yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
anthology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀνθολογία (anthología, “flower-gathering”), from ἀνθολογέω (anthologéō, “I gather flowers”), from ἄνθος (ánthos, “flower”) + λέγω (légō, “I gather, pick up, collect”), coined by Meleager of Gadara circa 60 BCE, originally as Στέφανος (στέφανος (stéphanos, “garland”)) to describe a collection of poetry, later retitled anthology – see Greek Anthology. Anthologiai were collections of small Greek poems and epigrams, because in Greek culture the flower symbolized the finer sentiments that only poetry can express. By surface analysis, antho- + -logy.
Inflected forms:
form: anthologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A collection of literary works, such as poems or short stories, especially a collection from various authors.
pos: noun
examples: Malkin and Stacks, along with Robert Dallek, James McPherson and other contributors to the anthology (edited by Robert Cowley) take such questions as the jumping-off points for exercises in counterfactuality, the historian's term for speculation about how the past might have unfolded if a particular event had happened otherwise.
gloss: A work or series containing various stories with no direct relation to one another.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
gloss: An assortment of things.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: The study of flowers.
pos: noun
Related words: anther
florilegium
Derived words: anthologer
anthological
anthologist
anthologization
anthologize
anthologizer
patristic anthology
Translations:
franklin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English frankelein (“freeholder”), from Anglo-Norman fraunclein (“a landowner of free, but not noble birth”), from Old French fraunc (“free”), from Frankish *Frankō (“Frank”, literally “freeman”) + Old French -lein (“-ling”), from Frankish *-ling (“-ling”). More at frank, -ling.
Inflected forms:
form: franklins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A freeholder, especially as belonging to a class of landowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking at the bottom of the gentry.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
hereditary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hērēditārius, from hērēditās (“inheritance”), from hērēs (“heir”).
Inflected forms:
form: more hereditary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hereditary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hereditaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.
pos: adj
examples: Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
gloss: Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank.
pos: adj
examples: hereditary rulers
gloss: Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes.
pos: adj
examples: Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
Xanthuria is an hereditary disorder in which there is an absence of the enzyme xanthine oxidase which interferes with the metabolic breakdown of purines, leading to an increased excretion of xanthine in the urine and to formation of stones.
gloss: Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a property of graphs: such that if G has the property, so must every induced subgraph of G.
pos: adj
gloss: A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.
pos: noun
Synonyms: inhereditary
Antonyms: nonhereditary
Related words: heir
Derived words: Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy
hereditarian
hereditarily
hereditariness
hereditary disease
hereditary elliptocytosis
hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia
hereditary mechanics
hereditary peer
Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy
nonhereditary
semihereditary
unhereditary
Translations:
papyrology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English papyro-
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
English -ology
English papyrology
From papyro- + -ology.
Inflected forms:
form: papyrologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of papyrus, particularly the branch of archeology concerning ancient texts written on papyrus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
furrow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English furgh, forow, from Old English furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs (compare Saterland Frisian Fuurge, Dutch voor, German Furche, Swedish fåra, Norwegian Bokmål fure), from Proto-Indo-European *perḱ- (“to dig”). Compare Welsh rhych (“furrow”), Latin porca (“ridge, balk”), Lithuanian prapar̃šas (“ditch”), Sanskrit पर्शान (párśāna, “chasm”).
Inflected forms:
form: furrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: furrows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: furrowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: furrowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: furrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.
pos: noun
examples: Don't walk across that deep furrow in the field.
The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.
gloss: Any trench, channel, or groove; often found on wood or metal.
pos: noun
examples: When she was tired, a deep furrow appeared on her forehead.
gloss: To cut one or more grooves in (the ground, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cart wheels can furrow roads.
Morn in the white wake of the morning star / Came furrowing all the orient into gold.
gloss: To wrinkle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pull one's brows or eyebrows together due to concentration, worry, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As she pored over the company's bewildering tax documents, she furrowed her brows, wrinkled her nose, and began to frown her befuddlement.
gloss: to become furrowed
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: If you were bold enough to ask Antonin Scalia questions, you had to be precise. Otherwise the bushy black brows would furrow, the chin would crumple and the pudgy, puckish body would start to rock, eager to get at you.
Derived words: backfurrow
underfurrow
cleavage furrow
dead furrow
draw a straight furrow
furrowless
furrowlike
furrowy
iliac furrow
plough a lonely furrow
plough one's own furrow
furrowable
furrower
furrowing
unfurrow
unfurrowed
Translations:
jumbuck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown, from pidgin, possibly from an Australian Aboriginal language, although it appears also to have moved from pidgin to Aboriginal. Numerous derivations have been proposed.
* Mr A. Meston of Brisbane, in the Sydney Bulletin of 18 April 1896, cited Aboriginal words jimba, jombock (also jombok), dombock and dumbog, all meaning "white mist preceding a shower," which a flock of sheep supposedly resembles.
* Charles Harpur in a handwritten footnote in his papers cites Aboriginal word junbuc or jimbuc (his handwriting is unclear), "a kind of kangaroo or wallaby", and states that the aborigines of the Hunter region call the sheep thus for the hairiness of one and the wooliness of the other.
* Also suggested is jumbock ("to communicate").
* An English derivation is suggested in a corruption of the phrase "jump up".
Inflected forms:
form: jumbucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheep.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
examples: Allan told them all that he thought necessary ; but, as he did not know what jumbucks were, he candidly said so.
“Why, sheep, man, sheep! They are jumbucks in this country.”
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong,
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee.
You may rip a sheep open whilst watching for the boss's boots or yarning to a pen-mate, and then when you have stuffed the works back into the animal, and put a stitch in the slit, and poked it somewhere with a tar-stick (it doesn′t matter much where) the jumbuck will be all right and just as lively as ever, and turn up next shearing without the ghost of a scratch on its skin.
Translations:
tripoli
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Originally brought from Tripoli in Libya.
Inflected forms:
form: tripolis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sedimentary rock composed of the shells of diatoms etc., used for polishing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
jones
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Ed Boland, in an article in March 2002 of the The New York Times, attributes the term to heroin addicts who frequented Great Jones Alley in New York City, off Great Jones Street between Broadway and Lafayette Street, although the slang term has obviously been around much longer. Dan Waldorf states that the use of the term, in the sense of addiction, originated among heroin addicts.
Inflected forms:
form: joneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: joneses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jonesing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jonesed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jonesed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Heroin.
pos: noun
tags: US
archaic
slang
examples: You mean you got a little Jones, huh? Was it good?
Defendant responded by saying he had some "Jones", a term used to describe heroin.
You seem like a smart kid, and dont get me wrong here, we dont want to see you all fucked up, cracked out butt naked on 4th street in the bad side of town, lookin to fuck the 1st millionaire willing to fork over some jones money.
Which erodes "quality of life" faster... debilitating chronic pain or a little jones?
gloss: An addiction or intense craving.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: I’ve got a basketball jones!
... I've got a jones," and she dropped her head.
"On the Deuce," he said, "everybody got a jones. They got a crack jones or a smack jones, ..."
And I went through a kind of withdrawal jones thing and drank a bunch and then took a Valium, and it comes in waves.
If you have a jones for one of these old tape-tanglers but lack the cash, space, and/or patience necessary to acquire, house and maintain one, consider M-Tron.
gloss: To have an intense craving for something.
pos: verb
tags: US
slang
transitive
usually
examples: I’m jonesing for some basketball.
A lot of people they be jonesing just to hear me rock the mic / They'll be staring at the radio, staying up all night
... when it's their turn to talk, they speak in coonass blue-collar accents about jonesing for crack and getting UA-ed by probation officers.
“I have to go now,” she’d say to the grocery clerk. “My mother-in-law is back at the house, jonesing for her lunch.”
If you jones for wheat grass, this is your destination.
Caramel colors and aspartame
Phosphoric acid, potassium
Natural flavors, of course caffeine
And now I'm jonesin' for MSG
The rain tree at sunset was exquisite, but after a few minutes Pender found himself jonesing for a football game.
gloss: To binge on cocaine or alcohol.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
slang
Derived words: love jones
Translations:
clementine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French Clément
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnus
French -in
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂
Proto-Italic *-ā
Latin -am
Old French -e
French -e
French -ine
French clémentinebor.
English clementine
From French clémentine, from Clément + -ine, named after French missionary Clément Rodier (1839–1904), who is said to have first bred it. By surface analysis, Clement + -ine.
Base: Clément
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: clementines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of small, sweet-tasting orange, the result of a hybrid cross between the willowleaf variety of mandarin orange (Citrus × aurantium f. deliciosa) and a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis). Scientific name: Citrus × clementina.
pos: noun
Translations:
minneola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: *
Inflected forms:
form: minneolas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mineola
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cross between a tangerine and a grapefruit.
pos: noun
Translations:
satsuma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After a Japanese place name in Kyūshū, 薩摩 (さつま, Satsuma), from where it was first exported to the west.
Inflected forms:
form: satsumas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A seedless and easy-peeling cultivar of mandarin orange of Japanese origin; Citrus unshiu.
pos: noun
examples: When satsumas are ready to eat, the skin is so supple, they damn near peel themselves.
Translations:
tangelo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of tangerine + pomelo.
Compound parts: tangerine
pomelo
Inflected forms:
form: tangelos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tangeloes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A citrus fruit that is a cross between a tangerine and a pomelo or a grapefruit.
pos: noun
gloss: A red-orange colour, like that of a tangelo.
pos: noun
Related words: orangelo
Derived words: Minneola tangelo
Translations:
ugli
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A proprietary name, as an alteration of ugly, from the fruit's often lumpy and discolored appearance.
Inflected forms:
form: uglis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Citrus × paradisi, a cross between a tangerine, Citrus reticulata, and a grapefruit Citrus paradisi, grown in the West Indies.
pos: noun
examples: In a world of fruit — from apples to uglis — why is wine made from grapes?
Translations:
manx
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more manx
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most manx
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Manx (pertaining to the Isle of Man or to the Manx language)
pos: adj
gloss: manx (colloquial or slang) tailless (referring to the Manx cat)
pos: adj
Translations:
abas
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic [Term?].
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A cutaneous disease; the scald-head. porrigo
pos: noun
Translations:
adam
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Adam in Adam and Eve as opposed to eve.
Inflected forms:
form: adams
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The day or night before an eve; two days or nights before a holiday, most commonly Christmas.
pos: noun
tags: US
humorous
Translations:
amazon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From Amazon, from Ancient Greek Ἀμαζών (Amazṓn).
Inflected forms:
form: amazons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tall, strong, athletic woman.
pos: noun
examples: Although the evidence for real Amazons is thin, women athletes are often dubbed amazons.
gloss: A fairy chess piece which combines the moves of the queen and the knight.
pos: noun
examples: In Triple-guard promotion chess (GPJ) a pawn newly triple-guarded by pieces other than pawns promotes to the combined value of the guarding pieces. Thus after b3 in the opening position a3 promotes to amazon, R+B+N, from triple guard by Ra1, Nb1, Bc1.
The amazon is simply a queen-knight hybrid, capable of moving as either piece.
gloss: An amazon parrot.
pos: noun
gloss: A position for vaginal sex in which the insertive partner lies on their back with their knees pulled back, and the receptive partner, facing the other person, squats onto the penis.
pos: noun
Related words: Amazonian
amazonian
Derived words: glamazon
orange-winged amazon
yellow-headed amazon
yellow-naped amazon
Translations:
jasper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English jasper, jaspre, from Old French jaspre, a variant of jaspe (modern French jaspe), from Latin iaspis, from Ancient Greek ἴασπις (íaspis).
Inflected forms:
form: jaspers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jaspers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jaspering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jaspered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jaspered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Jasperware pottery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To decorate with, or as if with, jasper.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: jasperated
jasperite
jasperization
jasperize
jasperoid
jasper opal
jasperous
jasperware
jasper ware
jaspery
jaspidean
lavender jasper
pseudojasper
riband jasper
xyloid jasper
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: يَشْب
roman: yašb
lang: Arabic
word: يَشْم
roman: yašm
lang: Armenian
word: հասպիս
roman: haspis
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yəşəm
lang: Azerbaijani
word: yaşma
lang: Bulgarian
word: яспис
roman: jaspis
lang: Catalan
word: jaspi
lang: Cherokee
word: ᏣᏍᏆ
roman: tsasqua
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 碧玉
roman: bìyù
lang: Czech
word: jaspis
lang: Danish
word: jaspis
lang: Dutch
word: jaspis
lang: Esperanto
word: jaspo
lang: Estonian
word: jaspis
lang: Finnish
word: jaspis
lang: French
word: jaspe
lang: Galician
word: xaspe
lang: Georgian
word: იასპი
roman: iasṗi
lang: German
word: Jaspis
lang: Greek
word: ίασπις
roman: íaspis
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἴασπις
roman: íaspis
lang: Hebrew
word: ישפה
lang: Hindi
word: सूर्यकांत
roman: sūryakānt
lang: Hindi
word: यशब
roman: yaśab
lang: Hungarian
word: jáspis
lang: Icelandic
word: jaspis
lang: Ido
word: jaspo
lang: Irish
word: seaspar
lang: Italian
word: diaspro
lang: Japanese
word: 碧玉
roman: hekigyoku
lang: Japanese
word: ジャスパー
roman: jasupā
lang: Kazakh
word: яшма
roman: äşma
lang: Korean
word: 벽옥
roman: byeogok
lang: Ladino
word: djaspe
lang: Latin
word: iaspis
lang: Latvian
word: jašma
lang: Lithuanian
word: jaspis
lang: Lombard
word: diasper
lang: Māori
word: hahapa
lang: Māori
word: hāpita
lang: Nahuatl
word: tecpacuihcuilli
lang: Norwegian
word: jaspis
lang: Occitan
word: jaspi
lang: Persian
word: یشم
roman: yašm
lang: Persian
word: یشب
roman: yašb
lang: Polish
word: jaspis
lang: Portuguese
word: jaspe
lang: Romanian
word: jasp
lang: Russian
word: я́шма
roman: jášma
lang: Russian
word: я́спис
roman: jáspis
lang: Slovak
word: jaspis
lang: Spanish
word: jaspe
lang: Swahili
word: yaspa
lang: Swedish
word: jaspis
lang: Tagalog
word: haspe
lang: Thai
word: แจสเปอร์
roman: jɛɛs-pəə
lang: Turkish
word: yeşim
lang: Turkish
word: jasper
lang: Ukrainian
word: я́шма
roman: jášma
lang: Ukrainian
word: я́спис
roman: jáspys
lang: Uyghur
word: يەشمە
roman: yeshme
lang: Uzbek
word: yashma
lang: Welsh
word: maen iasbis
lang: Welsh
word: iasbis
lang: Welsh
word: glain cawod
sphenoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
chemistry
crystallography
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin sphenoides, from Ancient Greek σφηνοειδής (sphēnoeidḗs, “wedge-shaped”), from σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs, “-form, -like”).
Base: σφήν
Affixes: -ειδής
Inflected forms:
form: sphenoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a wedge shape.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the sphenoid bone which forms the base of the cranium, behind the eye and below the front part of the brain. It has two pairs of broad lateral ‘wings’ and a number of other projections, and contains two air-filled sinuses.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The sphenoid bone.
pos: noun
gloss: A wedge-shaped crystal bounded by four equal isosceles triangles; the hemihedral form of a square pyramid.
pos: noun
Derived words: alisphenoid
basisphenoid
presphenoid
sphenoidal
disphenoid
ethmosphenoid
frontosphenoid
intrasphenoid
laterosphenoid
mesosphenoid
otosphenoidal
parasphenoid
pleurosphenoid
postsphenoid
pterosphenoid
spheno-
sphenocorona
sphenoethmoid
sphenofrontal
sphenoidal sinus
sphenoid bone
sphenoidectomy
sphenoidotomy
sphenoid sinus
sphenomandibular
sphenomaxillary
sphenooccipital
sphenopalatine
sphenoparietal
sphenotemporal
sphenotic
sphenovomerine
sphenozygomatic
temporosphenoid
transsphenoidal
zygomaticosphenoid
orbitosphenoid
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: клиновиден
roman: klinoviden
lang: Catalan
word: esfenoide
lang: Czech
word: klínový
lang: Finnish
word: kiilamainen
lang: Russian
word: клиновидный
roman: klinovidnyj
lang: Spanish
word: esfenoide
vomer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin vōmer (“ploughshare”).
Inflected forms:
form: vomers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The vomer bone; the small thin bone that forms part of the septum between the nostrils.
pos: noun
Translations:
sacrum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin os sacrum (“holy bone”), a calque of Ancient Greek ἱερὸν ὀστέον (hieròn ostéon). Apparently so called either because the sacrum was the part of the animal offered in sacrifice or because of a putative belief that it is where a person's soul resides. A third explanation is that the term is a translation of Ancient Greek ἱερόν (hierón), which has two meanings: “holy, sacred”, and “big” — big being a more appropriate description of the sacrum — but compare.
Inflected forms:
form: sacra
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sacrums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large triangular bone at the base of the spine, located between the two ilia (wings of the pelvis) and formed from vertebrae that fuse in adulthood.
pos: noun
Translations:
sacral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Modern Latin sacrālis, from Latin sacrum (“sacred, holy”) + -ālis.
Affixes: -ālis
Inflected forms:
form: more sacral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sacral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sacrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of the sacrum.
pos: adj
gloss: Sacred.
pos: adj
examples: An old site with sacral connotations.
Compromise is awkward when religion is involved, and the several South Asian writing systems are considered sacral.
gloss: Any of the sacral bones that make up the sacrum.
pos: noun
Derived words: bulbosacral
caudosacral
cervicothoracolumbosacral
craniosacral
dorsosacral
extrasacral
iliosacral
ischiosacral
lumbosacral
nonsacral
occipitosacral
parasacral
postsacral
presacral
rectosacral
sacral dimple
sacralgia
sacrality
sacralize
sacrally
sacral nerve
sacral vertebra
spinosacral
subsacral
supersacral
suprasacral
transsacral
urosacral
uterosacral
vertebrosacral
Translations:
shinbone
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English schinboon, schineboon, from Old English sċinbān (“shin, shinbone”), from Proto-West Germanic *skinubain, from Proto-Germanic *skinōbainą, equivalent to shin + bone. Cognate with Dutch scheenbeen (“shinbone”), German Schienbein (“shinbone”), Danish skinneben (“shin, shinbone”), Swedish skenben (“shinbone”).
Compound parts: shin
bone
Inflected forms:
form: shinbones
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inner and usually the larger of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee
pos: noun
gloss: A segment of an insect's leg.
pos: noun
Synonyms: tibia
shankbone
Derived words: Shinboner
Translations:
thoracic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θωρακικός (thōrakikós, “suffering in the chest, of the thorax”), from θώραξ (thṓrax, “thorax”).
Inflected forms:
form: thoracick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: thoracics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thoracick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of the thorax.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Those wings were powered by massive thoracic muscles—muscles no longer needed by a flightless queen.
gloss: One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectoral fins.
pos: noun
Translations:
inanity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French inanité, from Latin inānitās (“emptiness”), equivalent to inane + -ity.
Base: inane
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: inanities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: All those who criticise the inanity of the effort required by the stemmatic approach without clearly adopting a position of their own, do not, in my view, touch upon the core of the problem […]
gloss: Something that is inane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Working in any bureaucracy means being bedeviled by inanities daily.
It was incessant matter for amazement how these Olympians would talk over our heads - during meals, for instance - of this or the other social or political inanity, under the delusion that these pale phantasms of reality were among the importances of life.
No sooner had Charles left Washington than Trump, predictably, began exploiting their private conversations to justify his Iranian inanities.
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: inanitat
lang: Dutch
word: inhoudsloosheid
lang: Dutch
word: stupiditeit
lang: Dutch
word: leegheid
lang: Dutch
word: zinloosheid
lang: French
word: inanité
lang: Galician
word: inanidade
lang: German
word: Inanität
lang: German
word: Belanglosigkeit
lang: German
word: Sinnfreiheit
lang: German
word: Nichtigkeit
lang: Polish
word: bezmyślność
lang: Polish
word: bezsensowność
lang: Polish
word: czczość
lang: Polish
word: niedorzeczność
lang: Portuguese
word: inanidade
lang: Russian
word: бессмы́сленность
roman: bessmýslennostʹ
lang: Spanish
word: inanidad
jimmy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: *
* (chocolate sprinkles): Unknown. There is much speculation that they were named after Jim Crow, but there is little, if any, evidence to support this theory.
Inflected forms:
form: jimmies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jemmy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jimmies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jimmying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jimmied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jimmied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jemmy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Sprinkles used as a topping for ice cream, cookies, or cupcakes.
pos: noun
tags: Maine
Mid-Atlantic
US
dialectal
plural
plural-only
examples: chocolate jimmies; rainbow jimmies
“What kind of sissy eats strawberry-frosted donuts?” I said. ¶ “With jimmies,” Belson said. ¶ “I had too much respect for you,” I said, “even to mention the jimmies.”
The crispy pastry tube was overflowing with sweetened, whipped ricotta and dotted with chocolate jimmies.
gloss: A marijuana cigarette.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A device used to circumvent a locking mechanism.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A jemmy; a crowbar used by burglars to open windows and doors.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: First Lieutenant (Executive Officer)
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A penis.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: And then she said, "Gimme gimme gimme" / Jumped on my jimmy and rode me like the Wild West
From my Jimmy to my jaw / Every bone and every part of me's aching
gloss: A condom.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: We moved to the futon and started fooling around. He rolled on a jimmy and I sat on top of him.
"The next time you hook up with somebody," Lovie was saying, "you better wear a jimmy, boy. With spermicide on it. […]
gloss: Men's underwear.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A male crab, especially a mature male; a cock. (Sometimes capitalized.)
pos: noun
tags: rare
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Jimmy.
gloss: Synonym of coal car.
pos: noun
tags: US
dialectal
gloss: To pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: The kitchen window had been jimmied.
Derived words: high-jimmy-knacker
jimmy cap
jimmy hat
jimmy up
Translations:
triquetrum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
astronomy
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin triquetrus.
Inflected forms:
form: triquetra
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The triquetral bone
pos: noun
gloss: An astronomical instrument.
pos: noun
Derived words: triquetral
triquetrous
triquetrum bone
Translations:
howdah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hindi हौदा (haudā), from Arabic هَوْدَج (hawdaj, “litter carried by a camel”) (1774).
Inflected forms:
form: howdahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: houdah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: howda
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: howder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A seat, usually with a canopy, carried on the back of an elephant or camel.
pos: noun
examples: They don't ask for palanquins and howdahs.
I shot a couple […] Only from the safety of a howdah, of course.
I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along, rather than it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him.
gloss: An ornate carriage which is positioned on the back of elephants or occasionally other animals, used most often in the past for rich people who travelled in India via elephant.
pos: noun
Derived words: howdahless
Translations:
hypothetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more hypothetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypothetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hypothetick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Based on hypothesis or theory; hypothetical.
pos: adj
gloss: Existing as an abstract concept rather than a concrete reality.
pos: adj
examples: The thing that was best for her would no doubt be to become the wife of the man to whose suit she should incline her ear. That this would be the best thing for the gentleman in question was however a very different matter, and Sherringham's final conviction was that it would never do for him to act the part of that hypothetic personage.
Derived words: hypotheticodeductive
Translations:
ulster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: Named after the Ulster Overcoat Company of Belfast, Northern Ireland (Ulster), the original maker of this type of coat.
Inflected forms:
form: ulsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Ulster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A long, loose overcoat made of wool or other rough material, often called a greatcoat, which sometimes features an attached shoulder cape covering the back and sleeves, and which can sometimes be buttoned in front.
pos: noun
examples: “That's queer,” said the Tertium Quid. “Where's my ulster?” “What's queer?” said the Man's Wife. “I have got a chill down my back — just as if a goose had walked over my grave.”
I hardened my heart and took the smoke-rocket from under my ulster.
“Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
Off slipped a sodden ulster. He hung it up angrily upon a peg …
“By Jove! I’ve left my ulster in the waiting-room,” and hastened off to fetch it.
Translations:
Aran
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Irish Árainnbor.
English Aran
Borrowed from Irish Árainn.
Inflected forms:
form: Arans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medium weight of yarn.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
overboard
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English overbord, overborde, equivalent to over- + board.
Base: board
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Outside of a boat; in the water.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Over the edge; especially, off or outside of a boat.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was their practice to throw the scraps overboard.
Theon Greyjoy is the most well developed character on that stage, and the action comes down to him. Euron, with Yara underneath his ax, goads Theon into attack. But Theon is overwhelmed by the violence all around him, and instead he jumps overboard.
Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.
gloss: Excessively; too much.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: They really went overboard with the party preparations.
In reality, brains go overboard with this sort of fear validation. They love any chance to prove a fear is valid while ignoring all the reasons it's not.
gloss: To throw over the edge of a boat into the water.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ‘Call home that runt Edmund Bonner. He has trotted after me from Spain into France and I swear the next time we take ship I will overboard him.’
gloss: To cover (a ceiling) with plasterboard to create a new surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: overboarded
overboarding
Derived words: go overboard
throw overboard
Translations:
sincerely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sincere + -ly, from Latin sincērus (“pure, clean, sound”).
Base: sincere
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more sincerely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sincerely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sincere or earnest manner; honestly.
pos: adv
examples: I sincerely hope they make it home safely.
gloss: A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended by his or her name.
pos: adv
tags: US
examples: Please consider the proposal carefully and let me know what you decide.
Sincerely,
Fred
Synonyms: genuinely
honestly
truthfully
Related words: faithfully
truly
Derived words: sinseriously
yours sincerely
Translations:
sortes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin plural of sors (“lot, fate, oracular response”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: divination, or the seeking of guidance, by chance selection of a passage in the Bible or another text regarded as authoritative.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Book oracles, called sortes (from the Latin sors = lot, indicating that one would obtain the answers by casting lots), allowed for consultation on the spot; the oracle could even come to the petitioner!
Translations:
shouting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: shoutings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An instance of loud or highly audible acclamation, clamor, crying or uproar.
pos: noun
Translations:
riparian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rīpārius (“relating to a riverbank”) + -an.
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: more riparian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most riparian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: riparians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the bank of a river or stream.
pos: adj
examples: By the time she'd pulled into Bortz's subdivision, a riparian settlement in the style of Fangoso Lagoons, she was only shaking and a little nauseous in the stomach.
A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.
European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
Relying on the fact that both states are riparian states, the court noted that both have “an equal right to make a reasonable use” of the water in the shared basin and that Florida bore the “heavy burden” of proving its case by clear and convincing evidence.
gloss: A person or other entity that lives or owns property along the shore of a river.
pos: noun
Translations:
juggling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English jogelyng, juglynge, equivalent to juggle + -ing.
Base: juggle
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: jugglings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art of moving objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An act or instance of juggling; a reshuffle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: contact juggling
foot juggling
joggling
juggling act
nonjuggling
numbers juggling
toss juggling
type juggling
Translations:
juggle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
Etymology: From Middle English jogelen, partly a back-formation of Middle English jogeler (“juggler”), and partly a borrowing from Old French jogler, jongler (“to have fun with someone”), a conflation of Latin joculāri (“to jest; joke”) and Old French jangler (“to regale; entertain; have fun; trifle with; tease; mess around; gossip; boast; meddle”), from Frankish *jangalōn (“to chit-chat with; gossip”), akin to Middle Dutch jankelen (“to murmur; whisper; mumble; grumble”), frequentative of Middle Dutch janken (“to moan; groan; complain”). Related also to Middle Low German janken (“to sigh; moan; lament”), Dutch jengelen (“to whine; whimper”) Dutch janken (“to whine; wimper”).
Inflected forms:
form: juggles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: juggling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: juggled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: juggled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: juggles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner.
pos: verb
examples: She can juggle flaming torches.
gloss: To perform various magic tricks or circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
examples: God alone knows where he came from, but he was in the camp one evening juggling for stray coppers in a bowl. Pretty good juggling too it seemed to be, of the usual Indian kind—growing a plant out of a pumpkin seed, turning a stick into a live snake, and the old sword and basket trick that every Eastern conjurer keeps up his sleeve; […]
gloss: To handle or manage many tasks at once.
pos: verb
examples: He juggled home, school, and work for two years.
gloss: To deceive by trick or artifice.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I think they are juggling the company's books.
Is't possible the spells of France should juggle / Men into such strange mysteries?
Be these juggling fiends no more believed.
gloss: To joke or jest.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
gloss: The act of throwing and catching each prop at least twice, as opposed to a flash.
pos: noun
gloss: The handling or managing of many tasks at once.
pos: noun
examples: Quit the juggle and monotask.
gloss: The performance of a magic trick.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A deceit or imposture.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: I could not believe that she was dead. The lips were red, nay redder than before; and on the cheeks was a delicate bloom. “Is this a juggle?” I said to him.
Related words: too many balls in the air
Derived words: bejuggle
joggle
jugglable
jugglement
juggler
jugglery
jugglesome
juggling
jugglingly
outjuggle
rejuggle
unjuggled
Translations:
wacko
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English whack
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English wack(y)
English -o
English wacko
From wack(y) + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: more wacko
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wacko
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: whacko
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: wackos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wackoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whacko
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Amusingly eccentric or irrational.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
slang
gloss: An amusingly eccentric or irrational person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: “Environmentalist wackos” — Mr. Limbaugh’s phrase — “want man to be responsible for it because they want to control your behavior,” the conservative host said on the show.
Translations:
endearing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Latin in-
Old French en-bor.
Middle English en-
English en-
English dear
English endear
English -ing
English endearing
From endear + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more endearing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most endearing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: endearings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inspiring affection or love, often in a childlike way.
pos: adj
examples: […] I dare not call him father, nor he, without shame, own me as his issue, I being illegitimate, and therefore deprived of that endearing tenderness and unparalleled satisfaction which a good man finds in the love and conversation of a parent.
BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, / Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, / Like fairy-gifts fading away,— / Thou wouldst stil be ador'd as this moment thou art, / Let thy loveliness fade as it will; / And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart / Would entwine itself verdantly still!
But the humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together.
Or what is conveyed to those unversed in railway matters by reports following a shed visit that "the frame of Claud Hamilton lay in the boneyard and had many endearing messages of farewell chalked on it"?
In legitimate comedy actresses conformed to a Victorian image of coquetry. Most comediennes were termed soubrettes, after their inclination for depicting young women in a variety of situations, in which the soubrettes employed their diverse popular talents to heighten their endearing magnetism.
And yet [Nathan] Jones is perfect in Fury Road, a deeply dangerous human weapon who, because of his infantile need for respect from his father, somehow turns out endearing even though we see him ripping an engine from the hood and throwing it at the good guys.
gloss: Synonym of endearment.
pos: noun
examples: It was arms around, and perpetual endearings, and all that I had missed for a weary twelve-month.
Translations:
aftermath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros
Proto-Germanic *after
Old English æfter
Middle English after
English after
▲
Old English æfter
Old English æfter-
Middle English after-
English after-
English math
English aftermath
From after- + math (“a mowing”).
Inflected forms:
form: aftermaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which happens after, that which follows, usually of strongly negative connotation in most contexts, implying a preceding catastrophe.
pos: noun
examples: In contrast to most projections of the aftermath of nuclear war, in this there is no rioting or looting.
Fogel, working with a script by the journalist Kerry Howley, follows Winner from the age of nine to the aftermath of her plea, and organizes the movie around voice-over reminiscences by Reality (the character is played by Emilia Jones).
More than a quarter of a century after the fraught events that followed the privatisation of the railway, Corbett has provided a warts and all analysis of what led to the spate of rail disasters in the aftermath of the break-up of British Rail, and (ultimately) to the demise of the company.
gloss: A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: They were cutting aftermath on all sides, which gave the neighbourhood, this gusty autumn morning, an untimely smell of hay.
Translations:
internet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is a variant of Internet. The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: internets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: internets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: internetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: internetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: internetted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Internet access or connection; internet connectivity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Do you have internet at your place? My internet is down and I want to check my email.
gloss: Any set of computer networks that communicate using the Internet Protocol; an intranet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A fictitious unit of scoring awarded for making outstanding posts on the internet.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
humorous
uncountable
examples: You did a nice job there Patty … you came off as intelligent, well-spoken, and concerned about the well being of the victims, in stark contrast to the self-serving, uncaring, unconcerned attitude of the Narconon spokeswoman. 100 internets for you!
I have been looking through CupOJoes and kind of want something dark with a silver band between the bit and the bowl [of the pipe]. That's not a must, but 1000 internets go to the first person to find one.
You win one internet.
I hope this is sarcastic. Otherwise -100 internets for you.
Do I win an internet?
gloss: The knowledge or ability to read the room, especially to avoid being politically incorrect, chiefly to make light of someone's lack of such knowledge, implied to be gained only from active use of social media.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
humorous
uncountable
examples: "He don't got Internet y'all," one fan wrote. Another declared: "That’s it, I will no longer be listening to any YB music."
gloss: To use the internet; specifically, to search for information by using the internet.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
informal
intransitive
examples: Having no idea what that means, I am internetting like mad.
We have several groups of Internetters, from Alaska, from New Zealand, and a group from San Francisco interested in deserts as a context where different faiths developed. Internetting with them could stimulate discussion. Internetting with other countries is seen as a way of broadening the students' areas of interest and triggering their questions.
Most of us, before and after the second uprising, can be found in schools, offices, or factories, going about our everyday lives. Dreaming, working hard for a future. Texting, internetting, entertaining ourselves in the present.
I collect cookbooks, too. And recipes, you know, that I've internetted.
Related words: Web
Derived words: alive internet theory
anternet
cable internet
cellular internet
dead internet theory
internet checkpoint
internet linguistics
internet of things
internet pitstop
internetty
interweb
interwebs
living internet theory
on the internet
postinternet
splinternet
wireless internet
internetting
Translations:
dexterity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dextérité, from Latin dexteritas, from dexter (“on the right”), this is in reference to most people having greater fine motor skills in their right hand. Partially displaced native Old English handcræft, whence Modern English handcraft.
Inflected forms:
form: dexterities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Playing computer games can improve your manual dexterity.
She twirled the pencil through her fingers with impressive dexterity.
With mutual toil, and intuitive dexterity, we built our commodious habitation in the hollow of a mango tree, that the fruit, which was then in bloſſom, might ſubſiſt our young.
She removed Stranleigh’s coat with a dexterity that aroused his imagination. The elder woman returned with dressings and a sponge, which she placed on a chair.
Translations: