yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
picayune
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is borrowed from southern French picaillon, pécaillon, picayon (“type of small foreign coin; (informal, especially in the plural) cash, money”), and from its etymon Occitan picalhon, picaioun (“cheaply made Savoyan-Piedmontese coin that was rapidly demonetized; (by extension) cash, money”), probably from Occitan piquar (“to ring (bells); to knock, strike”) (referring to the clinking of coins in a pocket), originally imitative.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: picayunes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more picayune
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most picayune
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A small coin of the value of six-and-a-quarter cents; a Spanish coin with a value of half a real; a fippenny bit.
pos: noun
tags: Louisiana
US
especially
historical
gloss: A coin worth five cents (a nickel) or some other low value.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
broadly
gloss: A person regarded as unworthy of respect or useless; also, something of very little value; a trifle.
pos: noun
tags: US
figuratively
informal
gloss: An argument, fact, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger issue or fails to make any difference.
pos: noun
tags: US
figuratively
informal
gloss: Of little consequence; small and of little importance; petty, trivial.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
examples: It's also representative of a psychological syndrome that I notice has gotten steadily worse as the Cruise wears on, a mental list of dissatisfactions and grievances that started picayune but has quickly become nearly despair-grade.
[T]here are four competing groups promoting the language – and they cannot agree even on how it should be spelled (Kernewek, Kernowek, Kernuak and Curnoack, among others). It might seem like a picayune matter, akin to the rivalry in the film "Monty Python's Life of Brian" between the Judean People's Front, the Judean Popular People's Front and the People's Front of Judea. But the issue is deadly serious to speakers of Cornish.
gloss: Childishly spiteful; tending to go on about unimportant things; small-minded.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
Derived words: picayuneish
picayunish
picayunishness
picayunity
picayunely
picayuneness
Translations:
pimp
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
num
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps from French pimpant (“smart, sparkish”) or German Pimpf (“a boy, a youth, a young squirt”). The Old English near-synonym was rendered by Old English forspennend (literally “a solicitor”).
Inflected forms:
form: pimps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pimps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pimping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pimped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pimped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for a group of prostitutes; a pander.
pos: noun
examples: "I'm not a whore. You're a pimp and a stupid American, and if you want to pick up a silly bitch on the street you'd better go back to the other side where you belong!"
A fella looking dapper / And he's sittin' with a slapper / Then I see it's a pimp / And his crack whore
All my life, been hustling / And tonight is my appraisal / 'Cause I'm a hooker selling songs / And my pimp's a record label
gloss: A man who can easily attract women.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To prostitute someone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The smooth-talking, tall man with heavy gold bracelets claimed he could pimp anyone.
gloss: To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: You pimped out that motorcycle f'real, dawg.
gloss: To ask progressively harder and ultimately unanswerable questions of a resident or medical student (said of a senior member of the medical staff).
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Only an attending physician can pimp a chief resident; the chief resident and attending can pimp a junior resident; they all three can pimp an intern.
gloss: To promote, to tout.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
examples: I gotta show you this sweet website where you can pimp your blog and get more readers.
The trendy rehabs being pimped by the addiction industry's glossy PR.
gloss: To persuade, smooth talk or trick another into doing something for your benefit.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
examples: I pimped her out of $2,000 and she paid for the entire stay at the Bahamas.
gloss: Excellent, fashionable, stylish.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Five in Cumbrian and Welsh sheep counting.
pos: num
Synonyms: abbot
bludger
bully
cock-bawd
dalaal
fishmonger
flashman
fleshmonger
hoon
hustler
mackerel
mack
mack daddy
muttonmonger
nookie-bookie
pandar
pimp
pussymonger
ruffian
souteneur
sweetman
whoreman
whoremaster
whoremonger
Related words: trafficker
white slaver
prostitute
prostitute's client
Derived words: gorilla pimp
pimp cup
pimpdom
pimpery
pimp hand
pimphood
pimpish
pimpless
pimplike
pimpmobile
pimpness
pimpology
pimpship
pimp slap
pimp-slap
pimp steak
pimp stick
pimpy
Romeo pimp
sugar pimp
superpimp
pimp off
pimp out
pimp up
unpimped
Translations:
pious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pewH-
Proto-Italic *pwījosder.
Latin piusbor.
English pious
Borrowed from Latin pīus (“pious, dutiful, blessed, kind, devout”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“pure”). Cognate with Old English fǣle (“faithful, trusty, good; dear, beloved”). More at feal.
Inflected forms:
form: more pious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
pos: adj
examples: Old Deacon Smith was quick to see the impression made by Abby Howard upon the mind of his son, and he was wonderfully pleased thereat, for Abby was the oldest daughter of the good Deacon Howard, and was herself a church member, and pious. He had more hope for his son now, than he had felt for years.
Its male residents dress like crows: heavy black suits, black Borsalino hats, the old grandfathers hugely whiskered and the boys in peot, the curled sidelocks of the pious.
gloss: Relating to religion or religious works.
pos: adj
examples: A pious cause.
gloss: Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.
pos: adj
Related words: piety
Derived words: offensive to pious ears
overpious
pi
pious fiction
pious fraud
piously
piousness
pseudopious
superpious
ultrapious
unpious
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: набожен
roman: nabožen
lang: Finnish
word: tekopyhä
lang: Finnish
word: muotojumalinen
lang: Georgian
word: ღვთისმოშიში
roman: ɣvtismošiši
lang: Georgian
word: ღვთისმოსავი
roman: ɣvtismosavi
lang: Georgian
word: მორწმუნე
roman: morc̣mune
lang: German
word: scheinheilig
lang: Japanese
word: 信心の名を借りた
roman: shinjin no na wo karita
lang: Japanese
word: 宗教にかこつけた
roman: shūkyō ni kakotsuketa
lang: Japanese
word: 偽善的な
roman: gizen-teki na
lang: Macedonian
word: по́божен
roman: póbožen
lang: Māori
word: whakapono
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: cràbhach
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nabožan
lang: Turkish
word: bağnaz
lang: Turkish
word: yobaz
pirouette
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French pirouette, see there for more; attested since 1706.
Inflected forms:
form: pirouettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pirouettes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pirouetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pirouetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pirouetted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing, primarily in ballet.
pos: noun
examples: […]like what?—like the most beautiful pirouette by [Marie] Taglioni, let us say.
But the Emperor’s friend covered himself with glory, for he danced everything, whether he knew it or not, and introduced impromptu pirouettes when the figures bewildered him..
"Serious as cognitohazard." Lillihammer danced down the corridor towards them, doing little pirouettes and leaping from toe to toe. "Reuben Wirth no longer exists. Gonna have to get Forsythe to do that brain scan to make sure I'm clean, but otherwise yeah. Poof."
There is no west, the sun doesn't rise / No, the sun never rests / As the Earth leans into its forever pirouette
gloss: The whirling about of a horse.
pos: noun
gloss: A wooden mouthpiece assembly or lip rest used in some European double-reed instruments.
pos: noun
gloss: To perform a pirouette; to whirl on the toes, like a dancer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The way in which they dance; the height to which they spring; the impossible and inhuman extent to which they pirouette; […].
At last they paused, and a beautiful young woman sprang out of the ranks and began to pirouette in front of us with a grace and vigour which would have put most ballet girls to shame.
I came down like a sack of coals. The pulse was rapid, the blood pressure high, and for awhile the Blue Room pirouetted about me like an adagio dancer.
Translations:
plaid
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From Scots plaid, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a past participle form of ply. Scottish Gaelic plaide (“blanket”) is probably a borrowing from Scots.
Also compare Scottish Gaelic peall (“covering, veil, blanket”) << Latin pellis (“hide, covering”), but the OED finds the sound changes problematic.
Inflected forms:
form: plaids
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more plaid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plaid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
gloss: A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In battle, the plaid was customarily shrugged off before the charge bit home, and the warrior came into contact with only his long, saffron shirt (‘leine chrochach’) to preserve modesty.
gloss: The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.
pos: adj
Derived words: belted plaid
beplaided
glen plaid
overplaid
plaided
plaiding
plaidless
plaidman
Scotch plaid
Translations:
lang: Esperanto
word: plejdo
lang: French
word: motif écossais
lang: German
word: Schottenstoff
lang: German
word: Schottenmuster
lang: Polish
word: w kratkę
lang: Russian
word: кле́тчатый
roman: klétčatyj
lang: Scots
word: plaid
lang: Spanish
word: cuadros escoceses
lang: Spanish
word: cuadrillé
lang: Welsh
word: plod
phlegm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: alchemy
chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
pseudoscience
Etymology: From Middle English flewme, fleume, fleme, from Old French fleume, Middle French flemme (French flegme), and their source, Latin phlegma, from Ancient Greek φλέγμα (phlégma, “flame; inflammation; clammy humor in the body”), from φλέγειν (phlégein, “to burn”). Possible burning sensation when coughing up phlegm. Compare phlox, flagrant, flame, bleak (adjective), fulminate. Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots.
The regularly developed form /fliːm/ has been displaced by a pronunciation /flɛm/ of uncertain provenance. It may be inherited, though some kind of learned or spelling pronunciation or influence from phlegmatic is also conceivable.
Inflected forms:
form: phlegms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the four humors making up the body in ancient and mediaeval medicine; said to be cold and moist, and often identified with mucus.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
examples: Each person's unique mixture of these substances determines his temperament: a predominance of blood gives a sanguine temperament; a predominance of phlegm makes one phlegmatic; yellow bile, bilious (or choleric); and black bile, melancholic.
gloss: Viscid mucus produced by the body, later especially mucus expelled from the bronchial passages by coughing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Even some members of the new bourgeoisie indulge in conspicuously boorish behavior, like hawking phlegm onto the pavement or picking their noses at business meetings.
gloss: A watery distillation, especially one obtained from plant matter; an aqueous solution.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
examples: The attempts made to analyse vegetable substances previous to 1720, merely produced their resolution into the supposed elements of the chemists of those days, namely, salts, Earths, phlegm, and sulphur.
gloss: Calmness of temperament, composure; also seen negatively, sluggishness, indifference.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Orloff's phlegm broke completely, and he snatched at the monocle as it dropped[.]
But Swedish Nazis also talked of the necessity of saving Sweden from Bolshevism, and with the menacing Berlin radio gnawing in their ears many Swedes lost their Scandinavian phlegm.
Related words: phlegmatic
phlegmon
Derived words: dephlegm
flob
leucophlegmacy
phlegm-cutter
phlegmish
phlegmless
phlegmy
Translations:
physique
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From French physique.
Inflected forms:
form: physiques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fizeek
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
Senses:
gloss: The natural constitution, or physical structure, of a person.
pos: noun
examples: Her large frame and muscular physique stands out among most other students.
gloss: The trained muscular structure of a person's body.
pos: noun
examples: Over the next week, men and women from diverse backgrounds participated in eighteen sports ranging from boxing and billiards to physique, the marathon and volleyball.
Synonyms: anatomy
build
constitution
figure
frame
habitus
physique
proportions
shape
Related words: vital statistics
Derived words: physiqued
physique magazine
Translations:
plaudit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: For earlier plaudite, borrowed from Latin plaudite, second-person plural imperative of plaudere (“to applaud”).
Inflected forms:
form: plaudits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: The plaudits reverberated thunderously in the auditorium.
The roof now rung with bravos, handkerchiefs were waved on every side, “three cheers,” again and again, and plaudit upon plaudit following in such quick succession, begun, ended, and begun again, that it was some time before the toast with which Mr. Irving concluded, could be heard.
They were very orderly- there were neither scoffs nor plaudits, and when they saw us at the window above them there were many who buried their faces in their arms and wept.
City have lapped up the plaudits this season for a series of handsome wins but manager Roberto Mancini has demanded that his side also learn to grind out results when they do not play well. He now has an example to point to.
NR has earned plaudits from far and wide for completing the project in difficult circumstances and for maintaining some access to Drax throughout.
gloss: An award or commendation; a formal recognition of approval or achievement.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
specifically
examples: Sofie has been showered in plaudits for her paradigm-shifting discoveries.
Today, beyond its magnificent courtyard entrance, there is a spa and a plaudit-winning restaurant, Pearl, but Carla remembers: “There were hiccups and we were late opening, but we finally got there on December 16. […]
A former Wanaka-based builder has been awarded a plaudit for his education efforts to combine sustainable building designs alongside the carpentry courses he now teaches at the Waikato Institute of Technology.
Related words: applaus
applause
plausible
Derived words: plauditor
plauditory
Translations:
pleat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
business
manufacturing
natural-sciences
sewing
textiles
Etymology: From Middle English, from a variant of plait, from Old French pleit. Doublet of plait.
Inflected forms:
form: pleats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pleats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pleating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pleated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pleated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar fold in a filter, lampshade, or various other products.
pos: noun
gloss: A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
pos: noun
gloss: A plait.
pos: noun
gloss: To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To plait.
pos: verb
examples: pleat my hair
Derived words: accordion pleat
box pleat
cartridge pleat
Fortuny pleat
honeycomb pleat
inverted box pleat
kick pleat
knife pleat
organ pleat
pencil pleat
reet pleat
sunburst pleat
Watteau pleat
pleatless
pleatlike
pleaty
pleatable
pleater
repleat
unpleat
Translations:
plait
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (compare Old French ploit), from Latin plectō, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette), Russian плести́ (plestí) and also to Old English fleohtan, which it displaced. Doublet of plight (“plait, fold”) and pleat.
Inflected forms:
form: plaits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plaits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plaiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plaited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plaited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
pos: noun
examples: a box plait
the plaits and foldings of the drapery
gloss: A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
pos: noun
examples: Only the hair as it arched so beautifully from her temples was mixed with silver, and the two simple plaits that lay on her shoulders were filigree of silver and brown.
gloss: To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to plait a ruffle
gloss: To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to plait hair
plaiting rope
Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
Related words: pleat
Derived words: box plait
French plait
lemon plait
plaitless
plaitwork
Polish plait
interplait
plaiter
plait fog
plait sawdust
replait
unplait
Translations:
quartermaster
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
Etymology: From Middle English quartermayster, quartermaistre, equivalent to quarter + master. Perhaps reinforced by and merged with Dutch kwartiermeester, kwartier-meester. Compare German Quartiermeister, French quartier-maître.
Compound parts: quarter
master
Inflected forms:
form: quartermasters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quarter-master
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quarter master
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: quartermasters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quartermastering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quartermastered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quartermastered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: quarter-master
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: quarter master
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies. Master of quartering.
pos: noun
gloss: A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master. Once master of the quarterdeck.
pos: noun
gloss: A leadership position within a troop whose responsibility it is to track and maintain the troop's equipment, for example stoves, Dutch ovens, utensils, and tents.
pos: noun
gloss: To act as a quartermaster.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: Quarpel
quartermaster general
quartermasterly
quartermaster sergeant
quartermastership
quartermaster train
Translations:
quay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: The current spelling replaced the spelling key in the 1690s to emulate the spelling but (at least originally) not the pronunciation of the equivalent modern French quai. From Middle English kay, key, kaye, keye, from Old French kay, cail, from Gaulish *kagyum, cagiíun (“enclosure”), from Proto-Celtic *kagyom (“pen, enclosure”) (compare Welsh cae (“field”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (“enclosure”). Doublet of hedge and hey (“choreographic figure”).
Inflected forms:
form: quays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cay
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: quays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf.
pos: noun
examples: moor up in the quay
[…] its harbour was filled with stately ships; and its quays, swarming with foreign traders and loaded with bales of costly merchandise[…]
gloss: To land or tie up at a quay or similar structure, especially used in the phrase "quay up".
pos: verb
Translations:
queller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English queller, quellere, quellare, from Old English cwellere; equivalent to quell + -er.
Base: quell
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: quellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who quells; one who overpowers or subdues.
pos: noun
gloss: A killer.
pos: noun
examples: Jack the Giant-Queller
Derived words: manqueller
Translations:
quire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
bookbinding
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English quayer, from Anglo-Norman quaier and Old French quaer, from Latin quaternus (“fourfold”), from quater (“four times”). Doublet of cahier.
Inflected forms:
form: quires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold.
pos: noun
examples: Under the year 1533 we are told that the ream contained twenty quires.
[…] and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, Villette, Emma, Wuthering Heights, Middlemarch, were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre.
We saw above that the fourth quire consists of ten folios, two of which (folios 29 and 31) Richer added to a quaternion (folios 23 to 28, 30, 32). Most of the folios Richer added to his manuscript supplement, elaborate, or amend text that he had already composed in the codex. In this quire, however, Richer wrote around the added folios as if it was the quire he added to them, not the converse. Indeed, if we were to remove folios 29 and 31, there would be neither grammatical nor narrative continuity between the original folios of the quire which would face each other, that is, between folios 28^(v[erso]) and 30^(r[ecto]) on the one hand, or folios 30ᵛ and 32ʳ on the other.
gloss: A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
pos: noun
gloss: A book, poem, or pamphlet.
pos: noun
gloss: To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper.
pos: verb
examples: Now, in the first folio volume of 1616, the paging, signatures, and quiring are continuous and regular throughout.
This is a natural point at which to ask why quiring went out of fashion.
By means of these smooth pages we can mostly see how the modern binder made up the book, but whether in doing this he followed the original quiring is quite another matter.
Derived words: quirewise
Translations:
quixotically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English quixotic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English quixotically
From quixotic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more quixotically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most quixotically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a quixotic manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
quotient
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arithmetic
ball-games
cricket
games
group-theory
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
sciences
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quotiēns, from quotiēs.
Inflected forms:
form: quotients
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quotients
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quotienting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quotiented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quotiented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The number (either a fraction or an integer) resulting from the division of one number by another.
pos: noun
examples: Dividing 12 by 4 yields a quotient of 3.
gloss: By analogy, the result of any process that is the inverse of multiplication as defined for any mathematical entities other than numbers.
pos: noun
gloss: A quotum or quota.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
gloss: The number of runs scored per wicket lost when batting, divided by the number of runs conceded per wicket taken when bowling — used as a league table tiebreaker in some first-class tournaments.
pos: noun
gloss: A mathematical structure formed by identifying elements within a larger one.
pos: noun
gloss: To identify elements within a mathematical structure so as to create a quotient.
pos: verb
examples: We show that such deformations still exists after quotienting out by diffeomorphisms only if the non linear addition is non associative.
In type theory, one commonly replaces quotients with setoids. In this approach, the delay datatype quotiented by weak bisimilarity is still a monad–a constructive alternative to the maybe monad.
Related words: quotientive
quotiety
Derived words: accomplishment quotient
achievement quotient
artificial intelligence quotient
biquotient
difference quotient
encephalization quotient
Horowitz quotient
intelligence quotient
pseudoquotient
Q quotient
quotient group
quotient map
quotient ring
quotient set
quotient space
Rayleigh quotient
subquotient
truth quotient
Translations:
quota
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
economics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin quota pars; see Latin quota.
Inflected forms:
form: quotas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assigned to each in a division.
pos: noun
gloss: A prescribed number or percentage that may serve as, for example, a maximum, a minimum, or a goal.
pos: noun
examples: The episode’s unwillingness to fully commit to the pathos of the Bart-and-Laura subplot is all the more frustrating considering its laugh quota is more than filled by a rollicking B-story that finds Homer, he of the iron stomach and insatiable appetite, filing a lawsuit against The Frying Dutchman when he’s hauled out of the eatery against his will after consuming all of the restaurant’s shrimp (plus two plastic lobsters).
Captain Olimar: 'We have to work harder on finding some truly valuable treasures. The sooner we hit our quota, the sooner I can get back to my wife and kids on Hocotate.'
The UAE’s decision had been rumored as a possibility for some time, as it pushed back in recent years against OPEC production quotas it felt had been too low — meaning it wasn’t able to sell as much oil to the world as it had wanted.
gloss: A restriction on the import of something to a specific quantity.
pos: noun
Related words: numerus clausus
Derived words: antiquota
nonquota
quota-hopping
quotaism
quotaless
quotalike
quota quickie
quota refugee
Translations:
quotable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷó-
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *kʷótider.
Proto-Italic *kʷot
Latin quot
Latin quotus
Medieval Latin quotāreder.
Old French coterbor.
Middle English quoten
English quote
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 quotable
From quote + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more quotable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most quotable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable or worthy of being quoted
pos: adj
examples: a quotable writer
a quotable sentence
Translations:
quoll
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the earlier form je-quoll, from Guugu Yimidhirr dhigul. Recorded by Banks but then virtually forgotten for 150 years, with the term native cat used instead. Today readopted and gaining in popularity.
Inflected forms:
form: quolls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the various carnivorous marsupials of the genus Dasyurus found in Australia and New Guinea, roughly the size of a domestic cat.
pos: noun
Translations:
quitter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English quitter, from Anglo-Norman quiture, quyture et al., specialised use of quiture (“burn mark, burning”), from the participle stem of cuire (“to cook”), or from Latin coctura (“cooking”).
Inflected forms:
form: quitters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quittering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quittered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quittered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: quittor
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: quitture
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To suppurate; ooze with pus.
pos: verb
Translations:
quitely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From quite + -ly. Probably unconnected with Middle English quitly.
Base: quite
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Quite.
pos: adv
tags: humorous
not-comparable
Translations:
joyous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English joyous, joious, from Old French joieus, from joie + -eus.
Inflected forms:
form: more joyous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most joyous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of joy; happy.
pos: adj
examples: I want to go on a mountain top / With a radio and good batteries / To play a joyous tune and / Free the human race / From suffering
Southgate and his England players repeated the scenes from the dramatic penalty shootout win over Colombia as they celebrated in front of joyous supporters at the final whistle[…]
Translations:
originally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English originali; equivalent to original + -ly.
Base: original
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more originally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most originally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: As it was in the beginning; at first.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Originally, this paper was white, but over the years it has yellowed with age.
There are 36 known praenomina, though there may originally have been more.
The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were.
gloss: In an original manner.
pos: adv
examples: They had to think originally to come up with those creative ideas.
Synonyms: initially
at the start
Related words: origin
original
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: арыгіна́льна
roman: aryhinálʹna
lang: Bulgarian
word: оригина́лно
roman: originálno
lang: Catalan
word: originalment
lang: Dutch
word: origineel
lang: Dutch
word: op een nieuwe manier
lang: Italian
word: originalmente
lang: Occitan
word: originalament
lang: Polish
word: oryginalnie
lang: Russian
word: оригина́льно
roman: originálʹno
lang: Spanish
word: originalmente
lang: Swedish
word: originellt
lang: Ukrainian
word: оригіна́льно
roman: oryhinálʹno
kitchenette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kitchen
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Latin -ittus
Old French -ettebor.
Middle English -ette
English -ette
English kitchenette
From kitchen + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: kitchenettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kitchenet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small kitchen or area for preparing food, often just a part of a room.
pos: noun
examples: It is a kind of large cellar with a kitchenette and a bathroomette adjoining.
Rona disappeared into the little kitchenette and Nicol made a recce of the room.
Translations:
knackered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the verb knacker.
Inflected forms:
form: more knackered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most knackered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tired or exhausted.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
offensive
slang
sometimes
examples: I've got this job in a warehouse just now and it finishes quite early but I'm dead knackered at the end of the day so I don't know about going out and like studying every night.
2003, Hugh Dauncey, Geoff Hare (editors), The Tour de France, 1903-2003: A Century of Sporting Structures, Meanings and Values, Frank Cass Publishers, London, 2005, page 225,
Then, it all just gets worse and worse, you don't sleep so much, so you don't recover as well from the day's racing, so you go into your reserves, you get more knackered, so you sleep less... It's simply a vicious circle.
So my joy at hearing his voice quickly turns to a paroxysm of anxiety as he manages by exhausted gesture and sound to let us know how knackered he feels, how desperate to get horizontal, almost from the first moment he lands in the chair.
In the course of this discussion, the (male) presenter, when uttering the word 'knackered', felt obliged to preface his animation of this word with “excuse my language”.
Translations:
posse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ellipsis of posse comitatus.
Inflected forms:
form: posses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A group or company of people, originally especially one having hostile intent; a throng, a crowd.
pos: noun
examples: It is traditional in America to criticize the schools; for more than a century, parents, self-styled experts, and educators themselves have attacked and indicted the educational system. No aspect of schooling has been more severely criticized than reading instruction. The current books have a long ancestry, and every innovation carries in its train a posse of suspicious and, one feels, unpersuadable observers.
gloss: A group of people summoned to help law enforcement.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He […] no sooner set his nose within the room to which he was directed, than the constable and his posse sprung upon him, before he had the least intimation of his design, or any opportunity of acting in his own defence.
Mathews then appointed Morton as a deputy sheriff and after a posse had been selected, they went in pursuit of the criminals. Within a few hours, the posse overtook the thieves.
While Wyatt dismounted and aimed his shotgun at Brocius, the rest of his posse retreated.
gloss: A search party.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A criminal gang.
pos: noun
tags: Jamaica
US
slang
examples: Jamaican posses can be traced back to the Jamaican neighborhoods, and posse names correspond to the names of each neighborhood in which the gangs operate.
gloss: A group of (especially young) people seen as constituting a peer group or band of associates; a gang, a group of friends.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Hey, sir? Sir, excuse me?” The blonde was calling out to him, in imperious tones that insisted on a reply. […] She was breaking a rule of big-city life, breaking it brazenly, sure of her power, confident of her turf and posse, fearing nothing.
But the few friends that I DO have are my “ride or die” chicks—my posse.
Related words: in posse
Derived words: posseman
pussy posse
Translations:
Tamilian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Tamil
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Tamilian
From Tamil + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Tamilians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tamilan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Thamilan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Thamizhan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Tamizhan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Tamilan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Thamilan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Thamizhan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Tamizhan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a person of Tamil ethnicity
pos: noun
gloss: Tamil
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
spite
Part of speech: noun
verb
prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English spit, a shortening of despit (whence despite), from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from Latin dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”). Compare also North Frisian spīt, spīd (“regret”), Saterland Frisian Spiet (“regret, remorse”), West Frisian spyt (“regret”), Dutch spijt (“regret, remorse”), German Low German Spiet (“anger, regret, remorse”), German Spiet (“annoyance, vexation”), Swedish spit (“insult, outrage, annoyance”), Norwegian spit (“insult, outrage, annoyance”).
Inflected forms:
form: spites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spight
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: spight
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: spight
pos: prep
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.
They did it just for spite.
This is the deadly spite that angers.
Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.
sex with older men was a way to both internalize my spite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.
gloss: Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite."
gloss: To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
gloss: To be angry at; to hate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.
gloss: To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But the laſt and fatal Blow, given to that antient Learning, was in the time of Darius, Father of Xerxes, who with the reſt of the Perſians, ſpighted at the Magi, upon the Uſurpation of the Crown by one of their Number, (that counterfeited a younger Son of Cyrus after the Death of Cambyſes,) when he came to be ſetled in that Throne, endeavour'd to aboliſh, not only their Learning and Credit, but their Language too, by changing the old Aſſyrian Characters, and introducing thoſe of Perſia, which grew to be the common Uſe of that whole Empire.
gloss: Notwithstanding; despite.
pos: prep
Related words: malignant
malicious
Derived words: Hamiltonian spite
in spite of
in spite of oneself
in spite of someone's teeth
spite fence
spiteful
spite house
spiteless
spitesome
spite wall
spitish
cut off one's nose to spite one's face
spiter
unspited
Translations:
genuflect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *ǵónu
From around 1620–1630 from Medieval Latin genūflectō (“to bend the knee”) equivalent to the Latin genū (“knee”) + flectō (“to bend”).
Inflected forms:
form: genuflects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: genuflecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: genuflected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: genuflected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bend the knee, as in servitude.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: To briefly enter a position that touches one knee to the ground in a manner that is typically associated with formal homage or religious worship.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: At high Mass the deacon and subdeacon stand on either side, genuflect too, and answer.
First you get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries, / Bow your head with great respect, and / genuflect, genuflect, genuflect.
She took the holy water on her fingertips and made the sign of the cross, fleetingly touched her wet fingertips to her parched lips. Candles flickered redly before the saints, the Christ on his cross. Kay genuflected before entering her row and then knelt on the hard wooden rail of the pew to wait for her call to Communion.
gloss: To behave in a servile manner; to grovel.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Certainly, the megalomaniacs who aim to populate municipal fixtures with registered-trademark logos will expect cities to genuflect at every turn.
Related words: genuflection
genuflector
Derived words: genuflective
Translations:
haaf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: From Old Norse haf (“the sea”). Cognate with Danish hav, Old English hæf (Etymology 2).
Inflected forms:
form: haave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: the open sea, especially as a place to fish
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Shetland
examples: The banks to which they repair for the haaf fishing, are often many miles distant from the station where the fish is dried; so that they are always twenty or thirty hours absent, frequently longer; and under unfavourable circumstances of wind and tide, they remain at sea, with a very small stock of provisions, and in a boat of a construction which seems extremely slender, for two or three days, and are sometimes heard of no more.
The haaf-boat was as well maintained as any vessel in the islands; her master had a reputation for thoroughness, for all he was barely twenty years of age.
gloss: the practice of sea fishing for such as cod, ling and tusk
pos: noun
tags: Shetland
examples: Although men concentrated at the main haaf stations during the summer fishing season, they reverted to their homes in crofting townships for the remainder of the year.
Derived words: haaf fish
haaf net
haaf netting
Translations:
waag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ultimately from Tigrinya ወዓግ (wäʿag).
Inflected forms:
form: waags
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The grivet (an African monkey) - Chlorocebus aethiops.
pos: noun
Translations:
Yamato
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 大和 (Yamato), itself of uncertain derivation, but likely related to 山 (yama, “mountains”). See Proto-Japonic *yamatə.
Inflected forms:
form: Yamatos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Yamato
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Yamato court which formerly ruled Japan.
pos: noun
gloss: A person of an East Asian ethnic group native to the main islands of Japan, comprising the vast majority of the Japanese population.
pos: noun
examples: When the Guptas were ruling in India and the Tang were ruling in China and the Yamatos were ruling in Japan, no one was ruling in Australia! The people of Australia were nomads.
gloss: One of a class of battleships used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War.
pos: noun
Translations:
trireme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Latin trirēmis, from tri- + rēmus (“oar”).
Inflected forms:
form: triremes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A galley with three banks of oars, one above the other, used mainly as a warship.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
arbalest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English arblast, from Old French arbaleste (modern arbalète), from Late Latin arcuballista, from Latin arcus + ballista.
Inflected forms:
form: arbalests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arbelest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: arbalet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: arbalist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: arblast
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A steel crossbow.
pos: noun
examples: He excelled with the arbalest steel crossbow, winning the nickname the Arbalestier and joined Bahriyya regiment, the crack soldiers who defeated the Crusaders and became known as the Turkish Lions and the Islamic Templars.
gloss: A crossbowman who uses an arbalest.
pos: noun
Derived words: arbalester
Translations:
einherjar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Old Norse einherjar (plural, literally “lone fighters”) (rarely attested singular einheri).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The warriors who died fighting bravely and were brought by valkyries to Valhalla, where they feast and prepare for Ragnarok.
pos: noun
tags: Norse
plural
plural-only
Translations:
jarl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *erlaz
Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaʀ)
Old Norse jarlbor.
English jarl
From Old Norse jarl, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚱᛁᛚᚨᛉ (erilaʀ). Cognates include Old English eorl. Doublet of earl and eorl.
Inflected forms:
form: jarls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medieval Scandinavian nobleman, especially in Norway and Denmark.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: There were three kinds of Viking: thralls, karls and jarls. Thralls were the slaves. They were owned by karls and jarls.
Translations:
paladin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French paladin, from Italian paladino, from Late Latin palātīnus (“palace officer”), derived from palātium (“palace”). Doublet of palatine.
Inflected forms:
form: paladins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A heroic champion, especially a knight.
pos: noun
examples: For example, my own entry into the world of theorycrafting happened when I took somebody’s prot paladin spreadsheet and translated it into MATLAB code.
Below are the results of a multi-actor simulation containing a bunch of paladins with slightly different L75 and L100 talents.
gloss: A defender or advocate of a noble cause.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the twelve Companions of the court of Emperor Charlemagne.
pos: noun
Derived words: archpaladin
Translations: