples: both our algorithms are blessed with homophobic beauty 🥰😍
gloss: A homophobe.
pos: noun
examples: Painful as skid row life is for everyone, it becomes doubly so for the gay segment of the population. If you can for a moment visualize yourself living in a house with hundreds of homophobics you have the idea; and there are few closets where one can hide.
If you say something negative about homosexuals, you will be labelled an intolerant "homophobic."
When placed in a situation that threatens to excite their repressed or latent sexual preferences, homophobics tend to react with panic, anger, and hostility as a means to avert or deny the threat (West, 1977).
Related words: homophobe
homophobia
Derived words: antihomophobic
homophobically
nonhomophobic
Translations:
alt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
games
gaming
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Latin altus (“high”). Doublet of old and alto.
Inflected forms:
form: alts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a voice or instrument, high pitch; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Sop[hy] Moderato! moderato! Madam. Your Ladyship's absolutely in alt. / L[ady] Scr[ape] In alt! Madam? / Sop[hy] Yes, in alt- Give me leave to tell your Ladyship, that you have raised your voice a full octave higher since you came into the room.
The duet was in alt; one stormed, the other half crying, half scolding, made up in volubility what her aunt possessed in authority, and it was not 'till Lady Meredith had twice raised her mild voice, either party could be silenced.
And he began, — "Poor insect! born to flutter and to die;" — falling into the second, directly Helen took the first, till he got down to such unreasonable bass that he suddenly gave a shriek in alt that made Olga stop her ears.
gloss: A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: I was, however, glad at my heart, that Mrs. Moore came up so seasonably with notice, that dinner was ready. The fair fugitive was all in alt. She had the game in her own hands; and by giving me so good an excuse for withdrawing, I had time to strengthen myself; the Captain had time to come; and the Lady to cool.
"Not," added she, as her eyes glittered with anger, and she sidled near the door for an exit—" not but, in the estimation of others, you may be quite an Adonis—a young gentleman of wit and fashion —a beau of the first water; I have no doubt Mary Jane thinks so— you old wretch!" This, in alt, and a bang of the door that brought down an oil picture that hung over it, closed the scene.
He had no wish to pry or listen; but if people would talk in alt, whilst he moved, like a mole, about his business, family matters would cleave the ear which, however it tried, could not be deaf.
That lady was in alt at Loxsleigh's high station and had spent the morning making inquiries of her friends, which also allowed her to spread the word about her interesting new acquaintance.
gloss: To use an alternate or secondary account.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
intransitive
examples: I got banned so I'm alting.
Translations:
trombone
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
film
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
television
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian trombone, from tromba (“trumpet”) + -one (augmentative), literally “large trumpet”.
The telecommunications sense alludes to the shape of the musical instrument.
Base: tromba
Affixes: -one
Inflected forms:
form: trombones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tromboni
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trombones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tromboning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tromboned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tromboned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).
pos: noun
examples: Jim plays the trombone very well.
This trombone is very expensive.
Horns, trumpets, and trombones, both soloistically and sectionally, became central to the orchestral concept... His highly subtle orchestration elevates woodwinds, more often scored soloistically than sectionally.
Using the “endangered species” model employed by the World Wide Fund for Nature, campaigners are highlighting the scarcity of bassoonists and paving the way for the promotion of some other orchestral instruments that are under threat, such as the oboe, French horn, viola, trombone and double bass.
gloss: The common European bittern.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
pos: noun
examples: The trombone […] permits an instrument to be positioned over a studio set wall, enabling the set wall to support the weight of the instrument.
The two secondary controls are the trombone handle and the focus knob.
gloss: To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
pos: verb
gloss: To extend and retract (the zoom lens); to use it too enthusiastically.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: […] do things wrong (like rotating the lens turret while shooting or backwinding and doing multiple passes on the same strip of film or doing in-camera fades with the variable shutter or tromboning a zoom lens like a teenager on acid, etc., etc., etc.) […]
He recalls (email to editor, 2 December 2012) that Durgnat 'shouted out' in response to his 'tromboning' the zoom-lens at the film's 1967 London Film Festival screening: […]
Derived words: drumbone
superbone
tromboner
tromboney
tromboning
trombonist
Translations:
missile
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Latin missile (“thrown weapon, projectile”), neuter of missilis (“throwable, capable of being thrown”), from mittere (“to send”). From 1611. Compare Middle French missile (“projectile”), from 1636.
Inflected forms:
form: missiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any object used as a weapon by being thrown or fired through the air, such as stone, arrow or bullet.
pos: noun
examples: The Rhodians, who used leaden bullets, were able to project their missiles twice as far as the Persian slingers, who used large stones.
And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.
Riot officers and police on horseback were deployed to disperse the crowns, but they came under attack from bottles, fireworks and other missiles.
gloss: A self-propelled projectile whose trajectory can be adjusted after it is launched.
pos: noun
examples: That missile is explosive enough to kill hundreds.
Antonyms: nonmissile
Related words: mess
message
messenger
mission
missionary
missive
projectile
rocket
Derived words: antimissile
missileer
missile farm
missile gap
missilelike
missileman
missileproof
missilery
missile silo
steely-eyed missile man
Translations:
contribution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English contribucioun, contribucion, from Old French contribution, from Latin contribūtiōnem, contribūtiō, from Latin contribuēre. By surface analysis, contribute + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: contributions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Whether we believe in the power of our daily rituals or hold a powerful world-shifting viewpoint, acknowledging and respecting the perspectives of others is the tool that fuels the depth, value, and meaning of our contribution to and relationships with them.
North Korea had not publicly confirmed its contribution until Monday, when it said: “The operations for liberating the Kursk area to repel the adventurous invasion of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian authorities were victoriously concluded,” according to state-run news agency KCNA.
gloss: An amount of money given toward something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He made a contribution of $100 for the victims of the flood.
gloss: The act of contributing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The taking part, often with the idea that it has led to (scientific etc.) progress.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: contributional
contribution base
cuntribution
defined contribution
defined contributions
goal contribution
microcontribution
noncontribution
overcontribution
recontribution
Translations:
projectile
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Medieval Latin prōiectilis (“projectile”), from Latin prōiectus, perfect passive participle of prōiciō (“throw forth; extend; expel”).
Inflected forms:
form: projectiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An object intended to be or having been shot from a weapon.
pos: noun
gloss: Any object propelled or thrown through space by the application of a force, such as strong wind.
pos: noun
gloss: Projecting or impelling forward.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a projectile force; a projectile weapon
gloss: Caused or imparted by impulse or projection; impelled forward.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A free and strong Projectile Motion of the Blood must occasion a florid Appearance upon the Skin in such Constitutions
Related words: missile
rocket
Derived words: microprojectile
nonprojectile
projectile point
projectile-vomit
projectile vomit
superprojectile
projectile vomiting
Translations:
carnival
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From Middle French carnaval, from Italian carnevale, possibly from the Latin phrase carnem levāmen (“meat dismissal”). Other scholars suggest Latin carnuālia (“meat-based country feast”) or carrus nāvālis (“boat wagon; float”) instead. Doublet of carnaval.
Inflected forms:
form: carnivals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carnaval
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: carnivals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carnivaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: carnivalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: carnivaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: carnivaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: carnivalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: carnivalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: carnaval
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of a number of festivals held just before the beginning of Lent.
pos: noun
examples: Carnival of Brazil
Venice Carnival
gloss: A festive occasion marked by parades and sometimes special foods and other entertainment.
pos: noun
examples: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
gloss: A traveling amusement park, called a funfair in British English.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: We all got to ride the merry-go-round when they brought their carnival to town.
When the carnival came to town, every one wanted some cotton candy.
gloss: A context in which transgression or inversion of the social order is given temporary license. Derived from the work of Mikhail Bakhtin.
pos: noun
examples: The social environment contains the ambiguous traces of carnival: it resists the ideology of capitalism and, at the same time, reproduces the capitalist social order.
gloss: A gaudily chaotic situation.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a carnival of idiocy
gloss: To participate in a carnival.
pos: verb
tags: informal
rare
gloss: To move about playfully or wildly.
pos: verb
tags: literary
examples: The spot is a marvel of beauty and taste; and here, where dust and sun carnivaled for so many years, thousands of every class congregate to listen each evening to music discoursed for the amusement of oi polloi.
Sitting in the Chevy, Saturday night on Main Street carnivaling around her, she told herself that she understood, that Ross had made a mistake, had pre-arranged this celebration for tonight and thought that his date with her was tomorrow.
A sudden bright white flash exploded before me. A kaleidoscope of silver lines drawn in rapid succession carnivalled in a blizzard of raging energy.
Derived words: blog carnival
carnivalesque
carnival glass
carnivalic
carnivalistic
carnivalize
carnivallike
carny
noncarnival
precarnival
surf carnival
winter carnival
Translations:
salvation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English savacioun, from Old French savaciun, salvaciun, from Latin salvātiō. Displaced native Old English hǣlu.
Inflected forms:
form: salvations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salvatioun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of being saved, the state of having been saved (from hell).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Collective salvation is not possible without personal salvation, but the latter is achievable.
gloss: The act of saving, rescuing (in any context), providing needed safety or liberation; something that does this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
often
uncountable
examples: Though this is not meant as a medical advice, smoking grass was an occasional salvation; it reduced the nausea, raised my spirits and even gave me a small appetite.
gloss: The process of being restored or made new for the purpose of becoming saved; the process of being rid of the old poor quality conditions and becoming improved.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If the Government believes that part of the railways' salvation is to be found in ridding them of extraneous concerns, it should have had the courage either to close the railway works down as quickly as possible, or to hive them off as an entirely separate concern, [...].
Antonyms: damnation
perdition
Related words: salvage
salvatic
salvational
salvationary
salvatory
Derived words: nonsalvation
sally
salvationism
Salvationist
salvationist
salvation Jane
Translations:
cramp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *krampôder.
Frankish *krampōder.
Proto-Germanic *krampôder.
Middle Dutch crampeder.
Old French crampebor.
Middle English crampe
English cramp
From Middle English crampe, from Old French crampe (“cramp”), from Frankish *krampa (“cramp”), from Proto-West Germanic *krampu, from Proto-Germanic *krampō (“cramp, clasp”). Distant relative of English crop.
Inflected forms:
form: cramps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cramps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cramping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cramped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cramped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled; (sometimes) a similar pain even without noticeable contraction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He retired hurt at 31 due to a leg cramp.
August 1534, Margaret Roper (or Thomas More in her name), letter to Alice Alington
the cramp also that divers nights gripeth him in his legs.
gloss: That which confines or contracts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A narrow Fortune is undoubtedly a Cramp to a great Mind.
How does it grate upon his thankleſs ear, / Crippling his pleaſures with the cramp of fear!
gloss: A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To affect with cramps or spasms.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The collar of the tunic scratched my neck, the steel helmet made my head ache, and the puttees cramped my leg muscles.
gloss: To prohibit movement or expression of.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: You're cramping my style.
But the front of the animal , which was in full , was narrow and cramped , and unequal in dignity to the side
gloss: To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
when the gout cramps my joints
gloss: To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron.
pos: verb
gloss: To bind together; to unite.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: The […] fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
gloss: To form on a cramp.
pos: verb
examples: to cramp boot legs
Derived words: bather's cramp
brain cramp
cramp ball
crampbark
cramp bone
crampet
cramp fasciculation syndrome
crampfish
cramp iron
crampish
cramp ring
crampy
menstrual cramp
musician's cramp
uncramp
wanker's cramp
writer's cramp
crampingly
cramp someone's style
cramp up
Translations:
troupe
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested 1825; Unadapted borrowing from French troupe, which see for more. Doublet of troop, and possibly also of thorp and dorp.
Inflected forms:
form: troupes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: troupes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trouping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trouped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trouped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.
pos: noun
examples: Meanwhile, the bills on the main stages skewed towards mainstream pop, with mixed results. Lorde’s Friday evening Other stage appearance was one of the weekend’s highlights. The staging and choreography were fantastic – a giant glass tank on a hydraulic platform, in and around which a troupe of dancers acted out the highs and lows of a teenage party
Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.
gloss: Any group of people working together on a shared activity.
pos: noun
gloss: To tour with a troupe.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: ballet troupe
Translations:
recite
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English reciten, from Old French reciter, from Latin recitō.
Inflected forms:
form: recites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reciting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: recited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: recited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Janice is able to recite pi to 100 decimals.
"I feel the seat. I feel the seat against my arm. I feel my hands," recites Edmonds, her eyes still closed.
It’s recited in schools across the US every day by students standing stiffly with their hands over their hearts.
Services during Yom Kippur are held continuously through the day and include readings from the Torah and the reciting of prayers expressing regret or asking for forgiveness.
Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate who gained national acclaim at President Joe Biden’s inauguration, will recite an original poem before Super Bowl LV, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced on Wednesday.
gloss: To list or enumerate something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To deliver a recitation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: recit
recitation
Derived words: aforerecited
forerecited
misrecite
recitable
recital
recitement
unrecited
Translations:
recitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French récitation, from Latin recitatio, equivalent to recite + -ation.
Base: recite
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: recitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of publicly reciting something previously memorized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The recitation will air nationally and be featured at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
gloss: The material recited.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A regularly scheduled class, in a school, in which discussion occurs of the material covered in a parallel lecture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I shall now endeavor to give some account of the College.... Some then go to a recitation of the lesson they have learnt the previous evening. Some return to their rooms till the breakfast-bell, about seven or after. At eight the sludy bell rings. All must then go in their rooms and continue there, even if they have no lessons to learn, unless they attend a recitation which occupies an hour.
1896, Frank Norris, "The 'English Courses' of the University of California", reprinted in, 1986, Novels and Essays, Library of America, →ISBN, page 1109,
In the "announcement of courses" published annually by the faculty of the University of California the reader cannot fail to be impressed with the number and scope of the hours devoted by the students to recitations and lectures upon the subject of "literature."
Many of my courses, however, were offered in recitation-lecture format. We would attend class, say twice a week, and a lecture once a week. ... I do seem to recall that my recitation sections seldom had less than 40 to 50 students and my lecture classes often had upwards of 100 to 300 students.
gloss: A reiteration; a setting down, e.g. for ease of reference, of something previously established.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A part of a song's lyrics that is spoken rather than sung.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: misrecitation
recitational
recitationist
Translations:
rating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: ratings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A position on a scale.
pos: noun
gloss: An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
pos: noun
examples: They have a poor credit rating.
A self-proclaimed source of mediation and unbiased ratings of millions of businesses across the country, the BBB receives the majority of its revenue from membership fees paid by hundreds of thousands of companies. […] But through its months-long investigation of the BBB, CNNMoney found that this rating system – a key part of what the organization’s reputation is built on – is seriously flawed, with more than 100 companies in hot water with government agencies receiving A ratings
gloss: A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
pos: noun
examples: He has a high chess rating.
gloss: A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
pos: noun
examples: A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.
gloss: A seaman in a warship.
pos: noun
examples: Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.
gloss: An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.
Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope
Derived words: able rating
age rating
Elo rating
gross vehicle weight rating
Hooperating
hourly rating
nonrating
octane rating
output rating
Q rating
target rating point
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: luokitus
lang: Hebrew
word: דֵּרוּג
roman: derug
lang: Irish
word: grád
lang: Portuguese
word: patente
carousel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From French carrousel, from Italian carosello, from Sicilian caruseḍḍu and/or Neapolitan carusiello. Uncertain. Some suggested a derivation from carro (“cart”), from Latin carrus, but this does not fit the criteria of an appropriate morphological reconstruction. Not believed to be related to carousal.
Inflected forms:
form: carousels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carrousel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: carousels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carouseling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: carouselling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: carouseled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: carouseled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: carouselled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: carouselled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: carrousel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pleasure ride, typically found at amusement parks and fairs and accompanied by music, consisting of a slowly revolving circular platform on which are fixed various seats, frequently shaped like horses or other animals, cars, etc., which may also move up and down; a merry-go-round.
pos: noun
examples: That's one nice thing about carrousels,^([sic]) they always play the same song.
gloss: A continuously revolving device for item delivery.
pos: noun
examples: After collecting his suitcase at the baggage carousel, he left the airport.
gloss: The rotating glass plate in a microwave oven.
pos: noun
gloss: A visual component that displays a horizontal series of items one at a time.
pos: noun
gloss: An equestrian discipline in which groups of riders make various formations.
pos: noun
gloss: A tilting match or tournament accompanied by games, shows, and allegorical performances.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Synonym of jukebox (“automated carousel for the storage and retrieval of tapes, CD-ROMs, etc.”).
pos: noun
gloss: To revolve or change places.
pos: verb
Related words: whirligig
Derived words: baggage carousel
carousel fraud
carousel trade
carousel voting
ice carousel
ride the cock carousel
Translations:
correspond
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French correspondre, from Latin com- (“with”) + respondeo (“to match, to answer to”), equivalent to co- + respond.
Base: respond
Affixes: co-
Inflected forms:
form: corresponds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: corresponding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: corresponded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: corresponded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be equivalent or similar in character, quantity, quality, origin, structure, function etc.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Coordinate term: equate
gloss: To exchange messages, especially by postal letter, over a period of time.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I've been corresponding with my German pen pal for three years.
gloss: To have sex with.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: He pleaded guilty to the charge, so far as acknowledging that he had corresponded with other women lately, in order to get the better of his affection for me, but the experiment had failed, and he found that he should be for ever miserable.
When a Babylonian and his wife had a mind to correspond, they always first lit up the fuming pan, imagining it improved the passion.
Derived words: correspondence
correspondent
voicespond
Translations: