yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
thermodynamics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English dynamics
English thermodynamics
From thermo- + dynamics. First attested in the 1850s.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The science of the conversions between heat and other forms of energy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “3D photochemistry plays a huge role because it provides heating or cooling, which can affect the thermodynamics and perhaps the atmospheric composition of a planetary system,” Chen said.
The top-hatted “drinking bird,” once a fixture in science classrooms for demonstrating the basics of thermodynamics, is making a surprising comeback — as the inspiration for a new clean-energy generator that could one day power your watch and phone.
Translations:
etude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From around the year 1837, borrowed from French étude (“study”) from Latin studium. Doublet of studio and study.
Inflected forms:
form: etudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: étude
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short piece of music, designed to give a performer practice in a particular area or skill.
pos: noun
examples: The etudes with metronome markings should be played in tempo, all others should be considered rubato.
Translations:
thermodynamic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer-der.
Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós)der.
English thermo-
Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dunamai
Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμαι (dŭ́nămai)
Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek δυναμικός (dunamikós)lbor.
French dynamiqueder.
English dynamic
English thermodynamic
From thermo- + dynamic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to the conversion of heat into other forms of energy.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The locomotive is designed to give a high and sustained tractive effort at moderate speed on steep gradients. To attain this result, M. Chapelon, in experiments dsting back to 1940, aimed at improving the thermodynamic efficiency.
When calcium oxide is combined with CO2, it naturally forms calcium carbonate over time due to thermodynamic equilibrium, explains the researcher.
gloss: Of, or relating to thermodynamics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: thermodynamics
Derived words: aerothermodynamic
extrathermodynamic
quasithermodynamic
thermodynamically
thermodynamic equilibrium
thermodynamicist
thermodynamic state
thermodynamic system
thermodynamic temperature
Translations:
obbligato
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian obbligato. Piecewise doublet of obliged.
Inflected forms:
form: obbligatos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: obbligati
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: obligato
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An obbligato section; a prominent countermelody, often written to be played or sung above the principal theme (in a higher pitch range).
pos: noun
examples: The noise of the traffic outside the building on the boulevard made an unmusical obbligato to my thinking.
Translations:
rarely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rare
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English rarely
From rare + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: rarelier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more rarely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: rareliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most rarely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not occurring at a regular interval; seldom; not often.
pos: adv
examples: We rarely go to the theatre.
Rarely do you ever find an eagle this far up the river.
You have to give them credit, rarely does a character appeal equally to four-year-old children and middle-aged aunts posting tepid jokes and fake Oscar Wilde quotes on their timelines.
gloss: Unusually well; excellently.
pos: adv
examples: After all the schooling, I can finally write rarely now.
gloss: To a rare degree; very.
pos: adv
examples: I became a rarely good judge of the best in modern painting.
others speake very honourably of his life and death, and in all other circumstances declare him to have beene a most excellent and rarely virtuous man.
Synonyms: barely
hardly
infrequently
once in a while
seldom
sporadically
scarcely
rarely
seldomly
uncommonly
unoften
Antonyms: frequently
usually
often
Related words: rareness
rarity
frequency
Appendix:Roget MICRA thesaurus/Class I § 137. Infrequency
Translations:
prefecture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French préfecture, from Latin praefectūra. Equivalent to prefect + -ure. As an East Asian administrative division, a calque of Chinese 府 (fǔ) and 郡 (jùn), also used to describe 縣 /县 (xian, “county”) and 州 (zhou, “province”) in some eras.
Base: prefect
Affixes: -ure
Inflected forms:
form: prefectures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præfecture
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The office or position of a prefect.
pos: noun
gloss: The jurisdiction of a prefect; the region administered by a prefect, especially as a translation of certain French, Chinese, and Japanese administrative divisions.
pos: noun
examples: The top anti-corruption watchdog in Southwest China’s Yunnan province said on Friday the governor of the burgeoning aluminium hub of Wenshan had been placed under investigation.
Zhang Xiulan, who has been governor of Wenshan prefecture since March 2015, is suspected of “grave violations of discipline and the law,” the Yunnan Province Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement, without elaborating.
In particular, Kumamoto prefecture in southwestern Japan is quickly becoming a hotbed for tech investment from companies including TSMC and Fujifilm Holdings Corp (FUJIF).
Related words: prefect
Derived words: autonomous prefecture
prefectural
prefecture-level city
prefecture-level municipality
prefecturewide
subprefecture
sub-prefecture
Translations:
scrapie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From scrape + -ie, from the tendency of affected animals to scrape themselves against solid objects.
Base: scrape
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: scrapies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This incurable disease, called scrapie, became a large problem, often killing one ewe in ten.
Translations:
restrain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English restreinen, from Old French restreindre, from Latin rēstringere (“fasten, tighten”).
Inflected forms:
form: restrains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: restraining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: restrained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: restrained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To control or keep in check.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As with vicarious mismenstruation, the abnormal cessation only requires strict attention to the general health, with such measures to restrain hemorrhage as have already been indicated.
gloss: To deprive of liberty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To restrict or limit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was restrained by the straitjacket.
In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. […] The public realm is privatised, the regulations restraining the ultra-wealthy and the companies they control are abandoned, and Edwardian levels of inequality are almost fetishised.
Synonyms: limit
withstrain
Related words: constrain
restraint
restrict
Derived words: overrestrain
overrestrained
restrainable
restrainer
restrainment
underrestrain
unrestrain
Translations:
toponym
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from toponymy. By surface analysis, topo + -nym.
Inflected forms:
form: toponyms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A placename.
pos: noun
examples: As we celebrate one hundred years of official 'standardization' of Canadian toponyms, this would be an appropriate time to reflect upon the state of toponyms used by the Aboriginal people of Canada.
Conquests were recorded using toponyms that refer to specific cities or locations, and war captives were identified by their place of origin.
If ביתדוד of the Tel Dan Inscription did originate with a temple of some kind, then we must interpret the ‘’’toponym’’’ as meaning 'House of (the) Patron'. Thus, although the toponym ביתדוד in the Tel Dan Inscription can be connected indirectly with a deity, such a connection is not demanded by the toponym itself.
gloss: A word derived from the name of a place.
pos: noun
tags: uncommon
examples: ‘Tangerine’ is a toponym of Tangier.
The name Rūmī, by which he is widely known in the West, is a toponym referring to the fact that he lived in the province of Rūm (Anatolia), the country now known as Turkey.
Next time you go out for a hamburger, ask your sixth grader to find the toponyms. They are words that come from the names of places, like hamburger comes from Hamburg, Germany.
During the Second Boer War (1899-1902), English officers who had done badly were sent to the British military base at Stellenbosch, without losing rank, to look after horses there. Eventually, the term came to refer to relegating or reassigning someone considered incompetent or incapable to a position of lower responsibility, and is thus a demotion, even though there may be no loss of rank or pay. It generally, though not always, arises in connection with military affairs. The word is therefore known as a toponym (see place-name).
Those husbands with toponyms such as “d'Incisa,” “da Montelupo,” “da Volterra,” and the like we classify as non-Florentine.
gloss: The technical designation of any region of an animal.
pos: noun
Related words: eponym
troponym
Derived words: anthropotoponym
toponymal
toponymics
toponymic
toponymous
zootoponym
Translations:
syllabus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: education
law
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin syllabus (“list”), which arose from accusative plural syllabōs appearing as a corruption of sittybās (accusative plural of sittyba, from Ancient Greek σιττύβα (sittúba, “parchment label; table of contents”)) in a 1470s edition of Cicero's “Ad Atticum” IV.5 and 8, influenced by the stem of Ancient Greek συλλαμβάνω (sullambánō, “to put together”).
Inflected forms:
form: syllabi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: syllabuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A summary of topics which will be covered during an academic course, or a text or lecture.
pos: noun
examples: In the first half of the year, teachers attended the training workshop for the new K-10 Chinese syllabus. In July, almost all the teachers attended the teacher training courses provided by OCAC.
‘I checked online for a beginner syllabus,’ she say. ‘A syllabus is a plan for how we would work, what I can teach you.’
gloss: The headnote of a reported case; the brief statement of the points of law determined prefixed to a reported case.
pos: noun
Related words: syllable
syllabary
Translations:
messy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mess
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English messy
From mess + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: messier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: messiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
pos: adj
tags: person
examples: a messy office
Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.
gloss: Prone to causing mess.
pos: adj
examples: He is the messiest person I've ever met.
gloss: Difficult or unpleasant to deal with.
pos: adj
examples: a messy divorce
Say bonjour to the botched R.S.V.P. The practice of replying to invitations, let alone actually showing up to parties as promised, has become as antiquated as the chimney sweep, and much messier.
gloss: Argumentative, spreading spreading gossip, talking behind someone's back
pos: adj
examples: They keep starting fights with Sam, they're so messy.
Antonyms: neat
orderly
Derived words: messily
messiness
messyish
nonmessy
unmessy
wet and messy
wet and messy fetishism
Translations:
disorderly
Part of speech: adj
noun
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From disorder + -ly (adjectival suffix) or from dis- + orderly.
Base: disorder
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more disorderly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disorderly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disorderlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more disorderly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most disorderly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.
pos: adj
examples: The books and papers are in a disorderly state.
This one is surmounted by a clock-tower with a bent weather-vane - the latter being the only disorderly object in sight.
gloss: Not acting in an orderly way, as the functions of the body or mind.
pos: adj
gloss: Not complying with the restraints of order and law; unruly; lawless.
pos: adj
examples: disorderly people; disorderly assemblies
The teacher sat at one end of the bench, with a meek little fellow by his side. When the others were disorderly, this young martyr received a rap; intended, probably, as a sample of what the rest might expect, if they didn't amend.
The Uganda Police Force described the planned protests as “potentially anarchic” in a statement on Monday, warning it “shall not tolerate disorderly conduct.”
gloss: Offensive to good morals and public decency.
pos: adj
examples: a disorderly house
gloss: A person who acts in a disorderly manner.
pos: noun
examples: The police are allowed one shilling a-head upon all disorderlies who are discharged by the magistrates upon payment of expenses. The number so discharged are about a third of the number in custody.
gloss: In a confused or lawless manner.
pos: adv
Synonyms: chaotic
cluttered
disorderly
messy
ree-raw
riotous
sluttish
tempestuous
tumultuary
tumultuous
turbulent
untidy
Antonyms: orderly
Related words: disorder
Derived words: disorderlily
disorderliness
disorderly conduct
disorderly house
drunk and disorderly
undisorderly
Translations:
waken
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.
Inflected forms:
form: wakens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wakening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wakened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wakened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To wake or rouse from sleep.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
Related words: awaken
Translations:
walkabout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from walk about, originally in Australian Pidgin English; the Australian aboriginal word wokabat is derived from this term.
Inflected forms:
form: walkabouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A period, often extended, during which an Aboriginal person left a station or settlement to travel on country, typically seasonally or for traditional cultural reasons; a journey by foot taken by an Aboriginal as a temporary withdrawal from white society.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: The police picked him up, reared him, and he had been a tracker ever since, except for periodical walk-abouts.
gloss: A walking trip.
pos: noun
gloss: A public stroll by some celebrity to meet a group of people informally.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: While the world altered dramatically during the course of her reign, the monarchy did too, though rather more imperceptibly: the walkabouts that increasingly characterised royal appearances, the pop concerts at Buckingham Palace, the throwing open of the royal palaces to visitors – even the paying of income tax, and royal podcasts – would have been inconceivable as innovations at the time Elizabeth came to the throne.
gloss: An absence, usually from a regular place with a possibility of a return.
pos: noun
Derived words: go walkabout
walkabout disease
Translations:
walkover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: boxing
government
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English walk overdeverb.
English walkover
Deverbal from walk over.
Inflected forms:
form: walkovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: walk-over
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An easy victory; a walkaway.
pos: noun
examples: Along the way, there was another backdrop to this match, in the form of the goal updates from Serravalle informing everyone that Ukraine were on their way to the obligatory walkover against San Marino.
gloss: A bye or victory awarded to a competitor when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game.
pos: noun
gloss: A horse race with only one entrant.
pos: noun
gloss: An uncontested election.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
gloss: Someone easy to defeat.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who does not stand up for themselves when mistreated; a doormat.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A backbend combined with a handstand.
pos: noun
gloss: A match whose winner is declared because the other boxer does not appear in the ring within one minute of the official time.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of railroad passenger car seat, having reversible seat backs that can be moved across the seat to face either direction of travel
pos: noun
examples: The train's walkover seats are turned by the crew.
It took about 10 minutes to flip the walkovers in each car.
gloss: An ecological survey carried out by walking across and examining a piece of land.
pos: noun
Translations:
walkie-talkie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From walking + talking.
Compound parts: walking
talking
Inflected forms:
form: walkie-talkies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: walkie talkie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: walky-talky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A portable, bidirectional radio transceiver, usually one of a pair.
pos: noun
examples: It is intended to equip the yard foremen and shunters with "walkie-talkie" apparatus to keep them in close touch with the control office.
A walkie-talkie is a handheld, portable, two-way radio transceiver. It includes a half-duplex channel (only one radio transmits at a time, though any number can listen) and a push-to-talk switch that starts transmission.
gloss: A walk and talk.
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: It could be that her walkie-talkie with Naylor had concerned a private matter not connected with what was about to happen to him, ...
Go on a walkie-talkie. Everyone goes on a 15-minute brisk walk and talks about their day.
Translations:
wallet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English walet (“a bag, knapsack”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from an assumed Old Northern French *walet (“a roll; bag; a knapsack”), from Proto-Germanic *wal- (“to roll”). More at walk, well, wallow.
Inflected forms:
form: wallets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small case, often flat and often made of leather, for keeping money (especially paper money), credit cards, etc.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
examples: The thief stole all the money and credit cards out of the old man's wallet.
I forgot my wallet and left it at home.
Master leathercrafter does handcrafted wallets, belts, purses, handbags etc., supporting self and helpers. Good enough to carve fantst art and portraits into leather.
gloss: A person's bank account or assets.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
examples: It's unknown if the pro running back's recent sex scandal will hit him in the wallet or not.
In all of India, China, Africa, and much of the southern American continent, those who had the leisure and wallet for fashion—or more simply, in the poorer latitudes, for the mere acquisition of things—would have killed for the street merchandise of Manhattan […]
gloss: An e-wallet or digital wallet.
pos: noun
gloss: A thick case or folder with plastic sleeves in which compact discs may be stored.
pos: noun
examples: I won an auction online for a cheap CD wallet.
gloss: A bag or pouch.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: He brought with him a large wallet with some provisions for the road.
gloss: A person's buttocks (the area of the body nearest where one keeps one's wallet).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He fell down and landed on his wallet.
Synonyms: billfold
pocketbook
Related words: purse
scrip
Derived words: card wallet
CD wallet
champagne taste on a beer wallet
cold wallet
cryptocurrency wallet
crypto wallet
hardware wallet
hot wallet
online wallet
paper wallet
password wallet
peek wallet
prison wallet
sausage wallet
vote with one's wallet
wallet inspector
walletless
walletlike
wallet name
warm wallet
Translations:
waltz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Walzer, from walzen (“to dance”), from Old High German walzan (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *walt- (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn”). Doublet of valse. More at *waltaną.
Inflected forms:
form: waltzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waltzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: waltzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: waltzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: waltzed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A ballroom dance in 3/4 time.
pos: noun
examples: Miss Esler and Mr. McMorrow went to Kalgoorlie to adjudicate at the goldfields waltz and quickstep championships, and found the standard of dancing surprisingly high.
gloss: A piece of music for this dance (or in triple time).
pos: noun
gloss: A simple task.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: To dance the waltz (with).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: They waltzed for twenty-one hours and seventeen minutes straight, setting a record.
While waltzing her around the room, he stepped on her toes only once.
"Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."
gloss: To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
usually
examples: He waltzed into the room like he owned the place.
You can't just waltz him in here without documentation!
Oxlade-Chamberlain, 18, became the youngest English Champions League scorer when he waltzed across the area to plant a low shot into the corner.
The women in Ms. Telfer’s book waltz right by societal rules that would leave the rest of us at a standstill. We are left tsk-tsking, while also in awe.
gloss: To accomplish a task with little effort.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Don't worry about the interview — you'll waltz it.
gloss: To move with fanfare.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to[…] take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.
Related words: waltzer
waltz Matilda
Derived words: bridal waltz
cross-step waltz
English waltz
French waltz
international standard waltz
slow waltz
Viennese waltz
waltz time
wedding waltz
Translations:
wanting
Part of speech: adj
prep
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wantyng, wantynge, wantand, equivalent to want + -ing.
Base: want
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more wanting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wanting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wantings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That wants or desires.
pos: adj
gloss: Absent or lacking.
pos: adj
examples: Already Cæſar
Has ravaged more than half the Globe, and ſees
Mankind grown thin by his deſtructive Sword:
Should he go further, Numbers would be wanting
To form new Battels, and ſupport his Crimes.
[…] but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
Discal black dot small or wanting. Transverse posterior line reduced to two dotlets or altogether wanting.
gloss: Deficient.
pos: adj
examples: Kate felt privileged to have been permitted to speak through it and she was glad that, as before, she had been judged and not found wanting
gloss: Without, except, but.
pos: prep
gloss: Less, short of, minus.
pos: prep
gloss: The state of wanting something; desire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Choice occurs only when we experience a conflict of wantings.
Derived words: find wanting
wantingly
Translations:
warden
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wardein, from Anglo-Norman wardein, from warder (“to guard”), variant of Old French guarder (“to guard”) (whence modern French garder, also English guard), from Proto-Germanic *ward-; related to Old High German wartēn (“to watch”). Compare guardian, French gardien, from Old French guardian, guardein. Compare also ward and reward. Doublet of guardian.
Inflected forms:
form: wardens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wardens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wardening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wardened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wardened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A guard or watchman.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
literary
examples: He called to the wardens on the outside battlements.
gloss: A chief administrative officer of a prison.
pos: noun
examples: The warden of the state prison, Ezekiel Purdy, was a kind man if stern. He invariably made all newcomers a little speech of welcome […]
gloss: An official charged with supervisory duties or with the enforcement of specific laws or regulations; such as a game warden or air-raid warden.
pos: noun
gloss: A governing official in various institutions
pos: noun
examples: the warden of a college
gloss: To carry out the duties of a warden.
pos: verb
Derived words: air-raid warden
air warden
chapelwarden
churchwarden
dog warden
firewarden
fire warden
fish warden
game warden
mint warden
parking warden
people's warden
subwarden
traffic warden
wardeness
Warden Hill
Warden Law
wardenless
warden of the mint
Warden of the Mint
wardenry
wardenship
warden system
waywarden
Translations:
warder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English warder, wardere, perhaps in part continuing Old English weardere (“one who holds a country; inhabitant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wardārī (“guard, follower, watchman, lookout”), equivalent to ward + -er. Cognate with Dutch waarder (“inspector”), German Low German Wärder (“guard, watchman”), German Wärter (“guard, keeper, attendant”).
Base: ward
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: warders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A guard, especially in a prison.
pos: noun
examples: Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I.
But hath thy portion wrought so happily?
Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,
I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.
Above the gloomy portal arch, / Timing his footsteps to a march, / The warder kept his guard, / Low humming, as he paced along, / Some ancient Border gathering song.
So the guards carried him to the jail, thinking to lay him by the heels there for the night; but, when the warders saw his beauty and loveliness, they could not find it in their hearts to imprison him: they made him sit with them without the walls; and, when food came to them, he ate with them what sufficed him.
Nobody else spoke, but they noticed the long stripes on Okonkwo’s back where the warder’s whip had cut into his flesh.
gloss: One who or that which wards or repels.
pos: noun
examples: The conspicuous position thus accorded to the cat as a warder-off of evil fortune seems oddly paralleled, though not imitated, by the place accorded to the same animal in popular European folklore.
Translations:
warehouseman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ware
Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH-der.?
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs
Middle English hous
English house
English warehouse
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English warehouseman
From warehouse + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: warehousemen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who manages, or works in, a warehouse.
pos: noun
examples: But the itinerant tradesman or street-seller is still further distinguished from the regular fixed dealer—the stallkeeper from the shopkeeper—the street-wareman from the warehouseman, by the arts they respectively employ to attract custom.
If a recount of an item is ordered, the warehouseman responsible for the custody of the stock accompanies and assists the rechecker to assure himself that the exact quantity of stock recorded as on hand is actually physically present.
gloss: One who keeps a wholesale shop for woollen goods.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
Synonyms: storeman
warehouse clerk
Related words: warehousewoman
Derived words: Italian warehouseman
Translations:
pawnshop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From pawn + shop.
Compound parts: pawn
shop
Inflected forms:
form: pawnshops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pawn shop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The business premises of a pawnbroker; where loans are made, with personal property as security
pos: noun
Translations:
pawnbroker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pawn
English broke
English -er
English broker
English pawnbroker
From pawn + broker.
Inflected forms:
form: pawnbrokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed.
pos: noun
examples: "We may keep it by us," replied the pawnbroker, "for months; there is no demand for such articles." "But," exclaimed she, eagerly, "I shall soon redeem it!" "So you all say," returned the man, with imperturbable coolness.
Translations:
Roxy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Roxys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Roxies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Roxicodone tablet.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
e-book
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: A contraction of electronic book: e- + book.
Base: book
Affixes: e-
Inflected forms:
form: e-books
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ebook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: eBook
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An electronic book, a book published in electronic form.
pos: noun
examples: The hype around e-books was electrifying in the year 2000 when Stephen King became the first celebrity writer to publish an e-novel.
Translations:
warhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From war + head, originally to distinguish a live war head of a torpedo from an inert exercise head. Piecewise doublet of war chief.
Compound parts: war
head
Inflected forms:
form: warheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear or thermonuclear system, high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage.
pos: noun
examples: "To their anchorage off Kodiak," Chuck says. "The Orthos were all ready. They had put together a crew of ex-Navy men, guys who had worked on nuke subs in the past—X-rays, they call them—and they came and took the sub over. As for us, we had no idea that any of this had happened. Until one of the warheads showed up in the goddamn front yard."
"Multi Bottle Rocket". Possibly the strongest weapon around, it does a lot of damage due to its massive warhead.
gloss: The glans penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: hydrogen warhead
nuclear warhead
super warhead
Translations:
voyeur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French voyeur, from voir (“to see”).
Inflected forms:
form: voyeurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who derives sexual pleasure from observing other people engaging in some intimate or sexual activity; one who engages in voyeurism.
pos: noun
gloss: An obsessive observer of sensational or sordid subjects.
pos: noun
Related words: voyeurism
voyeuse
exhibitionist
creepshot
scopophile
Translations:
banter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1670s as verb, 1680s as noun. The origin is unknown, possibly from London street slang; ostensibly as *bant + -er (frequentative suffix). Possibly an Anglo-Gaelicism from the Irish bean (“woman”), so that "banter" means "talk of women."
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: banters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bantering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bantered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bantered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I was elected to the Executive Committee of the Vegetarian Society, and made it a point to attend every one of its meetings, but I always felt tongue-tied. Dr. Oldfield once said to me, 'You talk to me quite all right, but why is it that you never open your lips at a committee meeting? You are a drone.' I appreciated the banter. The bees are ever busy, the drone is a thorough idler.
This bullying continuum illustrates the progressive escalation from harmless banter to bullying and criminal behaviours.
gloss: Good-humoured bits of monologue and/or conversational prompts used in any of a wide range of occupations that must frequently interact with the public (for example, store clerks, salespersons, nurses).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To engage in banter or playful conversation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To play or do something amusing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To tease (someone) mildly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Here comes the muſty trader, running over vvith remonſtrances. I muſt banter the cit.
Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered on my haggard looks the next day.
Mr. Sweeting was bantered about his stature, he was a little man, a mere boy in height and breadth compared with the athletic Malone, […]
gloss: To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: June 1804, William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
If they banter your regularity, order, and love of study, banter in return their neglect of them.
gloss: To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [W]e diverted ourſelves vvith bantering ſeveral other poor Scholars, vvith hopes of being at leaſt his Lordſhip's Chaplains and putting on a Scarf; […]
gloss: To challenge to a match.
pos: verb
tags: Southern
US
Western
colloquial
transitive
gloss: To haggle; cheapen the price.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dialectal
Derived words: banterer
banterous
bantersome
bantery
bants
soy banter
Archbishop of Banterbury
bant
Bantersaurus Rex
Translations:
buttfuck
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From butt + fuck.
Compound parts: butt
fuck
Inflected forms:
form: buttfucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buttfucks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buttfucking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buttfucked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buttfucked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An act of anal intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
slang
vulgar
gloss: To perform an act of anal intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
slang
vulgar
examples: Asshole? I'm not the one who just got butt-fucked on national TV, Dwayne.
Translations:
cannibalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
marketing
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Cariban *kariponader.
Spanish caribeder.
Spanish caríbalder.
Spanish caníbalbor.
English cannibal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
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 -ization
English cannibalization
From cannibal + -ization.
Inflected forms:
form: cannibalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cannibalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of cannibalizing.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of cannibalizing.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of cannibalizing.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of cannibalizing.
pos: noun
Related words: cannibalize
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: kannibalisointi
phenome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pheno- + -ome.
Base: pheno
Inflected forms:
form: phenomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The whole set of phenotypic entities in a cell, tissue, organ, organisms, and species. This includes phenotypic traits with genotypic origins.
pos: noun
Translations:
pootie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pooties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A baby's pacifier.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Please pick up the baby's pootie and put it back in his mouth.
Translations:
hoser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hose + -er. The Canadian senses originally derive from hose (“to siphon gasoline from automobile gas tanks”), in reference to farmers who siphoned gas from farming vehicles; they were later reinforced by use to describe the players on the losing side of a game of shinny or hockey, who were required to hose down the rink to return it to a smooth state, and ultimately popularized in the 1980s by a sketch on the television show Second City Television, in which Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas played Bob and Doug McKenzie, who used the term as an insult for each other.
Base: hose
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: hosers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who operates a hose, e.g. a fire hose or a garden hose.
pos: noun
examples: […] they found one of the neighbors hosing down the area. He was pretty resistant when the cops told him to turn off the hose. The hoser gave the cops a statement, […]
Membership [in early Russian fire departments] included the mayor, a retired general, a teacher at a school for artists, a merchant, at least sixteen duma members, and teams of hosers, climbers, and security guards.
gloss: One that hoses, i.e. hurts someone badly.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: All three of these are blue-hosers. Every color in Magic has cards specifically designed to hurt it. Against many of the hosers, you can't really do much; the best strategy is simply not to rely too much on a single color.
gloss: A person (especially a farmer) who siphons gasoline out of a vehicle or piece of equipment.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
slang
gloss: A person who hoses down a lake after a game of ice hockey, to return it to a smooth state.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
slang
gloss: A clumsy, boorish person, especially an over-eating, beer-drinking man, or a man prone to petty infractions such as taking other people's food or drinks.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
slang
examples: We bet you know lots of hosers, eh. And you want to help them not be hosers.
This brings me to the second, more interesting genre of Canadian TV drama, one focused on what can be summarized as “hosers, whores, boozers, and losers.”
As we laughed, we passed a table of scowling hosers and they gave our chortles an extra boost. They were beginning to come to terms with the notion that family resorts are not known for their abundance of poontang […]
gloss: A Canadian.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
Related words: hosebag
hosehead
Translations:
mouthguard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mouth + guard.
Compound parts: mouth
guard
Inflected forms:
form: mouthguards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that fits into the mouth over one or both arches of the teeth and usually made of plastic. Such devices may protect against injury during sport or fighting or may serve a medical purpose.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
sika
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 鹿 (shika, “deer”).
Inflected forms:
form: sikas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sika
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sika
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Cervus nippon, a deer found in the forests of East Asia
pos: noun
Translations:
tomb
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tombe, toumbe, borrowed from Old French tombe, from Latin tumba from Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “a sepulchral mound, tomb, grave”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (“to swell”). Displaced native Old English þrūh.
The verb is from Middle English tomben.
Inflected forms:
form: tombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tombs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tombing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tombed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tombed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small building, or a room within one, for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. It may be partly or wholly in the ground (except for its entrance) in a cemetery, or it may be inside a church proper or in its crypt. Single tombs may be permanently sealed; those for families (or other groups) have doors for access whenever needed.
pos: noun
gloss: A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
gloss: One who keeps secrets.
pos: noun
examples: I never told anyone about it. You're the first, except Ivan, of course—Ivan knows everything. He knew about it long before you. But Ivan's a tomb.
gloss: Death (literary)
pos: noun
examples: I'll go to the tomb unrepentant.
gloss: To bury.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: altar tomb
beehive tomb
chamber tomb
disentomb
empty as the tomb on Easter
entomb
the womb to the tomb
womb to tomb
passage tomb
Severn-Cotswold tomb
silent as the tomb
tombal
tomb bat
tombful
tombic
tombless
tomblet
tomblike
tombmate
tombology
tombstone
untomb
wedge tomb
Translations:
plano
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of lenses: flat; having no curvature; not serving to correct the vision.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Plano lenses may be used to protect the eyes from ultraviolet light.
Translations:
quiescence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
microbiology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From quiescent + -ence, or borrowed from Latin quiescentia, from quiescens, present participle of quiesco, from quies.
Base: quiescent
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: quiescences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being quiescent; dormancy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Old Faithful is sometimes degraded by being made a laundry. Garments placed in the crater during quiescence are ejected thoroughly washed when the eruption takes place.
The man does not theologize; he does not contemplate; he does not envision the full possibilities of the occasion. His one act is belly-oriented, and it is an act of quiescence, not of initiative.
gloss: Being at rest, quiet, still, inactive or motionless.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The action of bringing something to rest or making it quiescent; the action of coming to rest or to a quiescent state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I pray you, Salviatus, to tell me ... the cause of the Pendulum's quiescence.
gloss: The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In insects, a temporary slowing down of metabolism and development in response to adverse environmental conditions, which, unlike diapause, does not involve physiological changes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: immunoquiescence
nonquiescence
Translations:
redskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From red + skin.
References to indigenous Americans' skin being red can be found from the 1580s, although not consistently (another European in 1584 described indigenous Americans as "yellowish"); in some cases the reference may be not to their skin color per se but to their painting themselves with red paint. A letter ostensibly from 1699, which was formerly cited as the earliest reference to "red skins", was not published until 1900 and is now recognized as fake.
The earliest documented instance of the term "redskin" is from a 1769 discussion between the Piankeshaw and John Wilkins, this and other early uses appear to be translating terms meaning red + skin, flesh, or people that the tribes of the Illinois / Mississippi Valley area used to refer to themselves when communicating with the French (who translated such terms as French peau-rouge) and with English-speakers (whence redskin).
Piecewise doublet of Rauðskinna.
Compound parts: red
skin
Inflected forms:
form: redskins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Redskin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Native American.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
offensive
slur
Translations: