yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
frisky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English frisk
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English frisky
From frisk + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: friskier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: friskiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Abounding in energy or playfulness.
pos: adj
examples: He had his hands full, with three frisky kittens in the house.
gloss: Sexually aroused.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: It was the shots. It had to be. LeClair had declined to explain what was in them, but they'd all been feeling energized, sharper, friskier since the injections. Something to do with McInnis' promise of advanced Foundation healthcare, he supposed. Maybe even O5 shit. Well, no harm done so far.
Derived words: friskily
friskiness
unfrisky
Translations:
initialization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English initialize
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English initialization
From initialize + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: initializations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: initialisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of preparing something to begin.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
uncountable
gloss: An act of preparing something to begin.
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
gloss: An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable
pos: noun
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
countable
uncountable
Derived words: deinitialization
lazy initialization
preinitialization
reinitialization
uninitialization
Translations:
scaler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *skend-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kn̥d-sleh₂
Proto-Italic *skand-slā
Latin scālabor.
Middle English scale
English scale
English -er
English scaler
From scale + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: scalers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An electronic circuit that aggregates many signals into one.
pos: noun
gloss: An electronic or computer system that adjusts the size of a signal or graphic to fit on a screen etc.
pos: noun
gloss: One who scales.
pos: noun
examples: The explorer was renowned as a scaler of the world's tallest mountains.
gloss: A tool or device for scaling fish.
pos: noun
gloss: A dentistry tool with two hooks.
pos: noun
Related words: rescaler
Derived words: autoscaler
high scaler
log scaler
prescaler
Translations:
bellwether
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-der.
Proto-Germanic *bellǭ
Proto-West Germanic *bellā
Old English belle
Middle English belle
Proto-Indo-European *wet-
Proto-Indo-European *wétrusder.
Proto-Germanic *weþruz
Proto-West Germanic *weþru
Old English weþer
Middle English wether
Middle English belwether
English bellwether
From Middle English belwether, belleweder, equivalent to bell + wether (“castrated ram”).
Compound parts: bell
wether
Inflected forms:
form: bellwethers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bell-wether
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bellweather
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: belwether
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The leading sheep of a flock, having a bell hung round its neck.
pos: noun
examples: Several old ladies forthwith proclaimed their intention of following him; but, as one or two of them were deaf, and another had been threatened with an attack of that mild, but obstinate complaint, dementia senilis, many thought it was not so much the force of his arguments as a kind of tendency to jump as the bellwether jumps, well known in flocks not included in the Christian fold.
gloss: Anything that indicates future trends.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Mortgage delinquencies often act as a bellwether for a forthcoming recession.
At Hampton Court the little flocks of visitors are not provided with an official bellwether, but are left to browse at discretion upon the local antiquities.
I suspect that, after all,[…]—that all this has been known, perhaps for ages, to certain ones upon this earth, a cult or order, members of which function like bellwethers to the rest of us, or as superior slaves or overseers, directing us in accordance with instructions received—from Somewhere else—in our mysterious usefulness.
In December, after everyone had weighed in, Nature, a bellwether of mainstream scientific thought for more than a century, cautiously supported a future of automated scientific scrutiny in an editorial that addressed the Statcheck controversy without explicitly naming it.
A bellwether election in Germany’s most populous state has shown a further eroding of support for populist parties on the far ends of the political spectrum, thrown up questions over the pulling power of the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and entrenched the growing authority of the Greens.
Wisconsin’s state Supreme Court races were once sleepy affairs. But over the past decade they have increasingly been seen as crucial national bellwethers.
gloss: A stock or bond that is widely believed to be an indicator of the overall market's condition.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: One of my favorite sentiment indicators is bellwether stocks — key stocks that are leaders in their fields. When investors buy or sell these shares, it's usually a good sign of confidence or the lack of it in that sector of the market and sometimes even the economy.
Related words: omen
harbinger
Derived words: bellwether state
bellwether stock
Translations:
sepsis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σῆψις (sêpsis, “putrefaction”), from σήπω (sḗpō, “to make rotten”), from σήψ (sḗps, “a kind of lizard; also a kind of serpent whose bite was alleged to cause putrefaction”).
Inflected forms:
form: sepses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A serious medical condition in which the whole body is inflamed, causing injury to its own tissues and organs as a response to infection.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Imagine the sepsis of helpless loathing [Jimmy Connors] must have inspired in his opponents during his "great runs" at the US Open.
Translations:
gloating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: gloatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who gloats.
pos: noun
examples: There are not-so-disguised gloatings as a freelancer gets the job he has been looking for and gets access to powerful and productive television filmmakers.
Translations:
huitlacoche
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish huitlacoche, an alteration of cuitlacoche, from Classical Nahuatl cuitlacochin.
Inflected forms:
form: cuitlacoche
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Corn smut prepared as a delicacy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I told him how much I'd liked my fish course, a black sea bass fillet with pickled lotus root and huitlacoche sauce […]
Consider huitlacoche (corn fungus), miracle berries (that trick taste buds into thinking sour is sweet), Casu Marzu (maggoty black-market cheese) or turu (a worm-like mollusc).
Translations:
seta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin seta, from saeta. Doublet of soy (“silk”).
Inflected forms:
form: setas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: setae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: setæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bristle or hair.
pos: noun
examples: The setal arrangement in Puncia therefore could represent an evolutionary intermediate step appropriate to a wide-gaped ostracod, in which a domiciliar 'early warning' system is afforded by the frill and extremely long setae.
gloss: The stalk of a moss sporangium, or occasionally in a liverwort.
pos: noun
examples: The latter has the sporophyte seta 4 cells in diam. and has thecal Lejeunea-type androecial branches[…]
Derived words: macroseta
microseta
neuroseta
setal
setation
setiferous
setigerous
Translations:
catastrophic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καταστροφικός (katastrophikós). By surface analysis, catastrophe + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more catastrophic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most catastrophic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a catastrophe.
pos: adj
gloss: Disastrous; ruinous.
pos: adj
examples: The reason why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.
Some experts, such as geographer Jared Diamond in his 2005 book, “Collapse,” used Easter Island as a cautionary tale of how the exploitation of limited resources can result in catastrophic population decline, ecological devastation and the destruction of a society through infighting.
gloss: From which recovery is impossible.
pos: adj
examples: catastrophic failure
Synonyms: catastrophal
Antonyms: anastrophic
Derived words: catastrophically
catastrophic antiphospholipid syndrome
catastrophic backtracking
catastrophic failure
catastrophic forgetting
catastrophic interference
catastrophic kill
catastrophic mortality
catastrophic moult
megacatastrophic
noncatastrophic
postcatastrophic
subcatastrophic
supercatastrophic
uncatastrophic
Translations:
intolerant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: First attested in the first half of the 18th century; either borrowed from French intolérant (early 17th century) or from its source, Latin intolerāns. By surface analysis, in- + tolerant (itself only attested from the 1780s).
Inflected forms:
form: more intolerant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intolerant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intolerants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.
pos: adj
gloss: Unable to digest food or be given substances of a certain composition without adverse effects.
pos: adj
tags: often
postpositional
examples: Near-synonym: allergic
I am intolerant of lactose, so I can't drink milk
I am lactose-intolerant, so I can't drink milk.
When our bodies no longer create the enzyme needed to break down lactose, we can become intolerant to it.
The oak, as is well known, is a slow-growing, dicotyledonous tree of peculiar spreading habit, and very intolerant of shade.
The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.
gloss: Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas; indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent.
pos: adj
examples: Whilſt Congregationaliſts in England were complaining of the intolerant ſpirit of Epiſcopalians there
They ſhewed their intolerant ſpirit by demanding a ſtrict execution of the penal laws againſt Catholics
gloss: One who is intolerant; a bigot.
pos: noun
examples: […] a portion of the prejudice which darkened the spirits of these intolerants, might perhaps have cast its shadow over him.
Related words: intolerance
intolerantly
intolerate
intoleration
tolerance
tolerant
Derived words: intolerantness
lactose intolerant
Translations:
statute
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biblical
law
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English statut, from Old French statut, from Late Latin statutum (“a statute”), neuter singular of Latin statutus, past participle of statuō (“to set up, establish”).
Inflected forms:
form: statutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A written law or ordinance passed by a legislative body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The new statute limited working hours.
Parliament passed a statute on environmental protection.
criminal statute
statute book
Despite criticisms which were made of the Railway Executive, it must be recalled that the general framework of the new railway set-up was established by statute, while this form of organisation was particularly well adapted for carrying out the unification of the railways—a very different thing from the purely political act of nationalisation, but an essential part of the objective of nationalisation.
gloss: A rule of an organization or institution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A law or decree made by a sovereign, or by God.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A (theoretical) type of statutory law specified as regulating a person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
gloss: A statute fair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Derived words: counterstatute
creature of statute
laughing heir statute
long arm statute
long-arm statute
nonclaim statute
slayer statute
statutable
statute book
statute law
statute mile
statute of frauds
statute of limitations
statute of repose
statutorily
statutory
statutory rape
substatute
survival statute
wrongful death statute
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: estatuts
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 法令
roman: fǎlìng
lang: Finnish
word: säädös
lang: French
word: statut
lang: German
word: Statut
lang: Hindi
word: अधिनियम
roman: adhiniyam
lang: Hungarian
word: alapszabály
lang: Hungarian
word: alapító okirat
lang: Hungarian
word: szabályzat
lang: Hungarian
word: szabályrendelet
lang: Hungarian
word: rendtartás
lang: Indonesian
word: ketetapan hukum
lang: Irish
word: reacht
lang: Japanese
word: 律令
roman: ritsuryō
lang: Central Kurdish
word: یاسا
roman: yasa
lang: Russian
word: уста́в
roman: ustáv
lang: Russian
word: стату́т
roman: statút
lang: Yiddish
word: געזעץ
roman: gezéts
lang: Yiddish
word: סטאַטוט
roman: statút
lang: Yiddish
word: תּקנה
roman: takóne
forestry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *forestrie, *forsterie (suggested by Middle English forster, forester (“forester”)), from Old French foresterie, from forest.
Inflected forms:
form: forestries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science of planting and growing trees in forests.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She studied forestry and environmental management.
gloss: The art and practice of planting and growing trees in forests.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The art and practice of cultivating, exploiting and renewing forests for commercial purposes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: sustainable forestry
The region depends heavily on forestry for employment.
gloss: Commercial tree farming.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A tree farm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A forest-covered area.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Synonyms: silviculture
sylviculture
Derived words: agroforestry
ecoforestry
forestry machine
mycoforestry
nonforestry
Translations:
drilling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drill
English -ing
English drilling
From drill + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: drillings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of drilling.
pos: noun
gloss: The act or process of drilling.
pos: noun
Translations:
trellis
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
computing
computing-theory
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: From Middle English trelis, from Anglo-Norman treslis, from Old French treille (“arbor”), from Latin trichila (“arbor", "summer house”). However, see OED which claims another Old French form referring to sackcloth, from Vulgar Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: trellises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trellises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trellising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trellised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trellised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An outdoor garden frame that can be used for partitioning a common area.
pos: noun
gloss: An outdoor garden frame that can be used to grow vines or other climbing plants.
pos: noun
examples: It was a very warm evening; and the moonlight turned the Thames to an unbroken mirror of silver, and gave to the soft shadows of the shrubs, and the creepers that wound among the trellises, an appearance almost Italian.
gloss: A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each time connected to at least one node at an earlier and at least one node at a later time.
pos: noun
gloss: To train or arrange (plants) so that they grow against a trellis.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to trellis vines
Synonyms: treillage
Derived words: trellis drainage
trellised
trellis frame
trellislike
trellis modulation
trellis quantization
trellis rust
trelliswork
Translations:
cockatrice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
fantasy
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
Etymology: First attested 1382 as Middle English cocatrice (“basilisk”), from Old French cocatriz, from Late Latin calcātrīx (“she who treads upon something”), from Latin calcō (“tread”), from calx (“heel, hoof”).
Inflected forms:
form: cockatrices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A legendary creature about the size and shape of a dragon or wyvern, but in appearance resembling a giant rooster, with some lizard-like characteristics.
pos: noun
examples: “Peace reigns in happy Luxor. The lion lies down with the lamb, and the child, if it will, may harmlessly put its hand into the cockatrice’s den.”
gloss: A mistress, a harlot.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A snake or serpent that appears to be hatched from a rooster, or cock's, egg.
pos: noun
examples: For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
gloss: The cobra.
pos: noun
gloss: Any venomous or deadly thing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
examples: this little cockatrice of a king
Related words: cockentrice
Derived words: chickatrice
Translations:
scherzo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian scherzo (“joke, play”), from scherzare (“to joke, jest”), from Lombardic *skerzan (“to jump merrily, enjoy oneself, jest”), from Proto-Germanic *skertaną (“to hop, jump”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerǝd- (“to dance, jump”). Akin to Middle High German scherzen (“to frolic, jump merrily, hop up and down”) (modern German scherzen (“to joke”), Scherz), Norwegian skjerta (“to joke”).
Inflected forms:
form: scherzos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scherzi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of music or a movement from a larger piece such as a symphony; especially, a piece of music played in a playful manner.
pos: noun
examples: At seven Val knocked – three shorts and one long, out of the scherzo of Beethoven’s Fifth – and I rushed to open.
Translations:
kraut
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of sauerkraut, from German Sauerkraut. Compare German Kraut (“cabbage”).
Inflected forms:
form: krauts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: krauting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: krauted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: krauted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make (into) sauerkraut.
pos: verb
examples: I find more money in krauting Cabbage myself and marketing the kraut, as […]
The same applies to the brining of cucumbers […] and krauting cabbage.
They krauted cabbage, picked saskatoons and dried them for the winter. The whole family contributed to the welfare of the home for there was no room for a drone in their midst.
Translations:
Trojan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrophysics
Etymology: From old forms Troyan, Troian, Middle English Troiā̆n, from Old English Trōiān, from Latin Troiānus, from Troia (“Troy”) + -ānus, from Ancient Greek Τροίᾱ (Troíā).
Base: Troia
Affixes: -ānus
Inflected forms:
form: Troyan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Troian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, the famed city of Troy or its inhabitants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Involving great strength or endurance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: You know you should get up but the thought of making your way to the bathroom to wash is like a trojan task. Why bother?
gloss: Of, or relating to, a Trojan point.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Malicious but disguised as legitimate
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
brose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Doric dialect of North East Scotland, from earlier browes, from Old French broez, nominative of broet (“stew, soup made from meat broth”) (French brouet) diminutive of breu, from Medieval Latin brodium, from Proto-Germanic *bruþą (“broth”). See broth.
Inflected forms:
form: broses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Oatmeal mixed with boiling water or milk.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
uncountable
usually
examples: I had not far to seek for him: he stood waiting in the passage, for the cooling of his brose.
Translations:
sommer
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans sommer.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: just because; answer to questions (especially "why" questions) that you do not want to answer or don't have a specific answer for.
pos: intj
tags: South-Africa
examples: Why do I have to go to school?
Sommer.
Translations:
twos
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: twoss
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: twosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: twosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: twosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The age of two; two years old.
pos: noun
examples: The boy in his twos is just learning to walk.
Twos are the hardest year on parents.
gloss: To share a cigarette with someone after smoking half of it.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
transitive
examples: With a lump in your throat, she won’t understand
Twos on a cigarette and talk blah-blah
Tell bro “make sure you twos that, yute!”
Translations:
septime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From French septime. By surface analysis, sept- + -ime.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The seventh defensive position, with the sword hand held at waist height, and the tip of the sword at knee level.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
amma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Related to Tamil அம்மா (ammā, “mother”), Hindi अम्मा (ammā), Malayalam അമ്മ (amma), Kannada ಅಮ್ಮ (amma, “mother”) Telugu అమ్మ (amma, “mother”), Sinhalese අම්මා (ammā, “mother”), or Classical Syriac ܐܡܐ (emma, “mother”).
Inflected forms:
form: ammas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: mother
pos: noun
tags: India
Translations:
bara
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), referencing the gay men's magazine Barazoku, which was the first of its kind published in Japan, itself named after a post-World War II term for gay men.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A genre of homoerotic media, usually also pornographic, typically created by gay men and targeted at gay men in Japan.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
uncountable
gloss: A genre of homoerotic or pornographic media of a similar style and aesthetic, regardless of the creator's gender or ethnicity.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
gloss: Any homoerotic or pornographic media that accentuates macho masculinity; gay porn.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
gloss: Of or related to media in the bara genre.
pos: adj
tags: uncountable
examples: bara men
Translations:
troy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English troye, from Anglo-Norman. According to the American Heritage Dictionary, probably first used at a fair in Troyes, France.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, troy weight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
scathing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more scathing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scathing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic.
pos: adj
examples: For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.
gloss: Harmful or painful; acerbic.
pos: adj
Derived words: scathingly
scathingness
Translations:
ey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ei, ey, from Old English ǣġ, from Proto-West Germanic *aij, from Proto-Germanic *ajją (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ōwyóm (“egg”), probably from *h₂éwis (“bird”), from *h₂ew- (“to consume”). Doublet of egg, huevo, oeuf, and ovum.
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian ai (“egg”), Saterland Frisian Oai (“egg”), West Frisian aai, aei (“egg”), Bavarian Oa (“egg”), Dutch ei (“egg”), German Ei (“egg”), German Low German Ai, Ägg (“egg”), Limburgish ei, Éï (“egg”), Luxembourgish Ee (“egg”), Mòcheno oi (“egg”), Vilamovian e (“egg”), Yiddish איי (ey, “egg”), Danish æg (“egg”), Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Crimean Gothic ada (“egg”); also Breton vi (“egg”), Cornish oy (“egg”), Welsh wy (“egg”), Latin ōvum (“egg”), Greek αβγό (avgó), αυγό (avgó, “egg”), Albanian vo (“egg”), Belarusian and Russian яйцо́ (jajcó, “egg”), Bulgarian яйце́ (jajcé, “egg”), Czech vejce (“egg”), Macedonian јајце (jajce, “egg”), Polish jajo (“egg”), Serbo-Croatian ја́јце, jájce (“egg”), Slovak vajce (“egg”), Slovene jájce (“egg”), Ukrainian яйце́ (jajcé, “egg”), Ossetian айк (ajk), айкӕ (ajkæ, “egg”), Armenian ձու (ju, “egg”), Northern Kurdish hêk (“egg”), Southern Kurdish خا (xa, “egg”), Zazaki hak (“egg”), Pashto هګۍ (hagë́y), ويه (wë́ya, “egg”), Persian خاگ (xâg), خایه (xâye, “egg”).
This native English form was displaced by the Old Norse–derived egg in the 16th century.
Inflected forms:
form: eyren
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An egg.
pos: noun
examples: Take brothe of capons withoute herbes, and breke eyren, and cast into the pot, and make a crudde therof, and colour hit with saffron, and then presse oute the brothe and kerve it on leches; and then take swete creme of almondes, or of cowe mylk, and boyle hit; […]
Translations:
washcloth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wash + cloth.
Compound parts: wash
cloth
Inflected forms:
form: washcloths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small cloth used to wash the face and body.
pos: noun
Translations:
leggo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: leggos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A form of calypso music; lavway.
pos: noun
Translations:
morbid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mer-der.?
Latin morbus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin morbidusder.
English morbid
From Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“sickness”), itself from the root of morī (“to die”) or directly from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).
Inflected forms:
form: more morbid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most morbid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
pos: adj
examples: “Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked by beastly journalists and stared at by gaping moon-faced idiots, wherever he goes!”
gloss: Taking an interest in, or fixating on, unhealthy or unwholesome subjects such as death, decay, disease.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: morbid boy
morbid child
morbid mind
morbid obsession
morbid question
gloss: Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.
pos: adj
examples: morbid poem
morbid song
gloss: Grisly or gruesome.
pos: adj
examples: morbid video
Related words: morbidezza
morbilous
Derived words: comorbid
comorbidity
hypermorbidity
intermorbid
monomorbid
morbidity
morbidize
morbidly
morbidness
morbid obesity
morbid owlet
multimorbid
nonmorbid
polymorbid
postmorbid
premorbid
supermorbid
unmorbid
Translations:
rounded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more rounded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rounded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made into a circle or sphere.
pos: adj
gloss: Complete or balanced.
pos: adj
examples: Her character is much less rounded in the writing, since she has but one goal to fulfill in all of her scenes.
gloss: Describing a number that has been changed to its nearest desired value.
pos: adj
gloss: Ending in a broad arch.
pos: adj
gloss: Pronounced with the lips drawn together.
pos: adj
examples: The sound /u/ is a rounded vowel.
Derived words: nonrounded
rounded down
roundedly
roundedness
rounded up
rounded vowel
roundrect
semirounded
subrounded
unrounded
well-rounded
Translations:
scoundrel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier scondrel, scondrell, skoundrell, skowndrell, of unknown origin. Possibly related to northern English or Scottish scunner, skuner, scouner, scunder (“to shrink back in fear, disgust, or loathing”) (Encyclopædia Britannica 1911).
Inflected forms:
form: scoundrels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mean, worthless fellow; a rascal; a villain; a person without honor or virtue.
pos: noun
examples: Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood / Has crept thro' Scoundrels ever ſince the Flood.
Translations:
clump
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”).
Alternatively, possibly from Middle Dutch clompe or Middle Low German klumpe (compare German Klumpen). Doublet of klomp.
Cognates include Danish klump (probably from Low German as well). Compare Norwegian Bokmål klump.
Inflected forms:
form: clumps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clumps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clumping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clumped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clumped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
pos: noun
gloss: A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
pos: noun
examples: There are suitable clumps of gorse a little way back, sir. I anticipate that you would be quite safe there, or I would not suggest it, sir.
clump of trees
gloss: A dull thud.
pos: noun
examples: She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a clump on the head.
Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.
gloss: The compressed clay of coal strata.
pos: noun
examples: clump-burned bricks
gloss: A small group of trees or plants.
pos: noun
gloss: A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To form clusters or lumps.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To gather in dense groups.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To walk with heavy footfalls.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To strike; to beat.
pos: verb
tags: UK
regional
transitive
examples: There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!
Derived words: clumpable
clump block
clumper
clumpful
clumpish
clumplike
clumpy
declump
interclump
macroclump
microclump
Pine Clump
red clump
subclump
unclump
clump up
Translations:
defiance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English defiaunce, from Old French desfiance, from desfier. By surface analysis, defy + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: defiances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The feeling, or spirit of being defiant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
gloss: Open or bold resistance to or disregard for authority, opposition, or power; refusing to give up.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ambassador Udina: The other species are scared. They've never faced anything like this before and they don't know what to do. They want us to step forward. They believe in humanity because of you.
Ambassador Udina: Your ruthless pursuit of Saren and the geth, your defiance of the Council -- that's what humans are capable of! That's how we can defeat the Reapers!
Ainsley: Amid the death and all the destruction: a story of heroism.
Steve: Thirteen Ukrainian border guards defending a small island in the Black Sea defy an invading Russian warship.
Will: Todd Piro is here now with the details on the defiance that cost them, ultimately, their lives- Todd.
Todd: That's right Steve, Ainsley and Will- the ultimate act of defiance- the ultimate price paid. Ukrainian border guards defending a Black Sea island defiantly telling an invading Russian warship to 'go F yourself' when asked to surrender, and then killed when that warship opened fire.
gloss: A challenging attitude or behaviour; challenge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: bid defiance to
Fort Defiance
nondefiance
set at defiance
Translations:
outreach
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English reach
English outreach
From out- + reach.
Inflected forms:
form: outreaches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outreaches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outreaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outreached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outreached
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of reaching out; the act of raising awareness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The extent or length of one's reach.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or practice of visiting and providing services (of a charity, church, or other organization) to people who might not otherwise have access to those services.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He is involved in social outreach, education and environmental initiatives.
an outreach program for people who cannot read
Perhaps the most significant role for Katrina and her team is their outreach work with those who would otherwise have a barrier to travel.
gloss: To reach further than.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To surpass or exceed.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To go too far.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To provide charitable or religious services to people who would otherwise not have access to those services.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: протягане
roman: protjagane
lang: Finnish
word: ojentaminen
lang: French
word: atteinte
lang: German
word: Handreichung
lang: Italian
word: sensibilizzazione
lang: Polish
word: wyciąganie ręki
lang: Spanish
word: alcanzamiento (desus.)
lang: Spanish
word: llegamiento (desus.)
lang: Spanish
word: allegamiento
normative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin norma
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English -ative
English normative
From Latin norma + -ative. Compare French normatif.
Affixes: -ative
Inflected forms:
form: more normative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most normative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: normatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
pos: adj
gloss: Conforming to a norm or norms.
pos: adj
examples: normative behaviour
gloss: Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.
pos: adj
examples: normative grammar
gloss: A regulation imposed to preserve a norm.
pos: noun
examples: Most important are the so-called economic normatives. They either specify the minimal efficiency of productive resources utilization or regulate the distribution of the enterprises revenue.
Related words: norm
normal
Derived words: ablenormative
amatonormative
antinormative
Ashkenormative
binormative
cisheteronormative
cisnormative
counternormative
dianormative
endonormative
exonormative
heteronormative
homonormative
internormative
metronormative
mononormative
neuronormative
nonnormative
normative economics
normative ethics
normative forecasting
normative grammar
normatively
normativeness
normative science
normative state
normative statement
normative system
normativism
normativist
normativity
normativization
normativize
pornonormative
queernormative
repronormative
socionormative
transnormative
Translations:
oilcloth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English oil
English cloth
English oilcloth
From oil + cloth.
Inflected forms:
form: oilcloths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fabric or cloth treated on one side with a waterproof covering, especially one made from linseed oil etc.; used for flooring, tablecloths, kitchen shelves and sometimes furniture covering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A substitute for the bath-room is a large piece of oilcloth, which can be laid upon the floor of the ordinary dressing-room. Upon this may be placed the bath-tub or basin.
Ignatius pounded a paw into the oilcloth on the kitchen table.
When the Lincolns moved into the White House, it was not furnished, there was oilcloth on the floor in the State Rooms because of the overflow from the spittoons.
Translations:
islet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French islette. By surface analysis, is(le) + -let. Mostly displaced native Middle English eyt, eit and Middle English holm, holme (See eyot and holm for more).
Inflected forms:
form: islets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small island.
pos: noun
examples: There is an islet on the other side of this body of water.
gloss: An isolated piece of tissue that has a specific function.
pos: noun
Related words: islets of Langerhans
Derived words: interislet
intraislet
isleted
islet of Langerhans
neoislet
pseudoislet
Translations:
clinker
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch klinkaerd, later klinker, from klinken (“to ring, resound”).
Inflected forms:
form: clinkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: klinker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: clinkers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clinkering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clinkered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clinkered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: klinker
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She left the road at the little shed where he whom she still regarded as her father used to keep his tricycle, and walked up the clinker path towards the house.
gloss: A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The coal was terrible stuff—Indian, Abdul told me. The "dart" was used often and I saw some monster clinkers.
Cold and grim sat that malevolent brute the furnace, greedy, bottomless—its grate bars clenched over clinkers which no shaker could dislodge.
gloss: An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Hardened volcanic lava.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This wall of rock, which had no doubt once formed the lip of the crater, was about a mile and a half thick, and still covered with clinker.
Nobody could pretend that a huge slope of clinker is aesthetically pleasing.
gloss: A scum of oxide of iron formed in forging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To convert or be converted into clinker.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: This burning has baked and clinkered the adjacent strata, producing a very resistant formation, which rises with conspicuous abruptness from the flat terrace underlain by the soft Lebo shale member.
The use of coal with a low ash fusion temperature (1204°C, or 2200°F) caused frequent clinkering on the grate during initial tests. The clinkering stopped when the coal was replaced with one having a higher fusion temperature […]
Derived words: clinker block
clinkerer
clinker-work
clinkery
Dutch clinker
Translations:
unkept
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English kept
English unkept
From un- + kept.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not kept (especially of promises).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not well-cared for, not well-kept, not tidy or well-maintained
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
goldeneye
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From golden + eye.
Compound parts: golden
eye
Inflected forms:
form: goldeneyes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several seaducks, of the genus Bucephala, having black and white plumage.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several lacewings of the family Chrysopidae.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several flowering plants of the subtribe Helianthinae.
pos: noun
Synonyms: green lacewing
Derived words: Barrow's goldeneye
Bucephala islandica
common goldeneye
Bucephala clangula
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: потапница
roman: potapnica
lang: Bulgarian
word: звънарка
roman: zvǎnarka
lang: Catalan
word: morell
lang: Danish
word: hvinand
lang: Dutch
word: brilduiker
lang: Esperanto
word: klangulo
lang: Faroese
word: súgont
lang: Finnish
word: telkkä
lang: Galician
word: ollodourado
lang: Greek
word: βουκέφαλος η σαλπίζουσα
roman: voukéfalos i salpízousa
lang: Greek
word: αγριόπαπια
roman: agriópapia
lang: Irish
word: órshúileach
lang: Italian
word: quattrocchi
lang: Lithuanian
word: klykuõlė
lang: Lower Tanana
word: tthik'oneya
lang: Navajo
word: naalʼeełí binááʼ łitsooígíí
lang: Norwegian
word: kvinand
lang: Romanian
word: rață sunătoare
lang: Russian
word: го́голь
roman: gógolʹ
lang: Inari-Sami
word: čuáđgi
lang: Lule-Sami
word: tjoargge
lang: Northern Sami
word: čoađgi
lang: Skolt-Sami
word: čuäʹdǧǧ
lang: Ume-Sami
word: tjåđggie
lang: Spanish
word: porrón
lang: Swedish
word: knipa
lang: Venetan
word: campanato
auguste
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
Etymology: From French auguste, from German (dumme) August.
Inflected forms:
form: augustes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of clown, usually serving as an anarchic foil to the whiteface.
pos: noun
examples: It had been used for clownish mock-disappearences, one auguste looking for another through endlessly circling blackness, an apparatus not now much in use.
Translations:
Carib
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Caribe, likely from a Kalinago term corresponding to karifuna (“Kalinago person”) in modern Kalinago, a borrowing from a Cariban language, ultimately from Proto-Cariban *karipona (“person”). Compare Kari'na karìna (“Carib person”). Doublet of cannibal, caribe, Carijona, Galibi, Garifuna, and Kari'na.
Inflected forms:
form: Caribs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Carib
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
pos: noun
examples: Mr. Dougherty had intended to make the outing with his unwonted wife an inconspicuous one. Uxoriousness was a weakness that the precepts of the Caribs did not countenance.
gloss: A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
pos: noun
examples: Another people, the Surinen, lived near the coast. Like the Arawaks and the Caribs, they had migrated northward into Suriname. The Arawak and Carib peoples greatly outnumbered the Surinen. The Surinen were disappearing by the late 1400s.
gloss: A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of one of a number of Amerindian peoples who inhabit the coast of Central and South America and the Lesser Antilles.
pos: noun
Derived words: Caribbean
Island Carib
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: caribs
lang: Hungarian
word: karib
lang: Irish
word: Cairibigh
lang: Kazakh
word: кариб
roman: karib
lang: Marathi
word: कॅरिब
roman: kĕrib
lang: Marathi
word: कारिब
roman: kārib
lang: Portuguese
word: caribes
lang: Portuguese
word: caraíbas
lang: Russian
word: карибы
roman: kariby
tribunal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Old French tribunal, from Latin tribūnal (“tribunal”), from tribus (“tribe”).
Inflected forms:
form: tribunals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
pos: noun
examples: Having now so amply declared unto thee most of the principal things of this thrice-renowned and illustrious city, I will briefly by way of an epitome mention most of the other particulars thereof, and so finally shut up this narration: there are reported to be in Venice and the circumjacent islands two hundred churches in which are one hundred forth-three pairs of organs, fifty-four monasteries, twenty-six nunneries, fifty-six tribunals or places of judgment, seventeen hospitals, six companies or fraternities, whereof I have before spoken; one hundred and sixty-five marble statues of worthy personages, partly equestrial, partly pedestrial, which are erected in sundry places of the city, to the honour of those that either at home have prudently administered the commonweal, or abroad valiantly fought for the same.
gloss: A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
historical
Derived words: drumhead tribunal
employment tribunal
industrial tribunal
military tribunal
subtribunal
tribunal of first instance
Translations: