yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
loophole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English loupe (“opening in a wall”) + hole, from a Germanic source. By surface analysis, loop + hole. Compare Medieval Latin loupa, lobia and Middle Dutch lupen (“to watch”).
Base: loupe
Inflected forms:
form: loopholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loop hole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: loopholes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loopholing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loopholed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loopholed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: loop hole
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting in light.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: […] and having a fair loophole, as it were, from a broken hole in the tree, he took a sure aim, without being seen, waiting till they were within about thirty yards of the tree, so that he could not miss.
There was a loophole in this wall, to let the light in, just at the height of a person's head, who was sitting near the chimney.
The sun had shifted round, and the myriad windows of the Ministry of Truth, with the light no longer shining on them, looked grim as the loopholes of a fortress.
gloss: A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Coupling the poor girl's intelligence with my previous knowledge, and the result of our good friend's inquiries on the spot, I left him no loophole of escape, and laid bare the whole villany which by these lights became plain as day.
You have a contract that says you will work until Island Towers is finalized, which I interpret as completion of construction, or I can stop you working elsewhere. And there's no loopholes, because you drafted it and you're the best.
Behind the scenes, the system had quietly punched a neat loophole into the ballyhooed reform.
They would rather ask more from the vast majority of Americans and put our recovery at risk than close even a single tax loophole that benefits the wealthy.
gloss: To prepare a building for defense by preparing slits or holes through which to fire on attackers
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lower windows were barricaded, and the whole building loopholed for musketry fire.
The doors were barricaded, the shutters closed upon the windows and loopholed, and provisions were brought in from the outhouses.
The Germans were loopholing it for defence.
gloss: To exploit (a law, etc.) by means of loopholes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Abroad they had developed loopholing the law into an art; in Israel they jettisoned loopholing for ignoring the law wherever possible. Obeying laws was for naive fools.
De-moralizing the subject can be, quite simply, demoralizing, as stirring statements of ideals turn into persnickety rules with exceptions crying out to be loopholed.
Related words: legal vacuum
Derived words: boyfriend loophole
every law has a loophole
every law has its loophole
lo mein loophole
poophole loophole
Translations:
tare
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
law
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English tare (“vetch”), from Old English *taru, from Proto-West Germanic *taru.
Inflected forms:
form: tares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A vetch, or the seed of a vetch (genus Vicia, esp. Vicia sativa)
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: Any of the tufted grasses of genus Lolium; darnel.
pos: noun
gloss: A damaging weed growing in fields of grain.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
rare
examples: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
I saw as I thought an uncle and guardian who has led a sober, industrious and Christian life and finds himself obliged to look on the tares of folly in his own close kin.
gloss: To take into account the weight of the container, wrapping etc. in weighting merchandise.
pos: verb
examples: he is […] to tare such number of bales as may be deemed necessary to settle the net weight for duty.
Without question, I think, the exploit of "Jubilee" No. 45737 Atlas [...] was the finest [...], for the train was made up to eleven bogies taring the maximum of 350 tons for an engine of this class, notwithstanding which 7 min. was gained on schedule.
gloss: To set a zero value on an instrument (usually a balance) that discounts the starting point.
pos: verb
examples: 2003, Dany Spencer Adams, Lab Math, CSHL Press, p. 63,
Spectrometers, for example, must be zeroed before each reading; balances must be tared before each weighing.
Derived words: slender tare
hairy tare
smooth tare
overtare
Translations:
ham
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: acting
anatomy
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
medicine
sciences
television
theater
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English hamme, from Old English hamm (“inner or hind part of the knee, ham”), from Proto-West Germanic *hammu, from Proto-Germanic *hamō, *hammō, *hanmō, from Proto-Indo-European *kónh₂m (“leg”).
Cognate with Dutch ham (“ham”), dialectal German Hamme (“hind part of the knee, ham”), dialectal Swedish ham (“the hind part of the knee”), Icelandic höm (“the ham or haunch of a horse”), Old Irish cnáim (“bone”), Ancient Greek κνήμη (knḗmē, “shinbone”). Compare gammon and gam.
Inflected forms:
form: hams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hamming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hammed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "I'll have you so your hams will stand out like horse's shanks!" de declared.
gloss: Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a little piece of ham for the cat
She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil.
gloss: The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
countable
informal
uncommon
uncountable
gloss: To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
pos: verb
examples: Near-synonym: camp it up
Derived words: Admiralty ham
Bayonne ham
Black Forest ham
burger
butter-ham
chipped chopped ham
chipped ham
Christmas ham
country ham
deviled ham
devilled ham
dressmaker's ham
Gourock ham
ham and beef shop
ham-and-egger
ham and eggs
ham-and-eggs daisy
ham barbecue
hambeast
hambone
ham chin peng
ham e-mail
hamfat
ham-fistedly
ham-handed
ham-handedly
ham-handedness
ham hands
ham hock
hamily
hamlike
hammie
hammy
hamplanet
ham salad
ham sandwich
ham-sandwich
ham sandwich theorem
hamshackle
ham shank
ham steak
hamstring
ham up
hamwich
Jinhua ham
Limerick ham
mutton ham
Parma ham
pressed ham
Smithfield ham
Spam
Spanish ham
stuffed ham
tailor's ham
Taylor ham
turkey ham
Westphalian ham
York ham
ham-fisted
Translations:
jag
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is from late Middle English jagge, from Old English giagga, giacga. The ultimate origin could be sound-symbolic of sudden movement, compare with jam, rag and Middle English dag, of which jag may be a palatalised variant.
The verb is from jaggen, from Old English giacgian.
Inflected forms:
form: jags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jagged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cut unevenly.
pos: verb
examples: On the Friday […] we had been playing tennis and in some way Geoffrey jagged a finger nail so that it kept catching in his things whenever he touched it.
gloss: To pierce with a sharp object.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Pennsylvania
Scotland
Western
gloss: To tease.
pos: verb
tags: Pennsylvania
Western
Derived words: jag off
Translations:
jaguar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese jaguar, from Old Tupi îagûara.
Inflected forms:
form: jaguars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A carnivorous spotted large cat native to South and Central America, Panthera onca.
pos: noun
Translations:
tres
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tres (“three”). Doublet of three and trey.
Inflected forms:
form: treses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A three-course stringed instrument similar to a guitar; the Cuban variant has six strings, and the Puerto Rican has nine.
pos: noun
Translations:
octo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Clipping of octopus
Inflected forms:
form: octos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An octopus (safety device).
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
uno
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁óynos
Learned borrowing from Spanish uno m (“one”, numeral).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A term said when the number of cards in player’s hand is reduced to one. If another player says this before the one whose hand contains only one card, the player who failed to say 'uno' must draw two cards.
pos: intj
Translations:
cinque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
dice
dominoes
games
Etymology: PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English cynk, from Middle French cinq, from Latin cīnque, variant of quīnque. The archaic spelling cinq is taken from modern French cinq, whereas the standard spelling is perhaps influenced by Italian cinque or a misspelling of the French. The variant pronunciation /sæŋk/ is based on Modern French. Doublet of fin (“five currency units”), finnuf, five, pimp (“five”), ponzu, punch (“beverage”), and sengi (“currency”); related to Pompeii.
Inflected forms:
form: cinques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cinq
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: sinque
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sink
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: sank
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A card, die, or domino with five spots or pips.
pos: noun
examples: Accordingly the firſt beſt throw upon the dice is eſteemed aces, as it ſtops the ſix point in the outer table, and ſecures the cinque in your own, whereby your adverſary's two men upon your ace point cannot get out with either quatre, cinq, or ſix.
The firſt beſt Throw upon the Dice is eſteemed Aces, as it ſtops the Six-Point in the outer Table, and ſecures the Cinque in your own, whereby your Adverſary’s two Men upon your Ace-Point cannot get out with either Quatre, Cinque, or Six.
Translations:
sei
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From sei whale, from Norwegian seihval, seikval, from sei (“pollock”) + hval (“whale”). Doublet of saithe.
Inflected forms:
form: seis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sei whale.
pos: noun
examples: Seis also feed by engulfing small schooling fish.
Translations:
sept
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A corruption of sect, influenced by Latin saeptum (“fence, enclosure”).
Inflected forms:
form: septs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; especially, one of the ancient clans of Ireland.
pos: noun
examples: The chief, struck by the illustration, asked at once to be baptized, and all his sept followed his example.
Never need you fear
for a single thane of your sept or nation,
young warriors or old.
gloss: An enclosure; a railing.
pos: noun
Related words: Sept in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Derived words: septal
septship
subsept
Translations:
huit
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A cry to sled dogs to start moving.
pos: intj
examples: 'Huit, Clara, huit! Come on, Osman! Good dogs — huit!'
I put "Harvey" and "Eccles", the strongest and slowest dogs, on a long trace and fastened them to each side of the sledge to provide extra braking power. With a cry of "Up Dogs! Huit!" my team and I began […]
Translations:
quinze
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French quinze (“fifteen”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An old French card game of Spanish origin, players attempting to make fifteen points.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
EKG
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From German EKG. Initialism of German Elektrokardiogramm.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of ECG (“electrocardiogram”).
pos: noun
Translations:
CD-R
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: CD-Rs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Compact disc - recordable; a form of digital media that is based on the use of a laser to read from and write to a plastic disc. It can only be written to once, although the entire disc does not necessarily have to be written in one session.
pos: noun
Translations:
CD-ROM
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: CD-ROMs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: CD ROM
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: compact disk - read only memory: an optical disc containing data that can be read (but not changed) by a computer
pos: noun
Translations:
FOIL
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Acronym of first outer inner last or similar.
Inflected forms:
form: FOILs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: FOILing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: FOILed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: FOILed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To apply the FOIL algorithm to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
multiplication
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arithmetic
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French, from Old French multiplicacion, from Latin multiplicatio, multiplicationem; ~equivalent to multiplicate + -ion.
Base: multiplicate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: multiplications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of computing the sum of an addition with one and the same number a specified number of times (i.e. 4 times 5 = [0 +] 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 = 20) or any other analogous binary operation that combines other mathematical objects.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A calculation involving multiplication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The process of multiplying or increasing in number; increase.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If the lesser nobility have remained more numerous, it must be attributed partly to the gradual multiplication of letters of nobility, and partly to the state of indigence in which in some provinces vast numbers of the gentry lived, and which left them strangers to those habits of caution by which opulent families are governed.
Synonyms: multiplication
Antonyms: division
Related words: factor
multi-
multiplicand
multiplicative
multiplicity
multiply
product
addition
+ =
multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) =
× = × =
Derived words: Comba multiplication
comultiplication
cross multiplication
cross-multiplication
demultiplication
Karatsuba multiplication
multiplicational
multiplication dance
multiplication sign
multiplication table
nonmultiplication
overmultiplication
photomultiplication
postmultiplication
premultiplication
pseudomultiplication
remultiplication
Russian peasant multiplication
scalar multiplication
Translations:
subtraction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arithmetic
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin subtractio, subtractionis. Can be decomposed to subtract + -ion.
Base: subtract
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: subtractions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: substraction
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The process of subtracting a number from another.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A calculation involving subtracting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The teacher has set us ten subtractions to do by tomorrow.
gloss: The removal of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The subtraction of the wealth from the economy will result in recession.
Related words: subtract
subtractive
addition
+ =
minus sign
− =
Derived words: missubtraction
nonsubtraction
Translations:
sir
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sir, unstressed form of sire, borrowed from Old French sire (“master, sir, lord”), from Latin senior (“older, elder”), from senex (“old”). Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, senior, señor, senyor, signore, and sire.
Inflected forms:
form: sirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
India
form: sirs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sirring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sirred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sirred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: saar
pos: verb
tags: alternative
India
Senses:
gloss: A man of a higher rank or position.
pos: noun
gloss: A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position, particularly
pos: noun
examples: Jeeves: Foreign travel often liberates emotions best kept in check, sir. The air of North America is notoriously stimulating in this regard, as witness the regrettable behavior of its inhabitants in 1776.
B. Wooster: Hm? What happened in 1776, Jeeves?
Jeeves: I prefer not to dwell on it, if it's convenient to you, sir.
gloss: A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position
pos: noun
examples: Just be careful. He gets whingy now if you don't address him as Sir John.
gloss: A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position
pos: noun
examples: Sir, yes sir.
gloss: A respectful term of address to a man of higher rank or position
pos: noun
examples: Here's my report, sir.
gloss: A respectful term of address to an adult male (often older), especially if his name or proper title is unknown.
pos: noun
examples: Excuse me, sir, do you know the way to the art museum?
Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!
gloss: To address another individual using "sir".
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Sir, yes, sir! —Don't you sir me, private! I work for a living!
Don't "Sir" me, young man, you have no idea who you're dealing with!
Related words: senate
senex
senior
sire
Derived words: dear Sir
dear Sir or Madam
dear Sirs
don't call me sir, I work for a living
mamsir
nossuh
siree
siress
Sir Francis Drake Channel
sirji
Sir John Lack-Latin
sirrah
sirree
sir sandwich
surly
yessir
yessuh
Translations:
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 蛇
roman: soe⁴
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 阿蛇
roman: aa³ soe⁴
lang: Dutch
word: meneer
lang: Finnish
word: herra
lang: Galician
word: señor
lang: Hebrew
word: המפקד
roman: hamfakéd
lang: Italian
word: signore
lang: Portuguese
word: senhor
lang: Romanian
word: să trăiți
lang: Russian
word: това́рищ
roman: továrišč
lang: Russian
word: господи́н
roman: gospodín
lang: Swahili
word: afande
lang: Turkish
word: komutanım
dud
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dudde (“cloak, mantle, kind of cloth; ragged clothing or cloth”), from Old English *dudda (attested only as personal name Dudda, part of modern English Dudley), akin to Old Norse dúði (“swaddling clothes”), Low German dudel. Possibly borrowed from the Old Norse word and related to dýja (“to shake, tremble”).
Inflected forms:
form: duds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duddest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.
Alzheimer's Drug Aduhelm Went From Being Hailed A 'Game Changer' To A Dud
gloss: A failure of any kind.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: At the end of the day, the vast majority of primary schools are vibrant, friendly places and you may struggle to choose one because they all seem so great. Primary schools tend to have the feelgood factor. If you just aren't feeling it, this one's probably a dud.
gloss: A failure of any kind.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: "Now you can't fool me. Tom, I'm not one o' those duds that pay you a thick 'un for an hour in the dark."
gloss: A failure of any kind.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
pos: noun
tags: informal
obsolete
gloss: Useless; failing; ineffective.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: […] they're flying in the duddest of dud weather to hold the Germans back.
Related words: wet firecracker
Derived words: duddy
Translations:
eve
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a variant of the Middle English noun even (itself from Old English ǣfen), with a pre-1200 loss of the terminal '-n', which was mistaken for an inflection. See also the now archaic or poetic even (“evening”), from the same source.
In medieval Europe, days were considered to extend from sunset to sunset rather than midnight to midnight, so the night before a holiday was considered part of it, hence its "eve".
Inflected forms:
form: eves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.
pos: noun
examples: She died on the eve of her 100th birthday.
gloss: Evening, night.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
poetic
examples: on a cold winter's eve.
I love to see the shaking twig / Dance till the shut of eve
And has she tired of weeping / As she lies down at eve.
Sitting on the dockside at Oban, watching the to-ing and fro-ing in the harbour on a perfect summer's eve, I reflect on a trip which has taken me through our busiest cities to traverse the country's main lines, as well as explore some of the furthest extremities that were literally out on a limb.
gloss: The period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the eve of a scientific discovery
Synonyms: eventide
forenight
Related words: evening
even
Derived words: All Hallows' Eve
evejar
evetide
evetime
good eve
yestereve
Translations:
nil
Part of speech: noun
det
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nīl, a contraction of nihil, nihilum (“nothing”). See
nihilism, nihility.
Inflected forms:
form: nils
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Nothing; zero.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Sedatives, contrary to popular lay and medical opinion, are invaluable in those who are not aided by the simpler means. Bromides, barbital and its innumerable offspring may be used with success, their administration being supplemented with a word of warning as to the evasion of any advice from the community grandmothers contrary to its use. The danger of forming a habit is to my mind nil, except in the few instances in which patients have felt that if a little is good more is better. The necessity for not advising the patient of the nature of the remedy, except that it is not a “dope,” is obvious. An alternation of remedies is advisable in long standing cases, and its practice never reveals any tendency to habit formation.
As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible. For my part, I should suppose it nil.
[T]he overall freedom of a corpse is nil because a corpse is not someone to whom social and political liberty (or unfreedom) can ever correctly be ascribed.
gloss: A score of zero
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.
gloss: No, not any.
pos: det
examples: But after two or three hours and nil results, you have to accept that the trail is cold and you can't justify that level of manpower.
Derived words: nilable
niladic
nil by mouth
nil disease
nilium
nillionaire
nilmanifold
nil per os
nilpotent
nilprogression
nilradical
nilsequence
nilsoliton
Translations:
tank
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
video-games
Etymology: From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language, likely Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”). First attested in the 1610s.
* In the sense of armoured vehicle, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature and due to physical resemblance. First attested in 1915, but in common usage only as of 1916. Displaced landship, and mostly displaced battlewagon.
Inflected forms:
form: tanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tanked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
not-comparable
gloss: To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet.
pos: verb
examples: He told me about all the odd jobs he'd taken after I was born, when Michigan's economy was tanking. For one, he crisscrossed the Midwest buying old carpets from dentists' offices.
"[...] If the economy has tanked... then we don't want to over-promise and under-deliver."
gloss: To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.
pos: verb
gloss: To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Concrete below ground must be fully tanked to prevent water uptake.
Sometimes oils are tanked for months or years at a time (e.g., linseed oil).
gloss: To deliberately lose a sports match with the intent of gaining a perceived future competitive advantage.
pos: verb
examples: Beforehand, Swedish [national ice hockey team] coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson had ruminated about tanking against Slovakia to avoid powerful Canada or the Czechs in the quarters [i.e., quarterfinals of the 2006 Winter Olympic tournament], telling Swedish television, "One is cholera, the other the plague."
gloss: To resist damage; to be attacked without being hurt.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: Unless Bane can tank Helicarrier-busting explosions I'm not sure how he stands a chance.
A weakened Superman tanked an explosion 50 times larger than the Kepler's Supernova and the electromagnetic shock wave hit him.
Barda could BFR and I doubt She hulk is tanking a blow from her rod, so she takes.
gloss: To contemplate a decision for a long time; to go in the tank.
pos: verb
tags: slang
gloss: To stand; to tolerate.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
colloquial
gloss: To willingly take on an undesirable task or burden.
pos: verb
tags: Singapore
colloquial
Derived words: tank up
face tank
buay tank
Translations:
ogre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
publishing
sciences
Etymology: First attested in the 18th century, borrowed from French ogre, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”), from Ancient Greek Ὅρκος (Hórkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon oath-breakers. Doublet of orc and Orcus.
Inflected forms:
form: ogres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large, grotesque, brutish humanoid monster, typically marked by great strength and a propensity to kill or devour humans.
pos: noun
examples: And in the seventh tale of the third day of the same collection, when Corvetto had hidden himself under the Ogre's bed to steal his quilt, "he began to pull quite gently, when the Ogre awoke, and bid his wife not to pull the clothes that way, or she'd strip him, and he would get his death of cold." "Why, it's you that are stripping me," replied the Ogress, "and you have not left a stitch on me." "Where the devil is the quilt?" says the Ogre[.]
If I came suddenly upon a well where women were drawing water or children bathing, a sudden flight was the certain result; which things occurring day after day, were very unpleasant to a person who does not like to be disliked, and who had never been accustomed to be treated as an ogre.
And the conquest of the ogres comes at the right moment: not in earliest youth, though the nicors are referred in Beowulf's geogoðfeore as a presage of the kind of hero we have to deal with[.]
From his end of the hall Beowulf watched the ogre, weighed his endowment, and waited to see how Grendel would strike.
gloss: A cruel person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: People are going to think I'm an ogre if I refuse to buy coffee for my little brother!
Related words: ogress
Derived words: ogreish
ogrish
ogreism
ogreless
ogrelike
ogrely
ogreness
ogreous
ogresque
she-ogre
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 怪物
roman: guàiwù
lang: Dutch
word: ondier
lang: Finnish
word: hirviö
lang: German
word: Monster
lang: German
word: Ungeheuer
lang: Korean
word: 오거
roman: ogeo
lang: Russian
word: чудо́вище
roman: čudóvišče
lang: Swedish
word: best
lang: Swedish
word: odjur
cord
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English corde, from Old French corde, from Latin chorda, from Ancient Greek χορδή (khordḗ, “string of gut, the string of a lyre”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerH- (“bowels, intestines”)). Doublet of chord and cuerda. More at yarn and hernia.
Inflected forms:
form: cords
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cording
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: corded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: corded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To furnish with cords.
pos: verb
gloss: To tie or fasten with cords.
pos: verb
gloss: To flatten a book during binding.
pos: verb
gloss: To arrange (wood, etc.) in a pile for measurement by the cord.
pos: verb
Translations:
obi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 帯 (obi, “belt”).
Inflected forms:
form: obi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: obis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sash worn with a kimono.
pos: noun
examples: The broad obi tied around her middle was orange and yellow. I'd never seen such elegant clothing.
They had known nothing of woolen cloth, but now the popularity of obi made of imported grogram spread like wildfire. This popularity produced various stories in its wake.
gloss: A strip of paper looped around a book or other product.
pos: noun
Translations:
kimono
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 着物(きもの) (kimono, “clothing”), which is from 着 (“wearing”) + 物(もの) (mono, “thing”).
Inflected forms:
form: kimonos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kimono
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kimona
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Japanese T-shaped, wrapped-front garment with square sleeves and a rectangular body, now generally worn only on formal occasions.
pos: noun
examples: Presenting 84 kimonos dating as far back as the 1660s, the show traces how the kimono became a truly global garment worn, sold, riffed on and reinvented by artisans, designers and fashion-lovers around the world.
gloss: A long robe-like garment in Western fashion, which may be open at the front, loosely inspired by the Japanese garment.
pos: noun
gloss: A bathrobe or dressing gown.
pos: noun
tags: regional
Related words: 👘
Derived words: bath kimono
kimonoed
kimonolike
kimono sleeve
open the kimono
open up the kimono
under-kimono
underkimono
wooden kimono
Translations:
ta
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Uncertain, but possibly young child's pronunciation of thanks.
Alternatively, derived from Danish tak, from Old Norse þǫkk, from Proto-Germanic *þankō, *þankaz.
Inflected forms:
form: taa
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Thanks.
pos: intj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
colloquial
examples: Ta for the cup of tea.
gloss: give (imperative)
pos: intj
tags: Commonwealth
childish
examples: Mummy needs the bottle back. Ta!
gloss: In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): te.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: ta everso
ta muchly
Translations:
duo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From French duo or Italian duo, from Latin duo (“two”), from Proto-Italic *duō, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁. Doublet of two, which was inherited via Proto-Germanic.
Inflected forms:
form: duos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially
pos: noun
gloss: Two people who work or collaborate together as partners; especially:
pos: noun
gloss: Any pair of people.
pos: noun
gloss: Any cocktail consisting of a spirit and a liqueur.
pos: noun
gloss: A meal with two paired components.
pos: noun
examples: The duo of pork consisted of a smoked sausage and a shoulder joint.
gloss: A song in two parts; a duet.
pos: noun
examples: I noticed early on, in playing a duo with a violinist, that when a very cheesy synthesized violin sound plays in counterpoint with a real violin, it can quite convincingly seem as if two violins are playing.
Synonyms: couple
pair
twosome
brace
couplet
doublet
duad
duet
duo
duplet
dyad
twain
twinsome
Related words: duet
trio
quartet
number
Derived words: comedy duo
dufoil
duo euthanasia
lip duo
super-duo
Translations:
syzygy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Gnosticism
astrology
astronomy
biology
genetics
human-sciences
lifestyle
linear-algebra
mathematics
medicine
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
religion
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Late Latin sȳzygia (“a conjunction”), from Ancient Greek συζυγία (suzugía, “a union, a yoke, a pair”). This word was recognized as English in 1847 (in its astronomical meaning).
Inflected forms:
form: syzygies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as occurs at an eclipse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The duration of an eclipse depends on the relative positions of the sun, moon, and earth in their syzygy.
gloss: An archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, symbolizing the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In 1936 Jung defends his concept of animus and anima by reference to the idea of the syzygy, concluding from the evidence in many different mythologies of the divine couple, united by a sacred marriage, that this motif is as universal as the existence of men and women. He postulates that in the syzygy the archetypal union of the parents is expressed, the mother corresponding to the anima.
gloss: A relation between generators of a module.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A finitely presented module is an A-module M given by a finite number of generators and relations. Therefore it is a module with a finite generator set having a finitely generated syzygy module.
gloss: The fusion of some or all of the organs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The association of two protozoa end-to-end or laterally for the purpose of asexual exchange of genetic material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When two or more arm-joints meet transversely by a rigid suture, and only the upper one is pinnule-bearing, those joints form a syzygy, whether their apposed faces are striated, dotted, or smooth.
These include syzygy, fusion of larvae or adults of flatworms, fusion of buds of some Tunicata, somatic fertilization (fusion of spermatozoa with somatic cells), composite zygotes of some Cestoda and Insecta, and fusion of cells in various tissues.
gloss: The pairing of chromosomes in meiosis.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Complementary female–male pairings of the emanations known as Aeons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: syzygal
syzygetic
syzygial
syzygiology
Syzygium
asterism
occultation
Derived words: antisyzygy
syzygial
syzygic
Translations:
moth
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English moth, moththe, motthe, moght, mohþe, mouȝte, from Old English moþþe, mohþe, mohþa (“any destructive insect larva”), from Proto-West Germanic *moþþō, *mottō, from Proto-Germanic *muþþô, *muttô (“moth, worm”), from Proto-Indo-European *mutn-, *mut- (“worm”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Motte (“moth”), West Frisian mot (“moth”), Dutch mot (“moth”), German Low German Motte, Mott (“moth”), German Motte (“moth”), Swedish mott (“moth”) and Norwegian Nynorsk mott (“moth”).
Inflected forms:
form: moths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mothing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mothed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mothed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
pos: noun
examples: Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.
gloss: Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: To hunt for moths.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: bagmoth
budmoth
fishmoth
like a moth to a flame
like a moth to flame
like a moth to the flame
macromoth
micromoth
mothball
moth-ball
moth ball
moth blight
moth borer
moth butterfly
moth-eaten
mothed
moth-er
mother#Etymology 5
moth flower
moth fly*
moth freckle
moth-fretted, moth-fretten
moth gnat*
moth hawk*
moth-hunter
moth hunter*
mothicide
moth lacewing
mothless
mothlike
moth-like
Mothman
moth midge*
moth miller
moth mullein
moth orchid*
moth patch
moth plant*
mothproof, moth-proof
moth sphinx*
moth spot
moth-time
mothweed
mothwing
moth wing
mothwort
mothy
Translations:
mot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mot. Doublet of motto.
Inflected forms:
form: mots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
pos: noun
examples: Here and there turns up a […] savage mot.
‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
gloss: A word or a motto; a device.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
With his big title, an Italian mot
Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
gloss: A note or brief strain on a bugle.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Comrades, mark these three mots — it is the call of the Knight of the Fetterlock
Translations:
soleil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French soleilbor.
English soleil
Borrowed from French soleil.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: sun
pos: noun
tags: Polari
examples: Divine. ... Disporting yourself on the sable plage getting your lallies all bronzed - your riah getting bleached by the soleil.
Translations:
missense
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
Proto-Indo-European *sent-der.
Proto-Italic *sentjō
Latin sentiō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin sēnsusbor.
Proto-Germanic *sinnaz
Frankish *sinnbor.
Vulgar Latin *sennus
Old French sensbor.
Middle English sense
English sense
English missense
From mis- + sense.
Inflected forms:
form: missenses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: missenses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: missensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: missensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: missensed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A damaged DNA sequence that is meaningful but has an incorrect meaning, with the result that its products do not do what they are supposed to do.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To sense incorrectly.
pos: verb
examples: One possibility is that if G6PT is a G6P sensor, it may be missensing the intracellular concentrations and misdirecting further accumulation.
Translations:
prequel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
Etymology: From pre- (“before”) + quel, by analogy with sequel.
Base: quel
Affixes: pre-
Inflected forms:
form: prequels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a series of works, an installment that is set chronologically before its predecessor, especially the original narrative or (perhaps improper usage) any narrative work with at least one sequel.
pos: noun
examples: 'Prequels' are sequels that relate the story that preceded the original film.
1984, Pauline Kael, The New Yorker
Set in 1935, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom probably has to be called a pre-sequel, or prequel, to Raiders of the Lost Ark, which was set in 1936, but it isn’t pulpy in the way that Raiders was.
2008, 26 February, Andrew Pierce, "JRR Tolkien's estate to sue Lord of the Rings filmmakers New Line Cinema over profits, in The Daily Telegraph
They are also threatening to block the production of the long-awaited prequel, The Hobbit, which may now be cancelled.
Antonyms: sequel
Translations:
intermission
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti
Proto-Italic *meitō
Old Latin mītō
Latin mittō
Latin intermittō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin intermissiōder.
English intermission
Derived from Latin intermissiō, from intermittō (“interrupt, omit”) + -tiō.
Inflected forms:
form: intermissions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.
pos: noun
examples: We ordered some drinks for the intermission.
The line turns a sharp right-angle to the north to circumvent the town, and then plunges straight into the 1 in 50, which lasts for nearly 20 miles with few intermissions, and some pitches of 1 in 40.
Translations:
arbor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English arbour, erbour, from Old French erbier (“field, meadow, kitchen garden”), from erbe (“grass, herb”), from Latin herba (“grass, herb”) (English herb). (Compare Late Latin herbārium, although erbier is possibly an independent formation.) The spelling was influenced by Latin arbor (“tree”).
Inflected forms:
form: arbors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arbores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arbour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A shady sitting place or pergola usually in a park or garden, surrounded by climbing shrubs, vines or other vegetation.
pos: noun
examples: Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn’t jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot,
Children swung from the branches of the banyan tree, teenagers climbed into the arbours of orchids and gourds into which the abandoned cars had been transformed.
gloss: A grove of trees.
pos: noun
Related words: arboreal
arboreous
arborescent
arboretum
arbor vitae
herb
Derived words: Ann Arbor
arborcide
arbor Dianae
arbored
arborist
arbor vine
arborway
Translations:
moo
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Inflected forms:
form: moos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mooed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic lowing sound made by cattle.
pos: noun
tags: onomatopoeic
gloss: A foolish woman.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
mildly
slang
examples: You silly moo! What did you do that for?
'Aurora House does not expel,' said the sanctimonious moo, 'but you will be medicated, if your behaviour warrants it, for your own protection.'
gloss: Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: The characteristic sound made by a cow or bull.
pos: intj
examples: The cow says moo.
Derived words: moo-cow
moof
moo juice
moolike
moo-moo
Translations:
flor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish flor. Doublet of fleur, flour, and flower.
Inflected forms:
form: flors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, induced deliberately during the production of sherry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
fleur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: An ellipsis of fleur-de-lis from French fleur (“flower”). Doublet of flor, flour, and flower.
Inflected forms:
form: fleurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: fleur-de-lis
pos: noun
Translations:
dunch
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English dunchen, of uncertain origin. Possibly from the noun (see below); or of North Germanic origin, related to Old Swedish diunga (“to hit, knock”), dialectal Swedish dunka (“to beat”); or from Middle English dengen, from Old English denġan, denċġan (“to knock, ding”), from Proto-Germanic *dangijaną (“to bang, knock”). Compare English dinge.
Inflected forms:
form: dunches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dunching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dunchin
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dunched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dunched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dunsh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dunches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To knock against; to hit, punch
pos: verb
tags: Geordie
gloss: To crash into; to bump into.
pos: verb
tags: Geordie
gloss: To gore with the horns, as a bull.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
gloss: To push, jog, or nudge, especially with the elbow.
pos: verb
tags: UK
gloss: A push; knock; bump.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: And just at the same time the tide caught the brig, and threw the wind out of her sails. She came round into the wind like a top, and the next moment struck the reef with such a dunch as threw us all flat upon the deck, and came near to shake Mr. Riach from his place upon the mast.
gloss: A fat hit from a claggy lie.
pos: noun
Translations:
cor
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: units-of-measure
Etymology: A minced oath or dialectal variant of God.
Inflected forms:
form: cors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: core
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Expression of surprise.
pos: intj
tags: Cockney
UK
examples: […] She perused it with an interested eye and having mastered its contents said, “Cor chase my Aunt Fanny up a gum tree,” adding that you never knew what was going to happen next these days.
gloss: Any of various former units of volume
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Any of various former units of volume
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Any of various former units of volume
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: homer
omer
Translations:
honing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: honings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is honed.
pos: noun
examples: In future honings, you'll assume the tip is touching the stone on the back when it is, in fact, above the stone's surface.
Translations: