yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
headshot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Germanic *haubudą
Old English hēafod
Middle English heed
English head
English shot
English headshot
From head + shot.
Inflected forms:
form: headshots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: headshots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: headshotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: headshotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: headshotted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A portrait for branding or social media.
pos: noun
examples: I went home, I changed, I went to Walgreens and printed out a headshot of me and signed it ‘from your favorite local news reporter,’ and I sat in the parking lot for four hours until she said, ‘Hey, your passes to go backstage are at will-call’.
gloss: A gunshot to the head.
pos: noun
examples: Smelling victory amongst the gunpowder Graeme started shooting off his mouth. “True Counter-Strikers like me don’t even count kills unless they’re headshots or a knife in the back of the nut…”
gloss: A one-page, double-sided resume of an actor, consisting of the actor's photograph (usually of the head and shoulders) on one side and their curriculum vitae on the other.
pos: noun
gloss: To kill (someone) by shooting them in the head.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: SCOUTMASTER / HEADSHOTTED A SCOUT WITH THE BREECHSHOT.
Everybody knows someone who feels left out when video games are being played. Maybe your girlfriend is bad at headshotting newbs in “Halo 4” or racing against you in “Gran Turismo,” but she could definitely play this.
Workplace bouts of Novalogic’s tactical firstperson shooter Delta Force 2 further seeded the sense that cover was neglected. “We all were playing that after work when we were having the debate about cover and first- or thirdperson,” [Chris] Esaki says. “I remember very vividly getting headshotted when I thought I was behind a piece of cover, but it was clear in the replay afterwards that my head was above the piece of stone. I couldn’t tell, and that was the reason why we went thirdperson with Kill Switch.”
Translations:
emulsifier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English emulsify
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 emulsifier
From emulsify + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: emulsifiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A substance that helps an emulsion form, or helps keep an emulsion from separating.
pos: noun
examples: The lecithin in egg yolks is often used as an emulsifier.
Antonyms: de-emulsifier
Translations:
juvenal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin iuvenālis (“youthful”), from iuvenis (“youth”).
Inflected forms:
form: juvenals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a young bird: that has its first flying plumage.
pos: adj
gloss: A juvenal bird.
pos: noun
gloss: A youth.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: How canſt thou part ſadnes and melancholy, my tender Iuuenall?
Related words: juvenile
Translations:
lakefront
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lake + front.
Compound parts: lake
front
Inflected forms:
form: lakefronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Adjacent to a lake. Usually used to describe real estate.
pos: adj
examples: Lakefront property is very expensive because many people want access to the water for recreation.
gloss: Land or an area which is adjacent to a lake.
pos: noun
examples: Property on the lakefront is very expensive.
Translations:
lamplight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English lampe lyght, laumpe-lyth, lombe-lyȝt, equivalent to lamp + light. Compare West Frisian lampeljocht (“lamplight”), Dutch lamplicht (“lamplight”), German Lampenlicht (“lamplight”), Danish lampelys (“lamplight”), Swedish lampljus (“lamplight”), Icelandic lampaljós (“lamplight”).
Compound parts: lamp
light
Inflected forms:
form: lamplights
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The light emitted by a lamp.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We sat around reading by lamplight all night.
I turned my head, and as I lay gasping in the throes of that awful struggle I could see that Leo was off the rock now, for the lamplight fell full upon him.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
Translations:
footsie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English foot
English -sie
English footsie
From foot + -sie.
Inflected forms:
form: footsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: footsy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: footy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Play “footsie” with him while dining out together.
The only downside to this is that you can’t play footsie. The table gets in the way. You'll have to come up with something fresh if you want to invite that wonderful person to finish the evening at your side for a stroll along the banks of the Seine.
gloss: A foot.
pos: noun
tags: childish
countable
uncountable
examples: “Mother — Mother will you tie up my shoeies?” Susan’s lisping voice interrupted their conversation. / “Put a footsie up here,” Babs sang out. “’At’s a girl.”
One of the boys was seated on my white chaise-lounge. I put my five foot five down on the end of the chaise and said, “Move your footsies, Honey, Mother needs to park her tired ass.”
Dear God, I am thankful for ears that can wiggle For lips that can pucker and bellies that jiggle. For legs that can gallop and gambol and mosey. And thanks for each hair and each footsie and toesie.
gloss: A selfie (self-taken photograph) of one's feet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Related words: feetsy
Derived words: footsie-wootsies
footsie-wootsie
Translations:
landsman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From land + -s- + man. In meanings 3 and 4, influenced by Yiddish לאַנדסמאַן (landsman). Compare also German Landsmann, Norwegian landsmann. Doublet of lantzman.
Base: land
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: landsmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: landman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who does not go to sea, who lacks the skills of a sailor or who is uncomfortable on ships or boats.
pos: noun
examples: So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.
If the landsman should wish the gang-plank moved a foot farther forward, he would probably say: “James, or William, one of you push that plank forward, please”; but put the mate in his place, and he would roar out: “Here, now, start that gang-plank for'ard! Lively, now! What're you about!..."
When I returned again to life, the same uproar, the same confused and violent movements, shook and deafened me; and presently, to my other pains and distresses, there was added the sickness of an unused landsman on the sea.
I’ve noticed that these landsmen, nine times out of ten, haven’t the least notion whether the tide’s in or out or where it is.
gloss: A person who negotiates leases, contracts and other business deals between producers and landowners.
pos: noun
gloss: A fellow Jew who comes from the same district or town, especially in Eastern Europe.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone of a similar heritage or belief system.
pos: noun
gloss: A military rank given to naval recruits.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Translations:
expectant
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Old French expectant, from Latin expectans.
Inflected forms:
form: more expectant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most expectant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: expectants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Marked by expectation.
pos: adj
examples: the expectant hush before the performance
gloss: Pregnant.
pos: adj
examples: an expectant mother
After seeing all the beautiful little wardrobe of the mother expectant, praising her delicate needlework, and inwardly regretting their own inability to add to it, they got a hearty lunch, intended for a dinner, and returned homewards,...
gloss: Awaiting the effects of nature, with little active treatment.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: A person who expects or awaits something.
pos: noun
Derived words: expectancy
expectantly
inexpectant
overexpectant
unexpectant
Translations:
esophageal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin oesophāgeus + -al.
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: oesophageal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
form: œsophageal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
UK
dated
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the esophagus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Recently, activation of Wnt signaling has been reported efficient for intestinalization of human esophageal keratinocytes in vitro [20].
Translations:
adamantane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Hellenic *ə-
Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-)?
Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-der.
Ancient Greek δαμνάω (damnáō)?
Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas)
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānusder.
English -ane
English adamantane
From Ancient Greek ἀδάμας (adámas, “diamond”) + English -ane (suffix indicating an alkane).
Inflected forms:
form: adamantanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polycyclic hydrocarbon, C₁₀H₁₆, having a cagelike structure similar to a portion of the diamond lattice; any of its derivatives
pos: noun
Translations:
gawp
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variation of gape.
Inflected forms:
form: gawps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gawping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gawped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gawped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gaup
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gawps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gaup
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: “I have tickets for the train to New York tonight. Hurry up, Molly! Don’t stand there gawping.”
The lady looked around to see that there were hundreds of sets of eyes staring back at her. Even the screaming toddlers had momentarily stopped screaming and were gawping.
gloss: A stupefied or amazed stare.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Come in for a gawp at the sweets and pastries that run three rows deep at this rustically contemporary (or contemporarily rustic) cake shop.
Translations:
lees
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French lies, from Medieval Latin lias (“lees, dregs”) (descent via winemaking common in monasteries), from Gaulish *ligyā, *legyā (“silt, sediment”) (compare Welsh llai, Old Breton leh (“deposit, silt”)), from Proto-Celtic *legyā (“layer”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (down)”). Doublet of lias; also related to Loire and Leicester.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.
Kipper drained his glass to the lees and seemed to become calmer.
Translations:
legalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From legal + -ize. Piecewise doublet of loyalize.
Base: legal
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: legalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: legalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: legalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: legalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: legalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically permitting it.
pos: verb
examples: There is a debate whether or not to legalize some of the softer drugs.
This is true despite the fact that in 1986, the federal government legalized the cashability of RRSP annuities.
Legislative reform campaigns aimed at restricting foreign immigration, mandating state institutionalization of the biologically unfit, and legalizing eugenical involuntary sterilization.
But now a legislative battle looms over the gun lobby’s brazen counterinitiative to legalize concealed weapons on campus.
State lawmakers approved a bill on Tuesday that legalizes the drug for adults 21 and older and moves toward the creation of a potential $4.2 billion industry that could become one of the nation’s largest markets.
Antonyms: criminalize
illegalize
Translations:
decriminalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Back-formation from decriminalization, equivalent to de- + criminalize.
Base: criminalize
Affixes: de-
Inflected forms:
form: decriminalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decriminalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decriminalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decriminalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: decriminalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.
pos: verb
tags: British
English
Oxford
US
transitive
examples: The march to decriminalize drugs moved further across the nation on Tuesday despite continued federal prohibition.
The House of Representatives approved decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level on Friday in the first time Congress has acted on the issue.
Last fall Oregon voters decriminalized possession of small amounts of almost all hard drugs, taking a groundbreaking step away from the arrest, charge and jail model for possession that's been a centerpiece of American drug policy since President Richard Nixon declared his War on Drugs 50 years ago this week.
The court’s decision decriminalizes abortions in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, and means that any woman should be able to seek the procedure from a health professional without fear of criminal prosecution.
Translations:
criminalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English criminal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English criminalize
From criminal + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: criminalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: criminalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: criminalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: criminalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: criminalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To make (something) a crime; to make illegal under criminal law; to ban.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Ag-gag laws criminalize undercover investigations by prohibiting one or more of three types of behavior: trespass, recording of videos, and failure to submit a video to law enforcement."
The Nixon campaign in 1968[…] had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. […] [B]y getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.
Advocates for homeless people, the American Psychiatric Association and several left-leaning states, including New York, Illinois and Minnesota, argue that criminalizing homelessness only worsens the problem.
A group of homeless residents sued the city, challenging the ordinances and contending that the local laws essentially criminalized homelessness.
Italy passed a law on Wednesday that criminalizes seeking surrogacy abroad, a move the country’s conservative government said would protect women’s dignity, while critics see it as yet another crackdown by the government on L.G.B.T. families, as the law will make it virtually impossible for gay fathers to have children.
gloss: To treat as a criminal.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: felonize
misdemeanorize
illegalize
outlaw
Derived words: criminalizable
criminalization
criminalizer
decriminalize
overcriminalization
recriminalize
Translations:
legalization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From legalize + -ation. Piecewise doublet of loyalization.
Base: legalize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: legalizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: legalisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The process of making something legal, the process to legalize, decriminalization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The hippies marched for the legalization of marijuana.
Antonyms: illegalization
Translations:
letter-perfect
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more letter-perfect
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most letter-perfect
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: letter perfect
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Exactly correct, correct in every letter; word-perfect.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: He was able to write out the speeches of Hamlet, letter perfect. It was impressive to see how exactly he knew the wording.
"Can you quote it?" "I know my New Testament pretty well, but I am not letter-perfect."
Translations:
lifeblood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From life + blood. Compare English heart-blood (“lifeblood”).
Compound parts: life
blood
Inflected forms:
form: lifebloods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: life blood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: life's blood
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Blood that is needed for continued life; blood regarded as the seat of life.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [Y]ou desire his mana, yet you respect his tabu, for in you and him alike runs the common life-blood.
You didn't come to me in time. And by the time you came to me that fool of a doctor had bled and leeched the lifeblood out of Timmy.
Beowulf's body
was wet with his life-blood: it came welling out.
It was she who stopped the lifeblood flow when Karl misswung an axe until Herta could come.
gloss: That which is required for continued existence or function.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: Gasoline is the lifeblood of the modern city.
Information is the lifeblood of the United States and the world.
The road brought invaders who left them hungry and dug up the dead. The road took living children away and made them dead to home. It was as if the roads were veins that bled off lifeblood but never pumped it back in.
'We want to be able to market some of these small stations and the lifeblood lines where we currently have short trains in service.'
Like most Victorian Railways, freight was the line's lifeblood.
The companies’ actions illustrate how online information — news stories, fictional works, message board posts, Wikipedia articles, computer programs, photos, podcasts and movie clips — has increasingly become the lifeblood of the booming A.I. industry.
Translations:
lifelong
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English life
English long
English -long
English lifelong
From life + -long.
Inflected forms:
form: life-long
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: life long
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Extending for the entire duration of life.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: They were lifelong friends; they met in elementary school and ended their lives in the same rest home.
He studied English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and developed a lifelong interest in medieval history as a result of reading Chaucer.
She bought the model as a surprise gift for a friend who is a lifelong HST fan and railwayman, and who will soon be celebrating a milestone birthday.
A drag queen may not comfortably fit the stereotypical homesteader mold. In the 19th century, homesteaders were Western pioneers who built new lives from necessity; on TikTok, the most popular homesteaders are often parents with young families or those with a lifelong connection to the practice, which often include so-called “tradwives,” or women who play a stereotypically gendered role in their family.
Translations:
tienda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish tiendabor.
English tienda
Borrowed from Spanish tienda (“shop, store, tent”).
Inflected forms:
form: tiendas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop where merchandise is sold.
pos: noun
Translations:
life-sized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lifesized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: life-size
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Full-scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The life-sized statue was the same size as the subject, and since he had never fit in that chair, neither did the statue.
The boy made a life-sized dummy of himself by stuffing scrunched- up newspapers into some old pyjamas.
Translations:
life-threatening
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English life
English threatening
English life-threatening
From life + threatening.
Inflected forms:
form: more life-threatening
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most life-threatening
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Potentially fatal.
pos: adj
examples: The life-threatening illness caused him to be rushed to the hospital, where doctors worked around the clock to save his life.
The MoD said the injured men received immediate medical attention and were evacuated by air to the military hospital at Camp Bastion, but three could not be saved. Next of kin have been informed. The other soldiers hurt are not thought to have life-threatening injures.
Prosser's focus on mental health in particular also led him to the (sometimes) life-threatening ways this can affect all of us, whether we work on the railway or not. In 2020-21, there were 247 suicides or suspected suicides on the national network - that's one every 35 hours.
Translations:
lifter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
weightlifting
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lift
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 lifter
From lift + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: lifters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
pos: noun
examples: heavy lifters
While some lifters insist that supersets must consist of consecutive exercises for the same bodypart, others would bet their weight belts that supersets involve opposing bodyparts.
gloss: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
pos: noun
examples: solid lifters
hydraulic lifters
gloss: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
pos: noun
examples: When he dismissed Keith Miller, caught at short leg off a lifter, I turned round to Tony Lock[.]
gloss: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
pos: noun
examples: an inveterate lifter
Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter?
gloss: Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting.
pos: noun
Synonyms: fish slice
spatula
turner
Derived words: asslifter
bit lifter
cake lifter
chemise lifter
child lifter
ego lifter
foot lifter
lid-lifter
mortgage lifter
powerlifter
shirt lifter
shoplifter
sneck lifter
stain lifter
tack lifter
tacklifter
weightlifter
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: elevador
lang: Finnish
word: nostaja
lang: Finnish
word: nostin
lang: Irish
word: ardaitheoir
lang: Polish
word: lewar
lidded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having a cover like a lid.
pos: adj
examples: The lidded box was much more useful than the one without the cover which allowed all the dust in.
Nowadays, coal is no longer king - biomass is! In October 2017, GB Railfreight began running trains from Liverpool Docks to Drax power station via the Calder Valley, using a fleet of specially-built, high-capacity lidded wagons.
gloss: Having a certain type of eyelids.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Johnson looked up quickly into Difalco's lidded eyes and wondered if he was really that hip.
Derived words: heavy-lidded
unlidded
Translations:
lieutenancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lieutenancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The role, position, or domain of a lieutenant.
pos: noun
Translations:
limply
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English limp
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English limply
From limp + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more limply
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most limply
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a limp manner, without support or resistance.
pos: adv
examples: The flag hung limply in the still air.
Ah, but someone was raising her, so they were going to lay her on the trestles, and she not dead. She opened her eyes, took a deep breath, then limply and contritely placed both arms round Andrew's neck.
He went on kissing her with unflagging industry, while she remained limply in his arms, in a species of satisfied trance.
Translations:
lily-livered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The first known uses of lily-livered are in William Shakespeare’s works written c. 1603–1606; see quotations below. From the medieval belief that the liver was the seat of courage, and the pale color of the lily flower. A person who had no blood in their liver would have no courage and would thus be a coward. Equivalent to lily + livered.
Base: lily
Inflected forms:
form: more lily-livered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lily-livered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cowardly, lacking courage.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: Stew[ard],^([sic]) What doſt thou know me for? / Kent. […] [A] lilly lyuer'd action taking knaue, […] one that would'ſt bee a baud in way of good ſeruice, and art nothing but the compoſition of a knaue, begger, coward, pander, and the ſonne and heire of a mungrell bitch, […]
Go pricke thy face, and ouer-red thy feare / Thou Lilly-liuer'd Boy.
But as for that lily-livered sneak—that poor lyin' swindlin' cringin' cur of a Clavering—who stands in my shoes—stands in my shoes, hang him!
Ho! Then you do your best, Lillie. No one could call you lily-livered!
Translations:
limpid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin limpidusbor.
French limpideder.
English limpid
From French limpide, from Latin limpidus.
Inflected forms:
form: more limpid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most limpid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Clear, transparent or bright.
pos: adj
examples: The limpid glass doors reveal the living room clearly from the dining room.
He had a soft honey-coloured moustache and the limpid gaze of an entirely stupid man.
Translations:
intertwined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more intertwined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intertwined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Twined or twisted together; entwined.
pos: adj
examples: Intertwined threads of cotton
The lovers' limbs were intertwined.
gloss: Inextricably related or relevant.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The problems of criminality and of corruption of law enforcement are intertwined.
The horrific streak of violence reflected a convergence of intertwined crises — homelessness and mental illness — that the pandemic has exacerbated and made more difficult to address
Mr. Musk wrote in his post that “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined.”
Translations:
pudgy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From pudge + -y, or an alteration of pudsy.
Base: pudge
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: pudgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pudgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pudsy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.
pos: adj
examples: The pudgy child had a difficult time running the mile.
She's also the pudgiest girl in our class, but not in our grade.
My favorite Greek cheese is the creamy, sheepy manouri: delicately scented and almost spreadable, it’s like a softer, pudgier feta.
Censored photos included one of Winnie the Pooh in a car (Internet users in China have long likened Mr. Xi to images of the pudgy bear) and another of the Obama family purportedly watching the parade on television.
Translations:
versification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biblical
communications
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
poetry
publishing
religion
writing
Etymology: Etymology tree
English verse
English -ification
English versification
From verse + -ification.
Inflected forms:
form: versifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act, art, or practice of composing poetic verse; the construction or measure of verse or poetry; metrical composition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which the books of the Bible were divided into verses; a particular way of dividing biblical books into verses
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: verse
versificator
versificatrix
versifier
versify
lineation
Translations:
legation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin lēgātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: legations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The purpose for which a legate is sent; a legate's mission or commission. Now rare (cf. OED)
pos: noun
gloss: The post or office of a legate; a legateship.
pos: noun
gloss: A diplomatic mission.
pos: noun
gloss: The official residence of a diplomat.
pos: noun
Derived words: legationary
Translations:
petitioner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From petition + -er. Doublet of petitionary.
Base: petition
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: petitioners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who presents a petition to a court.
pos: noun
examples: The Supreme Court said Monday that unanimous jury verdicts are required in state criminal trials for serious offenses, handing a victory to criminal defendants including petitioner Evangelisto Ramos, who was convicted of murder in Louisiana on a 10-2 vote. […] In court, a lawyer for Louisiana argued that if the Supreme Court were to rule in favor of Ramos the ruling could apply to some 32,000 people that are currently serving time for serious crimes because thousands of petitioners would come to the court demanding relief.
gloss: Someone who presents a petition to some person in authority.
pos: noun
examples: Ethel was in mourning: they had judged it the most fitting habit for a petitioner; it was certainly one most becoming to the wearer.
Derived words: copetitioner
counterpetitioner
Translations:
asthenosphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English astheno-
Ancient Greek σφαῖρᾰ (sphaîră)bor.
Latin sphaera
Late Latin sphērader.
Old French spherebor.
Middle English spere
English sphere
English -sphere
English asthenosphere
From astheno- + -sphere.
Inflected forms:
form: asthenospheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A portion of the Earth's upper mantle, below the lithosphere.
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: upper mantle, outer mantle < mantle < Earth
To say that the lithosphere floats on top of the asthenosphere suggests a degree of easy buoyancy that isn't quite right.
The asthenosphere that underlies the surface plates is not liquid in any vernacular sense, although it is relatively plastic.
Translations:
liberated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more liberated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most liberated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Freed, especially from traditional ideas in social and sexual matters.
pos: adj
examples: a newly liberated prisoner
His is a very liberated lifestyle.
She is sexually liberated.
Even in the relatively liberated Scandinavian countries that permit a form of same-sex marriage, the legislation creating the right to marry explicitly states that such couples will not be permitted to adopt children.
In private, Marilyn was perhaps more sexually liberated than most women were generally during her lifetime.
Translations:
lifelessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lifeless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English lifelessly
From lifeless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more lifelessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lifelessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without life or appearing to be without life.
pos: adv
Translations:
lifer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English life
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 lifer
From life + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: lifers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A prisoner sentenced to life in prison.
pos: noun
gloss: A prisoner sentenced to transportation for life.
pos: noun
examples: They know what a clever lad he is; he'll be a lifer. They'll make the Artful nothing less than a lifer.
gloss: A person with a singular career path, especially in the military.
pos: noun
examples: "[…]The Top's not a lifer; he's a career Marine. Lifers are a breed. A lifer is anybody who abuses authority he doesn't deserve to have. There are plenty of civilian lifers."
LRRP planned to become “career” Army, i.e., a lifer, you kept that quiet. Basic LRRP theology said the Army sucked and that philosophy kept one from going crazy because, at the bottom, nothing about the war seemed to make sense anyway. The LRRP's considered a lifer a loser. Being a lifer implied one had no other options available. Every LRRP had his own stories about back home: about family, friends, lovers, opportunities, dreams and a future. These were mostly fantasy, but […]
In the early years of EMS, the term lifer was an entitlement pinned to anyone who had worked the road for ten years or longer with no real plans of seeking a replacement trade. It was a term that was generally delivered in a respectful and lighthearted teasing manner by someone who by all definitions could have easily been described as a lifer himself—with the exception of one drawback. So far, the crews didn't know anyone who had worked in the field for ten years, much less longer […]
He was a baseball lifer, a seamhead through and through, who just absolutely liked nothing better than sitting down and talking baseball.
gloss: A species seen for the first time by a birder or other naturalist who is keeping a list of all the species they have seen.
pos: noun
examples: It is difficult to classify them precisely, but, in roughly ascending order of productivity, we now recognise the purely chance observer, the locality regulars (now recognising that ‘time in’ eventually equals ‘rarity out’), the ringers (particularly when working in groups), the occasional tally-hunter (most of us, if we are honest), the full-time observatory workers (exhibiting the highest standards of discipline) and the growing group of full-blooded rarity collectors (self-styled ‘twitchers’, covering individually up to 30,000 miles in their annual pursuit of ‘lifers’).
We have concurred that it was clearly Problema byssus, the byssus skipper: a lifer for me.
I saw six species of honeyeaters new to me and went home with 16 lifers and some bad sandfly bites.
Derived words: nonlifer
Translations:
liftoff
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lift offdeverb.
English liftoff
Deverbal from lift off.
Inflected forms:
form: liftoffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lift-off
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The point in the launch of a rocket or an aircraft where it leaves contact with the ground.
pos: noun
examples: we have liftoff [in narration of launches]
gloss: The point at which a person or animal leaves the ground, as for example when jumping.
pos: noun
examples: As she was on her approach to the hoop, taking that first Jordanesque liftoff step, her mouth guard fell floorward. Undeterred, she kept going up with the ball in her right hand.
gloss: The point of launching into success or action.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Ederson was booked and received lengthy treatment, meaning that Mac Allister had to wait and wait. His penalty, though, bristled with assurance. Liverpool had liftoff. The home crowd sensed that this was their moment.
Synonyms: takeoff
Antonyms: touchdown
splashdown
Related words: lift
liftup
uplift
Translations:
lighthearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lyght hertyd, liȝt-hertid, from light (adjective) + herted, hertid (“having a disposition”, adjective) (equivalent to light + hearted), from the noun herte. See more at light, heart, -ed.
Base: light
Inflected forms:
form: more lighthearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lighthearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: light-hearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Joyful, glad, taking pleasure in being alive; not depressed or sad.
pos: adj
examples: The lighthearted young lovers ran over the hills.
On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris appeared on “The Drew Barrymore Show,” and in a lighthearted moment, explained — as she did during the last presidential election cycle — that in her blended family, her stepchildren affectionately call her Momala.
gloss: Enjoyably lacking of seriousness, not grave.
pos: adj
examples: His lighthearted banjo performance was appreciated because it relieved the tension in tight situations.
Related words: lightheaded
Derived words: lightheartedly
lightheartedness
Translations:
likeliness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English liklinesse, lyklinesse; equivalent to likely + -ness.
Base: likely
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: likelinesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition or quality of being probable or likely to occur.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Likelihood, probability or chance of occurrence; plausibility or believability.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The proposed HEA is based on the assumption that each specific error has a certain impact on a system/aircraft state whilst the crew's likeliness to commit this error is decreasing with an increasing number of safeguards against it.
To determine the likeliness of an individual in a concept, a membership function is required.
gloss: Suitability; agreeableness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.
gloss: Likeness; similarity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: No surely, Reason is both the Gift and Image of God, and every Degree of its Improvement is a farther Degree of Likeliness to him.
Related words: likelihood
Translations:
limbless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English limb
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English limbless
From limb + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Lacking limbs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: It hurt the general to see the limbless veterans who had sacrificed their arms and legs to a senseless war.
We cut down the limbless tree for firewood. It was dead anyways.
[…] wert not thou to blame,
To counsel me to give the Reins to Cyrus?
Pleas’d me with Hopes, and fed my longing Ears
With cunning Tales of this ambitious Boy,
And when myself wou’d fain have led my Armies,
Made me lie down in Sloth, yielding to him
These Hands, these Feet, my Legions, and my Strength,
And left me then a weak and limbless Body,
Drench’d in Delights, and drown’d in studies Pleasures.
And then as to this beautiful tree, with which Mr. Serjeant has ornamented his ſpot—No, gentlemen, no ſuch matter at all; I am inſtructed to ſay quite the reverſe; a ſtunted tree, a blighted, blaſted tree; a tree not only limbleſs, and leafleſs, but very near lifeleſs; that was the true ſtate of the tree: […]
It was n't finished. It was purely an experiment. It was a limbless thing, with a horrible face, that writhed along the ground in a serpentine fashion.
The squat, limbless growth of the prickly pear was not like the green growths of home, springing on light stalks to lovely flowers like butterflies captured out of air. It was more like the dead blind bubbling of some green, squalid slime: a world of plants that were as plain and flat as stones.
Translations:
limiter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English limit
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 limiter
From limit + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: limiters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which limits or confines.
pos: noun
examples: The limiter automatically put on the brakes to keep the machine from going too fast.
gloss: A circuit that allows signals below a specified input threshold to pass unaffected while attenuating the peaks of stronger signals.
pos: noun
gloss: A friar who had a license to beg within certain bounds.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: brick-wall limiter
rate limiter
speed limiter
Translations:
lionhearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From lion + hearted.
Compound parts: lion
hearted
Inflected forms:
form: more lionhearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lionhearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lion-hearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Brave, courageous; very brave; brave and magnanimous.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
Translations:
lobotomize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lobotomy
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English lobotomize
From lobotomy + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: lobotomizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lobotomizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lobotomized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lobotomized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lobotomise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To perform a lobotomy upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove the vitality or intelligence from.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Eventually, though, the committee found that, in the name of prudent management, they had, essentially, “lobotomized” the firm. Devoid of its personality, and constipated in its decision making, the office muddled its way into mediocrity.
Derived words: lobotomization
lobotomizer
nonlobotomized
Translations:
insolvency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English solvent
English insolvent
English -cy
English insolvency
From insolvent + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: insolvencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being insolvent; the state or condition of a person who is insolvent; the condition of one who is unable to pay their debts as they fall due, or in the usual course of trade and business.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The company faces insolvency.
gloss: Insufficiency to discharge all debts of the owner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the insolvency of an estate
gloss: The condition of having more debts than assets.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: solvency
Derived words: pre-packaged insolvency
Translations:
linty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lint
English -y
English linty
From lint + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: lintier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lintiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Covered with lint.
pos: adj
Translations:
loiterer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English loiter
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 loiterer
From loiter + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: loiterers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who loiters, one who lingers or hangs around.
pos: noun
examples: Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.
[…] currently incarcerated Stinc Team members Ketchy the Great, SaySoTheMac, and Bambino; the devilish and gravelly Almighty Suspect; red-clad Inglewooder and headband connoisseur FreeAckrite; baby-faced Martin Luther King Park loiterer Johnny Rose; […]
Translations:
loincloth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From loin + cloth.
Compound parts: loin
cloth
Inflected forms:
form: loincloths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loin cloth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: loin-cloth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A garment worn about the loins and covering the crotch.
pos: noun
examples: The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.
Then again these figures take no account of the thousands of beggars who travel free in India. Many of these are religious "Sadhus", dressed often in nothing but a loin-cloth, or even less, and their bodies smeared with ashes. A large number of these men are nothing but impostors, but the Hindu railway staff usually are afraid to interfere with them.
Translations:
loitering
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: loiterings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb loiter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: NO LOITERING [sign posted where hanging out and causing trouble is unwelcome]
a book about my loiterings in Europe
When, however, drivers are registering net gains of 12, 13 and 14 min. on a schedule of 99 min. from Leicester to St. Pancras, there has clearly been no loitering on the way!
Translations: