yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
manuscript
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1597, from Medieval Latin manūscrīptus, a calque of Germanic origin, equivalent to Latin manū (ablative of manus (“hand”)) + Latin scrīptus (past participle of scribere (“to write”)). Not found in Classical Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: manuscripts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: MS
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ms
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: MS.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ms.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
pos: noun
examples: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
gloss: A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
pos: noun
Synonyms: handwrit
autograph
handwriting
Related words: script
typescript
Derived words: manuscriptal
manuscription
manuscript paper
palm-leaf manuscript
Translations:
harpoon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French harpon, from Latin harpaga, a variant of Latin harpagō, from Ancient Greek ἁρπάγη (harpágē, “hook”), from ἁρπάζω (harpázō, “to snatch away, to carry off, to seize, to captivate”). Sense and spelling perhaps influenced by Dutch harpoen (“harpoon”). Doublet of harpagon.
Inflected forms:
form: harpoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: harpoons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: harpooning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: harpooned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: harpooned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A spearlike weapon with a barbed head used in hunting whales and large fish.
pos: noun
gloss: A sharp tip within a disposable syringe, used to penetrate the stopper.
pos: noun
gloss: A harmonica.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana.
gloss: To shoot something with a harpoon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Pilot whales, also known as blackfish, were fairly plentiful, and Mundus would harpoon one or two, haul them out onto the beach, and butcher them.
Derived words: harpooneer
harpoon fork
harpoon gun
Translations:
oomph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: oomphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oomphs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oomphing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oomphed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oomphed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Strength, power, passion or effectiveness; clout.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Use a mild cleanser, but pick something with enough oomph to do the job.
"Yes, well they're finding it difficult, sir. They are afflicted with a certain lassitude. They're just finding it hard to get behind the job. They lack oomph."
Adding layers of texture to a cookie by folding in ground-down bits of goodness is one of our favorite ways to pack a big punch, but you need to choose your fighter wisely. If you pick something too smooth, your cookie won't gain any oomph, and if you choose something too flavorful, your cookie may end up overwhelming (sorry, Flamin' Hot Cheetos).
gloss: Sex appeal.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: 'Come to think of it, the girl looked a bit like Ann,' Jerry reflected. 'Foxy, know what I mean? Garbo eyes, lots of oomph.'
gloss: A bassy grunting or thudding sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To produce a bassy grunting or thudding sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: oomphless
oomphy
Translations:
pito
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A type of beer made from fermented millet or sorghum in parts of West Africa.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
Inverness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Inver- + Ness, from the River Ness.
Base: Ness
Affixes: Inver-
Inflected forms:
form: Invernesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of overcoat constructed without sleeves and having a shoulder cape extending to the wrists. The best examples are quite heavy, made from Harris tweed; often associated with Sherlock Holmes.
pos: noun
gloss: A variation of this coat, the "coachman's cape": the shoulder cape does not extend around the back but is made of two segments, the length of each being sewn into the seam of the coat on either side.
pos: noun
Translations:
fi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The solfeggio syllable used to indicate the sharp of the fourth note of a major scale.
pos: noun
Translations:
payee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pay
English -ee
English payee
From pay + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: payees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: one to whom money is paid.
pos: noun
Antonyms: payer
Translations:
constable
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English constable, cunstable, constabil, connestable, cunestable, from Old French conestable, from Latin comes stabulī (“officer of the stables”). For the sense-development; compare marshal. Doublet of connétable.
Inflected forms:
form: constables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One holding the lowest rank in most Commonwealth police forces. (See also chief constable.)
pos: noun
examples: As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.
gloss: A police officer or an officer with equivalent powers.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: An officer of a noble court in the Middle Ages, usually a senior army commander. (See also marshal).
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The warden of a castle.
pos: noun
gloss: An elected or appointed public officer, usually at municipal level, responsible for maintaining order or serving writs and court orders.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: An elected head of a parish (also known as a connétable)
pos: noun
gloss: A large butterfly, Dichorragia nesimachus, family Nymphalidae, of Asia.
pos: noun
Synonyms: police officer
Derived words: assistant chief constable
Burton Constable
Constable Burton
constablery
constableship
constabless
constablewick
constabulary
cst.
CST
deputy chief constable
hog constable
Melton Constable
outrun the constable
overrun the constable
police constable
special constable
subconstable
underconstable
Translations:
estuary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin aestuarium (“creek”, “estuary of a river”).
Inflected forms:
form: estuaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: æstuary
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.
pos: noun
examples: The railway then follows the widening estuary of the river, which at high tide has the appearance of a lake, but at low water presents a rather cheerless expanse of dark mud.
There's something special about tidal estuaries, due to the abundance of wildlife and the ever-changing scenes as the water ebbs or rises. Throw in some moody skies and filtered sunlight, and the views can resemble a painting by Turner - only you don't have to go to the National Gallery to see this, it's brought to your seat on a train.
gloss: An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.
pos: noun
Related words: aestuous
estuate
estuation
exestuate
exestuation
ecotone
Derived words: estuarial
estuarian
estuaried
Estuary English
estuary seahorse
palaeoestuary
subestuary
Translations:
steric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From ster(eo)- (“3D”) + -ic.
Affixes: stereo-
-ic
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or involving the arrangement of atoms in space.
pos: adj
gloss: of the repulsion of atoms due to closeness or arrangement
pos: adj
Related words: isosteric
allosteric
intrasteric
halosteric
holosteric
Derived words: electrosteric
heterosteric
homosteric
nonsteric
sterically
steric hindrance
thermosteric
Translations:
cordial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English cordial, from Old French cordial, from Medieval Latin cordiālis (“of the heart”), from cor (“heart”).
Inflected forms:
form: more cordial
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cordial
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cordials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Hearty; sincere; warm; affectionate.
pos: adj
examples: I have a cordial dislike for arachnids.
He, on his side / Leaning half raised, with looks of cordial love / Hung over her enamoured.
The relations between the Earl of Bellomont and Colonel Schuyler were formal, but not cordial from the first.
Joshua maintained his serious demeanour when Wilder took the microphone - his gaze not leaving the Alabama fighter who was cordial and respectful in return.
gloss: Radiating warmth and friendliness; genial.
pos: adj
examples: The sight of London warmed my heart with various emotions, such as a cordial man must draw from the heart of all humanity.
Since then, though, discussions have become more collaborative and cordial.
gloss: Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.
pos: adj
tags: rare
examples: I vvas baptized in thy Cordiall vvater, againſt Original ſinne, and I haue drunke of thy Cordiall Blood, for my recouerie, from actuall, and habituall ſinne, in the other Sacrament.
And first behold this cordial julep here / That flames and dances in his crystal bounds, / With spirits of balm, and fragrant syrups mix'd.
gloss: Proceeding from the heart.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Who stooping op'n'd my left side, and took / From thence a Rib with cordial spirits warm, / And Life-blood streaming fresh;
gloss: A concentrated non-carbonated soft drink which is diluted with water before drinking.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
examples: Both supplement and taste-matched placebo were consumed in 70 ml of fruit cordial and 150 ml of water, which were drunk within a 5-min period.
gloss: An individual serving of such a diluted drink.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
gloss: A pleasant-tasting medicine.
pos: noun
gloss: A liqueur prepared using the infusion process.
pos: noun
examples: 1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, Act III, Scene 1, in 1828, British Theatre, Comprising Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces, 827,
Lucy. But, miss Polly—in the way of friendship, will you give me leave to propose a glass of cordial to you ?
Polly. Strong waters are apt to give me the headache.—I hope, madam, you will excuse me?
[Marilla] had put the bottle of raspberry cordial down in the cellar instead of in the closet [...].
gloss: A candy (or bonbon) usually made of milk chocolate, filled with small fruits (often maraschino cherries) and syrup or fondant.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything that revives or comforts, a stimulant.
pos: noun
examples: Never had Fanny more wanted a cordial. Never had she felt such a one as this letter contained.
Derived words: cordialise
cordiality
cordialize
cordially
cordialness
noncordial
supercordial
ultracordial
uncordial
ginger cordial
Translations:
liqueur
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French liqueur. Doublet of liquor.
Inflected forms:
form: liqueurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: liqueurs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: liqueuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: liqueured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: liqueured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A flavored alcoholic beverage that is usually very sweet and contains a high percentage of alcohol.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: to flavor or treat (wine) with a liqueur
pos: verb
gloss: to top up bottles of sparkling wine with a sugar solution
pos: verb
examples: Every champagne has to be liqueured after its disgorgement, to replace the inevitable loss.
Translations:
meld
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: The verb is probably derived:
* from a blend of melt + weld; or
* from melled (“blended; mingled”), the past participle of mell.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Compare also melting pot.
Compound parts: melt
weld
Inflected forms:
form: melds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: melding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: melded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: melded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: melds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To combine (multiple things) together; to blend, to fuse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One can meld copper and zinc together to form brass.
Much as America's motto celebrates melding many into one, South Africa's says that it doesn't matter what you look like – we can all be proud of our young country.
Users can upload an unlimited number of voice messages, text prompts, photographs and videos of themselves, and in return an algorithm melds together memories and media and spits out a “virtual you” – an avatar that can speak to loved ones on phone calls and through text messages “so that children, grandchildren and beyond can know what you’re really like”.
gloss: To combine, to blend, to fuse.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: The result of multiple things being combined together; a blend.
pos: noun
Related words: meldometer
melt
weld
Derived words: meldable
melded
melder
melding
mindmeld
unmelded
Translations:
missive
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 15th century; from Medieval Latin missīvus, from mittō (“to send”).
Inflected forms:
form: missives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A written message; a letter, note or memo.
pos: noun
tags: formal
examples: [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
The juvenile missives from his unmistakably phallic Twitter avatar came days after one of his rockets launched NASA’s first antiasteroid planetary-defense test[…]
The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.
"Curses throttle thee!" yelled Ahab. "Captain Mayhew, stand by now to receive it"; and taking the fatal missive from Starbuck's hands, he caught it in the slit of the pole, and reached it over towards the boat.
gloss: Letters sent between two parties in which one makes an offer and the other accepts it.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: One who is sent; a messenger.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it came missives from the King, who all hailed me ‘Thane of Cawdor,’ by which title these Weird Sisters saluted me and referred me to the coming on of time with ‘Hail king that shalt be.’
gloss: Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a letter missive
Delivery of the Letters Missive
gloss: Serving as a missile; intended to be thrown.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: In vain with Darts a diſtant War they try, / Short, and more ſhort the miſſive weapons fly.
Related words: mission for terms etymologically related to send
Derived words: letter missive
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: misivo
hornet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hernet, from Old English hyrnetu, hyrnete, from Proto-West Germanic *hurnutu, from Proto-Germanic *hurznutō (compare German Hornisse), alteration of Proto-Germanic *hursulǭ (compare Dutch horzel), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂sro- (“hornet”, literally “the one with horns (antennae)”), from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) (compare Welsh creyryn (“gadfly”), Latin crābrō (“hornet”), Lithuanian širšė (“wasp”), Proto-Slavic *sьrxy (whence Old Church Slavonic сръшень (srŭšenĭ, “hornet”) and many others), Albanian grerë, grenzë (“wasp, hornet”)).
Inflected forms:
form: hornets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any large wasp of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks.
pos: noun
Related words: bee
wasp
Derived words: Asian giant hornet
Asian hornet
Australian hornet
bald-faced hornet
bald hornet
black-bellied hornet
black-tailed hornet
European hornet
giant hornet
greater banded hornet
green hornet
hornet clearwing
hornet fly
hornetlike
hornet moth
hornet robberfly
hornety
Japanese giant hornet
Japanese hornet
Japanese yellow hornet
lesser banded hornet
mad as a hornet
murder hornet
Oriental hornet
paper hornet
sand hornet
white-faced hornet
white-tailed hornet
yellow hornet
yellow-legged hornet
Translations:
warlord
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From war + lord.
Compound parts: war
lord
Inflected forms:
form: warlords
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: war lord
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: war-lord
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A military commander or bandit leader wielding civilian power in an area where the government is weak.
pos: noun
examples: Afghanistan's first major battle of the post-Taliban era ended tonight when the soldiers of the warlord besieging this strategic city south of Kabul ran out of ammunition and fled the battlefront in clouds of dust, cursing the warlord to his face for his callousness in committing them to a fight they were doomed to lose.
“I’m not a warlord … I’m a liberator of the people,” he said. That’s the problem: So are they all. More than four million people have died in Congo’s wars since 1998, making it the most lethal conflict since World War II.
Translations:
warrior
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English werreour, from Anglo-Norman werreur, Old French guerroiier (“fighter, combattant”), from Medieval Latin werra, from Frankish *werʀu (“confusion; quarrel”), from Proto-Indo-European *wers- (“to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”). Displaced earlier Old English cempa and many others.
Inflected forms:
form: warriors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: warriour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person who is actively engaged in battle, conflict or warfare; a soldier or combatant.
pos: noun
examples: Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
[Link:] Gee, it sure is boring around here.
 [King Harkinian:] My boy, this peace is what all true warriors strive for.
gloss: A person who is aggressively, courageously, or energetically involved in an activity, such as athletics.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Related words: war
Derived words: Black Warrior
bloody-warrior
bloody warrior
class warrior
cold warrior
corridor warrior
culture warrior
eco-warrior
edit warrior
Indian warrior
keyboard warrior
people's warrior
road warrior
social-justice warrior
social justice warrior
status quo warrior
urban warrior
warrior ant
warrioress
warriorhood
warrior wasp
weekend warrior
Wi-Fi warrior
wolf warrior
workout warrior
Translations:
coco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese/Spanish coco (“grinning face”) (due to the three holes in the shell resembling a human face). Doublet of coque.
Inflected forms:
form: cocos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cocoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cocoa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Coconut palm.
pos: noun
examples: I turn round and round to see the high mountains, the thick coco trees.
gloss: Coconut, the fruit of the coconut palm.
pos: noun
examples: They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.
The coco is a very common fruit, and but little esteemed; […]
You might opt for a heaping tower composed of fried oysters, coco-flavored shrimp, fried octopus, and calamari.
Related words: coco-de-mer
cocoa
Derived words: cocamide
cocamidopropyl
coco bread
cocomat
coconut
coco palm
cocopeat
coco peat
coco plum
coco worm
cocoyam
I should coco
malanga coco
Translations:
anesthetic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-)
Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-)der.
English an-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis-dʰh₁
Proto-Hellenic *awistʰomai
Ancient Greek αἰσθάνομαι (aisthánomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek αἴσθησῐς (aísthēsĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós)bor.
Latin aesthēticusder.
German Ästhetikder.
▲
New Latin aesthēticusbor.
French esthétiqueder.
English aesthetic
English esthetic
English anesthetic
From an- + esthetic, or Latinized form of Ancient Greek ἀναίσθητος (anaísthētos, “insensible”) + -ic, from ἀν- (an-, “un-”) + αἰσθητικός (aisthētikós, “perceptible”).
Base: esthetic
Affixes: an-
Inflected forms:
form: more anesthetic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most anesthetic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: anaesthetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: anæsthetic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: anesthesic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: anesthetical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
adjective
form: anesthetics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anaesthetic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: anæsthetic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: anesthesic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anesthetical
pos: noun
tags: alternative
adjective
Senses:
gloss: Causing anesthesia; reducing pain sensitivity.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
gloss: Insensate: unable to feel, or unconscious.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
examples: (I find that he is analgesic and anaesthetic; evidently he is in a state of passive somnambulism.)
E. A. Did you feel anybody touch you?
K. No. There's no one near me. (He continues laughing and talking. […])
Though physically capable of attaining sex rewards, he is anesthetic; though capable of aggression, he is meek; though capable of affection, he is cold and unresponsive.
He is anesthetic to their theological and political enthusiasms. He finds himself an alien at their feasts of soul.
gloss: A substance administered to reduce the perception of pain or to induce numbness for surgery and may render the recipient unconscious.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: After a local anesthetic is applied to the eye, do not rub or wipe the eye until the anesthetic has worn off and feeling in the eye returns.
Modern anesthetics can be divided into several different groups according to how and where they act to reduce pain.
During premedication, the anesthetist may give a patient drugs that make him or her feel relaxed and drowsy before the actual general anesthetic is administered.
Related words: anesthesia
anesthesiologic
anesthesiological
anesthesiology
anesthetist
anesthetize
Derived words: anesthetically
antianaesthetic
antianesthetic
electroanesthetic
general anaesthetic
general anesthetic
local anaesthetic
local anesthetic
nonanesthetic
postanesthetic
subanesthetic
teleanesthetic
Translations:
denim
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the French phrase de Nîmes (“from Nîmes”), after the French town of Nîmes, where denim fabric was originally produced.
Inflected forms:
form: denims
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A textile often made of cotton with a distinct diagonal pattern.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Mexican people want a cheaper grade of drillings, sheetings, denims, and other fabrics than are called for in our domestic markets, and purchase them in England because they can not be bought in the United States.
Fabrics: Gamine fabrics are informal as possible. For sports: tweeds, flannels, suedes, cottons, and denims;
Indigo, a typical member of this group of dyes, is widely used on denims and other fabrics for work clothes because of its very low cost and excellent fastness to washing.
Translations:
fondant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: food
lifestyle
Etymology: 19th century. Unadapted borrowing from French fondant (“melting”), from fondre (“to melt”), from Latin fundere (“to melt”).
Inflected forms:
form: fondants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flavored, creamy sugar preparation, used for icing cakes or as a base for candies.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: To produce most types of fondant, you cook sugar, corn syrup, and water and beat the cooled mixture into a creamy paste. You may find a fondant recipe that includes other ingredients, but the three primary ingredients are the ones listed here.
gloss: A candy or cake filled with such a preparation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "Don't!" said Mrs. Mallowe, feebly. "You make my head ache. I'm miserable to-day. Stay me with fondants, comfort me with chocolates[.]"
At Chapter One, these chocolate fondants are served restaurant-style with a crème brulée ravioli and an unusual basil ice cream as well as the warm sauce given.
gloss: A sugar dough, usually prepared as large sheets (rolled fondant), used in place of icing to cover large areas of cakes, composed of sugar, water, gelatin, glycerine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Stan made a heroic attempt at a tiered cinnamon cake with a rolled fondant icing that came out gray and tore when he draped it over the cake.
gloss: Fondue.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: fondant chocolate
fondant cheese
Start with a Cortland apple salad, beets with goat cheese fondant, […]
gloss: The base or flux, in enamel, which is colored throughout by metallic oxide while in a state of fusion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Facial makeup (cosmetics), when used excessively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Related words: fondue
Derived words: chocolate fondant
fondant icing
fondant potato
pommes fondant
Translations:
mitten
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English myteyne, from Old French mitaine (Modern French mitaine), of unclear origin; possibly from mite, miste (“playful name for cat”) + -aine. Alternatively, mitaine may be from Old High German mittamo (“half”), superlative of mitti (“midpoint”), from Proto-Germanic *midjô, *midją (“middle, center”), from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between, in the middle, center”). Compare Catalan mitana, Medieval Latin mitta, mitana, and Occitan mitana.
Inflected forms:
form: mittens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mittens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mittening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mittened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mittened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of glove or garment that covers a hand with a separate sheath for the thumb, but not for other fingers, which are either enclosed in a single section or left uncovered.
pos: noun
gloss: The paw of a cat or dog that is of a different color from the main body.
pos: noun
gloss: A romantic rejection; dismissal of a lover.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
dated
examples: to give someone the mitten; to get the mitten
gloss: A boxing glove.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
slang
gloss: To dress in mittens; to put a mitten on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He mittened his hand and beat it violently for a minute before exposing it to the frost to strike a match.
Derived words: Chinese mitten crab
give someone the mitten
give the mitten to
glitten
mittenful
mittenless
mittenlike
murder mitten
squish mitten
Translations:
mise
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
gaming
law
Etymology: Borrowed from French mise (“a putting, setting, expense”).
Inflected forms:
form: mises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The issue in a writ of right.
pos: noun
gloss: Expense; cost; disbursement.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the county palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To make a risky move with no regard for the consequences when the alternative is certain defeat.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Related words: Mise of Amiens
Mise of Lewes
Translations:
magnitude
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
geography
geology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
seismology
Etymology: From Latin magnitūdō (“greatness, size”), magnus + -tūdō.
Base: magnus
Affixes: -tūdō
Inflected forms:
form: magnitudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The absolute or relative size, extent or importance of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And on a programme of works of this magnitude, passengers will need to be mindful of the age-old maxim of 'no gain without pain'.
gloss: An order of magnitude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A number, assigned to something, such that it may be compared to others numerically
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a vector, the norm, most commonly, the two-norm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A logarithmic scale of brightness defined so that a difference of 5 magnitudes is a factor of 100.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Observations in the infrared domain allow one to penetrate the ~25-30 magnitudes of extinction present at visible wavelengths.
gloss: A measure of the energy released by an earthquake (e.g. on the Richter scale).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: absolute magnitude
apparent magnitude
bolometric magnitude
macromagnitude
magnitudinal
micromagnitude
millimagnitude
moment magnitude scale
order of magnitude
pseudomagnitude
radiometric magnitude
signed magnitude
visual magnitude
Translations:
two-norm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: two-norms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of length given by "the square root of the squares." Denoted by ||·||₂, the two-norm of a vector ⃑v= is ||⃑v||₂=√. The two norm of an m×m matrix A is defined by max _(⃑v≠⃑0)(||A⃑v||₂)/(||⃑v||₂) where ⃑v is an m-dimensional vector that is not the zero vector.
pos: noun
Translations:
winner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wynner, wynnere, equivalent to win + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Winner (“winner”), West Frisian winner (“winner”), Dutch winner and winnaar (“winner”), German Low German Winner, Gewinner (“winner”), German Gewinner (“winner”), Danish vinder (“winner”), Swedish vinnare (“winner”), Norwegian vinner (“winner”).
Base: win
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: winners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who has won or often wins.
pos: noun
examples: Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. […] When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.
Remember Rappin' Duke? Duh-ha, duh-ha
You never thought that hip-hop would take it this far
Now I'm in the limelight 'cause I rhyme tight
Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade
Born sinner, the opposite of a winner
Remember when I used to eat sardines for dinner
gloss: A point or goal that wins a competition.
pos: noun
examples: It was a fitting scoreline on the club's landmark anniversary, and appropriate that Van Persie should get the winner.
Antonyms: loser
Derived words: bad winner
breadwinner
game-winner
prizewinner
prize winner
sand winner
sore winner
the winner takes it all
vote-winner
winner-take-all
winner take all
winner-takes-all
winner takes all
Translations:
progression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
exercise
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
music
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English progressioun, from Old French progression and its etymon Latin prōgressiō. By surface analysis, progress + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: progressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of moving from one thing to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Make a natural progression from player to coach
gloss: The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The lowest risk for kidney disease progression seemed to be at levels of current systolic blood pressure of 110 to 129 mm Hg.
gloss: A sequence obtained by adding or multiplying each term by a constant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Development, increase, evolution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A chord progression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The process of making an exercise more strenuous by manipulating the details of its performance like loaded weight, range of motion, angle, speed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: sequence
Antonyms: regress
retrogression
Related words: progress
Derived words: '50s progression
arithmetical progression
arithmetic progression
atheroprogression
Axis progression
backdoor progression
chord progression
circle progression
cross-progression
doo-wop progression
geometrical progression
geometric progression
harmonic progression
hyperprogression
meta-progression
neuroprogression
nilprogression
nonprogression
oligoprogression
omnibus progression
pathoprogression
postprogression
progressional
progressionary
progressionism
progressionist
proregression
pseudoprogression
record progression
time to progression
Translations:
interpolate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin interpolātus, perfect passive participle of interpolō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French interpoler.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: interpolates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interpolating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interpolated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interpolated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert (possibly spurious) words into a text.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: in verse 74, the second line is clearly interpolated, probably by some unknown medieval scribe
When interpolating an explanatory gloss, please enclose it in square brackets to make clear that it is interpolated.
gloss: To estimate the value of a function between two tabulated points.
pos: verb
gloss: During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process it in-line along with the original data.
pos: verb
examples: A macro is invoked in the same way as a request; a control line beginning .xx will interpolate the contents of macro xx.
Related words: extrapolate
interpolation
Derived words: interpolator
interpolatory
misinterpolate
noninterpolated
noninterpolating
reinterpolate
uninterpolated
Translations:
shiner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
wine
Etymology: From Middle English schyner, equivalent to shine + -er. Compare Old English sċīnere (“one who produces deceptive appearances, magician”).
Base: shine
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: shiners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who shines; a luminary.
pos: noun
gloss: One who causes things to shine; a polisher.
pos: noun
gloss: A black eye.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Raccoon eyes.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A bright piece of money, especially a sovereign.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: Has she the shiners, d'ye think?
She may be generally found in the fore part of the day at her lodgings above mentioned, where a brace of shiners will ensure you the possession of charms above their value, cent per cent.
gloss: Any of numerous species of small freshwater American cyprinoid fishes of Notropis, Lythrurus, and allied genera, such as the redfin.
pos: noun
gloss: Any silvery fish, such as the horsefish, menhaden, or moonfish.
pos: noun
gloss: A common silverfish (Lepisma saccharinum, or any member of genus Lepisma.
pos: noun
gloss: A moonshiner.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A small reflective surface used for cheating at card games.
pos: noun
examples: Fargo wasn't sure what difference it made if one gambler passed something to another, unless it was to be used in cheating, a shiner maybe. But nobody at that table would let a shiner pass.
gloss: A bottle of finished wine, without a label.
pos: noun
examples: Shiners are a big part of the wine business. […] Shiners are finished, bottled wines that don’t have a label or typically any other identifying feature until a vintner purchases them and then places a label on the bottles. […] They’re called shiners because they are unlabeled and have a “shiny” appearance.
gloss: A brick that is laid on its tallest, thinnest side, with its largest face facing the outside of the wall (oriented so that this face is wider than it is tall).
pos: noun
Derived words: beautiful shiner
bigeye shiner
bigmouth shiner
blackchin shiner
blacknose shiner
blacktail shiner
blueside shiner
bridle shiner
carmine shiner
comely shiner
common shiner
eastern shiner
emerald shiner
finescale shiner
flagfin shiner
golden shiner
highscale shiner
Kiamichi shiner
palezone shiner
phantom shiner
redlip shiner
red shiner
redside shiner
red-striped shiner
rosefin shiner
sand shiner
satinfin shiner
scarlet shiner
sharpnose shiner
shiner perch
shoeshiner
silverband shiner
spottail shiner
swallowtail shiner
Tennessee shiner
Translations:
bibliography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βιβλιογραφία (bibliographía, “the act or habit of writing books”), from βιβλιογράφος (bibliográphos, “a writer of books”), from βιβλίον (biblíon, “small book”) + γράφω (gráphō, “I write”).
Inflected forms:
form: bibliographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A section of a written work containing citations, not quotations, to all the books referred to in the work.
pos: noun
examples: The supplementary bibliography (in Vol. VI) attests to the comprehensiveness of the effort.
gloss: A list of books or documents relevant to a particular subject or author.
pos: noun
gloss: The study of the history of books in terms of their classification, printing and publication.
pos: noun
Related words: bibliology
reference list
Derived words: annotated bibliography
autobibliography
bibliographer
bibliographic
bibliographick
bio-bibliography
biobibliography
cartobibliography
hyperbibliography
webliography
Translations:
dim
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dim, dym, from Old English dim, dimm (“dim, dark, gloomy; wretched, grievous, sad, unhappy”), from Proto-West Germanic *dimm, from Proto-Germanic *dimmaz (“dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰem- (“to whisk, smoke; obscure”). Compare Faroese dimmur (“dark”), Icelandic dimmur (“dark”) and dimma (“darkness”).
Inflected forms:
form: dimmer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dimmest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dimming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dimmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Not bright or colorful.
pos: adj
examples: The lighting was too dim for me to make out his facial features.
that sustaining Love / Which, through the web of being blindly wove / By man and beast and earth and air and sea, / Burns bright or dim
gloss: Not smart or intelligent.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: He may be a bit dim, but he's not entirely stupid.
gloss: Indistinct, hazy or unclear.
pos: adj
examples: His vision grew dimmer as he aged.
gloss: Disapproving, unfavorable: rarely used outside the phrase take a dim view of.
pos: adj
gloss: To make something less bright.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He dimmed the lights and put on soft music.
gloss: To become darker.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The lights dimmed briefly when the air conditioning was turned on.
gloss: To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct.
pos: verb
examples: a king among his courtiers,[…] who out to dim the lustre of all his attendants
Now ſet the ſun, and twilight dimm'd the ways, […]
gloss: To deprive of distinct vision; to hinder from seeing clearly, either by dazzling or clouding the eyes; to darken the senses or understanding of.
pos: verb
examples: And with our Sun-bright armour as we march,
Weel chaſe the Starrs from heauen, and dim their eies
That ſtand and muſe at our admyred armes.
Her starry eyes were dimm'd with streaming tears.
gloss: To diminish, dull, or curtail.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: All these setbacks had started to dim the hopes of the students.
Nothing will dim their spirit of resilience.
A glut might dim the outlook for grain futures.
Synonyms: dusk
bland
colourless
dim
dingy
dull
faint
lackluster
leaden
muddy
sad
sober
uncolorful
unholiday
wan
Antonyms: bright
colored
multicolored
Related words: dark
pallid
cheerless
dim mak
dim sum
Derived words: dim and distant
dimbo
dim bulb
dim-headed
dim-lit
dimly
dimmish
dimmity
dimmy
dim-sighted
dimsome
dimwit
dim-witted → dim-wittedness
nice-but-dim
autodimming
bedim
dimmable
dimmer
dim out
fordim
nondimmable
undimmable
undimmed
undimming
Translations:
ratio
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ratiō. Doublet of ration and reason.
Inflected forms:
form: ratios
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ratioing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ratioed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ratioed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ratio'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ratio'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To respond to a post or message on social media in a greater number than the number of likes the post receives, especially to condemn or mock the original poster.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: The politician's post was quickly ratioed due to its controversial nature.
“Don’t help elect Trump, you egotistical billionaire a**hole,” the protester yelled. “Go back to getting ratioed on Twitter. Go back to Davos with the other billionaire elites who think they know how to run the world. That’s not what democracy is.”
It used to be fun to watch tweets like that get ratioed back into their ugly corner of the internet.
Cue the goading Trump tweet (“Howard Schultz doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to run for President!”), the Twitter ratioing and the outrage from the left.
And, just FYI, here's how brutally the public ratioed that tweet.
It is essential that you ratio anyone who comes for your honour.
gloss: Indicates disagreement with a post the user disagrees with or dislikes.
pos: intj
tags: neologism
examples: L + ratio
"Ratio. YoungBoy is better." "What?" "Make better music. You fell off."
Translations:
nationalism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French nationalisme, equivalent to national + -ism.
Base: national
Affixes: -ism
Inflected forms:
form: nationalisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A more extreme form of patriotism; the idea of a more extreme support for one's country, people or culture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Communists, socialists, and Islamists are against nationalism.
Perhaps the explanation of the Chinese situation most generally accepted by historians is nationalism, a phenomenon which has always occurred when a people of distinctive cultural characteristics becomes aware of foreign domination. Napoleonic domination in Italy and Germany a century ago created nationalism there, as did Turkish domination in the Balkans and the Arab countries.
Other nationalisms aimed at liberating subjugated peoples who spoke the same language and lived in the same territory.
Following the 1979 Revolution, Khomeini came out against nationalism.
It dates back to the 17th century and rose into prominence during the uprisings in the 18th century that produced the American and French revolutions. But the word attained more of a negative connotation during the 20th century as it become associated with the nationalism movements in Europe that helped lead to World War I and World War II.
gloss: Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Basque nationalism
Kurdish nationalism
gloss: Support for the union of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
countable
uncountable
Antonyms: internationalism
antinationalism
cosmopolitanism
unionism
Related words: nationalist
isolationist
Derived words: ablenationalism
anarcho-nationalism
binationalism
civic nationalism
cybernationalism
economic nationalism
feminationalism
femonationalism
gastronationalism
heteronationalism
homonationalism
hypernationalism
linguonationalism
metanationalism
micronationalism
neonationalism
neo-techno-nationalism
pan-nationalism
postnationalism
supernationalism
techno-nationalism
vaccine nationalism
white nationalism
Translations:
cornhole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From corn + hole.
(anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.
Compound parts: corn
hole
Inflected forms:
form: cornholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cornholes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cornholing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cornholed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cornholed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small room connected to a threshing floor.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
dated
uncountable
examples: The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed.
A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex.
gloss: A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes.
Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really.
gloss: The anus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: To have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally.
pos: verb
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.
Translations: