yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
yob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Backslang for boy. The second sense was likely influenced by hobnob and/or yokel.
Inflected forms:
form: yobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A boy.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: And you bet that each gal, not to mention each yob,
Didn't care how much ooftish it cost 'em per nob.
As we left the cemetery, I heard an elderly gravedigger muttering back slang to himself before Lucien's headstone. "Bloody shame, ain't it? Doubt the yob did much living by eighteen."
I corrected the man, saying, “No fear, that yob did plenty of living.”
gloss: A person who engages in antisocial behaviour or drunkenness.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
derogatory
slang
examples: Yes, it's holiday time again for British yobs – and the rest of us can flee to those parts of Abroad which the louts ignore, or just cringe in shame at home.
But while doing 70mph on the A1, a hooded yob threw rock^([sic – meaning a rock]) from a grass verge onto the windscreen of the family’s Jeep, causing it to swerve.
Three local yobs have also joined, but they have not reckoned on a redoubtable Conductor and two local revenue protection officers who soon escort them off the train!
Synonyms: bully
hooligan
roughneck
rowdy
ruffian
Translations:
flighty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From flight + -y. Compare Dutch vluchtig (“volatile; fleeting; cursory”), German flüchtig (“volatile; fleeting; momentary; quick”), Danish flygtig (“elusive; evasive”), Swedish flyktig.
Base: flight
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: flightier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: flightiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to unplanned and silly ideas or actions.
pos: adj
gloss: That flies easily or often.
pos: adj
examples: "We know that flighty birds suffer from greater risk of raptor predation, and I assume that it is useful to understand the effects of urbanization because flighty species may be more vulnerable to anthropogenic disturbance."
gloss: Swift.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: Permanent way and other checks then somewhat slowed down this flighty progress.
Derived words: flightily
flightiness
unflighty
Translations:
whelp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English whelp, from Old English hwelp, from Proto-West Germanic *hwelp, from Proto-Germanic *hwelpaz (compare Dutch welp, German Welpe, Welfe, Old Norse hvelpr, Norwegian Nynorsk kvelp, Danish hvalp), from pre-Germanic *kʷelbos, of uncertain origin.
Inflected forms:
form: whelps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whelps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whelping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whelped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whelped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A young offspring of a various carnivores (canid, ursid, felid, pinniped), especially of a dog or a wolf, the young of a bear or similar mammal (lion, tiger, seal); a pup, wolf cub.
pos: noun
examples: […]And fared like a furious wyld Beare, / Whose whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere.
Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.
gloss: An insolent youth; a mere child.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: July 13, 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian
That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance.
October 22, 2011, Princess Luna, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "Luna Eclipsed"
Thy backside is whole and ungobbled, thou ungrateful whelp!
gloss: A kind of ship.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: One of several wooden strips to prevent wear on a windlass on a clipper-era ship.
pos: noun
gloss: A tooth on a sprocket wheel (compare sprocket and cog).
pos: noun
gloss: To give birth.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
usually
examples: The bitch whelped.
The she-wolf whelped a large litter of cubs.
Related words: Guelph
Derived words: bear-whelp
fox whelp
fox-whelp
fox's whelp
whelpie
whelping ice
whelpling
whelpy
wolf whelp
wolf-whelp
wolf's whelp
Translations:
swine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English swyn, swin, from Old English swīn, from Proto-West Germanic *swīn, from Proto-Germanic *swīną, from an adjectival form of Proto-Indo-European *suH- (“pig”).
Cognates
Related to West Frisian swyn, Low German Swien, Dutch zwijn, German Schwein, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish svin, Faroese and Icelandic svín, and more distantly to Polish świnia, Russian свинья́ (svinʹjá), Latin sūinus, Latin sūs, Ancient Greek ὗς (hûs), Persian خوک (xuk).
Inflected forms:
form: swine
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: swines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pig (the animal).
pos: noun
examples: The Zimmerman farm introduced swine to their husbandry.
gloss: A contemptible person (plural swine or swines).
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: A police officer; a "pig".
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
gloss: Something difficult or awkward; a pain.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: That old car is a swine to manoeuvre.
Derived words: African swine fever virus
Blind Swine Mate
cast pearls before swine
Gadarene swine
giant thorny-headed worm of swine
go the entire swine
mereswine
microswine
pearls before swine
seaswine
sea swine
sea-swine
swine-bread
swinebread
swinecote
swine fever
swineflesh
swine flesh
swine-flesh
swine flu
swineherd
swineherder
swineherding
swinehood
swinehound
swine-hound
swine influenza
swinelike
swineling
swineman
swinemeat
swinepox
swinery
swinestone
swinesty
swineyard
swinish
throw pearls before swine
Translations:
draconic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *dérkomai
Ancient Greek δέρκομαι (dérkomai)
Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn)der.
Latin dracō
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English draconic
From Latin dracō (“dragon”, stem dracōn-) + English -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more draconic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most draconic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or suggestive of dragons.
pos: adj
examples: There are amongst the constellations four great draconic or serpent-like forms.
Derived words: draconically
Translations:
cretin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French crétin (“cretin, idiot”), likely from crestin, an Alpine dialectal form of chrétien, from Latin christiānus in the lost sense of “anyone in Christendom”, often with a sense of “poor fellow”. Doublet of Christian.
Inflected forms:
form: cretins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: An idiot.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
examples: When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin. He got very supercilious and condescending […]
Derived words: cretinic
cretinism
cretinize
cretinoid
cretinous
Translations:
unco
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Scots unco, shortening of uncouth.
Inflected forms:
form: more unco
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unco
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strange, weird.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
examples: It was noted by them that kenned best that her cantrips were at their worst when the tides in the Sker Bay ebbed between the hours of twelve and one. At this season of the night the tides of mortality run lowest, and when the outgoing of these unco waters fell in with the setting of the current of life, then indeed was the hour for unholy revels.
And the second quean was Hope and she was near as unco as Faith, but had right bonny hair, red hair, though maybe you'd call it auburn […].
gloss: Very.
pos: adv
tags: Northern
Scotland
UK
not-comparable
examples: ‘Ye should tear up this carpet, Robbie,’ Uncle Peter called back over his shoulder. ‘It's most unco wearisome when a body′s leg-weary.’
Jamie has met only two kids of women: the mainly elderly and unco good who belong to his father's congregation, and those who drink in pubs and shebeens used by nearly penniless medical students.
Translations:
dissimilar
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Old French des-bor.
▲
Latin dis-bor.
Middle English dis-
English dis-
English similar
English dissimilar
From dis- + similar.
Inflected forms:
form: more dissimilar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dissimilar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dissimilars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not similar; unalike; different.
pos: adj
gloss: That which is dissimilar to, or does not resemble, something else.
pos: noun
examples: Whether or not the primary function of a good metaphor is the appreciation of the similarity of dissimilars, the naturalist philosopher, reacting to Platonic transcendence, insists that […]
Translations:
cyclopean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
human-sciences
manufacturing
masonry
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cyclops
English -ean
English cyclopean
From cyclops + -ean.
Inflected forms:
form: more cyclopean
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cyclopean
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Cyclopean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: cyclopian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Suggestive of a cyclops.
pos: adj
examples: Some of the descendants of this cyclopean ancestor left their burrows and started to swim.
gloss: Fitted together of huge irregular stones.
pos: adj
gloss: Massive in stature.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: 2006, Fernando Pessoa, "Salutation to Walt Whitman," in A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems, edited and translated by Richard Zenith, Penguin, pp. 198-9,
You were cyclopean and muscular, not pretty, / Yet your attitude toward the world was feminine, / And for you each leaf of grass, each stone and each man was the Universe.
See also quotation under cyclopian.
gloss: Created by combining two images.
pos: adj
examples: When he wrote the word, / the o's were joined / like eyeglass lenses without / a bridge. Cross-eyed, hypnotic, / they threatened to merge, / become Cyclopean. […]
Derived words: Cyclopean architecture
cyclopean stairs
hypercyclopean
Translations:
visage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English visage, from Anglo-Norman visage, from Vulgar Latin *vīsāticum, derived from Latin vīsus (“appearance, sight”), derived from vidēre (“to see”). Compare vision. See -age (“noun suffix”).
Base: -age
Affixes: -
Inflected forms:
form: visages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Countenance; one's face.
pos: noun
examples: Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognized who it was.
gloss: The appearance or aspect of something, especially when expressive or distinctive.
pos: noun
examples: Snowflakes fell gently across the mountain’s rugged visage.
[T]he monſter, rouſed by the noiſe, ſtarted forward, preſented ſuch a viſage of horror, and raiſed ſuch a hideous roar, that the hearts of the bold were contracted, and the nerves of the valiant unſtrung.
Related words: envisage
evidence
visaged
vision
visionary
visual
visualization
visualize
visually
Translations:
labyrinthine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From labyrinth + -ine from Ancient Greek λᾰβύρῐνθος (lăbúrĭnthos, “a maze”).
Base: labyrinth
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: more labyrinthine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most labyrinthine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Physically resembling a labyrinth; with the qualities of a maze.
pos: adj
examples: As our train to Paris dashed through the labyrynthine flyovers at Porchefontaine, barely a mile from Versailles, the 75 m.p.h. limit was already almost attained.
In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.
Crane trotted along the labyrinthine corridors of deck 3, accompanied by a young marine with close-cropped blond hair.
gloss: Relating to the labyrinth of the inner ear.
pos: adj
gloss: Convoluted, baffling, confusing, perplexing.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Mamet, like one of his characters, invents a labyrinthine, convoluted spiel leading nowhere, and like a magician distracts us with his words while elaborately not producing a rabbit from his hat.
Any attempt to answer that question would carry us into the labyrinthine corridors of Jefferson's famously elusive mind.
By coupling "essence" with "name" within a series of contraposed pairs of names, Socrates indicates the point to which he thinks his labyrinthine argument has led so far in the Cratylus.
Northrop Frye called the novel “a kind of ‘midrash’ on the book of Job,” one that reimagines the opaque nature of divine justice as a labyrinthine modern bureaucracy.
Related words: labyrinth
labyrinthal
labyrinthean
labyrinthed
labyrinthial
labyrinthian
labyrinthic
labyrinthical
labyrinthically
labyrinthiform
labyrinthlike
Derived words: intralabyrinthine
labyrinthine artery
labyrinthinely
nonlabyrinthine
perilabyrinthine
retrolabyrinthine
translabyrinthine
Translations:
gibber
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain; usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish (see gibberish for more).
Inflected forms:
form: gibbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gibbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gibbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gibbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gibbered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Gibberish, unintelligible speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
pos: verb
examples: A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, / The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead / Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets – […]
Translations:
sepulchral
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin sepeliō
Latin -crum
Latin sepulcrum
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sepulcralislbor.
English sepulchral
Learned borrowing from Latin sepulcralis.
Inflected forms:
form: more sepulchral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sepulchral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a grave or to death; funereal.
pos: adj
gloss: Suggestive of a grave or of death; gloomy; solemn.
pos: adj
examples: He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there - putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on.
Over and over I found myself visiting homes where the predominant feeling was sepulchral, dusty, and deserted […]
gloss: Having a hollow and deep sound.
pos: adj
examples: As for your treatment of ME," concluded Uncle Tinfish, almost having another disaster to his vocal chords at the thought of it, "I wash my hands of you, sir - I renounce you - I " Uncle Tinfish's voice was suddenly lowered to a tone of sepulchral hollowness.
'The Master of Krikkit,' said Slartibartfast again, and if his breathing had been sepulchral before, this time he sounded like someone in Hades with bronchitis.
Related words: sepulchre
Heroon
Derived words: sepulchralize
sepulchrally
unsepulchral
Translations:
ensconce
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From en- + sconce, “to place in a sconce (“fortification”)”.
Base: sconce
Affixes: en-
Inflected forms:
form: ensconces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ensconcing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ensconced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ensconced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To place in a secure environment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She shall not see me, I will ensconce mee behinde the Arras.
They found the sharp new heap they were seeking, and ensconced themselves within the protection of three great elms that grew in a bunch within a few feet of the grave.
The film [Pretty Woman] grossed $464 million worldwide, ensconcing her [Julia Roberts] in the Hollywood A-list.
gloss: To settle comfortably.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: So many invitations had been extended to this premiére that the train was pretty nearly full; [...] the press and other guests distributed themselves over the remaining accommodation, and I ensconced myself in a facing window seat in one of the compartments of the third-class brake next the tender.
[…] Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam.
NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen were ensconced in the Orion space capsule when they dropped into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego at 8:07 p.m.
Derived words: ensconcement
Translations:
dirge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dirige, from Latin dirige (“steer, direct”), from the beginning of the first antiphon in matins for the dead, Dirige, Domine, deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam. Doublet of dirige.
Inflected forms:
form: dirges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dirges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dirging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dirged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dirged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a deceased person.
pos: noun
examples: Therefore our ſometimes Siſter, now our Queen, / Th’ imperiall Ioyntreſſe of this warlike State, / Haue we, as ’twere, with a defeated ioy, / With one Auſpicious, and one Dropping eye, / With mirth in Funerall, and with Dirge in Marriage, / In equall Scale weighing Delight and Dole / Taken to Wife […]
While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step. This noble war in the sky elevated my spirits; I clasped my hands, and exclaimed aloud, “William, dear angel! this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!”
It was as if the night sang dirges with clenched teeth.
Over six sections – a prologue, a life-story, a dream-quest, a dirge, a masque and an epilogue – they meditate on their lives, their hopes, their losses, and on the human condition.
gloss: A song or piece of music that is considered too slow, bland or boring.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: To sing dirges
pos: verb
Related words: dirgeful
Derived words: dirgelike
dirgy
Translations:
rancor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ranceō
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *-ōs
Proto-Italic *-ōs
Latin -or
Latin rancor
Old French rancorbor.
Middle English rancour
English rancor
First attested in the 13th century as Middle English rancour, from Old French rancor, from Latin rancor (“rancidity, grudge, rancor”), from ranceō (“to be rotten or putrid”), from which also English rancid.
Inflected forms:
form: rancors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rancour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of long-lasting ire for another, sometimes to the point of hatred, over a perceived wrongdoing; bitterness.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: I could almost see the rancor in his eyes when he challenged me to a fight.
gloss: Rancidity, rankness.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
rare
uncountable
Related words: rancid
malice
Derived words: rancorless
rancorous
rancorously
rancorousness
Translations:
Faroese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Faroe + -ese, from Faroese Føroyar.
Base: Faroe
Affixes: -ese
Inflected forms:
form: Faeroese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Færoese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Faroese
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Faeroese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Færoese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Faroe Islands, Faroese people or language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person from the Faroe Islands; a Faroe Islander.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Translations:
puka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian puka (“hole”).
Inflected forms:
form: pukas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, usually perforated, wave- and beach-polished shell fragment formed from the spire of a cone, found along beaches of Pacific islands, and used especially to make necklaces.
pos: noun
Translations:
breve
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
communications
entertainment
journalism
law
lifestyle
literature
media
music
natural-sciences
orthography
printing
publishing
writing
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English breve, variant of bref, from Old French brieve, breve (feminine form of brief, bref), from Latin brevis (“short”).
Inflected forms:
form: breves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brieve
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
pos: noun
gloss: A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.
pos: noun
gloss: Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.
pos: noun
examples: But what, are you puzzling in your pockets to seek your only memorial among old play bills, letters requesting a meeting of the Faculty, rules of the Speculative Society, syllabus' of lectures—all the miscellaneous contents of a young lawyer's pocket, which contains every thing but brieves and bank-notes?
gloss: A pitta, all of which have more or less short tails.
pos: noun
Related words: brevity
brief
brachy
half note
longa
whole note
Derived words: alla breve
breve rest
espresso breve
i-breve
inverted breve
semibreve
Translations:
kea
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Māori keabor.
English kea
Borrowed from Māori kea.
Inflected forms:
form: keas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kea
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand.
pos: noun
Translations:
kai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Māori kai. Doublet of makan (via Malay) in Malaysian and Singaporean English varieties.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Food.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
uncountable
examples: Actually, I'm not sure I like these new hangis using the foil, it tends to stop the juices getting through to the stones and I reckon the hangi kai is drier to the palate.
Got to go now and get some kai.
When the sausage man handed the kai over, Kerry passed two wieners to a pair of skinny white kids who had been watching the queue the whole time.
Translations:
z-variant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the three dimensions visualized for the character space. The x-axis separates characters by semantics (function and meaning, e.g. A from B), the y-axis separates them by their abstract shape (general form, e.g. uppercase A from lowercase a), and the z-axis by their apparent shape (minor details such as typeface, e.g. printed from handwritten a).
Inflected forms:
form: z-variants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variant Han character, theoretically unifiable under the Han unification policy but encoded separately for backwards compatibility.
pos: noun
Translations:
wai
Part of speech: noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai ไหว้ (wâi, “a gesture of thanks”).
Inflected forms:
form: wais
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Thai greeting wherein the palms are brought together in front of the face or chest, sometimes accompanied with a bow.
pos: noun
gloss: why (a purposeful misspelling)
pos: adv
tags: Internet
not-comparable
Translations:
position
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arithmetic
board-games
business
card-games
chess
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
finance
games
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
poker
Etymology: From Middle English posicioun, from Old French posicion, from Latin positiō (“a putting, position”), from positus (“placed, situated”), past participle of pōnō (“to place”); see ponent. Compare apposition, composition, deposition; see pose.
Inflected forms:
form: positions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: positions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: positioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: positioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: positioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A place or location.
pos: noun
examples: Train positions and speeds were established by a track magnet at each milepost, which produced a suitable mark on the punched recording tape whenever a train passed.
gloss: A post of employment; a job.
pos: noun
gloss: A status or rank.
pos: noun
examples: Chief of Staff is the second-highest position in the army.
gloss: An opinion, stand, or stance.
pos: noun
examples: My position on this issue is unchanged.
The cause therfore of divorce expres’t in the position cannot but agree with that describ’d in the best and equalest sense of Moses Law.
gloss: A posture.
pos: noun
examples: Stand in this position, with your arms at your side.
gloss: A situation suitable to perform some action.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The school is not in a position to provide day-care after 4:00 pm.
gloss: A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
pos: noun
examples: Stop running all over the field and play your position!
gloss: An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
pos: noun
examples: long position
naked position
For example, at 50:1 leverage, if you're holding a $100,000 position in USD/CHF, you'll need to have at least $2,000 of available margin to hold the position ([$100,000 ÷ 100] × 0.50 = $500).
gloss: A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
pos: noun
gloss: A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
pos: noun
gloss: The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
pos: noun
examples: The following problem-like position occurred in an over-the-board game at a base in Korea:
gloss: The order in which players are seated around the table.
pos: noun
gloss: A pin; a connector.
pos: noun
gloss: To put into place.
pos: verb
examples: While other small nations with large banking sectors, such as Iceland and Ireland, have been undone by their reckless lending practices, the debt-free Channel Islands have always positioned themselves as dependable repositories of riches.
Related words: ponent
pose
posish
posit
positional
positive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: позиция
roman: pozicija
lang: Finnish
word: positio
longa
Part of speech: prep
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Australian Kriol langa, from English along. Compare Bislama and Tok Pisin long.
Inflected forms:
form: longae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: longe
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: longas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to; of, in, at, to.
pos: prep
examples: This fella song all about the Aboriginal people, coloured people, black people longa Australia.
He wait longa river.
gloss: A musical note equal to two (or occasionally three) breves or whole notes.
pos: noun
Translations:
fajita
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From American Spanish fajita, diminutive of faja (“strip, band”).
Inflected forms:
form: fajitas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling.
pos: noun
Translations:
falafel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic فَلَافِل (falāfil). Doublet of peepul and pepper.
Inflected forms:
form: falafels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: falafel
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: felafel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
form: falafil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There's a stall at the market that sells fantastic falafel.
Lebanese restaurants are especially good for vegetarians, with falafel rolls (pitta bread stuffed with chickpea patties, hummus and tabbouleh) making an inexpensive, filling meal.
I ate lafa — falafel with all the regular stuffings and sauces wrapped in a pizza size pita instead of being stuffed in it. Etai ordered a regular falafel. My lafiz was twice the size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.
gloss: A pita with falafel balls as a filling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I ate lafa — falafel with all the regular stuffings and sauces wrapped in a pizza size pita instead of being stuffed in it. Etai ordered a regular falafel. My lafiz was twice the size of his falafel and although neither of us could finish the lafiz, we embarked on it together.
Here, close-cropped future soldiers would learn how to introduce themselves to strangers, the proper way to order a falafel and a Coke, how to shout Get out of the car.
They decided, sotto voce, to go out for a falafel. […] The falafel itself was incidental: it was the array of salds, pickled and fried vegetables, olives and sauces which one stuffed into the pita that made it such an adventure.
A beggar, his head swathed in rags, was eating a falafel, bits of cucumber falling out of the pita's corners. He looked askance as Mustafa lumbered by.
gloss: A single falafel ball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The stallholder puts salad into an open pita bread, followed by the four falafels, and then liberally covers them with hummus.
Derived words: fawaffle
Translations:
gormless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dialectal English gaum (“heed, attention”) + -less (“without”), from Old Norse gaum, from Proto-Germanic *gaumaz, *gaumō (“heed, attention”). The ‘r’ found in this spelling is a vowel-lengthening device common in non-rhotic dialects of English.
Base: gaum
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more gormless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gormless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gaumless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gawmless
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: Did I ever look so stupid: so gormless as Joseph calls it?
But Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter.
There was a sort of gormless unstoppability about him that she found rather fascinating.
Hmm. Made an excuse, did he? Not as gormless as he looks in press photographs, then.
“Don’t just stand there looking gormless. There’s plenty of work to do in the back.”
Translations:
vocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wokʷ-der.
Latin vocō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin vocātiōnembor.
Old French vocationbor.
Middle English vocacioun
English vocation
From Middle English vocacioun, from Old French vocation, from Latin vocātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: vocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A divine calling to establish one's lifestyle.
pos: noun
tags: Ecclesiastical
countable
uncountable
examples: The Catholic Church supports and teaches us that there are three vocations: the single life, married life, and the religious life or priesthood.
gloss: An occupation for which a person is suited, trained or qualified.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Nursing is a vocation that many people find horrendous.
Related words: vocative
avocation
Derived words: vocational
Translations:
niente
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian nientebor.
English niente
Borrowed from Italian niente.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: totally silent, as a musical direction (abbreviated to n. or ∅ in sheet music)
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
scion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English sion, sioun, syon, scion, cion, from Old French cion, ciun, cyon, sion, from Frankish *kīþō, *kīþ, from Proto-Germanic *kīþô, *kīþą, *kīþaz (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *geye- (“to split open, sprout”), same source as Old English ċīþ (“a young shoot; sprout; germ; sprig”), Old Saxon kīth (“sprout; germ”), Old High German kīdi (“offshoot; sprout; germ”). See also French scion and Picard chion. Doublet of chit.
Inflected forms:
form: scions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A descendant, especially a first-generation descendant of a distinguished family.
pos: noun
examples: No senate seats in council for the dead; no scion of a time honoured dynasty pants to rule over the inhabitants of a charnel house; the general's hand is cold, and the soldier has his untimely grave dug in his native fields, unhonoured, though in youth.
Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
It was said to him that those people were the scions of Zion.
He could show his parents Eliot, scion of Derek Moulthorp, and then how could they say he was throwing his life away?
It also made her the target of angry derision back in South Korea, where Ms. Cho is the scion of one of the wealthy families that control much of South Korea’s export-driven economy.
Her father, Carter Burden Sr., was a handsome scion of the Vanderbilt dynasty.
gloss: The heir to a throne.
pos: noun
gloss: A guardian.
pos: noun
gloss: A detached shoot or twig containing buds from a woody plant, used in grafting; a shoot or twig in a general sense.
pos: noun
examples: [If] you finde a certaine miſlike or conſumption in the plant, you ſhall immediatly vvith a ſharp knife cut the plant off ſlope-vviſe upvvard, about three fingers from the ground, and ſo let it reſt till the next ſpring, at vvhich time you ſhall behold nevv cyons iſſue from the roote, […]
He used to think that the plums in this country weren’t good enough, and so he has reformed them, grafting scion to rootstock.
Translations:
smoko
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smoke
English -o
English smoko
From smoke + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: smokos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smoke-o
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: smoke-oh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: smokeho
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cigarette break from work or military duty; a brief cessation of work to have a smoke, or (more generally) to take a small rest, snack etc.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
colloquial
examples: We saw the innards of a submarine, and afterwards, at smoke-oh, I entertained the men with my story of the bagman's battle with John Oliver O'Dowd.
2005, Lexie Simmons, Darrell Lewis, Kajirri, the Bush Missus, Central Queensland University Press, page 16,
This area was the general meeting place for all the Aboriginal workers who had some time to spare. The house girls took their smoko or lunch there and were soon joined by everyone else who′d stopped work after the smoko or lunchtime bell.
2007, Lewis Yerloburka O′Brien, Mary-Ann Gale (transcriber), And the Clock Struck Thirteen: The Life and Thoughts of Kaurna Elder Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O′Brien as told to Mary-Ann Gale, page 163,
One day Ox-head came up to us during smoko to have a yarn and to help himself to some lollies another bloke, Seth, had bought.
2008, Ann Jones, Put the Billy On, Glass House Books, Australia, page 85,
‘You chaps should have a camp this afternoon,’ Dad suggested as they finished their meal. ‘You must be tired out. There′s a couple of stretchers upstairs along the verandah. Have a camp on those and we′ll wake you for smoko,’ and the party dispersed until the bell was rung.
gloss: A tea break or coffee break with cakes, snacks, etc.
pos: noun
Translations:
incursion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French, from Latin incursiō.
Inflected forms:
form: incursions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of destruction, plunder, or bodily harm rather than an intent to conquer territory or alter the established government; contrast invasion in its narrow sense.
pos: noun
gloss: An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.
pos: noun
examples: Fascinating though the journey is to the traveller, for many years this section of the line was a source of considerable anxiety to the maintenance engineers, and on more than one occasion landslips and incursions of the sea resulted in the railway being closed for several days.
gloss: A function hosted within an educational institution, especially by or for students, for recreation, research, education or a display of works.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Synonyms: attack
movement
Antonyms: attack
movement
excursion
Related words: incur
incursive
predatory incursion
Derived words: incursionary
reincursion
Translations:
transmogrify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 17th century; origin uncertain, but possibly from transmigure, transmigrate. It is also possible that this word is a formation derived from maugre, hence it originally signified the "evil eye", but under the influence of the former etymologies shifted its meaning to its sense of "transformation". Another possibility is a humorous blending of transfigure and modify.
Inflected forms:
form: transmogrifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transmogrifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transmogrified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transmogrified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To substantially or completely alter the form of.
pos: verb
tags: humorous
often
transitive
examples: Our present Governors (who have transmografide Monarchy into a Free State) ...
Separateness in selfist thought is transmogrified into a perverted freedom (or set of freedoms), themselves devoid of attendant responsibilities.
For the better, if you ask the seven unlucky sods who originally died, and are now explosively alive. For the worse, if you ask the billions of ordinary people now in daily danger of being atomized, brainwashed, or transmogrified into gooey flesh-sculptures.
gloss: To completely alter one's form.
pos: verb
tags: humorous
intransitive
often
examples: "Just set the dial to "Calvin", and I'll transmogrify back to a boy."
But 'Hamilton,' directed by Thomas Kail and starring Mr. Miranda, might just be about worth it—at least to anyone who wants proof that the American musical is not only surviving but also evolving in ways that should allow it to thrive and transmogrify in years to come.
Synonyms: metamorphize
metamorphose
metamorphosize
transform
transmogrify
transmute
Antonyms: deconvert
Related words: convert
Derived words: transmogrification
transmogrifier
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: proměnit
lang: German
word: transformieren
lang: German
word: gänzlich ummodeln
lang: Māori
word: whakatupu
lang: Middle English
word: transformen
lang: Portuguese
word: metamorfosear
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: preinačiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: preoblikovati
indubitably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indubitable
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indubitably
From indubitable + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more indubitably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most indubitably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that leaves no possibility of doubt.
pos: adv
examples: Near-synonyms: verifiably, provably
Now his first suspicion was indubitably confirmed.
The world is indubitably one if you look at it in one way, but as indubitably is it many, if you look at it in another. It is both one and many—let us adopt a sort of pluralistic monism.
They were all indubitably, aggressively alive! Everybody was alive once more!
Translations:
Sapphic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: Sappho (Ancient Greek Σαπφώ (Sapphṓ)) + -ic, whence Latin Sapphicus. Sense related to sexuality alludes to Sappho's poetry discussing love between women (see also lesbian).
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: Sapphics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sapphick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Sapphic verse.
pos: noun
examples: His Sapphics, on the story of Bacchus and Ariadne, are easy, elegant, and poetical.
The first line (which goes by the name of Aristophanes) is a Sapphic without the initial trochees.
"A real Sapphic," said Crane, dropping into a poetical tone, as an elocutionist does when he is hungry for an opportunity to recite a favorite sketch.
gloss: A person who is sapphic.
pos: noun
examples: 'Very good,” he said, 'although I must confess that the older I get, the less I am able to enjoy the company of women – except of course our own dear Enid who is so notorious a Sapphic as to be virtually hors concours.
There are many of us (yes, even in Utah) who are more style-conscious, socially involved and culturally aware Sapphics than the common opinion dictates.
Are you a fan of hate-to-love? Roommates? Royalty romances? Geology puns? Sapphics? Her Royal Highness has all of this and more. After Millie discovers her best friend turned maybe girlfriend kissing someone else, she decides to flee […]
Translations:
mel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Shortening of melody.
Inflected forms:
form: mels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of pitch on a scale of pitches perceived by listeners to be equally spaced from one another.
pos: noun
Translations:
spiral
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geometry
mathematics
rail-transport
railways
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle French spirale, from Medieval Latin spiralis, from Latin spīra, from Ancient Greek σπεῖρα (speîra, “wreath, coil, twist”).
Inflected forms:
form: spirals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spirals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spiraling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: spiralling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: spiraled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: spiraled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: spiralled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: spiralled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point.
pos: noun
gloss: A helix.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A self-sustaining process with a lot of momentum involved, so it is difficult to accelerate or stop it at once.
pos: noun
examples: My beloved friends and family who sustained and grounded me as I fell into the rabbit hole of this project or down the spiral of new parenthood.
gloss: A section of track that forms a circle and crosses over itself, used for gaining height in mountainous territory.
pos: noun
gloss: Helical, like a spiral.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The formation of tornados and water-spouts is very probably identical with that of dust-storms and "devils," viz., a sudden disturbance of the vertical equilibrium of the atmosphere, where by an upward rush of air is generated, which rapidly becomes spiral.
gloss: To move along the path of a spiral or helix.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The falling leaves spiralled down from the tree.
gloss: To cause something to spiral.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You need to learn how to spiral a ball.
gloss: To increase continually.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Her debts were spiralling out of control.
Excessive contrarianism against the liberal establishment has also resulted in slopulism spiralling off into the most moronic of conspiracy theories.
gloss: To decline mentally.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She spiralled into a deep depression.
Related words: aspirin
spirea
Translations:
scotch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English scocchen (“to cut”), perhaps from Anglo-Norman escocher (“to notch”), from es- (“intensive prefix”) (from Latin ex-) + Old French coche (“notch”). Not related to Scotch.
Inflected forms:
form: scotches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scotches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scotching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scotched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scotched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A surface cut or abrasion.
pos: noun
gloss: A line drawn on the ground, as one used in playing hopscotch.
pos: noun
gloss: A block for a wheel or other round object; a chock, wedge, prop, or other support, to prevent slipping.
pos: noun
examples: a scotch for a wheel or a log on inclined ground
He was like the scotch in the smooth, happy machinery of the home. And he was always aware of this fall of silence on his entry, the shutting off of life, the unwelcome.
In December, 1949, the Ashby to Worthington section of the former Midland Railway Ashby branch was divided into two portions by the insertion of a scotch block at Ticknall Siding, which requires both the tablet from Worthington and wooden staff from Ashby to unlock it and permit through working.
The cars are positioned and secured solely by simple scotches pegged into the decking of the vehicle and easily movable; [...].
gloss: To cut or score; to wound superficially.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We have scotched the snake, not killed it.
gloss: To prevent (something) from being successful.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The rain scotched his plans of going to the beach.
gloss: To debunk or discredit an idea or rumor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The prime minister scotched rumors of his resignation.
Other declassified files from the 1960s show that the Northern Ireland government discussed a proposed tunnel to Scotland. Several district councils and a US firm, Technical Studies Inc, championed the idea, but Stormont officials scotched it as impractical and too expensive.
gloss: To block a wheel or other round object.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The workers stopped the rig on an incline and scotched the wheels.
The pantechnicon was running away. It had perceived the wrath to come and was fleeing. Its guardians had evidently left it imperfectly scotched or braked, and it had got loose.
gloss: To dress (stone) with a pick or pointed instrument.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To beat yarn in order to break up slugs and align the threads.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Yarn is scotched immediately after it has been dried and while it is still warm. http://www.google.com/patents?id=DXdGAAAAEBAJ&pg=PP3&vq=scotched&dq=scotching
gloss: To clothe or cover up.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Derived words: hopscotch
scotch mint
Translations: