yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
latticed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more latticed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most latticed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Provided with latticework; having a pattern of fretwork.
pos: adj
examples: In the seclusion of the latticed fern house, now that dusk had fallen, he lit his pipe[.]
gloss: Shaped or arranged like a lattice.
pos: adj
Derived words: unlatticed
Translations:
latticework
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lattice
English -work
English latticework
From lattice + -work.
Inflected forms:
form: latticeworks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lattice-work
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lattice or lattice-like structure; interlacing laths or strips.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A vine-like latticework of stars frosted the southern sky, and with his eyes he interlinked these spangled vines till he could trace many ice-white resemblances ...
On the former North Eastern Railway the signalling methods followed for many years resulted in a great number of structures being provided, all of substantial design, with tall latticework posts and sometimes duplicate arms below.
Decorative arches intersect the graceful latticework of the expansive ridge and furrow trainshed rooves, woven together by a staggering tessellation of 48,000 glass panels.
Translations:
Coca-Cola
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.
Inflected forms:
form: Coca-Colas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A serving of Coca-Cola.
pos: noun
Translations:
squidge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: squidges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squidging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squidged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squidged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: squidges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To squash, most often between one's fingers.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: The babies, giggled, smiled, and squidged dirt and dandelions between their fingers.
gloss: To fire a wink with a squidger.
pos: verb
examples: Gyles Brandreth (1991), The Book of Solo Games, →ISBN, page 63: “The object of the game is to be the first player to squidge all one's winks into the cup.”
gloss: A tight space; squeeze.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: If we go into the elevator too, it'll be a bit of a squidge.
gloss: The act of firing a wink with a squidger.
pos: noun
Related words: squash
Derived words: squidgy
Translations:
meagre
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mathematics
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
set-theory
Etymology: From Middle French maigre.
Inflected forms:
form: meagres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: meagrer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: meagrest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: meager
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: meagres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meagring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meagred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meagred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: meager
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An edible fish, of species Argyrosomus regius, of the family Sciaenidae, found from the Black Sea to the eastern Atlantic.
pos: noun
examples: 1986, A. Wysokiński, The Living Marine Resources of the Southeast Atlantic, FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 178, page 48,
Among more valuable species some of them are worth mentioning, especially littoral forms as: meagres and other croakers (Sciaenidae), grunters (Pomadasyidae), threadfins (Polynemidae), groupers (Serranidae), snappers (Lutjanidae) […] .
It is striking that these represent meagres (Argyrosomus regius), a species never mentioned in classical texts.
Meagres (Argyrosomus regius, 230 cm, 103 kg) have been raised mainly in Spain, France and Italy.
gloss: Having little flesh; lean; thin.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
common
examples: […]meagre were his looks; / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones:
gloss: Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
common
examples: Nothing will grow in this meagre soil.
He was given a meagre piece of cake that he swallowed in one bite.
His education had been but meagre.
It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the present rail passenger service is meagre and between Wetherby and Church Fenton almost non-existent.
Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.
gloss: Of a set: such that, considered as a subset of a (usually larger) topological space, it is in a precise sense small or negligible.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
common
gloss: Dry and harsh to the touch (e.g., as chalk).
pos: adj
tags: Canada
UK
common
gloss: To make lean.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
UK
common
transitive
examples: I am meagred to a skeleton; my nose is broiled to flaming heat, and I am suffering the greatest inconvenience from the loss of my baggage which I fear the enemy have taken with my servant at Konigsberg.
Derived words: comeagre
meagrely
meagreness
Translations:
meagerly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meager
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English meagerly
From meager + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more meagerly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most meagerly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: meagrely
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a meager way; poorly; inadequately.
pos: adv
Translations:
meagrely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meagre
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English meagrely
From meagre + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more meagrely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most meagrely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: meagerly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a meagre way; poorly; inadequately.
pos: adv
Translations:
lopen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lopens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A teacher or master.
pos: noun
Translations:
overtly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English overt
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English overtly
From overt + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more overtly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most overtly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an overt manner; publicly; openly.
pos: adv
examples: Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist.
The arrival of Trump in the White House gave a new urgency to the idea that museums needed to decolonize” their collections, atone for their past elitism, and become overtly political institutions rather than mere warehouses of valuable objects.
An outright far-right victory in the two-round poll, which commences on 30 June, could render Macron a lame duck, doomed to cohabit” with an overtly xenophobic, Islamophobic, authoritarian and illiberal government led, prospectively, by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s young protege
The message from this week’s election – and from the angry, at times overtly sexist and authoritarian rhetoric that Mr. Trump used on the campaign trail – is that America is a deeply, angrily, unstably divided country.
Antonyms: in secret
covertly
Translations:
replicon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English replic(ate)
English -on
English replicon
From replic(ate) + -on.
Inflected forms:
form: replicons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A DNA molecule or a region of DNA that replicates as an individual unit. A replicon may be, for instance, a chromosome, a plasmid or a phage.
pos: noun
examples: During cell division there is a probability that either or both of the master replicons will misreplicate and one of the daughter cells will be missing a master copy.
Translations:
reversionary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English reversion
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusder.
Middle English -arie
English -ary
English reversionary
From reversion + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: reversionaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more reversionary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reversionary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A reversioner.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to reversion, especially that of an estate.
pos: adj
examples: a reversionary interest or right
If this was unrestricted freehold, the land is available for sale or lease, although often it is not readily marketable, by reason of its shape and access; neighbouring landowners are possible purchasers. In some cases, reversionary rights were reserved to neighbouring landowners when the land was acquired.
Small animals
Began to mooch around and climb up this
Reversionary desk and dustable heirloom.
Translations:
oud
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Arabic عُود (ʕūd). Doublet of lute.
Inflected forms:
form: ouds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'ud
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oudh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Oriental music is chiefly unrhythmical [...]. It is mostly rendered by a solo voice with accompaniment of the Ud, a kind of lyre or mandolin, or Kanun, resembling a guitar.
Common throughout the Arab and Persian world, the oud is a fretless short-neck lute with a pear-shaped, flat top, rounded back, and a peghead characteristically bent backwards at a very sharp angle. The oud's origins are unknown, although myths attribute either celestial or magical beginnings, it more likely came from ancient Persia.
gloss: Agarwood, in particular the noble rot of Aquilaria trees used to make perfumes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The recent fashion for oud (the noble rot of Aquilaria trees) took flight when YSL released M7, where the oud accord was center stage. It came with an advertising campaign featuring a hairy naked guy, a sight rated “beautiful” by my co-author. Real oud is complex material, with honey, tobacco, leaf, minty-fresh and castoreum animalic notes all mixed together.
Related words: oud bruin
Derived words: oudist
Translations:
kast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Dutch kast, from Middle Dutch caste (“chest”), from Old Dutch *casto (“chest, reservoir”), from Proto-West Germanic *kastō.
Inflected forms:
form: kasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kasten
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of traditional cupboard produced by Dutch settlers in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries
pos: noun
examples: At Clifford A. Wallach tramp art rules absolutely, most unusually in a large cupboard that has the mass of a Dutch kast armoire and is painted light green.
The exhibition includes the kinds of Dutch furnishings that might have been found in 17th- century estates: pewter plates, silver bowls, brass candlesticks, Dutch tiles, Bible boxes, Delft jars and Dutch cupboards, called kasts.
Translations:
uncultivated
Part of speech: adj
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 cultivated
English uncultivated
From un- + cultivated.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncultivated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncultivated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not cultivated by agricultural methods; not prepared for cultivation.
pos: adj
gloss: Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge
pos: adj
examples: I ſaw you were taken with her, which I ſhould not have expected; for after all, it is but a little uncultivated ruſtic, and ſurely rather ſhewy than handſome.
gloss: Not attended to or fostered.
pos: adj
Translations:
unhistorical
Part of speech: adj
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 historical
English unhistorical
From un- + historical.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not historical; not based on history.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There still faintly beamed from the woman's features something of the freshness, and even the prettiness, of her youth; rendering it probable that the personal charms which Tess could boast of were in main part her mother's gift, and therefore unknightly, unhistorical.
If one is a liberal, one hopes that this political consciousness will eventually find less costly forms of expression […] But it would be unhistorical to bemoan the protesters' resort to violence […] Movements of social liberation just don't happen that way, much as we might wish they did.
Translations:
unlicensed
Part of speech: adj
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 licensed
English unlicensed
From un- + licensed.
Inflected forms:
form: more unlicensed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unlicensed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not licensed; not officially authorized.
pos: adj
examples: Since then, three more babies have died in unlicensed child-care programs in Virginia.
gloss: Without permission.
pos: adj
gloss: Free from requiring a license.
pos: adj
Related words: ineligible
unqualified
Translations:
unsaleable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English saleable
English unsaleable
From un- + saleable.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsaleable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsaleable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsalable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: unsaleables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unsalable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not sellable.
pos: adj
examples: Rita was drifting about the shop one morning, and had stopped to meditate glumly over an unsaleable collection of old chairs, when a little old man entered the shop and stopped to eject a loud snort at the chairs, too.
After the fully documented records have been made available for study by experts of other railways in a few months' time, the high-powered diesel-hydraulic locomotive might become an increasingly unsaleable commodity in world markets.
When Torso, a gay male magazine, arrived at Little Sister's bookstore this month, 42 out of 75 pages had been ripped out of it, making it unsaleable.
gloss: Something that cannot be sold.
pos: noun
Translations:
unsalable
Part of speech: noun
adj
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 salable
English unsalable
From un- + salable.
Inflected forms:
form: unsalables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: unsaleable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more unsalable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsalable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unsaleable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Something that cannot be sold.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Not salable; unmerchantable.
pos: adj
examples: The spread ratio of the cookie can be crucial in a commercial plant; if the ratio suddenly changes (in either direction), the cookies may not fit into the carton or tray and may be unsalable because they are unpackageable.
Translations:
mand
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Introduced by B. F. Skinner.
Inflected forms:
form: mands
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A verbal operant in which the response is reinforced by a characteristic consequence and is therefore under the functional control of relevant conditions of deprivation or aversive stimulation.
pos: noun
gloss: To produce a mand (verbal operant).
pos: verb
Translations:
maat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans maat (“mate, buddy”). Doublet of mate.
Inflected forms:
form: maats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: mate; buddy
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
slang
examples: A lot of my maats went west.
Translations:
spontaneously
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spontaneous
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English spontaneously
From spontaneous + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more spontaneously
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most spontaneously
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a spontaneous manner; naturally; voluntarily.
pos: adv
examples: The idea that the body could spontaneously ignite was promoted by the 19th-century temperance movement.
Smaller-scale isolated deaf-education programs had existed previously in 20th-century Nicaragua, Shepard-Kegl says, but the critical mass needed to spontaneously develop Nicaraguan Sign Language only occurred with the opening of Melania Morales.
Translations:
studied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Practiced; self-conscious; careful; not spontaneous.
pos: adj
examples: She gave a studied reply.
He read the letter aloud. Sophia listened with the studied air of one for whom, even in these days, a title possessed some surreptitious allurement.
gloss: Qualified by, or versed in, study; learned.
pos: adj
tags: dated
examples: He is well studied in theology.
I asked a man well read, well studied in Nietzsche, what the lifelong task was. He could not say. He had only read and studied and loved Nietzsche’s books.
I promise, if I wake up as a girl, I will make up for it by having many boys, who will be the most studied and pious boys.
Derived words: misstudied
nonstudied
studiedly
studiedness
understudied
unstudied
Translations:
ascendance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ascendances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ascendence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Ascendancy, superiority; the act of ascending.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The phenomenon coincides with the ascendance of Sinn Féin. Once an IRA mouthpiece with fringe support, it is now Ireland’s most popular party and appears poised to lead the next government.
Translations:
topmost
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English top
Proto-Germanic *-umô
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Indo-European *-tHós
Proto-Indo-European *-istHos
Proto-Germanic *-istaz
Proto-Germanic *-umistaz
Old English -mest
Middle English -mest
▲
Middle English [Term?]influ.
Middle English -most
English -most
English topmost
From top + -most.
Inflected forms:
form: top-most
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At or nearest to the top; uppermost; being the very highest.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Well! well! ^([sic]) cried I, as the coachman turn’d in at the gates, I find I shall do very well : and by the time he had wheel’d round the court, and brought me up to the door, I found myself so much the better for my own lecture, that I neither ascended the steps like a victim to justice, who was to part with life upon the topmost, nor did I mount them with a skip and a couple of strides, as I do when I fly up, Eliza! to thee, to meet it.
When he has defended THE TRIPLE FORTRESS of Religion, Morality, and Literature, from it's^([sic]) foundation to the topmost battlements, must he be left on the field without the common honours of a common soldier?
Does it narrow our notions of life's wonder and dignity to peer into the abyss of being, and learn something of the marvellous laws of things — to discover the same mysterious Something in a snow-flake, in the scent of a rose, in the topmost star of unascended heaven," and in some prayer or aspiration in the soul of man?
While he worked to ply fingers back apart more than not, Kaiselan practised his crouch exploring the outpost's more topmost levels.
gloss: Of greatest status, esteem, or prestige; best.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: If Aeschylus’ art at its topmost excellence is to be seen only in the trilogy of indissolubly connected parts, it is not true, as is sometimes maintained, that his art is to be judged exclusively on the basis of the three-part drama.
Related words: leftmost
rightmost
Translations:
digestive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French digestif, from Late Latin dīgestīvus. Doublet of digestif.
Inflected forms:
form: more digestive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most digestive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: digestives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or functioning in digestion.
pos: adj
gloss: That causes or promotes digestion.
pos: adj
examples: While the doctor and the natives were taking a digestive nap after dinner, I strolled forth to have a peep at the country which could produce so generous a meal.
gloss: A substance that aids digestion.
pos: noun
gloss: A digestive biscuit.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Ireland
UK
examples: I bought a packet of chocolate digestives.
I made a mistake and bought plain digestives instead of chocolate ones.
Derived words: aerodigestive
antidigestive
autodigestive
biliodigestive
cardiodigestive
digestively
digestiveness
digestive system
digestive tract
extradigestive
interdigestive
maldigestive
nondigestive
orodigestive
postdigestive
chocolate digestive
Translations:
guilder
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle Dutch gulden (“golden”).
Inflected forms:
form: guilders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gilder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The former currency unit in the Netherlands, divided into 100 cents.
pos: noun
examples: [N]one ſhall be choſen to be a Commiſſioner in the Court at Amſterdam, vnleſſe he put ſix thouſand gilders ſtocke of his owne in the ſaid Companie; [...]
On the Spuy is a good Dutch Inn, called the Hoff van Utrecht. The Price is a Gilder a Day, or a Shilling for the Dinner only.
gloss: The former currency unit in Suriname, divided into 100 cents.
pos: noun
gloss: The current currency unit in the islands of the Caribbean Netherlands, divided into 100 cents.
pos: noun
Derived words: Euroguilder
Translations:
lang: Asturian
word: florín
lang: Aukan
word: kolu
lang: Bulgarian
word: гу́лден
roman: gúlden
lang: Caribbean Hindustani
word: rupia (Sarnami)
lang: Catalan
word: florí
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 荷蘭盾 /荷兰盾
roman: hélándùn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 盾
roman: dùn
lang: Danish
word: gylden
lang: Dutch
word: gulden
lang: Finnish
word: guldeni
lang: French
word: florin
lang: West-Frisian
word: gûne
lang: Galician
word: florín
lang: German
word: Gulden
lang: Greek
word: γκούλντεν
roman: gkoúlnten
lang: Hungarian
word: forint
lang: Italian
word: fiorino
lang: Japanese
word: ギルダー
roman: girudā
lang: Caribbean Javanese
word: rupiah
lang: Caribbean Javanese
word: sepérak
lang: Kari'na
word: aparita pìpo
lang: Lokono
word: gulden
lang: Luxembourgish
word: Gulden
lang: Malay
word: guilder
lang: Papiamentu
word: florin
lang: Polish
word: gulden
lang: Portuguese
word: florim
lang: Russian
word: гульден
roman: gulʹden
lang: Saramaccan
word: kölu
lang: Spanish
word: florín
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: golu
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: twarfusren
lang: Sranan Tongo
word: pisifo
haughtily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English haughty
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English haughtily
From haughty + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more haughtily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most haughtily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a haughty manner; with excessive or unwarranted pride.
pos: adv
examples: He haughtily demanded the best table, even though people looked and wondered who he was.
"I don't know what you mean," she said haughtily.
Translations:
disdainful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From disdain + -ful.
Base: disdain
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more disdainful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most disdainful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: disdainfull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Showing contempt or scorn; having a pronounced lack of concern for others viewed as unworthy.
pos: adj
examples: He was disdainful of those he thought of as the little people. He openly sneered at them. They mocked him behind his back.
She glimpsed at the people whom she had left behind, and smirked in the most disdainful manner towards them.
Antonyms: respectful
despicable
Translations:
hurrah
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly adopted from German hurra, itself of uncertain origin, or possibly an alteration of huzzah.
Inflected forms:
form: hoorah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hooray
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hurra
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hurray
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: hurrahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hoorah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hooray
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hurra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hurray
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hurrahs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hurrahing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hurrahed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hurrahed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hoorah
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hooray
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hurra
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hurray
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Expressing approval, appreciation, or happiness.
pos: intj
gloss: A cheer; a cry of hurrah!.
pos: noun
gloss: To give a hurrah (to somebody).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Boys’ basketball boosters say something is missing in the stands at away games, cheerleaders resent not being able to meet their rivals on the road, and even female basketball players being hurrahed are unhappy.
Translations:
typing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, type + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: typings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Assignment or classification by type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: classifying, categorizing; classification, categorization; sorting
gloss: Assignment or classification by type.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of one who types on a keyboard.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."
Related words: type shit
type species
typical
typification
typifying
Derived words: subtyping
cry-typing
typing paper
typing pool
mis-typing
spacer oligonucleotide typing
Translations:
unsuccessful
Part of speech: adj
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 successful
English unsuccessful
From un- + successful.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsuccessful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsuccessful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Failed, not successful.
pos: adj
examples: His unsuccessful attempt earned him sympathy, condolences, and an occasional good-natured ribbing.
For example, an unsuccessful men's deodorant was successfully remerchandised by repackaging, heavier advertising, a higher price and new brand name 'Brut'.
Antonyms: successful
Translations:
swimmer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English swimmere, equivalent to swim + -er. The dumplings are so called because they are often served in stew.
Base: swim
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: swimmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who swims.
pos: noun
examples: The swimmer who is an expert does not exhibit his muscular force by violent movements, but exhibits some power which is invisible and which shows itself in perfect grace and reposefulness.
In the summer of 1992, eight beaches were closed and swimmers were warned away because of colliform bacteria, caused by boaters emptying toilets directly into the lake or onto nearby shores. Park officials may soon supply the lake with floating waste disposal systems.
gloss: A protuberance on the leg of a horse.
pos: noun
gloss: A webfooted aquatic bird.
pos: noun
examples: The number of species of birds at present known from the various islands of the Molluccan group is 265, but of these only 70 belong to the usually abundant tribes of the waders and swimmers, indicating that these are very imperfectly known.
gloss: A sperm.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
in-plural
gloss: A Norfolk dumpling.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
Derived words: backswimmer
blue swimmer crab
finswimmer
ice swimmer
little swimmer
microswimmer
nanoswimmer
nonswimmer
paraswimmer
rescue swimmer
side swimmer
swimmeret
synchronised swimmer
synchronized swimmer
winter swimmer
Translations:
survival
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anthropology
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Italic *super
Latin super
Latin super-
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós
Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti
Proto-Italic *gʷīwō
Latin vīvō
Latin supervīvereder.
English survive
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English survival
From survive + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: survivals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The fact or act of surviving; continued existence or life.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His survival in the open ocean was a miracle; he had fully expected to die.
gloss: Of, relating to or aiding survival.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: persecution survival plan
His survival kit had all the things he needed in the wilderness.
When I am not playing pinball or working at my survival job, I am usually writing.
gloss: The avoidance of relegation or demotion to a lower league or division.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] a team that have turned snatching relegation from the jaws of top-flight survival into an art form […]
"Before you know it, you find yourself flirting around the relegation places and the season becomes a battle for survival."
gloss: A custom or belief that persists in folklore from earlier times, when the rationale behind it is forgotten.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thus, if some old rhyme or saying has in one place a solemn import in philosophy or religion, while elsewhere it lies at the level of the nursery, there is some ground for treating the serious version as the more original, and the playful one as its mere lingering survival.
Another survival of marriage by capture is discovered among the Ceylonese, where it is common at royal marriages for the king and queen to throw perfumed balls and squirt scented water at each other.
The banded ones were all dressed in white gowns — a gay survival from Old Style days, when cheerfulness and May-time were synonyms — days before the habit of taking long views had reduced emotions to a monotonous average.
Derived words: antisurvival
cryosurvival
mean survival time
median survival time
neurosurvival
nonsurvival
Parfitian survival
prosurvival
self-survival
squipper
survival analysis
survival bag
survival bias
survival game
survival horror
survival instinct
survivalism
survivalist
survivalistic
survival kit
survival knife
survival mode
survival of the fittest
survival rate
survival sex
survival skill
survival statute
survival suit
survival time
survival value
urban survival syndrome
Translations:
expiring
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Ending, terminating, dying.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
divestiture
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: divestitures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of selling something off, especially an investment or a business.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Organic sales, which exclude the impact of acquisitions, divestitures and foreign exchange, are now expected to rise 2 per cent to 5 per cent[…].
And finally, the transnational discourses of antiapartheidism and divestiture had led the U.K. television industry to ban sales of current programs to South Africa, again shaping the ways Bop-TV could enact its particular form of antigovernment, antiapartheid cultural politics.
gloss: The process of stripping away an individual's confidence, values and attitudes in order to indoctrinate the individual into an organization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Divestiture socialisation tries to strip away certain characteristics of the recruit.
Derived words: horizontal divestiture
postdivestiture
predivestiture
Translations:
regimen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English regimen, from Middle French regimen and its etymon, Latin regimen (“guidance, direction, government, rule”). Doublet of regime.
Inflected forms:
form: regimens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: regimina
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Orderly government; system of order; administration.
pos: noun
examples: In ski areas like Arapahoe Basin, about 80 percent of the male patrollers have had to drastically change (or introduce) shaving regimens.
gloss: Any regulation or remedy which is intended to produce beneficial effects by gradual operation.
pos: noun
examples: Seven or eight annual bloodings, and as many purgations — such was the common regimen the theory prescribed to ensure continuance of health[…]
...and, having an excellent constitution, regularly attributed any temporary ailment of her daughters to carelessness, for which she prescribed "water gruel, and keeping in bed," being certain that under so safe a regimen, "they would get well as soon as possible, and learn to keep well also."
gloss: Object.
pos: noun
examples: (3.) Verbs admit two kinds of regimen: the direct regimen and the indirect regimen. (4.) The direct regimen, or immediate object … (5.) The indirect regimen, or remote object [....]
Active verbs express an action which an agent, called the nominative or subject, performs on an object or regimen, without the help of a preposition: as,--- Pierre aime Sophie, Peter loves Sophia. [...] Of the Object or Regimen of Verbs.
15. A verb is active in French when it expresses that an agent called nominative, or subject, performs an action on an object, or regimen, without the help of a preposition---as, Jean frappe Joseph, John strikes Joseph, &c.
Pronouns may be nominatives, and of the direct or indirect regimen.
gloss: A syntactical relation between words, as when one depends on another and is regulated by it in respect to case or mood; government.
pos: noun
gloss: Diet; limitations on the food that one eats, for health reasons.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Related words: régime
regime
regiminal
Derived words: chemoregimen
Yuzpe regimen
Translations:
Dacian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Dacia + -an, from Latin Dacia (“Dacia”).
Base: Dacia
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Dacians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a member of an ancient Indo-European ethnic group of Dacia.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: a Dane, Denmark having been known as Dacia in Medieval Latin.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: a Romanian.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
rare
gloss: Of or pertaining to Dacia or the Dacians.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to Romania or Romanians.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
poetic
rare
gloss: Of or pertaining to Denmark or the Danes.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
Translations:
teleseminar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
English seminar
English teleseminar
From tele- + seminar.
Inflected forms:
form: teleseminars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A seminar conducted over a telephone, set up as a conference call.
pos: noun
Translations:
margarine
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French margarine, from acide margarique (“margaric acid”), from Ancient Greek μάργαρον (márgaron, “pearl”), in allusion to its pearly lustre, with the suffix -ine, influenced by glycérine (“glycerine”). French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul named margaric acid after its pearl-like crystallization.
Inflected forms:
form: margarines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: margarines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: margarining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: margarined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: margarined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A spread, manufactured from a blend of vegetable oils (some of which are hydrogenated), emulsifiers etc, mostly used as a substitute for butter.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The solid ingredient of human fat, olive oil, etc.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
gloss: To spread or cover (something) with margarine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Putting the finishing touches on her party dinner, this attractive hostess does the last minute job of margarining her rolls to serve piping hot to her guests.
She is margarining a slice of bread, rubbing the grease carefully into the crumb.
Now that she was back in the land of the living, she took to margarining our toast again.
He has been totally occupied since we sat down, margarining every inch of his roll, likewise his baked potato, salting down everything in sight.
Related words: Margaret
margarita
margarite
marguerite
Derived words: antimargarine
halvarine
margarined
margarineless
margarinelike
margariney
Translations:
deckle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
cuisine
food
lifestyle
Etymology: From German Deckel, diminutive of Decke (“covering”).
Inflected forms:
form: deckles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A frame or edge which limits the pulp and, consequently, the size of the resulting paper.
pos: noun
gloss: A membrane covering the outermost side of a brisket of beef, where it was attached to the rib cage
pos: noun
gloss: The fattier, smaller point-cut portion of a brisket of beef, being the superficial pectoral muscle.
pos: noun
tags: Jewish
Translations:
decoction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French decoccion, decoction, from Latin decoctiō, from decoquō (“to boil down”), from de- + coquō (“to cook”).
Inflected forms:
form: decoctions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extraction or essence of something, obtained by boiling it down.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [I]nſtead of Honey, Rob of Elder, Conſerve of Roſes, or Syrup of Violets; Glyſters, Pedilavia of emollient Decoctions with Nitre; or Elder, Vinegar, or Focus's of the ſame, applied with Sponges behind the Ears, to the Armpits, Groins, Hams, &c. or with Barley-water and a little Roſe-vinegar.
The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.
Poley offered a hot decoction of blackberries, saying: Peace?
Witches and devils no longer threaten you and me. We don’t mind living next door to the harmless lady with her herb garden and decoction still, her black cat and red hair.
gloss: The process of boiling something down in this way.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even the fixed principles of vegetables, at least some of them, are injured by long decoction. The extractive matter, for instance, gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, and is converted into a substance nearly insipid and inert.
Related words: decoct
Translations:
whatnot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: furniture
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷís
Proto-Germanic *hwat
Proto-West Germanic *hwat
Old English hwæt
Middle English what
English what
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Germanic *ne
Proto-West Germanic *ne
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ey-
Proto-Indo-European *-u
Proto-Indo-European *h₂óyu
Proto-Indo-European *-osinflu.
Proto-Germanic *aiwaz
Proto-West Germanic *aiw
univ.
Proto-West Germanic *naiw
Proto-Indo-European *wekʷ-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *wékʷtisder.?
Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *wéǵʰtisder.?
Proto-Germanic *wihtą
Proto-West Germanic *wiht
Proto-West Germanic *naiwwiht
Old English nāwiht
Old English *nōht
Middle English nought
Middle English not
English not
English whatnot
From what + not.
Inflected forms:
form: whatnots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: what-not
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small unspecified object; bric-a-brac (in plural).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Storage boxes—catchalls for flotsam, jetsam, whatnots and thingamajigs—are gaining new interest as decorative objects for the home.
Do not be distracted by the various novelty bags and whatnots of which Chanel is so fond; instead, prove your aforementioned sensible credentials by buying a boxy rectangular quilted shoulder bag with a chain strap, in black, ideally.
gloss: Other related objects or ideas.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: At the lexicography club, we welcome all discussion of words and whatnot.
All of the cakes and whatnot have been laid out, ready for the children's birthday party this afternoon.
You call that a warrior? My Cobrot's engines will whip the Troopers into whatnot! She is all cobra!
Now, those are valid frustrations, although as a quick side note, “Murder and Whatnot” would be an amazing CSI spin-off. That’s a watchable show right there.
gloss: A freestanding set of shelves on which ornaments are displayed; an etagere.
pos: noun
examples: On a whatnot in a corner which had been devoted to the child's belongings were Franky's paint-box and some of his toys.
Herbert[…] made an elaborate inspection of the chimney-piece, the whatnot, the piano-top.
These hefty features were on display together with dry-point engravings, marble busts, and mahogany whatnots, which the guests now squeezed between, plumping themselves down on over-stuffed ottomans beneath gleaming crystal electroliers.
Related words: whatsit
Derived words: and whatnot
Translations:
dhikr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
Sufism
human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
philosophy
religion
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr)bor.
English dhikr
Borrowed from Arabic ذِكْر (ḏikr).
Inflected forms:
form: dhikrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: adhkar
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zikr
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Sufi Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is repeated continually.
pos: noun
examples: When all had eaten and prayed the first night prayer, they began to recite their dhikr, then they began the musical recital.
We prayed together and we practised dhikr, the recitation of the ninety-nine revealed names of God.
Translations:
diapason
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin diapason, from Ancient Greek διαπασῶν (diapasôn), that is διά (diá, “through”) + πασῶν (pasôn, “all”) (χορδῶν (khordôn, “notes”)), “through all (notes)”.
Inflected forms:
form: diapasons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The musical octave.
pos: noun
examples: 2 to 1, which is a duple ratio, forms the [symphony] diapason
gloss: The range or scope of something, especially of notes in a scale, or of a particular musical instrument.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
literary
examples: The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon—forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.
the piano curving like a conch, corollas giving out diapasons of light […]
gloss: A tonal grouping of the flue pipes of a pipe organ.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the lowest strings on an archlute, theorbo, chitarrone, or similar bass lute-family instrument, usually unfrettable.
pos: noun
gloss: A harmonious outpouring of sound.
pos: noun
examples: That we on Earth with undiscording voice
May rightly answer that melodious noise;
As once we did, till disproportion'd sin
Jarr'd against natures chime, and with harsh din
Broke the fair musick that all creatures made
To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway'd
In perfect Diapason, whilst they stood
In first obedience, and their state of good.
he could hear nothing except the rattle of the crickets and the swelling diapason of the frogs […]
Derived words: diapasonal
disdiapason
open diapason
semidiapason
tridiapason
Translations:
confronting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more confronting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most confronting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Causing distress; upsetting.
pos: adj
Translations:
diastasis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin diastasis, from Ancient Greek διάστασις (diástasis, “separation, standing aloof”), from δια- (dia-) + στάσις (stásis, “standing”). Compare diastema.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A separation between two parts, such as separation of a bone, without fracture.
pos: noun
gloss: The property of being diastatic, i.e. having germinated.
pos: noun
Derived words: adenodiastasis
diastasis recti
Translations:
cybersex
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From cyber- + sex.
Base: sex
Affixes: cyber-
Inflected forms:
form: cybersexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cybersexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cybersexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cybersexed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A virtual sexual encounter in which two or more persons connected remotely by means of a computer network send one another sexually explicit messages simulating a sexual experience.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He went to his office and logged online to have cybersex for more than six hours.
gloss: To exchange explicit sexual experiences online by means of text or multimedia.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To engage in sexual activity, usually masturbation, while communicating online with another person.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: cyber
cybering
Translations:
doucet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English doucet, from Old French doucet, diminutive of dous (“sweet”). Doublet of dulcet and dolcetto.
Inflected forms:
form: doucets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweetened dish.
pos: noun
gloss: Deer testicles.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Translations: