yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
gnar
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English gnyrran
English gnar
Inherited from Old English gnyrran.
Inflected forms:
form: gnars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gnarring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gnarred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gnarred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gnarr
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gnarl
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: knar
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: narr
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: more gnar
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gnar
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gnarr
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gnarl
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: knar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: narr
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gnars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gnarr
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gnarl
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: knar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: narr
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To snarl or growl.
pos: verb
gloss: Gnarly.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Snow or an ocean wave.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: You wanted to surf instead, to be like those locals who lived simply, had enough money for rent, food, and board wax; who waited tables at night and woke up to shred the gnar.
Translations:
indefinitely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English indefinite
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English indefinitely
From indefinite + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a manner that is not definite.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: an indefinitely determined fossil
gloss: For a long time, with no defined end.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was a dark, horsehairy place with a sort of abandon-hope atmosphere that seemed suitable for people that had no money, and who were going indefinitely into pawn.
For it would surely improve the domestic standing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an unbudgeable hawk, and thereby indefinitely delay peace on that Middle Eastern front.
One argument is that "the virus has changed everything" and that people will work from home and travel much less, easing capacity pressures.
But there is a counter argument whereby we may all discover that, longer-term, many jobs cannot after all be effectively carried out from home indefinitely.
gloss: Forever.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Related words: endlessly
Translations:
eloquent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Old French eloquent, from Latin eloquens (“speaking, having the faculty of speech, eloquent”), present participle of eloquor (“to speak out”), from e (“out”) + loquor (“to speak”).
Inflected forms:
form: more eloquent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most eloquent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Fluently persuasive and articulate.
pos: adj
examples: an eloquent writer
He certainly waxed eloquent on his article.
gloss: Effective in expressing meaning by speech.
pos: adj
examples: an eloquent article
gloss: Relating to areas in the brain that serve an identifiable neurological function, in which injury leads to focal deficits or disability.
pos: adj
examples: Lydiard was diagnosed shortly after new year following speech disturbance and subtle memory issues. He has a high-grade glioma, an aggressive malignant primary brain tumour in the left side. It is in the “eloquent brain”, very close to the part that controls speech, and would have been considered untreatable in the past.
Related words: colloquial
colloquium
colloquy
elocution
eloquence
grandiloquent
illocution
interlocution
interlocutor
locution
loquacious
magniloquent
perlocution
Derived words: eloquate
eloquently
eloquentness
ineloquent
sialoquent
splendiloquent
supereloquent
uneloquent
Translations:
allophone
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos
Proto-Hellenic *áľľos
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓́λλος (ắllos)der.
English allo-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.
Proto-Hellenic *pʰōnā́
Ancient Greek φωνή (phōnḗ)der.
English -phone
English allophone
From allo- (“different”) + -phone.
Inflected forms:
form: allophones
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more allophone
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most allophone
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any of two or more alternative pronunciations for a phoneme.
pos: noun
examples: In some languages, [ʋ] is an allophone of /v/.
In the former the bilabial phone forms an allophone of the phoneme /v/ in word-final position after /a/ and an allophone of the phoneme /u/ when it is preceded by an obstruent and followed by /a/; […]
gloss: A person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority.
pos: noun
gloss: A person whose mother tongue is one other than that spoken by the majority.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
examples: However, “the languages used by STM staff during customer interactions are French and English,” the transit authority said. “Indeed, during phone calls or emails, STM employees speak English with anglophone or allophone customers who do not speak French.”
gloss: Of or relating to those whose mother tongue is neither English, French, nor (sometimes) an indigenous language of Canada.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
examples: In every case the allophone population is vastly larger than the proportion of francophones, which ranges from 4.2 percent […] from other parts of Canada more than international immigration from abroad: despite a growing allophone presence, […]
As immigration increases from different parts of the world, the linguistic makeup of Canada changes. In 2006, the allophone population—individuals whose mother tongue is neither English nor French—totalled 6.3 million, […]
gloss: That which is of a language other than that spoken by the majority.
pos: adj
Related words: allomorph
complementary distribution
Derived words: allophonic
allophonics
allophony
complementary allophone
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: vähemmistökieltä äidinkielenään puhuva
lang: French
word: allophone
lang: German
word: Allophoner
lang: German
word: Allophone
lang: Spanish
word: alófono
lang: Spanish
word: alófona
imu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian imu. Doublet of umu.
Inflected forms:
form: imus
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Hawaiian underground oven, consisting mainly of a hole in the ground.
pos: noun
Translations:
enthrone
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From en- + throne; compare earlier enthronize, inthronize.
Base: throne
Affixes: en-
Inflected forms:
form: enthrones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enthroning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enthroned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enthroned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put on the throne in a formal installation ceremony called enthronement, equivalent to (and often combined with) coronation or other ceremonies of investiture.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: coronate, crown
ceremonially enthrone
enthrone a monarch
The bishop came to enthrone the new archbishop.
gloss: To help a candidate to the succession of a monarchy (as a kingmaker does), or by extension in any other major organization.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To exalt, to praise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The novel seemed to enthrone love as the highest virtue.
Related words: enskin
enstool
Derived words: disenthrone
enthronement
enthroner
reenthrone
unenthroned
Translations:
retroactive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1610. From French rétroactif, equivalent to retro- + active.
Base: active
Affixes: retro-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Extending in scope, effect, application or influence to a prior time or to prior conditions
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Rather, he hoped there was some legal trickeration he could deploy to get a retroactive water right filed and end-run the opposition.
Can such a child be ennobled by the passage of time, his struggles granted retroactive gravitas and his childish confusions rearticulated with adult clarity?
Such assumptions can motivate expressions of cisgenderism such as retroactive misgendering (in which a person's past is described using language that disregards or contrasts with their current designation of their gender) […]
Translations:
factum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin factum. See fact.
Inflected forms:
form: facta
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: factums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Somebody's own act and deed.
pos: noun
examples: Fraud in the factum
gloss: Somebody's own act and deed.
pos: noun
gloss: Somebody's own act and deed.
pos: noun
gloss: Somebody's own act and deed.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
examples: But according to a factum filed by Crown prosecutors, Shaikh's status was "confidential informer," therefore RCMP did not direct him about what to do at the camp.
gloss: A product (result of multiplying two numbers).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: non est factum
post factum
Translations:
retrospective
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From retrospect + -ive. From Latin retrōspectus, perfect passive participle of retrōspiciō (“to look back at”).
Base: retrospect
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more retrospective
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most retrospective
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: retrospectives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or contemplating the past.
pos: adj
examples: While the pictures of what precisely unfolded after Cissé looked to tread on Evans are not entirely conclusive, the Football Association will surely pore over them on Thursday before quite possibly using video evidence to impose lengthy retrospective bans stemming from an incident unseen by Anthony Taylor, the referee.
Following a retrospective review of patient records, the parents of eligible patients were contacted by telephone to provide information about the study.
gloss: Looking backwards.
pos: adj
gloss: Affecting or influencing past things; retroactive.
pos: adj
gloss: An exhibition of works from an extended period of an artist's activity.
pos: noun
Synonyms: hindsightly
historical
reflective
Antonyms: forward-looking
prospective
Derived words: miniretrospective
retrospective determinism
retrospectively
retrospective memory
retrospectiveness
retrospectivity
Translations:
retrofit
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: The verb is derived from retro- (prefix meaning ‘back; backward’) + fit (“to equip, supply”).
The noun, which is first attested later than the verb, is either derived:
* from the verb (see above); or
* from retro- + fit (“act of fitting; conformity of elements one to another”).
Base: fit
Affixes: retro-
Inflected forms:
form: retrofits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: retrofitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: retrofitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: retrofitted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: retrofits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To supply (a device, structure, etc.) with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; to modernize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Trams dating from 2012 have been retro-fitted with lithium batteries, with the conversions starting in 2018.
The project involves retrofitting Google’s Pixel smartphones to certain subway cars to collect sounds and other data and feed it into Google’s Cloud. […] When asked why the devices were retrofitted on older models instead of newer ones, Sarno said the MTA typically uses older car models when making modifications in case there are any unwanted effects.
gloss: To add or substitute (new components or parts) that were not previously available for or installed in a device, structure, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Synonym of backport (“to retroactively supply a fix or feature to a previous version of a software product at the same time or after supplying it to the current version.”).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The bug was so bad that we had to retrofit our patch to the last three releases, as well as the newest release.
gloss: To give new characteristics or make alterations (to someone or something) to suit them to changed circumstances.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
gloss: To supply a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: An act of supplying a device, structure, etc., with new components or parts that were not previously available or installed; a retrofitting.
pos: noun
gloss: A change made to a device, structure, etc., by introducing components or parts that were not previously available or installed.
pos: noun
Related words: refit
upgrade
Derived words: retrofitment
retrofittable
retrofitted
retrofitter
retrofitting
retrogreen
seismic retrofit
post-retrofit
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: saada jälkikäteisasennuksena
smoked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English smoked, y-smoked, equivalent to smoke + -ed.
Base: smoke
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: smoked salmon
gloss: Of glass, tinted.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 'A pair of smoked spectacles will do it,' he said positively. 'Look at him now; he looks like an angelic office boy. Put him on a pair of smoked spectacles, and children will scream at the sight of him.'
"You'll need smoked glasses to protect your eyes," Paul warned him.
Antonyms: green
unsmoked
Related words: smoker
smoky
Derived words: halfsmoked
nonsmoked
presmoked
semismoked
smoked beef
smoked beer
smoked Irish
smoked Irishman
smoked meat
smoked salmon
Translations:
dagmar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: After Dagmar, buxom American actress.
Inflected forms:
form: dagmars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One of the bullet-shaped protrusions on the bumpers of various 1950s cars, especially Cadillacs.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
throughout
Part of speech: prep
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Old English þurh ūt, equivalent to through + out. Compare German durchaus (“all the way, fully, absolutely”).
Compound parts: through
out
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In every part of; all through.
pos: prep
examples: And though a philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself throughout the whole society.
“My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up.[…]You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year.[…]”
But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
gloss: Completely through, right the way through.
pos: prep
tags: obsolete
examples: His spere went clene thrughout hys body, and so he fell downe deed.
The dedlye sworde throughout my brest to stryke I will applye.
His barnisht blad throughout his body share,
Palamon at seeing Arcite , feels a colde fwerde glide throughout his heart: he starts from his ambuscade, and instantly salutes Areite with the appellation of false traitour.
gloss: In every part; everywhere.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The apartment is parqueted throughout except for the kitchen and bathroom.
gloss: During an entire period of time, the whole time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fight was excrutiating. Throughout, we maintained our dignity though.
Chelsea's youngsters, who looked lively throughout, then combined for the second goal in the seventh minute. Romeu's shot was saved by Wolves goalkeeper Dorus De Vries but Piazon kept the ball alive and turned it back for an unmarked Bertrand to blast home.
gloss: Of an ordinary such as a pile or chevron, or a partition per chevron, etc: extending to the edge of the field (or quarter, chief, etc).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Thus the VON VÖLCKER of Frankfurt bear : Argent, a rose gules, the field embrassé à senestre of the second. We should blazon this : Gules, a pile throughout issuing from the dexter flank, charged with a rose of the field.
Related words: passim
Derived words: therethroughout
Translations:
turbulent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English turbulent, from Middle French turbulent, from Latin turbulentus, from turba (“disorder, tumult, crowd”).
Inflected forms:
form: more turbulent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most turbulent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Violently disturbed or agitated; tempestuous, tumultuous.
pos: adj
examples: It is dangerous to sail in turbulent seas.
gloss: Being in, or causing, disturbance or unrest.
pos: adj
examples: The mid-19th century was a turbulent time in American history.
The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position.
Related words: disturb
perturb
trouble
turbid
turbine
turbulence
Derived words: gravitoturbulent
gravoturbulent
macroturbulent
microturbulent
nonturbulent
turbulate
turbulent flow
turbulently
unturbulent
Translations:
swelling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: swellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being swollen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
gloss: Anything swollen, especially any abnormally swollen part of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A rising, as of passion or anger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Synonyms: aposteme
incrassation
intumescence
inturgescence
swelling
swollenness
Related words: swollen
Derived words: deswelling
electroswelling
labioscrotal swelling
swelling soil
swelling tape
white swelling
Translations:
shining
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, shine + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more shining
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: shininger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
rare
form: most shining
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: shiningest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
rare
superlative
form: shinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Emitting light.
pos: adj
examples: 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
gloss: Reflecting light.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a high polish or sheen.
pos: adj
examples: He was at the wedding, too. His beard was flowinger and redder, and the part in the back of his head shininger than ever. He had an elegant time. He was so full of himself you would have thought it was his own party.
Hardly knowing what he meant, she plucked a many-headed specimen with a long stalk. At the end of it was such a shining needle that it dazzled her eyes so that she couldn’t see how she did the sewing up with it. But however it was done, the torn sleeve, she says, “didn’t look like wanting mending any more, but was better tore ’cos it let you see he had a shininger coat under.”
gloss: Having exceptional merit.
pos: adj
examples: a shining example
Jill had, as you might say quite fallen in love with the Unicorn. She thought—and she wasn’t far wrong—that he was the shiningest, delicatest, most graceful animal she had ever met: and he was so gentle and soft of speech that, if you hadn’t known, you would hardly have believed how fierce and terrible he could be in battle.
gloss: A bright emission of light; a gleam.
pos: noun
Synonyms: fulgent
aglow
alight
beamful
beamsome
beamy
brilliant
effulgent
glowing
illuminating
lambent
lighted
lit
lucent
luciferous
lucific
luminant
luminiferous
luminous
lustrous
orient
profulgent
radiant
refulgent
resplendent
sheeny
shining
shiny
Antonyms: dark
Related words: fervent
phosphorescent
Translations:
respiration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English respiracioun, borrowed from Latin respīrātiō, respīrātiōnem.
Inflected forms:
form: respirations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of inhaling and exhaling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In the dead state all is apparently without motion. No agent within indicates design, intelligence, or foresight: there is no respiration; […]
gloss: An act of breathing: a single breath.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Gowan snored, each respiration choking to a huddle fall, as though he would never breathe again.
gloss: Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which cells obtain chemical energy by the consumption of oxygen and the release of carbon dioxide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: metabolism
Related words: respire
circulatory system
pulmonary circulation
Derived words: abdominal respiration
agonal respiration
artificial respiration
ataxic respiration
Biot's respiration
cellular respiration
chlororespiration
cluster respiration
Kussmaul respiration
photorespiration
respirational
Translations:
pressing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more pressing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pressing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pressings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Needing urgent attention.
pos: adj
examples: “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
The rebuilding of damaged stations is proceeding slowly, on account of the shortage of building materials and the pressing needs of housing, but steady progress is being made.
Argentinians support the "Malvinas" cause, which is written into the constitution. But they are also worried about pressing economic problems such as inflation, rising crime and corruption.
Four Japanese torpedo boats launch an attack on the Suvorov. Despite burning steadily for several hours and now taking a torpedo to the stern, the ship still lashes out at its attackers with a few remaining guns. With no pressing need to continue the attack to closer range, the torpedo boats fall back, noting the position for a night attack if Suvorov survives that long.
gloss: Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
pos: adj
examples: You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
He was pressing and persuasive.
gloss: The application of pressure by a press or other means.
pos: noun
gloss: A metal or plastic part made with a press.
pos: noun
gloss: The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
pos: noun
gloss: A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
pos: noun
gloss: The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
pos: noun
gloss: A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
pos: noun
gloss: Urgent insistence.
pos: noun
Derived words: pressingly
pressingness
unpressing
flesh-pressing
head pressing
oilpressing
pressing cloth
pressing comb
test pressing
Translations:
timetable
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y-
Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon-
Proto-Germanic *tīmô
Proto-West Germanic *tīmō
Old English tīma
Middle English tyme
English time
English table
English timetable
From time + table.
Inflected forms:
form: timetables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: time table
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: time-table
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: timetables
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: timetabling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: timetabled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: timetabled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: time table
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: time-table
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tabular schedule of events with the times at which they occur, especially times of arrivals and departures.
pos: noun
examples: The timetable has been changed several times since it was first announced.
gloss: A schedule of arrivals and departures published in book or booklet form, or as a pamphlet, and available to travellers, either free or for a charge.
pos: noun
examples: Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.
gloss: To arrange a specific time for (an event, a class, etc).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've timetabled the meeting for Monday afternoon.
Derived words: clock-face timetable
timetable and train order
timetable motion
timetabler
working timetable
Translations:
pander
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pandare, from Chaucer’s character Pandare (in Troilus and Criseyde; see also Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida), from Italian Pandaro (found in Boccaccio), from Latin Pandarus (found in Greek mythology), from Ancient Greek Πάνδαρος (Pándaros).
Inflected forms:
form: panders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pandar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: panders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pandering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pandered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pandered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pandar
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who furthers the illicit love-affairs of others; a pimp or procurer.
pos: noun
examples: […] if ever you prove false one, to another since I have taken such paine to bring you together let all pittifull goers betweene be cald to the worlds end after my name, call them all Panders, let all constant men be Troylusses all false woemen Cressids, and all brokers betweene panders
It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.
gloss: An offer of illicit sex with a third party.
pos: noun
gloss: An illicit or illegal offer, usually to tempt.
pos: noun
gloss: One who ministers to the evil designs and passions of another.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Camillo was his helpe in this, his Pandar:
There is a Plot against my Life, my Crowne;
All's true that is mistrusted: that false Villaine,
Whom I employ'd, was pre-emplot'd
Those wicked panders to avarice and ambition.
Two small Hindu boys were waiting for me outside—small for their years (about fourteen) but infinitely worldly-wise. Hindu boys are, first, panders, and second, remarkably skillful and pertinacious beggars.
gloss: To tempt with, to appeal or cater to (improper motivations, etc.); to assist in gratification.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His latest speech panders to the worst instincts of the electorate.
[...] both the Conservatives and Labour are guilty of pandering to the road lobby at the time of Beeching's The Reshaping of Britain's Railways report published in 1963.
gloss: To offer (something or someone) in order to tempt or appeal, especially to base or improper motivations.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Who knows what Brill really thought? But he pandered the rumor linking Spear to a whole string of dastardly deeds.
gloss: To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To act as a pander for (somebody).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Synonyms: hustle
whore out
Related words: demagogism
Derived words: panderism
panderly
panderous
pandersome
Japandering
micropander
paedopandering
panderage
panderer
panderess
panderingly
pandership
pandress
pandy
Translations:
shiksa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Yiddish שיקסע (shikse), which is partly derived from the Hebrew שֶׁקֶץ (šeqeṣ, “abomination, impure, object of loathing”).
Inflected forms:
form: shiksas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: schicksa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shicksa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shickse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shikse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shikseh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shickster
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shakester
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A non-Jewish girl, especially one who is attractive and young.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
derogatory
often
examples: A Shickse, that wasn't bad enough? What's worse, you ask? A black man? Well this daughter of mine had to find herself a black woman in order to spite me. That I should never rest easy in my grave.
gloss: A sexually promiscuous gentile woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Related words: shegetz
shiksappeal
Translations:
inseminate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin inseminatus, past participle of inseminare (“to sow”). See seminate.
Inflected forms:
form: inseminates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inseminating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inseminated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inseminated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To sow (to disperse or plant seeds).
pos: verb
gloss: To fill with one's semen.
pos: verb
gloss: To impregnate (to cause to become pregnant).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
Related words: insemination
inseminator
Derived words: inseminatee
noninseminated
reinseminate
uninseminated
Translations:
persecution
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Equivalent to persecute + -ion. From Middle English persecucioun, from Old French persecucion, from Ecclesiastical Latin persecūtio (“persecution; chase, pursuit”), from Latin persequor (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) + sequor (“follow”). Displaced native Old English ēhtnes.
Base: persecute
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: persecutions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of persecuting, especially a specific group of people; an instance of persecution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many apartheid perpetrators escaped prosecution for their persecution of black Africans and political dissidents.
During the early 20th century, wolves were considered undesirable. They were subject to persecution and were extirpated from large areas of their original range. With increased environmental awareness in the 1970s, attitudes toward wolves began to change.
[…] to support or agree with the persecutions, beatings, dehumanizings, insults, murders, genocides, and oppressions of a perpetrator's target […]
Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?
I see this not as persecution, but a learning chance to grow.
Translations:
persecute
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French persécuter, from Ecclesiastical Latin persecutor, from Latin persequor, persecutus (“follow up, pursue”), from per- (“through”) + sequor (“follow”) (English sequel). Compare prosecute. Cf. also pursue.
Base: sequor
Affixes: per-
Inflected forms:
form: persecutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: persecuting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: persecuted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: persecuted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: persecute
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: persecute
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: persecuted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: persecute
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: persecutest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: persecuted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: persecutedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: persecutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: persecuteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: persecuted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: persecute
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: persecuted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: persecute
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: persecuted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: persecute
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: persecuting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: persecuted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: persequte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: persequute
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To pursue in a manner to do harm or cruelty to; especially, because of the victim's race, sexual identity, or adherence to a particular belief.
pos: verb
examples: He who persecutes one will persecute all.
I have heard, brethren, how sharply Antichrist persecuteth you, in vexing the faithful servants of Christ with divers and strange kinds of afflictions.
"Do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you."
One of the village's most notable sons was Thomas Grantham, a Baptist church leader born in 1634, who was persecuted and imprisoned in the struggle for nonconformist beliefs during the reign of Charles II.
gloss: To harass with importunity; to pursue with persistent solicitations; to annoy.
pos: verb
gloss: To kill many of one species of animal, with the intent of removing them from human habitats.
pos: verb
examples: Humans have been persecuting wolves in this forest for centuries.
Related words: persecution
persecutable
Derived words: persecutee
persecutingly
unpersecuted
Translations:
toucher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English toucher, equivalent to touch + -er. Sense 3 is derived from the sense of touching someone for money.
Base: touch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: touchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who touches.
pos: noun
examples: We just twist up Chancery-lane, and cut along Holborn, and there we are in four minutes time, as near as a toucher.
gloss: A ball lying in contact with the jack.
pos: noun
gloss: A toucha; one who tries to get something out of others for nothing in return.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
derogatory
Derived words: child toucher
near as a toucher
titty-toucher
toucherism
Translations:
beforehand
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English biforhand, biforhond, beforehonde, bifornhand, equivalent to before + hand. [13th century. After Old French avant main].
Base: before
Inflected forms:
form: before-hand
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: At an earlier or preceding time.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Will it be possible to have access to the room beforehand so that we can set up chairs?
I love playing tennis but I always get so nervous beforehand.
Weeks beforehand, I had bought the tickets for the concert.
Prosecutors also said Wednesday their side “does not intend to reference allegations that the defendant violated FARA or improperly coordinated with the Obama Administration,” referring to the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires people who lobby on behalf of foreign clients to register beforehand with the US government.
Translations:
txt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: txts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: txts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: txting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: txted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: txted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: text, text message
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: a .txt file
pos: noun
gloss: To text; to send a text message (to).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
ambitransitive
Translations:
riven
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English riven, past participle of rive (“to rive”). Compare Old Norse rifinn, past participle of Old Norse rífa (“to pick, scratch, rive”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Torn apart.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Broken into pieces; split asunder.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: “She shall be blasted like a riven oak! Drowned in sulphur! Torn by whirlwinds!”
Derived words: rivenness
unriven
Translations:
CR
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: CRs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: CRing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: CRed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: CRed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to go to the comfort room
pos: verb
tags: Philippines
colloquial
examples: I will CR later after lunch.
Translations:
endemicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English endemic
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English endemicity
From endemic + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: endemicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being endemic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
pragmatism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
human-sciences
philosophy
politics
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek stem of πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “act”) + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: pragmatisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pursuit of practicality over aesthetic qualities; a concentration on facts rather than emotions or ideals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The idea that beliefs are identified with the actions of a believer, and the truth of beliefs with success of those actions in securing a believer's goals; the doctrine that ideas must be looked at in terms of their practical effects and consequences.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our conception of these practical consequences is for us the whole of our conception of the object, so far as that conception has positive significance at all. This is the principle of [Charles Sanders] Peirce, the principle of pragmatism.
gloss: The theory that political problems should be met with practical solutions rather than ideological ones.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The habit of interfering in other people's affairs; meddlesomeness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Antonyms: idealism
contemplation
Related words: pragmatic
pragmatically
pragmatist
Derived words: antipragmatism
ecopragmatism
neopragmatism
polypragmatism
Translations:
incessant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Late Middle English incessaunte, from Late Latin incessāns, incessantem, from Latin in- + cessāns.
Base: cessāns
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more incessant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most incessant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without pause or stop; not ending, especially to the point of annoyance.
pos: adj
examples: The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.
[…] incessant interferings and bickerings, in every country, between the secular powers and the ecclesiastical.
The face of Nature may be compared to a yielding surface, with ten thousand sharp wedges packed close together and driven inwards by incessant blows, sometimes one wedge being struck, and then another with greater force.
Translations:
UL
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: ULs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ULing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ULed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ULed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To upload.
pos: verb
Translations:
cop-out
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English cop outdeverb.
English cop-out
Deverbal from cop out.
Inflected forms:
form: cop-outs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: copout
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Avoidance or inadequate performance of a task or duty; the action of copping out.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: His disappearance on the day of the audition was just a cop-out.
In the book, his conclusion is simple: capitalism is kaput, celebrity charity won’t plug holes, revolution is the only solution. Yet it also feels like a bit of a cop-out: he insists all this can be achieved through love, peace and understanding.
“It’s interesting what he stayed away from,” said Cameron. “Look, I love the film-making, but I did feel that it was a bit of a moral cop-out.”
gloss: An excuse made in order to avoid performing a task or duty; a reason offered when someone cops out.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: It was a cop-out to say he couldn't sign the petition because he sprained his wrist.
gloss: A person who cops out.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He's always a cop-out when there's hard work to be done.
Even when they are talking one-on-one, we aren't allowed to see behind the posturing and emblematic language. The major exception to this is Da Mayor […] who is both scorned and respected, seen as both a cop-out and a hero.
Translations:
expo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of exposition.
Inflected forms:
form: expos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exposition (type of public exhibition).
pos: noun
examples: NPR spoke with more than 30 people at the DHS career expo held in Provo last week.
gloss: An exposition (type of public exhibition).
pos: noun
gloss: An expediter; a restaurant worker who prepares food to be taken to tables.
pos: noun
Derived words: career expo
sexpo
Translations:
lang: French
word: expo
flamer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flame
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 flamer
From flame + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: flamers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very flamboyant ("flaming"), effeminate gay male.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
often
examples: The thinking is Ralston's gay—lots of us Fifth Squadders think he's gay. Me, I think he is, and it don't bother me any. You's queer, you's queer. So he's a flamer—big deal. Or maybe he's a switch-hitter, a bisexual. Who knows?
gloss: One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Send a note to the flamer. Tell him that his message was inappropriate. Request that he refrain from posting anything like it again.
gloss: A fireball.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A Navy fighter was on the tail of a Jap dive bomber that was headed for the ships in the bay, and he nailed him at about 5,000 feet and made a flamer of him.
Fellows who didn't enjoy their breakfast unless they'd crept up behind some foolish Hun, put twenty rounds in his petrol tank and made a flamer of him.
Translations:
emission
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1607. From Middle French émission, from Latin ēmissiō (“sending forth”), from ēmittō (“send out”), from ex (“from, out of”) + mittō (“send”).
Inflected forms:
form: emissions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something which is emitted or sent out; issue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the emission was mostly blood
Cymarron's sound resembled the mellow folkie emissions of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and America.
gloss: The act of emitting; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the emission of light from the sun
the emission of heat from a fire
Camden motive power depot has been much criticised for its emission of smoke in a residential neighbourhood and its complete dieselisation is rapidly taking place.
Derived words: acoustic emission
alpha emission
atomic emission spectroscopy
emission allowance
emissionless
emission line
emission nebula
Emissionsgate
emission spectrum
emissions test
emission theory
emit
field emission
field emission display
field emission microscope
field emission microscopy
fugitive emission
Lambert's emission law
low-emission
neutron emission
night emission
nonemission
photoemission
positron emission tomography
reemission
secondary emission
stimulated emission depletion microscope
stimulated emission depletion microscopy
superemission
zero-emission
zero-emission vehicle
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изпу́скане
roman: izpúskane
lang: Bulgarian
word: излъ́чване
roman: izlǎ́čvane
lang: Catalan
word: emissió
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 放射
roman: fàngshè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 發射 /发射
roman: fāshè
lang: Czech
word: emise
lang: Finnish
word: osakeanti
lang: Finnish
word: liikkeeseenlasku
lang: Finnish
word: emissio
lang: Finnish
word: säteily
lang: French
word: émission
lang: Greek
word: εκπομπή
roman: ekpompí
lang: Hindi
word: फटना
roman: phaṭnā
lang: Hungarian
word: kibocsátás
lang: Indonesian
word: emisi
lang: Interlingua
word: emission
lang: Irish
word: astaíocht
lang: Irish
word: astú
lang: Irish
word: cur amach
lang: Persian
word: گسیلش
roman: gosileš
lang: Persian
word: گسیل
roman: gosil
lang: Polish
word: emisja
lang: Portuguese
word: emissão
lang: Russian
word: излуче́ние
roman: izlučénije
lang: Swedish
word: strålning
lang: Ukrainian
word: ви́кид
roman: výkyd
smartass
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English smart
English -ass
English smartass
From smart + -ass.
Inflected forms:
form: smartasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smart ass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: smart arse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
form: smart ass
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: smart arse
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
form: smartasses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smartassing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smartassed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smartassed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: smart ass
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: smart arse
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of know-it-all, an obnoxious clever person or a person making obnoxious efforts to seem clever by acting or behaving as if they know everything.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
vulgar
gloss: An insolent person, especially one who makes snide remarks.
pos: noun
tags: mildly
vulgar
examples: Lots of luck, smartass.
gloss: Related to or characteristic of a smartass; irritatingly clever or smug.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: I have had quite enough of your smartass remarks.
"That is heresy!" Reb Shimon exclaimed, and then added, "Where do you get such smartass opinions?"
gloss: To talk like a smartass, with a lot of snide remarks.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: I smartassed and smack-talked half of the interview, but as I relaxed a bit more and genuinely talked with them, a strange thing happened.
Synonyms: smart aleck
Derived words: smartassery
smartassy
Translations: