yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
enchilada
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish enchilada, past participle of enchilar (“to add chili pepper to”).
Inflected forms:
form: enchiladas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Mexican dish made by wrapping a filling in a tortilla, then baking in a sauce.
pos: noun
examples: It was a nice little pub in the middle of nowhere / Anywhere would have been better / I ordered enchiladas and I ate 'em
Translations:
veta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: As vega, with the "g" substituted with a "t" to represent time.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of theta with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
non-commissioned
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English commissioned
English non-commissioned
From non- + commissioned.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not holding a military commission.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
gyroscopic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gyroscope
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English gyroscopic
From gyroscope + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more gyroscopic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gyroscopic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, by means of, or in the manner of a gyroscope.
pos: adj
examples: 1990 Operations Analysis in the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force in World War II Charles W McArthur: Publisher American Mathematical Society: →ISBN P142. "The bombardier then checked the gyroscopic stabilization of the bombsight and clutched in the electrical motor."
Translations:
jaga
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Malay jaga (“to awake; to watch over”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To keep watch, to watch over.
pos: verb
tags: Manglish
Singlish
invariable
examples: […] I better go to Ma’s place. You jaga the girls.
“Next to my shop, there was this auntie selling joss sticks and traditional Chinese items,” Mr Kadir said. “She would always help to jaga my shop when I need to go out, and when customers come she will help me to tell them to wait. After the work day finishes, she’ll always tell me to go home safely, I always remember that.”
We sat around at the NLB after midnight and helped to jaga these migrant workers who were painting.
gloss: A guard or watchman.
pos: noun
tags: Malaysia
Singapore
examples: The driver, holding a bunch of keys, approached the jaga, and told him that the kepala of the company, the Hock Lam Company, — in North Bridge Road, had sent him to collect some goods.
At the boarding house, the jaga — nightwatchman — hurriedly turned on all the lights so that everyone could see what was happening.
The Oldham Lane home was a big flat with an office below us and Oldham Hall up the hill. An Indian jaga slept outside the office on his charpoy (rope bed) and he cooked in the open.
Translations:
earldom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English erldom, from Old English eorldōm, equivalent to earl + -dom. Compare English jarldom. Cognate also with Scots eirldome, ȝerledom, erldom (“earldom”).
Base: earl
Affixes: -dom
Inflected forms:
form: earldoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The rank of being an earl.
pos: noun
examples: And, look when I am king, claim thou of me / The earldom of Hereford, and all the movables / Whereof the king my brother was possess'd.
gloss: The territory controlled by an earl.
pos: noun
Translations:
earthen
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English erthen, urthen, from Old English eorþen, yrþen, ierþen (“made of earth”), from Proto-Germanic *irþīnaz. Cognate with Dutch aarden (“earthen”), German irden (“earthen”). By surface analysis, earth + -en (“made of”).
Inflected forms:
form: more earthen
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most earthen
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: earthens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: earthening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: earthened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: earthened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Made of earth or mud.
pos: adj
examples: 1826, James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans
A hundred earthen dwellings stood on the margin of the lake […]
But transects have also been utilised in a large variety of arenas, including surveying the contents of Amerindian earthen mounds[.]
gloss: Made of clay.
pos: adj
tags: especially
examples: 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation
... the Godfathers and Godmothers follow into the midst of the Church, where there is a small table ready set, and on it an earthen pot ful of warme water, […]
gloss: Earthly.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: Will they be yours when one by one these earthen / Delights and comforts and all beauties wane? / Will they be found laid up above, illumined?
gloss: to provide or add soil to
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Their inter-tillage operations, earthening-up of some crops and tillage in orchard/gardens or plantation crops, are stated below, under special cropping system in different situations.
gloss: to make earthly or earthlike
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It deadens,—or earthens—the spirit in both directions.
Derived words: earthen mound
earthenware
earthenwork
Translations:
dumbledore
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Compound of dumble (similar to bumble) + dor (“a buzzing flying insect”).
Compound parts: dumble
dor
Inflected forms:
form: dumbledores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dumbledor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: drumbledore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: dumble-dor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A bumblebee.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
dialectal
examples: Those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor — thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores.
A shaded lamp and a waving blind, / And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: / On this scene enter – winged, horned, and spined – / A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore —
Now and then a dumbledore or ‘busy bee’ as they are called by some, propelled itself across our path, they being extremely large and heavy this year.
A dumbledore, lured from the plantation, lies on its back, leaping and churning upon Seth’s bright pages.
gloss: A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: others may need to be informd that a blastnashun straddlebob is a dumbledore, that is to say, a polyonymous lamellicorn coleopter, cald also a dorbeetle, a dorbug, a maybeetle, a maybug, a cockchafer, a Melolontha vulgaris.
gloss: A dandelion.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
examples: The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.
gloss: A blundering person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: “Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity.
Translations:
loudness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English loudnesse, lowdenesse, from Old English hlūdnes, equivalent to loud + -ness.
Base: loud
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: loudnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Strength of sound: how loud it is.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Strength of sound: how loud it is.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: loudness race
loudness war
Translations:
macaronic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
literature
media
morphology
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).
Inflected forms:
form: more macaronic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most macaronic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: maccaronic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: macaronick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: macaronics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maccaronic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: macaronick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Jumbled, mixed.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Written in a mixed language, one that combines elements from several.
pos: adj
gloss: Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.
pos: adj
tags: dated
gloss: A work of macaronic character.
pos: noun
gloss: A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
pos: noun
gloss: A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
pos: noun
Derived words: macaronically
macaronicism
macaronic Latin
Translations:
parsonage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English parson
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātus
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin -āticus
Latin -āticum
Old French -agebor.
Middle English -age
English -age
English parsonage
From parson + -age.
Inflected forms:
form: parsonages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The residence of the minister of a parish.
pos: noun
gloss: The house, lands, tithes, etc. set apart for the support of the minister of a parish.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Related words: curateship
curacy
rectorate
vicarate
vicarship
Derived words: squarsonage
Translations:
Muzak
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: The noun is a blend of music + the letters ak from Kodak, a well-known brand in 1934 when the word was coined by the American inventor, scientist, and soldier George Owen Squier (1865–1934), who developed the original technical basis for the service.
The verb is derived from the noun.
Compound parts: music
the letters ak from Kodak
Inflected forms:
form: musac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: muzak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Muzaks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Muzaking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Muzaked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Muzaked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: musac
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: muzak
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Easy listening music, whether played live or recorded, especially if regarded as uninteresting.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
often
uncountable
examples: The sound you make is muzak to my ears / You must have learned something in all those years
[T]he supermarket is very crowded, because of course it's the time of day when all other people with jobs also try to squeeze in some grocery shopping, and the store is hideously, fluorescently lit, and infused with soul-killing Muzak or corporate pop, and it's pretty much the last place you want to be, but you can't just get in and quickly out.
gloss: Something (such as speech) regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
figuratively
often
uncountable
gloss: To provide (premises, etc.) with Muzak.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
often
transitive
gloss: To adapt or reduce (a piece of music, etc.) to the status of Muzak.
pos: verb
tags: derogatory
often
transitive
examples: Willington had seen disco for what it was – the great Muzaking of rock and roll via a chintzy chorus, chintzy rotating mirror balls, and chintzy Arthur Murray twirling.
Derived words: Muzaked
Translations:
cataleptic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more cataleptic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cataleptic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: cataleptics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or affected by, catalepsy.
pos: adj
examples: Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity.
She keeps still, feigning cataleptic exhaustion.
gloss: A person experiencing catalepsy.
pos: noun
Translations:
idiocy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From French idiotie, from Old French idiot. Displaced earlier idiotacy, idiotry. Equivalent to idiot + -cy. By surface analysis, idio- + -cy.
Base: idiot
Affixes: -cy
Inflected forms:
form: idiocies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: idiotcy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
derogatory
uncountable
gloss: Lack of intelligence or sense; extremely foolish behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy, put a new policy in place.
gloss: An idiotic act or utterance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: “Well, Atticus, I was just sayin‘ to Mr. Cunningham that entailments are bad an’ all that, but you said not to worry, it takes a long time sometimes… that you all’d ride it out together…” I was slowly drying up, wondering what idiocy I had committed.
The list of his idiocies is seemingly interminable.
Synonyms: idiocity
idiotacy
idiotcy
idiotery
idioticalness
idioticity
idioticness
idioticy
idiotism
idiotness
idiotry
Related words: idiocracy
idiot
idiotic
idiotically
Derived words: artificial idiocy
covidiocy
Mongolian idiocy
Translations:
common-law
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: common law
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to common law.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to common-law marriage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
sleuthing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sleuthings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Detective work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Wotcher, me old cock sparrow, how's the sleuthing business?” bellowed Sandy, pausing and balancing his saddle on one knee while he looped up the girth.
Keane's speeches have not reduced the number of Amerasian births, but a decade of sleuthing has helped nearly 600 Amerasian orphans find new homes in the United States.
You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.
Translations:
Slavonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Slavonicus, Sclavonicus, from Slavonia, Sclavonia.
Inflected forms:
form: Sclavonic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Sclavonick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, denoting, or relating to the people who speak these languages, their languages, or cultures.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Sanskrit, Greek, Slavonic, Germanic, and Celtic names were all of this type, but there are also shorter names formed from the compound ones; […].
gloss: Of, denoting, or relating to Slavonia and its inhabitants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavonic
Panslavonic
Slavonically
Slavonicism
Slavonicity
Slavonicize
Translations:
non-imitation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English non-
English imitation
English non-imitation
From non- + imitation.
Inflected forms:
form: non-imitations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something or someone that is unique and individual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state where a product or idea cannot be copied, usually because of copyright rules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: non-imitation
Antonyms: imitation
Related words: non-imitated
Translations:
mu-metal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mu + metal; the Greek letter mu (μ) is a symbol for permeability.
Compound parts: mu
metal
Inflected forms:
form: mumetal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An alloy with high magnetic permeability, consisting of nickel (77%) and iron (15%) with traces of copper and molybdenum.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
sludgy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sludge
English -y
English sludgy
From sludge + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: sludgier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sludgiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characteristic of sludge; slimy or mucky
pos: adj
Translations:
rheumatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French rheumatique, from Latin rheumaticus, from Ancient Greek ῥευματικός (rheumatikós), from ῥεῦμα (rheûma, “stream, flow”) from ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).
Inflected forms:
form: more rheumatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rheumatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling or relating to rheumatism.
pos: adj
gloss: Derived from, or having the character of, rheum; rheumic.
pos: adj
Related words: rheumaticky
rheumatics
Derived words: antirheumatic
nonrheumatic
postrheumatic
prerheumatic
rheumatically
rheumatic fever
Translations:
rheumatologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English rheumatology
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 -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English rheumatologist
From rheumatology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: rheumatologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A doctor specializing in the treatment of arthritis and other ailments of the joints.
pos: noun
Translations:
rheumatology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥεῦμα (rheûma) (whence also English rheum) + -ology.
Affixes: -ology
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The branch of medicine specializing in arthritis and other ailments of the joints.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
op-ed
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Abbreviation for “opposite the editorial” (often incorrectly thought to be abbreviation for opinion/editorial).
Inflected forms:
form: op-eds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more op-ed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most op-ed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A newspaper page containing signed articles by commentators expressing viewpoints that may not agree with those espoused by the editorial board, traditionally printed opposite the editorial page.
pos: noun
examples: The purpose of an op-ed is to offer an opinion. It is not a news analysis or a weighing up of alternative views. It requires a clear thesis, backed by rigorously marshaled evidence, in the service of a persuasive argument.
gloss: Of or being a newspaper page, usually opposite the editorial page, that features signed articles expressing personal viewpoints.
pos: adj
examples: The question was probably bottomed on a combination of phrases in a Washington Post op-ed article that appeared not three months before by Richard Haass, who was a foreign-policy adviser in both Bush administrations and is now president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
gloss: Of an article, written in a style suitable for publication as an op-ed.
pos: adj
examples: For a more ‘op ed’ approach to the current state of the Hong Kong art scene see my recent article "Doer's Droop," South China Morning Post, August 23, 2005, C6.
gloss: Of a person, regularly expressing viewpoints by means of op-eds.
pos: adj
examples: Descriptions of him vary from "aggressively intelligent," "inventive," "articulate," "the most ‘op-ed’ academic in the field of education" to "arrogant" "combative," "hostile," and "dismissive" of ideas not his own.
Translations:
organum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin organum, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὄργανον (órganon, “organ, instrument, tool”). Doublet of organ, organon, and orgue.
Inflected forms:
form: organums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: organa
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of medieval polyphony which builds upon an existing plainsong.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: He [Francis Bacon] has given us an organum of a different origin and construction from that of Aristotle[…]
Another important circumstance respecting our transcendental esthetics is, that it does not insinuate itself merely as a plausible hypothesis, but is as certain and indubitable as we can require any theory to be in order to serve as an organum.
Related words: organum triplum
Translations:
prophesy
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Middle English prophecien; partly from prophecie, and partly from Middle French prophecier, prophesier, from prophecie (“prophecy”). Doublet of prophecy.
Inflected forms:
form: prophesies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prophesying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prophesied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prophesied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prophecy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: To speak or write with divine inspiration; to act as prophet.
pos: verb
examples: And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
No, but when the Spirit fils
The fantastick Pannicles:
Full of fier; then I write
[…] at that very moment a loud and high-pitched voice broke the outer silence of the night. It was Chielo, the priestess of Agbala, prophesying. There was nothing new in that. Once in a while Chielo was possessed by the spirit of her god and she began to prophesy.
gloss: To predict, to foretell (with or without divine inspiration).
pos: verb
examples: Then I perceive that will be verified
Henry the Fifth did sometime prophesy
‘If once he come to be a cardinal,
He’ll make his cap co-equal with the crown.’
My Lord of Hereford here whom you call King, / Is a foule traitour to proud Herefords King, / And if you crowne him let me propheſie, / The bloud of Engliſh ſhall manure the ground, / And future ages groane for this foule act, [...]
He doth not prophesy good concerning me.
People prophesied a long continuance to this already lengthened frost; said the spring would be very late; no spring fashions required; no summer clothing purchased for a short uncertain summer.
‘It has been prophesied more than once that he will find it.’
gloss: To foreshow; to herald; to prefigure.
pos: verb
examples: Methought thy very gait did prophesy
A royal nobleness. I must embrace thee.
gloss: To speak out on the Bible as an expression of holy inspiration; to preach.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 1646, Jeremy Taylor, Of the Liberty of Prophesying, Section 4, in Treatises of 1. The liberty of prophesying, 2. Prayer ex tempore, 3. Episcopacie: together with a sermon, London: R. Royston, 1648, p. 73,
[…] if we consider that we have no certain wayes of determining places of difficulty and Question, infallibly and certainly […] we shall see a very great necessity in allowing a liberty in Prophesying without prescribing authoritatively to other mens consciences, and becomming Lords and Masters of their Faith.
Related words: prophecy
prophesier
prophesize
prophet
prophetic
prophetize
Derived words: prophe-lie
prophesiable
unprophesied
Translations:
tacitly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tacit
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English tacitly
From tacit + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more tacitly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most tacitly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a tacit manner; done in silence or implied.
pos: adv
examples: Your failure to object to the request resulted in you tacitly approving the change.
The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.
Since old Waziri’s death Tarzan had been directing the warriors in battle, and the temporary command had been tacitly conceded to him.
The assumption that these are identical in meaning and usage between Indian English and Anglo-American English, while tacitly accepted, is untested, and fundamentally unknown.
Regarding the “3.5% rule”, she [Erica Chenoweth] points out that while 3.5% is a small minority, such a level of active participation probably means many more people tacitly agree with the cause.
Translations:
camping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: campings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The recreational or educational activity of temporarily living in a tent or similar accommodation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Camping is a favorite summer activity.
to foreclose the possibility completely. she packed the footwell of the passenger seat with her duffel bag and camping gear and buckled a stack of seed trays on to the seat.
gloss: The act of setting up a camp.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In some quarters, indeed, it was different — the troops bivouacked in many places. It was a strange and an unpleasing sight to see these campings in the heart of a city, yet it was picturesque in the extreme.
Derived words: anticamping
boutique camping
camping chair
camping coach
camping gas
camping ground
camping mat
camping site
camping stove
canoe camping
champing
freedom camping
glamping
noncamping
random camping
stealth camping
tent camping
vamping
workamping
Translations:
multimillionaire
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multus
Latin multīder.
Middle English multi-
English multi-
English millionaire
English multimillionaire
From multi- + millionaire.
Inflected forms:
form: multimillionaires
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: multi-millionaire
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person whose net worth is multiple million dollars, pounds, euros or some other currency.
pos: noun
Translations:
fly-in
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
construction
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
roofing
Etymology: Deverbal from fly in.
Inflected forms:
form: fly-ins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An informal gathering of private pilots and their aircraft at a prearranged airfield.
pos: noun
gloss: The bringing of a people to a place by air travel.
pos: noun
examples: IBM […] has staged to "fly-ins" of company executives to appeal to lawmakers.
gloss: A method of application for roll materials by which the dry sheet is set into the bitumen or adhesive applied to the roof surface.
pos: noun
Translations:
rebellious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English rebellious; equivalent to rebel + -ious.
Base: rebel
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more rebellious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rebellious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: rebellous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Showing rebellion.
pos: adj
examples: "Tedd's feeling a bit rebellious." "I'm not rebelling! I'm self actualizing! By rebelling."
Antonyms: docile
Translations:
centerfold
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From center + fold.
Compound parts: center
fold
Inflected forms:
form: centerfolds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: centrefold
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The single larger sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication, folded so as to open wider than a standard page spread.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The person appearing in such a photograph.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: My blood runs cold / My memory has just been sold / My angel is the centerfold
gloss: Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph.
pos: noun
tags: US
broadly
Translations:
nebbish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From American Yiddish נעביש (nebish), from נעבעך (nebekh, “poor, unfortunate”).
Inflected forms:
form: nebbishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nebech
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nebesh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nebish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nebbisch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nebbich
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is fearful, indecisive and timid, especially in making decisions and plans, in discussions, debates, arguments, and confrontations, and in taking responsibility.
pos: noun
examples: Actor Rick Moranis often plays a nebbish.
“I don't consider myself a nebbish,” Woody told interviewers early in his career, “but everyone else does.”
But as Lisa Schwarzbaum, the former movie critic for Entertainment Weekly, pointed out in an email interview, “‘Manhattan’ was always about a middle-aged man with a high school girlfriend. Back then, ‘Manhattan’ was made by Woody the Lovable Neurotic Nebbish, and now it has been made by Allen the Monster. And it’s the same movie.”
“Having a camera in my hands transformed a nebbish into someone who could make New York into a better place,” he said. “To help others do the same is important to us.”
Translations:
backscatter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: Back-formation from backscattering.
Inflected forms:
form: backscatters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: back scatter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: back-scatter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: backscatters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backscattering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backscattered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backscattered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: back scatter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: back-scatter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The deflection of particles or radiation through angles greater than 90 degrees to the original direction of travel.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The particles or radiation deflected in this manner.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A portion of the energy of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser or radio waves that is scattered back in the direction of the source of radiation by an obscurant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The sending of IP packets to essentially random addresses in response to incoming packets that have a spoofed origin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To scatter particles or radiation back to the direction from which they originate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: backscatterer
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: takaisinsironta
deke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
Etymology: Canadian English, a contraction of decoy.
Inflected forms:
form: dekes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dekes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: deking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: deked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: deked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A feint, fake, or other move made by the player with the puck to deceive a goaltender or defenceman.
pos: noun
examples: Puck carriers will often use the blade of the hockey stick in timing a deke or fake (if one is used) to get around an opponent.
gloss: As in hockey, a fake or other move to confuse other players on a team.
pos: noun
examples: Simmons casually leaned back as if he was going to let the throw go to third. That momentary hesitation made Correa think he could take off for second. Only problem? Simmons was simply laying in wait. He grabbed the ball and threw to first.... Even though Simmons was never the focal point of the play, one deke, one cutoff, and two throws later, he had tricked the Astros out of an inning.
gloss: A quick detour.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
slang
gloss: To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
slang
gloss: To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports.
pos: verb
examples: The advantage is with the shooter from fifteen to twenty feet, but if you notice a weakness, you may want to fake a shot and "deke" to goalie.
"Deke!" Joe would shout hoarsely. "You deke with your shoulder. Drop it like you were going that way!"
Andrelton Simmons dekes out Carlos Correa to get him in a rundown, which eventually ends with Jose Altuve being tagged out at home.
Related words: body swerve
Translations:
decoy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Dutch de + kooi, literally "the cage". Possibly related to verb coy (which itself may have been influenced by decoy).
Compound parts: de
kooi
Inflected forms:
form: decoys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: decoys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decoying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decoyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decoyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person or object meant to lure somebody into danger.
pos: noun
gloss: A real or fake animal used by hunters to lure game.
pos: noun
gloss: Deceptive military device used to draw enemy attention or fire away from a more important target.
pos: noun
examples: 2002, Robotech: Battlecry – Guide and Walkthrough
Just every 5 seconds or so shoot out a decoy near the Cats Eye and the enemies will aim for that instead of the Cats Eye.
gloss: An assembly of hooped or netted corridors into which wild ducks may be enticed (originally by tame ducks) and trapped.
pos: noun
gloss: To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to decoy troops into an ambush; to decoy ducks into a net
E'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, / The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
gloss: To act as, or use, a decoy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As they were being decoyed, the rescue team carried the hostage and quietly slipped away.
Synonyms: body double
decoy
red herring
Related words: correspondent
counterpart
dependent
fake
imitate
lie
substitute
red herring
Derived words: decoy-duck
decoy effect
decoyman
duck decoy
decoyable
decoyer
deke
undecoyed
Translations:
urs
Part of speech: noun
pron
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic عرس (ʕurs).
Inflected forms:
form: urus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The anniversary of the death of a Sufi saint, celebrated with music and ritual.
pos: noun
gloss: yours
pos: pron
tags: Internet
Translations:
nic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of nicotine.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: nicotine
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: I prefer vaping with nic-free juice.
Translations:
Gesamtkunstwerk
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Gesamtkunstwerk (“total artwork”), synthesis of the arts; used by the composer Richard Wagner.
Inflected forms:
form: Gesamtkunstwerks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gesamtkunstwerk
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Total artwork; an artistic creation such as an operatic performance that encompasses music, theatre and the visual arts.
pos: noun
examples: Andre Emmerich, Mr. Hockney's longtime New York dealer, said: "There's a nice German word, gesamtkunstwerk. It means the entirety is a work of art."
References to the Gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art, abound in modernist discourse in the disciplines of art and architectural history ...
The original PokéRap is no Gesamtkunstwerk.
Translations:
muggins
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Origin unknown. Sense 'fool' originally British slang of 1770s, probably an extension of earlier mug (“fool”). Game senses perhaps from surname Muggins.
Inflected forms:
form: mugginses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fool or idiot (especially as an ironic way of referring to oneself).
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: I suppose muggins here will have to do all the work, as usual.
"And I thought: if muggins here, a 37-year-old government minister who can look after myself, feels that way, then we need to really think about how we're putting in place a level of protection for women.
gloss: The act of stealing another player's points because they either mispegged or counted up incorrectly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A card game based on building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: mugginsed
Buggins's turn
cutthroat
cutthroat cribbage
Derived words: cotton-headed ninny-muggins
Translations:
hydrobromic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Hellenic *údōr
Ancient Greek ῡ̆̔́δωρ (hū̆́dōr)
Ancient Greek ῠ̔δρο- (hŭdro-)der.
English hydro-
English bromic
English hydrobromic
From hydro- + bromic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Composed of hydrogen and bromine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
oxychloride
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξῠ́ς (oxŭ́s)bor.
English oxy-
English chloride
English oxychloride
From oxy- + chloride.
Inflected forms:
form: oxychlorides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ternary compound of oxygen and chlorine.
pos: noun
Translations:
priggish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prig
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English priggish
From prig + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more priggish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most priggish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a prig.
pos: adj
examples: To ride; to dance; she had adored all that. Or going long walks in the country, talking, about books, what to do with one’s life, for young people were amazingly priggish—oh, the things one had said!
When the Voice of Britain is heard at nine o'clock, better far and infinitely less ludicrous to hear aitches honestly dropped than the present priggish, inflated, inhibited, school-ma'amish arch braying of blameless bashful mewing maidens!
Great ancient columns and rich marbles inspired him with respect, apart from their beauty; and this proprietary human esteem for the arts was a good corrective to the priggish aestheticism of my English-speaking artistic friends.
With the advantage of hindsight, [Jess] Stein may seem priggish. But dictionary editors throughout history would sympathize. Figuring out how to put sex in the dictionary—which terms to include and how to define them—is actually one of the most challenging tasks we face.
Translations:
torse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle French torse (“wreath”), from Latin torqueō (“to twist”). Doublet of trousse and truss.
Inflected forms:
form: torses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A twist of cloth or wreath, typically placed underneath and forming part of a crest (as an orle or wreath) and customarily shown with six twists, the first tincture being the tincture of the field, the second the tincture of the metal, and so on; rarely, it occurs as a charge.
pos: noun
Translations:
Hausfrau
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
German Hausfrauubor.
English Hausfrau
Unadapted borrowing from German Hausfrau.
Inflected forms:
form: Hausfraus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hausfrauen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: house frau
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A traditional housewife.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
ooh
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: oooh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ooooh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: oohs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oooh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ooooh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: oohs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oohing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oohed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oohed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: oooh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ooooh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An expression of surprise.
pos: intj
gloss: An expression of awe.
pos: intj
gloss: A sound made to imitate a ghost.
pos: intj
gloss: An expression of affection.
pos: intj
gloss: An expression of pain.
pos: intj
gloss: An expression of excitement, anticipation, or enthusiastic interest.
pos: intj
examples: Ooh, I love that book!
Ooh, that looks delicious!
gloss: An exclamation of ooh.
pos: noun
examples: In any given performance, their tosses and spins and leaps elicit oohs and ahhs from children and adults.
The most underrated component in building a custom gun is the metalsmithing. Stock work immediately attracts attention. Fancy checkering patterns, meticulously executed, are sure to elicit oohs and ahhs.
gloss: To exclaim ooh.
pos: verb
examples: In the next few minutes, Molly tossed dress after dress aside, oohing and aahing at the varied fabrics, the elaborate detailing of each one, until she found a dress that was— / Breathtaking.
Derived words: ooher
ooh-wee
Translations:
cops
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The police, considered as a group entity.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: "Maybe he'll git the cops after you, Jack." "I'll watch out fer dat, Nick, an' you must watch out too," answered Jack Sagger.
I saw them leaving,” he says, and he stops / “One of us had better call up the cops” / And so Patty calls the cops / And they arrive on the scene
Translations:
checked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Marked with a check mark.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a pattern of checks; checkered.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
examples: a checked tie
At that moment a long, scraggy individual in a checked suit poked his head into the bar, looked around portentously, whistled mysteriously to my informant, and jerked his thumb and head in the direction of the door.
Later that day, all X's friends put on their red and white checked overalls and went over to see X.
gloss: Of syllables, having a coda.
pos: adj
gloss: Of consonants, glottalized.
pos: adj
gloss: Verified or validated in some way.
pos: adj
examples: a computer program using checked arithmetic
gloss: Delivered to the airline (or train line, ferry, etc.), usually during check-in, to be stored in an inaccessible area to the passenger (the hold) during the flight (or other journey).
pos: adj
gloss: Of a letter square in a crossword grid, part of both an across word and a down word.
pos: adj
Derived words: checked build
checked exception
checked syllable
checked tone
unchecked
Translations:
chandler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English chaundeler, from Old French chandelier, from Latin candelarius (“a candle-maker; a candlestick”), from the Latin candela (“a candle”); compare the English term candle.
Inflected forms:
form: chandlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who makes or sells candles.
pos: noun
gloss: A servant in a large household responsible for providing candles.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A dealer in (a specific kind of) provisions or supplies; especially a ship chandler.
pos: noun
Related words: candela
candelabrum
candid
candidate
candle
chandelier
Derived words: chandleress
chandlering
chandlerly
chandlery
Translations:
goddamn
Part of speech: intj
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From God + damn; originally, and sometimes still, a present subjunctive expression of a wish that God smite someone for their wickedness; compare also antonymous God bless, God bless you, and God love (someone or something).
Compound parts: God
damn
Inflected forms:
form: god damn
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: goddam
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: God damn
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: Goddamn
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: goddamned
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: goddammit
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: goddamnit
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: gawldamn
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: god damn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goddam
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: God damn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Goddamn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goddamned
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goddammit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: goddamnit
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: gawldamn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An expression of anger, surprise, intense excitement or frustration.
pos: intj
tags: colloquial
vulgar
examples: Person A: You're not going to believe this: he just did it again, despite your warning.
 Person B: Goddamn!
Person A: You're not going to believe this: he just did it again, despite your warning.
 Person B: God damn him!
gloss: Damned by God.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
gloss: Used as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
offensive
sometimes
vulgar
examples: Where's the goddamn cartridge?
You were in the background; you were a goddamn extra! That's good enough!
I know this may seem a bit out of the box, but isn't this a particularly lousy time in history for the Congress to go on vacation for six goddamn weeks.
Synonyms: godsdamn
goddamned
gorram
dadgum
goldarn
goshdarn
goshdang
gall dang
Translations:
Chandler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Chandlers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Chander
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A California variety of pomelo with a smoother skin than many other varieties.
pos: noun
Translations:
someplace
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From some + place.
Compound parts: some
place
Inflected forms:
form: someplaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Somewhere.
pos: adv
tags: US
informal
not-comparable
examples: We can't find the damned thing, but it must be someplace.
gloss: An unspecified location.
pos: noun
examples: And there is a reason for going to Israel: to find a someplace.
Thus, "placing readers at the forefront of utopian studies will [...] help us to understand more fully and accurately what the noplaces of Utopia have done, do, and will do to the someplaces of our world" (Roemer 154).
To get here you drive through the series of pocketed communities that fray the outskirts of these usual someplaces, someplaces that are like industrial cities that were once more industrious cities.
Find a someplace as far away as possible from the flying monster and its helpers.
And the someplace else was of little concern to the traveling salesman as well, because for him everywhere was someplace else and this was just another stop between a someplace and an elsewhere.
Translations: