yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
assassin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From either French assassin or Italian assassino, from Arabic أَسَاسِيِّين (ʔasāsiyyīn, “people who are faithful to the foundation [of the faith]”) and the folkloric etymology Arabic حَشَّاشِين (ḥaššāšīn, “hashish users; low-lives”).
The mathematical sense was introduced by Bourbaki, playing on the notation operatorname Ass(M) and the fact that an associated prime is the annihilator of an element, and so is said to kill that element.
Inflected forms:
form: assassins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who intentionally kills a person, especially a professional who kills a public or political figure.
pos: noun
examples: The hand that held the bond of so many jarring interests lay powerless beneath the pall. The perils of war had been about him, and the midnight assassin had watched his path; yet he died quietly in his bed.
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause can ever be stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
gloss: Any ruthless killer.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim community of the Alamut Period.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
historical
usually
examples: The Assassines, a nation depending of Phœnicia, are esteemed among the Mahometists of a soveraigne devotion and puritie of maners; they hold, that the readiest and shortest way to gaine Paradise, is to kill some one of a contrary religion[…].
gloss: An associated prime of a module.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
Derived words: assassinate
assassination
assassinator
assassinatress
assassinatrix
assassin bug
assassin fly
assassinism
assassinlike
assassinous
assassinship
assassin spider
autassassinophilia
bee assassin
counterassassin
Great Assassin
smiling assassin
superassassin
Translations:
hashish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš)bor.
English hashish
Borrowed from Arabic حَشِيش (ḥašīš, “hay, dried herb”).
Inflected forms:
form: hashishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hasheesh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: haschisch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.
You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?
gloss: A cannabis extract.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Marijuana generally.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
Related words: hash pipe
hashpipe
Derived words: hash
Translations:
tiff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The origin of the noun is unknown; it is possibly originally dialectal and may be onomatopoeic, representing the sound of a small puff of air or gas. The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: tiffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tiffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tiffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tiffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tiffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A (generally small) argument or disagreement; a petty quarrel, a spat.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: My Lord and I have had another little—Tiff, ſhall I call it? It came not up to a quarrel. Married people vvould have enough to do, if they vvere to trouble their friends every time they miſunderſtood one another.
There's Tom, now, since this tiff with Mrs. Cat, the scoundrel plays the Grand Turk here!
[T]he blithe young couple were a pleasant sight to see, as they twirled merrily round and round, feeling more friendly than ever after their small tiff.
I had lived with her all this time, unaware how much she hated these things. In themselves they were trivial. Stupid. Something to laugh off, not make a big issue out of. We'd had a little tiff and would have forgotten about it in a couple of days.
Lovers' tiffs are very amusing in that new lovers expect their little universe to be 100% perfect. […] At the other extreme, couples who are married with children have heavily disguised tiffs. A man saying in a slightly strained way, 'I'm going to turn the compost', is actually saying, 'And that's all you are, Jean, compost!' Of course, what happens is eventually he apologises, they cry, make love, have another child, get overtired and the tiffing continues.
"About a week ago we were sitting outside a restaurant having an intense debate about the children, and I held Nigella [Lawson]'s neck repeatedly while attempting to emphasise my point," he said. "There was no grip, it was a playful tiff. The pictures are horrific but give a far more drastic and violent impression of what took place.[…]"
These were the days before Elon Musk's tiff with a Delaware judge raised the prospect of the federalization of corporate law.
gloss: A brief outburst or period of bad temper; a snit; also (rare) any brief outburst (for example, of laughter).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
informal
examples: [A]s if / Returning homevvards in a furious Tiff; / Your Hoſt declares, he's ſorry at his Heart, / And humbly acts the penitential Part.
Wilhelmina […] answered his romances and him with tiffs of laughter, in a prettily fleeting manner.
gloss: To be involved in a (generally small) argument or disagreement; to squabble.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: I very much indeed approve / Of maidens moderating love / Until they've twenty pounds; / […] / Until the twenty pounds were safe, / She tiff'd at Tim, she ran from Ralph, / Squire nodded … deuce a curtsy!
Poor Newton! he little knew to what he owed that glance. The fact is, the Captain was late, and Miss Bowers tiffed.
Derived words: lovers' tiff
tiffish
tiffy
Translations:
DJ
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: DJs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: DJ's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: DJing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: DJ'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: DJed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DJed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: DJ'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DJ'd
pos: verb
tags: past
form: DJ'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DJ'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act as a DJ (disc jockey); to play, cut and mix/blend recorded music.
pos: verb
examples: A tattooed camp staffer DJs from a heavily stickered laptop, next to a whirling party light that scatters rainbow beams throughout the space.
Translations:
boondock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bunduk
Tagalog bundokbor.
English boondock
1910s during or around the Philippine–American War after the Spanish–American War, from Tagalog bundok (“mountain”), adopted by occupying American soldiers serving in the mountains or rural countryside of the American-occupied Philippines under the United States Military Government of the Philippine Islands. The term was reinforced or re-adopted during World War II under the U.S. military, where terms like boondockers (“shoes suited for rough terrain”) came originally in 1944 as U.S. services slang word for field boots. It was later shortened to boonies by 1964 originally among U.S. troops serving in the Vietnam War in reference to the rural areas of Vietnam, as opposed to Saigon.
Inflected forms:
form: boondocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boondocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boondocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boondocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boondocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A brushy, rural area or location.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: We got lost out in the boondocks, miles from anywhere.
It was hard to respect his opinion after he'd called their humble but respectable town "a godforsaken boondock."
gloss: A shot that strikes a squopped wink and sends it flying far away.
pos: noun
examples: My family has just rediscovered tiddlywinks. […] [I] haven't quite worked out the boondock!
gloss: To camp in a dry brushy location.
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: To stay in a self-contained recreational vehicle without connections to water, electricity, or sewer services, especially in a remote location.
pos: verb
tags: US
examples: When traveling in the American Southwest, we avoid other people by boondocking in the desert.
gloss: To strike a squopped wink and send it flying far away.
pos: verb
examples: The wise winker also engages in boondocking, a defensive strategy. It involves sending an opponent's winks far from the cup.
Synonyms: See: Thesaurus:remote place
boonies
the sticks
backwoods
backwater
middle of nowhere
dry camp
Derived words: boondocker
boonies
Translations:
twunt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of twat + cunt.
Compound parts: twat
cunt
Inflected forms:
form: twunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fool; an extremely objectionable person.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: Sorry for being kind of a twunt about other matters, but it's because of posts like this that I don't want to write you off or lose you as a friend.
Let the pub-dodging twunt embarrass himself with his primitive, witless and repetitive insults.
Is that the twunt who looks like Bill Bailey's younger brother?
I note that in a recent New Scientist some twunt was advocating the use of C02 pressure washers and acidic/caustic cleaning foams instead of the usual disinfectant approach.
It is completely normal to harbour desires to batter these smug twunts about the head with a hot MacBook Air.
“You're so perfect at everything, deal with it yourself. I'm outta here.” [glass shattering] “Okay. That sounded expensive. Terry, Terry, don't be a twunt. What did you break?”
Translations:
occupancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English occupant
English -cy
English occupancy
From occupant + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: occupancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of occupying, the state of being occupied or the state of being an occupant or tenant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The period of time during which someone rents or otherwise occupies certain land or premises.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They had a five-year occupancy on the house.
gloss: The specific use to which something occupied is put.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This building is for residential occupancy.
gloss: A mode of acquiring title to a thing which belongs to nobody, by taking possession of it with an intent of acquiring such title.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But if the matter pre-existing belong to none, then shall the Right be acquired by a kind of Occupancy: But if it it belong to another, then that the Right of Propriety descends not naturally unto us alone, will appear by what follows.
Occupancy is the taking possession of those things, which before belonged to nobody.
gloss: The expected frequency of a state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: inoccupancy
Related words: occupant
occupation
occupy
Derived words: area of occupancy
certificate of occupancy
cooccupancy
high-occupancy vehicle
multioccupancy
overoccupancy
preoccupancy
underoccupancy
unoccupancy
Translations:
occupant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French occupant (present participle of occuper) or Latin occupāns, occupantis (present participle of occupō). By surface analysis, occupy + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: occupants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who occupies an office or a position.
pos: noun
examples: I cannot say the same of the current occupant of the position
occupant of the Oval Office
gloss: A person who occupies a place.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who occupies a place.
pos: noun
gloss: The owner or tenant of a property.
pos: noun
examples: I looked over to the Radley Place, expecting to see its phantom occupant sunning himself in the swing. The swing was empty.
Synonyms: occupier
Derived words: nonoccupant
occupance
occupancy
occupantless
preoccupant
Translations:
occupational
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English occupation
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 occupational
From occupation (noun) + -al (suffix forming adjectives).
Inflected forms:
form: more occupational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most occupational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, belonging, or relating to an occupation (in any sense).
pos: adj
examples: Boredom is an occupational hazard if you are a checkout operator.
She added that if someone is experiencing a high degree of distress because of scelerophobia and their social and occupational functioning is being affected, she recommends seeing a medical provider or mental health professional.
Translations:
octagonal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English octagon
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 octagonal
From octagon + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: octogonal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Shaped like an octagon, in having eight sides and eight angles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles.
The sundials range in shape from octagonal to the usual round. Prices range from $75 to $375.
Translations:
octavo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: From Latin octavo. Doublet of octave, oitava, and ochava.
Inflected forms:
form: octavos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheet of paper 7 to 10 inches (= 17.78 to 25.4 cm) high and 4.5 to 6 inches (= 11.43 to 15.24 cm) wide, the size varying with the large original sheet used to create it. It is made by folding the original sheet three times to produce eight leaves.
pos: noun
gloss: A book of octavo pages.
pos: noun
examples: He was also much of a politician; too much, perhaps, for his station. There fell lately into my hands, in London, a collection he had made of all the principal pamphlets, relating to public affairs, from 1641 to 1717; many of the volumes are wanting as appears by the numbering, but there still remain eight volumes in folio, and twenty-four in quarto and in octavo.
Synonyms: 8º
8vo
O
Related words: foolscap
A3
A4
Translations:
oculist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French oculiste (“oculist”), from Latin oculus (“eye”).
Inflected forms:
form: oculists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An eye doctor; an ophthalmologist or optometrist.
pos: noun
examples: Five minutes later, […] Carrados was arranging to take rooms for his attendant and himself for the short time that he would be in London, seeing an oculist.
Translations:
hermaphroditism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hermaphrodite
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English hermaphroditism
From hermaphrodite + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: hermaphroditisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of an organism that is able to reproduce as both male and female, either simultaneously (simultaneous hermaphroditism or cosexuality) or sequentially (sequential hermaphroditism or dichogamy).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Among other organisms, alternative methods of reproduction include budding, hermaphroditism (one individual carrying both kinds of sex organs) and isogamy (two individuals, not distinguished as male and female, combining their genes).
gloss: The condition of intersex people with intermediate sex characteristics or pseudohermaphroditism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
historical
offensive
uncountable
Synonyms: hermaphrodism
dichogamous
cosexual
intersex
intersexuality
Related words: hermaphrodite
hermaphroditic
hermaphroditical
hermaphroditically
pseudohermaphroditism
intersex
Translations:
androgyny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From andro- + -gyny. See androgynous.
Affixes: andro-
-gyny
Inflected forms:
form: androgynies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: androgony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Hermaphroditism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The state of having traits of both male and female genders.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Now androgyny has come to mean the adoption of social behavior that is not strictly masculine or feminine according to the old role definitions. An attempt to escape from gender-identified role-playing, androgyny does not necessarily determine sexual behavior.
gloss: The state of appearing to be neither feminine nor masculine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The plot isn't the film's greatest asset, nor are its insights into Margaret, Larry and the brave new world of affectless androgyny that they inhabit.
‘No, I like short hair on girls. I like that androgyny thing. Seriously.’
gloss: The state or ability, of a connector or docking port, to connect with either male (plug) or female (socket) or other neutral connectors or ports.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: […] it is obvious that the idea of androgyny of docking/berthing interfaces […]
Related words: androgynous
gynandry
Derived words: androgynocentric
polyandrogyny
Translations:
nausea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nausea, a borrowing from Latin nausea, from Ancient Greek ναυσία (nausía, “sea-sickness”), from ναῦς (naûs, “ship”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂-. Displaced native Old English wlǣtta.
Inflected forms:
form: nauseas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nauseae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nauseæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He got nausea after two hours of travelling on the plane.
gloss: Strong dislike or disgust.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Motion sickness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Related words: ad nauseam
nautical
Derived words: antinausea
nauseate
nauseous
Translations:
cryptic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Late Latin crypticus, from Ancient Greek κρυπτικός (kruptikós), from κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”), from κρύπτω (krúptō, “to hide”). Doublet of kryptic.
Inflected forms:
form: more cryptic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cryptic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cryptick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: cryptics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cryptick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having hidden (unapparent) meaning.
pos: adj
gloss: Mystified or of an obscure nature; not easy to perceive.
pos: adj
examples: I think the Original of this conceit might be, That the Students of Nature, conſcious to her more cryptick wayes of working, reſolve many ſtrange effects into the nearer efficiency of ſecond cauſes[…]
Even the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept, the cryptic induration of the aphrodisiac function.
gloss: Involving use of a code or cipher.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a crossword puzzle, or a clue in such a puzzle, using, in addition to definitions, wordplay such as anagrams, homophones and hidden words to indicate solutions.
pos: adj
gloss: Well camouflaged; having good camouflage.
pos: adj
examples: Lonomia caterpillars are extremely cryptic.
gloss: Serving as camouflage.
pos: adj
examples: cryptic colouring
Episematic characters are far less common than aposematic, and these than cryptic; although, as regards the latter comparison, the opposite impression is generally produced from the fact that concealment is so successfully attained.
gloss: Apparently identical, but actually genetically distinct.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: cryptic species
gloss: Living in a cavity or small cave.
pos: adj
examples: Much of the Permian Capitan reef was strongly differentiated into open surface and cryptic communities.
gloss: A cryptic crossword puzzle.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He settled down to the cryptic in the Independent. He loved his crossword. It kept him mentally active, just as gossip did his wife.
This writer has been solving cryptics for 40 years and can usually crack Araucaria, though it might take a couple of days.
Related words: crypto-
Derived words: anticryptic
cryptic crossword
cryptic definition
crypticity
crypticness
cryptic ovulation
cryptic species
holocryptic
noncryptic
pseudocryptic
semicryptic
uncryptic
Translations:
romantic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Rōma
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin Rōmānus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin rōmānicus
Latin -ē
Vulgar Latin rōmānicē
Old French romanz
Old French romauntder.
English romant
▲
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English romantic
From romant + -ic, or borrowed from Late Latin romanticus (“(of a poem) having qualities of a romance”). Compare French romantique, which is borrowed from English. Also compare Spanish romántico, Portuguese romântico, Italian romantico, Dutch romantisch, and German romantisch and Romantiker (“a composer of Romantic music”), all of which are borrowed from English or French.
Base: romant
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: romantics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: romantick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person with romantic character (a character like those of the knights in a mythic romance).
pos: noun
gloss: A person who is behaving romantically (in a manner befitting someone who feels an idealized form of love).
pos: noun
examples: Oh, flowers! You're such a romantic.
Kaldor is an interesting lyricist, and it is easy to identify with her imagery. She's also an unabashed romantic of the most extreme kind, with lines like "For we can talk without speaking/we can see without light/I'll never leave you...."
Derived words: panromantic
Translations:
opt
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1853; borrowed from French opter, from Latin optō (“to choose; to select”). Doublet of optate.
Inflected forms:
form: opts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: opting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: opted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: opted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To choose; select.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He opted not to go.
She opted for the salad rather than the steak.
They opted against taking the train, preferring the bus.
.... ardent anti-Germans who had 'opted' for France
The Italian opted for Bolton's Cahill alongside captain John Terry - and his decision was rewarded with a goal after only 13 minutes. Bulgaria gave a hint of defensive frailties to come when they failed to clear Young's corner, and when Gareth Barry found Cahill in the box he applied the finish past Nikolay Mihaylov.
Chepstow is good for excursions, and Bradshaw tells me I can get a fly to Tintern Abbey, although the fare structure seems particularly complicated. Alternatively, I could go for a simpler choice and just opt for "single horse, 1s", although I doubt I'd survive to tell the tale.
Translations:
invasion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From Middle French invasion, from Late Latin invāsiōnem, accusative of invāsiō.
Inflected forms:
form: invasions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A military action consisting of a large armed force of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Since Michel's days, however, many barbarian invasions had subdivided the Three Gauls into a melange of warsome states and tribes, all, nevertheless, acquiring a vaguely similar grace, if not a petite grandeur.
Yeh actually works in marketing, and his weapon is a replica -- but he is spending the weekend attending an urban warfare workshop to prepare for what he sees as the very real threat of a Chinese invasion.
North Korea had not publicly confirmed its contribution until Monday, when it said: “The operations for liberating the Kursk area to repel the adventurous invasion of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian authorities were victoriously concluded,” according to state-run news agency KCNA.
gloss: The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: an invasion of mobile phones
an invasion of bees
an invasion of foreign tourists
gloss: The spread of cancer cells, bacteria and such to the organism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The histological diagnosis of PC is currently restricted to lesions showing unequivocal extra-parathyroidal growth, as evidenced by perineural invasion, full thickness capsular invasion with growth into adjacent tissues, extratumoral vascular invasion, or metastasis.
gloss: The breaching of the skin barrier.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: intervasion
invade
invader
Derived words: angioinvasion
bioinvasion
British Invasion
chemoinvasion
coinvasion
counterinvasion
cyberinvasion
cytoinvasion
home invasion
invasin
invasional
invasionary
invasionist
invasion money
invasion of privacy
invasion stripes
lymphoinvasion
microinvasion
neuroinvasion
pitch invasion
postinvasion
preinvasion
pseudoinvasion
reinvasion
vasoinvasion
Translations:
cited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That has a citation
pos: adj
Translations:
nominate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
billiards
biology
games
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
sports
zoology
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁nómn̥
The adjective is first attested in 1450, in Middle English, the verb in 1545; partly from Middle English nominat(e) (“named, designated”), from Latin nōminātus, perfect passive participle of nōminō (“to name”) (see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3)), from nōmen (“a name”). Participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Inflected forms:
form: nominates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nominating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nominated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nominated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To name someone as a candidate for a particular role or position, including that of an office.
pos: verb
gloss: To specify in advance which pocket a ball will be potted in; to call; to name.
pos: verb
gloss: To designate a peer (or oneself) as corresponding to a (potentially positive or negative) description.
pos: verb
examples: In the unlimited method, they are allowed to nominate as many or as few peers as they see fit for each question.
gloss: To entitle, confer a name upon.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: 1658: the City of Norwich … was enlarged, builded and nominated by the Saxons. — Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial (Penguin 2005, p. 12)
gloss: Named, called; nominated, appointed etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Mentioned by name, noted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Nominated to an office.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: an executor nominate / a nominate executor
gloss: Having a special name or mentioning a particular name.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: nominotypical
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the nominate subspecies
Related words: denominate
nomination
Derived words: disnominate
nominatee
nominately
nominator
nonnominated
prenominate
renominate
unnominated
nominate contract
nominate executor
Translations:
closer
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
Etymology: From Middle English closere, equivalent to close (verb) + -er.
Base: close
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: closers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Within a shorter distance.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Come closer, my dear.
gloss: Someone or something that closes.
pos: noun
examples: In our organization, the VP of Sales usually acts as the closer.
gloss: Someone or something that concludes.
pos: noun
examples: The DJ chose a fantastic track as his closer at the end of the night.
gloss: Synonym of close (“the point at the end of a sales pitch when the consumer is asked to buy”).
pos: noun
gloss: The last stone in a horizontal course, if smaller than the others; a piece of brick finishing a course.
pos: noun
examples: The longitudinal bond of the walls is only 24 inches, or one fourth of the length of a brick of 9 inches, and is obtained by introducing closers 24 inches broad
gloss: A relief pitcher who specializes in getting the last three outs of the game.
pos: noun
examples: They brought their closer in for the ninth.
gloss: A horse that performs best toward the end of a race.
pos: noun
Derived words: boot closer
door closer
file closer
Translations:
shove
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: From Middle English schouven, from Old English sċūfan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeuban, from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ-.
See also West Frisian skowe, Low German schuven, Dutch schuiven, German schieben, Danish skubbe, Norwegian Bokmål skyve, Norwegian Nynorsk skuva; also Lithuanian skùbti (“to hurry”), Polish skubać (“to pluck”), Albanian humb (“to lose”).
Inflected forms:
form: shoves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shoving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shoved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shoved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shoven
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: shoves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To push, especially roughly or with force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all
The ship was anon shoven in the sea.
gloss: To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He grasped the oar, received his guests on board, and shoved from shore.
gloss: To make an all-in bet.
pos: verb
gloss: To pass (counterfeit money).
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To put hurriedly
pos: verb
gloss: A rough push.
pos: noun
examples: I rested […] and then gave the boat another shove.
gloss: An all-in bet.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A forward movement of packed river-ice.
pos: noun
Derived words: duckshove
outshove
push and shove
shovable
shoveable
shove about
shove around
shoveboard
shove down
shovegroat
shove ha'penny
shove it
shove-it
shove it up your ass
shovel
shove off
shove on
shove over
shover
shove something down someone's throat
shove the queer
shove up
shuffleboard
tell someone where to shove it
unshoved
ice shove
shove in the mouth
shove knife
shovey
when push comes to shove
Translations:
oddness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English oddenesse; equivalent to odd + -ness.
Base: odd
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: oddnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being odd.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The result or product of being odd.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: This humour broke out at first in many little oddnesses: he had never any stated hours for his dinner, supper, or sleep; because, said he, we ought to attend the calls of nature, and not set our appetites to our meals […]
Neither was he intimate with any of the other bigger boys, who were warned off by his oddnesses, for he was a very queer fellow; […]
Synonyms: weirdness
Translations:
odorous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English odorous, from Medieval Latin odōrōsus, equivalent to odor + -ous.
Base: odor
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more odorous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most odorous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: odourous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a distinctive odor.
pos: adj
examples: The table was piled with odorous lilies.
Translations:
odorless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English odor
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English odorless
From odor + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: odourless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: Having no odor.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odorless gas.
The garlion is a cross between the garlic and onion; the topeppo combines the tomato and the pepper. We have the odorless onion, the odorless cabbage, the lemon cucumber that grows on a vine but looks like a lemon, and a giant cucumber
The Invisible Killer Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Most of these deaths are caused by accidental inhalation of DHMO, but the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide do not end there.
Translations:
odourless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English odour
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English odourless
From odour + -less.
Inflected forms:
form: odorless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: Having no odour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They were taken unawares and overcome when the room filled with a lethal, odourless gas.
Smiling, young, muscular, paunchless, probably odourless, he went.
Translations:
missus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Representing a common pronunciation of Mrs, a reduced form of Mistress.
Inflected forms:
form: missuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: missis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Wife or girlfriend.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
colloquial
examples: Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go shopping.
The missus has a list of chores for me to do this weekend.
I thought there might be trouble with the missus if I engaged a one-time murderer as nursemaid.
Sometimes I find myself sitting back and reminiscing / Especially when I have to watch other people kissing / And I remember when you started calling me your missus / All the play fighting, all the flirtatious disses
Imagine you have driven past a restaurant and thought to yourself, 'That would be a nice place to take the missus for an evening out,' and in no time at all you have found yourself flicking through the Yellow Pages in search of the phonenumber.
gloss: Term of address for a woman.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
colloquial
examples: 'Scuse me missus, but your petticoat's showing.
Look ere Missus! Little Joey's me bruvva. E stays wiv me. We aint goin ter be split up.
Synonyms: Mrs.
Mrs
Derived words: Mrs. President
Translations:
Whovian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From (Doctor) Who + -v- + -ian; compare Peruvian and Kachruvian.
Base: (Doctor) Who
Affixes: -v-
-ian
Inflected forms:
form: Whovians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Whovian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Whovian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A fan of the British science-fiction television programme Doctor Who.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: But I am sorry; I'm a devout Whovian and I guess I got a little hot seeing the good Doctor ignored like that.
Typing birthday and Doctor Who into the search fireld turned up a fan-made video of a Dalek singing "Happy Birthday," which was perfect for my friend Steve, a fellow Whovian.
In his time, he's been a comic-book geek, a role-playing geek, a computer geek, and a sci- fi geek, though never a Trekkie, Trekker, or a Whovian, because he has his limits.
Westin: "Oh, yeah. We found a full fledged member of a fan club that has already seen all episodes of the show[…]he was a closet Whovian, or what ever they are called.”
gloss: Of or pertaining to the fictional universe of Doctor Who.
pos: adj
examples: One of the more inventive applications of the Frazerian thesis that magic is misunderstood science is the British television series Dr Who[…]Most space aliens who make it to the Whovian Earth are as interested in power and 'the art of managing the mob, which is called leading people by the nose ' as any Tolandish druid or priest.
The Ninth Doctor is haunted, thanks to a 'Time War' that has rendered his species, the Time Lords, extinct at the hands of the Whovian nemeses, the Daleks, who are now supposedly equally extinct.
³³ In a historical irony, the Daleks have been taken as metaphors for the Nazis; the other main Whovian adversaries, the Cybermen, were likewise metaphors for Cold War Communists.
Synonyms: Doctor Whovian
Translations:
Irishman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Irisshman, equivalent to Irish + -man.
Base: Irish
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: Irishmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man from Ireland.
pos: noun
examples: It is so absurd to advance into the presence of savage royalty after the fashion of an Irishman driving a pig to market, for that is what we looked like, and the idea nearly made me burst out laughing then and there.
Translations:
girly
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *gaurā
Proto-West Germanic *-ilā
Proto-West Germanic *gurilā
Old English *gyrele?
Middle English girle
English girl
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English girly
From girl + -y (adjectival sufix).
Inflected forms:
form: girlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: girliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: girlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of a stereotypical girl, very effeminate, gentle; unmasculine.
pos: adj
examples: As a mom of two girls – including one who hopes Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos calls her to play on his team in this week’s Super Bowl – I can totally relate. I, along with so many other parents, am frustrated about the definitions of what’s girly and what’s not, and the separate products and clothing offered to girls and boys.
The Forever21 of Korean makeup, Etude House is geared toward the girliest of girls – and Japanese tourists.
Where Lulu was a bit girlier and took more delight in gossip, Tea claims to be more focused on safety, but they general gist is similar.
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, a young, attractive woman; especially one who is scantily clad.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: a girly calendar
gloss: Weak; wussy.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: There was enough food for a soccer team and we were going to grill it. Our meatfest included no girly utensils, no wussy plates. Just our hands, mouths, and incisors.
gloss: A girl.
pos: noun
tags: childish
colloquial
examples: “Hey girly!” Chiles said. “What’s up!” / “Oh my gosh,” Raisman said. “How did you get in our hotel room?”
Synonyms: feminine
girlish
puellile
puelline
womanly
effeminate
unmanly
Antonyms: butch
hoyden
hoydenish
mannish
masculine
tomboyish
unwomanly
manly
Derived words: girlily
girliness
girly bits
girly girl
girly mag
girly magazine
girly man
girlyman
girly push-up
ungirly
Translations:
nav
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
transport
war
Etymology: Clipping of navigation or navigate.
Inflected forms:
form: navs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: navving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: navved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: navved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Navigation. Often used attributively, as in nav beacon.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncountable
examples: Standing and moving to under one of the lights by the nav station I could see a dark blue-red mark across the right side of my rib cage. Prodding gently I realised I had just cracked or broken one or more ribs.
gloss: to navigate
pos: verb
tags: informal
Translations:
dek
Part of speech: noun
num
Morphological type: simple
Topics: journalism
media
Etymology: Deliberate misspelling of deck, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the story.
Inflected forms:
form: deks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The subhead of a news story.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: The cardinal number occurring after nine and before el in a duodecimal system. Written ↊, decimal value 10.
pos: num
Translations:
officialdom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English official
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos
Proto-Germanic *dōmaz
Proto-Germanic *-dōmaz
Proto-West Germanic *-dōm
Old English -dōm
Middle English -dom
English -dom
English officialdom
From official + -dom.
Inflected forms:
form: officialdoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The people elected to government or employed in the civil service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [Magazine staffer:] In the bag may be the next chief—a wedding to one of officialdom's family will assure certainty.
Nevertheless Armenian leaders at first retained faith in the reform agenda of the Porte, ascribing their ills to incompetent officialdom and Kurdish lawlessness.
An enormous amount of off-book money sloshes around Chinese business and officialdom, and some of it runs into handbags.
gloss: The state of being official
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: This was largely due to its widespread use in the army and officialdom in the Ottoman Empire.
Translations:
officiate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin officiātus, perfect participle of Late Latin officior (“to perform a function”) and of Medieval Latin officiō (“to officiate, say mass (9th cent.); to serve a church (13th cent.); to serve (early 13th c., 14th in British sources); to discharge an office (14th c.)”), from Latin officium (“official duty, service”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
The noun is derived from Medieval Latin officiātus (“monk in charge of a monastic office, official (start of 12th c., 14th in British sources)”), substantivized from the participle, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: officiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: officiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: officiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: officiated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform the functions of some office.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: She officiated as registrar at the wedding.
She officiated the wedding as registrar.
gloss: To serve as umpire or referee.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: This is the second time he has officiated at a cup-final.
He's never officiated a cup-final before.
Derived words: nonofficiating
officiation
officiator
self-officiated
unofficiating
Translations:
officious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 15th century, from Middle English offycyous, from Latin officiōsus (“kindly”), from officium (“service”).
Inflected forms:
form: more officious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most officious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obliging, attentive, eager to please.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Elizabeth's misery increased, at such unnecessary, such officious attention!
‘It is essential that the nation become accustomed to managing its own affairs, so that it will emerge from this state of infancy in which an anxious and officious government attempts to keep the people’.
gloss: Offensively intrusive or interfering in offering advice and services.
pos: adj
examples: The help tended to be officious, the rules, if heeded, restrictive, and the management meddlesome.
Derived words: inofficious
officious intermeddler
officiously
officiousness
overofficious
superofficious
ultraofficious
unofficious
Translations:
off-peak
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: During a period of less use or demand than the maximum (peak), generally overnight.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Phone calls on weekdays between 18:00 and 08:00 the following day are charged at an off-peak tariff, lower than peak, but higher than weekend.
At the time of writing some of the As are still running, and they are my favourite Underground cars. They are roomy and airy; the seats are transverse benches that you can stretch out and sleep on in the off-peak.
What about overcrowding?
Passengers are being asked to allow longer than normal for travel on some routes, due to reduced capacity on trains.
If you can, you should travel at off-peak times. Employers are being asked to agree alternative or flexible working hours to support this.
As with other tourist lines, actual peak demand is from mid-morning to late afternoon - 'off peak' in conventional fares jargon. This can (and does) result in overcrowding at off-peak times and near empty trains at 'peak' hours. National one-size-fits-all simply does not apply on the S&C.
Translations:
off-piste
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English off-
French pistebor.
English piste
English off-piste
From off- + piste.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not specially prepared or designated for skiing, hence viewed as more exciting but also more dangerous.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Please stay away from the off-piste slopes.
gloss: Deviating from what is seen as correct, usual or conventional.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: His ideas are totally off-piste.
gloss: In off-piste locations.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We are skiing off-piste this morning.
Some ski instructors are allowed to take groups off-piste too, so long as they don't travel across glaciers, but the tour hosts and reps who commonly show skiers around pisted runs within large resorts are definitely not allowed to go off-piste […]
Antonyms: on-piste
Derived words: off-pister
Translations: