yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
torpor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin torpor (“numbness”), from torpeō (“to be numb”).
Inflected forms:
form: torpors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: torpour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of being inactive or stuporous.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state of apathy or lethargy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She knew that she was the cause of her husband's utter ruin; and she strung herself to bear the consequences. The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.
gloss: A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: torpidity
torpid
torpidness
torpedo
Derived words: daily torpor
torporific
torporise
torporize
Translations:
enhance
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
radiology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English enhauncen, anhaunsen, from Anglo-Norman anhauncer (“enhance, raise”), from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre (“raise”), derived from Latin in + altus (“high”). The /h/ in Old French was taken from haut (“high”), where it resulted from Frankish influence.
Inflected forms:
form: enhances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: enhancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: enhanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: enhanced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: inhance
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: enhaunce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: inhaunce
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To lift, raise up.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
gloss: To augment or make something greater.
pos: verb
examples: They had no character to preserve, except for courage; and perhaps the reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated by the people.
A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution
gloss: To improve something by adding features.
pos: verb
examples: A pom-pom to top off a stocking cap, a fringe to feather the edge of a shawl, tassels to define the points of an afghan, these are just a few of the delightful little goodies that enhance handknit things.
The only silver lining for businesses and local residents was that there was at least an end in sight, and that the new station, once built, would enhance the area and provide improved east-west access for pedestrians.
gloss: To be raised up; to grow larger.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
gloss: To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).
pos: verb
Synonyms: heighten
Antonyms: dehance
Derived words: bioenhance
enhanceable
enhancement
enhanceosome
enhancer
enhancive
hyperenhance
hypoenhance
isoenhance
photoenhance
Translations:
willing
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: * (adjective): Old English willende, present participle of willan
* (noun): Old English willung, from willian
By surface analysis, will + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more willing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most willing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Ready to do something, particularly something that requires change or effort; not objecting.
pos: adj
examples: If my boyfriend isn't willing to change his drinking habits, I will split up with him.
In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
"Of course, the ventilation is awful. We pump the air down, but two-hour shifts are the most the men can do - and they are willing lads too."
Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
Translations:
squint
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).
Inflected forms:
form: squints
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squinting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squinted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squinted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: squints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The children squinted to frighten each other.
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
gloss: To look or glance sideways.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
gloss: To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
intransitive
gloss: To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to squint an eye
gloss: An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
pos: noun
gloss: The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
pos: noun
examples: He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
gloss: A quick or sideways glance; a short look; a peep.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: —And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
—Give us a squint at her, says I.
"Better have a squint yourself," suggested Horace, withdrawing his implement and resigning the position. "Listening posts are more in your line by all accounts, inspector."
gloss: A hagioscope.
pos: noun
gloss: The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
pos: noun
gloss: An opening, often arched, through an internal wall of a church, providing an oblique view of the altar.
pos: noun
gloss: Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
pos: adj
gloss: askew, not level
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
Synonyms: skelly
Related words: cross-eyed
Derived words: squinch
squinter
squizz
squint-a-pipes
squintingly
squinting modifier
squint like a bag of nails
unsquinting
leper's squint
squintless
squinty
squint-eyed
squintly
squintness
Translations:
strabismus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus).
Inflected forms:
form: strabismuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
heterosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From hetero- + -osis.
Base: hetero
Inflected forms:
form: heteroses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The tendency of cross-breeding to produce an animal or plant with a greater hardiness than its parents; hybrid vigour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hybridisation can also result in heterosis - the scientific term for the production of ʽsuper fit’ hybrid individuals - many examples of which come from agriculture. Heterosis can be thought of as the opposite of inbreeding depression, the phenomenon whereby the offspring of individuals that are genetically too similar - for example, brother and sister - can suffer from debilitating maladies.
Translations:
heterotopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Indo-European *sḿ̥teros
Proto-Hellenic *hə́teros
Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros)lbor.
English hetero-
English -topic
English heterotopic
From hetero- + -topic.
Inflected forms:
form: more heterotopic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heterotopic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Occurring in an abnormal anatomical location.
pos: adj
gloss: Occurring in different habitats.
pos: adj
Related words: heterotopia
Derived words: heterotopically
Translations:
idiosyncratic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From idiosyncrasy + -ic. By surface analysis, idio- + syn- + -cratic.
Base: idiosyncrasy
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more idiosyncratic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most idiosyncratic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
pos: adj
examples: At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste […] but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.
It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.
I’m not saying that [Charlie] Kaufman’s film will be enshrined as a classic, as those [Stanley] Kubrick films are. It’s too idiosyncratic and demanding for that: many viewers will be thinking of ending it halfway through
The name “Quentin” clearly operates as a lucky charm if you’re an idiosyncratic film-maker, especially if you deal with sudden death, craziness and Z-movie Americana.
Translations:
heterozygote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From hetero- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
Base: zygote
Affixes: hetero-
Inflected forms:
form: heterozygotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
pos: noun
gloss: A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring.
pos: noun
Related words: heterozygous
Derived words: transheterozygote
Translations:
psychic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
parapsychology
pseudoscience
religion
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós, “relative to the soul, spirit, mind”). Earlier referred to as "psychical"; or from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul, mind, psyche”). First appeared (as substantive) 1871 and first records 1895.
Inflected forms:
form: psychics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more psychic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most psychic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as clairvoyance, precognition, and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
pos: noun
gloss: In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
pos: noun
gloss: Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
pos: adj
examples: You must be psychic—I was just about to say that.
She is a psychic person—she hears messages from beyond.
Having exhausted the sporting adventures of this terrestrial globe, he is now turning to those of the dim, dark and dubious regions of psychic research.
gloss: Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.
pos: adj
examples: In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state.
A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms […]
Merely by comprehending this, the lack of support that black feminists have for being black feminists, white women might be able to give at least psychic and preferably practical support to black women who they know and not assume that it means the same thing for us to be feminists and lesbians as it does for them to be feminists and lesbians.
Related words: psychical
psychological
Derived words: allopsychic
antipsychic
archeopsychic
auditopsychic
autopsychic
biopsychic
ethnopsychic
exteropsychic
extrapsychic
galvanopsychic
geopsychic
interpsychic
intrapsychic
metapsychic
neopsychic
neuropsychic
nonpsychic
panpsychic
parapsychic
polypsychic
psychically
psychic cost
psychic death
psychic driving
psychic expenditure
psychic income
psychicism
psychicist
psychicity
psychicly
psychicness
psychic numbing
psychic photography
psychic prayer
psychic surgeon
psychic surgery
psychic vampire
psyker
somatopsychic
telepsychic
unpsychic
visuopsychic
Translations:
intangible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French intangible, from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tango.
Inflected forms:
form: more intangible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intangible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: intangibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
pos: adj
gloss: Anything intangible.
pos: noun
examples: Diaghilev's love for Nijinsky was as deep and as sincere and reliant as a bond could be, it being based on all those intangibles of love that cannot be enumerated.
gloss: Incorporeal property that is saleable though not material, such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds, and promissory notes.
pos: noun
Translations:
sales
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The activities involved in selling goods or services.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: He's likable and motivated: perfect for a career in sales.
We have a sales training program beginning this Monday.
gloss: The amount or value of goods and services sold.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Sales were up 12% over last year.
Derived words: aftersales
book sales club
e-sales
goods and sales tax
gross sales
in the sales
net sales
nonsales
postsales
presales
sales advisor
sales agent
sales assistant
sales associate
salesbook
salesbot
salesboy
saleschild
sales clerk
salesclerk
salescritter
sales engineer
sales floor
salesfloor
sales force
salesforce
salesgirl
saleslady
sales-lady
sales ledger
salesman
salesmarketer
salesmaster
sales order
salesperson
salespersonship
sales pitch
salespoint
sales profit
sales rep
sales representative
sales resistance
salesrobot
salesroom
sales slip
sales talk
sales tax
sales team
sales volume
saleswise
saleswoman
saleswomanship
salesy
salesyard
smarketing
system sales
telesales
telesalesperson
volume sales
Translations:
sets
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Set theory.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
octan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: octans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Occurring every eight days.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A fever that recurs every eight days.
pos: noun
Translations:
unlawful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English unlawful; equivalent to un- + lawful.
Base: lawful
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unlawful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unlawful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal)
pos: adj
examples: He was charged with unlawful use of a car.
That year a U.S. appeals court found the program Snowden had exposed was unlawful and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
Antonyms: lawful
Translations:
streaker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English streak
English -er
English streaker
From streak + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: streakers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who runs naked through a public place as a prank.
pos: noun
gloss: A dolphin of species Stenella coeruleoalba.
pos: noun
Translations:
scam
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: US American carnival slang of uncertain origin. Possibly from scamp (“swindler, cheater”) or Irish cam (“crooked”). Also possibly from Danish skam; if so, it would be a doublet of shame and sham. First use appears c. 1963 in the periodical Time. The word became common use among the US drug culture when in early 1980, after Operation ABSCAM, an FBI sting operation directed at public officials, became public.
Inflected forms:
form: scams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scamming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scammed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fraudulent or dishonest deal. A swindle.
pos: noun
examples: That marketing scheme looks like a scam to me.
gloss: Something that is promoted using scams.
pos: noun
examples: That new diet burger is a scam.
gloss: To defraud or embezzle.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: They tried to scam her out of her savings.
gloss: To seek out a partner for casual sex; to hit on.
pos: verb
tags: slang
examples: His friend nudged me. "It's true. JJ only scams black ladies." / "You don't say?" / "J-boy scammed a real live Miss Black Universe once. Met her in a disco down in Honduras. Wearing her title. Since then he's been obsessed."
Derived words: 419 scam
advance fee scam
antiscam
cyberscam
exit scam
love scam
Macau scam
Nigerian prince scam
Nigerian scam
ponzi scam
Ponzi scam
romance scam
safe account scam
scam artist
scam artistry
scambait
scambaiter
scambaiting
scambot
scamcoin
scamdemic
scammer
scammish
scammy
scamster
scamware
Ukroscam
Uncle Scam
what's the scam
outscam
scammable
scammee
Translations:
ceasefire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cease + fire.
Compound parts: cease
fire
Inflected forms:
form: ceasefires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cease-fire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cease fire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In warfare, an agreed end to hostilities for a specific purpose. (Typically only temporary).
pos: noun
examples: The rebels agreed to a ceasefire while the peace talks were underway.
Negotiators mediated a ceasefire.
But residents say steady Russian military pressure – combined now with an American president’s apparent parroting of Kremlin talking points about the war, and his push for a ceasefire that could include Ukrainian territorial losses – means Russia is also winning in a different way, by escalating Ukrainian anxiety.
Putin’s answered by simply stating he did not believe Ukraine had honored the previous ceasefires Moscow had unilaterally called, and that Kyiv has said Moscow never respected either.
Translations:
Easter
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is derived from Middle English Ester, from Old English ēastre, seemingly from Ēastre, a proposed Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn whose festival is thought to have been celebrated around the vernal equinox. Further from Proto-West Germanic *Austrā, from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ, derived from either Proto-Indo-European *h₂ews- (“dawn; east”) or, more semantically plausible, from *austrą, *auzrą, a metathesized form of *wazrą (“spring (season)”), *-ǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”).
The English word is cognate with German Low German Oostern (“Easter”), Old High German ōstarūn (modern German Ostern) and is possibly a doublet of east. Despite a modern folk etymology, not related to Ishtar.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: Easters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Eastering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Eastered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Eastered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To celebrate Easter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To spend the Easter season in some place.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
boing
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. The “large breasts” sense is reborrowed from Japanese ボイン, in turn from English boing.
Inflected forms:
form: boings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boinged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boinged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A representation of the sound of something bouncing.
pos: intj
examples: "Phut." Something whipped into the ground beside him and there was a pinpoint flash from the cabin. "B-o-i-n-g-g-g." There was another flash and the bullet hit the rail and whined off into the night.
gloss: A representation of the sound of something bouncing.
pos: intj
tags: slang
gloss: A representation of the sound of something bouncing.
pos: intj
tags: slang
gloss: The sound made by an elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce.
pos: noun
gloss: Large breasts.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To make a boing sound or bouncing motion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At its most extreme it is reminiscent of the boinging and buzzing of a Jew's harp.
Derived words: boingy
Translations:
conker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From 19th-century dialect conker (“snail-shell”); the game of conkers was originally played using snail-shells; from conch + -er or a variant of conquer.
Base: conch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: conkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A horse chestnut, used in the game of conkers.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: His bald spot gleams like a burnished conker.
Unboxing conkers? What on earth are you talking about? Oh wow, you really are out of the loop, aren’t you? Gen Zers are taking to TikTok to film themselves unpeeling conkers from their spiky capsules.
Translations:
conkers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English conker
Middle English -es
English -s
English conkers
From conker + -s.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
pos: noun
tags: UK
plural
plural-only
Translations:
commemorate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1599; borrowed from Latin commemorātus, perfect passive participle of commemorō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Sporadic usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: commemorates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commemorating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commemorated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commemorated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To honour the memory of someone or something with a ceremony or object.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: On November 11th we commemorate the fallen with a march.
On the anniversary of Korczak's murder, Israel commemorated him with a special postal issue. As a stamp collector and philatelic columnist, it pleased me greatly when other countries followed Israel's example in honoring him.
gloss: To serve as a memorial to someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The cenotaph commemorates the fallen.
Derived words: decommemorate
uncommemorated
Translations:
manslaughter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English manslaȝter, manslauter, equivalent to man + slaughter, or taken as an adaptation of Old English mansliht (“murder; killing of a person”), from mann (“person”) + sliht (“killing”), see manslaught. Cognate with Scots manslauchter (“homicide”). Compare also Old Frisian monslaga (“murder”).
Compound parts: man
slaughter
Inflected forms:
form: manslaughters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The slaying of a human being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind.
gloss: The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger; considered less culpable than murder, but more culpable than justifiable homicide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: self-slaughter
Derived words: constructive manslaughter
corporate manslaughter
criminally negligent manslaughter
first-degree manslaughter
involuntary manslaughter
manslaughterous
second-degree manslaughter
voluntary manslaughter
Translations:
excel
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English excellen, from Old French exceller, from Latin excellere, excelsum; ex (“out”) + *cellō, an unattested verb root found in culmen (“height, top”); Compare French exceller. See also culminate, column.
Inflected forms:
form: excels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: excelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: excelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: excelled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I excelled everyone else with my exam results.
Compositions which follow the style of Nissi Belzer's creations in structure but which excel them in length.
La Rochefoucauld, the French philosopher, said: "If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you." Why is that true? Because when our friends excel us, that gives them a feeling of importance; but when we excel them, that gives them a feeling of inferiority and arouses envy and jealousy.
gloss: To be much better than others.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.
1924: Aristotle, Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Book 1, Part 2..
If, then, there is something in what the poets say, and jealousy is natural to the divine power, it would probably occur in this case above all, and all who excelled in this knowledge would be unfortunate.
Lescott gave his finest England performance alongside his former Everton team-mate Phil Jagielka, who also excelled despite playing with a fractured toe, while Parker was given a deserved standing ovation when he was substituted late on.
From Rosie the Riveter to Coco Channel^([sic – meaning Coco Chanel]) (in pants!), from Amelia Earhart to the quaintrelle (the female dandy), change in women's dress has symbolized everything from the right and need to work outside the home to wearing pants as a fashion statement to excelling at a profession (even as an aviatrix) to once again claiming the right to cultivate life's pleasures.
gloss: To exceed, to go beyond.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
rare
transitive
examples: She opened; but to shut / Excelled her power: the gates wide open stood […]
I reason, we could die : / The best vitality / Cannot excel decay; / But what of that?
Synonyms: bang
devour
eat
eat and leave no crumbs
excel
go hard
kick
kick ass
rock
rule
shine
slap
slay
Antonyms: choke
fail
go soft
misperform
stink
suck
underachieve
underperform
Related words: excellence
excellent
exceed
Derived words: superexcel
unexcelling
Translations:
forger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English forger, forgere, from Old French forgiere; equivalent to forge + -er.
Base: forge
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: forgers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud, e.g. to create a false will or illicit copies of currency; counterfeiter.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who forges metals.
pos: noun
Related words: forgery
Translations:
seldom
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From late Middle English seldom, alteration of earlier selden by analogy with adverbial datives such as whilom, from Old English seldan (“seldom”), from Proto-West Germanic *seldanā, from Proto-Germanic *seldanē.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian säilden (“seldom”), West Frisian selden, komselden (“rare, seldom”), Dutch zelden, German selten, Danish sjælden, Norwegian Bokmål sjelden, Norwegian Nynorsk sjeldan, Swedish sällan, Faroese sjáldan, Icelandic sjaldan. More at seld and selly.
Inflected forms:
form: more seldom
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: seldomer
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most seldom
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: seldomest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: seldome
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Infrequently, rarely.
pos: adv
examples: They seldom come here now.
I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.
But one thing I was perfectly certain about. Reality or nightmare, I needed a drink as I had seldom needed one before.
No well-meaning friends sayin' bad things / No friends' telephone that only seldom rings / No lingering doubts that try to bring me down / Can turn my love around or make me give up, darling
I'll miss the sea. But a person needs new experiences. They draw something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?
Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
Translations:
journalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English journal
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 journalist
From journal + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: journalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The keeper of a personal journal, who writes in it regularly.
pos: noun
gloss: One whose occupation is journalism, originally only writing in the printed press.
pos: noun
examples: “There’s this terrible business to start with. Scotland Yard men in and out of the house like a jack-in-the-box! Never know where they won’t turn up next. Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say!”
gloss: A reporter, someone who professionally reports on news and current events.
pos: noun
examples: British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.
A staff member of the Kuchar County Judiciary told RFA that he did not have the authority “to answer political questions of this magnitude,” when asked whether 150 people had died in No. 1 Camp, and whether the number included any government officials or other employees.
“We have a county-wide directive—firstly, to never provide answers to pretend journalists, and secondly, to never take phone calls of unknown origin,” he said.
In 2017, Katherine Maher, then the CEO of the WMF, re-imagined the nonprofit’s mission as “top-down social justice activism and advocacy,” as journalist Ashley Rindsberg described it.
Related words: journalese
Derived words: churnalist
citizen journalist
cyberjournalist
data journalist
e-journalist
investigative journalist
journalistic
journalistical
journalistics
journo
nonjournalist
pack journalist
parajournalist
pseudojournalist
telejournalist
video journalist
whorenalist
yellow journalist
Translations:
Eastertide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Easter
English -tide
English Eastertide
From Easter + -tide (“period surrounding a festival”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The season from Easter Day to Whitsun, inclusive thereof.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Meronyms: Easter, Easter Day, Easter Sunday, Holy Week, Easter Week
Near-synonym: Eastertime (broad sense)
Translations:
bargee
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English barge
English -ee
English bargee
From barge + -ee.
Inflected forms:
form: bargees
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A crewman of a working barge.
pos: noun
gloss: A vulgar person, prone to bad language. Editors of this dictionary, when cleaning up this entry, may wish to search "bargee" at madameulalie.org for examples of its usage in the works of P.G. Wodehouse.
pos: noun
Translations:
barquentine
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: barquentines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: barkentine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sailing vessel similar to a barque, but fore-and-aft (schooner) rigged on the mainmast
pos: noun
Translations:
fireplug
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From fire + plug, referring to the system used prior to fire hydrants, in which a large plug was placed into a hole in the water main, then covered with a barrel. The plug was removed when water was needed.
Compound parts: fire
plug
Inflected forms:
form: fireplugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fire hydrant.
pos: noun
examples: She is a strong and warm-hearted and hard-working farmer in her early sixties. She is built like a fireplug.
Translations:
bathyscaphe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek βᾰθῠ́ς (băthŭ́s)
Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ-der.
Ancient Greek σκᾰ́πτω (skắptō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek σκᾰ́φη (skắphē)
French bathyscaphebor.
English bathyscaphe
Borrowed from French bathyscaphe. Analyzable as bathy- + Ancient Greek σκάφη (skáphē, “little boat, skiff”).
Base: σκάφη
Affixes: bathy-
Inflected forms:
form: bathyscaphes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bathyscaph
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A self-propelled deep-sea diving submersible for exploring the ocean depths, consisting of a crew cabin similar to a bathysphere suspended below a float filled with a buoyant liquid such as petrol.
pos: noun
examples: The fact that the bathyscaphes are self-propelled makes it possible to use them to study the ocean microstructure in the horizontal, although the experiment should include temporal changes, which can be achieved either by using associated buoy stations or using a second suspended bathyscaphe.
It's ironic that when Piccard built his first bathyscaphe in the 1940s people assumed the revolutionary design had evolved from his famous stratospheric balloon. In fact, the reverse was true. In fact, Piccard's prototype bathyscaphe FNRS-2 (named for the Belgian national research foundation), which underwent sea trials in the Atlantic off Senegal in 1948, did possess all the attributes of a clumsy underwater balloon.
After World War II, engineers built specialized submarines called bathyscaphes to survive the intense pressures of the deep ocean. A pioneer in bathyscaphes was the Swiss-born Belgian physicist Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), who had set the world altitude record in a balloon in 1932. Having turned his attention to the sea, Piccard and his son, Jacques Piccard (1922– ), built a bathyscaphe called the Trieste after World War II.
Translations:
bathysphere
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bathy- + -sphere. A genericization from the particular bathysphere in the 1930s named Bathysphere. The name bathysphere was coined decades after the introduction of the device in the 1890s.
Affixes: bathy-
-sphere
Inflected forms:
form: bathyspheres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spherical steel deep-diving chamber with perspex windows, in which persons are lowered to the depths by a cable to study the oceans and deep-sea life; the precursor to the bathyscaphe.
pos: noun
Translations:
hull
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hul, hulle, holle (“seed covering, hull of a ship”), from Old English hulu (“seed covering”), from Proto-Germanic *hul-, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, hide”); or possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kal- (“hard”).
Compare Dutch hul (“hood”), German Hülle (“cover, wrap”), Hülse (“hull”); also Old Irish calad, calath (“hard”), Latin callus, callum (“rough skin”), Old Church Slavonic калити (kaliti, “to cool, harden”). For the sense development, compare French coque (“nutshell; ship's hull”), Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “bean pod; yacht”).
Inflected forms:
form: hulls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hulls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hulling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hulled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hulled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The outer covering of a fruit or seed.
pos: noun
gloss: Any covering.
pos: noun
gloss: To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed.
pos: verb
examples: She sat on the back porch hulling peanuts.
Derived words: hully
soyhull
rice hull
Translations:
backwater
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From back + water.
Compound parts: back
water
Inflected forms:
form: backwaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back water
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: back-water
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: backwaters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backwatering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backwatered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backwatered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: back water
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: back-water
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The water held back by a dam or other obstruction.
pos: noun
examples: […] The backwater separates the main line from Hinksey marshalling yards
gloss: A remote place: somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc; any field of endeavor that figuratively resembles such a place.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
idiomatic
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: (place) jerkwater town, one-horse town, Podunk; see also Thesaurus:remote place
an academic backwater
Usually, however, this line, which once had a monopoly of all the traffic to Bournemouth, is a quiet backwater carrying a purely local traffic.
It's a volume for those who delight in exploring the backwaters of nineteenth-century opera.
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
What was once the industrial heart of Uruguay is now a quiet riverside backwater where nothing much happens—the shops don't bother to open until midday and not at all if it's raining.
In the 19th century silt deposits began to block the harbour, and the city began to decline. To make matters worse, conservative elements in Lukang refused in the early 20th century to allow trains and modern highways to be built near their city. Lukang became a backwater, only to be reborn decades later when modern Taiwanese began to search for a living connection with the past.
The Hope Valley, while scenic, is no quiet backwater. There's no sign it will ever be one either.
gloss: A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water
pos: noun
gloss: Water used in the papermaking process. Recycled to reduce usage of fresh water, and usually containing residual amounts of chemicals and fibres.
pos: noun
examples: The back-water (overflow) can be used for "thinning down" the chests when emptying. If "Wastive" does this, his mind will be at ease regarding waste of pulp, and his machine-men will be happy and do their work much better than by trying to use all the back-water on the paper machine.
gloss: To row or paddle a backwater stroke.
pos: verb
gloss: To vacillate on a long-held position.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
Derived words: backwaterish
Translations:
paucity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English paucete, paucite, paucyte, partly from Middle French paucité and partly from its etymon, Latin paucitās (“a small number, fewness, scarcity”), from paucus (“few, little”). Related to few.
Inflected forms:
form: paucities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fewness in number; too few.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But when I had crossed the threshold, I was astonished at the paucity of facts to be gleaned from the inmates themselves.
For sheer paucity of railway facilities, probably the record in Great Britain is held by the Scottish county of Nairn, which has about eight miles of railway and two stations—Nairn and Auldearn.
This paucity of trains helps to explain why electrification is not planned between Paris and Belfort.
Your tax refund might be late, owing to a paucity of number crunchers.
I have always argued that despite my opposition to rail privatisation, I should be grateful that John Major won the 1992 election on a platform to sell off the railways, as otherwise my column would have disappeared given the paucity of things to write about.
gloss: A smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
Now came shipwrecks and life in open boats, with the usual paucity of food.
Here is where the paucity of our language is made manifest.
Genteel America was handicapped by meagerness of soul, thinness of temper, paucity of talent.
There are also texts that present more lengthy lists, of between ten and thirty examples, and in doing so include some less common terms. But, on the whole, there is at present a paucity of information about these terms.
Synonyms: scantiness
scarcity
Translations:
backstay
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From back + stay.
Compound parts: back
stay
Inflected forms:
form: backstays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A part of the rigging of a sailing ship extending from the top of the mast (masthead) to the back of the ship; they support the strain on all upper masts and provide additional support to the shrouds when the wind is abaft the beam.
pos: noun
gloss: A strengthening or supporting piece that is built into the back of something.
pos: noun
Translations:
bald-headed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: more bald-headed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bald-headed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a bald head.
pos: adj
gloss: (of a square-rigged ship) not having the royals set.
pos: adj
gloss: (of a fore-and-aft rigged ship) having the topmasts struck down.
pos: adj
Derived words: bald-headed hermit
bald-headed row
Translations:
baleen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
physiology
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English baleyne, from Old French baleine (“whale, whalebone”), from Latin balaena (“whale”), from Ancient Greek φάλαινα (phálaina, “whale”).
Inflected forms:
form: baleens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: keratinous material that makes up the plates in the mouth of the baleen whale (Mysticeti), which it uses to trap its food; formerly used in corsetry.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “You have probably never seen anything like this before, Mr. Toler. It is baleen, or if you prefer it, whalebone, taken from the mouth of the bowhead whale. It is used by the whale to filter its food.”
gloss: A baleen whale (Mysticeti).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Scammon estimates the number of baleens killed in the years 1835-72 at 131,000; once again, his figure needs to be adjusted.
gloss: Any whale or large fish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The Balene is a fishe great and huge, much like to the Whale, and is so called, because of his outcasting and shedding of water, for they throwe water higher then other great fishes of the sea.
Derived words: baleen whale
intrabaleen
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: бале́на
roman: baléna
lang: Bulgarian
word: китова кост
roman: kitova kost
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鯨鬚 /鲸须
roman: jīngxū
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: kit mıyığı
lang: Czech
word: kostice
lang: Dutch
word: balein
lang: Esperanto
word: balenosto
lang: Esperanto
word: balenlameno
lang: Esperanto
word: barto
lang: Finnish
word: hetula
lang: French
word: fanon
lang: German
word: Barte
lang: Greek
word: μπανέλα
roman: banéla
lang: Greek
word: μπαλένα
roman: baléna
lang: Ido
word: barto
lang: Indonesian
word: balin
lang: Italian
word: fanone
lang: Māori
word: pāhautea
lang: Persian
word: صفحه شانهای
lang: Polish
word: fiszbin
lang: Portuguese
word: barbas de baleia
lang: Romanian
word: fanon
lang: Russian
word: кито́вый ус
roman: kitóvyj us
lang: Northern Sami
word: skuogga
lang: Spanish
word: barbas de ballena
lang: Swahili
word: mfupanyangumi
lang: Swedish
word: bard
lang: Ukrainian
word: кито́вий вус
roman: kytóvyj vus
beachcomber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bakiz
Proto-West Germanic *baki
Old English bæċ
Middle English bache
English beach
English comber
English beachcomber
From beach + comber.
Inflected forms:
form: beachcombers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beach-comber
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A seaman who is not prepared to work but hangs around port areas living off the charity of others.
pos: noun
examples: The society of beach-combers always repays the small pains you need be at to enjoy it. They are easy of approach and affable in conversation.
gloss: Any loafer around a waterfront.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who collects marine salvage at the coast.
pos: noun
examples: Now and again a wreck was to be seen, or a vessel left lonely and sad on a reef, her rigging dismantled and only waiting for beachcombers to come and break her up for the sake of her timber and old iron.
gloss: A long rolling wave of the sea.
pos: noun
Translations: