yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
awl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English aul, alle, al, from Old English æl, from Proto-West Germanic *al, from Proto-Germanic *alaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ólos. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Äil (“awl”), Dutch aal (“awl”), German Low German Ahl (“awl”), German Ahle (“awl”), Icelandic alur (“awl”). Spelling was influenced by the Old English synonym awel, awul (“awl”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahwal, from Proto-Germanic *ahwalaz (“fork, hook”), of unknown origin. Doublet of elsen.
Inflected forms:
form: awls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.
pos: noun
examples: He dressed himself in some old ragged clothes, and took a tame white bear, which he had, with him, as well as an awl, some pitch, and twine.
gloss: Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
pos: noun
Derived words: awlbill
awlet
awl-fly
awllike
awlwort
bradawl
Translations:
awn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English aw(u)ne, agune, from Old Norse ǫgn (compare Danish avne), from Proto-Germanic *aganō, *ahanō (“chaff”) (compare Old English agnu, Dutch agen, German Ahne, Agen), from Proto-Indo-European *aḱanā (compare Latin agna (“ear of wheat”), Lithuanian ašni̇̀s (“edge, blade”), Czech osina, Ancient Greek ἄκαινα (ákaina, “spike, prick”), ἄκανος (ákanos, “pine-thistle”), Sanskrit अशनि (aśáni, “thunderbolt, arrow tip”)), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ- (“sharp”). More at edge.
Inflected forms:
form: awns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.
pos: noun
examples: In one exotic genus, Aristida, the awn is compound, having three forks or branches; another exotic genus, Pappophorum, is remarkable in having the flowering glume armed with a dozen or more awns.
Translations:
awning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: 1615-25 (nautical sense only); from *awn + -ing, reduction of Middle French auvans (“sloping roof”), from Old French anvant (1180), from Gaulish *an(de)bannā (“eaves”) (compare Occitan ambans (“parapet”)), form of *ande- (intensive prefix) (compare Welsh an-, Old Irish ind-) + *bandā (“horn; peak”) (compare Welsh ban, Irish beann).
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: awnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.
pos: noun
examples: At Nairobi the mail waits an hour-and-a-half. The station has three long platforms, mostly covered in awnings, the island connected with the main platform (which is used by the mails in both directions) by a subway.
But instead, the distinctive ironwork and glass platform awnings have been carefully refurbished, while making them compatible with the overhead wiring. Kettering's island Platform 2/3 is especially noteworthy. Although it dates from 1879, when the station was enlarged to four platforms, the same original (1857) patterns for the delicate cast-ironwork seem to have been used - […].
A few hundred yards across the pampa from where Chilean soldiers patrol the boundary, stern-faced, the Peruvian border police sit under wind-torn blue awnings, eyeing the Chileans warily.
gloss: That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.
pos: noun
Related words: canopy
Derived words: awninged
awning window
Translations:
awry
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English awry, awrie. By surface analysis, a- + wry.
Inflected forms:
form: more awry
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most awry
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more awry
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most awry
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
pos: adv
gloss: Perversely, improperly.
pos: adv
gloss: Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place; wry.
pos: adj
examples: The frame was awry.
gloss: Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss, off course
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: There is something awry with this story.
It came inside 50 minutes and moments later Cavani should have had a 12th. Pogba and Shaw combined before the left-back’s cross teed up the striker but his radar was awry.
Derived words: awryness
go awry
Translations:
availability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From available + -ity; attested since the early 1800s.
Base: available
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: availabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being available.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: What is your availability this week?
With an axleload of 16¾ tons they have a fairly wide [route] availability and they have been designed for ease of maintenance.
gloss: That which is available.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: We have several availabilities.
Antonyms: non-availability
nonavailability
unavailability
Derived words: availability bias
availability cascade
availability heuristic
availability zone
bioavailability
general availability
geoavailability
high-availability
interavailability
low-availability
oral availability
phytoavailability
press availability
Translations:
lurker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From lurk + -er, agent suffix.
Base: lurk
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: lurkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who lurks.
pos: noun
examples: It troubled me that there should have been a lurker on the stairs, on that night of all nights in the year, and I asked the watchman, on the chance of eliciting some hopeful explanation as I handed him a dram at the door, whether he had admitted at his gate any gentleman who had perceptibly been dining out?
gloss: A user who observes a community rather than participating; someone who reads or takes advantage of content on a website, newsgroup, etc. but does not contribute.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: However, less than half of lurkers went online that often. Those who post also are more likely than lurkers to use the Internet for both work and pleasure. Posters use the Internet to communicate more with others than lurkers do.
It’s not unusual for people to join video calls with their camera off and microphone muted, but such lurkers can at least be called upon to speak.
gloss: A small fishing-boat.
pos: noun
tags: UK
archaic
dialectal
gloss: An impostor; a quack.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: In every large town sham official documents, with crests, seals, and signatures, can be got for half-a-crown. Armed with these, the patterer becomes a ‘lurker,’—that is, an impostor; his papers certify any and every ‘ill that flesh is heir to.’
Derived words: lurkership
photolurker
Translations:
avant-courier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French avant-coureur, with alteration of second element after courier.
Inflected forms:
form: avant-couriers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach; a scout or herald.
pos: noun
examples: Mr Farrer reached Calcutta some time before them, announcing himself as the avant-courier of His Majesty's new court, in which he was to be the leading advocate.
Her heart sickened with impatience, the time seemed longer now that they drew so near; gradually, the long shadows mingled together, objects became confused, and it was necessary to light the lamps and flambeaux, and the avant-courier began to sound his horn: it was dangerous to risk meeting another carriage in the then state of the roads.
Translations:
lurk
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English lurken, from Old Norse *lúrka, possibly from Proto-Germanic *lūrukōną (“to be lying in wait, lurk”), equivalent to lour + -k (frequentative suffix).
Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk lurka (“to sneak away, go slowly”), dialectal Swedish lurka (“to dawdle, be slow in one's work”), Saterland Frisian lüürkje (“to look secretly, spy”), West Frisian luorkje (“to lurk”), Middle Low German lûrken (“to deceitfully stalk”).
Base: lour
Affixes: -k
Inflected forms:
form: lurks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lurking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lurked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lurked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lurks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To remain concealed in order to ambush.
pos: verb
examples: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
Things lurking in the dark / They like to leave a mark / Inside of you
gloss: To remain unobserved.
pos: verb
examples: Thus my plight was evil indeed, for I had nothing now to burn to give me light, and knew that 'twas no use setting to grout till I could see to go about it. Moreover, the darkness was of that black kind that is never found beneath the open sky, no, not even on the darkest night, but lurks in close and covered places and strains the eyes in trying to see into it.
But in time pressure ... Sammy played 40 QxPch????, thinking it was mate- he completely forgot about that Black Bishop lurking innocently at the other end of the board.
gloss: To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself.
pos: verb
examples: if we find the sophist lurking, we must round him up by royal command of the argument
gloss: To read an Internet forum without posting comments or making one's presence apparent.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
gloss: To saddle (a person) with an undesirable task or duty.
pos: verb
tags: UK
slang
transitive
examples: As junior dogsbody, he was lurked with this mission.
gloss: The act of lurking.
pos: noun
examples: At two p.m. a man had called on him, and had produced one of his advertisements, and had asked him if that was all square—no bobbies on the lurk.
There were enemies on the lurk and time was against him.
[…] barked furiously and made at him as at a wolf, and before he could wholly rise from the lurk because of the sudden consternation, […]
gloss: A swindle.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
obsolete
slang
Derived words: delurk
lurker
lurkingly
lurkish
lurk moar
lurksome
lurky
Translations:
avarice
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-eh₁yeti
Latin aveō
Latin avārus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin -itia
Latin avāritiabor.
Old French avaricebor.
Middle English avarice
English avarice
From Middle English avarice, from Old French, from Latin avāritia, from avārus (“greedy”).
Inflected forms:
form: avarices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of human avarice and enterprise, it serves to vivify and invigorate the channels of industry, and to make them flow with greater activity and copiousness.
gloss: Inordinate desire for some supposed good.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: avariciousness
Related words: avaricious
avariciously
Translations:
avaricious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English avaricious, from Old French avaricieux, from avarice, from Latin avaritia (“greed”), from avarus (“greedy”), of avere (“crave, long for”).
Inflected forms:
form: more avaricious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most avaricious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: avaritious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: avaricius
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Actuated by avarice; extremely greedy for wealth or material gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
pos: adj
examples: In a word, he was called a hard, avaricious, rapacious man, whose chief business was to enrich himself...
Translations:
avast
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Probably borrowed from Dutch hou vast, houd vast (“hold fast!”), from houd (imperative of houden, “to hold”) + vast (“fast, firm, tight”). Doublet of hold fast.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Hold fast!; cease!; stop!
pos: intj
examples: Then pull avvay, hoa up, hoa up, hoa up, ſo avaſt there, Sir.
Avaſt, brother, avaſt! ſheer off—Yo ho! you turnkey, vvhy don't you keep a better look out? here's one of your crazy priſoners broke from his laſhings, I do ſuppoſe.
[T]he sail went into the water, and he could not drag it in. "Avast heaving," said Gascoigne, "till I throw her up and take the wind out of it."
[S]he caught me as I was again trying to force the open the door. "I won't allow it; I won't have my premises spoiled. Go for the locksmith, there's one about a mile from here. But avast!" putting her hand in her side-pocket, "here's a key that'll fit, I guess; let's see." And with that, she turned it in the lock; but, alas! Queequeg's supplemental bolt remained unwithdrawn within.
"Avast, there!" cried Silver. "Who are you, Tom Morgan? Maybe you thought you was cap'n here, perhaps. By the powers, but I'll teach you better![…]"
"Avast there!" cried the captain, and as though to punctuate his remark he swung the heavy stick he usually carried full upon the back of Billy's head.
"That landlubber's stole me dog!" Armpit cried. "Avast, ye dog thief!" he roared to the man.
gloss: In imitation of pirates: listen!; pay attention!
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: Avast, ye landlubbers!
[“Pirate Talk: How to Make It Work for You”, page 35] Avast—"Stop and give attention." It can be used in a sense of surprise: "Whoa! Get a load of that!" when a beautiful woman walks into the room. "Avast! Check out the bowsprit on that fine beauty!" you might say. […] [“Cap’n Slappy’s Practical Parrot Pointers”, page 166] Arrrr! Avast, Cap'n Slappy. Does ye know where the treasure of the Sierra Madre be buried? If ye don't tell me its whereabouts, I'll have to swing ye from the yardarm, matey.
Synonyms: avast!
cut it out!
enough!
give it a break!
halt!
have done!
hold!
hold fast!
knock it off!
leave off!
not so fast!
soft
stay!
stop [⇒ thesaurus]!
whoa!
Related words: desist
Translations:
ave
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ave.
Inflected forms:
form: aves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Ave Maria.
pos: noun
examples: Ye’ll come and find the place where I am lying
 And kneel and say an ave there for me.
gloss: A reverential salutation.
pos: noun
gloss: A reverential salutation.
pos: intj
Translations:
avel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew אבל (avel).
Inflected forms:
form: avels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: avelim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ovel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A mourner.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
Translations:
avenge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *wéyh₁s
Proto-Italic *wīs
Latin vim
Latin dīcere
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Latin -s
Latin vindex
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin vindicāre
Old French vengier
Old French avengierbor.
Middle English avengen
English avenge
Inherited from Middle English avengen, borrowed from Old French avengier, from a- + vengier.
Inflected forms:
form: avenges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: avenging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: avenged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: avenged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to avenge the murder of his brother
Avenge O Lord thy ſlaughter'd Saints, whoſe bones / Lie ſcatter'd on the Alpine mountains cold,
Father, today I will avenge your death.
gloss: To revenge oneself (on or upon someone).
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
gloss: To take vengeance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Thou shalt not auenge nor beare any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt loue thy neighbor as thy selfe: I am the Lord.
gloss: To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: thy judgment in avenging thine enemies
Synonyms: avenge
even the score
get one's own back
settle the score
tar out
Related words: revenge
Derived words: avengeable
avengeance
avengeful
avengement
avenger
avengingly
unavenged
unavenging
Translations:
avenger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English avengere; equivalent to avenge + -er.
Base: avenge
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: avengers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who avenges or vindicates.
pos: noun
examples: an avenger of blood
gloss: One who takes vengeance.
pos: noun
Related words: revenger
venger
Derived words: avengeress
blood avenger
Translations:
avens
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English avence, from Anglo-Norman avance, Old French avence, from Medieval Latin avencia (“a kind of clover”).
Inflected forms:
form: avenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the genus Geum, especially Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.
pos: noun
gloss: A plant of the genus Dryas.
pos: noun
Derived words: spring avens
Translations:
Aventine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Aventinus.
Inflected forms:
form: Aventines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the Aventine Hill, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A post of security or defense.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
Translations:
averse
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Latin aversus, past participle of avertere (“to avert”).
Inflected forms:
form: more averse
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most averse
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a repugnance or opposition of mind.
pos: adj
examples: The board is not averse to further talks.
“I assure you, cousin,” replied the old gentleman, “that the Baron, notwithstanding his unpleasant manner, […] is not, after all, so bad as you make him out to be; and further, I should like to know why you are so averse to him.”
This is why the most eminent intellects have always been strongly averse to any kind of disturbance, interruption and distraction, and above everything to that violent interruption which is caused by noise; other people do not take any particular notice of this sort of thing.
gloss: Turned away or backward.
pos: adj
examples: The tracks averse a lying notice gave, / And led the searcher backward from the cave.
gloss: Lying on the opposite side (to or from).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Aversant; of a hand: turned so as to show the back.
pos: adj
Related words: avert
aversion
Derived words: aversely
averseness
aversity
risk-averse
unaverse
Translations:
aversion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin āversiō, āversiōnem. Doublet of aversio.
Inflected forms:
form: aversions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.
Live with aversion to classic men's wear, likely die with aversion to classic men's wear.
The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.
gloss: An object of dislike or repugnance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.
gloss: The act of turning away from an object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: averse
avert
adverse
Derived words: ambiguity aversion
aversion therapy
change aversion
chemoaversion
photoaversion
risk aversion
uncertainty aversion
Translations:
avert
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English averten, adverten, from Old French avertir (“turn, direct, avert; turn the attention, make aware”), from Latin āvertere, from ab + vertō (“to turn”).
Inflected forms:
form: averts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: averting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: averted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: averted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To turn aside or away.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I averted my eyes while my friend typed in her password.
When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church.
gloss: To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How can the danger be averted?
Till ardent prayer averts the public woe.
Indeed, there was some highly questionable jiggery-pokery with couplings and continuous brakes in this agreeable story, which featured Moore Marriott as an old driver who averts a disaster on his last run.
gloss: To turn away.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Cold and averting from our neighbour's good.
Synonyms: hinder
Derived words: avertable
averter
avertible
avertress
Translations:
averted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Inflected forms:
form: more averted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most averted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Turned away, especially as an expression of feeling.
pos: adj
examples: It will not come as a surprise that Paul experiences much oppositional, averted anger, which is partly an adequate answer to the intrusions he has experienced and partly makes[…]
gloss: Turned or directed away (from something).
pos: adj
tags: also
examples: [...] : for Mompelgard, two barbels endorsed with tails averted, in a field gules : for Heydenheim, a Saracen's head, with a kind of hussar's cap gules[…]
Related words: avert
Derived words: avertedly
unaverted
Translations:
avian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: From Latin avis (“bird”) + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: avians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of or pertaining to birds, or to bird-like or flying creatures.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A bird.
pos: noun
gloss: A bird-like or flying creature.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who roleplays or describes themselves as being a bird or bird-like animal character with human characteristics.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
aviary
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin aviārium, from avis (“bird”).
Inflected forms:
form: aviaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A house, enclosure, large cage, or other place for keeping birds confined; a birdhouse.
pos: noun
Translations:
aviation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from French aviation, derived from Latin avis (“bird”). By surface analysis, avi- + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: aviations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art or science of making and flying aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Flying, operating, or operation of aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The history of aviation is full of daring pioneers.
He works in the aviation industry as a pilot.
Military aviation played a crucial role in the war.
gloss: Industry that produces aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: collective
uncountable
usually
gloss: A cocktail made with gin, maraschino liqueur, crème de violette, and lemon juice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: av
avgas
aviation blonde
aviation cruiser
aviation fuel
avionics
civil aviation
general aviation
general of aviation
NADEP
nonaviation
Translations:
aviator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French aviateurbor.
English aviator
Borrowed from French aviateur.
Inflected forms:
form: aviators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aircraft pilot, especially a military pilot. The use of the word may imply claims of superior airmanship, as in navy aviator vs. air force pilot.
pos: noun
examples: Ruth Elder was known for her beauty and acting, but her real dream was to become the female version of transatlantic aviator Charles Lindbergh.
Two missing US Navy aviators have been declared dead, several days after their aircraft crashed near Mount Rainier, Washington, during a training flight, the Navy said Sunday.
gloss: An experimenter in aviation.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A flying machine.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: flier
flyer
Derived words: aviator glasses
aviator shades
aviator sunglasses
Translations:
aviculture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwis
Proto-Italic *awis
Latin avisbor.
English avi-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin cultūrader.
Middle French cultureder.
English culture
English aviculture
From avi- + culture.
Inflected forms:
form: avicultures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rearing and care of birds (especially poultry)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonym: birdkeeping
Translations:
avidity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English avidite, from Old French avidite (modern French avidité), from Latin aviditās (“avidity, covetousness”), equivalent to avid + -ity.
Base: avid
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: avidities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Greediness; strong appetite.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Eagerness; intenseness of desire.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: to eat with avidity
Still, there was an inquiry after me, the 'who was she?' that never can, that never must be answered; and it was pursued with only the more avidity, because my accomplishments proved that I had been expensively educated, and nature had stamped me with her own kindly distinctions.
Come, walk up, and purchase with avidity, / Overcome your diffidence and natural timidity.
Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.
gloss: The measure of the synergism of the strength of individual interactions between proteins.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
avifauna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin, from Latin avis (“bird”) + New Latin fauna (“animals”), from Latin Faunus (“god of herdsmen”).
Inflected forms:
form: avifaunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: avifaunae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
avocat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French avocat (lawyer).
Inflected forms:
form: avocats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An advocate; a lawyer.
pos: noun
Translations:
avoidable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English avoid
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English avoidable
From avoid + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more avoidable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most avoidable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: avoidables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
pos: adj
gloss: Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
pos: adj
examples: The minister confessed that many of the deaths were avoidable.
Beyond the avoidable deaths that are already visible, something ominous is happening below the surface in crisis zones.
For their part, Europeans say they are not wavering from their decision not to get involved in a war they believe was not necessary, that they were not consulted on, and which now has triggered an avoidable global economic crisis.
gloss: Something that can or should be avoided.
pos: noun
examples: Though Mrs Golson re-appeared regularly at the Twyborns', she was on my list of avoidables from the night of the corked moustache until she sprang upon us yesterday.
Synonyms: avertable
avoidable
dodgeable
escapable
evadable
fleeable
nonmandatory
nonobligatory
optional
preventable
preventible
resistible
skippable
Antonyms: inavoidable
unavoidable
inviolable
unbreakable
unbreachable
inevitable
impossible
Derived words: avoidability
avoidableness
avoidably
nonavoidable
Translations:
avoidance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English avoidaunce, from avoid + -ance.
Base: avoid
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: avoidances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: avoidaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
gloss: The act of annulling; annulment.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant, specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: The act of dismissing a person.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: The act of quitting a position or benefice.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
gloss: The course by which anything (especially water) is carried off.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: In the Upper Gallery too I wish that there may be, if the Place will yield it, some Fountains running in divers Places from the Wall, with some fine Avoidances.
Derived words: anti-avoidance
avoidance speech
avoision
chemoavoidance
cost avoidance
isoneuronal avoidance
nonavoidance
photoavoidance
taboo avoidance
tax avoidance
zone of avoidance
Translations:
avoider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English avoid
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 avoider
From avoid + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: avoiders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.
pos: noun
gloss: One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
pos: noun
Translations:
avoirdupois
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English avoir de pois, aver de peis, haburdy poyse, haburdepays, haburdepeyse, from Old French aveir + de + peis (“asset of weight”), influenced by Middle French avoir + du + pois; compare French poids (“weight”).
Inflected forms:
form: avoirdupoises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: averdupois
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
gloss: The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
gloss: Weight; heaviness.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
uncountable
usually
examples: It seems humanly reasonable that the three of us can woman-handle a mere man of your elderly and insulting avoirdupois.
The detective sergeant, who was called Munro, more than made up for Cullen's advance in the avoirdupois department. Lean to the point of emaciation, Munro was also a paragon of contemporary fashion. He was clad in a hideous brown suit […]
gloss: Merchandise.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: From that mountain go men to the city of Thauriso that was wont to be clept Taxis, that is a full fair city and a great, and one of the best that is in the world for merchandise; thither come all merchants for to buy avoirdupois, and it is in the land of the Emperor of Persia.
Related words: metric
troy weight
Derived words: avoirdupois ounce
avoirdupois pound
Translations:
heavens
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The distant sky of the sun, moon, and stars.
pos: noun
tags: often
plural
plural-only
examples: For what obſcured light the heauens did grant,[…]
[…]the Heauens, which are carryed in 24 houres from Eaſt to Weſt,[…]
The moon's path lies in that belt of the heavens known as the zodiac.
[…]in an infinitely large universe the stars would collectively outshine the Sun and flood the heavens with light far more intense than is observed.
gloss: An expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration.
pos: intj
examples: “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
Derived words: heaven of heavens
the heavens open
the heavens opened
though the heavens fall
heavens to Murgatroyd
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: سَمَاوَات
roman: samāwāt
lang: Belarusian
word: нябёсы
roman: njabjósy
lang: Bulgarian
word: небеса́
roman: nebesá
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 天空
roman: tiānkōng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 天
roman: tiān
lang: Czech
word: nebesa
lang: Finnish
word: taivas
lang: French
word: cieux
lang: Galician
word: ceo
lang: German
word: Himmel
lang: Greek
word: ουρανός
roman: ouranós
lang: Hungarian
word: ég
lang: Italian
word: cieli
lang: Japanese
word: 天上
roman: tenjō
lang: Japanese
word: 空
roman: sora
lang: Macedonian
word: не́беса
roman: nébesa
lang: Church Slavic
word: небеса
roman: nebesa
lang: Polish
word: niebiosa
lang: Portuguese
word: céu
lang: Russian
word: небеса́
roman: nebesá
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: небѐса
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: nebèsa
lang: Slovak
word: nebesia
lang: Slovak
word: nebesá
lang: Slovene
word: nebesa
lang: Spanish
word: cielo
lang: Swedish
word: himmel
lang: Tagalog
word: sangkalangitan
lang: Ukrainian
word: небеса́
roman: nebesá
feu
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
property
Etymology: From Middle English feu, from Middle French fé (“fief”), fié, fief, fieu, from Latin feodum.
Inflected forms:
form: feus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: feus
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: feuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: feued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: feued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Land held in feudal tenure.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1813, "Keith", Entry in Nicholas Carlisle, A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, Volume II, unnumbered page,
The Village of OLD KEITH is of ancient date, having been partly feued by the predecessors of the Family of Forbes, and partly feued by the Ministers, and stands upon the glebe: this Village is greatly on the decline, and almost a ruin.—About the year 1750, the late Lord FINDLATER divided a barren Muir, and feued it out in small lots […] .
1841, Alexander Dunlop, J. M. Bell, John Murray, James Donaldson (reporters), Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Volume 3, 2nd Series, page 620,
The prohibition of feuing beyond a certain extent was clearly implied; […] .
But in effect, whereas Heriot's knew that their feuing conditions were subordinate to the law of contract, the Earl of Moray knew by 1822 that as a result of the Lords' decision in 1818 estate development could not be controlled by contract law and the feuing plan.[…]The impact on the Moray estate was that[…]despite a recession in the Edinburgh property market generally after 1826, virtually the entire estate was feued by 1836.
Derived words: subfeu
Translations:
lieu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *stel-der.
Proto-Italic *stlokos?
Old Latin stlocus
Latin locus
Old French leu
Middle French lieubor.
English lieu
Borrowed from Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”). Doublet of locus. Attested earlier and in Middle English only as part of the partially calqued phrase in lieu of.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A place or stead.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
benzine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: benzines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: benzene
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: any flammable petroleum distillate used as a solvent or fuel
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
hetty
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: LGBT
Etymology: Etymology tree
English het
English -y
English hetty
From het + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: hetties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hettie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hettier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hettiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hettie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A heterosexual.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: Heterosexual.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
hoax
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reportedly a form of hocus. Possibly from hocus-pocus or Latin iocus (“joke”).
Compare hokey.
Inflected forms:
form: hoaxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hoaxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoaxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoaxed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hoaxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.
pos: noun
examples: The phone call to the police about a tiger in a tree turned out to be a hoax.
The news story about the pop singer coming to town, unfortunately for his fans, turned out to be a hoax.
Translations:
palette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French palette. Doublet of pallet.
Inflected forms:
form: palettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of colours available to be used (or mixed).
pos: noun
examples: Use your mouse to select the colour you want to use from the circular colour palette.
gloss: The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work.
pos: noun
examples: The unified colour palette of reds, blues, and yellows used throughout the signage matches that of the institution’s logo and letterhead.
gloss: The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray.
pos: noun
examples: She removed an eyeshadow palette from her bag.
gloss: A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc.
pos: noun
examples: It would be extremely beneficial to have the right subassemblies with the parameters already set available on your tool palette.
gloss: A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
pos: noun
gloss: Any set or group of limited choices, options, or tasks from all ones that are currently available.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncommon
examples: For the San Francisco project, he whittled down the palette to a handful of key surfaces, chief among them French limestone, hard oak, and Danish brick—long, slender, stunning.
Derived words: minipalette
paletted
palette knife
palettelike
palette swap
palette window
palettise
palettization
palettize
parallel palette
subpalette
wet palette
Translations:
gamut
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: 1520s, original sense “lowest note of musical scale”, contraction of Medieval Latin gamma ut, from gamma (“Greek letter, corresponding to the musical note G”) + ut (“first solfège syllable, now replaced by do”). In modern terms, “G do” – the first note of the G scale. Meaning later extended to mean all the notes of a scale, and then more generally any complete range.
Inflected forms:
form: gamuts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A (normally) complete range.
pos: noun
examples: I must begin with rudiments of Art / To teach you gamoth in a briefer sort, - -
Bian. Why, I am past my gamouth long agoe.
The entire gamut of the view's changes should have been known to her; its winter aspect, spring, summer and autumn; how storms came up from the sea; how the moors shuddered and brightened as the clouds went over; she should have noted the red spot where the villas were building; and the criss-cross of lines where the allotments were cut...
1933?, Dorothy Parker, review of Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway play The Lake
She delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B.
THE LONDON BRIGHTON & SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. By C. Hamilton Ellis. Ian Allan. 30s. [...] In the course of its pages the author runs through the whole gamut of the locomotives that have during the period under review run on the rails of the L.B. & S.C. and its forebears.
gloss: All the notes in a musical scale.
pos: noun
gloss: All the colours that can be presented by a device such as a monitor or printer.
pos: noun
Related words: ut
Derived words: run the gamut
Translations:
ridicule
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The obsolete adjective is borrowed from French ridicule, from Latin rīdiculus (“laughable, comical, amusing, absurd, ridiculous”), from ridere (“to laugh”).
The noun is either from French, noun use of adjective, or from Latin rīdiculum, noun use of neuter of rīdiculus.
The verb is from the noun or else from French ridiculer, from ridicule.
Inflected forms:
form: ridicules
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ridiculing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ridiculed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ridiculed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ridicules
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His older sibling constantly ridiculed him with sarcastic remarks.
gloss: Derision; mocking or humiliating words or behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, / Yet touch'd and sham'd by Ridicule alone.
When he was young you'd not find him doing well in school,
His mind would turn unto the waters.
Always the focus of adolescent ridicule,
He has no time for farmer's daughters.
Alienated from the clique society,
A lonely boy finds peace in fishing.
gloss: An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [Marlborough] was so miserably ignorant, that his deficiencies made him the ridicule of his contemporaries.
To the people […] but a trifle, to the king but a ridicule.
gloss: The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: to see the ridicule of this monstrous practice
More keenly alive perhaps than any of her sisters to the little ridicules that belonged to Mrs. Palmer's character, she yet saw how small was their importance, and that Mrs. Palmer was not only a better but a happier person than most of those with whom she was acquainted.
Synonyms: ridicule
derision
scoff
mockery
katagelasticism
Related words: deride
derision
ridiculable
ridiculous
ridiculosity
humiliation
disrespect
contempt
Derived words: ridicule pole
ridiculize
Translations:
behaviour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: behaviours
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: British standard spelling of behavior.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here.
Jonathan Hill, professor of international relations in the School of Security Studies at King’s College London, points to ongoing social unrest among rural youths in Morocco as another key reason why the law was passed. He cites the 2011 Arab Spring as an indicator of where such behaviour might lead if left unchecked.
All is well until Treorchy, where the platform is swamped by teenagers who have been attending an event. Around four dozen unescorted 12 to 16 year-olds swarm aboard and begin to run riot through the train. Their behaviour is appalling and the presence of CCTV no deterrent.
Translations:
ladies
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: As a lavatory for women, via misspelling of ladies'. Compare gents.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An initial hand consisting of a pair of queens.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: ladies and gentlemen
ladieswear
Translations:
interweb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Internet + web (“World Wide Web”). The first use of this phrase is disputed.
Compound parts: Internet
web
Inflected forms:
form: interwebs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: interwebz
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intarweb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Interweb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Internet.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
humorous
in-plural
often
examples: "Web Hopper" is an interweb site that enables you to visualize your Web hopping and that of other Net users.
Basically anyone who wants to get a license for nefarious purposes, nefarious or at the very least […] unsactioned, they now get to shop around. […] With the interwebs, it's gonna be pretty easy to tell which states […] are the best shopping locations.
They said I was a fucking psycho / But look at me now, all up in the interweb, world wide
Very little exists in the annals of the interwebs about Tostitos Hint of Lime. Many nights I’ve sucked down crusty mossed fingertips and typed away in a green-out (like a blackout, but from eating too much Tostitos Hint of Lime), searching for a like-minded fanclub, historical taxonomy, or even a press release.
Translations: