yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
marlin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A contraction of marlinspike, named so because of its pointed snout.
Inflected forms:
form: marlin
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marlins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira, with a crested dorsal fin and a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.
pos: noun
Translations:
marque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French marque. Doublet of mark. Ultimately cognate with marquee.
Inflected forms:
form: marques
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A brand of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car.
pos: noun
examples: The group wants Rover as its luxury marque and MG as the performance car.
And there seems to be an intrinsic disconnect between a high-end marque and the utilitarian nature of an S.U.V.
gloss: A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals or privateering; the document recording this license.
pos: noun
gloss: A ship commissioned for making captures.
pos: noun
Derived words: countermarque
letter of marque and reprisal
Translations:
maw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mawe, maghe, maȝe, from Old English maga (“stomach; maw”), from Proto-West Germanic *magō, from Proto-Germanic *magô (“belly; stomach”), from Proto-Indo-European *mak-, *maks- (“bag, bellows, belly”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian mage, Dutch maag (“stomach; belly”), German Low German Maag, German Magen (“stomach”), Danish mave,
Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mage (“stomach; belly”), and also with Welsh megin (“bellows”), archaic Russian мошна́ (mošná, “pocket, bag”), Lithuanian mãkas (“purse”), Finnish maha (“stomach”), Estonian magu (“stomach”).
Inflected forms:
form: maws
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The stomach, especially of an animal.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: So Death shall be deceav'd his glut, and with us two / Be forc'd to satisfie his Rav'nous Maw.
gloss: The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature; craw.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: To save poor lambkins from the eagle's maw
“I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair.
gloss: The mouth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
slang
uncountable
examples: Shut your maw!
She fumbled with her bag, and produced from its little maw a scented handkerchief.
gloss: Any large, insatiable or perilous opening.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Adam requires a touch of feminine lace and a whisper of diaphanous silk, not a direct vision of the gaping maw of the human vulva.
One two! I was born in a cross-fire hurricane. And I howled at the maw in the drivin' rain. But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas. But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash. It's a gas, gas, gas.
gloss: Appetite; inclination.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Unless you had more maw to do me good.
gloss: The swim bladder of a fish, especially when used as food in Chinese cuisine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: fish maw: The buoyancy bladder of a fish similar in appearance to the mammalian lung. The maw of the conger pike is used in Chinese cooking and is usually sold in dried form which needs reconstituting for about 3 hours and treating with[…]
Fish maw is the commercial term for the dried swim bladders of large fish like sturgeon. Fish maw has no fishy taste and absorbs the flavors of other ingredients.
Fish maw (swim bladder) is easily obtainable from your local fishmonger[.]
[...] fish maw is light, white in color, and has a spongy texture. Dried fish maw is tasteless which makes it a good complementary addition to many dishes since it can absorb the flavors of other ingredients when it is cooked with other food[…]
Derived words: hog maw
mawed
maw-gut
maw-worm
Translations:
measle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mesel, from Old French mesel (“leprous”), from Latin misellus (“wretched", "unfortunate”), diminutive of miser (“wretched, sick”), of unknown ultimate origin.
Inflected forms:
form: measles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A red spot of the kind that appears on the skin of someone suffering from measles.
pos: noun
gloss: A tapeworm larva.
pos: noun
Related words: measles
Derived words: measled
measling
Translations:
medico
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: medicos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A physician or medical doctor; sometimes also a medical student.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XV, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
She had travelled with her father as far as the Springs, and both of them were in utter ignorance of the fate which had overtaken the young medico during the journey.
He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and degassing processes.
"I haven't got the final clearance from the medicos but that's the plan."
Translations:
meed
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English meede, mede, from Old English mēd, meord, meard, meorþ (“meed, reward, pay, price, compensation, bribe”), from Proto-West Germanic *miʀdu, from Proto-Germanic *mizdō (“meed”), from Proto-Indo-European *misdʰéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to exchange”).
Cognate with obsolete Dutch miede (“wages”), Low German Meed (“rent”), German Miete (“rent”), Gothic 𐌼𐌹𐌶𐌳𐍉 (mizdō, “meed, reward, payment, recompense”); further Ancient Greek μισθός (misthós, “wage”), Old Church Slavonic мьзда (mĭzda, “reward”), Sanskrit मीळ्ह (mīḷhá), Sanskrit मीढ (mīḍhá), Avestan 𐬨𐬍𐬲𐬛𐬀 (mīžda).
Inflected forms:
form: meeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: meeds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meeding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meeded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meeded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
literary
examples: For well ſhe wiſt,as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,her ſeruice,and her vtmoſt wealth.
Brought up in darkness, and the child of sin,
Yet, as the meed of spotless innocence,
Just Heaven permitted her by one good deed
To work her own redemption, after death.
Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may here after operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.
1880, translation by Richard Francis Burton of Os Lusiadas, Canto IX, stanza 93 by Luís de Camões
Better to merit and the meed to miss,
than, lacking merit, every meed possess.
Nor, save for a circumstance presently to be named, could even the Abbess's sullen curiosity have withheld a meed of admiration as the panorama unfolded itself before her.
[Poirot continued,] "And here a full meed of praise is due to Hastings, who made a simple and obvious remark to which no attention was paid."
The shed staff deserve their meed of praise for the result, but I believe that Driver Willie Bain is largely responsible.
gloss: A gift; bribe.
pos: noun
gloss: Merit; worth.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: […]my meed hath got me fame:[…]
In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour.
gloss: To reward; bribe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To deserve; merit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: sosh meed
Derived words: meedful
meedless
Translations:
merle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English merle, from Old French merle (French merle), from Latin merula (“blackbird”) (whence the directly borrowed Middle English merule, and compare the taxonomic name Turdus merula), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂mes- (“black, blackbird”). Compare Breton moualch (“ouzel”), Welsh mwyalch (“blackbird, thrush”). Distantly related to the synonymous ouzel.
Inflected forms:
form: merles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The Eurasian blackbird, Turdus merula.
pos: noun
gloss: Any blackbird.
pos: noun
Translations:
mete
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”).
Cognate with Scots mete (“to measure”), Saterland Frisian meete (“to measure”), West Frisian mjitte (“to measure”), Dutch meten (“to measure”), German messen (“to measure”), Swedish mäta (“to measure”), Latin modus (“limit, measure, target”), Ancient Greek μεδίμνος (medímnos, “measure, bushel”), Ancient Greek μέδεσθαι (médesthai, “care for”), Old Armenian միտ (mit, “mind”).
Inflected forms:
form: metes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: metes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
usually
examples: Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race
Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.
For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.
the Power that fashions man
Measured not out thy little span
For thee to take the meting-rod
In turn,
gloss: A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.
pos: noun
Translations:
methyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *médʰu
Proto-Hellenic *métʰu
Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu)
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
German -yl
German Methylbor.
English methyl
Borrowed from German Methyl; compare French méthyle.
French chemists Jean-Baptiste Dumas and Eugene Peligot, after determining methanol's chemical structure, introduced "methylene" from the Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) + ὕλη (húlē, “wood, material”) with the intention of highlighting its origins, "alcohol made from wood (substance)". The term "methyl" was derived in about 1840 by back-formation from "methylene", and was then applied to describe "methyl alcohol".
Inflected forms:
form: methyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The univalent hydrocarbon radical, CH₃-, formally derived from methane by the loss of a hydrogen atom; a compound or part of a compound formed by the attachment of such a radical.
pos: noun
examples: You might point out in the theory of oxidation of oils, in development of rancidity in oils, that many methyls accelerate this oxidation of oils. I do not want to burden you with a lecture on chemistry but there are some methyls like iron which has both a valence of two and of three. Another example is cobalt which has a valence of both two and three.
The southern acetates must be decarboxylated to methyls.
The most stable form has the groups staggered and the methyls as far from each other as possible (DA^([dihedral angle]) = 180°).
Translations:
mew
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mewe, mue, mwe, from Anglo-Norman mue, muwe, and Middle French mue (“shedding feathers; cage for moulting birds; prison”), from muer (“to moult”).
Inflected forms:
form: mews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mewed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mue
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To shut away, confine, lock up.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: More pity that the eagle should be mew’d,
While kites and buzzards prey at liberty.
To mew me in a Ship, is to inthrall
Mee in a prison, that weare like to fall;
1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10,
[…] Nay some have learn’d the trick
To beg for absent persons; feign them sick,
Close mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:
When it came to his turn to mention Sir John Sparkle, he represented him as a man of an immense estate and narrow disposition, who mewed up his only child, a fine young lady, from the conversation of mankind, under the strict watch and inspection of an old governante, who was either so honest, envious, or insatiable, that nobody had been as yet able to make her a friend, or get access to her charge, though numbers attempted it every day […]
[…] it was all very well for Orlando to mew herself in her house at Blackfriars and pretend that the climate was the same […]
gloss: To moult.
pos: verb
examples: The hawk mewed his feathers.
Their nakedneſſe with ſackcloth let them hide, / And mue the veſt'ments of their ſilken pride; […]
Nine times the moon had mewed her horns […]
gloss: To cause to moult.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To shed antlers.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: A cat's (especially a kitten's) cry.
pos: intj
gloss: A gull's or buzzard's cry.
pos: intj
gloss: An exclamation of disapproval; boo.
pos: intj
tags: archaic
Derived words: mew up
mews
unmew
Translations:
mews
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: falconry
hobbies
hunting
lifestyle
Etymology: From Mewes, the name of the royal stables at Charing Cross, which is the plural of mew (“falcon cage”).
Inflected forms:
form: mews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mewses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: What penned them there, with all the plain to choose?
 No foot-print leading to that horrid mews,
 None out of it.
It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.
It was here in the kitchen, in the passage
In the mews in the harn in the byre in the market place[…].
It was further proposed that a space of ground near these establishments should be appropriated to a mews for the convenience of persons requiring post horses, and for the standing of horses and carriages at livery.
[Pavilion Road is] a cobbled mews lined with butchers, cheesemongers, florists and cafés offering a village-like counterpoint to the grandeur of the main thoroughfare.
gloss: A place where birds of prey are housed.
pos: noun
Translations:
mica
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)meyk-
Proto-Italic *(s)mīkā?
Proto-Indo-European *meyk-
Proto-Italic *meikā?
Latin mīcabor.
English mica
Borrowed from Latin mīca (“grain, crumb”).
Inflected forms:
form: micas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of hydrous aluminosilicate minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His little eyes glittered like mica discs with curiosity, though he tried to keep up a bit of superciliousness.
Translations:
micron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: metrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From French micron, from Ancient Greek μικρόν (mikrón), neuter of μικρός (mikrós, “small”).
Inflected forms:
form: microns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of micrometre (“one-millionth of a metre”).
pos: noun
examples: 2009, Jonathan Amos, (bbc.co.uk) Satellites weigh California water
As one spacecraft lurches and drags through the Earth's uneven gravity field, the second follows 210 km behind, measuring changes in their separation to the nearest micron (a thousandth of a millimetre).
The microcannon was seen moving at about a micron per second, it was about 15 microns long, and the high speed photograph was done in water (density of 1 kg/L, viscosity of about 0.001 pascal seconds).
Little pozzolanic reaction is evident for glass above 300 microns but the pozzolanic activity increases as the particle size is reduced below this size with good pozzolanic properties generally being achieved below about 45 microns (Federico & Chidiac 2009). […] In a second mix 20% of the Portland cement was replaced with the same Vycor glass which was ground to pass 45-micron (median particle size ~ 10 micron).
gloss: A very tiny amount.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Synonyms: micrometer
micrometre
µm
Derived words: chylomicron
micronic
micronisation
micronise
micronization
micronize
millimicron
submicron
supermicron
Translations:
mig
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from a pronunciation of mg.
Inflected forms:
form: migs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A milligram
pos: noun
examples: I'm on 400 migs of T and 200 of trenbelone and in the middle of growing some hair I havent seen 10 years
Translations:
milt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English milte, from Old English milte, milt (“milt, spleen”), from Proto-West Germanic *miltijā, *meltā, from Proto-Germanic *meltǭ (“spleen”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meld- (“to beat, grind, crush, weaken”). Cognate with German Milz, Dutch milt, Danish milt, Norwegian milt, Swedish mjälte. Outside Germanic, with Albanian mëlçi (“liver”) and Italian milza (“spleen”), which is a borrowing from Lombardic.
Inflected forms:
form: milts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: milts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: milting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: milted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: milted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The spleen, especially of an animal bred for food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: we see that certaine apprehensions engender a blushing-red colour, others a palenesse; that some imagination doth only worke in the milt, another in the braine[…].
Cancer, or the Crab, commandeth the Stomach, Limbs, Arteries, Milt, Liver and Gall.
Adam Kadmon had pneumonia. Friar Goat cured it by tying a bullock’s milt to the soles of the lad’s feet, and burying the milt afterwards. Adam Kadmon immediately contracted the thrush.
gloss: The semen of a male fish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The engorged testis containing a filled reservoir of mature spermatozoa in a male fish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: miltsiekte
miltz
Derived words: milter
milt-grown
milting
milt-like
milt-pain
milt-sick
milt-sickness
miltwaste
milt-wort
milty
Translations:
minter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mynter, from Old English mynetere, from Proto-West Germanic *munitārī, from Latin monētārius; equivalent to mint + -er. Doublet of monetary.
Base: mint
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: minters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who mints, particularly a moneyer producing coinage.
pos: noun
gloss: An item in mint condition (especially a motor car)
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
Translations:
mir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowing from Russian мир (mir, “community, village commune; peace; world”).
Inflected forms:
form: mirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional village community in Imperial Russia, characterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: [T]he constitution of the village […] was a subject which specially interested me, because I was aware that the Mir is the most peculiar of Russian institutions.
The mir was the only means to prevent this, and mir meant serfdom under another name. The landowners disposed of their land, or of so much as was required to support the peasants, not to individuals but to the mir.
Consisting of village elders elected by the male heads of household, the mir conducted almost all peasant business, fixing the dates for the agricultural year, deciding what, when and how crops should be grown, distributing plots of land on the open fields, collecting taxes and enforcing basic community discipline.
Translations:
mire
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mire, a borrowing from Old Norse mýrr, from Proto-Germanic *miuzijō, whence also Swedish myr, Norwegian myr, Icelandic mýri, Dutch *mier (in placenames, for example Mierlo). Related to Proto-Germanic *meusą, whence Old English mēos, and Proto-Germanic *musą, whence Old English mos (English moss).
Inflected forms:
form: mires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: miring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Deep mud; moist, spongy earth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His laden feet sand and stuck in mire; he was bedaubed with the blue-gray clay from head to foot; but he had escaped the deadly river!
gloss: A bog or fen; (in wetland science, specifically) a peatland which is actively forming peat, such as an active bog or fen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Glagolev […] measured CH₄ emission from a mire in West Siberia using a static chamber method. Similar methods had been developed and tested by Nakano et al. (2006), Fig. 1.
gloss: An undesirable situation; a predicament.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Swansea seemed to be pulling clear of trouble with five wins in their first eight games following head coach Paul Clement's appointment, but two successive defeats had dragged the Swans back into the mire.
gloss: To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to mire a horse or wagon
gloss: To sink into mud.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To weigh down.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To soil with mud or foul matter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Why had I not with charitable hand
Took up a beggar’s issue at my gates,
Who smirch’d thus and mired with infamy,
I might have said ‘No part of it is mine;
This shame derives itself from unknown loins’?
Derived words: bemire
enmire
in the mire
mire crow
mire drum
mireland
mirish
miry
pickmire
quagmire
wallow in the mire
unmired
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: envolver
lang: Spanish
word: empantanar
lang: Spanish
word: atollar
mitral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mitre
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English mitral
From mitre + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.
gloss: Pertaining to the mitral valve.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Treatments for mitral insufficiency include antihypertensives and valvular surgery; today the latter is often minimally invasive and even totally endoscopic.
Derived words: aortomitral
inframitral
mitral annulus
mitral cell
mitral facies
mitralic
mitral prolapse
mitral regurg
mitral regurgitation
mitral stenosis
mitral valve
perimitral
submitral
supramitral
transmitral
Translations:
mitre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
numismatics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English mytre, from Old French mitre, from Ancient Greek μίτρα (mítra, “headband, turban”). Its use in reference to a counterfeit coin derived from the bishop's mitre stamped upon it. Doublet of Mithras, Mithra, Mitra, and Mehr.
Inflected forms:
form: mitres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: miter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: mitres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mitring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mitred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mitred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: miter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries, which has been made in many forms, mostly recently a tall cap with two points or peaks.
pos: noun
gloss: The surface forming the bevelled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
pos: noun
gloss: A 13th-century coin minted in Europe which circulated in Ireland as a debased counterfeit sterling penny, outlawed under Edward I.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A cap or cowl for a chimney or ventilation pipe.
pos: noun
gloss: A gusset in sewing, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A square with one triangular quarter missing from the outside.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A mitre shell
pos: noun
gloss: To adorn with a mitre.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
gloss: To unite at an angle of 45°.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Related words: alb
epigonation
epimanikion
epitrachelion
maniple
omophorion
rhason
sakkos
sticharion
zone
Derived words: mitral
mitrate
mitre box
mitre joint
mitreless
mitre line
mitre saw
mitre shell
mitre wheel
mitrewort
mitriform
unmitre
Translations:
mod
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Abbreviations.
Inflected forms:
form: mods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: modding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: modded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: modded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To modify (an object) from its original condition, typically to individualize and/or enhance the performance of the object.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: His friends were particularly impressed with the way he modded his Ruckus.
gloss: To install or create a mod.
pos: verb
examples: Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.
gloss: To moderate; to silence or punish (a rule-breaking user) on a forum, especially when done by a moderator.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
informal
transitive
examples: Don't break the rules or you'll be modded.
I used to mod that forum.
Derived words: case mod
demod
mod con
moddable
modder
mod man
mod pack
pod mod
pot mod
unmodded
Translations:
moire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French moire, itself from English mohair.
Inflected forms:
form: moires
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
moline
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Anglo-Norman molin (“mill”), from Late Latin molinum (“mill”), from molere (“to grind”). Doublet of moulin and mill.
Inflected forms:
form: molines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
pos: noun
Translations:
moll
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary (see also Molly).
Inflected forms:
form: molls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A female companion of a gangster or other criminal, especially a former or current prostitute.
pos: noun
examples: The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her.
"Makes me feel like a pirate," said Josella as she buckled hers on. "Better, I imagine, to be a pirate than a pirate's moll," I told her.
The nostalgic canonization of the Kennedy presidency, the perfect antidote to the Nixon stench, was befouled by the revelation of Jack Kennedy’s mob-moll paramour.
gloss: A prostitute or woman with loose sexual morals.
pos: noun
gloss: Bitch, slut; an insulting epithet applied to a female.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
derogatory
slang
gloss: A girlfriend of a bikie.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: The bikies ‘molls’ included Susan Lloyd as Tart; Victoria Anoux as Flossie; and Rosalind Talamini as Sunshine.
‘Oh God!’ groans Julie who once was a bikie moll back in the early seventies. ‘Hope it′s no one I know.’ But the Machismos turn out to be based on a New Zealand gang, which assembled in Australia after her time.
Gilling first appeared as the biker′s moll Vanessa in Stone (1974) and the beautiful, evil cabin attendant in Number 96 (1974).
gloss: A girlfriend of a surfie; blends with pejorative sense.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
gloss: A female fan of extreme metal, grunge or hardcore punk, especially the girlfriend of a musician of those aforementioned genres.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Synonyms: chick
Derived words: moll buzzer
wapping moll
Translations:
molter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English molt
English -er
English molter
From molt + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: molters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, molts or sheds.
pos: noun
Translations:
monad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
category-theory
computing
engineering
human-sciences
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin monas (“unit”) (from Ancient Greek μονάς (monás), from μόνος (mónos), from Proto-Indo-European *men-). By surface analysis, mono- + -ad.
Inflected forms:
form: monads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One thing, one being, one item.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of entities or items treated as one entity.
pos: noun
gloss: An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
pos: noun
examples: Hence Leibnitz, who looked upon things as noumena, after denying them everything like external relation, and therefore also composition or combination, declared that all substances, even the component parts of matter, were simple substances with powers of representation, in one word, monads.
“If we are to embark upon speculation”, said Goethe, continuing his discourse, “then I really do not see why the monad to which we owe Wieland's appearance on our planet should be unable in its new condition to enter into the highest combinations that are possible in this universe.
Pythagoras considered numbers as the essence and principle of all things, and attributed to them a real and distinct existence; so that, in his view, they were the elements out of which the universe was constructed. […] The "Monad" or unit he regarded as the source of all numbers.
More than thirty years ago two atoms of the eternal Energy sped forth from the heart of it which we call God[…]. Perhaps these two atoms, or essences, or monads indestructible, did but repeat an adventure, or many, many adventures.
gloss: A single individual (such as a pollen grain) that is free from others, not united in a group.
pos: noun
gloss: A single-celled organism. (See Monas.)
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.
pos: noun
gloss: A data type which represents a specific form of computation, along with the operations "return" and "bind".
pos: noun
examples: The properties that make the Maybe type a monad are its type constructor Maybe a, our chaining function (>>?), and the injector function Just.
Derived words: bimonad
diplomonad
haptomonad
leptomonad
metamonad
monadic
monadiform
monadism
monadist
monadology
nectomonad
pseudomonad
xanthomonad
Translations:
morel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French morille (compare Picard merouille, meroule (“morel, mushroom”)), from Middle High German morhel, morchel (“edible fungus, morel”), from Old High German morhila (“edible root”), diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *morhā (“tree root, plant root”), from Proto-Germanic *murhǭ, *murhijǭ (“edible root”), from Proto-Indo-European *mork- (“tuber, edible herb”). Akin to German Morchel (“morel”), Middle Low German morke (“mushroom, morel”), German Möhre (“carrot”). Equivalent to dialectal more (“carrot, root”) + -el (diminutive suffix).
Base: more#Etymology_2
Affixes: -el
Inflected forms:
form: morels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: morell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: moril
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A true morel; any of several fungi in the genus Morchella, the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium.
pos: noun
Translations:
mort
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).
Inflected forms:
form: morts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword.
gloss: A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.
gloss: The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
UK
countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: A variety of dummy whist for three players.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: alamort
all-a-mort
mort d'ancestor
mort de chien
Derived words: micromort
morkin
mort bell
mort cloth
morthouse
mortling
mort stone
Translations:
motet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French motet.
Inflected forms:
form: motets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.
pos: noun
examples: Singing their holiday concert from memory, the group sounded confident and expressive in pieces ranging from a medley of Barry Manilow songs to renaissance motets.
Translations:
motif
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
board-games
business
chemistry
chess
crystallography
dressmaking
entertainment
games
lifestyle
manufacturing
microbiology
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
textiles
Etymology: From French motif (1848), with the meaning of "main idea or theme". Doublet of motive.
Inflected forms:
form: motifs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A recurring or dominant element; an artistic theme.
pos: noun
examples: See how the artist repeats the scroll motif throughout the work?
gloss: A short melodic or lyrical passage that is repeated in several parts of a work.
pos: noun
gloss: A decorative figure that is repeated in a design or pattern.
pos: noun
gloss: A decorative appliqué design or figure, as of lace or velvet, used in trimming.
pos: noun
gloss: The physical object or objects repeated at each point of a lattice. Usually atoms or molecules.
pos: noun
gloss: A basic element of a move in terms of why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfilment of a stipulation.
pos: noun
gloss: In a nucleotide or aminoacid sequence, pattern that is widespread and has, or is conjectured to have, a biological significance.
pos: noun
Related words: motive
phosphomotif
leitmotif
motify
Derived words: antimotif
BACH motif
biomotif
intermotif
minimotif
motifeme
motific
motifless
motivic
network motif
pseudomotif
submotif
supermotif
Translations:
mottle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1670-80. Probably back-formation from motley.
Inflected forms:
form: mottles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mottling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mottled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mottled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mottles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
pos: verb
examples: Between the grey mist of rainclouds the sun suddenly appeared to mottle the wet asphalt of Marble Arch in patches of silver and ebony.
gloss: A distinguishing blotch of colour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A mottled or spotted pattern.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The most common symptom is a mild mottle on the youngest leaves of infected plants.
SLRSV, being mostly latent in strawberries and other fruit crops, is of very minor importance. It can cause some mottle and decline in certain strawberry cultivars.
gloss: Any of several species of genus Logania of butterflies, found from Burma to the Philippines and New Guinea.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: dark mottle
leaf mottle yellows
Malayan mottle
mottlement
mottler
pale mottle
rounded mottle
Translations:
mouser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mousere (“a hunter of mice”), equivalent to mouse + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix). The “moustache” sense is apparently an extended usage (i.e., a cat’s whiskers, jocularly transferred to human beings), possibly with influence from moustache.
Base: mouse
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: mousers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cat that catches mice, kept specifically for the purpose.
pos: noun
gloss: A moustache.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
US
examples: He was a pretty man, well upstanding, with great shoulders on him and his hair was fair and fine and he had a broad brow and a gey bit coulter of a nose and he twisted his mouser ends up with wax like that creature the German Kaiser […].
Translations:
mucosa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: mucosae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mucosas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of mucous membrane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The substantial genital swelling of [female chimpanzees] during oestrus may facilitate transmission of viruses by making the mucosa more fragile.
Translations:
mudded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mud
English -ed
English mudded
From mud + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more mudded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mudded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with mud.
pos: adj
Translations:
muff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Probably from Dutch mof (“muff, mitten”).
Inflected forms:
form: muffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: muffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: muffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: muffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: muffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of fur or cloth, usually with open ends, used for keeping the hands warm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
gloss: The vulva or vagina; pubic hair around it.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: .
gloss: A woman or girl.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
pos: noun
gloss: The feathers sticking out from both sides of the face under the beak of some birds.
pos: noun
gloss: A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object such as a pipe.
pos: noun
gloss: To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly.
pos: verb
gloss: To mishandle; to bungle.
pos: verb
examples: But then, supposing this was the real sign? … They had muffed three already; they daren’t muff the fourth.
Here was the superlative opportunity to make a generous and lasting settlement from a position of strength; but the pieds noirs, like the Israelis, and from not altogether dissimilar motives, were to muff it.
Synonyms: whiskers
beard
muff and beard:
Derived words: earmuff
furry muff
hairy muff
marry-muff
muff diver
muff-diving
muff pistol
twiddle muff
muff up
Translations:
mullah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Derived from Classical Persian مُلَّا (mullā), from Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan, “vicar, guardian”).
Inflected forms:
form: mullahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An honorific title for a scholar of theology and sharia law.
pos: noun
examples: Leading Republicans do not sympathize with the mullahs, do not repeat their talking points, and do not seek to appease them when they make outrageous claims about other countries.
gloss: An honorific title for a mosque leader.
pos: noun
gloss: A scholar and teacher of theology and sharia law, and an issuer of fatwas.
pos: noun
examples: In the first week of March 2018, the Shia mullah issues a fatwa prohibiting vengeance killing and requiring reconciliation.
gloss: A conservative Muslim leader or cleric, especially one who is hostile against other religions.
pos: noun
tags: India
slang
slur
gloss: A Muslim.
pos: noun
tags: India
broadly
slang
slur
gloss: A low-level cleric who specializes in telling stories of Ashura, rather than teaching or issuing fatwas.
pos: noun
tags: Iran
dated
gloss: A low-level cleric who specializes in telling stories of Ashura, rather than teaching or issuing fatwas.
See also: ruhani
pos: noun
tags: Iran
dated
Derived words: mullahcracy
mullahism
Translations:
muon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Contraction of the earlier term mu-meson; the particle has now been recategorised as a lepton. Coined by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in 1951 in his book Elementary Particles.
Inflected forms:
form: muons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unstable elementary particle in the lepton family, having similar properties to the electron but with a mass 207 times greater.
pos: noun
examples: The μ-meson of Powell (called here muon) is instead a disintegration product of the pion, only weakly linked to the nucleons and therefore of little importance in the explanation of nuclear forces.
The spectrum of electrons arising from the decay of the negative mu meson has been determined. The muons are arrested in the gas of a high pressure hydrogen filled diffusion cloud chamber.
The data comes from experiments at the Fermilab US particle accelerator facility, which explored how subatomic particles called muons – similar to electrons but about 200 times heavier – move in a magnetic field.
Translations:
musher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mush (“to drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across snow”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns). Mush is probably derived from French marche or marchons, respectively the second-person singular and first-person plural imperative forms of marcher (“to move; to travel; to walk”), from Proto-Germanic *markōną (“to mark; to notice”), from *marką (“mark; sign; stamp”), possibly related to *markō (“border, boundary; area, region”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“(noun) border, boundary, edge; (verb) to divide”).
Base: mush
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: mushers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who drives a dogsled over ice and snow; specifically, one who participates in a dogsled race.
pos: noun
examples: It was a record run. Each day for fourteen days they had averaged forty miles. For three days Perrault and François threw chests up and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful crowd of dog-busters and mushers.
The youngest musher to enter was Dallas Seavey, who ran in the 2005 Junior Iditarod at age 17, then turned 18 one day before the Iditarod and ran that race in the same year. […] Dallas Seavey was also the youngest musher to win, taking the 2012 championship at age 25.
A sled dog learns that by the time she's hungry, her musher has already prepared a meal; by the time she's tired, she has a warm bed.
gloss: One who travels over snow, chiefly by dogsled but also by foot.
pos: noun
Derived words: dog musher
Translations:
myopia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μυωπία (muōpía, “shortsightedness”), from μύω (múō, “to shut, close”) + ὤψ (ṓps, “eye”) + -ία (-ía).
Base: μύω
Affixes: -ία
Inflected forms:
form: myopias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disorder of the vision where distant objects appear blurred because the eye focuses their images in front of the retina instead of on it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The modern rise in myopia mirrored a trend for children in many countries to spend more time engaged in reading, studying or — more recently — glued to computer and smartphone screens.
gloss: A lack of imagination, discernment or long-range perspective in thinking or planning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Related words: astigmatism
emmetropia
Derived words: anisomyopia
compound myopia
heteromyopia
isomyopia
myope
myopiagenic
myopic
myopically
myopist
myopization
pseudomyopia
simple myopia
Translations:
myosin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From myo- (“relating to muscle”), and Ancient Greek μυός (muós), genitive of μῦς (mûs, “muscle”) + -in.
Inflected forms:
form: myosins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a large family of motor proteins found in eukaryotic tissues, allowing mobility in muscles.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An albuminous body present in dead muscle formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: actin
Derived words: actomyosin
cardiomyosin
isomyosin
meromyosin
myosinic
myosinogen
paramyosin
tropomyosin
Translations:
nan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Nan, pet form of the formerly very common female given names Anne and Agnes. As a nursemaid and grandmother, a clipping of earlier nana, from nanny under the probable influence of mama, also from Nan. Compare Mary.
Inflected forms:
form: nans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of maid: a servant girl.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Synonym of nancy: an effeminate male homosexual.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
gloss: Synonym of nursemaid.
pos: noun
tags: UK
endearing
gloss: Synonym of grandmother.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
Ireland
UK
endearing
examples: We had my nan over for Christmas dinner.
Derived words: nan flap
nannie
Translations:
nape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
government
medicine
military
natural-sciences
politics
sciences
war
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English nape, naape, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old French hanap (“goblet”), from Frankish *hnapp, from Proto-Germanic *hnappaz ( > Old English hnæpp, hnæp (“cup, bowl, goblet”)), as there is a hollow at the base of the skull. More at nap.
Inflected forms:
form: napes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: napes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: naping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: naped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: naped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The back part of the neck.
pos: noun
examples: He was still stroking Radar, long glides of his hand from nape to tail.
gloss: The part of a fish or bird immediately behind the head.
pos: noun
gloss: To bombard with napalm.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Synonyms: nucha
nuchal
scruff
scruff of the neck
withers
Related words: hindneck
Derived words: yellownape
Translations: