yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
tetrahedron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τετράεδρον (tetráedron, “triangle-based pyramid”), from τετράεδρος (tetráedros), from τετράς (tetrás, “four”) + ἕδρα (hédra, “seat”). By surface analysis, tetra- + -hedron.
Inflected forms:
form: tetrahedra
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tetrahedrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tetraedrum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A polyhedron with four faces; the regular tetrahedron, the faces of which are equal equilateral triangles, is one of the Platonic solids.
pos: noun
Translations:
eighteen
Part of speech: num
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw
Proto-Germanic *ahtōu
Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥
Proto-Germanic *tehun
Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun
Anglian Old English eahtatēne
Middle English eightetene
English eighteen
From Middle English eightetene, eiȝtene, ehtetene, from Old English eahtatīene, eahtatēne, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōutehun. Cognate with West Frisian achttjin, Dutch achttien, German achtzehn, Danish atten.
Equivalent to eight + -teen
Base: eight
Affixes: -teen
Inflected forms:
form: 18
pos: num
tags: alternative
form: XVIII
pos: num
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The cardinal number occurring after seventeen and before nineteen, represented in Roman numerals as XVIII and in Arabic numerals as 18.
pos: num
examples: The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
Translations:
ICQ
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A pun on the pronunciation of I seek you.
Inflected forms:
form: ICQs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ICQs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ICQing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ICQed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ICQed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A call for acknowledgement.
pos: noun
gloss: To send an instant message to (someone) using ICQ.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: "My friends ICQ me before they call me just to make sure I'm there," said Kurera, a 19-year-old sophomore […]
I'll log-on in Hawaii. If needed we can ICQ from there.
It shut him up. Never had him ICQ me again.
Translations:
deuce
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
card-games
dice
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
volleyball
Etymology: From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford Motor Co. in 1932 to describe a two-seater car model.
Inflected forms:
form: deuces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
pos: noun
examples: You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
gloss: A side of a die with two spots.
pos: noun
gloss: A cast of dice totalling two.
pos: noun
gloss: The number two.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
slang
gloss: The number two.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
slang
examples: Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.
gloss: A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
pos: noun
gloss: A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
pos: noun
gloss: A curveball.
pos: noun
gloss: A 1932 Ford.
pos: noun
examples: And she was blinded by the light/Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night.
It belonged to “the 1932 guy,” who had four or five Deuces sitting in his yard.
gloss: Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
gloss: A table seating two diners.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A twopence coin.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
examples: It was a shame of the chalk-takers to take their fee without even scoring one little mark; but chalk-takers are inexorable and must be paid their twopence. 'Down with your deuces', was the demand after each pair of birds had competed.
gloss: Douche.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
slang
Derived words: acey-deucey
big deuce
chuck the deuces
deuce coupe
deuce court
deuce less
deuces wild
deuce-to-seven lowball
drop a deuce
play the deuce with
pop a deuce
the deuce
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: двойка
roman: dvojka
lang: Finnish
word: kakkonen
lang: French
word: deux
lang: German
word: Zwei
lang: Italian
word: due
lang: Latin
word: duo
lang: Polish
word: bobek
lang: Portuguese
word: dois
lang: Romanian
word: doi
lang: Russian
word: дво́йка
roman: dvójka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: двојка
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dvojka
lang: Slovak
word: dvojka
lang: Spanish
word: dos
lang: Swedish
word: tvåa
tennis
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English tennys, teneys, tenis, from Old French tenez (second-person plural imperative of tenir (“to hold”)).
Inflected forms:
form: tennises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tennises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tennising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tennised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tennised
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A sport played by two players (or four in doubles), who alternately strike the ball over a net using racquets.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: “Anthea hasn't a notion in her head but to vamp a lot of silly mugwumps. She's set her heart on that tennis bloke[…]whom the papers are making such a fuss about.”
One of Naomi Osaka's sponsors has been forced to apologise after depicting the Japanese tennis star, who is half-Haitian, with pale skin in an advertisement.
gloss: A match in this sport.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
examples: We go about to parties in the daytime as usual, teas and tennises[…]
gloss: An earlier game in which a ball is driven to and fro, or kept in motion by striking it with a racquet or with the open hand.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: tennis-balls
His easy bow, his good stories, his style of dancing and playing tennis, […] were familiar to all London.
gloss: To play tennis.
pos: verb
tags: dated
intransitive
gloss: To drive backward and forward like a tennis ball.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: they shall have Intelligence or Espial upon the Enemy, will so drive him from one side to another, and tennis him amongst them
Related words: table tennis
ping pong
Derived words: anti-tennis
court tennis
deck tennis
football tennis
lawn tennis
nontennis
paddle tennis
padel tennis
platform tennis
real tennis
ring tennis
royal tennis
soft tennis
squash tennis
table tennis
table tennis table
telly tennis
tennis ball
tennis bracelet
tennis club
tennis court
tennisdom
tennis dress
tennis elbow
tenniser
tennislike
tennisman
tennis player
tennis polo
tennis racket
tennis-racket
tennis racquet
tennis shirt
tennis shoe
tenniswear
tennis wear
tenniswoman
tennisy
text tennis
toccer
tonsil tennis
totem tennis
TWAG
wheelchair tennis
Translations:
chess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ches, chesse, from Old French eschés, plural of eschec, from Medieval Latin scaccus, from Arabic شَاه (šāh, “king [in chess]”), from Classical Persian شاه (šāh, “shah, king”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /⁠šāh⁠/), from Old Persian 𐏋 (XŠ /⁠xšāyaθiya⁠/).
Compare German Schach and Italian scacchi. Compare French échecs (“chess”) and its descendants: Catalan escacs and Dutch schaak. More at check and shah (“king of Persia or Iran”).
Inflected forms:
form: chesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the opposing king.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: At the tender age of 20, Penguingm1 is already one of the best hyperbullet and ultrabullet chess players in the world.
FIDE appeals to all chess players and federations to accept this view.
Synonyms: chess
Translations:
currency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
Proto-Indo-European *-éti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥séti
Proto-Italic *korzō
Latin currō
Latin currēns
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Medieval Latin currentiabor.
English currency
Borrowed from Medieval Latin currentia, from Latin currēns, from currō. By surface analysis, current + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: currencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.
Money managers who play down currencies tend to argue that outguessing foreign exchange markets in the short term is perilous, and that, over the long haul, shifts in currency values tend to offset one another.
gloss: Paper money.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Spangler went through his pockets, coming out with a handful of small coins, one piece of currency and a hard-boiled egg.
Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state. It issues its own passports, flies its own flag, prints its own currency (“the duble”), and has a national anthem that’s played on state occasions.
gloss: The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The jargon’s currency.
Fear of punishment has no currency with me as long as I remain convinced of the larger value of what I have done.
gloss: Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: He […] takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value.
The bare name of Englishman […] too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful.
gloss: Fluency; readiness of utterance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: course
current
Translations:
existence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English existence, from Old French existence, from Late Latin existentia (“existence”), from existēns, from existō, exsistō (“I am, I exist”), from ex (“out”) + sistere (“to set, place”) (related to stare (“to stand, to be stood”)), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti, from the root *steh₂- (“stand”). Cognate with Spanish existencia, French existence, German Existenz.
Morphologically exist + -ence.
Base: exist
Affixes: -ence
Inflected forms:
form: existences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being, existing, or occurring; beinghood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In order to destroy evil, we must first acknowledge its existence.
Fortunate it is for the tranquillity of the new-born infant, if he have any turn for philosophy, that he understands none of the nonsense consecrated by old usage to the commencement of existence.
However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
The physics of elementary particles in the 20th century was distinguished by the observation of particles whose existence had been predicted by theorists sometimes decades earlier.
The ancients said, “A ruler should exist for the existence of the people.” The famous thinker, Mencius noted, “The people are the most valuable, then the country, and the ruler comes last.”
gloss: Empirical reality; the substance of the physical universe. (Dictionary of Philosophy; 1968)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: being
beinghood
beingness
dasein
existence
hereness
subsistence
Antonyms: nonexistence
nothingness
inexistence
Related words: exist
aseity
existential
entity
Derived words: bane of someone's existence
co-existence
coexistence
existenceless
inexistence
in existence
non-existence
nonexistence
postexistence
preexistence
self-existence
three marks of existence
timeless existence
unexistence
waste of existence
Translations:
blowjob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: First used in the USA. From blow off (“to fellate”, originating among prostitutes from 1933) + job.
Compound parts: blow off
job
Inflected forms:
form: blowjobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blow job
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An act of fellatio, or sucking a penis or other phallic object (such as a dildo).
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: A display of excessive praise.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
slang
vulgar
examples: The reviewer gave him a massive blowjob for his work.
Related words: hand job
foot job
blow
fellate
go down on
suck off
give head
blumpkin
Derived words: blowbang
blow jobber
brojob
fang job
Steak and Blowjob Day
Translations:
tick
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: From Middle English tyke, teke, from Old English ticia (“parasitic animal, tick”), from Proto-West Germanic *tīkō, compare Dutch teek, German Zecke.
Inflected forms:
form: ticks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ticks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ticking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ticked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ticked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tiny woodland arachnid of the suborder Ixodida.
pos: noun
examples: Sucking up all you can / Sucking up all you can suck and suck / Working up under my patience like a little tick / Fat little parasite (parasite) / Suck me dry / My fruit is bruised and borrowed / You thieving bastards / You have turned my blood cold and bitter
gloss: To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock.
pos: verb
examples: As 2020 ticked over into 2021, some 240 worksites were active on HS2's Phase 1 route between London and the West Midlands.
gloss: To make a tick or checkmark.
pos: verb
gloss: To work or operate, especially mechanically.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: He took the computer apart to see how it ticked.
I wonder what makes her tick.
gloss: To strike gently; to pat.
pos: verb
examples: Therefore you Preachers out vvith your ſvvords and ſtrike at the root; ſpeak againſt covetouſneſs, and cry out upon it. Stand not ticking and toying at the branches, nor at the boughs, for then there vvill be nevv boughs and branches ſpring again of them, but ſtrike at the root, […]
gloss: To add (a bird) to a list of birds that have been seen (or heard).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: box-ticking
clock is ticking
make tick
take a licking and keep on ticking
tickable
tick all the boxes
tick a lock
tick a lot of boxes
tick and flick
tick and tie
tick and toy
tick away
tick by
tick down
ticking clock
ticking-off
ticking-over
ticking timebomb
tick off
tick on
tick over
tick past
time is ticking
top-tick
untick
Translations:
copulate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin cōpulātus, perfect passive participle of cōpulō (“to couple, join, connect”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare French copuler.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: copulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: copulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: copulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: copulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To engage in sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: formal
examples: The amorous couple were found copulating inside the car.
gloss: Joined; associated; coupled.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: the force of custome copulate, and conioyn'd
gloss: Joining subject and predicate; copulative.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Copulate words may be really a simple subject, 1, a repetition of the same notion, often a climax
Antonyms: abstain
keep it in one's pants
wouldn't touch with yours
Translations:
adroit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French adroit, from French à (“on the; to”) (from Old French a (“to; towards”), from Latin ad (“to; towards”), from Proto-Indo-European *ád (“at; near”)) + French droit (“right”) (from Old French droit, dreit, from Late Latin drictus, syncopated form of Latin dīrēctus (“laid straight; direct, straight; level; upright”), perfective passive participle of dīrigō (“to lay straight”), from dis- (“apart, in two”) (from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“twice; in two”)) + regō (“to govern, rule; to guide, steer”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃réǵeti (“to be straightening, setting upright”))).
Inflected forms:
form: adroiter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more adroit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: adroitest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most adroit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: deft, dexterous, or skillful
pos: adj
examples: A ſimple lad, with a whip in one hand, and the other locked in the arm of a young girl, is ſo loſt in gaping aſtoniſhment, that an adroit branch of the family of the Filches is clearing his pockets of their contents.
[W]hile the press has teemed with a thousand better modes of defending Christianity, unbelievers had been asleep all the while, and dreamed of no adroiter methods of attacking it: […]
By adroit management the wooden float is made to rise on the other side of the mass, so that now having girdled the whale, the chain is readily made to follow suit; and being slipped along the body, is at last locked fast round the smallest part of the tail, at the point of junction with its broad flukes or lobes.
[O]ne basic economic problem defeated the ingenuity of even the adroitest Italian bankers – the balance of payments. It often happened that the exchange of commodies was so uneven that there were no funds in Bruges to settle accounts in Florence.
[A] person is called right-handed because his right hand is more adroit than his left; confronted by any task requiring precision of control, wielding a tennis racket or a pencil, the right-handed person uses his right hand. Similarly, as among lip, apex of the tongue and dorsum, it is apparent that the apex is the most adroit of the three. It is not surprising then that, as has often been remarked, the apical sounds are generally more frequent than the others.
Antonyms: clumsy
maladroit
Translations:
coin
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet (whence modern English mint), which was derived from Latin monēta.
Inflected forms:
form: coins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
pos: verb
examples: to coin silver dollars
to coin a medal
Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.
gloss: To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.
Not fearing outward force: So ſhall my Lungs / Coine words till their decay, againſt thoſe Meazels
Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
Because in today's 2,000mph technological freefall, he who coins the catchiest buzzword generally wins the debate by default.
As a result, men turn to the women in their lives to fulfill their emotional needs. Ferrara and her coauthor are not the first to suggest that women bear the burden of mankeeping (although they did coin the term).
According to Collins Dictionary and Wiktionary, the term was coined in 2017 by journalist Anzer Ayoob, the term Chenabi is derived from the Chenab River, with the suffix “-i”, commonly used to denote belonging.
gloss: To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
pos: verb
examples: [...] Tenants cannot coin their Rent juſt at Quarter-day, but muſt gather it up by degrees, and lodge it with them till Pay-day, or borrow it of thoſe who have it lying by them, [...]
Derived words: coinable
coin a phrase
coiner
coin it
miscoined
new-coin
recoin
uncoin
uncoined
Translations:
sieve
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: From Middle English sive, syfe, from Old English sife, from Proto-West Germanic *sibi (“sieve”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seyb- (“to pour, sieve, strain, run, drip”). Akin to German Sieb, Dutch zeef, Proto-Slavic *sito (Russian си́то (síto), сев (sev), се́ять (séjatʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: sieves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sieves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sieving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sieved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sieved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: sifter, strainer, temse
Use the sieve to get the pasta from the water.
gloss: A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.
pos: noun
examples: Given a list of consecutive numbers starting at 1, the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm will find all of the prime numbers.
Among, ^([sic]) his other achievements, Matiyasevich and his colleague Boris Stechkin also developed an interesting “visual sieve” for prime numbers, which effectively “crosses out” all the composite numbers, leaving only the primes.
gloss: A kind of coarse basket.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A person, or their mind, that cannot remember things or is unable to keep secrets.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: An intern who lets too many non-serious cases into the emergency room.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: To be a sieve was to lack clinical judgment, courage, and group loyalty all at once.
gloss: A collection of morphisms in a category whose codomain is a certain fixed object of that category, which collection is closed under precomposition by any morphism in the category.
pos: noun
gloss: To strain, sift or sort using a sieve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Serpulorbis grandis feeds on plankton that it seives ^([sic]) from the water like a clam does.
gloss: To concede; to let in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This was their seventh defeat out of nine finals, including five in a row, and the second half was a chastening experience for the Serie A champions, culminating in them sieving more goals in one match than in the rest of the competition put together.
Related words: baleen
Derived words: brain like a sieve
Brun sieve
cleaning sieve
head like a sieve
larger sieve
large sieve
leak like a sieve
memory like a sieve
microsieve
mind like a sieve
molecular sieve
mole sieve
mol sieve
nanosieve
ranch-sieve
range-sieve
Selberg sieve
sieve cell
sieveful
sieveless
sievelike
sieve number
sieve of Eratosthenes
sieve plate
sieve set
sieve theory
sieve-tube element
sieveyer
sievish
subsieve
Turán sieve
resieve
sievable
sieve out
siever
Translations:
naff
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from Polari, 1960s. Further etymology unknown; perhaps a conscious corruption of either fanny or eff (off) (see naff off).
Inflected forms:
form: naffer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: naffest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bad; tasteless, poorly thought out, not workable.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
Polari
UK
colloquial
examples: That tie is a bit naff, don’t you think?
She was an ordinary woman in her dress style; she didn't wear a leather bodice or naff over-knee plastic spiky-heeled boots.
I mean ten years ago a bit of charlie was for pop stars or a celebrities birthday bash. It was demonized by Daily Mail Readers getting drunk in naff wine bars.
Remember, “tacky” means “cheap or glitzy”, whereas “naff” is about stylistic shortcomings which are horrifyingly average and pathetically ordinary. The Jersey Shore is tacky, but The Bachelor is naff.
A mere seven years after her tragic death, isn’t it grim and tasteless to send her hologram off on some naff tour?
Note that last phrase: what actually emerged was a virtual-reality platform called Horizon Worlds, accessible only via naff and clunky Oculus headsets (think an uncomfortable version of Zoom) […]
Did you see Elon Musk apologise for some tweets this week? (Please don’t be naff and call them “X posts”.)
gloss: Heterosexual.
pos: adj
tags: Polari
examples: The omie was a veritable donkey beneath the waistband, darlings. A donkey! No wonder your boss-palone is so smitten. I've seen my share, dollies, but this old omiepalone was shaken to the core. Such a terrible waste on a naff bloke.
Related words: niff-naff
Derived words: naff all
naffly
naffness
naff off
Translations:
its
Part of speech: det
pron
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Equivalent to it + -s (possessive marker). From the earlier form it's (it + -'s), which is now considered nonstandard. Began to displace his as the possessive of the neuter pronoun in the Middle English period; had fully displaced it by the 1700s.
Base: it
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: it's
pos: det
tags: alternative
form: it's
pos: pron
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to it.
pos: det
examples: The manner wherewith our Lawes assay to moderate the foolish and vaine expences of table-cheare and apparell, seemeth contrarie to it's end.
since I have been at the Pains to write it, if he consents to it's being published I will follow my Friend's Advice, and chiefly yours.
That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. (originally "of it own accord" in the 1611 first edition)
They descended the hill, crossed the bridge, and drove to the door; and, while examining the nearer aspect of the house, all her apprehensions of meeting its owner returned.
The Chinese government is at war with its own people.
Nara and its deer are so closely associated that the light-brown colored animals are pictured in the city’s tourism ads, on buses, train tickets and more.
gloss: The one (or ones) belonging to it.
pos: pron
examples: … both Houses have resolved to rob the North of a good friend of its and yours.
EBay Canada argued in court that the data sought by tax collectors was not its to give.
...the Board of Trade of Chicago can at least feel that it has played its part manfully and patriotically, and that no act of its has stood in the way of National victory.
Translations:
el
Part of speech: noun
num
article
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, from Old English el, from Latin el (the name of the letter L).
Inflected forms:
form: els
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: L
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Latin script letter L/l.
pos: noun
examples: The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.
gloss: The cardinal number occurring after dek and before do in a duodecimal system. Written ↋, decimal value 11.
pos: num
gloss: The (sometimes where "the" would not occur in normal English).
pos: article
tags: Internet
humorous
informal
examples: "[…] A sister of Joseph Gerard […] was found unconscious on the kitchen floor by the family cook early this morning. […]"
[…] What leads could they have, if the old lady was el zonko?
Translations:
Unicode
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Published as a draft proposal in 1988, “intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding”. From uni- + code.
Base: code
Affixes: uni-
Inflected forms:
form: unicode
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the Latin alphabet.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
uncountable
examples: Since most users on the site are westerners, we have banned Unicode in all text input boxes.
Translations:
regime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English regime, regyme, from Middle French regime, from Latin regimen (“direction, government”). Doublet of regimen.
Inflected forms:
form: regimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: régime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Mode of rule or management.
pos: noun
examples: a prison regime
gloss: A form of government, or the government in power, particularly an authoritarian or totalitarian one.
pos: noun
examples: the dictator's regime
Heaven will eliminate the tyrannical regimes.
gloss: A period of rule.
pos: noun
gloss: A regulated system; a regimen.
pos: noun
examples: a fitness regime
For three weeks Lorde engages in a regime of rest, relaxation, eurhythmy, and active meditation.
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today […].
Gorsuch’s theory would hobble this nondiscrimination regime by preventing the government from directing employers to tell employees about their rights and responsibilities under law.
gloss: A division of a Mafia crime family, led by a caporegime.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of characteristics.
pos: noun
examples: A typical annual water level regime would include a gradual summer drawdown beginning in early May.
Related words: regimen
Derived words: ancient regime
antiregime
collaborationist regime
counterregime
cryoregime
disturbance regime
epistemic regime
exercise regime
fire regime
hybrid regime
multiregime
nanoregime
old regime
photoregime
political regime
puppet regime
regime change
rogue regime
Zionist regime
Translations:
handsomeness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English handsome
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English handsomeness
From handsome + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: handsomenesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being handsome.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Handsomeness […]is the mere animal excellence, […]beauty […]the mere imaginative.
His face looked like worn leather but retained the vestiges of an earlier handsomeness that reminded her of a Hollywood star.
Translations:
pristine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French pristin, borrowed from Latin prīstinus.
Inflected forms:
form: more pristine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pristine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.
pos: adj
examples: The beach back is in pristine condition after a council-led cleanup.
Fire fueled with gasoline
Life is beautiful, the world is pristine
We have been bound unseen
The walls of existence remain unclean
gloss: Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something.
pos: adj
examples: Thus fable reports that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fine woman, no sooner perceived a mouse than, mindful of her former sport, and still retaining her pristine nature, she leaped from the bed of her husband to pursue the little animal.
gloss: Perfect.
pos: adj
Derived words: pristinely
pristineness
repristinate
repristination
unpristine
Translations:
raccoon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From arocoun (1608), from Powhatan ärähkun, from ärähkuněm (“he scratches with his hands”).
Inflected forms:
form: raccoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: racoon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rarowcun
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: r'coon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An omnivorous, nocturnal mammal native to the Americas, of the genus Procyon, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail.
pos: noun
gloss: The common raccoon (Procyon lotor).
pos: noun
examples: Before a fire upon a seat like a bedsted, he sat covered with a great robe, made of Rarowcun skinnes, and all the tayles hanging by.
The Rackoone is a deepe furred beaſt, not much unlike a Badger, having a tayle like a Fox, as good meate as a Lambe; there is one of them in the Tovver.
Thus we're presented with[…]a man who has the head of his penis bitten off by a raccoon, then bleeds to death in a forest.
gloss: Any mammal of the subfamily Procyoninae, a procyonine.
pos: noun
gloss: Any mammal of the family Procyonidae, a procyonid.
pos: noun
gloss: Any mammal superficially resembling a raccoon, such as a raccoon dog.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
proscribed
Derived words: coon
coon dog
coonhound
Cozumel raccoon
crab-eating raccoon
Finn raccoon
in a raccoon's age
in a coon's age
pygmy raccoon
raccoon-berry
raccoon butterfly
raccoon butterflyfish
raccoon dog
raccoon eyes
raccoon fox
raccoonish
raccoonlike
raccoon oyster
raccoonpox
raccoonproof
raccoon tail
Translations:
epitaph
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French epitafe, from Late Latin epitaphium (“eulogy”), from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios, “relating to a funeral”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + τάφος (táphos, “tomb”). By surface analysis epi- + -taph.
Base: epi-
Affixes: -taph
Inflected forms:
form: epitaphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: epitaphs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: epitaphing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: epitaphed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: epitaphed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An inscription on a gravestone in memory of the deceased.
pos: noun
examples: The church itself, or at all events the squat and tiny tower, has not altered much since Lamb saw it. But the epitaphs have gone. Search among the ivies and yews of the shady little churchyard will discover a number of flat, weatherworn slabs of stone, but the verses and the signatures have vanished.
Ayot St Lawrence's most famous inhabitant, George Bernard Shaw, moved into the New Rectory in 1906 because, it is said, of a gravestone epitaph in the churchyard. This recorded the death of a woman who lived to be 70 with the comment 'Her time was short'. Shaw thought that a place that considered a life of 70 years short was the right place for him.
gloss: A poem or other short text written in memory of a deceased person.
pos: noun
examples: Nam vinci in amore turpissimum putant, not only living, but when their friends are dead, with tombs and monuments, nenias, epitaphs, elegies, inscriptions, pyramids, obelisks, statues, images, pictures, histories, poems, annals, feasts, anniversaries, many ages after (as Plato's scholars did) they will parentare still, omit no good office that may tend to the preservation of their names, honours, and eternal memory.
gloss: To write or speak after the manner of an epitaph.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Commons in their speeches epitaph upon him […] "He lived as a wolf and died as a dog."
gloss: To commemorate by an epitaph.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let me rather be epitaphed the inventor of the English Hexameter.
Related words: elegy
eulogy
obituary
epigraph
hic jacet
Derived words: epitapher
epitaphian
epitaphic
epitaphist
epitaphize
epitaphless
epitaphology
epitaphy
Translations:
reindeer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English reyndere, reynder, rayne-dere, from Old Norse hreindýri (“reindeer”), from hreinn (“reindeer”) + dýr (“animal”). Compare Dutch rendier (“reindeer”), German Rentier (“reindeer”), Swedish rendjur (“reindeer”), Danish rensdyr (“reindeer”) and French renne (“reindeer”). Related also to displaced Old English hrān (“reindeer”). Unrelated to rein.
Inflected forms:
form: reindeer
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reindeers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reindeers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reindeering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reindeered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reindeered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any Arctic and subarctic-dwelling deer of the species Rangifer tarandus, with a number of subspecies.
pos: noun
tags: plural
examples: Santa Claus' sleigh is supposedly pulled by nine reindeer
Here is a prodigious number of wild beaſts, as ſtags, bears, wolves, foxes of various colours, martens, hares, glittens, beavers, otters, elk, and rein deer: the latter is leſs than a stag.
The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England.
Herds of wandering reindeer are frequently seen, and may even hold up the train while they cross the unfenced line to reach their feeding grounds.
Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
gloss: Any species, subspecies, ecotype, or other scientific grouping of such animals.
pos: noun
tags: plural
gloss: To herd or farm reindeer
pos: verb
Derived words: Arctic reindeer
busk reindeer
carideer
cow reindeer
Finnish forest reindeer
Kamchatkan reindeer
mountain reindeer
Novaya Zemlya reindeer
reindeer calf
reindeer corn
reindeer games
Reindeer Lake
reindeer lichen
reindeer moss
reindeer spitz
Siberian forest reindeer
Siberian tundra reindeer
Svalbard reindeer
wild reindeer
Translations:
anoa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Indonesian anoa ultimately from Proto-Austronesian *qaNuaŋ via a Celebic language (cognates: Tagalog anwang and Ilocano nuang referring to the domesticated water buffalo).
Inflected forms:
form: anoas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Either of two related species of small Indonesian water buffalo similar in appearance to deer; Bubalus quarlesi or Bubalus depressicornis.
pos: noun
examples: Anoas need undisturbed forest and cannot adapt to logged areas. The bad-tempered anoa with its sharp short horns is greatly feared, but in spite of this it is periodically suggested as a potential domestic animal. Anyone who has met with an anoa ridicules this idea.
The Celebes pig and, to a lesser degree, the anoa were the focus of the Wana's large game interests.
They reported seeing mountain anoa trophies for sale, and also a living captive animal, in the Toraja highlands; probable lowland anoas in the Gunung Tangkoko National Park on the N tip of Sulawesi, and evidence of both kinds of anoas in or near the Dumoga-Bone National Park.
Translations:
elk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English elk, from Old English eolc, eolh (“elk”), from Proto-West Germanic *elh, from Proto-Germanic *elhaz, *algiz (“elk”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁élḱis, *h₁ólḱis, variant of *h₁elh₁én, from *h₁el- (“deer”).
See also Low German Elk, German Elch, Danish elg, Norwegian elg, Swedish älg; also Polish łoś, Russian лось (losʹ), Vedic Sanskrit ऋश्य (ṛ́śya, “antelope”); also German Elen, Tocharian A yäl, Tocharian B ylem (“gazelle”), Lithuanian élnis (“stag”), Armenian եղնիկ (eġnik, “doe, hind”). Doublet of Elhaz.
Inflected forms:
form: elk
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: elks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Europe
gloss: Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
pos: noun
tags: British
India
examples: In a narrow defile […] a male elk, (cervus alces, Lin.) of noble appearance, followed by twenty-two females, passed majestically under their platform, each as large as a common-sized horse.
Synonyms: alce
Derived words: Black Elk
Cape elk
elkburger
Elk City
Elk County
Elk Grove
Elkhart
elkhorn
elkhound
Elk Lick
elklike
Elk Mountains
Elk Point
Elk River
elkskin
elk test
Elkton
elkweed
elkwood
giant elk
Irish elk
Nelson's elk
Roosevelt elk
West Elk Mountains
Translations:
alpaca
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish alpaca, from Aymara allpaqa.
Inflected forms:
form: alpacas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alpaca
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sheep-like domesticated animal of the Andes, Vicugna pacos, in the camel family, closely related to the llama, guanaco, and vicuña.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Away from the village, there was an enclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen. Alpacas?
gloss: Wool from the alpaca, with strong very long fibres and coloring from black to brown to white.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A lady in frayed alpaca, carrying a house-flannel, came to hearken.
gloss: A garment made of such wool.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The dress was at the bottom, — it was an alpaca, of a pretty shade in blue, bedecked with lace and ribbons, as is the fashion of the hour, and lined with sea-green silk.
Synonyms: alpaco
paco
Derived words: alpaca back and sides
Translations:
vicuna
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish vicuña, itself borrowed from Quechua wik'uña.
Inflected forms:
form: vicunas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vicuña
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: vicugna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A South American mammal, Lama vicugna, closely related to the alpaca, llama, and guanaco.
pos: noun
Translations:
transcultural
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
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
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English cultural
English transcultural
From trans- + cultural.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not culturally specific.
pos: adj
gloss: Not culturally specific.
pos: adj
Related words: multicultural
Derived words: transculturality
transculturally
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: ylikulttuurinen
yak
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan གཡག (g.yag). See there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: yak
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yaks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: yakking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: yakked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: yakked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: yack
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An ox-like mammal native to the Himalayas, Mongolia, Myanmar, and Tibet with dark, long, and silky hair, a horse-like tail, and a full, bushy mane.
pos: noun
examples: Utilization efficiency of dietary protein in the yak differs with diet composition and feeding level, age, sex, body condition score, and animal production level (e.g., growth, lactation). Researchers reported no difference between lactating and dry cows in crude protein digestibility, although lactating yak tend to consume more feed than dry yak.
Attempts are now being made, by selection, to create a new breed of yak (the Datong yak) from such crosses. Hybridization of domestic yak with local cattle, at intermediate elevations, has been practiced for generations. The hybrids inherit some of the good characteristics from each species, but lack the adaptation of the yak to the harsh conditions at higher elevations.
gloss: To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: “You'll like Poppet. Nice dog. Wears his ears inside out. Why do dachshunds wear their ears inside out?” “I could not say, sir.” “Nor me. I've often wondered. But this won't do, Jeeves. Here we are, yakking about Jezebels and dachshunds, when we ought to be concentrating our minds […]
And in the last few days Clair's boundless capacity to yak about herself while Melissa listened had turned Chip against her, too.
gloss: To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: She'll feel better when she yaks.
Translations:
lama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma)bor.
English lama
Borrowed from Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
Inflected forms:
form: lamas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A master of Tibetan Buddhism.
pos: noun
Translations:
llama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish llama, from Quechua llama.
Inflected forms:
form: llamas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A South American mammal of the camel family, Lama glama, used as a domestic beast of burden and a source of wool and meat.
pos: noun
gloss: A firearm, especially a handgun.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: berserk llama syndrome
cama
drama llama
lamoid
llamacide
llamalike
llamanaco
llamoid
Translations:
guanaco
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guanaco, from Quechua wanaku.
Inflected forms:
form: guanacos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guanacoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A South American ruminant (Lama guanicoe), closely related to the other lamoids, the alpaca, llama, and vicuña in the family Camelidae.
pos: noun
Translations: