yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
midweek
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From mid- + week. Compare Saterland Frisian Midwiek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Low German Middeweek (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”), German Mittwoch (“Wednesday”, literally “midweek”).
Base: week
Affixes: mid-
Inflected forms:
form: midweeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The middle of the week.
pos: noun
examples: In midweek, however, the stretch is reasonably quiet and I can conceal myself behind a clump of rushes and cast a big piece of luncheon meat on a link-leger rig right in the deep hole and let the current roll it under the roof.
Carol, who is responsible for two coaches, says the sleeping accommodation is virtually full - surprising for midweek in mid-April. The Train Manager confirms that the train is well-loaded overall, noting that people view the train as a tourist attraction in its own right.
gloss: Midweek worship service, held by many congregations and in addition to a Sunday morning service.
pos: noun
tags: Jehovah's-Witnesses
informal
examples: This Wednesday is churchwide midweek; men's is the next one.
gloss: That happens in the middle of the week.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Cheap mid-week return tickets were reintroduced by British Railways on May 7, to encourage holiday travel during the week rather than at weekends.
I did not really wonder, after sampling the "Settebello's" standards of comfort and service, that even on a midweek day in autumn there was not a seat to spare, despite the cost.
Peter Dods was captain in the midweek games but, like Sole, the Gala fullback has also hung up his boots.
gloss: In the middle of the week.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Leicester could only manage a goalless draw midweek with Sutton Coldfield and will be keen to return to winning form.
Translations:
mignonette
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mignonnette, from mignon (“dainty”) + -ette (diminutive suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: more mignonette
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mignonette
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mignonnette
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of a greyish-green colour, like that of the flowers of the plant.
pos: adj
examples: She wore a dishabille of mignonette-green silk and bead-diapered head-dress that added several inches to her height […].
Translations:
migrant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French migrantbor.
English migrant
Borrowed from French migrant.
Inflected forms:
form: migrants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more migrant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most migrant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
pos: noun
examples: Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns."
gloss: Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.
“But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilities in some other place.”
gloss: Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.
pos: noun
gloss: Migratory.
pos: adj
Related words: migrate
migration
Translations:
mime
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from Middle English *mime, from Old English mīma (“a buffoon, jester, mime”), from Latin mimus, from Ancient Greek μῖμος (mîmos, “imitator, actor”), but more likely re-borrowed in modern times from French mime (“mimic actor”), from the same source.
Inflected forms:
form: mimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mimes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: miming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mimed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A form of acting without words; pantomime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [Silence] demands returning to the self, to innocence and a portrayal of situations as if all the particulars were completely unknown to the viewer. There are no props but the muscular versatility of the human form. Mime is the one thing that truly proves we can be all things.
gloss: A pantomime actor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A classical theatrical entertainment in the form of farce.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The mimes were packed with lascivious gestures and movements, and usually presented erotic scenes, on occasion farcically treated.
gloss: A performer of such a farce.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A person who mimics others in a comical manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of various papilionid butterflies of the genus Chilasa or Papilio, that mimic other species in appearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A unit of imitation in the theory of symbiosism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To mimic.
pos: verb
gloss: To act without words.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound.
pos: verb
examples: In this game, you're given a word, which you have to mime to the others in the group.
Related words: pantomime
lip-synch
Derived words: meme
mimable
mimelike
mime out
mimester
mimographer
phenomime
phonomime
psychomime
Translations:
mindful
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English myndeful, myndefull, from Old English ġemyndful (“of good memory”), equivalent to mind + -ful.
Base: mind
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more mindful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mindful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mindefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mindfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mindfuls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mindefull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mindfull
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: aware (of something); attentive, heedful.
pos: adj
examples: Alex McLeish, perhaps mindful of the flak he has been taking from sections of the Villa support for a perceived negative style of play, handed starts to wingers Charles N'Zogbia and Albrighton.
gloss: Of or pertaining to mindfulness; sustaining meta-attention of the contents of one's own mind in the present moment.
pos: adj
examples: I think being mindful may help you to appreciate life more.
gloss: Inclined (to do something).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: These noble warriors, mindefull to pursew / The last daies purpose of their vowed fight, / Them selves thereto preparde in order dew […].
gloss: As much as can be held in one's mind at a time.
pos: noun
examples: A work of art may exceed a 'mindful' – whatever it is that can be accommodated within a mind at a given time – and may have to be regarded as a series of mindfuls.
So, whereas mouthfuls and servings are the units of fullness, mindfuls and savorings are the units of mind-fullness.
A sketch can hold several mindfuls, allowing designers to see far more than they can imagine, allowing designers to integrate mindfuls.
Derived words: mindfully
mindfulness
unmindful
Translations:
minuet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From French menuet, from menu (“small”) + -et (“diminutive”), from Latin minutus (“very small”).
Inflected forms:
form: minuets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minuets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: minueting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: minueted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: minueted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupé, a high step, and a balance.
pos: noun
gloss: A tune or air to regulate the movements of the minuet dance: it has the dance form, and is commonly in 3/4, sometimes 3/8, measure.
pos: noun
gloss: A complete short musical composition inspired by and conforming to many formal characteristics of the traditional musical accompaniment to the dance of same name.
pos: noun
gloss: A movement which is part of a longer musical composition such as a suite, sonata, or symphony which is inspired by and conforming to formal characteristics of the dance of same name.
pos: noun
gloss: To dance a minuet.
pos: verb
examples: After he had raved his time upon the stage, the ladies and knights again minueted for an hour, and again gave place.
Within the same circle with the pigeons, were beautiful albatrosses, poising and minueting with them in the most pleasing fellowship.
This set the pattern for four years, as the two monarchs minueted around the vast Commonwealth, never again to face each other personally in battle.
Derived words: minuetic
minuetish
minuetlike
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: менует
roman: menuet
lang: Catalan
word: minuet
lang: Czech
word: menuet
lang: Dutch
word: menuet
lang: Finnish
word: menuetti
lang: French
word: menuet
lang: German
word: Menuett
lang: Greek
word: μενουέτο
roman: menouéto
lang: Hungarian
word: menüett
lang: Icelandic
word: menúett
lang: Italian
word: minuetto
lang: Japanese
word: メヌエット
roman: menuetto
lang: Macedonian
word: менуе́т
roman: menuét
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: menuett
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: menuett
lang: Polish
word: menuet
lang: Portuguese
word: minueto
lang: Romanian
word: menuet
lang: Russian
word: менуэ́т
roman: menuét
lang: Spanish
word: minueto
lang: Spanish
word: minué
lang: Swedish
word: menuett
lang: Tagalog
word: minwe
lang: Catalan
word: minuet
lang: Chinese
word: 小步舞曲
roman: xiǎobùwǔqǔ
lang: Czech
word: menuet
lang: Dutch
word: menuet
lang: Finnish
word: menuetti
lang: French
word: menuet
lang: German
word: Menuett
lang: Greek
word: μενουέτο
roman: menouéto
lang: Hungarian
word: menüett
lang: Icelandic
word: menúett
lang: Japanese
word: メヌエット
roman: menuetto
lang: Macedonian
word: менуе́т
roman: menuét
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: menuett
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: menuett
lang: Polish
word: menuet
lang: Portuguese
word: minueto
lang: Romanian
word: menuet
lang: Russian
word: менуэт
roman: menuet
lang: Spanish
word: minueto
lang: Spanish
word: minué
lang: Swedish
word: menuett
lang: Tagalog
word: minwe
miserly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From miser + -ly, attested from the 1540s.
Base: miser
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more miserly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most miserly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a miser, very or objectionably cautious with money.
pos: adj
examples: miserly habits
miserly offer
He had a miserly attitude toward spending money.
They lived under miserly conditions despite their wealth.
It's something that worries me about the book I'm doing about him... In some ways he's just like the racist caricature of the miserly old Jew.
What could be more selfish, more miserly—this in specific is what gnaws at him—than dying childless, terminating the line, subtracting oneself from the great work of generation? Worse than miserly, in fact: unnatural.
Translations:
misery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English miserie, from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser, equivalent to miser + -y. Doublet of misère and mizeria.
Base: miser
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: miseries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Ever since his wife left him you can see the misery on his face.
For miſerie doth braueſt mindes abate, / And make them ſeeke for that they wont to ſcorne, / Of fortune and of hope at once forlorne.
It was not just the confusion that unhappiness brings, it was not just the loneliness, it was the despair that accompanies all those emotions that turns unhappiness into utter misery.
Then, in January, a creeping tsunami of train cancellations, triggered by major staff absences as a result of the aggressive transmissibility of Omicron, heaped further misery on rail users.
gloss: A bodily ache or pain.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
countable
dialectal
uncountable
examples: [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.
gloss: Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: poverty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Widdow that hath but a pan of braſſe, […]
Muſt pay her Landlord many a groat,
Or twil be puld out of her throat: […]
The rich haue all, the poore liue in miſerie: […]
gloss: greed; avarice.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
Related words: commiserate
miser
miserable
Derived words: Fat Man's Misery
long streak of misery
Misery
misery enjoys company
misery guts
miseryguts
misery index
misery lit
misery loves company
misery porn
misery whip
mountain misery
put someone out of their misery
Translations:
mismatch
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From mis- + match (verb sense).
Base: match
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: mismatches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mismatching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mismatched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mismatched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mismatches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To match unsuitably; to fail to match
pos: verb
gloss: Something that does not match; something dissimilar, inappropriate or unsuitable.
pos: noun
examples: After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.
Translations:
misshapen
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mysshapen, misse shapen, mysshape, mysshap; equivalent to mis- + shapen.
Base: shapen
Affixes: mis-
Inflected forms:
form: more misshapen
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most misshapen
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mis-shapen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mishapen
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: misshapens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misshapening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misshapened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misshapened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mis-shapen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: mishapen
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bad, ugly or awkward shape; deformed; malformed; ill-shapen.
pos: adj
gloss: Morally or intellectually warped.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
figuratively
gloss: Synonym of misshape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If the feet are well shaped but have some weakness, they will ultimately give way under the strain of use and lose their natural shape, often becoming distorted. This, of coarse, results in the distortion of the shoe. Few persons realize to what extent shoes are misshapened by defective feet.
Skin the fish before cooking since the skin shrinks as it cooks and misshapens the fillets.
Large barrel sponges are misshapened by the strong currents
Synonyms: deform
deformed
disfigured
distorted
malformed
misproportioned
misshapen
shapeless
unfashionable
Antonyms: amorphous
shapely
Derived words: misshapenly
misshapenness
Translations:
mite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mite, from Old English mīte (“mite, tiny insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *mītā, from Proto-Germanic *mītǭ (“biting insect”, literally “cutter”), from *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“small”) or *meh₂y- (“to cut”). Akin to Old High German mīza (“mite”), Middle Dutch mīte (“moth, mite”), Dutch mijt (“moth, mite”), Danish mide (“mite”).
Inflected forms:
form: mites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many minute arachnids which, along with the ticks, comprise subclass Acari (syn. Acarina).
pos: noun
gloss: A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
pos: noun
examples: One mite wrung from the lab'rer's hands
Shall buy and sell the miser's lands;
gloss: A lepton, a small coin used in Judea in the time of Christ.
pos: noun
gloss: A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
pos: noun
gloss: Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
pos: noun
tags: adverbial
sometimes
examples: a mite
It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing — and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite — that is all he did.
"Well," I says, "I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough." She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
"Silas, now," Esther Whitley had said, "would be a good one for you, Hannah. He's a mite on the old side, but he's steady, an' he's been wed before. He knows the ways of a woman better'n some."
Those trousers are a mite too big, but you'll soon grow into them.
gloss: A small or naughty person, or one people take pity on; rascal.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
often
examples: Today's children at Christmas-time take a cast-off toy to the Toy Service held in many churches, and it is a pretty sight to watch those tiny mites clutching their toys and parting from them.j
“Tom told me that, but twasn't your fault, the little mite just couldn't wait to be born that's all.” A small smile played on Leah's lips.
Derived words: air-sac mite
a mite
bee mite
beetle mite
bird mite
blackberry mite
book mite
broad mite
carpet mite
cat fur mite
cheese mite
chicken mite
clover mite
common house mite
concrete mite
dog fur mite
dust mite
ear mite
eyelash mite
feather mite
flour mite
follicle mite
fruit mite
furniture mite
gall mite
harvest mite
house dust mite
house mouse mite
itch mite
midshipmite
mightsome
mite box
mite cheese
miteproof
mitey
miticide
miting
mity
moss mite
oral mite anaphylaxis
peacock mite
prune mite
quill mite
rabbit ear mite
rabbit fur mite
red mite
red velvet mite
rice sheath mite
rust mite
spider mite
spiny rat mite
stock mite
storage mite
sugar mite
trombiculid mite
tropical rat mite
water mite
wheat mite
widow's mite
Willamette mite
Willamette spider mite
wing mite
wood mite
Translations:
molly
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Molly, the personal name, a pet form of Mary. In some cases it is possibly derived from mollitia (“softness, weakness”). Drug sense probably influenced by the initial of MDMA.
Inflected forms:
form: mollies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mollies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mollying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mollied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mollied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A woman or girl, especially of low status or prostitute.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
countable
uncountable
gloss: a male homosexual, especially an effeminate one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: Pure MDMA powder.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: So la-da-di-da-di, we like to party / Dancing with Molly / Doing whatever we want
Well…you want to do these together then? Pure Molly…
Was pissed now. But also hyper-lit, euphoric almost, given the adrenaline plus molly.
gloss: A mollemoke.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: So the petrels called to the mollys: but they were so busy and greedy, gobbling and pecking and spluttering and fighting over the blubber, that they did not take the least notice.
gloss: A female cat, a she-cat (usually spayed)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A bird, the wagtail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A molly bolt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To engage in (male) homosexual activity with.
pos: verb
examples: I said, "I never mollied you." My Lord, I never laid Hands upon him, nor touch'd him.
On one occasion, Partridge was nearly mobbed in a molly-house when some men called him a 'treacherous, blowing-up, mollying bitch, and swore they'd massacre anybody that should betray them.'
It is a case of the biter bit, or the molly-taker mollied, but it is also an interesting example of the ways in which the criminal underworld and sexual underworld met in eighteenth-century London
Derived words: sailfin molly
hairy molly
mollycoddle
mollydooker
molly-dooker
mollyduker
molly-guard
molly-handed
molly house
mollynogging
Translations:
morass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), an alteration (with influence from Dutch moer (“moor”)) of a direct descendant of Middle Dutch marasch (“marsh”). The Middle Dutch word is a borrowing from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh, and linked in part to moor. Compare quagmire.
Inflected forms:
form: morasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
pos: noun
examples: Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.
gloss: Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I wrote to Sacramento about that historical marker, and they've been kicking it around their bureaucratic morass for months.
Derived words: morass-ore
morass-weed
morassy
Translations:
moreover
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English moreover, moreovere, morover, mooreover, more-overe, mare over, equivalent to more + over.
Compound parts: more
over
Inflected forms:
form: moreo'er
pos: adv
tags: alternative
poetic
Senses:
gloss: In addition to what has been said.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: For three years there had been pestilence, and in the last of the three a famine; moreover, there was imminence of war.
The characteristics ‘terrestrial’ and ‘two-footed’ are predicated of the species ‘man’, but not present in it. For they are not in man. Moreover, the definition of the differentia may be predicated of that of which the differentia itself is predicated.
A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moreover, in a word—‘Everything’—and everyone will accept this answer as true.
Translations:
mortgagee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mortgage
English -ee
English mortgagee
From mortgage + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: mortgagees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who provides a loan secured upon the borrowers' property: the lender in a mortgage agreement.
pos: noun
Translations:
motive
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman motifder.
Middle French motifder.
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Late Latin moveō
Late Latin mōtus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Late Latin -īvus
Late Latin mōtīvumder.
Middle English motif
English motive
From Middle English motif, from Anglo-Norman motif, Middle French motif, and their source, Late Latin motivum (“motive, moving cause”), neuter of motivus.
Inflected forms:
form: motives
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: motiving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: motived
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: motived
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a motive argument
motive power
In the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions; not only in those of Quadrupeds, but in the thigh-bone, legge, foot-bone, and claws of Birds.
gloss: Relating to motion and/or to its cause
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Debussy's melody is fractional, fragmentary. But at the core all his music is melodic and melody is its main motive force.
Derived words: automotive
cytomotive
electromotive
magnetomotive
motiveness
motivity
nonmotive
pedomotive
protonmotive
vasomotive
Translations:
mound
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
sciences
sports
Etymology: From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“guardian”)), Icelandic and Old Norse mund (“hand”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.
Inflected forms:
form: mounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mounded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
pos: noun
gloss: A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
pos: noun
gloss: Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
pos: noun
examples: The pitcher was waiting at the mound.
gloss: A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
pos: noun
gloss: The mons veneris.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
vulgar
gloss: A hand.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
obsolete
gloss: A protection; restraint; curb.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A helmet.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Might; size.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A large amount of something.
pos: noun
examples: a mound of mashed potato
gloss: To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.
gloss: To form a mound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When a wave mounds on the outside and takes its shape, a surfer quickly paddles to the peak, positions himself in its evolving momentum, swings his board around, aligns with the peak, and thrusts himself into its cascading shape.
Synonyms: pile
Related words: Mound in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Derived words: Allegheny mound ant
ant mound
burial mound
cathedral mound
charge the mound
charging the mound
earthen mound
fairy mound
Flower Mound
gravemound
intermound
love mound
Mima mound
mound ant
mound bird
moundbird
mound builder
mound-builder
moundbuilding
Mound City
moundlet
moundlike
mound royal
moundsman
Moundsville
moundy
pitcher's mound
Pleasant Mound
pubic mound
Richmond
shaftment
shaftmound
termite mound
Venus mound
Wagon Mound
Western Mound
amound
remound
unmounded
Translations:
multifarious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin multifārius.
Inflected forms:
form: more multifarious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most multifarious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; made up of many differing parts.
pos: adj
examples: Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than […] the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, […]
Now, it is our regretful task to record his death on November 19 after a brief illness, and to include in a short article on page 29 some notes on his multifarious activities.
It is divided into parts that are too small and multifarious.
gloss: In which a party or a cause of action has been improperly or wrongfully joined together in the same suit, as in a misjoinder, perhaps as a result of a joinder of unrelated, distinct, independent parties or matters.
pos: adj
Derived words: multifariously
multifariousness
Translations:
munificent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from munificence, from Latin mūnificentia.
Inflected forms:
form: more munificent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most munificent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very liberal in giving or bestowing.
pos: adj
examples: Munificent as he was in his own disposition in the conferring of favours, his acceptance, under the circumstances we have described, of the fortune bestowed by Robert, he found upon reasoning with himself to be perfectly consistent with the most scrupulous principles of uprightness and probity:[…]
Tellson's Bank […] was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.
[M]ilk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S.
An exceptionally munificent benefactor of several institutions, he has given $100 million each to MIT and Harvard.
gloss: Very generous; lavish.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built.
It was all very well for this casual youth to make her a present of a half million acres of land in this debonair way, but she could not persuade herself to accept so munificent a gift.
The machinists finally agreed to a munificent increase averaging 5.7% a year for three years.
Synonyms: bounteous
generous
liberal
Related words: municipal
municipality
munificence
remunerate
remuneration
Derived words: munificently
unmunificent
Translations:
triceps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin triceps (“triple-headed”), from trēs (“three”) + caput (“head”). See there for more details.
Inflected forms:
form: triceps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tricepses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any muscle having three heads.
pos: noun
gloss: Specifically, the triceps brachii.
pos: noun
examples: Kickbacks work the triceps muscle at the back of your arm. Exercising these muscles helps eliminate arm jiggle.
Related words: biceps
tricep
quadriceps
Derived words: scapulotriceps
side triceps
triceps surae
Translations:
mutter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English muteren, moteren, of imitative origin.
Compare Low German mustern, musseln (“to whisper”), German muttern (“to mutter; whisper”), Old Norse muðla (“to murmur”). Compare also Latin muttīre, mutīre.
Inflected forms:
form: mutters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mutters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: muttering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: muttered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: muttered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A repressed or obscure utterance; an instance of muttering.
pos: noun
examples: The prisoners were docile, and accepted their lot with barely a mutter.
gloss: To utter words, especially complaints or angry expressions, indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; to say under one's breath.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: You could hear the students mutter as they were served sodden spaghetti, yet again, in the cafeteria.
The beggar muttered words of thanks, as passersby dropped coins in his cup.
This set – the set of Rosol's life – was studded with aces and menacing ground-strokes that left Nadal an impotent spectator often muttering to himself and at the umpire regarding a perceived misdemeanour by his opponent.
gloss: To speak softly and incoherently, or with imperfect articulations.
pos: verb
examples: The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.
Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, / And mutter to himself.
gloss: To make a sound with a low, rumbling noise.
pos: verb
examples: April could hear the delivery van's engine muttering in the driveway.
Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.
Synonyms: fumfer
mutter
mouth
Derived words: amutter
mutterance
mutteration
mutterer
mutteringly
muttersome
muttery
unmuttered
Translations:
myrmidon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Myrmidon, from Latin Myrmidones, from Ancient Greek Μυρμιδόνες (Murmidónes).
Inflected forms:
form: myrmidons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes orders of a superior without protest or pity (sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc).
pos: noun
examples: Antonia bustled round the ransack'd room, / And, turning up her nose, with looks abused / Her master, and his myrmidons, of whom / Not one, except the attorney, was amused; […]
Tobias (to Jonas Fogg, manager of a madhouse): "I will die ere I submit to you or your vile myrmidons."
When the day came round for my return to the scene of the deed of violence, my terrors reached their height. Whether myrmidons of Justice, especially sent down from London, would be lying in ambush behind the gate; […]
He cared no more for the Devil and all his myrmidons, for he kenned brawly he was damned.
My heart wells up in admiration of the man, as I think of his participation in the memorable struggle of Homestead. He fought the Pinkertons, the myrmidons of Capital.
[…]headed for a revelation to the District Attorney that would probably result in my having the pleasure of meeting H. R. Corbett or some other flatfooted myrmidon[…]
Translations:
nacre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French nacre, from Medieval Latin nacchara, ultimately derived from Arabic نَقَّارَة (naqqāra). Doublet of nagara, nagada, and naqareh. Also present in nacarat.
Inflected forms:
form: nacres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: naker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nacker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nakir
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: nackir
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A shellfish which contains mother-of-pearl.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The shell-fish called a Nacre, liveth even so with the Pinnotere, which is a little creature like unto a Crabfish[…].
gloss: A pearly substance made mainly of stacked layers of aragonite and organic matter which lines the interior of many shells; mother-of-pearl.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: On a little table of dark perfumed wood thickly encrusted with nacre, […]was lying a note from Lord Henry, and beside it was a book bound in yellow paper, the cover slightly torn and the edges soiled.
Derived words: nacred
nacrein
nacreous
nacrite
nacrous
nacry
Translations:
nag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nagg, nage, nagge (“horse, small riding horse, pony”), cognate with Dutch negge, neg (“horse”), German Nickel (“small horse”). Perhaps related to English neigh.
Inflected forms:
form: nags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small horse; a pony.
pos: noun
gloss: An old, useless horse.
pos: noun
examples: We used to lure the nags into the back of our truck with oats and sugar, then we'd drive back to town to this warehouse and inject the nags with small quantities of morphine I'd stolen.
gloss: A paramour.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
obsolete
examples: Yon ribaudred nag of Egypt – Whom leprosy o'ertake!
gloss: To repeatedly remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The room is never cleaned, so her mother nags and nags until she explodes with frustration and threatens to sell her to the lowest bidder.
Anyone would think that I nagged at you, Amanda! (From Amanda! by Robin Klein)
gloss: To bother with persistent thoughts or memories.
pos: verb
examples: The notion that he forgot something nagged him the rest of the day.
I guess it happens all the time in crime stories where the detective suddenly remembers a bit of conversation that nags him in some way, then for some inexplicable reason, it's just right there in front of you, like a sign pointing 'here!
Sometimes I write because there is a question that nags at me, sometimes because there is a question that nags at other people.
You are sleeping on your side in the bed in your flat, heavily embroiled in a dream which sucks and nags at you and makes no sense; an old primary school teacher is there and a cat you have to take to a supermarket; you are in a canoe.
gloss: To bother or disturb persistently in any way.
pos: verb
examples: But at night, around the uncertain edge of dreams, and when the wind nags, there are few whom an odd sound will not thrill
When a breeze comes up and nags the surface, it sparkles like a gemstone.
We are well accustomed as we look out upon Nature at close range to see great creatures harrassed^([sic]) by little creatures. The lot of each big one seems to be in the keeping of some little one, which never quits it, nags it, stings it, wears it out, drives it desperate, makes life somewhat a burden to it and death somewhat a relief.
a nagging pain in his left knee
a nagging north wind
Related words: gnaw
Derived words: padnag
shanks' nag
nagavator
naggable
naggee
nagger
naggingly
naggingness
naggish
naggy
nag screen
nagsome
nagster
nagware
unnagged
unnagging
Translations:
nailer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English nayler; equivalent to nail + -er.
Base: nail
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: nailers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One whose occupation is to make nails; a nail maker.
pos: noun
gloss: One who fastens with, or drives, nails.
pos: noun
gloss: A nailgun.
pos: noun
gloss: A piece of dimensional lumber and/or plywood secured to the deck or wall which provides a receiving medium for the fasteners. (Sometimes referred to as blocking.)
pos: noun
Derived words: naileress
work like a nailer
Translations:
namer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥
Proto-Germanic *namô
Proto-West Germanic *namō
Old English nama
Middle English name
English name
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 namer
From name + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: namers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who names, or calls by name.
pos: noun
examples: "Tony, I'm the executive director of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Strategic Homeland Intelligence, Enforcement, and Logistics Division," explained Fury.
Tony nodded. […] "Want a tip? Fire your namer of things, because that's a mouthful."
It was that veteran namer of geological periods Charles Lyell who coined the term Pleistocene.
Translations:
nativist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English native
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English nativist
From native + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: nativists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more nativist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nativist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An advocate of nativism.
pos: noun
examples: The growers’ rebellion against E-Verify, and Mr. Smith’s contortions to buy them off, is further proof that the country cannot live without immigrant labor—no matter what the nativists may claim.
In short, mainstream parties no longer offer an element that every successful political project requires: a promise of a better world. But nativists still offer it. They solve the problem of climate change by pretending it doesn't exist.
gloss: Related to nativism.
pos: adj
examples: When you add the unprecedented engagement of growing numbers of Latino voters in 2008, it becomes clear that the nativist path is the path to permanent political irrelevance. Unless you can find a way to get rid of all the Latinos.
“I would describe it as isolationist, protectionist and, to a certain extent, nativist,” Mr. Bush said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show that aired on Tuesday, promoting his new book of paintings and essays honoring immigrants in America.
Alchemizing media power into political influence, Mr. Carlson stands in a nativist American tradition that runs from Father Coughlin to Patrick J. Buchanan.
Most Britons and most elected officials have recoiled at the anti-immigrant violence, indicating that for now, it has hurt the nativist cause more than helped it.
Translations:
neat
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nete, net, nette, from Anglo-Norman neit (“good, desirable, clean”), a variant of Old French net, nette (“clean, clear, pure”), from Latin nitidus (“gleaming”), derived from nitēre (“to shine”). Doublet of net and nitid. Cognate with German nett (“nice, kind”). Compare also nait.
Inflected forms:
form: neats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used to signify a job well done.
pos: intj
gloss: Used to signify approval.
pos: intj
gloss: An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that solutions should be elegant, clear and provably correct. Compare scruffy.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
necessity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English necessite, from Old French necessite, from Latin necessitās (“unavoidableness, compulsion, exigency, necessity”), from necesse (“unavoidable, inevitable”); see necessary. Doublet of Necessitas.
Inflected forms:
form: necessities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I bought a new table out of necessity. My old one was ruined.
Educating the public about some of the myths that underlie their fears that non-traditional families will of necessity be detrimental to the well-being of foster children.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. […] But the scandals kept coming, […]. A broad section of the political class now recognises the need for change but remains unable to see the necessity of a fundamental overhaul.
gloss: The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For it is in vain for a man to think to seek God in his necessity and exigence, if he seek not God in his ordinances, and do not joy in them.
gloss: Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A tent is a necessity if you plan on camping.
Look for the bare necessities / The simple bare necessities / Forget about your worries and your strife
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
gloss: Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After eating a full meal, the human body's necessity for food will compel the person to eat again in the future.
I stopped, and said with inly muttered voice,
'It doth not love the shower, nor seek the cold:
This neither is its courage nor its choice,
But its necessity in being old.
gloss: The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: doctrine of necessity
gloss: Indispensable requirements (of life).
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
uncountable
Antonyms: impossibility
contingency
luxury
Related words: necessariness
necessary
necessitate
necessitation
necessitative
necessitousness
necessitude
Derived words: bare necessities
daily necessities
doctrine of necessity
doctrine of philosophical necessity
make a virtue of necessity
money of necessity
necessitarian
necessitied
necessitous
necessity is the mother of innovation
necessity is the mother of invention
necessity knows no law
necessity money
needcessity
nonnecessity
unnecessity
work of necessity
Translations:
nightfall
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From night + fall. Cf. dewfall.
Compound parts: night
fall
Inflected forms:
form: nightfalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: night-fall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The close of the day; the coming of night.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: at nightfall
gloss: Nocturnal emission.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: darkfall
smokefall
Derived words: night-falling
Translations: