yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
whichever
Part of speech: det
pron
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English qwichever, whiche ever, whiche evere, which ever, which evere; equivalent to which + ever.
Compound parts: which
ever
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Which ever; emphatic form of 'which'.
pos: det
tags: interrogative
examples: Good heavens! Whichever button did you press to make that happen?!
gloss: Regardless of the ... that; no matter which.
pos: det
examples: It won't work, whichever buttons you press.
Whichever book you borrow, be sure to return it to the library on time.
gloss: Any or either ... that; the ... that.
pos: det
examples: Choose whichever card you like.
Borrow whichever books interest you.
I'll buy whichever shirt is cheapest.
gloss: According to or depending upon which.
pos: det
examples: I'll buy the red shirt or the blue shirt, whichever one is cheaper.
If the work is of joint authorship, the copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author who first dies, or upon the death of the author who dies last, whichever period is longer.
gloss: Which ever; emphatic form of 'which'.
pos: pron
tags: interrogative
examples: These chocolates all look delicious. Whichever shall I choose?
gloss: Irrespective of the one(s) that; no matter which one(s).
pos: pron
examples: Whichever you pick, be content with it.
gloss: Any or either one(s) that; the one(s) that.
pos: pron
examples: I have a few books; please borrow whichever interest you.
They have lots of shirts, but I'll buy whichever is cheapest.
Whichever of you gets here first will get the prize.
gloss: Any or either one(s).
pos: pron
tags: informal
examples: I don't mind which you have. Take whichever.
gloss: According to or depending upon which one(s).
pos: pron
examples: I'll buy the red shirt or the blue shirt, whichever is cheaper.
Synonyms: whichsoever
Derived words: whichever way one slices it
Translations:
pullet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English polet, pulet, from Anglo-Norman pullet, Old French poulet (“young chicken”); polette (“young hen”), from poule (“hen”), from Vulgar Latin pulla, feminine form of pullus. Doublet of poult. Compare also Middle English pulle. By surface analysis, pull(us) + -et.
Inflected forms:
form: pullets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young hen, especially one less than a year old.
pos: noun
examples: They died not because the Pullets would not feed: but because the Devil foresaw their death, he contrived that abstinence in them.
The dinner-hour being arrived, Black George carried her up a pullet, the squire himself [...] attending the door.
he recommended that the patient [...] should be fed with chicken broth, and suggested that as all the poultry had gone to roost, Maggie would find a fat young pullet an easy capture.
The writer complained that a fox had been the night before and killed three more of his pullets […].
“Mrs. Boast can’t have got all these from one hatching,” [Ma] said. “I do believe there’s not more than two cockerels among them.” “The Boasts have got such a head-start with chickens, likely they’re planning to eat friers this summer,” said Pa. “It may be she took a few cockerels out of this flock, looking on them as meat.” “Yes, and replaced them with pullets that will be layers,” Ma guessed. “It would be Mrs. Boast all over. A more generous woman never lived.”
gloss: A spineless person; a coward.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A girl or young woman.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
Related words: poultry
pullulate
birdlet
chick
Translations:
fratricide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle French fratricide or its etymon Latin frātricīdium.
Inflected forms:
form: fratricides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The killing of one's brother (or sister).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.
Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).
gloss: The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: From January on, Third Army also spent a good deal of energy trying to solve the problem of fratricide, the killing or injuring of one's own forces by what is ironically called 'friendly fire,'[…]
Such a press of arms invites many opportunities for unintentional fratricide.
gloss: The undesirable situation where the separate missiles from a MIRV interfere with each other as they explode.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
Related words: homicide
patricide
regicide
Derived words: fratricidal
nuclear fratricide
Translations:
chthonian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χθόνιος (khthónios, “in or under the ground”), from χθών (khthṓn, “ground”).
Inflected forms:
form: more chthonian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chthonian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chthonians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the underworld; being beneath the earth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: Consus, moreover, is regarded as a god of the lower world, or Chthonian divinity—another circumstance which connects him with Poseidôn, whose character becomes more and more Chthonian the farther his cultus is traced into the East, where also his phase as lord of knowledge and wisdom appears more manifestly.
...I intend to apply the name chthonian to all gods and spirits of the earth, whether their functions are concerned with agriculture or with the grave and the world beyond, or (as often) with both.
The Olympian religion is truly Olympian when it rests on Chthonian grounds, and the Chthonian religion is truly Chthonian when it stands in the Olympian light.
Even an “Olympian” deity such as Athena Polias at Athens may have chthonian features, such as her association with the snake, a creature symbolic of the earth.
For example, the Oresteia, 'that treasure house of chthonian concepts' (Scullion 1994: 111), categorizes gods in ways that do not match the rigid terms of the foundational scholarship on Olympian versus chthonian deities.
gloss: A dweller in the mythical underworld.
pos: noun
Translations:
inhibit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin inhibitus, perfect passive participle of inhibeō (“to hold in, check, restrain”), from in (“in, at, on”), + habeō (“to have, hold, keep”).
Inflected forms:
form: inhibits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inhibiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: inhibited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: inhibited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hold in or hold back; to keep in check; restrain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: inhibit someone's freedom
inhibit someone's education
gloss: To recuse.
pos: verb
tags: Philippines
Related words: exhibit
exhibition
exhibitor
inhibition
inhibitor
inhibitory
Derived words: autoinhibit
baroinhibit
coinhibit
disinhibit
enzyme-inhibiting medication
immunoinhibit
inhibin
inhibitability
inhibitable
inhibitant
inhibiter
inhibitive
Müllerian-inhibiting hormone
photoinhibit
transinhibit
Translations:
diglossia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
pathology
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From Latin diglōssia. In linguistics introduced 1959 by Charles A. Ferguson, based on French diglossie, from Ancient Greek δίγλωσσος (díglōssos, “bilingual”) + -ία (-ía). Equivalent to di- + -glossia.
Affixes: di-
-glossia
Inflected forms:
form: diglossy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The coexistence in a given population of two closely related native languages or dialects, one of which is regarded as more prestigious than the other; the similar coexistence of two unrelated languages.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: To begin with, of the two varieties involved in diglossia, the one serving (H)igh societal functions, unlike that reserved for (L)ow ones, is nobody's mother tongue: it is learned in later life largely by formal education, and is not used for ordinary conversation. Secondly, the diglossic contrast concerns widely divergent varieties, as opposed to stylistic contrasts which tend to be small-scale. Moreover, diglossia occurs within a single language, while bilingualism or multilingualism, involve far more divergent linguistic systems.
2000, Joshua A. Fishman, Chapter 3: Bilingualism with and without diglossia; diglossia with and without bilingualism, Li Wei (editor), The Bilingualism Reader, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), page 81,
It is the purpose of this chapter to relate these two research traditions to each other by tracing the interaction between their two major constructs: bilingualism (on the part of psychologists) and diglossia (on the part of sociologists).
Only very small and isolated communities display neither diglossia nor bilingualism.
gloss: The presence of a cleft or doubled tongue.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: diglossic
polyglossia
Translations:
wedlock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wedlok, wedlocke (“wedlock, marriage, matrimony”), from Old English wedlāc (“marriage vow, pledge, plighted troth, wedlock”). By surface analysis, wed + -lock.
Inflected forms:
form: wedlocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being married.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: If I were about to marry, I should try it; that is, if I were a student of girldom with a view to wedlock for in truth, I am a marrying man.
Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
gloss: A wife; a married woman.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: that lovely payre, / Enlincked fast in wedlockes loyall bond, / Bold Marinell with Florimell the fayre […]
Which of these is thy Wedlock, Menelaus? thy Hellen? thy Lucrece? that we may do her Honour; mad Boy?
What is it then but that desire which God put into Adam in Paradise before he knew the sin of incontinence; that desire which God saw it was not good that man should be left alone to burn in; the desire and longing to put off an unkindly solitarines by uniting another body, but not without a fit soule to his in the cheerfull society of wedlock.
Related words: bridelock
Derived words: bedlock
break wedlock
out of wedlock
Translations:
matrimony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French matremoine, from Latin mātrimōnium (“marriage, wedlock”), from mātri(s) (“mother”) + -mōnium (“obligation”). By surface analysis, matri- + -mony. Compare patrimony.
Inflected forms:
form: matrimonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Marriage; the state of being married.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it.
[…]you can play around with girls without being involved in meshes of sentiment, and you can do anything and be justified—and here am I with the brains to do everything, yet tied to the sinking ship of future matrimony.
gloss: The ceremony of marriage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A particular solitaire card game using two decks of cards.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A spouse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Related words: acrimony
alimony
ceremony
harmony
parsimony
patrimony
sanctimony
testimony
wedding
Derived words: holy matrimony
matrimonial
matrimony vine
muttrimony
Translations:
weedkiller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From weed + killer.
Compound parts: weed
killer
Inflected forms:
form: weedkillers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weed killer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: weed-killer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A chemical agent that destroys unwanted plants (weeds) but not wanted ones (crops etc).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
unwanted
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English wanted
English unwanted
From un- + wanted.
Inflected forms:
form: more unwanted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unwanted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unwanteds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not wanted; unwelcome.
pos: adj
examples: I rebuffed his unwanted advances.
Once finances are stabilised, getting Crossrail finished is Byford's most obvious task. Late and over budget, it is causing unwanted headlines and friction between the London Mayor and the Department for Transport that both sides would rather live without.
When asked why the devices were retrofitted on older models instead of newer ones, Sarno said the MTA typically uses older car models when making modifications in case there are any unwanted effects.
gloss: One who or that is not wanted; an undesirable.
pos: noun
examples: What slaves they had bought to carry the goods of the interior back to the coast were the unwanteds of the villages — the persons convicted of crime who would normally have been killed or banished from their communities […]
There were no thoughts of hydrogen bombs or CBW or contraceptives or removing unwanteds. It was the old America, the old order restored, and the President saw that it was Good.
Translations:
maltose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English malt
Ancient Greek γλεῦκος (gleûkos)der.
French glucose
English glucosebf.
English -ose
English maltose
From malt + -ose.
Inflected forms:
form: maltoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A disaccharide, C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁ formed from the digestion of starch by amylase; is converted to glucose by maltase; it is an isomer of trehalose
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
touse
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tousen, tusen, from Old English *tūsian, from Proto-West Germanic *tūsōn. Cognate with German zausen (“to tousle”). Related also to English tease and toase.
(a noisy disturbance): Compare typologically Russian раздра́й (razdráj) (<… драть (dratʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: touses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tousing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toused
pos: verb
tags: past
form: towze
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: touses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: towze
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To rumple, tousle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To pull to pieces.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His tongue troules like a Mill-clack: a towzes the Lady ſiſters, as a tumbling Dog does young Rabets; […]
How did he like it when the live creatures
Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
Came in, each one, for his right of trover?
gloss: a noisy disturbance
pos: noun
Derived words: touser
tousle
tousy
Translations:
gribble
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Compare grub, from Proto-Germanic *grub- (“to dig”).
Inflected forms:
form: gribbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more gribble
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gribble
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various wood-boring marine crustaceans of the genus Limnoria, especially Limnoria lignorum, which cause damage to underwater wooden structures.
pos: noun
gloss: Tending to grumble; grumpy, irascible.
pos: adj
examples: You're always gribble first thing in the morning.
Translations:
ard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian ard (“plough”), from Old Norse arðr, from Proto-Germanic *arþrą (“plough”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érh₃trom (“plough”), whence also Latin aratrum.
Inflected forms:
form: ards
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.
pos: noun
Translations:
amylase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From amyl- + -ase.
Base: amyl
Inflected forms:
form: amylases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a class of digestive enzymes, present in saliva and also contributed to the gut by the exocrine pancreas, that break down complex carbohydrates such as starch into simpler sugars such as glucose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: egg yolk amylase
Egg yolks contain a starch-digesting enzyme, amylase, that is remarkably resistant to heat. Unless a starch-egg mix is brought to a full boil, the yolk amylase will survive, digest the starch, and turn the stiff cream into a pourable one.
Translations:
interoperate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English operate
English interoperate
From inter- (“between, mutual”) + operate (“work”).
Inflected forms:
form: interoperates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: interoperating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: interoperated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: interoperated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To work reliably with another system.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It took weeks to get the two email systems to interoperate.
Translations:
coexistence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin co-der.
English co-
English existence
English coexistence
From co- + existence.
Inflected forms:
form: coexistences
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: co-existence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coëxistence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: The state of two or more things existing together, usually in a temporal or spatial sense, with or without mutual interaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Cadieux agreed peaceful coexistence was possible.
The day of horror Israel has just experienced signals the end of the Netanyahu experiment in violent coexistence.
While the PSOE’s leader and caretaker prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, argues that the act of clemency would help promote coexistence after the tumultuous political and territorial crisis of 2017, his opponents have decried the move as a cynical and self-serving means of remaining in power.
Translations:
runt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
media
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
publishing
sciences
typography
Etymology: The OED classifies this word as "of obscure origin". Some see a connection to Middle Dutch runt (“ox”), but the OED considers this to be unlikely. Possibly connected to Icelandic hrotti meaning "brute".
Inflected forms:
form: runts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The smallest animal of a litter.
pos: noun
examples: Sometimes, as we have seen, one member of a litter is a runt, much smaller than the rest. He is unable to fight for food as strongly as the rest, and runts often die. We have considered the conditions under which it would actually pay a mother to let a runt die.
gloss: The smallest child in the family.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: the runt of the family
gloss: Undersized or stunted plant, animal or person.
pos: noun
gloss: An uninfluential or unimportant person; a nobody.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
pos: noun
gloss: A single word (or portion of a hyphenated word) that appears as the last line of a paragraph.
pos: noun
gloss: A breed of pigeon related to the carrier pigeon.
pos: noun
gloss: A hardened stem or stalk of a plant.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
examples: Neither young poles nor old runts are durable
gloss: A bow.
pos: noun
Derived words: kale runt
runt disease
runted
runting
runtish
runtling
runt of the litter
runty
Translations:
sempre
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian semprebor.
English sempre
Borrowed from Italian sempre (“always, still”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: always, still; maintaining the same style
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
weighbridge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰeti
Proto-Germanic *weganą
Proto-West Germanic *wegan
Old English wegan
Middle English weyen
English weigh
English bridge
English weighbridge
From weigh + bridge.
Inflected forms:
form: weighbridges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a platform, flush with the roadway, having a mechanism for weighing vehicles, wagons, livestock, etc.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Near-synonym: weigh station
A further loop siding is passed at Park House, and, just before reaching the power house, the line runs over a 20-ton Avery wagon weighbridge.
Translations:
weightlifting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From weight + lifting.
Compound parts: weight
lifting
Inflected forms:
form: weight lifting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: weight-lifting
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of exercise in which weights are lifted.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: weight training
pumping iron
Derived words: weightlifting chalk
Translations:
weir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English were, from Old English wer, from werian (“to dam up”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover”); Cognate with Old Norse ver (“station for fishing”), Sanskrit वृणोति (vṛṇóti). Related to warranty.
Inflected forms:
form: weirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wear
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: wier
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: wyer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.
pos: noun
examples: Though Hambleden's parish register records the death, in 1753, of a bargeman 'Kill'd by accident, shooting ye lock', the turbulent waters of Mill End weir on the River Thames, about a mile from the village, still attract canoeists.
The weir must not represent a physical barrier to fish migration, both locally and throughout the whole river system. If necessary, a fishway is included in the weir.
A walkway over the weir is likely to be useful for the removal of floating debris trapped by the weir, or for working staunches and sluices on it as the rate of flow changes.
gloss: A fence placed across a river to catch fish.
pos: noun
examples: The Taff is naturally a good salmon river, the Ely a sea trout river, but what with weirs and pollusions the fish have been pretty well exterminated.
The weir catch of mackerel at Monomoy and along Cape Cod has been a failure.
For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
gloss: Seaweed.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: Bridge of Weir
Countess Wear
leaky weir
lock-weir
Porlock Weir
unweired
wasteweir
weired
Weir Views
Translations:
laxative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French laxatif, from Latin laxātīvus (literally “relaxing, loosening”).
Inflected forms:
form: more laxative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most laxative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: laxatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the effect of moving the bowels, or aiding digestion and preventing constipation.
pos: adj
examples: BOlvs in Engliſh is called a morſell. It is a medicine laxatiue, in forme & faſhion it is meanely whole, & it is ſwallowed by litle gobbets.
gloss: Any substance, such as a food or in the form of a medicine which has a laxative effect.
pos: noun
examples: According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the US is having a love affair with laxatives; Americans of all ages are ingesting so much of the stuff that there are now shortages nationwide.
Translations:
antifreeze
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
automotive
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
English freeze
English antifreeze
From anti- + freeze.
Inflected forms:
form: antifreezes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anti-freeze
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: anti-freeze
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A substance, such as glycol, used to lower the freezing point of water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Automotive antifreeze, a solution of ethylene glycol, used as an additive to water or a replacement for water, in the radiator of a motorcar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A deicer, a heated glycol solution used to remove ice from the aerodynamic surfaces of an airplane, and to prevent icing while on the tarmac.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of or pertaining to such a substance.
pos: adj
Related words: antifreezing
Translations:
thereon
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Old English þǣron, equivalent to there + on.
Compound parts: there
on
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: On that: on (top of) it.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: thereover, thereabove
Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
gloss: About that: about it (concerning it, regarding it).
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Related words: —
henceafter
henceforth
henceforward
henceforwards
hencefrom
hereabout
hereabouts
hereabove
hereafter
hereafters
hereagainst
hereamong
hereanent
hereat
hereaway
herebefore
hereby
herefor
herefore
hereforth
hereforward
hereforwards
herefrom
herehence
hereinabove
hereinafter
hereinbefore
hereinbelow
hereinelsewhere
hereinsoever
hereinto
hereinunder
heremid
hereof
hereon
hereout
hereover
herethrough
herethroughout
hereto
heretofore
hereunto
hereupon
herewith
herewithal
herewithin
herewithout
hitherto
hitherunto
hitherward
hitherwards
howbeit
however
howso
howsoever
howsomedever
howsomever
thataway
thatwise
thenceafter
thenceforth
thenceforward
thenceforwards
thencefrom
thenceout
thereabout
thereabouts
thereabove
thereacross
thereafter
thereafters
thereagain
thereagainst
therealong
thereamong
thereamongst
thereanent
therearound
thereat
thereaway
therebefore
therebeside
therebetween
therebeyond
thereby
therever
therefor
therefore
thereforth
therefrom
therehence
thereinabove
thereinafter
thereinbefore
thereinbelow
thereinto
thereinunder
theremid
thereof
thereout
thereover
theresoever
therethrough
therethroughout
thereto
theretofore
thereunto
thereup
thereupon
therewith
therewithal
therewithin
therewithout
thisaway
thiswise
thitherinsoever
thitherto
thitherward
thitherwards
whatever
whatso
whatsoever
whatsomedever
whatsomever
whatwise
whenabout
whenabouts
whenas
whenever
whenso
whensoever
whensomever
whenceafter
whencever
whenceforth
whenceforward
whencefrom
whenceward
whencewards
whereabout
whereabouts
whereabove
whereafter
whereafters
whereagainst
wherealong
whereamong
whereamongst
whereanent
wherearound
whereas
whereat
whereaway
wherebefore
wherebeside
wherebetween
wherebeyond
whereby
wherever
wherefor
wherefore
whereforth
wherefrom
wherehence
whereinabove
whereinafter
whereinbefore
whereinbelow
whereinsoever
whereinto
whereinunder
wheremid
whereof
whereon
whereout
whereover
whereso
wheresoever
wheresomever
wherethrough
wherethroughout
whereto
wheretofore
whereunto
whereup
whereupon
wherewith
wherewithal
wherewithin
wherewithout
whitherever
whitherinsoever
whitherso
whitherto
whithertofore
whitherward
whitherwards
whyever
whyfor
whyso
whysoever
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form
Translations:
embroidery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French embrouderie, from embrouder + -erie. By surface analysis, embroider + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: embroideries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The ornamentation of fabric using needlework.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A piece of embroidered fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid's clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’
gloss: The elaboration of an account, etc. with details, especially when fictitious.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
Derived words: Assisi embroidery
embroidery hoop
gold embroidery
reembroidery
Russian embroidery
Translations:
narthex
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νάρθηξ (nárthēx, “giant fennel; casket”), a Pre-Greek word, as suggested by the suffix. See also νάρδος (nárdos, “nard”).
Inflected forms:
form: narthexes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: narthices
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A western vestibule leading to the nave in some Christian churches.
pos: noun
examples: we were in the antechamber, called the narthex, which runs across the front of any Byzantine church [...].
One of these was Cardinal Jacopo Stefaneschi, [...] who had now conceived ambitious plans for paintings to decorate the entire narthex, or entrance porch, of Avignon's ancient cathedral.
“Cinco,” Marco bellowed now, hurrying across the narthex to give him a hearty handshake, which Cinco returned without enthusiasm.
Translations:
vestibule
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Early 17th century, borrowed from French vestibule (“entrance court”), from Latin vestibulum (“forecourt, entrance court; entrance”), from vestiō (“to dress, clothe, vest”) + -bulum (“place, location”, nominal suffix). Doublet of vestibulum.
Base: vestiō
Affixes: -bulum
Inflected forms:
form: vestibules
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vestibuling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vestibuled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vestibuled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To furnish with a vestibule or vestibules.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: the vestibuled platform
Translations:
sodic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic سُوَيْدَاء (suwaydāʔ)bor.
Italian sodabor.
English soda
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English sodic
From soda + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more sodic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sodic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or containing sodium.
pos: adj
Translations:
nitwit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: First attested in the 1910s in the US Northeast. Likely from German nit, dialect form of nichts (“nothing”), or Yiddish ניט (nit), dialect form of נישט (nisht, “no”), although some dictionaries give the alternative etymology nit (“louse egg; something very small”) + wit.
Compound parts: nit
wit
Inflected forms:
form: nitwits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A scatterbrained or stupid person.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: If you don't remember you are a nitwit. If you do answer, well, you know what the penalty is for perjury.
"Don't be a nitwit, honey!" says Adele. "Here, let me open the door! Ma be I did leave them lights on, though it ain't ike me!"
Translations:
sabot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Early 17th century, borrowed from Middle French sabot (see French sabot below). Doublet of sabaton and ciabatta.
Inflected forms:
form: sabots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sabots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saboting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saboted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saboted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wooden shoe.
pos: noun
examples: She was a tiny little woman and wore big sabots and a big scoop.
gloss: A carrier around a projectile in a firearm, cannon or other type of artillery piece that precisely holds the projectile within the barrel.
pos: noun
examples: discarding sabot
gloss: To enclose (a projectile) in a sabot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: sabotage
saboteur
Derived words: saboted
Translations:
well-advised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-advised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-advised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Benefiting from careful prior advice or counsel.
pos: adj
examples: He would be well advised to be cautious, despite the fragile ceasefire that the US President Donald Trump and the Emir of Qatar brokered. Though President Trump reportedly told Israel not to kill Iran's supreme leader, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not rule it out.
Translations:
jurat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Medieval Latin iūrātus (“sworn [man]”) or iūrātum (“[that which is] sworn”), from Latin iūrō (“to swear an oath”). As a medieval office, via French jurat, via Occitan juré.
Inflected forms:
form: jurats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sworn statement concerning where, when, and before whom an oath has been made.
pos: noun
examples: The affidavit's jurat reads "Sworn this __ day of ________, 20__, before me" and is followed by the notary's signature. Looks like she forgot to fill it in.
gloss: A sworn person
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
gloss: A sworn person
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A sworn person
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A sworn person
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Guernsey and Jersey have twelve jurats each, and Alderney six.
The Jurat came of a good old Guernsey family which, in the Middle Ages, always had the sense to fight on the side paid best [...].
gloss: A sworn person
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
gloss: A sworn person
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
Translations:
certificate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is from Middle English certificat, certificate, sertyfycat, from Middle French certificat or its etymon Medieval Latin certificātum. The verb is from the noun. The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin certificātus.
Inflected forms:
form: certificates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: certificating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: certificated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: certificated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more certificate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most certificate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To supply with a certificate, especially following certification.
pos: verb
gloss: Certified, assured.
pos: adj
Translations:
certify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Old French certefier (“confirm, assure, make certain”). Compare French certifier.
Inflected forms:
form: certifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: certifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: certified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: certified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To attest to (a fact) as the truth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To authenticate or verify in writing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To attest that a product, service, organization, or person has met an official standard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: These blankets have been certified as fireproof.
gloss: To inform; to tell (a person) that something is true.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Our deeds do us three manners of service. First, they certify us that we are heirs of everlasting life, and that the Spirit of God, which is the earnest thereof, is in us.
gloss: To assure (oneself) of something; to ascertain.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
reflexive
examples: After having certified himself of her own good health, he very kindly inquired about her mother and Miss Sophy […].
Derived words: certifiability
certifiable
decertify
miscertify
overcertify
precertify
recertify
self-certify
uncertify
Translations:
urn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English urne, from Old French urne, from Latin urna (“vessel”). Doublet of urna.
Inflected forms:
form: urns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: urne
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: urns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: urning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: urned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: urned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: urne
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A vase with a footed base.
pos: noun
examples: A rustic, digging in the ground by Padua, […]found an urn, or earthen pot, in which there was another urn.
His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, / And once more join us in the pious urn.
Mary Fibbs and all her friends start making coughing noises whenever I come near them, and then they all giggle and Mary says Grandfather mixes his cough medicine in the urns on top of the gate posts after dark with his umbrella, and now Jessamy!
gloss: A metal vessel for serving tea or coffee.
pos: noun
gloss: A vessel for the ashes or cremains of a deceased person.
pos: noun
examples: So draw him home to those that mourn
⁠In vain; a favourable speed
⁠Ruffle thy mirror’d mast, and lead
Thro’ prosperous floods his holy urn.
gloss: Any place of burial; the grave.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, / Tombless, with no remembrance over them.
gloss: A measure of capacity for liquids, containing about three gallons and a half, wine measure. It was half the amphora, and four times the congius.
pos: noun
tags: Roman
historical
gloss: A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca.
pos: noun
gloss: To place in an urn.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: cinerary urn
knife urn
lachrymal urn
tea urn
urn moss
urn tree
Translations:
eating
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English etynge, from Old English eting.
Inflected forms:
form: eatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Bred to be eaten.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: eating chickens; eating quails
gloss: Suitable to be eaten without being cooked.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Wait! That's not an eating apple.
gloss: The act of ingesting food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Arabs consider the eating of mushrooms as an aphrodisiac aid.
gloss: Food; cooking, cuisine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dialectal
informal
uncountable
examples: I remember when we visited Aunt Martha's house, we had some really good eating!
These pears are good eating.
gloss: The act of corroding or consuming some substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: eating apple
eating disorder
eating habit
eating house
eating irons
eating psychopathology
emotional eating
fish-eating
intuitive eating
large leaf-eating ladybird
miseating
plant-eating
sin eating
snake-eating cobra
social eating
stress eating
worm-eating warbler
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أَكْل
roman: ʔakl
lang: Bulgarian
word: хра́нене
roman: hránene
lang: Chichewa
word: kudyá
lang: Czech
word: jídlo
lang: Czech
word: jezení
lang: Finnish
word: syöminen
lang: Finnish
word: ruokailu
lang: German
word: Essen
lang: East Central German
word: Assn
lang: Hebrew
word: אֲכִילָה
lang: Hindi
word: भक्षण
roman: bhakṣaṇ
lang: Hungarian
word: evés
lang: Indonesian
word: pemakanan
lang: Ingrian
word: söömiin
lang: Italian
word: mangiare
lang: Japanese
word: 食べること
roman: taberu koto
lang: Kabyle
word: učči
lang: Korean
word: 먹기
roman: meokgi
lang: Macedonian
word: јадење
roman: jadenje
lang: Malay
word: pemakanan
lang: Ngarrindjeri
word: yayun
lang: Old English
word: ǣt
lang: Polish
word: jedzenie
lang: Portuguese
word: consumível
lang: Russian
word: приём пи́щи
roman: prijóm píšči
lang: Russian
word: приня́тие пи́щи
roman: prinjátije píšči
lang: Swahili
word: kula
lang: Telugu
word: తినుట
roman: tinuṭa
lang: Zigula
word: kudya class 15
cremains
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of cremated + remains. Apparently originally a euphemism used by undertakers.
Compound parts: cremated
remains
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Cremated remains of a deceased person.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Some people prefer to keep the cremains in their homes in a special place.
Paul's cremains arrived by limo service less than an hour before the living room memorial.
Because of these remaining bone fragments, the cremains must be pulverized to a grainy powder before any scattering of ashes.
Translations:
consuming
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more consuming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most consuming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: consumings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Holding one's attention or interest.
pos: adj
examples: a consuming passion
gloss: consumption; the process by which something is consumed
pos: noun
examples: […] in Greek philosophy world cycles and world incinerations were immanent processes of nature, the self-consumings of the cosmic process, which have their corresponding self-restorations.
Translations:
smarm
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: The noun is attested since 1914, from the colloquial verb smalm, smarm (“to smear, bedaub (hair, with pomade)”), attested since 1847, of unknown origin, perhaps somehow suggestive of the action. Verbal meaning "to smear with flattery" is from 1902.
Inflected forms:
form: smarms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smarms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smarming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smarmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smarmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Smarmy language or behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Phil Hartman, the voice and soul of McClure, was the king of making everything sounds cheerful and positive, no matter how grim. McClure was the personification of smarm. He alone could say, “Your children are missing. I know because I murdered them with my own hands!” and make it sound like good news.
gloss: A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: To fawn, to be unctuous.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To address in a fawning and unctuous manner.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "If you go to her and smarm her, it will be all right."
"If I do what to her?" asked Mervyn, wondering what the operation of smarming might be.
"Of course you don't know," laughed Aggie; "it is a school word. You explain what it means, Isabel."
"To smarm," explained Isabel, "signifies to say 'yes ma'am,' or 'yes marm,' to a governess when she is rating you. It is ah expressive word, isn't it? It means 'to conciliate by assent;' that is the best definition that I can give of it."
"Excellent word," said Mervyn. "Then. I am to smarm your mamma, am I, Aggie?["]
He rose ... on his wife's fortune and judicious smarming of powerful people.
Translations:
converge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin convergere, from con- (“together”) + vergere (“to bend”).
Base: vergere
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: converges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: converging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: converged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: converged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: (said of two or more entities) To approach each other; to get closer and closer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: ideas converge
The mountains converge into a single ridge.
Between them, and fitted with the necessary turntables, capstans, and other appliances for transferring the small four-wheel carriages and vans from one track to another, were 14 tracks which converged outside the station into double-track through the Maiden Lane Tunnel, 528 yd. in length.
I am walking down a snowy street in Brookline. Three men and I converge at a front door, introduce ourselves, and shake hands.
gloss: (said of a sequence or series) To have a (finite, proper) limit.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: (said of an iterative process) To reach a stable end point.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to converge; to bring together.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Microsoft Windows 98 software installer
By converging real-time 2-D and 3-D graphics, digital video and audio, and the Internet, Windows 98 redefines the role of the computer as an entertainment platform.
Antonyms: diverge
Related words: divergence
Derived words: convergence
hyperconverged
unconverged
convergement
convergent
converger
deconvergence
equiconvergence
misconverge
misconvergence
postconvergence
reconverge
semiconvergence
Translations:
contraceptive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined in the 20th century from contra- + conceptive; compare the related contraception.
Base: conceptive
Affixes: contra-
Inflected forms:
form: more contraceptive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contraceptive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: contraceptives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That acts to prevent conception as a result of sexual intercourse.
pos: adj
examples: She was careful to take her contraceptive pill at the same time every day.
This has led to the selection of 4-guanidinobenzoates with either acetamenophen or ethylparaben as the phenol moiety for clinical evaluation, because they are orders of magnitude more contraceptive than nonoxynol-9 and less irritating to the vagina.
gloss: A mechanism or means by which conception as a result of sexual intercourse can be prevented or made less likely.
pos: noun
examples: Putting a pig's bladder over one's penis before intercourse is not a good contraceptive.
The document covers the following family planning methods: combined oral contraceptives (COCs), combined injectable contraceptives (CICs), progestogen-only pills (POPs), depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), norethisterone enantate (NET-EN), levonorgestrel implants, emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs), copper-bearing interuterine devices, levonorgestrel-releasing interuterine devices (LNG IUDs), fertility awareness-based methods, and sterilization.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved the oral contraceptive Opill for over-the-counter use, making it the first nonprescription birth control pill in the United States, but it will be months before it’s available. […] Amies Oelschlager said in a statement that oral contraceptives that contain estrogen may cause side effects such as headaches, nausea, and breast tenderness.
Translations: