yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
baju
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰeh₂ǵʰús
From Malay baju.
Inflected forms:
form: bajus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: badjoe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: badjoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: badju
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bajoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Malay jacket worn with a sarong.
pos: noun
Translations:
bab
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: Clipping of babby (“baby”).
Inflected forms:
form: babs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: babs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: babbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: babbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: babbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A baby.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
gloss: A bait for eels, consisting of a bundle of live worms.
pos: noun
tags: East-Anglia
examples: The worms were threaded onto the yarn until we had 4 or 5 feet of big juicy worms threaded through. We would coil it all up and put an old rusty nut at the centre and tie it on a bit of string on an old ash pole — this was the bab.
gloss: To fish for eels using a bab.
pos: verb
tags: East-Anglia
intransitive
examples: The babbers follow the eels, and you may see fifteen boats as close together as possible, babbing away, and catching as much as four stone-weight of eels per boat of a night.
Sometimes we trolled or set liggers for pike, we seldom babbed for eels, it was such a slimy job.
Another classic example was babbing for eels; he would come along and say — ‘Goodnight for babbing, make you some babs’.
Derived words: babber
Translations:
kayu
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more kayu
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most kayu
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Stupid; foolish.
pos: adj
tags: Singapore
Translations:
babu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi बाबू (bābū), from Proto-New Indo-Aryan *बाब्ब (bābba)., imitative of baby talk.
Inflected forms:
form: babus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baboo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A Hindu title of respect, equivalent to Mr., usually appended to the surname of a Hindu man.
pos: noun
tags: Hinglish
India
North
examples: I could see Kana-babu’s sweet-shop at the end of their lane with absolute clarity.
gloss: an archetypical Indian bureaucrat, perceived as being corrupt, lazy or arrogant.
pos: noun
tags: India
derogatory
examples: BBMP doesn’t have any elected representatives right now. So a babu has floated this tender to benefit his favourite businessmen.
gloss: Originally, a Hindu gentleman employed to work as a clerk for the colonial administration; now, a clerk or low-ranking government official.
pos: noun
tags: India
historical
examples: The Babu put on his cap and quietly dropped out of the window
Office babus are the real rulers of this country now. Our number's up. Best thing we can do is to shut up shop and let 'em stew in their own juice.
From the prevailing colonial perspective, the English of the babus was error-ridden and characterised by over-elaborate ornateness, and for these ‘transgressions’ it became the butt of native-speaker ridicule.
Derived words: babudom
babu English
babuism
babuji
Translations:
nya
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
lifestyle
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
Etymology: From the Japanese onomatopoeia にゃ (nya).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The cry of a cat; meow, miaow.
pos: intj
tags: slang
Translations:
gila
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malay gilabor.
English gila
Borrowed from Malay gila.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Mad; crazy; insane.
pos: adj
tags: Singlish
not-comparable
examples: You gila (mad) or what? Our government good government okay?
Translations:
makan
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay makan. Doublet of kai.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To eat.
pos: verb
tags: Manglish
Singlish
invariable
examples: Mdm Zaiton: You makan already? Eat what?
gloss: Food.
pos: noun
tags: Manglish
Singlish
uncountable
examples: “HDB there already got makan, they want to come here for what? So leceh,” Mr Razali says. He opens his stall only on weekdays, from 6.30 AM to about 3 PM in the afternoon.
It’s not uncommon for Singapore’s F&B landscape to shift in an almost rapid and unsteady fashion. Some businesses morph and transform, closing and reopening spaces to keep up with changes.
Translations:
kaki
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 柿(カキ) (kaki).
Inflected forms:
form: kakis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A persimmon, specifically a Japanese persimmon (Diospyros kaki).
pos: noun
Translations:
lagi
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay lagi (“still more”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: More, even more.
pos: adv
tags: Singapore
Singlish
not-comparable
examples: Lagi worse.
Translations:
Scottish
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Scottich, from Old English Sċyttisċ, equivalent to Scot + -ish. Compare West Frisian Skotsk (“Scottish”), Dutch Schots (“Scottish”), German schottisch (“Scottish”), Danish skotsk (“Scottish”), Icelandic skoskur (“Scottish”). Doublet of Scotch and Scot.
Base: Scot
Affixes: -ish
Inflected forms:
form: more Scottish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Scottish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a thing or concept, of or pertaining to Scotland.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a person, native to, born in or whose ancestors originally came from Scotland.
pos: adj
examples: In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell.
gloss: the people of Scotland.
pos: noun
tags: collective
plural
plural-only
with-definite-article
Derived words: full Scottish breakfast
Scottish acre
Scottish bluebell
Scottish pint
Translations:
stodge
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late 17th century, of "symbolic" origin, suggested by stuff and podge. Compare stog.
Inflected forms:
form: stodges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stodging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stodged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stodged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stodges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To stuff; to cram.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Heavy, dull, often starchy food, such as a steamed pudding
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: The meal was nothing but heavy stodge with no fresh vegetables.
After weeks of bread and porridge, he longed for something other than stodge.
gloss: Anything dull and bland.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Critics dismissed the book as academic stodge.
Translations:
stodgy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Unknown, but possibly from stodge (“to stuff”), from stog, or a blend of stuffy + podgy.
Compound parts: stuffy
podgy
Inflected forms:
form: stodgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more stodgy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: stodgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most stodgy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Dull, old-fashioned.
pos: adj
examples: I gave up trying to get that stodgy club to try anything new.
Safer! Good lord! what could you have safer than a stodgy second-rate boarding-house in Hapsburg Square? The place drones respectability.
gloss: Having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach.
pos: adj
examples: "What's the matter with you?" — "Nothing. I'm sorry to be so damned emotional, but for six months I've been starved for beauty." — "You used to be so matter of fact. It's very interesting to hear you say that." — "Damn it all, I don't want to be interesting," laughed Philip. "Let's go and have a stodgy tea."
“. . . Why! Why! Why is the middle-class so stodgy—so utterly without a sense of humour! My dear, it's only by a fluke that I am here at all—Norman being the protective fluke.”
The Southampton striker, who also struck a post late on, was being serenaded by the Wembley crowd before the end and should probably brace himself for some Lambert-mania over the coming days but, amid the eulogies, it should not overlook the deficiencies that were evident in another stodgy England performance.
gloss: Badly put together.
pos: adj
tags: dated
Derived words: stodgily
stodginess
unstodgy
Translations:
fun
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), from Middle English fonne (“a fool, dupe”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”), from Old Norse fáni (“vain person, swaggerer”), but of unknown ultimate origin. Perhaps related to or influenced by fjäll (“rock, cliff, mountain”). Compare also English fumble, Norwegian Nynorsk fomme (“clumsy fool”).
Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond.
As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century.
Alternative etymology connected Middle English fonne with Old Frisian fonna, fone, fomne, variant forms of fāmne, fēmne (“young woman, virgin”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimnijā, from Proto-Germanic *faimnijǭ (“maiden”), from Proto-Indo-European *peymen- (“girl”), *poymen- (“breast milk”). If so, then cognate with Old English fǣmne (“maid, virgin, damsel, bride”), West Frisian famke (“girl”), Saterland Frisian fone, fon (“woman, maid, servant," also "weakling, simpleton”).
Inflected forms:
form: more fun
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: funner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
informal
form: most fun
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: funnest
pos: adj
tags: informal
superlative
form: funs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: funning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: funned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: funned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Grafting your boss's face onto the hind end of a donkey is fun, but serious fun is when you create the impossible and it looks real.
gloss: Playful, often noisy, activity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Enjoyable or amusing.
pos: adj
examples: We had a fun time at the party.
He is such a fun person to be with.
He's the liberated character that everyone wants to be, so he was very fun to play
gloss: Whimsical or flamboyant.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.
gloss: To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.
Derived words: fun fact
fun fur
fun money
funner
funnest
funness
funnish
funpost
no fun at parties
superfun
unfun
you must be fun at parties
Translations:
Serbo-Croatian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Serbo-
English Croatian
English Serbo-Croatian
From Serbo- + Croatian.
Inflected forms:
form: Serbo-Croatians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Serbocroatian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: SCr.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Serbo-Croatian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Serbo-Croatian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Serbocroatian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: SCr.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person of Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, or Montenegrin ethnicity or descent.
pos: noun
examples: These conditions exist to some extent among other foreigners, but are not as prevalent among other nationalities in Johnstown as among the Serbo-Croatians.
Of 41 members of the Dalmatian Diet, only 6 were Italians, elected all in the town of Zadar, in consequence of the censitary and curial system of elections, and 35 were Serbo-Croatians. All the deputies sent to the Vienna Parliament were Serbo-Croatians.
There was a respectable smattering of Italians, a few Poles and Germans, one Serbo-Croatian, and an Englishman named Bill Bishop, whose sidekick I became.
[…]the illiteracy rate of Polish adults was 40 percent and among Serbo-Croatians was 77 percent, but among Germans only 6 percent.
Germany absorbed two million refugees from Eastern European Countries and the Russian Federation. The country has small groups of ethnic minorities of Italians, Serbo-Croatians, Greeks, Spanish, and about 98,000 Jews.
gloss: In or pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language.
pos: adj
Translations:
Sotho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-nintuder.?
Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀
Sotho motho
Sotho -sothoder.
English Sotho
From Sotho, from Sotho -sotho, from Sotho motho.
Inflected forms:
form: Sotho
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sutho
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Soto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Suto
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Mosotho (“person”); a member of the Basotho (“people”).
pos: noun
Translations:
Tahitian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Tahiti
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Tahitian
From Tahiti + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Tahitians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Tahiti.
pos: noun
examples: Doubtless, in thus denationalizing the Tahitians, as it were, the missionaries were prompted by a sincere desire for good; […]
gloss: A person from Tahiti or of Tahitian descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to Tahiti, or to its people or language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
Tswana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Tswana Tswana, the stem of Motswana/Batswana/Setswana. See Botswana for more.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A Bantu people living in Botswana and South Africa.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Translations:
Xhosa
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Xhosa (ísí)Xhosa (“Xhosa language”) and (úḿ)Xhosa (“Xhosa person”).
Inflected forms:
form: Xhosas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Xhosa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Xhosa
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Xhosa
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Bantu people from South Africa, most of whom live in the Eastern Cape.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: my father remained aloof from Christianity and instead reserved his own faith for the great spirit of the Xhosas, Qamata, the God of his fathers.
In many Xhosa households, Wednesday is umngqusho day. It's the way we all grew up. Like Fridays in the Eastern Cape are always dumplings with meat day.
gloss: The language of these people, a Bantu language related to Zulu.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: “With the food packages that we drop off, we are adding messages in the local dialect of Xhosa, because this is predominately for the Xhosa areas,” Kolisi said.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Xhosa people.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Xhosa language.
pos: adj
Related words: Wiktionary’s coverage of Xhosa terms
Translations:
Yucatec
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish yucateco.
Inflected forms:
form: Yucatecs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Yucatec
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Mayan people who inhabit the Yucatán peninsula.
pos: noun
Translations:
cassation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cassation, from Latin cassō (“destroy, annul”).
Inflected forms:
form: cassations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The abrogation of a law by a higher authority; annulment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
yin
Part of speech: noun
num
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From early romanizations of Chinese 陰／阴 (yīn), originally used in reference to shaded areas, as of a mountain or home.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with dark, cool, female, etc. elements of the natural world.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"
According to traditional Chinese medicine, blood carries chi, your “life force,” which fuels all the functions of the body. When you lose blood, you lose chi, and this causes your body to go into a state of yin (cold). When yin (cold) and yang (hot) are out of balance, your body will suffer physical disorders.
In ancient Chinese philosophy, the opposing forces of Yin (passive, feminine, night) and Yang (active, masculine, sun) balance life.[…]
As we turn towards darker days (from November 1st until the winter solstice's darkest night on December 21st), we have a chance to turn inward for reflection. We enter a Yin phase.
gloss: The number one, primarily used in Scotland and Ulster
pos: num
Translations:
yang
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From early romanizations of Chinese 陽／阳 (yáng), originally in reference to the sunny side of areas such as mountains and dwellings.
Inflected forms:
form: Yang
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: "Steamed fish and chicken and vegetable soup and even mushrooms are considered cooling foods, edible materializations of the yang, the pure primal air. The yin, or earth element, inheres in fried dishes and especially in shark's fin soup. Am I right, Mr Lee?"
The performance was unmistakably male and gay. The rousing lion dance that capped their performance provided the right touch of "yang" without destroying the distinct feel of something gay, Asian and new.
Translations:
attic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From the practice of decorating the top storey of building facades in the Attic architectural style. From French attique, from Latin atticus, from Ancient Greek Ἀττικός (Attikós).
Inflected forms:
form: attics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The space, often unfinished and with sloped walls, directly below the roof in the uppermost part of a house or other building, generally used for storage or habitation.
pos: noun
examples: We went up to the attic to look for the boxes containing our childhood keepsakes.
In my Wonderland, I'm back on my Alice
Back in my palace, I'm fly like Aladdin
Serving my fans all my dope, 'cause they addicts
Haters mad 'cause I'm on top like an attic
And if it's beef then we're shooting sporadic
Game is like Disney, my words are like magic
gloss: A storey or a parapet above the cornice of a classical façade, often decorated.
pos: noun
gloss: A person's head or brain.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: […] was a diminutive, forked-radish sort of a young man, very fashionably attired, or, as he would say, kiddily togg'd; and, though it was scarcely noon, he was rather queer in the attic; that is to say, not exactly sober.
Synonyms: garret
top floor
Related words: atelier
Derived words: attic door
atticful
atticky
attic ladder
atticless
atticlike
toys in the attic
Translations:
choice
Part of speech: adj
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English choys, from a merger of the noun above and Middle English chyse, chuse, chys, chis (“choice, excellent”), from Old English ċīes (“choice; dainty; nice”), related to Old English ċēosan (“to choose”).
Inflected forms:
form: choicer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more choice
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: choicest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most choice
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: choise
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: choyse
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: choise
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: choyse
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Especially good or preferred.
pos: adj
examples: It's a choice location, but you will pay more to live there.
This it is, that for ever keeps God’s true princes of the Empire from the world’s hustings; and leaves the highest honors that this air can give, to those men who become famous more through their infinite inferiority to the choice hidden handful of the Divine Inert, than through their undoubted superiority over the dead level of the mass.
gloss: Careful in choosing; discriminating.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
Choice word, and measured phrase; above the reach / Of ordinary men; a stately speech;
Thus musing, he ate nothing; the Queen, believing that it was in consequence of his having been unkindly received, loaded him with caresses; she herself handed him some exquisite fruits, of which she was very choice.
One day the cabin steward made me a present of some molasses, which I was so choice of that I kept it hid away in a tin can in the farthest corner of my bunk.
gloss: Cool; excellent.
pos: intj
tags: New-Zealand
slang
examples: "I'm going to the movies." —"Choice!"
Translations:
flamenco
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish flamenco, from Middle Dutch vlaminc (“Fleming”) (> Dutch Vlaming).
Inflected forms:
form: flamencos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flamencos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: flamencoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: flamencoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: flamencoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A genre of folk music and dance native to Andalusia, in Spain.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.
Among the dancers, who joined in periodically, the outlier wasn’t the Spanish flamenco dancer, Jesús Carmona (in town for the Flamenco Festival at City Center), so much as the New York salsero, Eddie Torres Jr.
gloss: A song or dance performed in such a style.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: La Niña was so goddam terrific that after a month of singing with the vocal trio, she was singing solo and she was dancing a flamenco better'n a gypsy fireball!
gloss: To dance flamenco.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: "Can you flamenco?" "If I have to. How about you?" "Love, I can barely waltz. Jive a bit if I'm pissed enough."
Behind them on horseback sat six men, two with guitars, one with a trumpet, and three women also on horses: Nadia, an older woman, and the girl Gus had flamencoed with.
Related words: fandango
Derived words: flamenco guitar
flamencolike
flamencology
Translations:
tow
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
Etymology: From Middle English towen, from Old English togian, from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-.
See also Middle High German zogen, German ziehen, Dutch tijgen, Old Norse toga.
Inflected forms:
form: tows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: towing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: towed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: towed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To pull something behind one, such as by using a line, chain, or tongue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Near-synonyms: draw, haul, pull, trail
In its current specification it cannot be driven and must be towed to its work location by a locomotive.
gloss: To aid someone behind by shielding them from wind resistance.
pos: verb
tags: usually
gloss: The act of towing and the condition of being towed.
pos: noun
examples: It isn't the car's battery; I think I need a tow.
gloss: Something, such as a tugboat, that tows.
pos: noun
gloss: Something, such as a barge, that is towed.
pos: noun
gloss: A rope or cable used in towing.
pos: noun
gloss: A speed increase given by driving in front of another car on a straight, which causes a slipstream for the car behind.
pos: noun
examples: On Saturday, Vettel was very unhappy with Leclerc's failure to work out a way through the traffic and give him a tow for the second runs in qualifying, as had been agreed.
Derived words: aerotow
betow
heretog
towable
towage
towaway
towback
towball
towboat
towbody
towee
tower
towfish
towline
towmaster
townet
towpath
towrope
towship
towtruck
untowed
wantoe
in tow
on tow
ski tow
tow bar
tow hitch
tow iron
tow ring
tow rope
tow truck
under tow
undertow
towy
Translations:
brilliant
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: media
printing
publishing
Etymology: Borrowed from French brillant (late 17th century), present participle of the verb briller, from Italian brillare, possibly from Latin berillus, beryllus (“a beryl, gem, eyeglass”), from Ancient Greek βήρυλλος (bḗrullos, “beryl”). By surface analysis, French brill(er) + -i- + -ant.
Inflected forms:
form: more brilliant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brilliant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brilliants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brilliants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: brillianting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: brillianted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: brillianted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Shining brightly.
pos: adj
examples: the brilliant lights along the promenade
gloss: Both bright and saturated.
pos: adj
examples: butterflies with brilliant blue wings
gloss: Having a sharp, clear tone.
pos: adj
gloss: Of surpassing excellence; magnificent.
pos: adj
examples: The actor's performance in the play was simply brilliant.
"Thing is," Anahita resumed, and then, faltering, "Mean to say, well, we just think it's great." — "You, she means," Mishal corrected. "We think you're, you know." — "Brilliant," Anahita said and dazzled the bewildered Chamcha with a smile. "Magic. You know. Extreme."
gloss: Highly intelligent.
pos: adj
examples: She is a brilliant scientist.
gloss: Great, wonderful.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: https://youtu.be/aoag03mSuXQ?t=5139s
He absolutely could have told us to get lost, and didn't. What a brilliant guy!
gloss: A finely cut gemstone, especially a diamond, cut in a particular form with numerous facets so as to maximize light return through the top (called "table") of the stone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This snuffbox — on the hinge see brilliants shine.
On the one, a plain massive band which matched the collar; on the other, a serpent; the tail reached nearly to the elbow, and the head rose a little from the wrist; the tongue of a ruby, the eyes of large brilliants.
"And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which sparkled upon his finger.
gloss: The size of type between excelsior and diamond, standardized as 4-point.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
gloss: Most hummingbird species of the genus Heliodoxa.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A kind of cotton goods, figured on the weaving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To cut (a diamond) with many facets, to make it into a brilliant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In short, the diamond owed more to being brillianted and polished, and well set, than to any intrinsic worth or solidity.
Related words: beryl
beryllium
brilliantine
Derived words: brilliance
brilliancy
brilliant green
brilliantly
brilliantness
brilliant rummynose tetra
brillo
overbrilliant
superbrilliant
ultrabrilliant
unbrilliant
trilliant
Translations:
rigid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *Hreyǵ-der.
Proto-Italic *rigēō
Latin rigeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin rigidusder.
Middle English rigide
English rigid
From Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus (“stiff”), from rigeō (“to be stiff”). Compare rigor. Merged with Middle English rigged, rygged, rugged (“upright like a spine, rigid”, literally “ridged”), from ridge + -ed.
Base: ridge
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: rigider
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more rigid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: rigidest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most rigid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rigids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Stiff, rather than flexible.
pos: adj
gloss: Having inflexible thoughts, opinions, or beliefs.
pos: adj
gloss: Fixed, rather than moving.
pos: adj
examples: A sunflower, four more, one bowed, and horses in the distance standing rigid and still as toys.
gloss: Rigorous and unbending.
pos: adj
gloss: Uncompromising.
pos: adj
gloss: An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.
pos: noun
examples: The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.
gloss: A bicycle with no suspension system.
pos: noun
Synonyms: Zeppelin
Related words: rigor
rigorous
rigour
Derived words: multirigid
nonrigid
overrigid
rigid body
rigid body dynamics
rigidification
rigidify
rigidise
rigidity
rigidize
rigid-leaf poison
rigidly
rigidness
rigidulous
semirigid
subrigid
superrigid
unrigid
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: строг
roman: strog
lang: Bulgarian
word: непреклонен
roman: nepreklonen
lang: Dutch
word: stijf
lang: Dutch
word: onbuigzaam
lang: Dutch
word: rigide
lang: Dutch
word: star
lang: Finnish
word: jäykkä
lang: French
word: rigide
lang: Georgian
word: მკაცრი
roman: mḳacri
lang: Georgian
word: სასტიკი
roman: sasṭiḳi
lang: German
word: steif
lang: Hebrew
word: קשיח
lang: Japanese
word: 堅い
roman: katai
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: req
lang: Latvian
word: stingrs
lang: Malayalam
word: ദൃഢം
roman: dr̥ḍhaṁ
lang: Māori
word: whakaioio
lang: Norman
word: rigide
lang: Polish
word: nieugięty
lang: Polish
word: nieustępliwy
lang: Portuguese
word: rígido
lang: Russian
word: суро́вый
roman: suróvyj
lang: Russian
word: жёсткий
roman: žóstkij
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: rag
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: kšuty
lang: Swedish
word: stel
lang: Tagalog
word: tigambay
lang: Turkish
word: bükülmez
ancestry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English auncestrie, from Old French ancesserie. See ancestor.
Inflected forms:
form: ancestries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ancestrie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: auncestrie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: auncestry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The state of being ancestors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Birth to a noble or high-ranking family, or to someone of honorable descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Tali: My people place a high value on family and ancestry. There's an unspoken expectation that I'll live up to my father's example.
gloss: A series of ancestors; the people from whom one is descended.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I can trace my ancestry back to the 18th century.
Synonyms: provenance
parentage
descent
Related words: ancestor
ancestral
Derived words: coancestry
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: prejardhja
lang: Asturian
word: llinaxe
lang: Asturian
word: ascendencia
lang: Catalan
word: llinatge
lang: Catalan
word: ascendència
lang: Dutch
word: voorouders
lang: Dutch
word: afstamming
lang: French
word: ascendance
lang: Galician
word: xaramea
lang: Galician
word: alcuña
lang: Galician
word: fonduxe
lang: Galician
word: castuaxe
lang: Galician
word: avoenga
lang: Galician
word: tronquidade
lang: Galician
word: ascendencia
lang: Galician
word: liñaxe
lang: German
word: Vorfahren
lang: Greek
word: γενεαλογία
roman: genealogía
lang: Greek
word: καταγωγή
roman: katagogí
lang: Greek
word: γενεαλογικό δένδρο
roman: genealogikó déndro
lang: Greek
word: πρόγονοι
roman: prógonoi
lang: Italian
word: ascendenza
lang: Italian
word: stirpe
lang: Middle English
word: auncestrie
lang: Persian
word: پروز
roman: parvaz
lang: Polish
word: pochodzenie
lang: Portuguese
word: ascendência
lang: Russian
word: родосло́вная
roman: rodoslóvnaja
lang: Russian
word: происхожде́ние
roman: proisxoždénije
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: sinnsearachd
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: порекло
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: поријекло
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: poreklo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: porijeklo
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: postanak
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: preci
lang: Spanish
word: linaje
lang: Spanish
word: ascendencia
lang: Spanish
word: abolengo
lang: Spanish
word: alcurnia
lang: Welsh
word: ach
ankle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng-
Proto-Germanic *-ulaz
Proto-Germanic *ankulaz
Proto-West Germanic *ankul
Old English *ancol
Middle English ancle
English ankle
From Middle English ankel, ancle, ankyll, from Old English ancol (compare anclēow (“ankle”) > Modern English anclef, ancliff, ancley), from Proto-West Germanic *ankul, from Proto-Germanic *ankulaz (“ankle”); akin to Icelandic ökkla, ökli, Danish and Swedish ankel, Dutch enklaauw, enkel, German Enkel, Old Norse akka, Old Frisian anckel, and perhaps Old High German encha, ancha (“thigh, shin”), from the Proto-Germanic *ankijǭ (“ankle, joint”).
Compare with Sanskrit अङ्ग (aṅga, “limb”), अङ्गुरि (aṅguri, “finger”), Latin angulus. Compare haunch and Greek prefix ἀγκυλο- (ankulo-, “joint, crooked, bent”). Doublet of angulus and angle.
Inflected forms:
form: ankles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ancle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: ankles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ankling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ankled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ankled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ancle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost portion of the foot and lowermost portion of the leg, which contain this skeletal joint.
pos: noun
gloss: To walk.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: Arvay’s tearful speech followed the usual pattern, and everybody said it was just fine. There had been nothing about the heathens of China, India and Africa wallowing around on the heavenly chairs, nor ankling up and down the golden streets.
1951, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings’ Little Hut, London: Collins, 1973, Chapter 15, p. 178,
Supposing we all ankled over to the huts […]
1966, P. G. Wodehouse, Plum Pie, London: Everyman, 2007, Chapter 6, p. 158,
He ankled round, accordingly, to her house and his ring at the bell was answered by Wilberforce, her butler […]
After a while he got up and ankled his way down the corridor and met Penny coming out of the toilet.
gloss: To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution.
pos: verb
Translations:
angelic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
mathematics
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
sciences
topology
Etymology: From Middle English angelik, aungillik, aungellike, (also angellich, aungellich > English angelly), from Old English anġelīċ, engellīċ, englelīċ, coalescing with Old French angélique, from Latin angelicus, from Ancient Greek ἀγγελικός (angelikós, “of or for a messenger”), from ἄγγελος (ángelos, “angel”). Equivalent to angel + -ic. Doublet of angelique (“plant of the genus Angelica”) and angélique (“plucked bowl lute”).
Base: angel
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more angelic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most angelic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: angelick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to, or proceeding from, angels; resembling, characteristic of, or partaking of the nature of, an angel.
pos: adj
gloss: Very sweet-natured, well-behaved, or beautiful.
pos: adj
examples: an angelic child
The choir sang in angelic voices.
She gave him an angelic smile.
The baby’s face looked so peaceful and angelic in sleep.
gloss: Of or pertaining to angelic acid.
pos: adj
examples: an angelic ester
gloss: A regular Hausdorff space is said to be angelic if the closure of each relatively countably compact set A is compact and the closure consists of the limits of sequences in A.
pos: adj
Synonyms: angelic
angelical
angellike
angelly
cherubic
cherubical
cherublike
seraphic
Antonyms: diabolical
fallen angelic
hellborn
infernal
disangelical
unangelic
unangelical
uncherubic
unseraphic
nonangelic
Related words: divine
heavenlike
heavenly
saintly
Derived words: angelate
angelically
angelicize
angelicness
angelic non-determinism
angelic salutation
fallen angelic
nonangelic
overangelic
superangelic
unangelic
Translations:
anglo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-.
Inflected forms:
form: anglos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Anglo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An English person or person of English ancestry.
pos: noun
examples: Back when we went to the World Cup in South Africa, we saw many anglos waving English flags.
gloss: An English person or person of English ancestry.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
informal
gloss: A British person or person of British ancestry.
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
gloss: Clipping of anglophone.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
informal
gloss: Clipping of anglophone.
pos: noun
tags: Southwestern
US
informal
offensive
sometimes
examples: Spanish was the only "foreign" language taught in the school, where most of the students spoke Spanish as a first language, and it was taught by an Anglo teacher from textbooks written by and for Anglos […] Somehow, the school administration saw no contradiction in rewarding Anglo students for learning to conjugate ser while punishing Chicano students for speaking Spanish on the school grounds.
gloss: An anglo concertina.
pos: noun
Derived words: angloid
Translations:
redemption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English redempcioun, from Old French redemption, from Latin redemptio. Doublet of ransom. Displaced native Old English ālīesung, ālīesnes.
Inflected forms:
form: redemptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of redeeming or something redeemed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The recovery, for a fee, of a pawned article.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The conversion (of a security) into cash.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When money comes in, stablecoin operators can exercise how and when to buy reserves. When they face redemptions, they have to act faster.
gloss: Salvation from sin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Before creating the world, God knew both the need for and the means of the redemption He would provide through Jesus Christ.
gloss: Rescue upon payment of a ransom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: beyond redemption
coredemption
equity of redemption
nonredemption
past redemption
redemptional
redemption arc
redemptionary
redemptioner
redemption fatigue
redemption game
redemptionism
redemptionist
redemptionista
redemptionless
redemption price
redemption value
Translations:
multilingual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
Latin linguālislbor.
English lingual
English multilingual
From multi- + lingual.
Inflected forms:
form: more multilingual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most multilingual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: multilinguals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or involving multiple languages.
pos: adj
examples: In reality, the multidimensionality of language contact in multilingual environments ensures no such neat compartmentalisation.
Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the Bible: There are editions in over 340 languages, and a further 400 even more obscure ones are being developed and tested.
gloss: Able to communicate in a number of languages.
pos: adj
examples: So being multilingual can make you more appealing, more successful and more compassionate. And it’s also good for your health.
Describing us as multilingual emphasizes our achievements and that learning English adds to the richness of our identity.
gloss: A polyglot.
pos: noun
Related words: language
multilingualism
Derived words: multilingualization
multilingualize
multilingually
multilingualness
multilingual notation
Translations:
Aquarius
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin aquārius (“water carrier”) (from aqua (“water”) + -arius), calque of Ancient Greek Ὑδροχόος (Hudrokhóos), referring to the Mesopotamian god Ea who was commonly depicted with water pouring from his shoulders or from vases; compare the constellation name in Akkadian 𒀯𒄖𒆷 (ṣinundu), Sumerian 𒀯𒄖𒆷 (ᵐᵘˡGU.LA, “The Great One, Ea”). See also aquarium.
Base: aqua
Affixes: -arius
Inflected forms:
form: Aquariuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone with an Aquarius star sign
pos: noun
Antonyms: Leo
Translations:
Scorpio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin scorpiō (“scorpion”), from Ancient Greek σκορπίος (skorpíos), calque of Akkadian 𒀯𒄈𒋰 (zuqaqīpu, “scorpion; constellation name”),
calque of Sumerian 𒀯𒄈𒋰 (ᴹᵁᴸGIR₂.TAB). Doublet of scorpion.
Inflected forms:
form: Scorpios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone with a Scorpio star sign
pos: noun
Translations:
absentia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin absentia (“being away, absence”), from absēns (“absent”), present active participle of absum (“to be away or absent”); compare absent.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: absence
pos: noun
Translations:
infant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English infaunt, borrowed from Latin īnfantem, accusative masculine singular of īnfāns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from īn- (“not”) + fāns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.
Inflected forms:
form: infants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: infaunt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: infaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.
pos: noun
gloss: A minor.
pos: noun
examples: Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...
gloss: A student in an infant school or the first part of a primary school.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
gloss: A noble or aristocratic youth.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].
gloss: Of or pertaining to the earlier half of primary school education.
pos: adj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
not-comparable
examples: Primary schooling in Ireland comprises two Infant years, which are equivalent to pre-school in other countries , and six grades or classes.
Clearly, from the attention given to it, HMI believed that history should be part of the infant curriculum.
gloss: small, being near its source.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: Leaving Nantyglo, a small station at an altitude of 1,030 ft. with the platform on the eastern side, the train runs northwards over former G.W.R. metals, with the infant River Ebbw, a little more than a yard wide, on the west.
Related words: infancy
infanteer
infantier
infante
infanta
infanticide
infantile
infantry
Derived words: floppy infant syndrome
infantcare
infant formula
infanthood
infant industry
infantize
infantlike
infantly
infant massage
infant mortality
infantocracy
infantometer
infantophile
infantophilia
infantophobe
infantophobia
infantorium
infant respiratory distress syndrome
infant safety seat
infant school
infant seat
infant star
infantswear
infantwear
junior infant
nigfant
noninfant
Puerto Rican infant hypotonia syndrome
senior infant
swimfant
terrible infant
Translations:
toddler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From toddle (“to walk unsteadily”) + -er – literally “one who walks unsteadily”, hence a young child.
Base: toddle
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: toddlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A young child (typically between one and three years old) who has started walking but not fully mastered it.
pos: noun
examples: I can't believe Vanessa's baby is now a toddler already!
One inexpensive possibility is to purchase a toddler seat that can be placed on your current carriage. There are seats especially designed for that purpose, with seat belts and all. Some toddlers enjoy their high perch, but safety is a concern with these seats.
gloss: One unsteady on their feet.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: He is sixty-five years old if he is a fortnight, while the girl has only just done with her dolls,and hos no more love for the toothless old toddler than I have for Mammy Wombat, the black gin.
gloss: Any young child (typically before preadolescence) who is capable of walking.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
rare
examples: Toddlers & Tiaras
He gave up, said the sixes were being too rowdy... Can't believe he's scared of literal toddlers!
Synonyms: ankle-biter
crumb crusher
crumb snatcher
leg biter
preschooler
rugrat
sproglet
squirt
toddler
tot
tyke
Related words: toddle
toddling
cruising
Derived words: pretoddler
toddlekins
toddlercon
toddlerdom
toddlerhood
toddlerish
toddlerlike
toddler seat
toddlership
toddlerspace
toddlerswear
toddlerwear
turdler
Translations:
teenager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English teenage
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 teenager
From teenage + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: teenagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: teen-ager
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person between thirteen and nineteen years old (inclusive).
pos: noun
examples: Most teenagers will undergo lots of changes before reaching adulthood.
Marco's main target market are late teenagers.
A British teenager who killed three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was jailed for at least 52 years on Thursday, for an attack Prime Minister Keir Starmer called one of the most harrowing moments in Britain’s history.
Many of the rulings against such limits, including the 5th Circuit opinion issued Wednesday, cite the participation of older teenagers in militias around the time of the Second Amendment’s framing.
Translations: