yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
deuterium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From deutero- + -ium. Coined by American physical chemist Harold Urey, from Ancient Greek δεύτερος (deúteros, “second”).
Base: deutero
Inflected forms:
form: deuteriums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An isotope of hydrogen with one proton and one neutron in each atom - 21H.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Heavy water is "heavy" because it contains deuterium.
gloss: An atom of this isotope.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: There were about 80 deuteriums for every million protiums, and virtually no tritium.
Related words: deuteron
Deuteronomy
heavy water
Derived words: antideuterium
deuterium bottleneck
deuterium oxide
Translations:
fencing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: criminology
human-sciences
law
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English fensing, equivalent to fence + -ing.
Base: fence
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: fencings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The pair both want to touch each other, and indulge in a series of fencings and parryings in the hope of attaining their desire.
gloss: Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Fencing was erected around the field to keep the horses in.
gloss: The buying and receiving of stolen goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
Derived words: e-fencing
fencing response
fencing wire
geo-fencing
geofencing
penis fencing
snow fencing
tongue-fencing
Translations:
titan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Titan.
Inflected forms:
form: titans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something or someone of very large stature, greatness, or godliness.
pos: noun
examples: The battle of the titans at the bridal door explodes into the marketplace; and wall and doorpost shatter as they fight with the fury of bulls.
In that context Scotland's fate is a modest element, a symptom of wider fragmentation of the current global order, a footnote to the fall of empire and the Berlin Wall, important to us and punchdrunk neighbours like France and Italy, a mere curiosity to emerging titans like Brazil.
Whitney, mother of Xavier, is a real estate titan who, along with her British husband, has found her niche selling luxurious underground bunkers to wealthy clients looking for a safe space to hunker down in the event of a climate apocalypse.
Translations:
drachma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin drachma and its etymon Doric Greek δρᾰχμᾱ́ (drăkhmā́). Doublet of dram, diram, dirham, dirhem, adarme, and dam.
Inflected forms:
form: drachmas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drachmae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drachmai
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drachm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: drachme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: drakhma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: drakhme
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The currency of Greece in ancient times and again from 1832 until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro.
pos: noun
examples: 'Who is he, and where does he come from?' said I, 'and what does he charge?' 'Evenus of Paros, Socrates,' said he, 'and his fee is 500 drachmae.' I felt that Evenus was to be congratulated if he really was a master of this art and taught it at such a moderate fee.
2008, Philip Matyszak, Ancient Athens on Five Drachmas a Day (title of the book)
gloss: A coin worth one drachma.
pos: noun
gloss: An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains, or 4.3 grams.
pos: noun
gloss: A later Greek weight equal to a gram.
pos: noun
Derived words: new drachma
Translations:
tolar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Slovene tolar, from German Taler (“made in Joachimstal”). Doublet of dollar and taler /thaler.
Inflected forms:
form: tolars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tolarja
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tolarjev
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tolarji
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state currency formerly used by the Republic of Slovenia between 1991 and 2006, divided into 100 stotins.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
escudo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese escudo (“shield”). Doublet of scutum, scute, écu, and scudo.
Inflected forms:
form: escudos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state currency formerly used in Portugal, divided into 100 centavos. The symbol is $ which is positioned between the escudos & centavos, 2$50.
pos: noun
gloss: The currency formerly used in Chile and replaced by the Peso.
pos: noun
gloss: The current currency of Cape Verde.
pos: noun
Translations:
krona
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish krona (“crown”). Doublet of corona, crown, korona, koruna, króna, and krone.
Inflected forms:
form: kronor
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The official currency of Sweden.
pos: noun
Translations:
shekel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew שֶׁקֶל (shékel, “shekel”), from שָׁקַל (shakál, “to weigh”), from Akkadian 𒂅 (šiqlum).
Inflected forms:
form: shekels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shekel
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shekalim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sheqel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
pos: noun
examples: So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
"Beauty is naught to him, because there are lips more honey-sweet; and wealth is naught, because others can weigh him down with heavier shekels; and fame is naught, because there have been greater men than he."
“I sent the same amount I normally transfer and went to pick it up. It was about 300 shekels short. I said something to the cashier, like, ‘I think you gave me the wrong rate,’” HaBahiyir recalled. “That’s when I realized the shekel was strengthening.”
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Her gownlet cost five hundred beans; / Her furs, four figures in a row; / Her hat removed from papa's jeans / A hundred shekels more or so.
[…] after the 1887-9 campaign was the great refuge of the destitute who, as they could not hope to rake in a breast-full of medals and decorations, expected, at any rate, to amass a good few shekels.
The mob had filched anything that might earn them a shekel or two.
gloss: An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;
Related words: agora
ILS
NIS
Derived words: new shekel
Translations:
intermodal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *n̥ter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
English modal
English intermodal
From inter- + modal.
Inflected forms:
form: intermodals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to more than one mode of transport.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: an intermodal station which provides transfers between buses and trains
Boxes from Southampton: In September, GB Railfreight began a new intermodal service from Solent Stevedores to Manchester. [...] This is the third daily working GBRf offers serving Southampton and GBRf's 17th intermodal service to date; it runs five days per week.
It created inter-city and intermodal services, which were genuinely world leading. And it undeniably pushed British Railways into the modern era.
gloss: A shipping container for intermodal use.
pos: noun
Translations:
croissant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱer-
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱreh₁-sḱéti
Latin crēscō
Latin crēscentem
Old French creissant
Old French croisant
French croissantubor.
English croissant
Unadapted borrowing from French croissant (“crescent”), present participle of croître (“to grow”). Doublet of crescent.
Inflected forms:
form: croissants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flaky roll or pastry in a form of a crescent.
pos: noun
Translations:
tar
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *dóru
From Middle English ter, terr, tarr, from Old English teoru, from Proto-West Germanic *teru, from Proto-Germanic *terwą, from Proto-Indo-European *derwo-, from *dóru (“tree”).
See also Saterland Frisian Taar, West Frisian tarre, tar, Dutch teer, German Teer; also Welsh derw (“oaks”), Lithuanian dervà (“pinewood, resin”), Russian де́рево (dérevo, “tree”), Bulgarian дърво́ (dǎrvó, “tree”). More at tree.
Inflected forms:
form: tars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tarring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tarred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tarred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To coat with tar.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To besmirch.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The allegations tarred his name, even though he was found innocent.
Dr. Sign: In fact, maybe you think I should get credit, but if I do, Dr. Frendall will be scorned. You know why
Dr. Ellsworth: Yes, I know. Your critics will tar him with the same brush as you.
Derived words: retar
tar and feather
tar out
tar with the same brush
tar with the same stick
untarred
Translations:
voyager
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From voyage + -er.
Base: voyage
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: voyagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who voyages, traveller, a person who explores new lands and worlds.
pos: noun
examples: This rudeness and official punctilio, however, brought forth a storm of protest from my fellow voyagers.
Translations:
cigarillo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cigarrillo, from cigarro (“cigar”) + -illo (“diminutive suffix”).
Inflected forms:
form: cigarillos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cigarilloes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thin cigar, differing from a cigarette in being wrapped with tobacco leaves rather than paper.
pos: noun
Translations:
cigar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish cigarro, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information.
Inflected forms:
form: cigars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cylinder of tobacco rolled and wrapped with an outer covering of tobacco leaves, intended to be smoked.
pos: noun
examples: Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth[…].
A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’ […] ‘Cigars and summer days and women in big hats with swansdown face-powder, that's what it reminds me of.’
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: cigarette
cigarillo
cheroot
Derived words: a cigar is a cigar
a cigar is just a cigar
Bondi cigar
cigalike
cigar beetle
cigar box
cigar-box cedar
cigar box guitar
cigar box guitarist
cigar butt
cigar-chomping
cigar comb jelly
cigar cutter
cigardom
cigared
cigaresque
cigar fish
cigar flower
cigar jellyfish
cigarless
cigar lighter
cigarlike
cigarmaker
cigarmaking
cigar minnow
cigar plant
cigar shark
cigar smoke
cigar-smoke
cigar store Indian
cigar tree
cigar wrasse
close but no cigar
close, but no cigar
e-cigar
electronic cigar
newspaper cigar
paper cigar
pink cigar
sometimes a cigar is a cigar
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
Translations:
omicron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin omicron, from Koine Greek ὂ μῑκρόν (ò mīkrón, “little o”), named in contrast with omega (“big o”). The uncommon form omicra is similarly borrowed from Latin and Greek. The use for designating stars in a constellation—typically in order of apparent brightness—began with Johann Bayer's 1603 Uranometria.
Inflected forms:
form: omicrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: omicra
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Omicron
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: omikron
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Omikron
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: o
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: O
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ο
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ο
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The 15th letter of the Classical and Modern Greek alphabets (16th in Ancient and Old Greek), used in ordering lists as in naming (astronomy) the 15th star of a constellation or (epidemiology) the 15th discovered major variant of a disease.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
sometimes
examples: Your Majestie knows that unfortunate I [...] was the first who when I published my Poem of Italia Liberata endeavoured to bring the Omicron, Eupselon, Omega, and other Greek Letters, which I thought very requisite for that language, into my own Tongue;
The E serves both for the Epsilon and Eta; the O, both for the Omicron and Omega, and likewise for the dipthong OΥ.
... They include Mira itself (omicron Ceti) which can be seen shortly before dawn.
There are now seven “variants of interest” or “variants of concern” and they each have a Greek letter, according to a W.H.O. tracking page. Some other variants with Greek letters do not reach those classification levels, and the W.H.O. also skipped two letters just before Omicron — “Nu” and “Xi” — leading to speculation about whether “Xi” was avoided in deference to the Chinese president, Xi Jinping.
Translations:
Arcadia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Arcadia, from Ancient Greek Ἀρκαδία (Arkadía).
Not related to arcade.
Inflected forms:
form: Arcadias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arcadia
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Arcady
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: An ideal region of rural and idyllic contentment; a pastoral utopia.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The homosexual visitors to these southern Mediterranean regions may have been influenced by an imagined geography circulated through classical understandings of homosexuality in their search for a kind of Arcadia where homosexual love and lust could be played out without fear of persecution.
Translations:
LMAO
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: LMAOs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: LMAOing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: LMAOed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: LMAOed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To laugh one's ass off.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
mildly
vulgar
examples: Reading this website will have you ROFLing, LMAOing, and LOLing every time you read it.
Even if you don’t win, this slumber party quiz will have you LOL, ROFL, and LMAOing with your friends all the way into the night while you do everything you can to show them ALL that YOU are the ultimate Taylor Swift fan!
You’re girls. Whatever it is you want to kill each other over now, you’ll be LMAOing about on group chat in two hours. Trust me.
Translations:
bolthole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bolt + hole.
Compound parts: bolt
hole
Inflected forms:
form: boltholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bolt-hole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hole in an animal’s den, or through a wall or fence, used for escape or emergency exit, i.e., a hole the animal may bolt through.
pos: noun
examples: Eragon: They may try to slip past us and escape Helgrind through the entrance we used. Saphira: They probably have a bolt-hole at ground level.
gloss: A hidden place of emergency refuge.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: There was a guard at the front doors. He was smoking a cigarette; she'd seen the light from a great distance. They'd grown incautious in the absence of her continual raids, probably imagining she'd died of some viral infection alone in one of the countless caves ringing the forest. She'd seen their hunting parties canvassing the area, had prepared a few extra boltholes in case they found the one she'd shared with Yésica, but it hadn't proven necessary. Maybe they didn't really want to find her.
gloss: A second home, etc., where one can seek an escape or refuge from the stresses of everyday life.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: a bolthole in the Dordogne
“We’ll find a home among the Fremen,” Paul said, “where your Missionaria Protectiva has bought us a bolt hole.”
They’ve prepared a way for us in the desert, Jessica told herself. But how can he know of the Missionaria Protectiva?
In the 1950s, Hollywood decamped to the desert – bankrolling the world’s most daring modernist architects to create ever more experimental boltholes.
Because even a modernist villa on a hillside on the island of Aegina – a fast ferry ride from the port of Piraeus and the summer bolthole of chic Athenians – is not the sanctuary from the modern world that it might once have been.
It was on this "beautiful terrace" that "George III, and the royal family resided". Bradshaw tells me that George stayed at the Royal Lodge, which I believe was his nearby holiday bolthole - Gloucester Lodge.
Translations:
vat
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English vat, a dialectal variant of fat (“vat, vessel, cask”), from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”).
Cognate with Scots fat, vat, vautt (“vat, cask, tub”), West Frisian fet, Dutch vat (“barrel, cask, vessel, vat”), German Fass (“barrel, keg, drum, cask, vat”), Danish fad (“saucer, dish”), Swedish fat (“dish, barrel, cask, vat”), Icelandic fat (“dish, saucer”). See Etymology 3 of fat.
Inflected forms:
form: vats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
pos: noun
examples: a vat of liquid
a vat of acid
a vat of wine
a vat of olives
a vat of fat
a vat of glue
gloss: A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
pos: noun
gloss: A vessel for holding holy water.
pos: noun
gloss: A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: To put into a vat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was thinking of the grape arbor in Kingston, of summer twilight and the murmur of voices darkening into silence as he approached, who meant them, her, no harm; who meant her less than harm, good God; darkening into the pale whisper of her white dress, of the delicate and urgent mammalian whisper of that curious small flesh which he had not begot and in which appeared to be vatted delicately some seething sympathy with the blossoming grape.
gloss: Designating a vat dye.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: vat red
vat jade green
Derived words: junk vat
vat dye
vat jade green
Translations:
la
Part of speech: noun
intj
adj
particle
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Glover's solmization, from Middle English la (“sixth degree or note of Guido of Arezzo's hexachordal scales”), Italian la in the solmization of Guido of Arezzo, from the first syllable of Latin labiī (“lip's”) in the lyrics of the scale-ascending hymn Ut queant laxis by Paulus Deacon.
Inflected forms:
form: las
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
pos: noun
examples: And now Mrs Waters (for we must confess she was in the same bed), being, I suppose, awakened from her sleep, and seeing two men fighting in her bedchamber, began to scream in the most violent manner, crying out murder! robbery! and more frequently rape! which last, some, perhaps, may wonder she should mention, who do not consider that these words of exclamation are used by ladies in a fright, as fa, la, la, ra, da, &c., are in music, only as the vehicles of sound, and without any fixed ideas.
gloss: A syllable used in solfège to represent the sixth note of a major scale.
pos: noun
gloss: Represents the sound of music or singing.
pos: intj
examples: "La la la la, I can't hear you!" Jimmy said, sticking his fingers in his ears.
The only part Lucy had to sing was the interlude, which was a bunch of la la la's, and the last verse of the song, which was only four lines, and the chorus, which was just as short.
gloss: Prefixed to the name of a woman, with ironic effect (as though an opera prima donna).
pos: adj
tags: ironic
not-comparable
often
examples: Following lukewarm on the heels of an article a few weeks ago, where (I paraphrase due to having filed the relevant copy in the recycling bin) Victoria Beckham made a "well-meaning" remark that the other Spice Girls might want to lose a few pounds, we now have a new incidence of La Beckham's scintillating and entirely well-meaning humour.
By judicious leaking, he also managed to make la Kirkpatrick and her associates look rather unsavory.
(You have to wonder where la Wintour finds the time for all this styling: maybe it's a displacement activity to fill the void left by her failure to get the Democratic party into power?)
gloss: Placed at the end of a sentence in imperatives making it sound more like a request than an order.
pos: particle
tags: Hong-Kong
colloquial
examples: Sleep la!
Eat shit la you!
gloss: Used to tone down comments.
pos: particle
tags: Hong-Kong
colloquial
examples: ok la
Related words: lor
wor
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: لَا
roman: lā
lang: Basque
word: la
lang: Catalan
word: la
lang: Corsican
word: là
lang: Danish
word: la
lang: Dutch
word: la
lang: Finnish
word: la
lang: French
word: la
lang: Greek
word: λα
roman: la
lang: Hungarian
word: lá
lang: Ido
word: la
lang: Japanese
word: ラ
roman: ra
lang: Korean
word: 라
roman: ra
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: la
lang: Macedonian
word: ла
roman: la
lang: Polish
word: la
lang: Portuguese
word: lá
lang: Russian
word: ля
roman: lja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: la
lang: Vietnamese
word: la
dy
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of already.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: already
pos: adv
tags: Internet
Translations:
ho
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), from Old English hō, probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare Dutch ho, German ho, Old French ho! (“hold!, halt!”).
Inflected forms:
form: hoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hoeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hoe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: 'ho
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.
pos: intj
examples: Sail ho!
Land ho!
Man ho!
heave-ho
gloss: halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach.
pos: intj
examples: What noise there, ho?
Ho! who's within?
O ho, O ho! Would't had been done!
Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
"That was a shot! But the captain will be glad! Ho, ho, here we are!" he cried till it was re-echoed from all the hills around.
"So I catch you. You stealer! Ho! Ho!"
"How such swooning daughters can do it, constantly fainting and having hysterics, is a mystery to me," said Muriel Jane. "Ho, they're a pretty sly lot," said Silvander Dan.
gloss: Said accompanying a vigorous attack.
pos: intj
tags: rare
examples: "I'll hit you again, you thief !” he cried angrily, shaking “Ho-ho-ho!” he croaked.
It was quite an astonishing show. Colonel Paul Malone of the U.S. Army kept thwacking away with all his might and main, shouting "Ho!"
Mona: Hee! Ha! Ho! Ha! The brain buffet is closed, buddy! Take that! And this!
Ho! Take that vile Foresythe!” He snapped his wrist, clicking the stick against the bowed sides of a barrel.
gloss: A stop; a halt; a moderation of pace.
pos: noun
examples: O I, a plague on ’em, there’s no ho with ’em, they’re madder then^([sic – meaning than]) March hares.
gloss: To act as a ho, to prostitute.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
vulgar
examples: She holds down a decent job during the day, but is secretly hoeing around with at least 5 different trifling men.
Derived words: ho there
soho
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: ohoi
lang: Russian
word: эй
roman: ej
lang: Swedish
word: ohoj
lang: Swedish
word: åhoj
lang: Ukrainian
word: гей
roman: hej
po
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hokkien 薄 (po̍h / po̍k, “weak”).
Inflected forms:
form: poh
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Thinner; with more water added to dilute it.
pos: adj
tags: Singapore
colloquial
not-comparable
Translations:
Persian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Persien, from Middle French persien, from Italian persiano, from Medieval Latin Persiānus, from Latin Persia, from Ancient Greek Περσίς (Persís), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠Pārsa⁠/, “Persia”) (compare Early Classical Persian پارس (pārs) or modern Iranian Persian فارس (fârs), where the shift p > f. Equivalent to Persia + -ian.
Base: Persia
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Persian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Persian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Persia.
pos: adj
examples: MOHAMMAD REZA SHAJARIAN (Thursday) Renowned in his native Iran, the vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian has been performing since the 1960s, and is now widely considered one of the finest classical Persian singers in the world. Mr. Shajarian’s son, Homayoun Shajarian, will provide additional vocals and tombak (goblet drum), while Ensemble Ava, a four-piece, will contribute additional instrumentation on the ancient Persian instruments barbat (short-necked lute), tar (long-necked lute), kamancheh (spike fiddle) and daf (frame drum).
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Persian people.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Persian language.
pos: adj
Derived words: Colourpoint Persian
Himalayan Persian
Persian arch
Persianate
Persian berry
Persian blue
Persian cat
Persian column
Persian cumin
Persian darnel
Persian drill
Persian fire
Persian flaw
Persian Gulf
Persian Gulf oxide
Persian gum
Persian insect powder
Persianist
Persianization
Persianize
Persian lamb
Persian lilac
Persian lynx
Persian melon
Persianness
Persian onager
Persian orange
Persian pickle
Persian powder
Persian red
Persian relapsing fever
Persian rug
Persian rummy
Persian violet
Persian walnut
Persian Wars
Persian waxing
Persian wheel
Persian wild ass
Persian zebra
Persification
Translations:
moonrise
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From moon + rise.
Compound parts: moon
rise
Inflected forms:
form: moonrises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moon-rise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: moon rise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The time of day or night when the moon begins to rise over the horizon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Venus now re-assembles her Choirs of Virgins at Moon-rise, and leads the Ball.
Shooting, hunting, and cricket, were pursued with the eagerness of laborious occupations: often has he rambled about from day-break to moon-rise, in search of game; and then returned to Mr. ONiel’s, pale with fatigue, and sick with fasting.
Weena, I was glad to find, was fast asleep. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket, and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise.
1909, Edith Wharton, “The Mortal Lease” V, in Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse, New York: Scribner’s, p. 41,
Do I not know, some wingèd things from far
Are borne along illimitable night
To dance their lives out in a single flight
Between the moonrise and the setting star?
Rain on Rahoon falls softly, softly falling
Where my dark lover lies.
Sad is his voice that calls me, sadly calling
At grey moonrise.
Moonrise over the hills above Settle.
“Guess what? We got another message from our hostess. "My staff has prepared a traditional hunt for all of you shortly after moonrise."” “Ooh.” “"In the meantime, please enjoy this art show of recent oil paintings." [laughs]”
“We have a beautiful moonrise and we’re headed right at it,” said Reid Wiseman, the NASA astronaut who is the commander of the mission, as the crew headed into space.
Translations:
moonset
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From moon + set.
Compound parts: moon
set
Inflected forms:
form: moonsets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moon-set
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: moon set
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The setting of the moon below the horizon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
ac
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: ante cibum, before meals
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
pa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of papa.
Inflected forms:
form: pas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Father, papa.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: Grandpa, grandfather.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Related words: grandpa
Derived words: godpa
ma-and-pa
Translations:
republican
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Italic *poplosder.
Old Latin poplusder.
Old Latin poplicus
Latin pūblicus
Latin pūblica
Latin rēspūblica
Latin rēpūblicālbor.
Middle French republiquebor.
English republic
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
French républicainder.
English republican
From republic + -an, partly after French républicain.
Base: republic
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: republicans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who favors a republic as a form of government.
pos: noun
examples: Sir, there is one Mrs Macaulay in this town, a great republican. One day when I was at her house, I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, 'Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing...'
I guess I am a bit of a republican at heart but I would love to be introduced to the Prince just to be able to grip him off about seeing the Noisy Scrub-bird.
Nationalists and republicans need to adopt a new approach to convince unionists of the merits of uniting Ireland, Gerry Adams has said.
A son of slain republicans Dominic and Mary McGlinchey has brought High Court actions claiming the State has failed to properly investigate his parents' murders.
gloss: Synonym of American cliff swallow.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of sociable weaver.
pos: noun
Related words: republicanization
Derived words: antirepublican
extrarepublican
interrepublican
intrarepublican
nonrepublican
Republican Guard
republicanist
republicanize
republican marriage
Republican Queen
small republican
small r republican
small-r republican
ultrarepublican
unrepublican
Upper Republican
Translations:
democrat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French démocrate, from démocratie (modelled on aristocrate (“aristocrat”)), equivalent to demo- + -crat.
Affixes: demo-
-crat
Inflected forms:
form: democrats
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A supporter of democracy; an advocate of democratic politics (originally (historical) as opposed to the aristocrats in Revolutionary France).
pos: noun
examples: The democrats now have majority control in almost all areas except the Islands District Council, where they won seven seats, and the pro-Beijing camp obtained 11 seats.
gloss: Someone who rules a representative democracy.
pos: noun
examples: Democrats have to please a large segment of the voting public and will be punished if they fail to provide public goods […] . In the case of autocrats, however, they have to please a small minority of the governing power elite […] who will punish them if they fail to dedicate the public purse to their private enrichment.
gloss: A large light uncovered wagon with two or more seats.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
Related words: Democrat
Demoncrat
Derived words: antidemocrat
Christian democrat
cyberdemocrat
democratish
democratism
democrat wagon
e-democrat
homocrat
nondemocrat
small d democrat
small-d democrat
small democrat
social democrat
technodemocrat
victicrat
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: demokraatti
lang: French
word: démocrate
lang: Georgian
word: დემოკრატი
roman: demoḳraṭi
lang: German
word: Demokrat
lang: German
word: Demokratin
lang: Irish
word: daonlathaí
tri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bodybuilding
computer-graphics
computing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
Etymology: Shortening of words with the initial component derived from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”).
Inflected forms:
form: tris
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: triathlon
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: a tri bike
a tri suit
gloss: triangle
pos: noun
examples: The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris. Anything within that range is sufficient to accommodate all superficial anatomical details without resort to optimization beyond normal model cleanup.
Tris and quads have different areas of functionality. In real-time graphics, tris are the norm because they provide the most basic geometric representations of planes.
gloss: triceps
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
uncommon
Translations:
argentine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English argentyne, borrowed from Old French argentin (“silvery”), from Latin argentum (“silver”), equivalent to argent + -ine.
Base: argent
Affixes: -ine
Inflected forms:
form: more argentine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most argentine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: argentines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Containing or resembling silver.
pos: adj
examples: Celestiall Dian, Goddesse Argentine
gloss: Any osmeriform fish of the genus Argentina, especially a European argentine (Argentina sphyraena).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A siliceous variety of calcite, or lime carbonate, having a silvery-white, pearly lustre, and a waving or curved lamellar structure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: White metal coated with silver.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: herring smelt
Derived words: greater argentine
Translations:
twee
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a childish pronunciation of sweet. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use in 1905 in Punch.
Inflected forms:
form: more twee
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tweer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most twee
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tweest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
derogatory
examples: Those Beatrix Potter animals are a little twee for my taste.
Despite the fact that the designs were all a bit twee […] they stood out a mile in the market place at that time.
Forget the clichéd image of Brigadoon and shortbread tins, the dreadfully twee tartan tat and Celtic kitsch that, sadly, still exists in the 21st century, and is too often passed off as a genuine Highland experience.
As always with Disney, there are moments when it all seems a bit twee, others when it is excessively PC.
I just wouldn’t have felt comfortable saying, "I am a duckbilled platypus, and this is how I find my shrimps." I think it would have been twee.
[Neil] Tennant's accent obviously has a lot to do with that, but the fact he's rapping is further masked by his twee, effeminate delivery.
Ms. Roman said she embraced “messy” as a philosophy and an aesthetic partly in response to Ms. Stewart’s standards. “Everything perfect, everything twee, everything pretty,” she said. “That was never going to be me.”
Translations:
vier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vie
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 vier
From vie + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: viers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who vies for something.
pos: noun
examples: Evidently, there were two children vying for a third's attention. The two attention viers were engaged in a series of gymnastic feats on a small portable trampoline. Two girls were trying to outdo each other to impress the third child, a boy.
Translations:
jaundice
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English jaundis, jaunis, from Middle French jaunisse, from jaune (“yellow”) + -isse (“-ness”). Jaune, from Old French jalne, from Latin galbinus (“yellowish”), from galbus (“yellow”).
Inflected forms:
form: jaundices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jaundies
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: jaundices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jaundicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jaundiced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jaundiced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: jaundies
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Why ſhould a man whoſe bloud is warme within, / Sit like his Grandſire, cut in Alabaſter? / Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies / By being peeuiſh?
But look in this new mirror, lovely friend. / Both gods and fairies wait on lovers' wills. / That jaundices be changed to daffodils!
In British folk medicine there are some unusual remedies for jaundice. A bizarre superstition from Staffordshire is that if a bladder is filled with the patient's urine and placed near the fire, as it dries out, the patient will recover (Black 1883: 56).
Just ask the doctors how many cases of infantile jaundice in newborn babies have this scene that particular week?
gloss: A feeling of bitterness, resentment or jealousy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]
gloss: To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The envy of wealth jaundiced his soul.
Related words: cyanopathy
Derived words: black jaundice
blue jaundice
green jaundice
hepatogenous jaundice
jaundice root
pseudojaundice
Translations:
jaundiced
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jaundice
English -ed
English jaundiced
From jaundice + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more jaundiced
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most jaundiced
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affected with jaundice.
pos: adj
examples: Jaundiced eyes seem to see all objects yellow.
Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose skin resembled a sheet of parchment paper punctured by two emotionless eyes.
gloss: Prejudiced; envious.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: a jaundiced judgment
Mr. George Lawrence, C.M.G., First Class District Officer of His Majesty's Civil Service, sat at the door of his tent and viewed the African desert scene with the eye of extreme disfavour. [...] The eye was jaundiced, thanks to the heat and foul dust of Bornu, to malaria, dysentery, inferior food, poisonous water, and rapid continuous marching in appalling heat.
Although Professor Davidson took a very jaundiced view of the Neptune probe, it had already been approved and he saw no point in sending more good money after bad.
If we have experienced a hostile world in childhood, we will continue to view almost everyone with a jaundiced eye and react to them according to our perception.
And that brings us to the subject of this book, which documents a peculiar type of injustice in healthː the troubled history of medical experimentation with African Americans—and the resulting behavioral fallout that causes researchers and African Americans to view each other through jaundiced eyes.
Derived words: unjaundiced
Translations:
jaunt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps a palatalised alteration of daunt (“to discourage”). Compare Scots jaunder (“to ramble, jaunt to taunt, jeer”), dialectal Swedish ganta (“to play the buffoon, romp, jest”); perhaps akin to English jump. Compare jaunce. Modern usage likely influenced by jaunty.
Inflected forms:
form: jaunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jaunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jaunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jaunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jaunted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A wearisome journey.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Our Savior, meek, and with untroubled mind After his aëry jaunt, though hurried sore. Hungry and cold, betook him to his rest.
Fie, what a jaunt have I had.
gloss: A short excursion for pleasure or refreshment; a ramble; a short journey.
pos: noun
examples: Some days later it happened that young Heriotside was stepping home over the Lang Muir about ten at night, it being his first jaunt from home since his arm had mended.
gloss: To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To ride on a jaunting car.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To jolt; to jounce.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: To get into a Grecian car, and to be drawn, with Minerva at his back[…]four or five miles through the streets of London‥after having quietly suffered himself to be jaunted about in this manner
gloss: To tire a horse by riding it hard or back and forth.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Derived words: jaunter
jaunting car
Translations:
jauntily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jaunty
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English jauntily
From jaunty + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more jauntily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most jauntily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an airy, showy, or affected manner.
pos: adv
gloss: In a dapper or stylish manner.
pos: adv
gloss: In an ostentatiously self-confident manner.
pos: adv
examples: [He] walked quite jauntily across the courtyard to the distant door, his sandals clacking against the marble.
Related words: jaunt
jaunty
Translations:
jaunty
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Formerly spelt janty, from French gentil. See gentle, and compare genty. Doublet of genteel, gentile, and gentle.
Inflected forms:
form: jauntier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jauntiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: jaunties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Airy; showy; finical.
pos: adj
gloss: Characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Dapper or stylish.
pos: adj
examples: He wore a jaunty outfit that was all the rage.
It was probably this circumstance which gave him an interest beyond any that his companion could boast of, and attracted Barnaby’s attention. There was something soldierly in his bearing, and he wore a jaunty cap and jacket.
gloss: Ostentatiously self-confident.
pos: adj
examples: He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood.
When he started at sight of a clean-shaved tramp, who walked with a jaunty swing
gloss: A master-at-arms onboard a Royal Navy ship.
pos: noun
Derived words: jauntily
jauntiness
jaunty car
unjaunty
Translations:
info
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of information.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: information.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: I need all the info about the case by 6, sharpish.
Translations:
XI
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: From translingual XI (“eleven”, Roman numeral).
Inflected forms:
form: XIs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A football (soccer) team of eleven players.
pos: noun
examples: Rewind to the first day of the inaugural Premier League season in August 1992 and 177 players – or 73.1% – featuring in first XIs held English nationality. […] Not since Coventry in 1992 has a Premier League side kicked off a campaign with an all-English XI but things have reached the point where, of the 61 signings who have cost the elite division's 20 clubs a transfer fee this summer, only 12 have involved Englishmen.
gloss: A cricket team of eleven players.
pos: noun
Translations:
pe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew פֵּא (pê), from Proto-Semitic *pay- (“mouth”). Doublet of pi.
Inflected forms:
form: pei
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The seventeenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew פ, Syriac ܦ, and others; Arabic has the analog faa).
pos: noun
Translations:
rho
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek ῥῶ (rhô)
English rho
From the name of the Ancient Greek letter ῥῶ (rhô).
Inflected forms:
form: rhos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The seventeenth letter of the Modern Greek and Classical alphabets and the nineteenth letter of Old and Ancient.
pos: noun
examples: Greek was an exercise in making the familiar strange. Its alphabet mapped onto the Roman alphabet, but only partly so, and often letters did not sound how they looked – a rho (Ρ) was not a P, and an eta (Η) was not an H.
gloss: The sensitivity of the option value to the risk-free interest rate.
pos: noun
Derived words: chi-rho
Pollard's rho algorithm
Rho factor
rho meson
rhotic
Spearman's rho
Translations:
Nike
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Νίκη (Níkē), from νίκη (níkē, “victory”).
Inflected forms:
form: Nikes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An athletic shoe or other piece of athletic gear produced or licensed by athletic brand Nike.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
examples: One day Billy Madlock wore two different spikes, a Nike on his left foot for something like fifteen thousand dollars and an Adidas on his right foot for ten thousand.
In fact, a whole cottage industry seems to have developed around the world’s floating debris, so if you should find a Nike on the beach, check the serial number on the insole then contact the nearest oceanographic institute.
“Your shoes don’t match,” I say. “I know,” Mickey says, and as he answers he keeps jogging forward, but stops throwing punches. “The Nikes give me shin splints and the Asics hurt my knees, so I wear a Nike on my left foot where I have the bad knee and I wear the Asics on my right foot where the shin splints are worse.”
Next came the shoes. One at a time. I peered out from beneath the tree. A skinny woman in a hot pink satin bra leaned out the window, holding a Nike in optimum pitching position. A grubby, shirtless guy in sweatpants and bare feet rushed out of the building. “Jenna!” he screamed. “You bitch! Don’t you dare!” “Bite me!” Jenna threw the Nike.
Translations: