yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
snoop
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch snoepen (“to pry, eat in secret, sneak”). Related to Dutch and Low German snappen (“to bite, seize”), Dutch snavel (“beak, bill, pecker, neb”), German Schnabel (“beak, bill, mouth”). More at snap.
Inflected forms:
form: snoops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snooping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snooped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snooped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: snoops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen.
pos: verb
gloss: To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others.
pos: verb
examples: If I had not snooped on her, I wouldn't have found out that she lied about her degree.
“Look, I tell you what, Mac. Seeing how as you're my best friend” “Yeah!” “Maybe you can look into it for me. Go snoop around the shop.” “Can-can I stop you for a second? I'm sorry. I'm a little confused here. You-you just said that he was your best friend? How is he your best friend over me?” “Well, I mean... You banged the waitress. Do I even have to explain that to you? That kind of rubbed me the wrong way, dude.” “Okay. I mean, you know, I don't see how that should factor into whether we're best friends or not. Y'know, to be honest with you, man, I'm a little shocked. I'm-I'm kinda-- I'm thunderstruck.” “Oh, well, I'm sorry, man. But y'know I didn't mean to hurt you. I didn't mean to thunderstrike you. But that's just-- I don't know what to tell you. What do you want to hear?” “I need for you to explain to me how it is that you consider Mac to be a better friend to you.” “Look, now this is just becoming awkward when I have a real problem! And all of a sudden it's about some weird feelings thing! And it's not about your feelings right now! It's about my feelings 'cause I have a problem, okay?. Now, Mac, please, do you think you can find this guy and kick his ass for me?”
gloss: To steal.
pos: verb
tags: UK
dated
slang
examples: 'What on earth do Coker and his parcel of tuck matter to us? You're not thinking of snooping his tuck, I suppose, like Bunter.'
gloss: The act of snooping.
pos: noun
gloss: One who snoops.
pos: noun
examples: Be careful what you say around Gene because he's the bosses' snoop.
gloss: A private detective.
pos: noun
examples: She hired a snoop to find out if her husband was having an affair.
Garrison's snoops regularly stole Kirkwood's mail while he was in New Orleans—only a federal offense.
Derived words: snoopable
snoop around
snooper
antisnoop
snoopervision
snoopery
snoopware
snoopy
supersnoop
Translations:
choo-choo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: choo-choos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: choochoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: choo choo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The sound made by a steam locomotive or ship.
pos: noun
gloss: A locomotive, especially a train or ship.
pos: noun
tags: childish
Translations:
mafia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See Mafia. The sense "entity which attempts to control a specified arena" makes an analogy to crime-syndicate mafias' attempts to control certain kinds of business in the regions in which they exist.
Inflected forms:
form: mafias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maffia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A hierarchically structured secret organisation engaged in illegal activities like distribution of narcotics, gambling and extortion.
pos: noun
gloss: A crime syndicate.
pos: noun
gloss: A trusted group of associates, as of a political leader.
pos: noun
gloss: An entity which attempts to control a specified arena by violence or threats.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
examples: moral mafia
Worse, it confirms what one always suspected about the 1930s literary mafia, with their graceless posing and relentless self-obsession — what terrible , terrible bores they were.
Since the victory of gadgetry is "inevitable," you might as well come along quietly and let us smother you in speed and convenience, says the digital mafia.
I can scarcely leave the apartment without being engulfed by journalists, not to mention the fucking left-wing activists and the multicultural mafia that assailed me with spitting and verbal abuse the last time I ventured out […]
Derived words: alphabet mafia
Kosher Mafia
mafia hypothesis
mafialike
mafia state
mafiocracy
Murphia
nonmafia
rainbow mafia
Taffia
Translations:
boathouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From boat + house.
Compound parts: boat
house
Inflected forms:
form: boathouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A building at the edge of a river, lake or other body of water in which boats are kept.
pos: noun
examples: […] many people living along the harbour front had boathouses and boats of their own, for regattas and water sports were one of Victoria's chief attractions.
Translations:
miscarriage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English carriage
English miscarriage
From mis- + carriage.
Inflected forms:
form: miscarriages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A failure; a mistake or error.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: for feare least blame / Of her miscarriage should in her be fond, / She wist not how t'amend, nor how it to withstond.
gloss: The spontaneous natural termination of a pregnancy, especially before it is viable; the fatal expulsion of a foetus from the womb before term.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antimiscarriage
delayed miscarriage
missed miscarriage
silent miscarriage
Translations:
ole
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish olébor.
English ole
Borrowed from Spanish olé.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An interjection used to stir up excitement.
pos: intj
examples: Harry Hooper living in No. 10 / He bought a toupee and glued it to his head / "It looks very natural" everybody said / But then his wife said "Toupee, isn't that a French word?" / And Harry said "Ole!" / She said "That's a Spanish word." / And he said "O.K., can't tell the difference these days."
Translations:
houseboat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + boat.
Compound parts: house
boat
Inflected forms:
form: houseboats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling.
pos: noun
examples: Graceful old houses stand by the edge of the Great Ouse and gaze down at the houseboats, skiffs and motor-cruisers that moor there.
Hiro ducks out of Tranny's celebratory dinner rather early, drags Reason off the zodiac and onto the front porch of the houseboat, opens it up and jacks his personal computer into its bios.
Petaluma is also well-positioned as a base for the current riches of the region. Think of this town as the hub of a pioneer’s wagon wheel, spokes stretching out in all directions to day trip points of interest. West to Point Reyes National Seashore and Bodega Bay, north to the redwoods around Guerneville, east to wine country, and south for hiking on Mount Tamalpais or the houseboats and dockside fun of Sausalito, then just over Golden Gate bridge to the big city — all reachable within an hour, traffic-willing.
Translations:
polygraph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From poly- + -graph.
Base: poly
Inflected forms:
form: polygraphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polygraphs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: polygraphing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: polygraphed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: polygraphed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device which measures and records several physiological variables such as blood pressure, heart rate, respiration and skin conductivity while a series of questions is being posed to a subject, in an attempt to detect deception.
pos: noun
examples: It used to be just a plain office with a chair and some instruments on a table. Then they got the new, fancy polygraph system.
gloss: A mechanical instrument for multiplying copies of a writing, resembling multiple pantographs.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A collection of different works, either by one or several authors.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A group of letters that represent a single phoneme.
pos: noun
gloss: Any group of letters treated as a single item.
pos: noun
examples: A polygraph consists of an unspecified number of adjacent letters. A polygraph need not be recognisable as a word in a language but if we are attempting to decipher a message which is expected to be in English and we find the heptagraph MEETING it is much more promising than if we find a heptagraph such as DKRPIGX.
gloss: An author who writes on many subjects.
pos: noun
gloss: A multidimensional directed graph.
pos: noun
gloss: To administer a polygraph test to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The FBI polygraphed the suspect but learned nothing because they already knew he was lying.
Derived words: polygrapher
polygraphist
Translations:
hotshot
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hot
English shot
English hotshot
From hot + shot.
Inflected forms:
form: more hotshot
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hotshot
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hot shot
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hot-shot
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: hotshots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hot shot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hot-shot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hotshots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hotshotting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hotshotted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hotshotted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hot shot
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hot-shot
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Highly skilled.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: He was a hotshot lawyer, with an astounding win-loss record.
gloss: Displaying talent.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Keep up those hotshot baskets, and the scouts are sure to take notice.
gloss: Someone with exceptional skills in a certain field.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: She sure was a hotshot on the keyboard, 93 words per minute!
Heading into 2016 and 2020, if you told the hotshots from Obamaworld that you thought Biden would be a good candidate, they would uniformly offer a look of infinite patience, tolerance and condescension and say something like, “Well, I could understand how someone would think that.”
gloss: A type of firefighter highly skilled in wildfire firefighting without external support, using basic tools that are backpacked in and manhandled about.
pos: noun
gloss: A portable device that is used to jump-start an automobile battery, or the electrical output of such a device.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A fast freight train.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Indeed, development proceeded so rapidly thereafter that Mopac, for instance, was rebuilding a series of 10-year-old Woodard 2-8-4's into 4-8-4's by 1940 - not because they couldn't steam but because their 63-inch drivers couldn't roll the hotshots fast enough.
gloss: A dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I sniffed glue, transmission fluid, gasoline, whatever drug anybody gave me, I took. […] [Y]ears ago, I was in a drug rehabilitation program and found out that my brother was killed after somebody gave him a hotshot, drugs laced with poison.
gloss: A lethal injection of heroin or another opiate.
pos: noun
examples: “You guys are being babies.” “Babies.” “Oh, we're being babies, Mac? Why don't you go work for your dad all day?” “My dad's a meth dealer.” “[Mock Crying] Oh, oh, no! My daddy's in prison!” “My daddy used to give hot shots to prostitutes. Feel sorry for me!”
gloss: To give (somebody) a dose of recreational drugs deliberately laced with poison.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Translations:
florist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French fleuriste, from Latin floris (“genitive singular of flōs, flower”), + -ist.
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: florists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who sells flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who cultivates flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who studies or writes about flowers.
pos: noun
gloss: A florist's shop.
pos: noun
examples: “After the gown, we can go to the florist, then stop by the lingerie store.”
Derived words: artificial florist
floristry
floristy
Translations:
drummer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From drum + -er (occupational suffix) or + -er (relational noun suffix).
Base: drum
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: drummers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who plays the drums.
pos: noun
examples: Kate is the lead guitarist, Luna is the drummer, and Izzy is the bass guitarist.
The Eric Revis Trio, featuring the pianist Kris Davis, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Gerald Cleaver performing at the Jazz Gallery.Credit...
gloss: A drumstick (the lower part of a chicken or turkey leg).
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various fish of the family Kyphosidae, which make a drumming sound.
pos: noun
examples: Bullock's liver will catch drummer.
Synonyms: hawker
peddler
Derived words: bass drummer
bucket drummer
different drummer
double drummer
drummerless
frame drummer
golden drummer
kettledrummer
march to a different drummer
march to one's own drummer
march to the beat of a different drummer
march to the beat of one's own drummer
orange drummer
snare drummer
steel drummer
talking-drummer
talking drummer
tenor drummer
tom-tom drummer
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: пътуващ търговец
roman: pǎtuvašt tǎrgovec
lang: Dutch
word: kramer
lang: Finnish
word: kauppamatkustaja
lang: Irish
word: taistealaí tráchtála
lang: Portuguese
word: vendedor ambulante
lang: Portuguese
word: vendedora ambulante
lang: Romanian
word: vânzător ambulant
lang: Russian
word: коробе́йник
roman: korobéjnik
lang: Spanish
word: vendedor ambulante
lang: Spanish
word: vendedora ambulante
lang: Spanish
word: vendedor itinerante
lang: Spanish
word: vendedora itinerante
conditioner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English condition
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 conditioner
From condition + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: conditioners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Anything that improves the condition of something.
pos: noun
gloss: Hair conditioner.
pos: noun
gloss: Fabric conditioner, fabric softener.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who trains athletes or racehorses.
pos: noun
gloss: An agricultural machine that crimps and crushes newly cut hay to promote faster and more even drying.
pos: noun
Derived words: air conditioner
fabric conditioner
hair conditioner
mower-conditioner
preconditioner
water conditioner
Translations:
beeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
radio
Etymology: Etymology tree
English beep
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 beeper
From beep + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: beepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that makes a beeping sound.
pos: noun
examples: The Controls option enables you to resize and move a currently displayed window, as well as toggle the PC beeper.
gloss: Something that makes a beeping sound.
pos: noun
examples: No stages, front pages, no phones, no beepers
gloss: Something that makes a beeping sound.
pos: noun
tags: endearing
gloss: A broadcast interview taking place over the telephone (originally having to include a beeping sound to indicate that it was not a live broadcast).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Radio "beepers" are easy: all you need is a telephone, and you can basically have an overseas conversation with any DJ or radio news director in America.
Derived words: backup beeper
Translations:
lang: Indonesian
word: pembunyi bip
lang: Polish
word: biper
makeover
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: makeovers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: make-over
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone; a radical transformation.
pos: noun
examples: This room is a mess; it needs a makeover.
There was no furniture or carpet to speak of. The wallpaper was peeling off the walls and there was a smell of damp everywhere. It was as if they were living like squatters in their own flat. However, this was no time for a makeover, even a fifteen-minute one like on TV[…].
Antonyms: makeunder
Translations:
jacuzzi
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Genericized trademark of the proprietary name Jacuzzi.
Inflected forms:
form: jacuzzis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jacuzzies
pos: noun
tags: plural
uncommon
form: jacuzzis
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jacuzzies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
uncommon
form: jacuzziing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jacuzzied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jacuzzied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A hot tub or whirlpool bath with underwater jets that massage the body.
pos: noun
examples: Americans gravitate to the Regent for its unbeatable views (the hotel is built out on giant stilts over the harbour, and even the jacuzzis in the top suites have a view of junks and passing ferries).
And, by the way, my Jacuzzi days are long gone.
Afterwards, he'd idle in the steam room, or in the jacuzzi, watching the men, hoping to catch the eye of a chubby-chasing hunk. It never happened.
gloss: To equip with a jacuzzi.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The suite was jacuzzied.
gloss: To use a jacuzzi.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They jacuzzied after a late dinner.
gloss: To treat with a jacuzzi.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He jacuzzied his sore muscles.
Translations:
interstate
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From inter- + state, originally as an adjective only; the noun is by (ellipsis) from interstate highway. The noun also serves adjectivally as a (noun adjunct) in such collocations as interstate construction and interstate rest stops.
Base: state
Affixes: inter-
Inflected forms:
form: I
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: IH
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: IR
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Int.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: ISR
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: I
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: IH
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: IR
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: Int.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: ISR
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: interstates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: I
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: IH
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: IR
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Int.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ISR
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to two or more states.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
US
not-comparable
examples: interstate commerce
interstate reciprocity
The difference between intrastate and interstate prison transfers, Justice Blackmun said, "is a matter of degree, not of kind," while confinement in a mental hospital is qualitatively different than an ordinary prison sentence.
Jordan Gee, 37, of Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, was charged with three felony counts of threats against the president and one count of interstate threats, according to the Justice Department.
gloss: Crossing states (usually provincial state, but also e.g. multinational sense).
pos: adv
tags: Australia
US
not-comparable
examples: The truck driver drove interstate to unload.
gloss: A freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The speed-limit increase would not apply to Delaware, where the interstates are all near populated areas.
There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.
Translations:
shush
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative. Compare shh and hush.
Inflected forms:
form: shushes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shushing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shushed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shushed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be quiet; to keep quiet.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
onomatopoeic
examples: He wouldn't shush so I kicked him.
Shush, my parents are back!
gloss: To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
onomatopoeic
transitive
examples: The boy in front of us was making too much noise, so we shushed him.
The sequence where Sam carves off Jorah’s infected tissue in secret, stopping every few moments to shush his patient, is presented as comic relief why? Jorah reels back into a diagonal close-up whimpering like a dog. Yellow pus oozes to get those good gross-out laughs. Is the substance of this operation funny to anyone on its face?
To this day, many in the spelling world rebuff supernatural claims: On the podcast, parents say that they’ve been “shushed” in online forums, or “shut down” from sharing their experiences at conferences.
Related words: shh
Derived words: shushee
shusher
shushing
shushy
unshushable
Translations:
sync
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of synchronization.
Inflected forms:
form: syncs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: syncing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: synching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: synced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: synced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: synched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: synched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sunk
pos: verb
tags: humorous
participle
past
form: sunk
pos: verb
tags: humorous
past
form: synch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Our cloud storage automatically syncs your files to all your devices.
He synced his phone to the laptop to transfer data about the field trip.
gloss: To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Derived words: sync up
Translations:
platoon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
education
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From obsolete French plauton, variant of peloton, from Middle French pelote + -on. Doublet of peloton. Compare pellet.
Inflected forms:
form: platoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: platoons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: platooning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: platooned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: platooned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A unit of thirty to forty soldiers typically commanded by a lieutenant and forming part of a company.
pos: noun
examples: Needless to say, one's seat must be booked in advance and a platoon of urbane officials, one to each door of the train, awaits passengers to usher them to their seats and relieve them of their bulkier baggage.
gloss: A subdivision of a fire company, led by a captain or lieutenant.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of self-driving vehicles travelling in a close convoy and communicating electronically with each other.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of children in the platoon grouping education system.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To alternate starts with a teammate of opposite handedness, depending on the handedness of the opposing pitcher
pos: verb
examples: Taylor has been hitting poorly against left-handers, and Morgan has been hitting poorly against right-handers, so they will platoon.
gloss: To specialize in a particular position or playing style.
pos: verb
examples: You must understand the rules of football in 1939. There was no platooning, so each man played both offense and defense.
gloss: Of self-driving vehicles: to travel in a close convoy, each vehicle communicating electronically with the others.
pos: verb
Related words: platoon system
Derived words: platooner
platoonmate
Translations:
booking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
law
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: bookings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A reservation for a service, such as travel or hotel accommodation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Advance bookings were initially suspended. They are now available again, but with less than one-week's availability at a time.
gloss: The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording the identifying data of a suspect following arrest.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: inscription
Derived words: block-booking
block booking
booking class
booking clerk
booking hall
booking lad
booking office
overbooking
reservation booking designator
telebooking
underbooking
Translations:
bossy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boss
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English bossy
From boss + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bossier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bossiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Tending to give orders to others, especially when unwarranted; domineering.
pos: adj
examples: Over in the wardrobe department a bossy woman in ill-fitting dungarees tried to talk her into wearing a short red low-cut dress for the test.
Cuphead is a difficult gauntlet through a ton of bosses, from evil clowns to bossy queen bees.
Where American Jewish men contend with stereotypes of being oversexed, needy, nebbishy and neurotic (like Woody Allen, boo hiss), Jewish women are cast as withholding, bossy, exotic, and materialistic (like Fran Drescher, which honestly? Goals).
Synonyms: autocratic
bossy
coercive
controlling
despotic
dominant
domineering
forceful
harsh
heavy-handed
iron-fisted
iron-handed
monocratic
obtrusive
oppressive
overbearing
strict
Antonyms: humble
servile
sycophantic
Related words: arrogant
Translations:
veiled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Covered by a veil.
pos: adj
examples: As usual, Ayesha was veiled like the marble Truth (by the way, I wonder if she originally got the idea of covering up her beauty from that statue?).
gloss: Partly hidden or concealed.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: veiled threats
When asked about her veiled threat to Professor Jones, that she'd “be sorry,” Ms. Smith said she meant that she would file a formal complaint against Professor Jones for harassment.
Derived words: thinly-veiled
veiled chameleon
veiled plate
Translations:
subsidy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English subsidy, subsidie, from Anglo-Norman subsidee, subsidie, from Old French subside, from Latin subsidium (support, assistance), from subsido from sub- (“below”) + sīdō (“sit”).
Base: sīdō
Affixes: sub-
Inflected forms:
form: subsidies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Financial support or assistance, such as a grant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Manufacturing firms are supported by government subsidies in some countries.
British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
You don't have to be Einstein to work out that this level of government subsidy is unsustainable.
gloss: Money granted by parliament to the British Crown.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
Antonyms: tax
Related words: subside
subsidence
subsidiary
subsidize
subsidise
Derived words: antisubsidy
cross-subsidy
export subsidy
nonsubsidy
spare room subsidy
subsidy publisher
Translations:
handyman
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *handuz
Proto-West Germanic *handu
Old English hand
Middle English hond
English hand
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English handy
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Middle English man
Middle English -man
English -man
English handyman
From handy + -man.
Inflected forms:
form: handymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: handiman
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: handymans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: handymanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: handymanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: handymanned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: handiman
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A person who does small tasks and odd jobs, especially building repairs and the like.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: I complained that the heat was not working, and the landlord sent the handyman to fix it.
There was one thing she wanted; she said to hubby dear, / "The time would pass more quickly if I had a rocking chair." / [...] As Strings is such a handyman, by night the job was done / He took that thing upstairs and said, "Now try this out for fun."
gloss: To work as a handyman; to do odd jobs.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Instead I walk, uncertainly across the concrete backyard my father and his friends handymanned into existence so proudly, so that none of us would ever have to play in dirt, in muck, in mud again.
My daddy worked too hard at Buck's Sporting Goods by day plus handymanning in the evenings, and my mother spent too many hours fixing trays at the meat-and-three for me to act like we had neither pot nor window. Let the record show that we had both.
They handymanned all week. And every night Grandad would come in with rosy cheeks and a huge appetite and compliment my mom on what a great cook she was.
Translations:
manicure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French manucure, coming from Latin manus, hand, and cura, care.
Inflected forms:
form: manicures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manicures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manicuring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manicured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manicured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cosmetic treatment for the fingernails.
pos: noun
gloss: A manicurist.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To apply such a treatment to the hands.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To polish or trim something very finely or evenly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
Related words: pedicure
Derived words: French manicure
manicurer
manicurism
manicurist
Translations:
hectic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English etik, ethik, from Old French etique, from Medieval Latin *hecticus, from Ancient Greek ἑκτικός (hektikós, “habitual, hectic, consumptive”), from ἕξις (héxis, “a state or habit of body or of mind, condition”), from ἔχειν (ékhein, “to have, hold, be in a certain state”).
Inflected forms:
form: more hectic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hectic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hectick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: hectical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Very busy with activity and confusion.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The city center is so hectic at 8 in the morning that I go to work an hour beforehand to avoid the crowds
Phoenix:It must have been too hectic that night to clean up.
gloss: Denoting a type of fever accompanying consumption and similar wasting diseases, characterised by flushed cheeks and dry skin.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: hectic fever
gloss: Pertaining to or symptomatic of such a fever.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Ann had a hectic cough, and many unfavourable prognostics […].
She never complained, but sleep and appetite fled from her, a slow fever preyed on her veins, her colour was hectic, and she often wept in secret […].
Derived words: antihectic
hectically
hecticity
hecticness
hectivity
unhectic
Translations:
bitty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bit
English -y
English bitty
From bit + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bittier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bittiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing bits; fragmented.
pos: adj
examples: Here wrangling, bitty conflicts neutered change.
gloss: Very small.
pos: adj
Derived words: bittily
bittiness
bitty box
itty-bitty
itty bitty
litty bitty
litty-bitty
Translations:
rah
Part of speech: intj
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of hurrah.
Inflected forms:
form: ra
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: rahh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: raa
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: raah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: rahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rahh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: raa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: raah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more rah
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rah
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: ra
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: rahh
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: raa
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: raah
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation of support or encouragement.
pos: intj
examples: Not so very long ago, a row of docile cheerleaders would say, “rah, rah, rah, sis-boombah”—maybe a leg would kick up into the air, perhaps a jump under the cheerleader's own power.
gloss: An exclamation of patriotic or passionate excitement.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
examples: I FUCKING LOVE PEOPLE!!!! I FUCKING WANT TO USE THE LIMITED TIME I HAVE TO RESPECT OTHERS AND WHAT THEY ENJOY RAHHHHH
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gloss: A young adult (often a student) who behaves in a stereotypically upper class manner; especially when associated with undeserved privilege or a lack of self-awareness.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
informal
examples: I didn't need to make a mental note not to follow their advice: like every other pretentious foreigner from the gap year rahs to the retired yoga addicts, I had no intention of stepping into a shopping centre. I was going to discover the real India.
gloss: Posh.
pos: adj
tags: UK
derogatory
informal
examples: The June 2020 protest at which the Bristol slave-trader and philanthropist's statue was brought down was a BLM protest. But none of the defendants were black. Rather, as you can tell from their names (including Milo Ponsford and Sage Willoughby) they were almost comically typical of a certain rah, right-on Bristol type.
Derived words: rah-rah
rah-rah skirt
Translations:
casserole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French casserolebor.
English casserole
Borrowed from French casserole.
Inflected forms:
form: casseroles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: casseroles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: casseroling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: casseroled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: casseroled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dish of glass or earthenware, with a lid, in which food is baked and sometimes served.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Food, such as a stew, cooked in such a dish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a chicken casserole
gloss: Any type of food that fills the high-walled dish or pan in which it was cooked.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: To cook like, or as, a casserole; to stew.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]
Synonyms: hotdish
Derived words: caterole
pizza casserole
tuna casserole
tuna noodle casserole
Translations:
vigilante
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish vigilante (“watchman, guard”), from Latin vigilans. Doublet of vigilant.
Inflected forms:
form: vigilantes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a vigilance committee.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who acts outside of legal authority, often violently, to punish or avenge a crime, right a perceived wrong, etc.
pos: noun
examples: For example, a voice accusing a man of being a paedophile might be based on recent TV news programmes about antipaedophile vigilante groups, plus the memory of having been accused of being a pervert by a neighbour, plus fears that he might be a secret paedophile because he enjoyed reading Lolita.
Jeptha Billingsley, who was no prize pig himself (he had been arrested for horse theft and assault with intent to murder), was to be taught a lesson, and the vigilantes made him cut down the McLemores.
Derived words: bond vigilante
vigilantism
digilante
Translations:
reclaim
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
law
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.
Base: claim
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reclaims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reclaiming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reclaimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reclaimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To return land to a suitable condition for use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To claim something back; to repossess.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: His Highneſſe pleaſure is that he ſhould liue,
And be reclaim’d with princely lenitie.
Your errour, in time reclaimed, will be veniall.
They, hardened more by what might most reclaim, / Grieving to see his glory […] took envy.
It is the intention of Providence, in all the various expressions of his goodness, to reclaim mankind.
gloss: To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: an eagle well reclaimed
gloss: To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: They were the head-strong horses, who hurried Octavius […] along, and were deaf to his reclaiming them.
gloss: To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: True it is he was very wild in his youth till God (the best Chymick who can fix quicksilver it self) gratiously reclaim'd him
Scripture reclaims, and the whole Catholic church reclaims, and Christian ears would not bear it.
At a later period Grote reclaimed strongly against Mill's setting Whately above Hamilton.
gloss: To draw back; to give way.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: Yet would he not perswaded be for ought,
Ne from his currish will a whit reclame.
gloss: To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
intransitive
gloss: To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
pos: verb
examples: Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.
Derived words: reclaimable
reclaimableness
reclaimably
reclaimant
reclaimer
reclaimless
reclaim one's time
reclamation
unreclaiming
Translations:
insulin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin īnsula (“island”) (named for the islets of Langerhans, where insulin is produced) + -in.
Affixes: -in
Inflected forms:
form: insulins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A polypeptide hormone that regulates carbohydrate metabolism (in various animals including humans).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mommy said that Grandma's diabetes happened because her body stopped making its own insulin.
Ask a dozen persons to tell you what they know about insulin and you will get some surprising and contradictory answers. The truth is this: Insulin is not a cure for diabetes, but it is helping to prolong and gladden lives.
Nationally the average insulin price nearly tripled from 2002 through 2013, and prices have risen 10% or more a year since then, forcing many diabetics to ration their insulin.
And that’s not all – EGCG in matcha can help improve insulin sensitivity, which aids in blood sugar control, and may help to reduce inflammation related to Alzheimer’s disease.
gloss: Any exogenous preparation of this hormone for use as a medication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The advent of insulin in the mid-20th century changed the lives of millions of people with diabetes.
gloss: Any exogenous preparation of this hormone or its analogues for use as a medication.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: A: What kind of insulin do you take? B: I use basal-bolus therapy, which in my case involves glargine and lispro.
Derived words: human insulin
insulinaemia
insulinase
insulin aspart
insulin degludec
insulin detemir
insulinemia
insulinergic
insulin glargine
insulin glulisine
insulinic
insulin icodec
insulinitis
insulinization
insulinize
insulinlike
insulin-like growth factor
IGF
insulin lispro
insulinogenesis
insulinogenic
insulinogogue
insulinoma
insulinopathy
insulinopenia
insulinopenic
insulinostatic
insulinotropic
insulinotropism
insulin plant
insulin pump
insulin resistance
insulin shock therapy
insulysin
neutral insulin
noninsulin
proinsulin
regular insulin
soluble insulin
Translations:
velum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
climatology
malacology
medicine
meteorology
mycology
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin vēlum (“a cloth, covering, awning, curtain, veil”). Doublet of veil.
Inflected forms:
form: vela
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: velums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain.
pos: noun
gloss: A thin membrane resembling a veil or curtain.
pos: noun
gloss: An accessory cloud resembling a veil extending over a large distance; normally associated with cumulus and cumulonimbus.
pos: noun
gloss: a thin coating or film of mucus or phlegm.
pos: noun
Derived words: velar
Translations:
pickled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pickled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pickled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Preserved by pickling.
pos: adj
examples: But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw[…]that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: nonpickled
pickled egg
pickled pine
pickled punk
unpickled
Translations:
crumbly
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English crumble
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English crumbly
From crumble + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: crumblier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more crumbly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: crumbliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most crumbly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: crumblies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Easy to break into small fragments; brittle or friable.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: crumby
gloss: A decrepit old person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: If they are right, then why aren't we seeing old crumblies like you on the cover of Vogue?
Translations:
Stalin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Ста́лин (Stálin), from сталь (stalʹ, “steel”) + -ин (-in, possessive suffix), from German Stahl (“steel”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stahlą (“steel”).
Base: сталь
Affixes: -ин
Inflected forms:
form: Stalins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Hitler (“a dictatorial person”).
pos: noun
examples: climate strategy: elect a climate-stalin and send the deniers to exercise bike gulag to pedal green energy for us all
Translations:
backless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English back
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 backless
From back + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having no back, especially where one would be expected, as with a chair or a dress.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a backless surgical gown
The apartment was almost dismantled; chairs lay backless about the floor amid china shepherdesses and toreadors; pictures were thrown over the sofa, […]
gloss: Having the back uncovered, showing the skin.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: backlessness
Translations:
carronade
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: First made at Carron in Scotland.
Inflected forms:
form: carronades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very short carriage gun used to fire a heavy shot for a limited range.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: [They] viewed the vessel, which proved to be a very fine fast-sailing craft, well found, with six brass carronades on each side.
gloss: An exchange of artillery fire; a cannonade; a fusillade.
pos: noun
examples: The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.
Translations:
valedictorian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Formed 1759, from valedictory (“of a speech made when leaving”) + -an.
Base: valedictory
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: valedictorians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The individual in a graduating class who delivers the farewell or valedictory address, often the person who graduates with the highest grades.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Our oldest son was valedictorian of his high school class and went to a top university. But right about this time two years ago, our second son told us he wasn’t interested in college.
At first, it seemed a joyous occasion. There was an audible gasp in the room, then boisterous cheering and applause when the announcement was made: Ikeria Washington and Layla Temple had been named 2021 valedictorian and salutatorian for West Point High School.
gloss: The individual in a graduating class who graduates with the highest grades.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
colloquial
examples: A social media firestorm erupted last week after two Texas high school valedictorians revealed that they were undocumented immigrants heading to well-respected U.S. colleges with financial aid.
Related words: valediction
valedictory
Translations: