yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
gyre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
geography
medicine
natural-sciences
oceanography
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin gȳrus (“circle; circular motion”), from Ancient Greek γῦρος (gûros, “circle; ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *gew- (“to bend; to curve”). The English word is a doublet of gyro and gyrus.
Inflected forms:
form: gyres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gyres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gyring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gyred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gyred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A swirling vortex.
pos: noun
tags: literary
poetic
gloss: A circular or spiral motion; also, a circle described by a moving body; a revolution, a turn.
pos: noun
tags: literary
poetic
examples: Quick, and more quick he ſpins in giddy Gires, / Then falls, and in much Foam his Soul expires.
What is art, / But life upon the larger scale, the higher, / When, graduating up in a spiral line / Of still expanding and ascending gyres, / It pushes toward the intense significance / Of all things, hungry for the Infinite? / Art's life,—and where we live, we suffer and toil.
Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, […]
gloss: Synonym of gyrus (“a fold or ridge on the cerebral cortex of the brain”).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: An ocean current caused by wind which moves in a circular manner, especially one that is large-scale and observed in a major ocean.
pos: noun
examples: Most ships that tried to cross the Pacific in the past would get stuck in the gyres and never make it out.
gloss: To spin around; to gyrate, to whirl.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
literary
poetic
examples: The host of heauenly beautyes moue, / Depainted in their proper stories, / As well the fixd as wandring glories, / Which from their proper orbes not goe, / Whether they gyre swift or slowe: […]
Jabberwocky. / 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wa[b]e; / All mimsy were the borogoves, / And the mome raths outgrabe.
gloss: To make (something) spin or whirl around; to spin, to whirl.
pos: verb
tags: literary
poetic
rare
transitive
Related words: gyrant
gyrate
gyration
gyrator
gyratory
gyrectomy
gyrencephalate
gyro
gyrus
gyre-carlin
Derived words: gyral
gyrally
gyreful
gyrose
isogyre
polygyrous
gyring
gyringly
Translations:
MOR
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: MORs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mid-ocean ridge: a submarine volcanic mountain range.
pos: noun
Translations:
seafloor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sea + floor.
Compound parts: sea
floor
Inflected forms:
form: seafloors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sea floor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of seabed.
pos: noun
examples: The seafloor is often covered with sediment.
Translations:
upwelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English welling
English upwelling
From up- + welling.
Inflected forms:
form: upwellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An upward movement from a lower source.
pos: noun
examples: Rather separate from the abolitionist campaign, although likewise led by anglophone Evangelicals, was a sudden upwelling of commitment to worldwide mission.
gloss: the oceanographic phenomenon that occurs when strong, usually seasonal, winds push water away from the coast, bringing cold, nutrient-rich deep waters up to the surface
pos: noun
Antonyms: downwelling
Translations:
syn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συν- (sun-, “with, together”), having the same function as co- (“synthesis, synoptic”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: That has a torsion angle between 0° and 90°.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
powder
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English poudre, pouder, pouldre, borrowed from Old French poudre, poldre, puldre, from Latin pulverem, accusative singular of Latin pulvis (“dust, powder”). Doublet of pulver. Compare pollen (“fine flour”), polverine, pulverize.
Inflected forms:
form: powders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: powdering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: powdered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: powdered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: powdre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 25 October 2016, Bettina Elias Siegel writing in New York Times, Should the Food Industry Sneak Vegetables Into Food?
In desperation, they dried fruits and vegetables in an old food dehydrator they had, then used their coffee grinder to powder the produce...
gloss: To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to powder one's hair
23 March 2016, Seth Augenstein in Laboratory Equipment, FDA Proposes Ban on Powdered Surgical Gloves, Decades after Documenting Health Dangers
Gloves were powdered for more than a century to allow doctors and surgeons to slip them on more easily.
A circling zone thou seest / Powdered with stars.
gloss: To use powder on the hair or skin.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 1778-1787, Frances Burney, The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
If she is grave, and reads steadily on, she dismisses me, whether I am dressed or not; but at all times she never forgets to send me away while she is powdering, with a consideration not to spoil my clothes
gloss: To turn into powder; to become powdery.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Ample evidence is brought forward to show that the higher incidence of chronic interstitial nephritis in Queensland is due to lead paint on the verandahs and railings of the houses, which powders easily during the long Australian summer.
gloss: To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To depart suddenly; to "take a powder".
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: Miss Gibson appeared in the empty hall, her eyes wide and shocked. The little man who had started all the trouble with his singing telegram had powdered.
Derived words: overpowder
powderable
powderer
repowder
Translations:
impersonal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From French impersonnel, from Latin impersōnālis, from im- (“not”) + persōnālis (“personal”), equivalent to im- + personal.
Base: personal
Affixes: im-
Inflected forms:
form: more impersonal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most impersonal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: impersonals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
pos: adj
examples: The great tragedians of Greece reveal to us their people's exquisite sense of beauty, and their faith in an awful, an almighty, but an impersonal power, called Fate
gloss: Lacking warmth or emotion; cold.
pos: adj
examples: She sounded impersonal as she gave her report of the Nazi death camps.
And now it appeared that there was a mysterious Queen clothed by rumour with dread and wonderful attributes, and commonly known by the impersonal, but, to my mind, rather awesome title of She.
gloss: Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.
pos: adj
examples: The verb “rain” is impersonal in sentences like “It’s raining.”
gloss: An impersonal word or construct.
pos: noun
Related words: personal
Derived words: impersonalise
impersonalism
impersonalist
impersonality
impersonalization
impersonalize
impersonally
impersonalness
impersonal passive
impersonal subject
impersonal verb
ultraimpersonal
Translations:
prefix
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
grammar
human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
mathematics
morphology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin praefīxum, from Latin praefīxus, past participle of praefīgō (“to (fix, fasten, set up) in front”, “to fix on the (end, extremity)”) (from prae- (“before”) + fīgō (“to fix”, “to fasten”, “to affix”)), equivalent to pre- + -fix. Doublet of the archaic synonym prefixum.
Inflected forms:
form: prefixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præfix
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prefixe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prefixes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prefixing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prefixed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prefixed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: præfix
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: prefixe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Something placed before another
pos: noun
examples: The chosen prefixes won the vote in part because they start with the only two letters left in the alphabet that are not already used in measurement. The b for “bronto” is already used for bytes and h for “hella” is used for hecto, the prefix for 100.
gloss: Something placed before another
pos: noun
examples: in the UK, a number with an 0800 prefix is a toll-free number.
Add the prefix +34 to dial a Spanish number from abroad
gloss: Something placed before another
pos: noun
gloss: Something placed before another
pos: noun
examples: The string "abra" is both a prefix and a suffix of the string "abracadabra".
gloss: To determine beforehand; to set in advance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They duly arrived at the prefixed hour.
But the danger was, that a man can hardly prefix any certaine limits unto his desire[…].
It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.
gloss: To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His requests for money were usually prefixed by an apology.
You must prefix the number with the area code.
For the classical ranks, he says, were taken from the nomenclature of the family system (indeed, they are kinship terms as well as political ones), and this arrangement was confused and inelegant. But the Taiping terms are all prefixed with 'T’ien' [translating 天 (Tiān)]—the capital is T’ien-ching [translating 天京 (Tiānjīng)], soldiers are T’ien-ping [translating 天兵], officials are T’ien-kuan [translating 天官]—for the T’ien-wang’s [translating 天王 (Tiānwáng)] authority derives from the T’ien-fu [translating 天父 (Tiānfù)].
Synonyms: forefix
Related words: fix
pre-
prefixion
prepend
coverb
Derived words: metric prefix
null prefix
prefixal
prefixhood
prefixing
prefixive
prefixless
~ness
prefixlike
prefixness
prefixoid
pseudoprefix
SI prefix
zero prefix
prefixable
prefixation
prefixed
unprefixed
prefixer
auto~
Translations:
gram
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French gramme, from Ancient Greek γράμμα (grámma, “a small weight, a scruple”). Doublet of gramma.
Inflected forms:
form: grams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gramme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A unit of mass equal to one-thousandth of a kilogram. Symbol: g.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: kilogram < megagram < gigagram
Meronyms: picogram < nanogram < microgram < milligram
Translations:
crankcase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From crank + case.
Compound parts: crank
case
Inflected forms:
form: crankcases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The part of an engine that contains the crankshaft.
pos: noun
examples: The crankcase itself is in one piece, in the form of a tunnel into which the crankshaft is introduced from one end.
Translations:
blower
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
mining
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English blowere, blower, from Old English blāwere; equivalent to blow + -er.
Base: blow
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: blowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who blows.
pos: noun
gloss: A fissure from which firedamp issues, often in quantity for many years.
pos: noun
examples: The great sources of fire-damp in coal mines are blowers or fissures from which currents of this inflammable gas issue in considerable quantities and for a long series of years
gloss: Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
pos: noun
examples: The locomotive […] was quietly "blowing off" on one Ross "pop" valve, whilst the rhythmic clanging of the fireman's shovel, the black smoke pouring from her chimney, and the harsh sound of the blower told of the proximity of departure time.
gloss: Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.
pos: noun
examples: The three motors on each bogie are force ventilated from a blower mounted in the adjacent nose-end compartment of the superstructure, the air being led by ducts and flexible bellows connections to the air inlet at the commutator end of the motor.
gloss: Telephone.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
slang
examples: Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!
I got off the blower oozing no confidence at all.
gloss: Telephone.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
UK
historical
slang
gloss: A braggart, or loud talker.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: There hangs something majestic about a man who has borne his part in battles, especially if he is very quiet regarding it when you desire him to unbosom. I am continually lost at the absence of blowing and blowers among these old-young American militaires.
gloss: The whale; so called from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
pos: noun
gloss: A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.
pos: noun
gloss: A gun.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
Related words: blowpipe
Derived words: blower door
chunk-blower
hornblower
Hornblower
mindblower
safeblower
smoke-blower
smoke blower
snowblower
stoneblower
whistle-blower
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: духало
roman: duhalo
lang: Bulgarian
word: вентилатор
roman: ventilator
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鼓風機 /鼓风机
roman: gǔfēngjī
lang: Czech
word: fukar
lang: Finnish
word: puhallin
lang: French
word: ventilateur
lang: German
word: Gebläse
lang: German
word: Bläser
lang: German
word: Lüfter
lang: German
word: Ventilator
lang: German
word: Föhn (hairdryer)
lang: Hebrew
word: מפוח
lang: Irish
word: séidire
lang: Japanese
word: ブロワー
roman: burowā
lang: Polish
word: dmuchawa
lang: Portuguese
word: soprador
lang: Russian
word: фен
roman: fen
lang: Russian
word: вентиля́тор
roman: ventiljátor
lang: Russian
word: воздуходу́вка
roman: vozduxodúvka
lang: Spanish
word: fuelle
lang: Spanish
word: ventilador
lang: Ukrainian
word: фен
roman: fen
lang: Ukrainian
word: вентиля́тор
roman: ventyljátor
lang: Ukrainian
word: повітроду́вка
roman: povitrodúvka
lang: Welsh
word: chwythwr
muffler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: automotive
government
military
politics
transport
vehicles
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English muffle
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English muffler
From muffle + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: mufflers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something or someone that muffles.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Holonym: exhaust system
gloss: Something or someone that muffles.
pos: noun
gloss: Something or someone that muffles.
pos: noun
examples: The newcomer took off his cap and his big woollen muffler. His nose was pointed and red.
He was wearing a maroon cashmere muffler which had hiked up on his neck, giving him next to no protection against the cold. Abruptly, and rather absently, he took his right hand out of his coat pocket and started to adjust the muffler, but before it was adjusted, he changed his mind […]
gloss: Something or someone that muffles.
pos: noun
tags: World-War-I
rare
slang
Derived words: muffler bearing
mufflered
muffler furnace
mufflerless
Translations:
droplet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English drop
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lus
Latin -ellus
Old French -el
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Old French -eletbor.
Middle English -let
English -let
English droplet
From drop + -let.
Inflected forms:
form: droplets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very small drop.
pos: noun
Translations:
ewe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ewe, from Old English eowu, from Proto-West Germanic *awi, from Proto-Germanic *awiz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).
Cognates
See also Old English ēow (“sheep”), West Frisian ei, Dutch ooi, German Aue; also Old Irish oí, Latin ovis, Tocharian B ā(ᵤ)w, Lithuanian avi̇̀s (“ewe”), Russian овца́ (ovcá).
Inflected forms:
form: ewes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female sheep, as opposed to a ram.
pos: noun
examples: This twentie yeeres haue I bene with thee: thy ewes and thy ſhee goates haue not caſt their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten.
Translations:
solenoid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
climatology
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From French solénoïde, from Ancient Greek σωληνοειδής (sōlēnoeidḗs) (from σωλήν (sōlḗn, “channel, pipe”) + -ειδής (-eidḗs); see -oid).
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: solenoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A coil of wire that acts as a magnet when an electric current flows through it.
pos: noun
gloss: A coil of wire that acts as a magnet when an electric current flows through it.
pos: noun
gloss: An electromechanical switch controlled by a solenoid; solenoid switch, relay.
pos: noun
gloss: The region of intersection between isobaric and isopycnal surfaces.
pos: noun
Derived words: microsolenoid
solenoidal
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: solenoide
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 螺線管 /螺线管
lang: Czech
word: solenoid
lang: Dutch
word: solenoïde
lang: Dutch
word: spoel
lang: Esperanto
word: solenoido
lang: Finnish
word: solenoidi
lang: French
word: solénoïde
lang: Galician
word: solenoide
lang: German
word: Spule
lang: German
word: Magnetspule
lang: Greek
word: ηλεκτρομαγνητική βαλβίδα
roman: ilektromagnitikí valvída
lang: Ido
word: solenoido
lang: Italian
word: solenoide
lang: Macedonian
word: соленои́д
roman: solenoíd
lang: Māori
word: pōkai waea
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: spole
lang: Polish
word: solenoid
lang: Portuguese
word: solenoide
lang: Russian
word: солено́ид
roman: solenóid
lang: Spanish
word: solenoide
lang: Swedish
word: spole
lang: Tagalog
word: malabumbong
humanoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin hūmānus
Old French umain
Middle French humainbor.
Middle English humayne
English human
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English humanoid
From human (from Latin hūmānus m (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”, adjective)) + -oid.
Base: human
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: more humanoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most humanoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: humanoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the appearance or characteristics of a human; being anthropomorphic under some criteria (physical, mental, genetical, ethological, ethical etc.).
pos: adj
examples: That's how I came to be down there, Captain, pursuing the devil's own spawn, a thing I've chased across the universe. He's humanoid outside, but inside, he's a hideous, murdering monster. I'll get him, Captain. I swear it.
About 56% of the humanoid robot supply chain companies are based in China, according to a Morgan Stanley research report last month.
gloss: A being having the appearance or characteristics of a human.
pos: noun
examples: Lowering prices for humanoids would mark a major step to their eventual commercialization and wider adoption.
Synonyms: anthropoid
Translations:
investigate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Recorded since circa 1510, a back-formation from investigation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin investīgātiō (“a searching into”), from investīgātus, the perfect passive participle of investīgō, equivalent to in- + vestigate. Displaced native Old English undersēċan (literally “to search under or between”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: investigates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: investigating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: investigated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: investigated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To inquire into or study in order to ascertain facts or information.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to investigate the causes of natural phenomena
He was asked to investigate a robbery.
We investigated the presence of CNM in ornithophagous ticks from migrating birds.
The current study investigates autoantibodies against steroid synthesis enzymes in dogs with spontaneous hypoadrenocorticism.
ESP, using the tools of corpus linguistics, has advanced the methodologies for investigating discipline-specific language, yet there has been little cross-fertilization so far with disciplinary literacy in secondary education.
gloss: To examine, look into, or scrutinize in order to discover something hidden or secret.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to investigate an unsolved murder
gloss: To conduct an inquiry or examination.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Why don't you investigate?" he demanded. And investigate I did.
Synonyms: underseek
Related words: investigability
investigable
investigation
investigational
investigative
investigator
investigatory
Derived words: coinvestigate
investigatable
investigatingly
noninvestigated
reinvestigate
transvestigate
underinvestigated
uninvestigated
uninvestigating
Translations:
ductile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French, from Latin ductilis (“easily led”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ductile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ductile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being pulled or stretched into thin wire by mechanical force without breaking.
pos: adj
examples: ductile material
ductile shape
ductile alloy
ductile state
Gold is highly ductile, allowing it to be drawn into very fine wires.
The ductile nature of copper makes it essential in electrical wiring.
gloss: Molded easily into a new form.
pos: adj
examples: their organisation was, by hereditary culture, much more ductile and more readily capable of acquiring knowledge than mine.
gloss: Led easily; prone to follow.
pos: adj
tags: rare
Synonyms: plastic
pliant
Antonyms: brittle
Related words: duct
ductility
elastic
Derived words: ductile fracture
ductile iron
ductilely
ductileness
ductilimeter
ductility
ductilize
inductile
nonductile
semiductile
Translations:
x-axis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: x-axes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The axis on a graph that is usually drawn left to right and usually shows the range of values of an independent variable.
pos: noun
tags: analytic
Translations:
zilch
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Probably from Joe Zilch, a placeholder name (compare John Doe) used by Nunnally Johnson in his column in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle from 1923; in turn from Joe Zilch, an unseen character referenced in comedian Frank Tinney's stage routine. Compare the rare German surname Zilch.
Inflected forms:
form: zilches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zilches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: zilching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: zilched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: zilched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A nobody: a person who is worthless in importance or character.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
informal
examples: President Henry P. Zilch. Chairman of the Board Charles D. Zilch. Treasurer Otto Zilch.
Bernarr MacZilch [for Bernarr Macfadden] and His Dynamic-Hooey System... The WEAKLING Who Became 'The World's Most Perfect Ass!'
Dinglegoofer, Mr. Zilch, indefinite nicknames.
gloss: Nothing, zero.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: Her search for decent home-made winter clothes came up with zilch, so she had to get imported stuff.
"If the homeless wind up with zilch," James retorted, veiling his indignation behind a malevolent smile, "it's because they deserve zilch."
gloss: No, zero, non-existent.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
not-comparable
examples: Zilch, adj. Nothing, zero...
...gorgeous faces but zilch talent...
gloss: To cause to score nothing, to thoroughly defeat.
pos: verb
tags: US
informal
examples: We zilched them on that rubber.
My favorite film of 1989 got zilched... That would be Field of Dreams.
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: بوش
roman: bōš
lang: Esperanto
word: nenio
lang: Finnish
word: ei-kukaan
lang: French
word: que dalle
lang: French
word: que pouic
lang: German
word: nix
lang: Japanese
word: 何も
roman: nani mo
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: нїч
roman: njič
lang: Portuguese
word: nadica
lang: Romanian
word: canci
lang: Romanian
word: ioc
lang: Romanian
word: boacă
lang: Romanian
word: nulitate
lang: Romanian
word: neica nimeni
lang: Russian
word: ничего́
roman: ničevó
lang: Russian
word: ни черта́
roman: ni čertá
lang: Russian
word: ни фига́
roman: ni figá
lang: Russian
word: ни шиша́
roman: ni šišá
lang: Russian
word: ни хрена́
roman: ni xrená
lang: Russian
word: ни хуя́
roman: ni xujá
lang: Russian
word: ни хера́
roman: ni xerá
lang: Swedish
word: noll
lang: Swedish
word: nolla
lang: Swedish
word: ingenting
lang: Turkish
word: hiç
lang: Turkish
word: değersiz
integer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arithmetic
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin integer (“whole”), from Proto-Italic *n̥tagros (“untouched”). Doublet of entier and entire. Related to English tact, thack, and thwack.
Inflected forms:
form: integers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: integri
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
pos: noun
examples: God made the integers; all else is the work of man
Translations:
annotation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
genetics
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin annotātiōnem, accusative singular of annotātiō (“remark, annotation”), from annotātus, perfect passive participle of annotō (“note down, remark”). Equivalent to annotate + -ion.
Base: annotate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: annotations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She added an annotation in the margin to clarify the text.
gloss: A comment added to a text.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: make an annotation
The manuscript was filled with helpful annotations.
The teacher asked students to submit essays with proper annotation.
gloss: The process of writing such comment or commentary.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Metadata added to a document or program.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Information relating to the genetic structure of sequences of bases.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: annotational
annotationist
back-annotation
microannotation
micro-annotation
misannotation
overannotation
reannotation
underannotation
Translations:
dingus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Dutch dinges (“thingamajig, thingy; whatshisname, whatshername”), ding (“thing”). Probably also partly a borrowing from Afrikaans in view of its South African occurrence. The spelling dingus is remodeled to look like a Latin word ending in -us.
Inflected forms:
form: dinguses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dinges
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A gadget, device, or object whose name is either unknown, forgotten, or omitted for the purpose of humor.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
South-Africa
US
informal
examples: "If anybody should come in, and catch you with your breeches, as it were, down on the floor, all you have to do is to drink the water, wrap the rubber dingus around you, and tell them to “lay on Macduff.”
WLK. First radio station. On December 31, 1921, local engineer Francis F. Hamilton's radio station, 9ZJ, signed on with an address from Mayor Samuel (Lew) Shank. Broadcasting from Hamilton's garage at 2011 North Alabama Street, Shank made the city's first radio blooper: "Hamilton, do you mean to tell me that people can actually hear me over that damn' dingus?"
"He took the this-is-unheard-of-but-not-really-serious-of-course attitude of a street fakir whose mechanical dingus flops during a demonstration."
I wet the rod and measured the stuff into the top and by that time the water was steaming. I filled the lower half of the dingus and set it on the flame.
‘Say, what’s that dingus you Britishers wear when you’re playing cricket?
Drill #40 the .094 [2.4 mm] holes in the dingus. Dimple the #40 holes.
gloss: A foolish, incompetent, or silly person.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
endearing
humorous
informal
sometimes
examples: I just lost my keys again. Now I feel like a dingus.
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: "He got mad at me because his dingus wouldn’t come up for him — too drunk, I guess. […]
And Chester Charles Smithers sucked on that warm black dingus for as long as he could.
How come you can say dink when you're talking about your jobs but I can't say dink when I'm talking about my dingus?
Translations:
potable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Late Middle English potable (“drinkable, potable”), from Middle French, Old French potable (modern French potable (“drinkable, potable”)), and from its etymon Late Latin pōtābilis (“drinkable, potable”), from Latin pōtāre (“to drink”) + -bilis (suffix forming adjectives indicating a capacity or worth of being acted upon). Pōtāre is the present active infinitive of pōtō (“to drink”), from Proto-Italic *pōtos, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃- (“to drink”).
The English word is cognate with Catalan potable, Italian potabile, Spanish potable.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: more potable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most potable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: potables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Good for drinking without fear of waterborne disease or poisoning.
pos: adj
tags: formal
examples: potable water
The water from this river should not be considered potable without disinfection: you may be OK if you drink it raw, but you're gambling if you do so.
gloss: Any drinkable liquid; a beverage.
pos: noun
examples: When solar beams / Parch thirsty human veins, the damask'd meads, / Unforc'd display ten thousand painted flow'rs / Useful in potables.
Translations:
freshwater
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: economics
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English freche watur, fresshe water; equivalent to fresh + water.
Compound parts: fresh
water
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Living in fresh water.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The trout is a freshwater fish.
gloss: Consisting of fresh water.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.
gloss: Unskilled as a seaman.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: “Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he said this—“surely I am not to suppose that you have become soft-hearted! […]
gloss: Neoclassical, in reference to the macroeconomics and economic departments near the Great Lakes.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: 2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86.
Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher.
Derived words: freshwater crayfish
freshwater drum
freshwater hydra
freshwater pearl mussel
freshwater shark
freshwater soldier
North American freshwater catfish
The Freshwater
Translations:
peer
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan
Old English *pȳran
Middle English peren
English peer
From Middle English peren, pyren, piren (“to peer, gaze”), perhaps from Old English *pȳran (“to look, peer”), from Proto-West Germanic *pūrijan (“to look”), related to Saterland Frisian pierje (“to look”), Dutch Low Saxon piren (“to look”), West Flemish pieren (“to look with narrowed eyes, squint at”), Dutch pieren (“to look closely at, examine”), Middle English pouren (“to gaze, look closely”), English pore (“to study meticulously”). Compare also West Frisian pluere (“to peer”), Dutch pluren (“to gaze squintingly”), German Low German plieren (“to blink”), Danish plire (“to peer”), Swedish plira, blira (“to peer”), and thence ultimately related to the root of English blear.
The sense meaning "to be visible" is perhaps from a shortening of appear.
Inflected forms:
form: peers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: peering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: peered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: peered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pire
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
obsolete
form: pyre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
obsolete
form: peers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
obsolete
form: pyre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] I should be still / Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind, / Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads;
As if thro’ a dungeon grate he peer’d
With broad and burning face.
He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
He would peek into the curtained windows, or, climbing upon the roof, peer down the black depths of the chimney in vain endeavor to solve the unknown wonders that lay within those strong walls.
Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.
gloss: To come in sight; to appear.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, / So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
I, I, let you alone, cunning Artificer! / See, hovv his gorget peeres aboue his govvne; / To tell the people, in vvhat danger he vvas.
gloss: A look; a glance.
pos: noun
examples: Blessed are those organisers who provide one-and-all with a name tag, for then the participants will chat together. A quick peer at your neighbour's lapel is much the simplest way to become introduced […]
Derived words: outpeer
overpeer
peerer
peeringly
underpeer
peery
Translations:
coalesce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin coalēscō, from co- + alēscō (“grow up”).
Inflected forms:
form: coalesces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coalescing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coalesced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coalesced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To join into a single mass or whole.
pos: verb
examples: The droplets coalesced into a puddle.
[…] when a thing's own light and the light from something else coalescing into one on bright and smooth surfaces produce a form which yields a perception reversed from the way a thing normally looks.
gloss: To form from different pieces or elements.
pos: verb
examples: The puddle coalesced from the droplets as they ran together.
gloss: To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the combined liquid to solidify.
pos: verb
gloss: To merge, to intermingle freely.
pos: verb
examples: It was not a wise thing to enter a close clique, my good madam, until you had examined both them and yourself, and considered how far you were likely to coalesce.
We in the gay male community who are white […] will need to do conscious raising on racism with each other to effectively work with different racial groups. It follows that when attempting to coalesce with women that sexism conscious raising would need to occur.
The result is that once again, as in 2016, Trump is likely to prevail because Republicans cannot coalesce around an alternative—even though a candidate who is experienced in government, solidly conservative, and acceptable to most factions of the party is right there in front of them.
gloss: To convert a null value to a defined value.
pos: verb
examples: You can improve the display by coalescing the ID columns. As I note in Chapter 9, the COALESCE expression takes on the value of the first non-null value in a list of values.
Synonyms: agglomerate
aggregate
cumulate
alloy
amalgamate
blend
coalesce
combine
consolidate
conflate
embody
fuse
integrate
mass
meld
merge
unite
Antonyms: divide
segregate
Related words: -esce
coalescence
coalescent
coalition
assemble
Derived words: coalescible
electrocoalesce
noncoalescing
recoalesce
uncoalesce
Translations:
humongous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of expressive origin, likely inspired by huge, with the termination of monstrous.
Inflected forms:
form: more humongous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most humongous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: humungous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of an extremely large size.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Other students make wide detours to avoid the humiliation and fear of being chased and attacked by the humongous numbers of bees in front of Atkinson.
Solomon had pulled this humongous fish that was bigger than anything weʼd ever seen.
“Thumbs!” ordered Mr Big. “Do your worst with the boy!” Frank looked on in terror as the man bent back his humongous Thumbs, ready to cause damage. CLICK! CLICK! The henchman pressed them hard into the boy’s ears. Frank felt like his brain was going to burst. “ARGH!” he screamed.
Translations:
brewer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English brewere, equivalent to brew + -er; cognate with Dutch brouwer, Swedish bryggare.
Base: brew
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: brewers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.
pos: noun
examples: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
Danish brewer Carlsberg (CABGY)plans to send its CEO, a spokesman confirmed.
Translations:
homebrewed
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From home + brewed.
Compound parts: home
brewed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Brewed at home.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The girl made a wry little face. "I don't like beer, Mr. Landon," she said. "It's horrid stuff, even when it's homebrewed!
Two common questions are, "How long will a homebrewed beer keep?" and "Will it spoil?" The answer is that homebrewed beer has a fairly long storage life.
She felt dizzy and befuddled, almost like the time she had swiped a drink of her mother's homebrewed mead.
gloss: Homemade.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: It is somewhat characteristic of this aircraft's designer that he found a homebrewed solution to the high cost of fabricating this curved boom section.
Bob concocts his own homebrewed version of the fuel by mixing old cooking oil, a small amount of gasoline, methanol from an antifreeze called Heet (found at the auto parts store), and a few gallons of Drano (which contains sodium hydroxide).
Her tribal doctor also gave her some homebrewed powdered medicine, which he mixed in water.
gloss: Drink brewed at home.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They soon made friends again over a pipe and some homebrewed.
And they shook hands on it there and then, and Mr. Lang called for a girl to bring out some homebrewed from the cellar to make a bargain of it.
Because you actually came inside and sat down and are drinking homebrewed with a smile on your face. Because you brought your hound in with you and he's drinking homebrewed as well.
Translations:
homebrewer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From homebrew + -er or home + brewer.
Base: homebrew
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: homebrewers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who brews his or her own beer or other alcoholic beverage; one who homebrews.
pos: noun
gloss: An amateur who builds radio equipment or develops video games, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Homebrewer Martin Malý illustrates the slowness of BASIC with the following story: […]
Translations:
pail
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English payle (“bucket, pail, milking pail”), of uncertain origin.
Likely from Old English pæġel (“wine vessel, container for liquids, pail; a liquid measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *pagil, from Proto-Indo-European *bak- (“peg, club”), equivalent to peg + -le. Compare West Frisian pegel (“liquid measure, fourth of a litre, half-pint”), German Pegel (“level of liquid, level”), Middle Dutch pegel (“half-pint”), Danish pægl (“half-pint”). Doublet of peil.
Alternatively from Old French paielle (“frying pan, warming pan; a liquid measure”), from Latin patella (“small pan, shallow dish, platter”), diminutive of patina (“broad shallow pan, stewpan”). Perhaps a conflation of both.
Base: peg
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: pails
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vessel of wood, tin, plastic, etc., usually cylindrical and having a handle -- used especially for carrying liquids, for example water or milk; a bucket (sometimes with a cover).
pos: noun
examples: The milkmaid carried a pail of milk in each hand.
gloss: A closed (covered) cylindrical shipping container.
pos: noun
Derived words: diaper pail
dry pail
garbage pail
hand in one's dinner pail
ice-pail
lunch pail
lunch pail Democrat
nappy pail
pailful
slop-pail
swill-pail
wet pail
Translations:
upside
Part of speech: noun
prep
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: From up + side.
Compound parts: up
side
Inflected forms:
form: upsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: up-side
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: up-side
pos: prep
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The highest or uppermost side or portion of something.
pos: noun
gloss: A favourable aspect of something that also has an unfavourable aspect.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The only upside of being over 35 is that you don't get raped as much.
They said we’d be free of all that tedious European red tape and would take back control of our borders, encouraging anyone agitated by immigration to believe that fewer people would come in. There would be no downside, only upsides.
gloss: An upward tendency, especially in a financial market etc.
pos: noun
gloss: On the top of.
pos: prep
tags: informal
examples: Ruth Ann clenched her hand around the hairbrush and felt like smacking Ashley upside the head with it. She knew better than to talk that way.
Derived words: upside down
Translations:
Argentinian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥ǵn̥tom
Proto-Italic *argentom
Latin argentumbor.
English Argentin(a)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Latin -iānusbor.
English -ian
English Argentinian
From Argentin(a) + -ian.
Inflected forms:
form: Argentinians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person from Argentina or of Argentine descent.
pos: noun
examples: Fernández acidly notes that the "Malvinas" are 8,700 miles away from London and claims, controversially, that the Royal Navy expelled the Argentinians who originally lived on the remote South Atlantic territory.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Argentina and the Argentine people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The FCO also disputes Fernández's claim that Britain kicked out the island's original Argentinian inhabitants.
Synonyms: Argentine
Translations:
workshop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
Etymology: From work + shop.
Compound parts: work
shop
Inflected forms:
form: workshops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: workshops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: workshopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: workshopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: workshopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A room, especially one which is not particularly large, used for manufacturing or other light industrial work.
pos: noun
examples: A gleam of sun shining through the unsashed window, and chequering the dark workshop with a broad patch of light, fell full upon him, as though attracted by his sunny heart.
gloss: A brief, intensive course of education for a small group, emphasizing interaction and practical problem solving.
pos: noun
examples: On any given Friday night at the Claremont Colleges, between 15 and 20 Jewish students gather to sing wordless melodies, dive into textual study of Talmud or James Baldwin, or hold workshops on antisemitism.
gloss: An academic conference.
pos: noun
gloss: To help a playwright revise a draft of (a play) by rehearsing it with actors and critiquing the results.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To work on or revise something, especially collaboratively, in a workshop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some in-class tutorial time was set aside for workshopping the entries.
gloss: To improve through collaboration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: idle hands are the devil's workshop
Santa's workshop
sheltered workshop
Translations: