yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
palatal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
dentistry
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder.
Latin palātumder.
Old French palatbor.
Middle English palate
English palate
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 palatal
From palate + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more palatal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most palatal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: palatals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the palate.
pos: adj
gloss: Of an upper tooth, on the side facing the palate.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Articulated at the hard palate.
pos: adj
gloss: Articulated at the palate: dorsal.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
gloss: A palatal consonant.
pos: noun
Related words: hard palate
soft palate
palate
palatic
palatine
Derived words: alveolo-palatal
alveolopalatal
alveo-palatal
alveopalatal
antepalatal
anteropalatal
apicopalatal
basipalatal
buccopalatal
ethmopalatal
glossopalatal
labial-palatal
labio-palatal
labiopalatal
labio-palatalisation
labiopalatalisation
labiopalatalised
labio-palatalised
labio-palatalization
labiopalatalization
labio-palatalized
labiopalatalized
linguopalatal
linguo-palatal
maxillopalatal
mediopalatal
midpalatal
nasopalatal
nonpalatal
oculopalatal
palatal expander
palatal hook
palatalisation
palatalise
palatalised
palatalism
palatality
palatalization
palatalize
palatalized
palatally
palato-
palato-alveolar
palatoalveolar
post-palatal
postpalatal
pre-palatal
prepalatal
retropalatal
salpingopalatal
transpalatal
unpalatalize
uvulopalatal
velopalatal
Translations:
uvular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ūvulāris. By surface analysis, uvula + -ar.
Inflected forms:
form: uvulars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the uvula.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a sound, articulated with the uvula (the fleshy appendage that hangs from the back of the soft palate).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A sound articulated with the uvula.
pos: noun
Derived words: labiouvular
Translations:
pharyngeal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin pharyngeus + -al, from pharynx (“the pharynx”) + -eus (adjectival suffix).
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: pharyngal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the pharynx.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Articulated with the pharynx; a term usually describing a consonant which is articulated by the rear area of the tongue being raised to below the region between the uvula and the pharyngeal wall. The term cannot apply to a plosive or stop consonant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: aquapharyngeal
ascending pharyngeal artery
basipharyngeal
buccopharyngeal
cardiopharyngeal
cephalopharyngeal
chondropharyngeal
circumpharyngeal
craniopharyngeal
cricopharyngeal
cytopharyngeal
epiglottopharyngeal
epipharyngeal
esophagopharyngeal
extrapharyngeal
glossopharyngeal
hypopharyngeal
inferior pharyngeal constrictor
infrapharyngeal
intrapharyngeal
labiopharyngeal
laryngopharyngeal
maxillopharyngeal
mesopharyngeal
middle pharyngeal constrictor
nasopharyngeal
neopharyngeal
nonpharyngeal
oculopharyngeal
oropharyngeal
palatopharyngeal
parapharyngeal
peripharyngeal
pharyngeal arch
pharyngeal basket
pharyngeal bone
pharyngeal constrictor
pharyngeal gland
pharyngealization
pharyngealize
pharyngeal jaw
pharyngeal jaws
pharyngeally
pharyngeal plexus
pharyngeal reflex
pharyngeal tonsil
pharyngeal tooth
pharyngeal tubercle
polypharyngeal
postpharyngeal
prepharyngeal
retropharyngeal
rhinopharyngeal
salpingopharyngeal
stylopharyngeal
subpharyngeal
superior pharyngeal constrictor
thyropharyngeal
tonsillopharyngeal
tracheopharyngeal
transpharyngeal
velopharyngeal
Translations:
petra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin petra (“rock”). Doublet of piedra.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: stone, a weight equal to 14 pounds.
pos: noun
examples: Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
Translations:
usually
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English usualli, equivalent to usual + -ly. Broadly displaced native Old English ġewunelīċe (from which English wontly).
Base: usual
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more usually
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most usually
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Most of the time; less than always, but more than occasionally.
pos: adv
examples: Except for one or two days a year, he usually walks to work.
He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend ; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].
gloss: Under normal conditions.
pos: adv
Synonyms: mainly
commonly
regularly
mostly
on the whole
in the main
for the most part
by and large
most often
ordinarily
wontedly
habitually
wontly
normally
routinely
as a rule
conventionally
in general
most of the time
nine times out of ten
oftest
predominantly
principally
typically
usually
Antonyms: forever
occasionally
uniformly
Related words: use
frequently
often
frequency
Translations:
tricky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English trick
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English tricky
From trick + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: trickier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: trickiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Hard to deal with, complicated.
pos: adj
examples: They were in a tricky situation.
Several types of diesel locomotive have been tested on this working and as a result the probable choice will be Type 2 diesels in pairs, without bankers. The crucial factor in the selection of this method is the higher degree of adhesion obtained than with a single Type 4; on trial one of the latter showed that in very adverse conditions it might slip to a standstill at one of the two tricky spots on the steep climb from Tyne Dock to Consett.
"The trickiest we ever get," he continued, "is in the short-answer questions like, 'Why do you want to come to the University of Chicago?' or, 'What books have you read?'
That will prove a trickier test, the management having pinpointed Oleh Blokhin's side as "one of the favourites in the group", though they will confront an England team buoyed by this battering.
It was as comfortable an afternoon as Arsène Wenger could have wished for in a situation that can be tricky in between internationals and the upcoming Champions League.
gloss: Adept at using deception.
pos: adj
examples: A tricky salesman can sell anything.
Clever got me this far
Then tricky got me in
Eye on what I'm after
I don't need another friend
gloss: Relating to or associated with a prostitution trick.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
slang
examples: I don't want any of your tricky money, thank you!
Related words: trick
sneaky
Derived words: trickily
trickiness
tricky racket
tricky slave
trifficult
Translations:
bogan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. First appeared in Australia in the 1980s. Possibly in reference to supposedly unsophisticated people from remote outback places such as the Bogan River or Bogan Gate (cf. dubbo from Dubbo).
Inflected forms:
form: bogans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unsophisticated person from a working class background.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
slang
examples: Bogans were Lockie's least favorite kind of people.
The Reservoir I grew up in was populated by menacing, toothless Torana-driving bogans, crushed menthol-smoking pensioners and toddlers who swore.
gloss: An Anglo-Celtic member of a lower socioeconomic group, stereotypically classified as wearing black jumpers or black concert T-shirts.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
derogatory
ethnic
slang
slur
gloss: A petrolhead.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
derogatory
slang
Related words: cashed-up bogan
hoon
booner
chav
boogan
Translations:
harsh
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk, Swedish härsken); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”), from Old Saxon hār, from Proto-West Germanic *hār; the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.
Inflected forms:
form: harsher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more harsh
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: harshest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most harsh
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: harshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: harshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: harshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: harshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
pos: adj
gloss: Severe or cruel.
pos: adj
examples: harsh decision
harsh penalty
harsh teacher
harsh rule
harsh ruling
Partly because of the heavy burden of government debt built up during his stewardship, and the uncurbed recklessness of the country’s banks, Britain’s recession is already the harshest in Western Europe.
There were harsher comments from Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas: "The negotiations are in a state of paralysis, and the result of Israel's intransigence and America's backpedalling is that there is no hope of negotiations on the horizon."
Great news for City, but the result was harsh on Neil Warnock's side who gave as good as they got even though the odds were stacked against them.
gloss: To negatively criticize.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: Quit harshing me already, I said that I was sorry!
Stop harshing on yourself. Who said you're the ugly sister?
“Stop harshing on me, Daddy.” “Harshing?” “Don't yell at me. I didn't do anything.”
gloss: To put a damper on (a mood).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: Dude, you're harshing my buzz.
They're always harshing on the plan, but we're still going through with it.
On their third date, Lizzie had actually said to him, "You're sort of harshing my mellow." It made him wonder if she might be stupid, and not just young.
"They're mostly mercenaries these days. But whose?" "Serbian mercenaries? You're harshing my groove, man. I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that...."
"Getting back to the issue of the child," Tina said, harshing our buzz as usual, "I really think you should reconsider...."
He's totally harshing my vibe," Lila said airily. "Someone should tell him to get over himself. He's lucky I even invited him!"
Synonyms: rough
Derived words: harshen
harshish
harshly
harsh mistress
harshness
harsh noise
overharsh
unharsh
harsh down
harsh one's mellow
Translations:
murky
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English mirky. Related to Old Norse myrkr, Russian мрак (mrak) and its Slavic cognates. By surface analysis, murk + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: murkier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: murkiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mirky
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
pos: adj
examples: The Streets of London, to be beheld in the very height of their glory, should be seen on a dark, dull, murky, winter's night, when there is just enough damp gently stealing down to make the pavement greasy without cleansing it of any of its impurities, […]
gloss: Dark, dim, gloomy.
pos: adj
examples: Ferdinand: As I hope / For quite dayes, faire Iſſue, and long life, / With ſuch loue, as 'tis now the murkieſt den, / The moſt opportune place, the ſtrongſt ſuggeſtion, / Our worſer Genius can, shall neuer melt / Mine honor into luſt,[…]
The future of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program got murkier Tuesday when the Texas attorney general made good on a threat to challenge it in court.
gloss: Cloudy, indistinct, obscure.
pos: adj
examples: murky waters
murky territory
He became for a short time delirious, in consequence of attempting to comprehend the works of Mr. Nebulous, in which the English language is exhibited casting of summersets, with many prancings to and fro, before earnest-gazing, head-scratching readers, in murkiest obscuration, marvel stricken, with maddest humour and grinning contortions, heels-over-head, wondrous!
Offshore investment is among the murkiest sectors of the financial world. That’s by design – keeping money offshore can help shield money from tax authorities, obscure its origin and conceal the genuine owners.
They may face an impenetrable word, approach its murky history from every direction, and fail to find a convincing solution (or even any solution: “origin unknow,” “the rest is unclear,” and the like).
Mr. Farrier, 39, said he often questioned the moral implications of his trips. “It’s very ethically murky territory,” Mr. Farrier said.
China’s murky statistics are fueling widespread public distrust. Its narrow definition of Covid deaths “will very much underestimate the true death toll,” the W.H.O. says.
gloss: Dishonest, shady.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Ever since X-Men: First Class set the series' clock back a few decades and installed Michael Fassbender's moody Magneto and James McAvoy's louche Charles Xavier as replacements for Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart's chess-playing pappies, the big-screen X-Men's central conflict—Xavier's Booker T. Washington-esque School For Gifted Youngsters vs. a rogue's gallery of evil mutants, crew cuts, and politicos—has gotten a lot murkier.
Synonyms: dark
Related words: murk
Derived words: murkily
murkiness
murky bass
Translations:
exacerbation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English exacerbacyoun, from Latin exacerbātiōnem, from exacerbāre (“to provoke, make harsh”). See exacerbate.
Inflected forms:
form: exacerbations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An increase in the severity of something (such as a disease)
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: amelioration
Translations:
unchain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éntsder.
Proto-Germanic *anda-
Proto-West Germanic *anda-
Old English and-
Old English on-
Middle English on-
English un-
English chain
English unchain
From un- + chain.
Inflected forms:
form: unchains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unchaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unchained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unchained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove chains from someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: unchain workers
They worked to unchain the prisoners from their shackles.
gloss: To free; to liberate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: unchain the mind
unchain creativity
The reform movement sought to unchain society from old prejudices.
Synonyms: unfetter
Translations:
hopeless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *tōhopōnder.
Old English tōhopa
Old English hopa
Middle English hope
English hope
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English hopeless
From hope + -less. Compare Swedish hopplös.
Inflected forms:
form: more hopeless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hopeless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without hope; despairing; not expecting anything positive.
pos: adj
examples: I am a woman, friendless, hopeless.
And he a prince; To marry him is hopeleſſe;
Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
A gaoler struck him, pushing him back in place in the hopeless, helpless line of prisoners.
gloss: Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate.
pos: adj
examples: My mind is a camera / Camela mon camela ambra / It brings into focus / The dreams of kings / And even the hopeless
gloss: Without talent, not skilled.
pos: adj
examples: He's a hopeless writer, but can draw very well.
" It is a pure waste of time." "Not at all," Malone answered. "It has ventilated an evil. There were reporters in court. Surely some of them have some sense. They will note the injustice." "Not they," said Mailey. "The Press is hopeless. My God, what a responsibility these people take on themselves, and how little they guess the price that each will pay! I know."
gloss: Of an adverse condition, incurable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: She is a hopeless romantic.
He is a hopeless idler.
Synonyms: desperate
unhopeful
forlorn
Antonyms: hopeful
Derived words: hopelessly
hopelessness
Translations:
catena
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin catena, from Latin catēna (“chain”). Doublet of chain.
Inflected forms:
form: catenas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: catenae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A series of related items.
pos: noun
examples: And, on the contrary, there is a whole catena of authorities, beginning with Sir Robert Peel and ending with Mr. Lowe, which say that the Banking Department of the Bank of England is only a Bank like any other bank [...]
gloss: A series of distinct soils arrayed along a slope.
pos: noun
examples: The changes in soil characteristics from the crest to the foot of a slope are together known as a catena.
Related words: catenal
catenary
catenative
chain
concatenate
concatenation
Derived words: catena compound
Translations:
cryonics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κρῠ́ος (krŭ́os)lbor.
English cryo-
English -n-
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English -ics
English cryonics
From cryo- + -n- + -ics.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The cryopreservation of a person with medical needs that cannot be met by available medicine until resuscitation and healing by future medicine is possible.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
transpire
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French transpirer, from Medieval Latin transpirare (“to breathe through”), from Latin trans (“across”) spirare (“to breathe”). The sense “to become known” is also present in French, while the sense “to happen” is not; the latter probably developed in English from the former.
Inflected forms:
form: transpires
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transpiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transpired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transpired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To give off (vapour, waste matter etc.); to exhale (an odour etc.).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To perspire.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: Of plants, to give off water and waste products through the stomata.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To become known; to escape from secrecy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: It eventually transpired that the murder victim had been a notorious blackmailer.
The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travellers.
Hubert then recommends M. Leproux to be punctual to meet him at the rendezvous agreed on between them, where a third individual, whose name did not transpire, was to join them.
gloss: To happen, take place.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
examples: Although I was prevented from attending the 1952 annual conference, I was immediately informed as to what had transpired.
But there is a school of thought that holds that the more you talk about recession, the more likely it is to transpire.
Derived words: transpirable
transpiration
transpirometer
untranspired
Translations:
vend
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: 17th century, likely a backformation from earlier vendible, vendee, vendor inspired by the underlying French vendre, from Old French vendre, from Latin vendere, from vēnum dāre (“to give (something for) sale”).
Inflected forms:
form: vends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vended
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vends
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of sell, (now especially) to sell through a vending machine.
pos: verb
examples: As there was a small establishment that vended tea and toast just across the road, it was reasonable that Partridge should officiate therein as Limpet's host, and so easily adjusted to necessity are the economics of a simple life, that two pots of tea, two plates of toast, tobacco, and one subject of conversation, kept them occupied contentedly till ten o'clock.
Vending has been slow to change partly because the business for years could depend on what it called the four C's: cold drinks, candy, confections and cigarettes.
Amazon said over 20,000 small stores have signed on to its Local Shops program over five months to vend basics like household essentials and fresh flowers.
gloss: To provide or export functionality, especially from an API.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
uncommon
examples: As you've seen, vending FO documents is pretty straightforward from WebObjects. It is just like vending HTML, XHTML, or SVG.
gloss: The act of vending or selling; a sale.
pos: noun
gloss: The total sales of coal from a colliery.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
dated
Related words: revend
venal
venality
vendee
vendible
vendor
vendue
Derived words: vending machine
Translations:
foamy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English fomy, from Old English fāmiġ, fǣmiġ (“frothy, foamy”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimag, *faimīg, equivalent to foam + -y.
Base: foam
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: foamier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: foamiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Full of foam.
pos: adj
examples: He jumped overboard into the foamy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
Tlepolemus, the sun of Hercules, / Led nine swift vessels through the foamy seas
For busy thoughts the Stream flowed on / In foamy agitation
Translations:
infuriate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1667; borrowed from Medieval Latin infuriātus (“enraged”), perfect passive participle of infuriō (“to enrage”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin furia (“rage, fury, frenzy”); perhaps via Italian infuriato.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: infuriates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: infuriating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: infuriated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: infuriated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make furious or mad with anger; to fill with fury.
pos: verb
examples: What graceles fears, strange hates, may Nations so affright,
Infuriate so; gainst God with mad attempts to fight?
1796, Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Prospect of a Regicide Peace, London: J. Owen, Letter 2, p. 105,
They tore the deputation of the Clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.
He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not replying would only infuriate the magistrate the more, and add to the severity of his sentence; he hazarded a guess.
I had […] no notion that the working class were human beings.[…] I could agonise over their sufferings, but I still hated them and despised them when I came anywhere near them. I was still revolted by their accents and infuriated by their habitual rudeness.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has left Taiwan after a one-day visit that has infuriated China.
Translations:
hiatus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
geography
geology
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin hiātus (“opening”) (mid-16th century), from hiō (“stand open, yawn”).
Inflected forms:
form: hiatus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hiatuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hiati
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A gap in a series, making it incomplete.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even the mechanical engineer comes at last to an end of his figures, and must stand up, a practical man, face to face with the discrepancies of nature and the hiatuses of theory.
gloss: An interruption, break, pause or absence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The band decided to go on hiatus, citing creative differences.
It is wonderful that you should have slipped back into your American life so easily after your English hiatus.
After a ten-year dividend hiatus, shareholder payments only re-started in July 2022.
gloss: An temporary break from work, especially one which is unexpected.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A gap in geological strata.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The beginning of the Mesozoic Era on the Colorado Plateau is marked by a regional hiatus or break of sedimentary deposition that lasted about 25 to 30 Ma.
gloss: An opening in an organ.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hiatus aorticus is an opening in the diaphragm through which aorta and thoracic duct pass.
gloss: A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant.
pos: noun
tags: sometimes
uncountable
examples: A hiatus is agreeable to any Polynesian ear; the ear even of the stranger soon grows used to these barbaric voids; but only in the Marquesan will you find such names as Haaii and Paaaeua, when each individual vowel must be separately uttered.
Derived words: adductor hiatus
hiatal
hiatic
hiatus hernia
hiatus magnus
prehiatus
Translations:
slander
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English slaundre, sclaundre, from Old French esclandre, from Ecclesiastical Latin scandalum (“stumbling block, temptation”), from Ancient Greek σκάνδαλον (skándalon, “scandal”). Doublet of scandal.
Inflected forms:
form: slanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slandre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: slanders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slandering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slandered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slandered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: slandre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A false or unsupported, malicious statement (spoken, not written), especially one which is injurious to a person's reputation; the making of such a statement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To utter a slanderous statement about; baselessly speak ill of; to wrong.
pos: verb
examples: Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough?
 Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him.
 Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]
Antonyms: glorification
glorify
Translations:
slanderous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English slander
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English slanderous
From slander + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more slanderous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most slanderous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Both untrue and harmful to a reputation.
pos: adj
examples: “Your lack of basic journalistic ethics in both the manner in which you ‘reported’ this uncredited nonsense, and the slanderous, unnecessary use of my picture without permission demands a response, and I am, of course, pursuing legal action.”
Translations:
unburnt
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 burnt
English unburnt
From un- + burnt.
Inflected forms:
form: more unburnt
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unburnt
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: unburned
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not burnt or burned.
pos: adj
Translations:
sophistry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English safistre, soffistre, sofystry, sophestrie, sophestry, sophestrye, sophistre, sophistri, sophistrie, sophistry, sophistrye, sophystrye, from Old French sofisterie, sophistrie and Medieval Latin sophistria, Anglo-Latin sophestria, from Latin sophista, from Ancient Greek σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “wise man”), from σοφίζω (sophízō, “to be wise”), from σοφός (sophós, “wise”), equivalent to sophist + -ry.
Base: sophist
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: sophistries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The actions or arguments of a sophist.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
examples: Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money.
gloss: Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: And so he reasoned until the first generous impulse to proclaim the truth and relinquish his titles and his estates to their rightful owner was forgotten beneath the mass of sophistries which self-interest had advanced.
Related words: Sophia
sophism
sophist
sophistication
casuistry
demagogy
rhetoric
Derived words: deipnosophistry
Translations:
gypsy
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See Gypsy. Compare bohemian, from Bohemia.
Inflected forms:
form: gypsies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gypsying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gypsied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gypsied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gipsy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: gipsey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: gypsey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: gypsie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: gyptian
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To roam around the country like a gypsy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The rest of the day is spent out of doors "Gypsying", and families greatly enjoy themselves on these occasions.
gloss: To perform the gypsy step in contra dancing.
pos: verb
examples: Look at the person you're gypsying with, and convey the message that you notice them as a person and that you're glad that they're there, […]
The only one I know of is The Tease by Tom Hinds which starts with the actives gypsying and then swinging their neighbors and ends with contra […]
Related words: bohemian
Dom
knacker
pavee
pikey
Rom
Roma
Romani
Romanichal
Sinti
Sinto
tinker
traveler
traveller
vagabond
vagrant
Translations:
delude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English deluden, borrowed from Latin dēlūdō (“mock, deceive”), from de + lūdō (“to make sport of, to mock”). See ludicrous.
Inflected forms:
form: deludes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deluding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deluded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deluded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams.
To delude the nation by an airy phantom.
gloss: To frustrate or disappoint.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: It deludes thy search.
Related words: allude
deluded
delusion
delusional
elude
illude
Derived words: deludable
deludee
deluder
deludingly
delusive
undelude
Translations:
touchdown
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: American-football
aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
ball-games
business
engineering
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rugby
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English touch
English down
English touchdown
From touch + down.
Inflected forms:
form: touchdowns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: touch down
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: touch-down
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's player in the opponent's end zone.
pos: noun
tags: Canadian
countable
uncountable
examples: Today I scored my first touchdown.
“I must have caught 45 or 50 touchdowns in that right corner,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 2009. “It was sloped some, a little downhill, which helped me speedwise. I wasn’t all that fast.”
gloss: A defensive action of grounding the ball in the team's own in-goal to stop the play.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A try (scoring play of grounding the ball in the opposing team's in-goal).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A first Test try by Fergus McFadden and a Tomas O'Leary touchdown helped Ireland to a 15-12 half-time lead.
gloss: The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.
And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh, no, no, no[…]
gloss: The moment of contact of a tornado with the ground.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The American Red Cross sent me to Alabama within twenty-four hours of the tornado's touchdown, and I visited the communities of Oak Grove and Rock Creek four subsequent times.
Related words: touch down
Derived words: nontouchdown
touchdown dance
touchdown pass
touchdown space
touchdown workspace
touchdown area
Translations:
dreamwork
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of dream + work.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An attempt to discover the deeper meaning that a dream might contain.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
camper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English camp
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English camper
From camp (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: campers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who camps, especially in a tent etc.
pos: noun
examples: There were thousands of campers at the music festival.
They're indispensable for backpackers, campers and anyone else who plans to be away from a power outlet for a while; indeed, both the Solar and the Eco Player are ruggedly built, with rubberized nonscratchable surfaces.
To be sung to in this way by the entire faery kingdom, each member of it born from the heartsong of a camper, was truly a delight that not many, I believe, have known.
gloss: A motor vehicle with a rear compartment for living and sleeping in.
pos: noun
examples: The moonshiners are now only a memory, but the sunrisers have grown into many hundreds, with trailers and campers pulling into Red Rock Canyon days early for a good parking spot.
gloss: A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
Derived words: camper shell
campership
camper van
canoe camper
corpse camper
freedom camper
glamper
happy camper
left lane camper
noncamper
right lane camper
spawn camper
stealth camper
summer camper
truck camper
water camper
workcamper
Translations:
kI
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From 氣, 気.
Inflected forms:
form: kI
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: ki
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: KY
pos: noun
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: A term indicating intrinsic energy; usually associated with martial art – karate, judo, aikido, etc. – practitioners who consider ki important to performing at the highest level.
pos: noun
Translations:
chai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Romani ćhaj (“Romani girl, daughter”).
Inflected forms:
form: chais
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A female Romani.
pos: noun
Translations:
blogger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: blogging
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós
Proto-Germanic *weraz
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi
Proto-Germanic *alaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Germanic *-þiz
Proto-Germanic *aldiz
Proto-Germanic *weraldiz
Proto-West Germanic *weraldi
Old English weorold
Middle English world
English world
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *wīdaz
Old English wīd
English wide
English -wide
English worldwide
Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *webaną
Proto-Germanic *wabją
Old English webb
Middle English web
English web
English World Wide Web
English Web
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti
Proto-Germanic *ligjaną
Old Norse liggjader.?
Middle English logge
English log
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
English logbook
English log
English weblog
English blog
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English blogger
From blog + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bloggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A contributor to a blog (from weblog) or online journal.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: The New York Times called it “another signal moment for bloggers,” while over at HardwareGeeks.com (“a community for sophisticated geeks and geekettes”), they were flying the victory flag: “A blogger with a White House Press pass? Just another sign of the times and another indication that bloggers are as powerful as regular media.”
Translations:
outlier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Etymology tree
English outlie
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English outlier
From outlie + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: outliers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outlyer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing situated away from the main body or outside its proper place.
pos: noun
examples: Observing as an outlier from Scotland, Hynes sums up the industry problem: "The conversation we've had for this article is really about creating an environment in which better decisions can be taken, isn't it?
gloss: An exception.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: And in a world where police officers are mostly paired by species (zebras with zebras, hippos with hippos, etc.), Judy and Nick’s rare bunny/fox combo marks them as outliers.
gloss: A part of a formation separated from the rest of the formation by erosion.
pos: noun
gloss: A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.
pos: noun
Antonyms: inlier
Derived words: nonoutlier
outlierness
Translations:
lier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lier, equivalent to lie + -er. Compare ligger, lidger, ledger.
Base: lie
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: liers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or thing that lies, in the sense of being horizontal.
pos: noun
gloss: A lie-abed; one who stays in bed late.
pos: noun
Derived words: inlier
onlier
Translations:
floppy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English flop
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English floppy
From flop + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: floppier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: floppiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: floppies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.
pos: adj
examples: The smile, the white collar worn with a dark shirt, the floppy breast-pocket handkerchief would surely be famous when the chaps in the rows behind were mere forgotten grins and frowns.
gloss: A floppy disk.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: An insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot.
pos: noun
tags: Rhodesia
South-Africa
slang
examples: "Ja, our job is not to think or make decisions. We just here to slay floppies," remarked Koos.
gloss: A comic book.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: We suggest that the impact of comic books is greater than it may first appear. Though individual sales of floppies may be low compared to, say, dollar grosses on motion pictures or may reach fewer viewers than a summer blockbuster […]
Translations:
diskette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English disk
English -ette
▲
English cassetteinflu.
English diskette
From disk + -ette, by analogy with cassette.
Base: disk
Affixes: -ette
Inflected forms:
form: diskettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: discette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: disquette
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: disket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data.
pos: noun
gloss: An 8-inch floppy disk.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Synonyms: floppy
floppy disk
floppy diskette
disk
Derived words: diskette drive
flippy diskette
floppy diskette drive
magazette
micro-diskette
micro diskette
mini-diskette
mini diskette
Translations:
Rachel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin Rāchēl, from Ancient Greek Ῥαχήλ (Rhakhḗl), from Biblical Hebrew רָחֵל (rāḫēl, “ewe”). Doublet of Raquel.
Inflected forms:
form: Rachels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Rachael
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Rachelle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Rach
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of Rachel sandwich.
pos: noun
Translations:
bay
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Iberiander.
Late Latin baiader.?
French baieder.
English bay
From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia. Partly displaced native Old English byht, whence bight.
Inflected forms:
form: bays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: baying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bayer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more bay
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bayest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most bay
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
pos: noun
examples: This hotel has a great view across the bay.
'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
gloss: A bank or dam to keep back water.
pos: noun
gloss: To howl.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.
For at the last shall the thunder, fleeing to escape from the doom of the gods, roar horribly among the Worlds; and Time, the hound of the gods, shall bay hungrily at his masters because he is lean with age.
The scene was rocking, all were digging the sounds
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to arrive
With their vocal group, The Crypt-Kicker Five.
gloss: To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to bay the bear
Spit, and throw stones, cast mire upon me, set / The dogs o'th' street to bay me
gloss: To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a reddish-brown colour with a black mane and tail.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: Mr. Free also owned restaurants and bred horses. His bay gelding, Packett's Landing, won almost $800,000 in his five-year career in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Derived words: afterbay
bay breeze
bay duiker
bayfront
Bay Islands
bayless
baylet
baylike
bayman
bay owl
bayplan
bay salt
Bay Shore
bayside
Baystater
baywop
bebay
Cenderawasih Bay
Chesapeake Bay Retriever
Cutler Bay
embay
embayment
forebay
Greater Bay Area
imbay
Malibu bay breeze
midbay
Mossel Bay
multibay
Palmetto Bay
Sagami Bay
sickbay
subbay
Suruga Bay
Swansea Bay
transbay
bay at the moon
hog-baying
Translations:
humility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English humilite, from Old French (h)umilité, from Latin humilitas (“lowness, meanness, baseness, in Late Latin humility”), from humilis (“low, lowly, humble, earth”). Equivalent to humble + -ity, with /mb/ reduced to /m/ (compare plumbing). Displaced native Old English ēaþmōdnes. Doublet of omertà.
Base: humble
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: humilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The characteristic of being humble; humbleness in character and behavior.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: You can tell his humility is real by how he treats ordinary people.
She had established a character for humility, discretion, noiselessness and religion which Mrs. Piper greatly regretted losing.
By the end of the tenth century, Edith's humility had inspired a cult of holy wells in Kent, Staffordshire, and Herefordshire.
Translations: