yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
preceptor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English preceptor, preceptur, from Latin praeceptor (“commander; instructor”), from the verb praecipiō + -or (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from prae- (“pre-, fore-: before”) + capiō (“to take; to get, to take in, to understand”).
Inflected forms:
form: preceptors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: præceptor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: præceptour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: preceptour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A teacher or tutor.
pos: noun
examples: A man who had thought so much on the subjects of language and education was surely no ordinary preceptor.
We shall resume our studies later on; but just now I am tired of playing the preceptor; and the eager thirst of my pupils for improvement does not console me for the slowness of their progress.
gloss: The head of a preceptory of Knights Templar.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A doctor who gives practical training to medical students, nurses etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Near-synonyms: mentor, professor
Derived words: preceptorial
preceptorship
preceptress
Translations:
calliope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Καλλιόπη (Kalliópē, “Calliope, the muse of poetry”), from καλός (kalós, “beautiful”) + ὄψ (óps, “voice”).
Inflected forms:
form: calliopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A musical organ, consisting of steam whistles played with a keyboard. Often used with merry-go-rounds.
pos: noun
Translations:
Clio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek Κλειώ (Kleiṓ). The award and car model were named after the goddess.
Inflected forms:
form: Clios
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A statuette holding a globe given at the Clio Awards, an annual award program that recognizes innovation and creative excellence in advertising, design, and communication.
pos: noun
examples: [Al] Horvat landed the role of a ballplayer, wielding a huge baseball glove and mugging for the camera. “Three or four months later,” Horvat says, “the director calls me and says, ‘Al, you won a Clio.’ ‘Yeah?’ I say. ‘What’s a Clio?’ I have actors come in here all the time. They would die for that thing.”
In all there were 67 winners for 57 commercials in 53 categories, in both the product and production areas. Not only do agencies enter their commercials to be judged for creative excellence but so do companies involved in the various facets of production. So two outfits entering the same work can each take a Clio, as was the case with Federal Express. […] McCann-Erickson won both its Clios with one of its biggest clients, Coca-Cola.
One advertising executive recently predicted that content and advertising will be fully integrated and, “in the end, corporate clients will be happy, and the writers and actors won’t be able to tell an Emmy from a Clio.”
gloss: A car of the Renault Clio model manufactured by Renault.
pos: noun
examples: Fred loved to take his Clio for a spin.
The world record is held by Terry Grant, who reverse-swerved his Renault into a slot only 32cm longer than the overall length of his car. Impressive stuff and it made me wonder what he could have pulled off with the Renaultsport 200 Cup – which, in case you hadn't spotted, is actually a Clio – with too few X chromosomes. It's exactly 20 years since the first Clio was produced – taking over the mantle of the much-loved Renault 5.
Renault’s ad, after all, racked up millions of its views in the United States, a nation where its cars are not even for sale; and even if they were, why would viewers feel compelled to buy a Clio after watching a Clio ad that works so assiduously to avoid selling them a Clio until the last possible moment?
Polls at the time suggested that Nicole was more of a household name than John Major, Britain’s then Prime Minister, while 300,000 Clios were sold over the seven years the ads ran, also featuring Paris and the French Alps.
Translations:
optimistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Indo-European *-tm̥mos
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Latin optimus
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ῐσμός (-ĭsmós)der.
Latin -ismusbor.
French -isme
French optim(isme)
▲
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
French -iste
French optimistebor.
English optimist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English optimistic
From optimist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more optimistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most optimistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Expecting the best in all possible ways.
pos: adj
examples: in an optimistic mood
optimistic plans
took an optimistic view
Reference was made in the January-February issue to some of the optimistic railway titles of the past, such as the Manchester & Milford, and the Lancashire, Derbyshire & East Coast, neither of which got anywhere near the extremities indicated in their titles during their independent existence.
gloss: Allowing other processes to perform transactions on the same data at the same time, and checking for conflicts only when changes need to be written back.
pos: adj
examples: optimistic concurrency
optimistic locking
Related words: optimal
optimism
optimist
Derived words: cyberoptimistic
hyperoptimistic
nonoptimistic
optimistically
optimistic concurrency
overoptimistic
over-optimistic
skeptimistic
superoptimistic
ultraoptimistic
unoptimistic
Translations:
sodomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Sodom, where the Bible, in Genesis chapters 18 and 19 and elsewhere, suggests sexual depravity.
Inflected forms:
form: sodomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several forms of sexual intercourse held to be unnatural, particularly bestiality or homosexuality, but also (sometimes) anal, oral, or manual sex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mr. Shakur and his road manager, Charles Fuller, 24, were convicted Dec. 1 of first-degree sexual abuse, but they were acquitted of weapons and sodomy charges.
On March 3, in the ocean off Hai-feng County, the pirates robbed a fishing junk, and captured Hsu-ch’iung whom crew member Ssu T’ien forced to commit sodomy. On March 11 in a bay in Hsin-an County, they robbed another t’o-feng vessel, captured and imprisoned Tan Se-chin and Tan Ya-pang and forced them to gather firewood.
[…] engaged her in conversation as to where she was going, stated that he would take her to her destination directly, forced her to commit oral sodomy upon him […]
gloss: Anal sex.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The only published study (Feigen, 1954), which looked at 68 adults engaging in consensual anal sex, found that “it was not possible to relate the appearance of the anus to the practice of sodomy; there was no appreciable difference of the anus in those who practiced sodomy frequently and those that practiced it rarely" (p. 81).
Derived words: antisodomy
autosodomy
avisodomy
Gomorrahy
sodomic
sodomise
sodomize
sodomist
sodomite
sodomy law
Translations:
promptly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prompt
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English promptly
From prompt + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more promptly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most promptly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a prompt manner.
pos: adv
examples: […] the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep.
After being kidnapped by a seagoing ne'er-do-well, its Lady protagonist finds herself drifting through a passage at the North Pole into a wholly different world, with its own sun, moon and stars, and a population of bear-men, bird-men and fox-men who promptly make her Empress. Win!
gloss: In a prompt manner.
pos: adv
examples: The sale will begin on January 28th, promptly at 9 a.m.
Synonyms: on line
Derived words: overpromptly
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: веднага
roman: vednaga
lang: Bulgarian
word: незабавно
roman: nezabavno
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 迅速
roman: xùnsù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 及时
roman: jíshí
lang: Dutch
word: prompt
lang: Esperanto
word: akurate
lang: Esperanto
word: rapide
lang: Finnish
word: pikaisesti
lang: Finnish
word: ripeästi
lang: Finnish
word: nopeasti
lang: Finnish
word: joutuisasti
lang: Galician
word: logo
lang: Hungarian
word: haladéktalanul
lang: Hungarian
word: nyomban
lang: Hungarian
word: rögtön
lang: Hungarian
word: azonnal
lang: Indonesian
word: segera
lang: Navajo
word: hah
lang: Navajo
word: haneetehee
lang: Norwegian
word: prompt
lang: Norwegian
word: prompte
lang: Plautdietsch
word: fuaz
lang: Portuguese
word: prontamente
lang: Russian
word: немедленно
roman: nemedlenno
lang: Russian
word: незамедлительно
roman: nezamedlitelʹno
lang: Spanish
word: inmediatamente
lang: Spanish
word: rápidamente
lang: Spanish
word: de inmediato
lang: Spanish
word: sin demora
lang: Spanish
word: con prontitud
lang: Spanish
word: prontamente
lang: Swedish
word: prompt
lang: Ukrainian
word: негайно
roman: nehajno
lang: Ukrainian
word: швидко
roman: švydko
lang: Ukrainian
word: відразу
roman: vidrazu
prompter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
entertainment
lifestyle
media
television
theater
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prompt
English -er
English prompter
From prompt + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: prompters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person who does the prompting.
pos: noun
examples: The loud ringing of the prompter's bell made her spring suddenly away; and two of his companions, each taking an arm, hurried him away also. How glad would he have been to have left the party: his thoughts were in a tumult; duties and inclinations warred together—nay, his very sense of right was confounded.
gloss: Synonym of teleprompter.
pos: noun
gloss: One who inputs prompts to an artificial intelligence system.
pos: noun
Derived words: promptress
teleprompter
underprompter
Translations:
biker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Proto-Italic *dwis
Old Latin duis
Latin bisder.
French bi-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos
Ancient Greek κῠ́κλος (kŭ́klos)der.
Late Latin cyclusder.
Middle French
French cycle
French bicyclebor.
English bicycleclip.
English bike
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 biker
From bike + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: bikers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member of a motorcycle club.
pos: noun
examples: Others, mostly behelmeted casual bikers whose enthusiasm for motorcycling is a monthly Sunday morning ride, also took in the gleam of the chrome and outrageous styling, but were confused that it had a Honda badge on it rather than Harley’s winged logo.
There’s a wonderful sketch of a formidable biker called “Roundhouse,” who is “humongously fat and hasn’t had a haircut since third grade.”
Bikers did what bikers do. They raced around and popped wheelies. The state police were called in to clear the town.
The event got big play in Life magazine and inspired the 1953 film “The Wild One,” starring Marlon Brando. His leather jacket and brooding demeanor gave a face to the bad-boy biker image.
gloss: A cyclist.
pos: noun
examples: Lots of pockets help with a commute, a storm hood is great if you get caught in a storm on a hike, weight and packability are essential for backpackers and if you’re a climber or biker, you’ll want a helmet-compatible hood.
Derived words: biker bar
biker bitch
biker chick
biker jacket
e-biker
fat biker
mountain biker
nonbiker
Translations:
carpenter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
nautical
transport
zoology
Etymology: From Middle English carpenter, from Anglo-Norman carpenter (compare Old French charpentier), from Late Latin carpentārius (“a carpenter”), from Latin carpentārius (“a wagon-maker, carriage-maker”), from Latin carpentum (“a two-wheeled carriage, coach, or chariot, a cart”), from Gaulish carbantos, from Proto-Celtic *karbantos (“chariot, war chariot”), probably related to Proto-Celtic *karros (“wagon”). Doublet of carpintero. More at car.
Displaced native Old English trēowwyrhta (literally “tree worker”).
Inflected forms:
form: carpenters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carpenters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carpentering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carpentered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carpentered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures.
pos: noun
gloss: A senior rating in ships responsible for all the woodwork onboard; in the days of sail, a warrant officer responsible for the hull, masts, spars and boats of a ship, and whose responsibility was to sound the well to see if the ship was making water.
pos: noun
gloss: A two-wheeled carriage.
pos: noun
gloss: A carpenter bee.
pos: noun
examples: The large, stout African bees are carpenters (Xylocopa), making small tunnels in timber, housing few individuals.
gloss: A woodlouse.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
UK
regional
examples: Eleven names in Laver’s table (just over 6%) are of the “carpenter” type, a name for woodlice also recorded in Shropshire and Warwickshire.[…] Apparently a Newfoundland word for woodlouse is “carpenter” or “cafner” (another is also “boat-builder”). These names clearly relate to the animals’ affinity to wood as will “carpenter’s flea”, “wood-pig”, “wood-bug”, “grampus wood-bug” and, of course “woodlouse”.
gloss: To work as a carpenter, cutting and joining timber.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
Related words: carpentry
The Carpenter
carpent
carpenting
Derived words: carpent
carpenter ant
carpenter bee
carpentering
carpenterly
carpenter miller
carpenter moth
carpenter pencil
carpentership
carpenter's pencil
carpenter's plane
carpenter's square
carpentress
formwork carpenter
shuttering carpenter
Translations:
spiff
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
commerce
Etymology: Unknown. See etymology discussion at spiffy.
Inflected forms:
form: spiffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spiffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spiffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spiffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: (usually with up or out) To make spiffy (attractive, polished, or up-to-date)
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Oh, but we flatter ourselves that we are spiffed out; at all events, we've got our best dresses on.
This ensemble may be properly spiffed with a bolo tie, and topped off with a. . .
We dated boys who had their own cars and wow! what fancy cars they were—spiffed and buffed in bright '50s reds or turquoises.
Infrastructure Spiffed?
gloss: To reward (a salesperson) with a spiff or bonus.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: It is my confirmed belief that, spiffed or not, the salesman is the consumer's best-qualified and best- informed source of assistance in matters of component selection.
The flight to Baton Rouge was ten dollars more. He said not to worry about it. I spiffed the guy twenty bucks and ended up in Baton Rouge a day earlier than I had expected.
The company made more money, and so did the salesperson who was spiffed on the sale and he was selling a product that most people don't buy.
gloss: To attach a spiff or bonus to the selling of (a product)
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: It wasn't my fault if the blamed old store caught fire and gave me a chance to help Ferguson move out some of the stuff that has been 'spiffed' till it looks like red ink had been spilled all over the price-tags.
Because you can pull out a spiff anywhere you are in the store and the customers are not aware that they are spiffed shoes.
Synonyms: spruce
Related words: spliff
Derived words: spiff up
spiffy
Translations:
dunnage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: transport
Inflected forms:
form: dunnages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Scrap material, often wood, used to fill spaces to prevent the shifting of more valuable items during transport, or underneath large or heavy items to raise them slightly above the ground, in order to protect from chafing and wet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: When you have got your junks wormed and laid up, take each two pieces, and stop them together; double the middle pieces, and stop them also, and clap a good stop on, to form the eye: then bring them all together upon some dunnage, to keep them up from the deck, to enable you to pass your round-about lashings:
consortium of companies dedicated to finding a faster and less expensive way to produce dunnages. Dunnages are material handling parts used to hold bumpers and fenders in place when they are shipped or used in Ford's production
The robot cameras and software direct the robots to unload the 40-pound parts from pallets (called "dunnage") and place them on brackets fixed to a conveyor.
gloss: A charge levied for materials or equipment left on site.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The fact that the bakery was paying dunnage on the loaded car until May 25th and that it was not unloaded until after May 21, 1959, is proof that […]
gloss: Personal effects; baggage.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The place had the empty and musty feel and smell usual to a dwelling no longer inhabited. Everywhere was a thick litter of discarded and ragged garments, old sea-boots, leaky oilskins -- all the worthless forecastle dunnage of a long voyage.
Related words: ullage
Translations:
dolphin-friendly
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: caught using fishing nets that lessen the chances of killing dolphins.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
Translations:
cuscus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From New Latin Cuscus, former genus name, ultimately (probably via French and Dutch koeskoes) from a local word for the marsupials in a language of the Moluccas.
Inflected forms:
form: cuscuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any arboreal marsupial of most genera of the family Phalangeridae, native to northern Australia, New Guinea, and Indonesia.
pos: noun
examples: Without eggs, cocoa-nuts, or plantains, we had very short commons, and the boisterous weather being unpropitious for fishing, we had to live on what few eatable birds we could shoot, with an occasional cuscus, or eastern opossum, the only quadruped, except pigs, inhabiting the island.
Translations:
fruitarian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fruit + -arian. First attested circa 1890.
Base: fruit
Affixes: -arian
Inflected forms:
form: fruitarians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A variant of vegetarian who intends to be limited to eating only such parts of plants whose consumption does not kill the plant (such as fruits, vegetables that can be compared to fruit, nuts and grain, but not for example tubers).
pos: noun
gloss: Related to fruitarianism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
African-American
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Patterned on forms such as Irish-American, popularized by Jesse Jackson and in common use since the late 1980s.
Inflected forms:
form: African-Americans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: African American
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more African-American
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most African-American
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: African American
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ethnic group consisting of Americans of black African (particularly Niger-Congo) descent.
pos: noun
gloss: Any black American person; by extension, any black person.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
offensive
proscribed
sometimes
gloss: Pertaining to the African-American ethnicity.
pos: adj
examples: The rioters overshadowed the message of peaceful protesters on prior days: They had called for justice for Gray, a 25-year-old African-American man who died from spinal injuries after police arrested him this month.
gloss: Black.
pos: adj
tags: US
broadly
offensive
proscribed
sometimes
gloss: Of or pertaining to the culture of African-American people.
pos: adj
examples: African-American music
Translations:
churchy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English church
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English churchy
From church + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: churchier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: churchiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: churchies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Piously Christian.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
derogatory
mildly
examples: I was staying with my mother's sister, a retired character actress with a churchy streak.
gloss: Resembling a church.
pos: adj
examples: Your house looks kind of churchy.
gloss: Reminiscent of a church service.
pos: adj
examples: The party had a churchy atmosphere.
gloss: one who is piously Christian
pos: noun
tags: mildly
pejorative
Derived words: churchily
churchiness
Translations:
synagogue
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English synagoge, from Old French synagoge, from Latin synagōga, from Ancient Greek σῠνᾰγωγή (sŭnăgōgḗ, “assembly, gathering”), from συνάγω (sunágō, “to gather together”), from σῠ́ν (sŭ́n, “with, together”) & ᾰ̓́γω (ắgō, “to lead”). By surface analysis, syn- + -agogue.
Inflected forms:
form: synagogues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: synagog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A place of worship for Jews or Samaritans.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
countable
examples: On Tuesday, Netanyahu and his wife toured Shanghai’s Ohel Moshe synagogue in the Hongkou district that was home to many of the 18,000 Jews granted refuge in Shanghai from the horrors of Nazi persecution.
gloss: A congregation of Jews or Samaritans for the purpose of worship or religious study.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
countable
gloss: Any assembly of folk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
examples: But when they come hither, and ſee a Tympany of Spanioliz’d Biſhops ſwaggering in the fore-top of the State, and meddling to turn and dandle the Royal Ball with unskilful and Pedantick Palms, no marvel though they think it as unſafe to commit Religion and Liberty to their arbitrating as to a Synagogue of Jeſuits.
It is in this period that some Christian authors even refer to the “Synagogue of … Muhammad,” demonstrating the extent to which they perceive non-Christian groups as one and the same.¹¹¹
Derived words: archisynagogue
cybersynagogue
mega-synagogue
synagogal
synagogical
synagogue-goer
synagoguegoer
synagogue-going
synagoguelike
Synagogue of Satan
unsynagogued
Translations:
tranquil
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus, from trāns- + the root of quiēs (“rest, quiet, peace”), ultimately from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”).
Inflected forms:
form: tranquiler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tranquilest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
pos: adj
examples: Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.
gloss: Calm; without motion or sound.
pos: adj
examples: […]that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.
Related words: tranquillity
tranquillize
tranquilly
tranquilness
Derived words: tranquilize
untranquil
Translations:
achi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hokkien 阿姊 (á-chí).
Inflected forms:
form: achis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the eldest sister
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
gloss: an elder sister
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
informal
gloss: a young female senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
familiar
gloss: respectful term of address for the eldest sister
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
gloss: respectful term of address for an elder sister
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
informal
gloss: respectful term of address for a young female senior (usually within the Chinese Filipino community)
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
colloquial
familiar
Related words: Achi
ahiya
Ahiya
dichi
dihia
Translations:
aiya
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Chinese 哎呀 (āiyā).
Inflected forms:
form: ai yah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: aiyah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: aya
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: ah; oh; exclamation of surprise, blame, dismay, shock, or fear.
pos: intj
tags: Australian
China
Chinese
Hong-Kong
Singapore
Taiwan
informal
examples: “I don’t need to hear any idle gossip.”
“Aiyah, it’s not idle gossip! These are important details I’ve learned just from being around them, and from what Mr. Wong found out—”
Aiyah, dun ask me why their name all so funny, can or not? You ask me, I ask who?
Translations:
waka
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 和歌 (waka), from Middle Chinese 和 (ɣwa), a gloss for 倭 (ʔwa, “Japan”) + 歌 (ka, “song”).
Inflected forms:
form: wakas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: waka
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of classical Japanese poem.
pos: noun
examples: “Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.”
Translations:
adjourn
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ajournen, from Old French ajorner (French ajourner), from the phrase a jor (nomé) ("to an (appointed) day").
Inflected forms:
form: adjourns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: adjourning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: adjourned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: adjourned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To postpone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The trial was adjourned for a week.
gloss: To defer; to put off temporarily or indefinitely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is a common practice […]to adjourn the reformation of their lives to a further time.
gloss: To end or suspend an event.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The court will adjourn for lunch.
The Form of this motion is, “When this assembly adjourns, it adjourns to meet at such a time.”
When it's time for the fallout / And Saint Peter calls us all out / We'll just drop our agendas and adjourn
gloss: To move as a group from one place to another.
pos: verb
tags: formal
intransitive
uncommon
examples: After the dinner, we will adjourn to the bar.
Derived words: adjournable
adjournal
adjourner
adjournment
nonadjournment
readjourn
readjournment
Translations:
wi
Part of speech: pron
prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of we.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: us
pos: pron
tags: Geordie
personal
pronoun
examples: Are yee commin with wi or not?
gloss: with
pos: prep
tags: Yorkshire
examples: Are-ta doin owt wi this?
Translations:
mon
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 文 (mon).
Inflected forms:
form: mons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mon
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'mon
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The shimonsen or shimon, originally worth four mon, but debased to two mon.
gloss: The former currency of the Ryukyu Kingdom until its annexation by Japan.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: The badge or emblem of a Japanese family, especially a family of the ancient feudal nobility; typically circular and consists of conventionalized forms from nature.
pos: noun
gloss: come on; come along with me
pos: intj
tags: Scotland
gloss: come on! Part of a chant for a team or band.
pos: intj
tags: Scotland
examples: 'Sing up, runt,' he goes, slapping my back friendly/forceful. 'Mon the Rangers!'
Narrator: Jack's a Celtic fan.
Jack: Mon the hoops!
I caught sight of a lake of faces chanting 'Mon the Biff! Mon the Biff!" – come on the Biffy Clyro – with a startling and percussive unity. 'Mon. The. Biff!' 'Mon. The. Biff!' 'Mon. The. Biff!'
gloss: An expression of defiance or as a challenge; often as "mon then"
pos: intj
tags: Scotland
Translations:
about-face
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From about + face, first attested in 1861, used in the imperative in the military.
Compound parts: about
face
Inflected forms:
form: about-faces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: about face
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: about-faces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: about-facing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: about-faced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: about-faced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: about face
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An abrupt turn to face the opposite direction.
pos: noun
examples: The soldier did an about-face and marched off.
Deciding that he hasn't had enough action for one day, Captain Evans of the Johnston orders another 180-degree about-face to give gunfire support to the new arrivals, this time picking on the heavy cruiser Tone.
gloss: A reversal in direction; a reversal of attitude or opinion.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: When Luke heard the news, he did an abrupt about-face on the policy.
Sidney Powell does an about-face on her Stop the Steal claims [title]
In yet another about-face decision on speech, Mr. Zuckerberg announced that Facebook was planning to de-emphasize political content in the News Feed because, he said, “people don’t want politics and fighting to take over their experience on our service.”
His [Jake Angeli's] about-face is such that he is even taking his case back to court to ask his guilty plea to be reversed. And he is far from the alone in changing his mind about the events at the Capitol.
But just a day later, Trump abruptly did an about-face, telling reporters that he had received assurances that Iranian authorities would not execute anyone, walking back from military intervention in Iran, at least temporarily.
gloss: To turn 180 degrees to face the opposite direction.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The soldiers would about-face immediately after the order was given.
gloss: To change opinion or attitude drastically.
pos: verb
examples: A politician will about-face at the drop of a hat if he thinks there are votes in it.
Related words: about turn
arse about face
backpedal
heel/face turn
turnabout
turn around
volte-face
180
Translations:
dexter
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dexter (“right”).
Inflected forms:
form: dexters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Right; on the right-hand side. (In heraldry, specifically the bearer's right, which is the viewer's left.)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: my Mothers bloud / Runs on the dexter checke, and this ſiniſter / Bounds in my fathers:
Displaying his dexter palm, he exclaimed that there was a hand that never took a bribe; whereupon a smart auditor cried "How about the one behind your back?"
Clovis wiped the trace of Turkish coffee and the beginnings of a smile from his lips, and slowly lowered his dexter eyelid.
The shield was divided into five, with two coats of arms on the dexter side (the right-hand side from the point of view of the bearer of the shield)—London and Southampton—and three on the sinister side—Salisbury, Winchester and Portsmouth.
[…] the dexter lion being gorged […]
gloss: The right side (of a building, an equation, a heraldic shield [from the wearer's perspective], etc).
pos: noun
examples: Subtracting the second from the first, the third from the second and the first from the third successively, we obtain, after transposition, the following identities: — [several equations]
But, the sinisters being exact differentials, the dexters are so. Consequently [...]
On the dexter of the court is a long hall with an arched ceiling and a door, leading to a small oblong shrine with a vaulted ceiling.
Translations:
ki
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hawaiian kībor.
English ki
Borrowed from Hawaiian kī.
Inflected forms:
form: kis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant native to the Pacific islands and China (Cordyline fruticosa); ti.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
oda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish اوطه (oda) (Turkish oda)
Inflected forms:
form: odas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: odah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A room within a harem.
pos: noun
Translations:
ide
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French ide, from Scientific Latin idus (species name), from Swedish id.
Inflected forms:
form: ides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: id
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae, found across northern Europe and Asia, especially Leuciscus idus.
pos: noun
examples: a pike says to the pike-folk / a whitefish asked an ide, a / salmon another salmon: / ‘Have they died, the famous men / have Kaleva's sons been lost […]?’
Translations:
e-quaintance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of e- + acquaintance, replacing ac- (ad) with e- (“electronic”), by analogy with e-mail.
Compound parts: e-
acquaintance
Inflected forms:
form: e-quaintances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ecquaintance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a person known exclusively online, usually from instant messaging such as AIM, or through internet dating personals.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: the state of knowing exclusively online
pos: noun
tags: Internet
Related words: e-quaint
e-quainted
Translations:
factoid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From fact + -oid (“similar, but not the same”); coined by American writer Norman Mailer in 1973 in Marilyn: A Biography, defined as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority".
Base: fact
Affixes: -oid
Inflected forms:
form: factoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inaccurate statement or statistic believed to be true because of broad repetition, especially if cited in the media.
pos: noun
examples: Such hedging is necessitated by the lack of in-depth knowledge of the contents, which also gives free rein to the scripting of unsubstantiated factoids concerning the book.
Wikipedia-derived factoids can be so important that there is a well-known feedback loop, called citogenesis, in which the mainstream news finds some claim made in a Wikipedia article, and publishes it (without citing Wikipedia). Then Wikipedia itself makes use of the news article. By means of this loop, an ultimately “sourceless” factoid gains a spurious authority.
gloss: An interesting item of trivia; a minor fact.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Given a large enough storehouse of words and a fine filter, would it be possible to see cultural change at the micro level, to follow minute fluctuations in human thought processes and activities? Tiny factoids, multiplied endlessly, might assume imposing dimensions.
Don't parade in front of the audience spewing every factoid you know on your topic. Only share the right information for that exact moment with that specific audience.
Related words: verisimilitude
Derived words: facturd
Translations:
correlated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more correlated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most correlated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mutually related in a correlation.
pos: adj
examples: The variable "age15-24" was not included as this is highly correlated with the variable "students" and "students" were thought to be a more distinct group than the whole of the 15-24 age group.
Translations:
albatross
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably from Spanish or Portuguese alcatraz (“pelican, gannet, albatross”), probably derived from Arabic الْغَطَّاس (al-ḡaṭṭās, “the diver”) (compare Alcatraz); or from Portuguese alcatruz (“water wheel bucket”), from Arabic الْقَادُوس (al-qādūs), from Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos, “pail, jar”), in reference to the pouch of a pelican. In either case, altered under the influence of Latin albus (“white”). Not derived from modern Arabic قَطْرَس (qaṭras, “albatross”), which is perhaps borrowed from Spanish.
For sense development of "burden", see albatross around one’s neck.
Inflected forms:
form: albatross
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: albatrosses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: albie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.
pos: noun
gloss: A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.
pos: noun
gloss: A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: 2006 March 13, Richard Lugar, speech to the Brookings Institution,
[…] energy is the albatross of U.S. national security.
Project 2025 could be an albatross for Trump
Synonyms: gooney bird
gooney
goonie
mollymawk
Derived words: albatross around one's neck
Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross
black-browed albatross
great albatross
Laysan albatross
royal albatross
snowy albatross
sooty albatross
wandering albatross
Translations:
blimey
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A minced oath derived from (God) blind me (either concurrent with or from a clipping of cor blimey or gorblimey), or blame me. Compare crivvens, drat, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: blimy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express anger, excitement, surprise, etc.
pos: intj
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: Blimey! I didn’t see that!
Blimey! Where did you come from?
I know the chap that started the lie. There ain't no Invisible Man whatsoever—Blimey.
'But, if there's room, aren't they bound to take me in?' / 'Course they are,—and, blimey, if I was you I'd make 'em. Blimey I would!'
Blimy if I don't believe 'e's taking 'ome 'is washing up his back.
If you're the O'Reilly, they speak of so highly, / Why blime me, O'Reilly, you're doing quite well.
"Blimey," he said, "this is a bit er orl roight! Never thought yer'd be ible to tork our lingo like a blinkin' nitive. Cahm orn—let's 'op it to the kerridge!"
"Blimey!" he says in his rough, shepherd's voice, "blimey, but it's cruel 'ard to be chucked out of one's digs wivout a blarsted word! [...]"
‘Blimy, Will,’ he said confidentially.
‘Blimey,’ said Barnaby. ‘Come on, Jack, quick as you can.’ / ‘Blimey,’ said Jack. ‘Blimey blimey blimey.’
‘Blimey,’ said Laurie. ‘Is she serious? Was it something I said?’
According to an Australian gunner, 'a nostalgic little new-arrival' among the Tommies asked: 'Is it true all you Aussies are volunteers?' When told that it was, '… he hesitated a moment. Then he blurted out: "Blime, choom, y' must 've 'ad a fair ——— of a 'ome-life!"'
Translations:
felch
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain, perhaps imitative in origin. Earliest occurrence in print, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is found in the paper The Argot of the Homosexual Subculture by Ronald A. Farrell in 1972, where it was defined as a synonym to anilingus.
Inflected forms:
form: felches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: felching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: felched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: felched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: feltch
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To suck semen out of a sexual partner's vagina or anus.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
vulgar
gloss: To perform anilingus.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
vulgar
Translations:
stationary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin stationarius, from statio, ultimately from stō (“to stand”). Doublet of stationer.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not moving.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The train remained stationary for a few moments, before lurching forward along the track.
gloss: Incapable of being moved.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Unchanging.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A set which intersects all club sets.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: at rest
dull
impassive
inanimate
lifeless
motionless
sedent
sedentary
stationary
still
stock-still
torpid
unmoved
unmoving
Antonyms: in motion
Related words: immobile
Derived words: cyclostationary
geostationary
hydrostationary
nonstationary
non-stationary
photostationary
quasistationary
semistationary
stationarily
stationariness
stationarity
stationary air
stationary bicycle
stationary bike
stationary distribution
stationary engine
stationary front
stationary phase
stationary phase approximation
stationary point
stationary wave
strict-sense stationary
unstationary
Translations:
stationery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stationer + -y.
Base: stationer
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: stationeries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Writing materials, envelopes, office materials.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: When the school year finished, he put all of his stationery away in the loft, as he would have no need for pencils and exercise books during the holidays.
We can pick up more paper and pens at the stationery store.
Translations:
avant-garde
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French avant-garde (“vanguard”). Doublet of vanguard and vaward.
Inflected forms:
form: avant-gardes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: avantgarde
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more avant-garde
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most avant-garde
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: avantgarde
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The vanguard of an army or other force.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Any group of people who invent or promote new techniques or concepts, especially in the arts.
pos: noun
gloss: Innovative and pioneering, especially when extremely or obviously so.
pos: adj
examples: It was a very avant-garde production.
I fear she will pay a heavy price for the avant garde ideas she has been sold.
There’s a moment, for instance, in the competition show Beast Games that struck me as something close to avant garde. Donaldson lays out a million dollars in cash in a big pile, and instructs each of the 10 remaining contestants to come out of their little houses one by one, and to choose how much money they want to take from the pile.
Translations:
premeditation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin praemeditātiōlbor.
English premeditation
Learned borrowing from Latin praemeditātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: premeditations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of planning or plotting something in advance, especially a crime.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
oshi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 推(お)し (oshi).
Inflected forms:
form: oshi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oshis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person's favorite VTuber, idol, or character, especially one they actively support and promote.
pos: noun
examples: For me, my Oshi is Watame. I find her content very relaxing and calming, it helps bring me a smile whenever I see that wonderful sheep doing anything and it’s sometimes exactly what I need after a stressful day at work. I really admire all the hard work she puts into her music as well as how inclusive she always attempts to be as far as reaching out to overseas fans with everything. Everything about her just makes me feel happy and I really value everything she does here at HoloLive.
Among the most popular oshi are "VTubers," or entertainers who represent themselves as an avatar online and livestream concerts and interact with fans.
Translations:
frivolous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin frīvolus (“silly, empty, trifling, frivolous, worthless”), with the ending modified to match -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more frivolous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frivolous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a caprice or whim.
pos: adj
examples: trifling ((literary)
gloss: Of little weight or importance; not worth notice; slight; trivial.
pos: adj
gloss: Having no reasonable prospect of success because its claim is without merit, lacking a supporting legal or factual basis, while the filing party is, or should be, aware of this.
pos: adj
examples: There is no easy definition for the phrase 'frivolous lawsuit,' but I imagine any claim for damages where the injuries are minimal or where the basis for the defendant's liability is hard to believe, might qualify as frivolous.
One of the major cost drivers in the delivery of health care are these junk and frivolous lawsuits.
Related words: frivol
frivolity
Derived words: frivolent
frivolosity
frivolousity
frivolously
frivolousness
nonfrivolous
ultrafrivolous
unfrivolous
Translations:
inappropriate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English appropriate
English inappropriate
From in- + appropriate.
Inflected forms:
form: more inappropriate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inappropriate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not appropriate; not suitable for the situation, time, or place.
pos: adj
examples: It is inappropriate to burp at a formal dinner.
The violent movie is inappropriate for school.
gloss: Improper; adult; sexual.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: kids saying inappropriate things
gloss: (of an action or thing) vile or unpleasant; repulsive.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Discrimination and abuse are examples of inappropriate actions.
gloss: Too vile.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Synonyms: improper
inadequate
out of line
out of place
unfit
unseemly
unsuitable
Derived words: inappropes
inappropriacy
inappropriately
inappropriateness
Translations: