yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
melodious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English melodious, from Middle French melodieus, melodieux. By surface analysis, melod(i) + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more melodious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most melodious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.
pos: adj
examples: Tremulous on the bladed graſs ſhone bright the pearly drops, like an aſſembly of ſparkling ſtars dancing on the plains of the zodiac; vocal was every bending ſpray, every reed was inſpired, each warbling throat ſeemed to emulate the melodious voice of the bird of a thouſand ſongs.
A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.
Patinkin’s melodious voice is a natural fit for animation, and he breathes just the right type of upper-crust life into Hugh in 22 short minutes.
Translations:
twister
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
Etymology: From Middle English twyster, equivalent to twist + -er.
Base: twist
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: twisters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who twists.
pos: noun
gloss: One who twists.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument used in twisting or making twists.
pos: noun
examples: He, twirling his twister, makes a twist of the twine.
gloss: A ball delivered with a twist, as in cricket or billiards.
pos: noun
gloss: A tornado.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A girder.
pos: noun
gloss: The inner part of the thigh, the proper place to rest upon when on horseback.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A crook, a villain.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: “I don't know if it's my imagination, Kipper,” I said, “but something gives me the impression that at moment of going to press you aren't too sold on Bobbie.” He shrugged a shoulder. “Oh, I wouldn't say that. Apart from wishing I could throttle the young twister with my bare hands and jump on the remains with hobnailed boots, I don't feel much about her one way or the other.”
gloss: Any of species Tholymis tillarga of libellulid dragonfly, of tropical West Africa to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.
pos: noun
gloss: The party game Twister, usually capitalized, or a variant.
pos: noun
Related words: dust devil
water spout
willy-willy
Derived words: arm-twister
arm twister
fossil twister
jaw-twister
knife twister
knife-twister
Labrador twister
Mersenne twister
titty twister
tongue-twister
Translations:
Scots
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots Scots, from Middle Scots Scottis, from Old English Scottysċ, a late variant of earlier Scyttisċ (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scottish.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Scottish.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
holism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From hol- (“whole, entire, total”) + -ism. Coined in 1926 by Jan Smuts.
Base: hol
Inflected forms:
form: holisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wholism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A theory or belief that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A practice based on such a theory or belief.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: reductionism
Derived words: antiholism
holist
holistic
Translations:
gibbon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reborrowing from French gibbon, folk etymology (compare English Gibbon) ultimately from a Northern Aslian language (compare Batek kəboɲ).
Inflected forms:
form: gibbons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guibon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which they use to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.
pos: noun
examples: '[…] Suppose that in years to come, when the Church's troubles seem to be over, there should come an apostate of my own trade, a false historian, with the mind of Cicero or Tacitus and the soul of an animal,' and he nodded towards the gibbon who fretted his golden chain and chattered for fruit.
Translations:
murre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown, possibly imitative of the birds' call.
Inflected forms:
form: murres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any seabird of the genus Uria in the family Alcidae (the auks).
pos: noun
examples: It may be that in one year alone, the Farallon murre population was reduced to the level at which it stood during the mid-1990s
1997, Robert Wayne Campbell, Neil K. Dawe, The Birds of British Columbia, Volume 2: Nonpasserines: Diurnal birds of prey through woodpeckers, page 296,
About 2,800 pairs of Common Murres breed in the province, most of which are in the Scott Islands off northwestern Vancouver Island.
2000, Susan Allport, The Primal Feast: Food, Sex, Foraging, and Love, 2003, paperback, page 52,
Staking out a spot involves not only the appropriate level of murre aggression (some murres are so aggressive that they throw their mates off the ledge) but, even more fundamentally, the ability to find food efficiently.
Translations:
tarsier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French tarsier, from Latin tarsus, from Ancient Greek ταρσός (tarsós, “wickerwork mat"; "broad, flat surface"”).
Inflected forms:
form: tarsiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An insectivorous primate of the family Tarsiidae, having very large eyes and long feet, native mainly to several islands of Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
Translations:
toy
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English toye (“amorous play, piece of fun or entertainment”), probably from Middle Dutch toy, tuyg (“tools, apparatus, utensil, ornament”) as in Dutch speel-tuig (“plaything, toy”), from Old Dutch *tiug, from Proto-West Germanic *tiugī̆, *teug, from Proto-Germanic *teugą (“stuff, matter, device, gear, lever”, literally “that which is drawn or pulled”), from Proto-Germanic *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”).
Cognate with Dutch tuig (“thing”), German Zeug (“stuff”), Danish tøj (“stuff”), Icelandic tygi, Norwegian tøy (“equipment, riggings, stuff”), Swedish tyg (“cloth, textile, fabric”). Related to tug, tow, taw, tew.
Inflected forms:
form: toys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more toy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most toy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To play (with) in an idle or desultory way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to toy with a piece of food on one’s plate
Figo is toying with the English defence.
His [Hercules's] Lyons skin chaungd to a pall of gold, / In which forgetting warres, he onely ioyed / In combats of ſweet loue, and with his miſtreſſe toyed.
gloss: To ponder or consider.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I have been toying with the idea of starting my own business.
gloss: To stimulate with a sex toy.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: He could see her hand go to her slit, and soon she was toying herself along, breathing heavily.
gloss: Impractical or unsuitable for real-world use, due to being unrealistically small or simple.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
examples: Our evaluation scenarios are purposefully simplistic […] This implies that the scenarios are quite toy and not representative of real deployments.
Translations:
year-to-date
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: accounting
business
finance
management
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
taker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English takere, equivalent to take + -er.
Base: take
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: takers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who takes something.
pos: noun
examples: She is known as quite a risk taker.
The hostage taker decided to surrender to the police.
The study could not confirm the real percentage of drug takers in the country.
An athletic kid from New Jersey, Fischer was known as a bold risk taker — they called him “the fallingest man in climbing” — until an old-school cragger taught him the Zen of controlled ascent.
gloss: A person or thing that takes or receives, often more than he or she gives.
pos: noun
examples: I don't want to be a relationship with you anymore - you are too much of a taker.
gloss: One who is willing to participate in, or buy, something.
pos: noun
examples: Are there any takers for helping me clean the garage this weekend?
I'm selling handmade postcards—any takers?
Barely a decade ago, the notion that land should be managed in order to ensure planetary wellbeing had few takers among farmers whose raison d'etre was to fill human bellies at the lowest possible cost. But this is the proposition that is now poised to determine the future of farming.
gloss: A nipper or claw of a scorpion.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The ſixt is like a Crabbe, & this is called by Elianus a flamant Scorpion, it is of a great body, and hath tonges and takers very ſolid and ſtrong, like the Gramuell or Creuiſh, & is therefore thought to take the beginning from that fiſh.
Synonyms: appropriator
taker
Antonyms: giver
returner
Related words: taking
get
receive
take
Derived words: breathtaker
bribetaker
caretaker
check-taker
copytaker
double taker
drugtaker
furtaker
hostage-taker
hostage taker
liberty taker
lifetaker
notetaker
numbertaker
oathtaker
painstaker
piss-taker
polltaker
price taker
prizetaker
risktaker
ruletaker
stocktaker
taker-backer
taker-off
test-taker
thief-taker
time-taker
tolltaker
wagetaker
wicket taker
wife-taker
worktaker
Translations:
lang: Polish
word: biorca
foolish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English folisch; equivalent to fool + -ish.
Base: fool
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more foolish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most foolish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking good sense or judgement as a general trait; unwise; stupid.
pos: adj
examples: His wife and the neighbours lamented over his strange conduct, his dullness and melancholy, and began to think that he was grown foolish.
Next season will, as ever, be a different matter, another problem for Conte to solve as he looks to extend his personal record of four straight league titles in club football across England and Italy. Given his hunger for more – more time, more detail, more work – only the brave or the foolish would bet against him.
gloss: Not based on good sense or judgement; as a fool would do or conclude.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
gloss: Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
pos: adj
Synonyms: absurd
idiotic
ridiculous
silly
unwise
asinine
balmy
barmy
bedaft
loony
daft
derpy
dim-headed
dim-witted
dopey
dull-headed
dull-witted
dumb
duncical
fatuous
fuzzy-headed
fuzzy-minded
gauvison
goofy
idle
insipient
mookish
naive
simple
slight
slow-witted
softheaded
soft in the head
sottish
stupid
thick
unsage
wool-headed
woolly-headed
woolly-minded
crackpot
dense
Antonyms: wise
Related words: thick as a brick
daft as a brush
cretinous
imbecilic
lame
moronic
retarded
fool
insane
Derived words: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
foolishly
foolishment
foolishness
overfoolish
penny wise and pound foolish
pound-foolish
unfoolish
Translations:
cooperate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Originated 1595–1605 from Late Latin cooperātus, perfect passive participle of cooperor (“to work with”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Equivalent to co- + operate. Displaced native Old English efnwyrċan.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: cooperates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cooperating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cooperated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cooperated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: co-operate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
form: coöperate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: To work or act together, especially for a common purpose or benefit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
gloss: To allow for mutual unobstructed action.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To function in harmony, side by side.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To engage in economic cooperation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To obtain the cooperation of (a potential witness); to turn (someone) into a cooperating witness.
pos: verb
tags: jargon
transitive
Synonyms: coact
coadjute
co-op
liaise
make common cause
play ball
Related words: cooperation
cooperative
cooperator
Derived words: cooperating
coopete
noncooperating
uncooperating
Translations:
fowl
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English foul, foghel, fowel, fowele, from Old English fugol (“bird”), from Proto-West Germanic *fugl, from Proto-Germanic *fuglaz, dissimilated variant of *fluglaz (compare Old English flugol ‘fleeing’, Mercian fluglas heofun ‘birds of the air’), from *fleuganą (“to fly”). Cognate with West Frisian fûgel, Low German Vagel, Dutch vogel, German Vogel, Swedish fågel, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk fugl. Doublet of voël. More at fly.
Inflected forms:
form: fowl
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fowls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fowls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fowling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fowled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fowled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any bird.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: And now I take vpon me the aduentures of holy thynges / & now I see and vnderstande that myn old synne hyndereth me and shameth me / so that I had no power to stere nor speke whan the holy blood appiered afore me / So thus he sorowed til hit was day / & herd the fowles synge / thenne somwhat he was comforted
gloss: A bird hunted or kept for food, grouped into landfowl (order Galliformes), also called gamefowl, and waterfowl (order Anseriformes: ducks, geese, swans, etc.), which together form the clade Galloanserae.
pos: noun
gloss: To hunt fowl.
pos: verb
examples: We took our guns and went fowling.
Synonyms: fowl
gamefowl
poultry
wildfowl
Related words: :Category:Birds
Derived words: antifowl
Cochin fowl
Dorking fowl
fowl bluegrass
fowl grass
fowl meadow grass
fowlery
fowl-house
fowlhouse
fowlish
fowlkind
fowllike
fowl-like
fowl-lore
fowl paralysis
fowl pest
fowlpox
fowl-run
fowlyard
frizzle fowl
gamefowl
game fowl
guinea-fowl
guinea fowl
helmeted guinea fowl
junglefowl
jungle fowl
landfowl
make fish of one and fowl of another
mallee fowl
moorfowl
neither fish, flesh, nor fowl
neither fish nor fowl
peafowl
Philippine fowl disease
rockfowl
scrubfowl
seafowl
Spanish fowl
spurfowl
waterfowl
wildfowl
wormfowl
yardfowl
Translations:
frequent
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French frequent, from Latin frequens (“crowded, crammed, frequent, repeated, etc.”), possibly from a Proto-Indo-European *bʰrekʷ- (“to cram together”).
Inflected forms:
form: more frequent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: frequenter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frequent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: frequentest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: frequents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frequenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frequented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frequented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Done or occurring often; common.
pos: adj
examples: I take frequent breaks so I don't get too tired.
There are frequent trains to the beach available.
I am a frequent visitor to that city.
During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking [...]
gloss: Occurring at short intervals.
pos: adj
examples: Above, the frequent feudal towers / Through green leaves lift their walls of grey, [...]
gloss: Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent.
pos: adj
examples: [E]very Man thinks he has laid in a ſufficient Stock of Merit, and my pretend to any Employment, provided he has been loud and frequent in declaring himſelf hearty for the Government.
gloss: Full; crowded; thronged.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 'Tis Caesar's will to have a frequent senate.
gloss: Often or commonly reported.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: 'Tis frequent in the city he hath subdued / The Catti and the Daci.
gloss: To visit often.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I used to frequent that restaurant.
Related words: frequency
frequently
infrequent
frequently asked questions
Derived words: equifrequent
frequentative
frequent flier
frequent flyer
frequentism
frequentist
frequentistic
frequentness
hyperfrequent
monofrequent
nonfrequent
normofrequent
overfrequent
semifrequent
unfrequent
Translations:
jugular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Late 16th century borrowing from Late Latin jugulāris, from jugulum (“the collarbone; the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone; the throat”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to jugulum + -ar.
Base: jugulum
Affixes: -āris
Inflected forms:
form: jugulary
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Relating to, or located near, the neck or throat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Having ventral fins attached under the throat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to juggling.
pos: adj
tags: humorous
not-comparable
relational
Derived words: abdominojugular
hepatojugular
hepatojugularometer
intrajugular
jugular foramen
jugular notch
jugular trunk
jugular vein
jugular venous pressure
jugulo-
transjugular
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: отнасящ се до шията
roman: otnasjašt se do šijata
lang: Catalan
word: jugular
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 頸的 /颈的
roman: jǐng de
lang: Czech
word: jugulární
lang: Czech
word: hrdelní
lang: Czech
word: krční
lang: Dutch
word: jugulair
lang: Finnish
word: kaula-
lang: French
word: jugulaire
lang: Galician
word: xugular
lang: Greek
word: τραχηλικός
roman: trachilikós
lang: Ido
word: faucala
lang: Marathi
word: गल-
roman: gal-
lang: Polish
word: szyjny
lang: Portuguese
word: jugular
lang: Russian
word: ше́йный
roman: šéjnyj
lang: Spanish
word: yugular
commercialize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Late Latin con-
Proto-Italic *merks
Late Latin merx
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Late Latin -ium
Late Latin commercium
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin commerciālislbor.
French commercialbor.
English commercial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English commercialize
From commercial + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: commercializes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commercializing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commercialized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commercialized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: commercialise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To bring into commerce from an earlier condition (such as idea alone, experimental prototypes alone, or one-off custom builds only).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonym: productize
the work required not only to invent a device but also to commercialize it
gloss: To apply business methodology to something in order to profit (such as introducing salability to a resource that comes from, or rightfully belongs to, the commons).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: finding the right balance in paying for water infrastructure (treatment plants and pipe networks) but not commercializing water to the point of excluding low-income people from adequate access to a basic necessity
gloss: To exploit something for maximum financial gain, sometimes by sacrificing quality.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a market district formerly served mainly by artisans but increasingly commercialized for mass tourism
Related words: commodify
commoditize
consumerize
Derived words: commercializable
commercialization
commercializer
decommercialize
noncommercialized
overcommercialize
recommercialize
uncommercialized
Translations:
commercialization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Late Latin con-
Proto-Italic *merks
Late Latin merx
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Late Latin -ium
Late Latin commercium
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin commerciālislbor.
French commercialbor.
English commercial
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English commercialize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English commercialization
From commercialize + -ation or commercial + -ization.
Base: commercialize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: commercializations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: commercialisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of commercializing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: productization
Lowering prices for humanoids would mark a major step to their eventual commercialization and wider adoption.
Translations:
barrier
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English barrer, barrere, barryȝer, from Anglo-Norman barrere (compare French barrière), from barre (“bar”).
Inflected forms:
form: barriers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barriers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barriering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barriered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barriered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A structure that bars passage.
pos: noun
examples: The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.
The bomber had passed through one checkpoint before blowing himself up at a second barrier.
gloss: An obstacle or impediment.
pos: noun
examples: Even a small fee can be a barrier for some students.
America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
gloss: A boundary or limit.
pos: noun
examples: Few marathon runners break the three-hour time barrier.
The downside of normalization is that it erects a defensive barrier between the real world and the perceived i.e. normalized world.
gloss: A node (in government and binding theory) said to intervene between other nodes A and B if it is a potential governor for B, c-commands B, and does not c-command A.
pos: noun
gloss: A separation between two areas of the body where specialized cells allow the entry of certain substances but prevent the entry of others.
pos: noun
gloss: The lists in a tournament.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A martial exercise of the 15th and 16th centuries.
pos: noun
tags: historical
in-plural
gloss: To block or obstruct with a barrier.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: acoustic barrier
allobarrier
automatic half-barrier level crossing
barrier board
barrier cream
barrier island
barrier lake
barrierless
barrierlike
barrier method
barrier nursing
barrier reef
barrier ridge
barrier rogue
barrier to entry
barrier to trade
barrier troops
barristor
biobarrier
blood-brain barrier
boom barrier
color barrier
Coulomb barrier
crash barrier
crowd control barrier
crush barrier
cyberbarrier
death barrier
diffusion-barrier
Einstein barrier
Great Barrier Island
Great Barrier Reef
half-barrier
heat barrier
hematoencephalic barrier
ice barrier
immunobarrier
Jersey barrier
jersey barrier
language barrier
light barrier
memory barrier
metabarrier
multibarrier
nanobarrier
New Jersey barrier
noise barrier
non-tariff barrier
police barrier
racial barrier
Schottky barrier
security barrier
sonic barrier
sound barrier
species barrier
subbarrier
superbarrier
tariff barrier
ticket barrier
tilt barrier
time barrier
tire barrier
tyre barrier
toll barrier
trade barrier
traffic barrier
underbarrier
vapor barrier
Weismann barrier
Translations:
malodorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin maleder.
Old French mal-
English mal-
English odorous
English malodorous
From mal- + odorous.
Inflected forms:
form: more malodorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most malodorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: malodourous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bad odor.
pos: adj
examples: There were malodorous garbage bags aplenty outside her house.
gloss: Highly improper.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
Synonyms: putrid
smelly
stinky
stenchy
fetid
funky
noisome
reeky
reeking
stinking
mephitic
foul-smelling
rank
rotten
vile
offensive
bad
buckish
cacodorous
graveolent
malodorous
mawkish
niffy
nonaromatic
nonfragrant
olid
on the nose
pongy
putredinous
ripe
stank
stinksome
unaromatic
unfragrant
whiff
whiffy
Antonyms: fragrant
Related words: malodor
malodorously
malodorousness
mephitic
rank
stench
reek
Translations:
boundary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
sciences
sports
topology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bound
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English boundary
From bound + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: boundaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The dividing line or location between two areas.
pos: noun
examples: So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
City or national boundaries are locations of economic opportunity, especially if the existence of the border is itself the source of a monopoly situation that favors one side over the other (Krakover, 1997).
gloss: The bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things (such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond).
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
in-plural
often
examples: I didn’t mean to push the boundaries by sending my boss a message on Saturday night.
gloss: An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
pos: noun
gloss: An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
pos: noun
examples: Travis hit a boundary to seal the match on the last ball of the over.
gloss: (of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set S, not belonging to the interior of that set.
pos: noun
gloss: Commission paid by a bus or jeepney driver to a public transportation operator for taking passengers, or the excess collected fares taken as daily wage.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
Related words: bound
border
confine
fladry
frontier
Derived words: boundaried
boundariless
boundaryless
Boundary Commission
boundary condition
boundary corner
Boundary County
boundary four
boundary group
boundary homomorphism
boundary line
boundary map
Boundary Peak
boundary point
boundary rider
boundary scan
boundary stone
boundary term
boundary umpire
coboundary
geoboundary
grain boundary
isoboundary
Kootenay Boundary
K-T boundary
lower boundary
missing boundary
natural boundary
Northwestern Boundary Dispute
outflow boundary
Robin boundary condition
San Juan Boundary Dispute
surface boundary layer
transboundary
upper boundary
Translations:
blockade
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: backgammon
biology
board-games
chess
games
medicine
natural-sciences
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: From block + -ade, probably after Dutch blocquade (now blokkade) or German Blockade.
Base: block
Affixes: -ade
Inflected forms:
form: blockades
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blockades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blockading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blockaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blockaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The physical blocking or surrounding of a place, especially a port, in order to prevent commerce and traffic in or out.
pos: noun
examples: A six-day blockade from 28 May to 2 June saw NR [National Rail] straighten the track through the station, facilitating a linespeed increase from 60mph to 85mph over a 4km stretch.
gloss: Any form of formal isolation or inhibition of something, especially with the force of law or arms.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: In the mean time, Francesca, separated from Madame de Mercœur, was hidden by a group around the Queen of Sweden. With the wall on one side, and a human blockade on the other, she was left at full leisure to meditate on a vow made at the first announcement of the lottery, namely, that whatever might fall to her lot she would offer in a neighbouring chapel to the Virgin, at whose shrine she would kneel one hour for Guido's safe return.
gloss: The ships or other forces used to effect a naval blockade.
pos: noun
gloss: Inhibition of the activity (function) of chemical messengers or their receptors, such as (often) receptor antagonism.
pos: noun
examples: beta-blockade
gloss: The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of prime.
pos: noun
gloss: To create a blockade against.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: On January 5 1969, residents blockaded the level crossing at Newcastleton, ahead of the final passenger train. It was only after the then-local MP David (now Lord) Steel had alighted from the St Pancras-bound Sleeper service and negotiated their dispersal (in return for the release without charge of one of the protest organisers, Reverend Brydon Maben) that the train was allowed on its way.
Synonyms: embargo
Related words: blockage
blocker
Derived words: antiblockade
beta blockade
blockade crown
blockader
blockade runner
blockade whiskey
Coulomb blockade
counterblockade
immunoblockade
neuroblockade
nonblockaded
preblockade
unblockaded
Translations:
capillary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
chemistry
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin capillāris (“pertaining to the hair”), from capillus (“the hair, properly of the head”), from caput (“head”).
Inflected forms:
form: more capillary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most capillary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: capillaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or pertaining to hair, especially in slenderness or fineness.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to a narrow tube.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or caused by surface tension.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to capillaries in the body or to capillary action.
pos: adj
gloss: Any of the small blood vessels (from 5 to 10 micrometres/micrometers (μm) in diameter) that connect arteries to veins (They are the smallest blood vessels in the body: they convey blood between the arterioles and venules).
pos: noun
gloss: A tube or channel having a very small internal diameter, through which liquid can rise or be drawn by capillary action.
pos: noun
Related words: artery
circulatory system
vein
Derived words: alveolocapillary
arteriocapillary
capillaric
capillarily
capillaritis
capillarization
capillary bed
capillary refill
cerebrocapillary
choriocapillary
elastocapillary
electrocapillary
endocapillary
exocapillary
extracapillary
intercapillary
intracapillary
juxtacapillary
magnetocapillary
megacapillary
microcapillary
midcapillary
multicapillary
nanocapillary
neocapillary
neurocapillary
noncapillary
optocapillary
pericapillary
polycapillary
postcapillary
precapillary
pseudocapillary
thermocapillary
transcapillary
vasocapillary
venocapillary
capillarity
capillary action
capillary wave
peritubular capillary
Translations:
grus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: gruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand and gravel) resulting from the chemical and mechanical weathering of crystalline rocks.
pos: noun
Translations:
Anglo-Saxon
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: From Anglo- + Saxon, from Latin Anglosaxones (Anglo-Saxones), Latin Anglī Saxōnēs (literally “the English Saxons”), as distinguished from the Continental Saxons. Displaced native Old English Angelseaxan.
Base: Saxon
Affixes: Anglo-
Inflected forms:
form: Anglo-Saxons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Anglosaxon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: AS
pos: noun
tags: alternative
initialism
form: more Anglo-Saxon
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Anglo-Saxon
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Anglosaxon
pos: adj
tags: alternative
rare
form: AS
pos: adj
tags: alternative
initialism
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Germanic peoples who settled in England during the early fifth century.
pos: noun
gloss: A person of English ethnic descent.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A lightskinned or blond-haired person presumably of North European descent like British.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Related to the Anglo-Saxon peoples or language.
pos: adj
gloss: Related to nations which speak primarily English and are influenced by English culture and customs, especially Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States.
pos: adj
examples: [...] Ethnography thus aims at record-
 ing as accurately as possible the respective modes of life of various
 groups. Ethnology, on the other hand, utilizes for comparative
 purposes (the nature of which will be explained below) the data
 provided by the ethnographer. Thus, ethnography has the same
 meaning in all countries, and ethnology corresponds approximately
 to what is known in Anglo-Saxon countries—where the term eth-
 nology has become obsolete—as social or cultural anthropology.
gloss: Favouring a liberal free-market economy.
pos: adj
gloss: Descended from some other North European settlers like the British (English).
pos: adj
tags: US
Translations:
costa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin costa (“a rib”). Doublet of coast.
Inflected forms:
form: costas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: costae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of rib.
pos: noun
gloss: A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
pos: noun
gloss: A riblike part of a plant or animal, such as a midrib of a leaf or a thickened vein or the margin of an insect wing.
pos: noun
Related words: costal
bone
guarda costa
Derived words: basicosta
costapalmate
costiferous
costiform
costovertebral
subcosta
Translations:
grip
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Verb from Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjaną (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English grīpan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *grīpaną.
Noun from Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).
Inflected forms:
form: grips
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gripping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gripped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gripped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take hold (of), particularly with the hand.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: That suitcase is heavy, so grip the handle firmly.
Unfortunately the glue didn't grip, and the whole thing came apart.
After a few slips, the tires gripped the pavement.
"Grip tightly on the rope!" — "I'm gripping! I'm gripping!"
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.
gloss: To figuratively take hold of or grasp.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We need to grip this problem, not shut our eyes and hope it goes away.
gloss: Of an emotion or situation: to have a strong effect upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As the water level began to rise, I was gripped by panic.
[…] I lost something of the stifling fear that had gripped me, and could listen with more ease to what was going forward.
gloss: To firmly hold the attention of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The movie gripped me from beginning to end.
Synonyms: grasp
Derived words: begrip
grip off
grip oneself with both hands
grippable
gripping
gripping beast
grippy
gription
grip up
on the gripping hand
regrip
ungrip
misgrip
Translations:
violent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s
Proto-Italic *wīs
Latin vīs
Latin violō
Latin -entus
Latin violentusbor.
Old French violentbor.
Middle English violent
English violent
From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from vīs (“strength”). Displaced native Old English stræc. For the verb, compare French violenter.
Inflected forms:
form: violenter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more violent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: violentest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most violent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Involving extreme force or motion.
pos: adj
examples: A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
gloss: Involving physical conflict.
pos: adj
examples: We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if necessary.
Looking at hundreds of campaigns over the last century, Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to achieve their goals as violent campaigns.
gloss: Likely to use physical force.
pos: adj
examples: The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.
gloss: Intensely vivid.
pos: adj
examples: The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.
his violent objections to the plan
We have already observed, that he was a very good-natured fellow, and he hath himself declared the violent attachment he had to the person and character of Jones […]
gloss: Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
pos: adj
examples: These violent delights have violent ends.
1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
and no violent state by his own Maxim, can be perpetual,
Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
gloss: Acute, extreme, sharp.
pos: adj
examples: a violent headache
Palace made it 3-1 on 81 minutes, Nketiah nipping in to finish nicely, then doing a no-celebration pose in front of the away fans. Nketiah grew up a couple of miles from the Den. It felt, at the very least, like a neighbourly overture, and in violent contrast to the opening act at the other end.
Antonyms: peaceful
Related words: violence
Derived words: non-violent
silent-but-violent
violentism
violent presumption
violent profits
violent relaxation
violent storm
Translations:
verse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English vers, from a mixture of Old English fers and Old French vers; both from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).
Inflected forms:
form: verses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: verses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: versing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: versed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: versed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A poetic form with regular meter and a fixed rhyme scheme.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Restoration literature is well known for its carefully constructed verse.
gloss: Poetic form in general.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The restrictions of verse have steadily been relaxed over time.
gloss: One of several similar units of a song, consisting of several lines, generally rhymed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Note the shift in tone between the first verse and the second.
gloss: A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A portion of an anthem to be performed by a single voice to each part.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To compose verses.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: It is not rhyming and versing that maketh a poet.
gloss: To tell in verse, or poetry.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: playing on pipes of corn and versing love
gloss: to educate about, to teach about.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: He versed us in the finer points of category theory.
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
Related words: versification
versify
Derived words: Alcaic verse
blank verse
chapter and verse
clobber verse
free verse
heroic verse
Leonine verse
neck verse
Pythian verse
serpentine verse
society verse
sword verse
verse-chorus
versecraft
Translations:
Im
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: Ims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: irregular galaxy with no coherent structure
pos: noun
Translations:
epee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French épée, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of spatha, spathe, and spade.
Inflected forms:
form: epees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: épee
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: épée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sharp-pointed dueling sword with a bell-shaped guard, used (with the end blunted) in sport fencing.
pos: noun
examples: The country’s fencing federation has officially recognised lightsaber duelling as a competitive sport, granting the weapon from George Lucas’s space saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.
Translations:
moi
Part of speech: pron
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French moibor.
English moi
Borrowed from French moi.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Me.
pos: pron
tags: humorous
often
sarcastic
examples: Don't you be so cheeky. — Cheeky? Moi?
Who'd have thought that such a thing would happen to little old moi!
Kid Rock: Yo, let's waste that biotch. / Homer: Biotch? Moi?
There's only one Miss Piggy, and she is moi.
Translations:
asshat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ass + hat, from the slang expression have one's head up one's ass, thus, wearing the ass as a hat. The term is extended to people who are clueless or bumbling, who don't understand what is going on.
Base: ass
Inflected forms:
form: asshats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arsehat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
Senses:
gloss: An obnoxiously ignorant person; a fool.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
humorous
often
slang
sometimes
vulgar
examples: the same connotations as "FUCKWITS." for less extreme cases i suggest ASSHATS
1977 CHiPs 3 3/4" action figures (5 different: Ponch, Jon, Sarge,Jimmy Squeaks, Stupid Fucking Asshat Erik Mouse, and Wheels Willie) $10-15 each
While I wait, the air is abuzz with tales of other marathons while many set of eyes cut in my direction. Eventually an asshat in a JUST DO IT T-shirt asks me, “How's your training going?”
Anyone who would make a claim like this on national TV is a real asshat.
Translations:
judoka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
judo
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Japanese 柔(じゅう)道(どう)家(か) (jūdōka).
Inflected forms:
form: judoka
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: judokas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jūdōka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A practitioner of the Japanese martial art of judo.
pos: noun
Translations:
automagic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of automatic + magic; from the principle (often called Clarke's third law) that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Compound parts: automatic
magic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A process carried out automatically in such a clever way that the result appears to be magic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
relocatable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English locate
English relocate
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English relocatable
From relocate + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more relocatable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most relocatable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: relocatables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That can be relocated.
pos: adj
examples: [Thoreau Type GWM Mid Age] Seeks similar independent person relocatable to idylic ^([sic]) remote area. Interests must include self sufficiency, honesty, value of quality of life over monetary gain.
gloss: That can be relocated.
pos: adj
gloss: That can be relocated.
pos: adj
gloss: A temporary building that can be dismantled and set up in another location.
pos: noun
Synonyms: mobile
movable
portable
transportable
Derived words: nonrelocatable
relocatable power tap
unrelocatable
Translations:
circumvention
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin circumventio, equivalent to circumvent + -ion.
Base: circumvent
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: circumventions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of evading or going around (bypassing).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of prevailing over another by fraud or deception.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a school in which he learns sly circumvention
Related words: circumvent
circumvental
Derived words: anticircumvention
Translations: