yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
viridian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin viridis, from the verb vireō (“be verdant, sprout”).
Inflected forms:
form: viridians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more viridian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most viridian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A bluish-green pigment made from chromium sesquioxide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of this addition to the artist’s palette. The colour of viridian is a very deep bluish green of great purity and transparency. It furnishes, with aureolin on the one hand and with ultramarine on the other, an immense number of beautiful hues, adapted to represent the colours of vegetation and of water.
Then Miss Sloviak emerged from the ladies' room, hair reestablished, cheeks rouged, eyelids freshly painted a soft viridian, smelling of what I recognised as Cristalle, the fragrance worn both by my wife, Emily, and also by my lover, Sara Gaskell.
gloss: A bluish-green color.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a bluish green colour.
pos: adj
examples: spring sweeps the wood’s cathedral nave
with the green fury of a wave,
till oak and elm and beech and ash
in one viridian comber crash,
while at their feet red vetches shine,
sharp, and cold, and coralline.
We walked out on to a balcony, looking down on the bright green fields, the grey-blue river lined with viridian poplars, and the red earth paths where the peasants were driving their animals […]
Translations:
tweeter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From to tweet + -er.
Base: tweet
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: tweeters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tweeter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.
pos: noun
gloss: One who or that which makes a tweeting noise.
pos: noun
examples: The little tweeter birds that had kept her company this morning were now absent, leaving nothing but the whisper of the trees as a light breeze gently wandered by.
gloss: One who posts messages ("tweets") on the social networking site Twitter.
pos: noun
examples: The latest addition to these daily outpourings are suggested tweets to circulate. Fortunately I am not a tweeter, so I swiftly delete all these unread.
gloss: A poster on a microblogging social networking service.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Related words: midrange
squawker
subwoofer
woofer
Translations:
subwoofer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English woof
English -er
English woofer
English subwoofer
From sub- + woofer.
Inflected forms:
form: subwoofers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A loudspeaker designed to produce low-frequency sound, especially subbass.
pos: noun
examples: Hip-hop took the language and made it graffiti—it was music video on a wall with a beatbox blowing its subwoofers next to it.
Even economy vehicles offer multispeaker audio upgrades, including a subwoofer.
Subwoofers are typically placed not only near the floor, but also close to one of the walls.
Translations:
contravene
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French contravenir (French contrevenir), from Latin contraveniō.
Inflected forms:
form: contravenes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contravening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contravened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contravened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act contrary to an order; to fail to conform to a regulation or obligation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] nothing is a commandement, or a commanded dutie but that which if we contravene, it maketh us guilty of sin before God,
[…] this Article directly contravenes the Treaty with Portugal […]
I have shown that slavery is wicked […] in that it contravenes the laws of eternal justice, and tramples in the dust all the humane and heavenly precepts of the New Testament.
[…] the other medical visitors having a consultative influence, but no power to contravene Lydgate’s ultimate decisions;
It was a construction in wood, with manifold “features” suggestive of the villa, the bungalow, the chateau, the palace; it united all tastes and contravened all conventions.
Some legal experts argue that the bill contravenes Canada’s charter of rights and freedoms. Montreal constitutional lawyer Julius Grey told the Vancouver Sun that Bill 78 was "flagrantly unconstitutional".
gloss: To deny the truth of something.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 1653, William Birchley, The Christian Moderator, Part 3, London: Richard Lowndes, p. 7,
[…] to make the contravening of Doctrines, to be capitall, before they be fully proved, is prejudiciall to that liberty, without which none can justify himself before God or Man:
To contravene positions, that have been discussed again and again by writers of the first genius and erudition, and to disparage the genuineness of the bible histories wholly and indiscriminately, without some precision of investigation, some specific allegations, founded on the report of authentic documents, is intolerable arrogance […]
That the detention of the troops was a wise measure, is not to be contravened;
This is a large octavo of more than five hundred pages, a cool, scientific collection of facts that cannot be contravened, leading up to the inescapable conclusion […]
Related words: contravener
contravention
Derived words: contraveningly
Translations:
goodfella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From good + fella. Popularized by the American crime film Goodfellas (1990).
Compound parts: good
fella
Inflected forms:
form: goodfellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: goodfellow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A gangster, especially one in the Mafia.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Was Anthony Mirra a wiseguy then? […] If Mirra wasn't a good fellow at the time you was there, his argument is no good.
[…] according to law enforcement, the boss of the largest crime family in the country, some 300 wise guys, good fellows, good guys, button men, made guys—sworn members of the family—and 1,000 and 1,500 associated members.
As grounds for opposition [to the mark GOODFELLA], opposer [the Order Sons of Italy in America] alleges […] that “Goodfellas” is a code word used by organized criminals to refer to each other; that a synonym for “goodfellas” is “mafioso”[…]; that the term “Goodfellas” became generally known throughout the United States and Canada for its criminal meaning when the movie of the same name was released in 1990; that opposer and the CSJ object to use of the term “Goodfellas” beyond its meaning and description of a small group of organized criminals both in Italy and America […]
Faced with damning disclosures from wiretaps and the prospect of life in prison, top goodfellas have ‘flipped’ to the prosecution's side.
Alite […] could never become a “made” member of the Mafia because he is […] not of Italian origin. […] he agreed to split the profits from his $1 million-a-month cocaine ring in the New York borough of Queens. / […] / He described the good life of a “goodfella” [i.e. life of him as a gangster].
Translations:
counterclockwise
Part of speech: adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From counter- + clock + -wise.
Base: counter
Inflected forms:
form: counter-clockwise
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: counter-clockwise
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
pos: adv
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
examples: The combination unit was traversing a straight section of roadway, on an approximate 4 percent upgrade, when the tractor began to jackknife. As the power unit rotated clockwise, it left the roadway to the right and traveled several feet before the driver corrected the jackknife. The unit was redirected toward the travel lanes, however, before it re-entered the roadway, it rotated counterclockwise, and the driver lost control.
The obliquities of the equators of (134340) Pluto and (134340) Pluto: I Charon to the orbit of their barycenter around the Sun are large enough that the poles they rotate about in a counterclockwise direction are on the south side of the invariable plane.
gloss: Moving or located in the direction of rotation opposite from clockwise.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
not-comparable
Translations:
attached
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more attached
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most attached
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Connected; joined.
pos: adj
gloss: Fond of (used with to).
pos: adj
examples: I'm very attached to my pets.
gloss: Included as an attachment with a communication (especially an email or other electronic communication).
pos: adj
examples: Please see the attached file in my previous email.
gloss: In a romantic or sexual relationship.
pos: adj
examples: As far as I know, he isn't attached, so I'm going to invite him out on a date.
I'm not ready to get attached, as I want to continue sleeping around.
gloss: Broadly joined to a stem or stipe, but not decurrent.
pos: adj
examples: In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe ranges from attached to almost decurrent.
gloss: Of a residential building, sharing walls with similar buildings on two, usually opposite, sides.
pos: adj
Derived words: attachedly
attachedness
misattached
nonattached
no strings attached
no-strings-attached
overattached
please find attached
preattached
superattached
unattached
Translations:
frankfurter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Frankfurter, the demonym of Frankfurt. Specifically, a reference to Frankfurt-am-Main.
Inflected forms:
form: frankfurters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A moist sausage of soft, even texture and flavor, often made from mechanically recovered meat or meat slurry.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
UK
US
Translations:
Frankfurter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From German Frankfurter. Equivalent to Frankfurt + -er.
Base: Frankfurt
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: Frankfurters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of the city of Frankfurt, state of Hesse, Germany.
pos: noun
Translations:
Gurkha
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Nepali गोर्खा (gorkhā, “inhabitant of Gorkha”), from गोरखा (gorakhā)/गोर्खा (gorkhā, “Gorkha District”), from Sanskrit गोरक्ष (gorakṣa, “cowherd”) an epithet of the patron deity Gorakhnath, from गो (go, “cow”) + रक्ष् (rakṣ, “protect”).
Compound parts: गो
रक्ष्
Inflected forms:
form: Gurkhas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gurkha
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Gorkha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ghurkha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Ghoorka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Goorka
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Goorkha
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Gurkha
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Gurkha
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Gorkha
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Ghurkha
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Ghoorka
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Goorka
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Goorkha
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the dominant ethnic group in Nepal, with a Himalayan diaspora.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of this people recruited to serve in their own elite units in the British and Indian armies.
pos: noun
gloss: Referring or belonging to the Gurkha people.
pos: adj
examples: The Gurkha royal house of Shah united all Nepal under its rule
gloss: Referring or belonging to Gurkha soldiers.
pos: adj
examples: In 2009, Gurkha veterans were awarded better terms in the UK
Derived words: Gurkha knife
Translations:
lang: Burmese
word: ဂေါ်ရခါး
roman: gaura.hka:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 廓尔喀
roman: Kuò'ěrkā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 廓爾喀 /廓尔喀
roman: Kuò'ěrkā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 啹喀
lang: Dutch
word: Gurkha
lang: Finnish
word: gurkha
lang: Finnish
word: gurkha-sotilas
lang: Gujarati
word: ગુરખો
roman: gurkho
lang: Hindi
word: गोरखा
roman: gorkhā
lang: Nepali
word: गोर्खा
roman: gorkhā
lang: Nepali
word: गोर्खाली
roman: gorkhālī
lang: Nepali
word: गोरखाली
roman: gorakhālī
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: gurkha
lang: Odia
word: ଗୋରଖା
roman: gorakhā
lang: Spanish
word: gurja
flautist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian flauto
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istabor.
Italian -ista
Italian flautistabor.
English flautist
Borrowed from Italian flautista.
Inflected forms:
form: flautists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flutist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who plays the flute.
pos: noun
examples: The flautist Bezaly adds to the impressive list of flute concertos dedicated to her with the composer Pulkkis’s contribution to the genre.
Translations:
apocalypticism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
English apocalyptic
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 -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English apocalypticism
From apocalyptic + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: apocalypticisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A belief or doctrine based on apocalypse, especially which believes in an imminent end to the current world order.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: China's huge scale magnified the effects of apocalypticism in the Taipeng Rebellion.
Translations:
overspent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Exhausted; excessively fatigued.
pos: adj
Translations:
doomsday
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English domes + dai, from Old English dom (“judgment”) + dæg (“day”). Equivalent to doom + -s- + day. Compare Old Norse dómsdagr (“judgement day, doomsday”).
Base: doom
Affixes: -s-
Inflected forms:
form: doomsdays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: domesday
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: domesday
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The day when God is expected to judge the world; the end times.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Judgement day; the day of the Final Judgment; any day of decisive judgement or final dissolution.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
capitalized
countable
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: Any day of great death and destruction; end of the world; an apocalypse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any of the memorable dates used in the doomsday rule for computing weekdays from dates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Concerned with or predicting future universal destruction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Given to or marked by forebodings or predictions of impending calamity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The Sages chose to end the haftarah with this message of hope, in contrast to the episode's last verse with its doomsday warning that "if you persist in your wrongdoing, both you and your king shall be swept away."
gloss: Capable of causing widespread or total destruction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: apocalypse
Armageddon
day of doom
end times
eschaton
Final Judgment
judgement day
Derived words: doomsdate
doomsday device
doomsdayer
doomsday fish
doomsdayism
doomsday plane
till doomsday
Translations:
funnily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English funny
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English funnily
From funny + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more funnily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most funnily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a funny or amusing manner.
pos: adv
examples: In this respect then, Gabriel's repetitive lyric of everyone playing: “games without frontiers and war without tears” was on the one hand quite funnily wrong. 'It's a Knockout' produced tears of laughter. […]
gloss: In a strange or unexpected manner, especially of a coincidence.
pos: adv
examples: Who, Bob? I just ran into him last week, funnily enough.
It hurts to swallow and to eat . . . sometimes, I find myself breathing funnily. The doctors have not found anything, even after the X-ray, but I feel that there is something physically wrong . . .
Translations:
pentatonic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe
Proto-Hellenic *pénkʷe
Ancient Greek πέντε (pénte)
Ancient Greek πεντᾰ- (pentă-)lbor.
English penta-
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *tónos
Proto-Hellenic *tónos
Ancient Greek τόνος (tónos)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek τονῐκός (tonĭkós)
English tonic
English pentatonic
From penta- + tonic.
Inflected forms:
form: pentatonics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Based on five tones.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The middle movement is completely pentatonic, giving it an unusual sound.
gloss: The pentatonic scale.
pos: noun
Translations:
cocoon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French cocon, a diminutive of coque (“shell”).
Inflected forms:
form: cocoons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cocoons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cocooning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cocooned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cocooned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The silky case spun by the larvae of some insects in which they metamorphose, protecting the pupa within.
pos: noun
gloss: Any similar protective case.
pos: noun
tags: also
figuratively
examples: The bad guys generally don’t like to get on trains, because they’re trapped on a moving cocoon that the CTA controls.
gloss: To envelop in a protective case.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
transitive
examples: Vern grabbed the throw draped over the back of the sofa and cocooned herself within it.
gloss: To withdraw into such a case.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
intransitive
Derived words: brood cocoon
carcoon
cocooner
cocoonery
cocoonet
cocoonish
cocoonlike
decocoon
jet cocoon
uncocoon
Translations:
interlinear
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 linear
English interlinear
From inter- + linear.
Inflected forms:
form: interlinears
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: inserted between the lines of a text
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: having alternate lines of text in different languages
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A translated text having alternate lines in different languages.
pos: noun
examples: I've been reading a lot of graded readers and interlinears lately.
Related words: juxtalinear
Derived words: interlinearization
interlinearize
interlinearly
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: interlineal
lang: Finnish
word: rivienvälinen
lang: French
word: interlinéaire
lang: German
word: interlinear
lang: German
word: Interlinear-
lang: German
word: zwischenzeilig
lang: Irish
word: idirlínteach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eadar-sgrìobhach
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eadar-sgrìobhta
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eadar-shreathte
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eadar-shreathach
lang: Volapük
word: vülienik
lang: Volapük
word: vüliena-
chockablock
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chock
English -a-
English block
English chockablock
From chock + -a- + block.
Inflected forms:
form: more chockablock
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chockablock
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chock-a-block
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: chock a block
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: choc-a-bloc
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: more chockablock
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most chockablock
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: chock-a-block
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: chock a block
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: choc-a-bloc
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having the blocks drawn close together so no further movement is possible, as when the tackle is hauled to the utmost.
pos: adj
gloss: Jammed tightly together, jam-packed; very crowded; completely filled or stuffed.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: Dance music is chockablock with anonymous artists, but few have concealed themselves with quite the dedication of the Knife.
Haberman’s book is chockablock with scoops, comprehensively leaked to the press before publication, but what singles it out from the competition is its perceptiveness about Trump’s character and the way his private vices became public menaces.
Fish is chockablock full of protein.
gloss: In a crowded manner; as completely or closely as possible.
pos: adv
examples: His study had books stacked chockablock on every shelf.
The meeting hall was chockablock full of angry citizens.
AMERICA is full of vast, empty spaces. Europe, by contrast, seems chock-a-block with humanity, its history shaped by a lack of continental elbowroom.
Related words: chock full
Derived words: chock
chocka
chocker
chockers
chokka
Translations:
hoose
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a dialectal spelling of house, from Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (“house”). Compare Scots hoose.
Inflected forms:
form: hooses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: house
pos: noun
tags: Northumbria
Scotland
Translations:
spirited
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more spirited
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spirited
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Lively, vigorous, animated or courageous.
pos: adj
examples: November 2 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
Remarkably United’s 10 men almost salvaged an improbable draw during a late, spirited challenge. They showed great competitive courage in that period and there were chances for Robin van Persie, Ángel Di María and Marouane Fellaini to punish City for defending too deeply and not being more clinical with their opportunities at the other end.
But the Danes remained resolute in defence - largely thanks to a spirited display by captain Daniel Agger - and they went ahead with their first meaningful attack.
Translations:
hyphenation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hyphen
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English hyphenation
From hyphen + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: hyphenations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The inclusion of hyphens; especially, the correct locations of hyphens.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Print the article without hyphenation if you're not sure where to put them.
Translations:
savory
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Middle English savory, savourie, from Old French savouré, from Old French savourer, from Late Latin sapōrāre, from Latin sapor (“taste, flavour”), from sapiō, sapere (“taste of, have a flavour of”).
Inflected forms:
form: savorier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: savoriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: savoury
pos: adj
tags: alternative
British
usually
form: savories
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: savoury
pos: noun
tags: alternative
British
usually
Senses:
gloss: Tasty, attractive to the palate.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: The fine restaurant presented an array of savory dishes; each was delicious.
gloss: Either salty or spicy, but not sweet.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: The mushrooms, meat, bread, rice, peanuts and potatoes were all good savory foods.
gloss: Umami.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: The savory rabbit soup contrasted well with the sweet cucumber sandwiches with jam.
gloss: Morally or ethically acceptable.
pos: adj
tags: US
figuratively
examples: Readers are to be warned that quotations in this chapter contain some not so savory language.
The ruthless practices of the Ontario Film Censor Board are by now the laughing stock of most of the world. Scenes that contain more flesh or affection than they find savoury are simply hacked out of the film before it is released.
gloss: A savory snack.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: On Friday the pastry chef Pichet Ong will open his own cafe, with sweets and savories served at tables and a counter.
Related words: umami
Derived words: savorily
savoriness
unsavory
Translations:
metamorphose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French métamorphoser, from Old French metamorphose, from Latin metamorphōsis; see metamorphosis.
Inflected forms:
form: metamorphoses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: metamorphosing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: metamorphosed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: metamorphosed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a moth or insect, to undergo metamorphosis.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To undergo some transformation.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
examples: In fact, perhaps this is the pure and perfect incest: the brother realising that the sister’s virginity must be destroyed in order to have existed at all, taking that virginity in the person of the brother-in-law, the man whom he would be if he could become, metamorphose into, the lover, the husband; by whom he would be despoiled, choose for despoiler, if the could become, metamorphose into the sister, the mistress, the bride.
Environmental problems are not objectively existing physical phenomena amenable to reliable analysis and diagnosis. They are social constructions whose meaning and significance metamorphose and wax and wane according to changeable human interest.
In fresh snow air can pass with little obstruction from the atmosphere through the snowpack to the ground: given life by differences in the temperature gradient, the snowpack breathes. But time changes that. The snow may metamorphose into what is called equitemperature, or ET, snow.
gloss: To transform (something) so that it has a completely different appearance.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: metamorphism
metamorphosis
Derived words: metamorphosable
metamorphoser
unmetamorphosed
Translations:
gybe
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Probably from Dutch gijben (obsolete), gijpen; cognate with Danish gibbe, German gieben, giepen, Swedish gipa, gippa.
The noun is derived from the verb; compare Dutch gijb (obsolete), gijp (“act of gybing; a boom”).
Inflected forms:
form: gybes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gybing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gybed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gybed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gybes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gibe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jibe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: […] I had my Man Friday to teach as to what belong'd to the Navigation of my Boat; for though he knew very well how to paddle a Canoe, he knew nothing what belong'd to a Sail and a Rudder, and was the moſt amaz'd when he ſaw me work the Boat too and again in the Sea by the Rudder, and how the Sail gyb'd, and fill'd this Way or that Way, as the Courſe we ſail'd chang'd: […]
gloss: Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Often as gybe at: to balk, hesitate, or vacillate when faced with a course of action, plan, or proposal.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
obsolete
gloss: The act of gybing.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of gybing.
pos: noun
examples: The key to a good gybe is to bring the spinnaker round to the old weather side before you begin, and then to steer to keep some wind in the kite.
gloss: A sudden change in approach or direction; vacillation.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: gijpen
lang: Finnish
word: jiipata
lang: Hebrew
word: מַהְפָּךְ
roman: mahpakh
lang: Spanish
word: trasluchar
windward
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wind
Proto-Indo-European *wert-der.
Proto-Germanic *wardaz
Old English -weard
English -ward
English windward
From wind + -ward.
Inflected forms:
form: more windward
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most windward
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wind'ard
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: wind'ard
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: wind'ard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Towards the wind, or the direction from which the wind is blowing.
pos: adj
examples: The windward boat must give way to the leeward boat.
gloss: On the side exposed to the wind.
pos: adj
examples: the windward bedroom
gloss: In a position of advantage or superiority.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: […] but while they own what G. Fox hath written, and that he writ it with a perfect spirit: I say untill they do make some Recantation or Retractation: or shew the Reasons why they doe not, H. Norton who keeps more plainly to his Principles is to windward of them, and the Foxians do but strip themselves naked to be more derided and scorned as the more notorious Juglers and Dissemblers .
gloss: In a direction from which the wind blows, against or towards the wind.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: We beat our way windward.
gloss: The direction from which the wind blows.
pos: noun
examples: A vessel has the weather gage of another when she is to windward of her. A weatherly ship is one that works well to windward, making but little leeway.
gloss: The side receiving the wind's force.
pos: noun
Synonyms: upwind
Antonyms: leeward
Related words: weather gauge
Derived words: Windward Antilles
Windward Islands
Translations:
tiller
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English tilier; equivalent to till + -er.
Base: till
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: tillers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tillers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tillering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tillered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tillered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tillow
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who tills; a farmer.
pos: noun
examples: In France, Europe's most fertile and cultivated land, the tillers of it suffered more and more hunger.
gloss: A machine that mechanically tills the soil.
pos: noun
gloss: To produce new shoots from the root or from around the bottom of the original stalk; stool.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: motor plow
Derived words: power tiller
Tiller
tiller-beam
Tillerson
tiller yoke
Translations:
signifier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
linguistics
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English signify
English -er
English signifier
From signify + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: signifiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something or someone that signifies, makes something more significant or important.
pos: noun
examples: If commentators have concurred on the characterization of Reagan as a synecdoche, they have also noted his status as a signifier.
gloss: Something or someone that signifies, makes something more significant or important.
pos: noun
gloss: A sign, such as a written or spoken word, which refers to some concept, object or person, the signified.
pos: noun
examples: Here things are getting better and better for women and people of color, and gay men and lesbians, more and more integrated and open, and all you can think about is some stupid, lame problem with signifiers and signifieds.
Synonyms: significator
Related words: signified
referent
Derived words: empty signifier
floating signifier
master signifier
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: merkityksen antaja
unfurl
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English un-
English furl
English unfurl
From un- + furl.
Inflected forms:
form: unfurls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: unfurling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: unfurled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: unfurled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To unroll or release something that had been rolled up, typically a sail or a flag.
pos: verb
examples: They unfurled the flag at the start of the festival.
BEHIND him lay the gray Azores, / Behind the Gates of Hercules; / Before him not the ghost of shores, / Before him only shoreless seas. // The good mate said: “Now must we pray, / For lo! the very stars are gone. / Brave Admiral, speak, what shall I say?” / “Why, say, ‘Sail on! sail on! and on!’”
“My men grow mutinous day by day; / My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” / The stout mate thought of home; a spray / Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. // “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, / If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” / “Why, you shall say at break of day, / ‘Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!’”
They sailed and sailed, as winds might blow, / Until at last the blanched mate said: / “Why, now not even God would know / Should I and all my men fall dead. // These very winds forget their way, / For God from these dread seas is gone. / Now speak, brave Admiral, speak and say”— / He said: “Sail on! sail on! and on!”
They sailed. They sailed. Then spake the mate: / “This mad sea shows his teeth to-night. / He curls his lip, he lies in wait, / With lifted teeth, as if to bite! // Brave Admiral, say but one good word: / What shall we do when hope is gone?” / The words leapt like a leaping sword: / “Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!”
Then, pale and worn, he kept his deck, / And peered through darkness. Ah, that night / Of all dark nights! And then a speck— / A light! A light! A light! A light! // It grew, a starlit flag unfurled! / It grew to be Time’s burst of dawn. / He gained a world; he gave that world / Its grandest lesson: “On! sail on!”
Release the line by pulling down and unfurl the jib by pulling on the two jibsheets.
gloss: To roll out or debut anything.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: When will we be unfurling the new feature?
Befitting the gray-brown clothes, bagged eyes, and licorice hair of its figures, Memoir Of A Snail unfurls the spiraling tale of two orphans persevering on Australia’s fringes.
gloss: To open up by unrolling.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To turn out or unfold; to evolve; to progress.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
Antonyms: furl
roll
Translations:
mainsheet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From main + sheet.
Compound parts: main
sheet
Inflected forms:
form: mainsheets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rope connected to and controlling the mainsail.
pos: noun
examples: Push the rudder down to a vertical position, then tighten the green line and place in the same cam cleat on the tiller shaft; be careful not to wrap or foul the mainsheet traveler line.
Translations:
centreboard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From centre + board.
Compound parts: centre
board
Inflected forms:
form: centreboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: centre-board
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: centre board
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: centerboard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: center-board
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: center board
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The adjustable keel on a small yacht or dinghy that acts, among other things, as ballast and to counteract the sideways force of the wind.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Translations:
dog-tired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dog tired
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Exhausted.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
idiomatic
not-comparable
Translations:
americano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1970s, from Italian (caffè) americano or American Spanish americano (“American (coffee)”). Cocktail sense from Italian americano.
Inflected forms:
form: americanos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Americano
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A drink made of espresso coffee diluted with hot water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “No, the coffee. Do you want a cup of Americano?” I groaned. Welcome to Europe. “Can't I just get a cup of regular coffee? A little cream, a little sugar?” […] “An Americano is a shot of espresso with hot water added.” “I don't know why they call it Americano. No one in America drinks espresso and hot water.”
And he drank americano. That was interesting. Was he lactose intolerant or did he simply prefer his coffee black?
gloss: A cocktail made with Campari, sweet vermouth, and club soda.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The waiters wore striped waistcoats and green baize aprons. Bond ordered an Americano and examined the sprinkling of overdressed customers, mostly from Paris he guessed, who sat talking with focus and vivacity, creating that theatrically clubbable atmosphere of l'heure de l'aperitif.
An Americano is made of Campari, sweet vermouth, and soda water over ice in a highball glass. […] The drink was so popular among Americans visiting Italy at the turn of the last century that it was named after them.
Derived words: Americola
Canadiano
Russiano
Translations:
catnap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cat + nap. Named in reference to the feline habit of taking multiple, brief, and light naps throughout the day to conserve energy, rather than sleeping for one long, uninterrupted block.
Compound parts: cat
nap
Inflected forms:
form: catnaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: catnaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: catnapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: catnapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: catnapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A brief, light sleep, usually during the daytime.
pos: noun
examples: Besides, I reflected, Joe might easily have become a catnapper, as so many millions of other Americans had become since Sarah Perkins, during the campaign, had made it so widely known that although the incumbent President slept in a bed with the covers over him for three and sometimes four hours a night, she herself never slept at all except for the catnaps.
A toddler who is still having two day sleeps will generally have one good sleep and one catnap, and a toddler who is around three years of age and getting close to dropping her day sleep will catnap.
gloss: To take a catnap (short sleep or nap).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A toddler who is still having two day sleeps will generally have one good sleep and one catnap, and a toddler who is around three years of age and getting close to dropping her day sleep will catnap.
Translations:
invertase
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English invert
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.
Ancient Greek διά (diá)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)
Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti
Proto-Hellenic *hístāmi
Ancient Greek ῐ̔́στημῐ (hĭ́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐῐ̈́στημῐ (dĭĭ̈́stēmĭ)
Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́στᾰσῐς (dĭắstăsĭs)
English diastase
English -ase
English invertase
From invert + -ase.
Inflected forms:
form: invertases
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of sucrose into glucose and fructose (invert sugar), used by bees to produce honey and in the food industry to soften chocolate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The costs incurred for the processing of sucrose with invertase could be considerably reduced with the introduction of immobilised invertases, by adopting technology similar to that developed for glucose isomerase.
The disaccharide sucrose and the trisaccharide raffinose are both substrates of invertase. Invertase is encoded by the SUC genes from which six unlinked loci have been identified (SUC1-SUC5, SUC7), which are dipersed through the yeast genome (Lampen, 1968; Ouwehand and van Wijk, 1972; Ottolenghi, 1971).
Up-regulation of these invertases is a common response to infection (Hall and Williams, 2000).
2013, Maria Kamiko Kadowaki, Rite de Cássia Garcia Simão, Jose Luís da Conceição Silva, Clarice Aoki Osaku, Luis Henrique Souza Guimarāes, 1: Biotechnical Advances in Fungal Invertases, Maria de Lourdes T. M. Polizeli, Mahendra Rai (editors), Fungal Enzymes, page 14,
The methods used for the immobilization of fungal invertases include adsorption, covalent binding, cross-linking and entrapment (Uzun et al. 2011).
Nelson and Griffin (1916) reported that invertase was the first enzyme to be immobilized, and it was bound on charcoal and aluminium hydroxide. Subsequently, mant fungal invertases have been immobilized onto a variety of media […] .
Translations:
nene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian nēnē, which is imitative of the bird’s call.
Inflected forms:
form: nenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nene
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nēnē
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Hawaiian goose, Branta sandvicensis, which was designated the state bird of Hawaii in 1957.
pos: noun
examples: Ohelo Vaccinium reticulatum (and V. peleanum) and kukaenene Coprosma ernodeoides […] are the most important berries in the Nenes’ diet, and it is probably from such juicy fruit that much of their water intake comes.
Today, both wild and domestic dogs are a serious threat to Hawai‘i's native wildlife. The dogs prey on both seabirds and open country birds, especially the Hawaiian goose, nēnē. However, feral dogs aren't all bad, because one of their favorite foods is rats.
Scientists think the nēnē descended from Canada geese that landed on Hawai‘i long before humans arrived. As they survived on the isolated islands for generation after generation, the geese gradually changed, becoming a new species. Today's nēnē, unlike its water-loving ancestor, is a land bird.
The nene is a handsome bird that almost became extinct in the wild but was reintroduced successfully from ones bred in captivity.
Among the iconic flora and fauna found here are […] the endangered nene (Hawaiian goose). After almost going extinct, nene were reintroduced into the national park in 1962 when Boy Scouts carried geese that had been raised in captivity down into Haleakala volcano in their backpacks.
Translations:
armageddon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: A generalization of Armageddon.
Inflected forms:
form: armageddons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The scene of a decisive conflict on a great scale.
pos: noun
gloss: Any great and crucial conflict.
pos: noun
examples: In comparison to Nixon-Mao, terrorism and armageddon, Anna Nicole Smith may seem lightweight, but it could prove an inspired choice.
gloss: A type of game, usually played when a match would otherwise end in a draw, where black wins drawn games and white is given more time as compensation.
pos: noun
Synonyms: apocalypse
catastrophe
day of reckoning
destruction
disaster
doomsday
judgement day
nuclear holocaust
end times
end of the world
Derived words: -ageddon
Carmageddon
cicada-geddon
hairmageddon
insectageddon
snowmageddon
Translations:
taco
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish taco, of uncertain origin; see the Spanish entry for more.
Inflected forms:
form: tacos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tacos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tacoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tacoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tacoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables, and salsa.
pos: noun
gloss: The vulva.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: […] while grinding her pink taco into my groin as if trying to gain even more of my sizable ...
[…] zombies have to eat and the best place to on any female is the pink taco.
"[…] was it really necessary to make your maid piss herself? Even if you think your husband is hiding his sausage in her taco, that was brazen. Jesus, Lana."
gloss: A yellow stain on a shirt's armpit caused by sweat or deodorant.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: To fold or cause to buckle in half, similar to the way a taco is folded.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: The boat tacoed — the front and rear bent in — and I was holding onto a strap on the frame, sitting more on the tube than the frame, and I was catapulted forward.
J.T. was in full scoop mode and whaling down the descent and he creamed into the dude, tacoed his front wheel, sheared off his front brake, and came as close to cursing as he ever has.
I'd left it in neutral and it rolled straight back into the barn and tacoed that door.
He turned off the light and laid on the couch, tacoing the pillow behind his head and inhaling the smell of Melanie Owen.
Derived words: blow this taco stand
French taco
Indian taco
Navajo taco
oppo taco
pink taco
street taco
taco-bender
taco bender
taco bumper
taco fest
Taco Hell
tacolike
taco nigger
taco rice
taco salad
Taco Smell
Taco Tuesday
taco vampiro
tuna taco
vampire taco
walking taco
Translations:
extortion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman extorcion, extorcioun, extorsioun, from Late Latin extortiō, from extorqueō. By surface analysis, extort +
-ion.
Inflected forms:
form: extortions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of extorting money or other property by the use of force or threats.
pos: noun
examples: Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
Translations:
Grammy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From gramophone.
Inflected forms:
form: Grammys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Grammies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the statuettes awarded by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in the music industry.
pos: noun
Translations:
trick-or-treat
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From trick or treat, the phrase stated as a greeting when accosting a household.
Inflected forms:
form: trick-
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: -treats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trick-
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: -treating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trick-
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trick-
pos: verb
tags: past
form: -treated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: -treated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To go door-to-door requesting candy on Halloween night while wearing a costume.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations: