yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
monkfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English monk
Proto-Indo-European *péysks
Proto-Germanic *fiskaz
Proto-West Germanic *fisk
Old English fisċ
Middle English fisch
English fish
English monkfish
From monk + fish.
Inflected forms:
form: monkfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: monkfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any large bottom-dwelling anglerfish of the genus Lophius, such as Lophius piscatorius, of the Atlantic, having a large head and mouth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I’ve had the good luck to cook monkfish on both sides of the Atlantic. The European monkfish is Lophius piscatorius, while our western Atlantic brand is Lophius americanus.
gloss: An angel shark, of the genus Squatina.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sea monk (“folkloric creature”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [The] monkfish is preceded by the “monstre Leonin” and followed by the “monstre marinen habit d'Evesque” (de Monstro Leonino and de pisce Episcopi habitu respectively). The creature represented in these works is a hybrid: his round and tonsured ...
Translations:
defending
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: defendings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of defence.
pos: noun
examples: […] his wondrous laudations and defendings of the unfriended Turner […]
Translations:
spotting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: spottings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A spotted pattern.
pos: noun
examples: Symptoms consist of various foliage spottings and blotchings.
gloss: The act of spotting or sighting something.
pos: noun
examples: Although the NVA went to great lengths to conceal the locations of their artillery, they had to expose them at the time of firing. Less reliable than visual spottings were electronic intercepts […]
gloss: Vaginal spotting, the discharge of blood from the vagina at a time outside of one's usual menses.
pos: noun
examples: Subchorionic bleeding […] can cause light to heavy spotting but doesn't always (sometimes it is only detected during a routine ultrasound).
Derived words: aircraft spotting
antispotting
birdspotting
bugspotting
bus spotting
cloudspotting
microspotting
oil spotting
pinspotting
planespotting
spotting scope
talent-spotting
trainspotting
trendspotting
Translations:
scintillating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scintillate
English -ing
English scintillating
From scintillate + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more scintillating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scintillating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: That scintillates with brief flashes of light; sparkling.
pos: adj
examples: On the scintillating water yellow and blue boats bobbed up and down.
They sank me into the ocean / Wishing me to remain in the depths. / I became a deep sea diver / And came up covered with scintillating pearls.
gloss: Brilliantly or impressively clever, exciting, amusing or witty.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Her sketches and tales may be said to be cleverly written. They are lively, easy, conventional, scintillating with a species of sarcastic wit, which might be termed good were it in any respect original.
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
For the last thirteen months, Beatles cofounder John Lennon has been Liverpool's darling. He can do no wrong. His group's music is scintillating. His public demeanor has been exemplary. He is a credit to our city, to rock 'n' roll musicians, and to the undead.
The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break – left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up.
A scintillating example of where the cultural politics of iconoclasm and of representation coincide, in the Hellenistic world, is offered by an inscription of the fourth century BCE from Delphi.
Lots of people are looking for something scintillating and new and not finding it.
Derived words: scintillatingly
scintillatingness
scintillating scotoma
Translations:
mudskipper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From mud + skipper.
Compound parts: mud
skipper
Inflected forms:
form: mudskippers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various gobies of the subfamily Oxudercinae that are able to survive out of water by breathing through their skins and having strong pectoral fins that act as simple legs.
pos: noun
Translations:
schooling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dressage
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
Inflected forms:
form: schoolings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Training or instruction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Institutional education; attendance of school.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.
gloss: The training of a horse at dressage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Discipline; reproof; reprimand.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: He gave his son a good schooling.
[…] I thought the schooling as severe as the case merited, […]
gloss: Compensation for instruction; price or reward paid to an instructor for teaching pupils.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: flexi-schooling
homeschooling
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: дресировка
roman: dresirovka
lang: Finnish
word: koulutus
burh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English burh. Doublet of borough, burg, burgh, and bury.
Inflected forms:
form: burhs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fortified dwelling place belonging to a king or noble; a prehistoric fort.
pos: noun
Translations:
schnapper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Alteration of snapper, influenced by German Schnapper. Attested from the 19th century.
Inflected forms:
form: schnappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Australasian fish, Chrysophrys guttulatus or C. auratus; the porgy or snapper.
pos: noun
Translations:
porbeagle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unclear, but likely from Cornish porth (“harbor”) + bugel (“shepherd”), with the latter element either influenced by English beagle or in fact formed from it, with only the first element truly being from Cornish.
Inflected forms:
form: porbeagles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large pelagic predatory shark, Lamna nasus, of the Atlantic.
pos: noun
examples: In English waters, the porbeagle is considered the premier shark to catch, but in other parts of the world it is considered a nuisance, or at best a poor substitute for its more glamorous relative, the mako.
Translations:
sceptre
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English septre, sceptre, from Old French sceptre, from Latin scēptrum, from Ancient Greek σκῆπτρον (skêptron, “staff, stick, baton”), from σκήπτω (skḗptō, “to prop, to support, to lean upon a staff”).
Inflected forms:
form: sceptres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scepter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: sceptres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sceptring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sceptred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sceptred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scepter
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: An ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch as a symbol of power.
pos: noun
examples: “Divine receptacle of excellence, let it not be deemed impertinent, or deviating from the rules of propriety, if I propound one queſtion which now labours in my breaſt; aſſuring me firſt, you will not let the ſceptre of true judgment depart from your right hand.”
To the fleet he came / Bearing rich ranſom glorious to redeem / His daughter, and his hands charged with the wreath / And golden ſceptre of the God shaft-arm’d.
But what had occupied him most was the robe he was to wear at his coronation, the robe of tissued gold, and the ruby-studded crown, and the sceptre with its rows and rings of pearls.
gloss: To give a sceptre to.
pos: verb
examples: To Britain's queen the sceptred suppliant bends.
gloss: To invest with royal power.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
Translations:
scepter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: scepters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scepters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sceptering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sceptered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sceptered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: American and archaic form of sceptre.
pos: noun
examples: Edwards great linage by the mothers ſide,
 Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the ſcepter vp,
gloss: American form of sceptre.
pos: verb
Translations:
burg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The historical sense is from Late Latin burgus, from Frankish *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“borough, fortification”). Doublet of borough, Brough, burgh, burh, and bury. Also compare burgess.
The modern sense may have been formed in part by analogy with the many North American city names that are suffixed with -burg (a number of which in the Eastern United States once used -burgh instead. See burgh), as well as being formed in part due to German Burg.
Inflected forms:
form: burgs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A city or town.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Tell mother that I will write her in a day or two, probably from Chicago, as I have always had an idea that that was one burg where I could make good.
Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was not only a Canadian but lived in Ottawa, that icy burg I had left so many kilometers -- sorry, miles -- behind me.
It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills.
gloss: A fortified town in medieval Europe.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: burgage
burgery
burgher
burghermaster
burgomaster
burgrave
Derived words: burgish
Translations:
sigmoidoscopy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek σῖγμᾰ (sîgmă)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Ancient Greek σῑγμοειδής (sīgmoeidḗs)bor.
English sigmoid
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-bor.
English -o-
Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
Proto-Hellenic *sképťomai
Ancient Greek σκέπτομαι (sképtomai)
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Hellenic *-ós
▲
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)influ.
Ancient Greek -ός (-ós)
Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek σκοπέω (skopéō)der.
English -scopy
English sigmoidoscopy
From sigmoid + -o- + -scopy.
Inflected forms:
form: sigmoidoscopies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Internal examination of the sigmoid colon
pos: noun
Translations:
Anglo-Catholic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Anglo-
English Catholic
English Anglo-Catholic
From Anglo- + Catholic.
Inflected forms:
form: Anglo-Catholics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Anglo-Catholic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Anglo-Catholic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Anglican Church whose practices emphasise continuity with Catholic tradition.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to or characteristic of Anglo-Catholicism.
pos: adj
examples: Ash-Wednesday is, in Spurr’s authoritative assessment, Eliot’s most Anglo-Catholic poem.
Translations:
socle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
architecture
group-theory
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From French socle, from Italian zoccolo (“wooden shoe”), from Latin socculus, diminutive of soccus (“sock”). Doublet of zoccolo.
Inflected forms:
form: socles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A low plinth or pedestal used to display a statue or other artwork.
pos: noun
gloss: A plain face or plinth at the foot of a wall.
pos: noun
gloss: The sum of the minimal normal submodules of a given R-module of a given ring R.
pos: noun
gloss: The subgroup generated by the minimal normal subgroups of a given group.
pos: noun
Translations:
saag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Hindi साग (sāg)bor.
English saag
Borrowed from Hindi साग (sāg).
Inflected forms:
form: saags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An Indian dish made from greens (usually spinach) cooked down to a thick paste.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
peaked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See peak.
Inflected forms:
form: more peaked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most peaked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: peakèd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having a peak or peaks.
pos: adj
examples: The wizard wore a peaked cap.
Translations:
saggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sag
English -y
English saggy
From sag + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: saggier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: saggiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Baggy or loose-fitting.
pos: adj
gloss: That sinks or droops from wear or its own weight.
pos: adj
examples: saggy boobs
saggy skin
Synonyms: loose-fitting
Derived words: saggily
sagginess
saggy trousers
Translations:
saleswoman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sales
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Proto-Indo-European *mon-
Proto-Germanic *mann-
Proto-West Germanic *mann
Old English mann
Old English wīfmann
Middle English woman
Middle English -woman
English -woman
English saleswoman
From sales + -woman.
Inflected forms:
form: saleswomen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A woman whose occupation it is to sell things.
pos: noun
examples: The task was a novel and not unwholly congenial one, but he finally got the attention of a saleswoman and made his wishes known.
We stop walking a second and look around at the spectacle before us. There's something Felliniesque about a department store cosmetics section. You stand here on a Saturday morning, dressed in the standard mall-casual suburban wardrobe, gazing at a chamber glittering with chandeliers, populated by saleswomen wearing makeup and hair dramatic enough for opening night at La Scala.
Translations:
salesperson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compound of sales + person.
Inflected forms:
form: salespersons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salespeople
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sales person
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.
pos: noun
examples: When I was a child, salespeople were usually stationed behind a counter in any given department. […] Having searched in vain for an item and finding a salesperson to ask if the store has it, more often than not you are greeted with, "Do you see it? Then we don't have it."
Thus despite sex-typing at Macy's and Target—the placing of salespersons in like-gendered departments and women more often in interactive roles that paid less—women were not much more class-conscious than men.
Translations:
sacristy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman sacrestie, from Medieval Latin sacristia.
Inflected forms:
form: sacristies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A room in a church where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc. are kept. Sometimes also used by clergy to prepare for worship or for meetings.
pos: noun
Translations:
sacristan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French sacristain, Late Latin sacrista, from Latin sacer. Doublet of sexton.
Inflected forms:
form: sacristans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The person who maintains the sacristy and the sacred objects it contains.
pos: noun
examples: And hence the custom and law began
That still at dawn the sacristan,
Who duly pulls the heavy bell,
Five and forty beads must tell
Between each stroke
[…] every evening as the temple was closed for the night the sacristan paused: "Pindar to supper with the god!" he cried.
The church was looked after by an old sacristan who lived in a cottage on the shore of the lake.
Translations:
sapiens
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From translingual Homo sapiens, from Latin sapiēns, present active participle of sapiō (“discern, be capable of discerning”).
Inflected forms:
form: sapiens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sapientes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A human being (Homo sapiens).
pos: noun
examples: The earliest sapiens were gatherers, scavengers, and hunters of food.
Even if we assume that the rate of change was slow and the evolving population large, we must still assume that sapiens was rather isolated.
Translations:
sandal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sandal (“sandal”), from Old French sandale, from Latin sandalium, from Ancient Greek σανδάλιον (sandálion), diminutive of σάνδαλον (sándalon, “sandal”), of unknown origin. Often mistakenly parsed as related to sand.
Inflected forms:
form: sandals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sandals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sandaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: sandalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: sandaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: sandaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: sandalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: sandalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot
pos: noun
gloss: To put on sandals.
pos: verb
Translations:
disenchant
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French desenchanter, equivalent to dis- + enchant.
Base: enchant
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: disenchants
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: disenchanting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: disenchanted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: disenchanted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To free from illusion, false belief or enchantment; to undeceive or disillusion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To disappoint.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To break from a mental captivation such as reverie (daydream) or preoccupation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To remove a spell or magic enchantment from.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: disenchanter
disenchanted
disenchantingly
disenchantment
Translations:
truism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English true
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 truism
From true + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: truisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trueism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A self-evident or obvious truth.
pos: noun
examples: It is a truism that the site of stations is conditioned by history and geography, but Dover Marine especially owes its fascinating and unusual layout to these two factors.
It is a truism that the people who attend a rally for President Trump more than two years before he’s on the ballot again are generally strong supporters of President Trump.
The phrase If something exists, there is porn of it used to be a clever internet meme; now it’s a truism.
gloss: A banality or cliché.
pos: noun
examples: After a little decent sorrow had been put forth for the late "severe affliction," joined with some weariful truisms about resignation to the will of Providence, the rest of the epistle was filled up with reproofs about her ladyship's extraordinary and improper conduct in setting off without his consent!
A medical “truism” holds that nose hair filters the air we breathe and therefore protects us from infection by airborne viruses, bacteria and other pathogens. But, as is often the case with truisms, its history may be more venerable than verified.
Derived words: truismatic
Translations:
sapodilla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish sapodilla, from Nahuatl tzapocuahuitl.
Inflected forms:
form: sapodillas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A long-lived evergreen tree, Manilkara zapota, native to the New World tropics.
pos: noun
gloss: The edible fruit of this tree.
pos: noun
examples: They heard the flight of the bats as they attacked the ripe sapodillas at their feet.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: саподила
roman: sapodila
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 人心果
roman: rénxīnguǒ
lang: Esperanto
word: sapotarbo
lang: Esperanto
word: maĉgumarbo
lang: Finnish
word: sapotillapuu
lang: Icelandic
word: sapódillatré
lang: Icelandic
word: tyggigúmmítré
lang: Icelandic
word: kvoðutré
lang: Kannada
word: ಸಪೋಟ
roman: sapōṭa
lang: Malay
word: pokok ciku
lang: Russian
word: саподи́лла
roman: sapodílla
lang: Spanish
word: chicozapote
lang: Spanish
word: níspero
impenetrable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English inpenetrabel, inpenetrabyle, from Middle French impenetrable or directly from its etymon, Latin impenetrābilis. By surface analysis, im- + penetrable.
Inflected forms:
form: inpenetrable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: impenetrables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: inpenetrable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not penetrable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fortress is impenetrable, so it cannot be taken.
The avalanche spread and stopped, locking everything it carried into an icy cocoon. It was now a jagged, virtually impenetrable pile of ice, longer than a football field and nearly as wide.
gloss: Opaque; obscure; not translucent or transparent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: When night falls, she cloaks the world in impenetrable darkness.
gloss: Incomprehensible; fathomless; inscrutable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: Business jargon makes this document impenetrable—I can’t understand it.
gloss: A person not openly given to friendship.
pos: noun
examples: I should lose the reputation that I am gradually acquiring among our impenetrables here, were I to confess the excitement which I felt at the idea of entering his house—the house of that great general under whose command you made your first charge.
Derived words: impenetrableness
impenetrably
Translations:
penetrable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English penetrable, penytrable, from Old French penetrable, from Medieval Latin penetrābilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more penetrable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most penetrable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced.
pos: adj
examples: On the east the high mountain-chain of Zagros, penetrable only in one or two places, forms a barrier of the most marked character, and is beyond a doubt the natural limit for which we are looking.
gloss: Capable of being fully understood.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: A Boer may know you, but it will take you some time to know him, and when a certain stage in your acquaintance is reached, you may begin to wonder whether his real nature is penetrable at all.
A capacity is cognitively penetrable in this sense if that capacity is affected by the subject's knowledge or ignorance of the domain.
Antonyms: impenetrable
Related words: penetrableness
penetrably
Derived words: interpenetrable
nonpenetrable
unpenetrable
Translations:
aurum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin aurum (“gold”). Doublet of or.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Gold (used in the names of various substances, see "Derived terms").
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A sweet, orange-flavored Italian liqueur.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: aurum coronarium
aurum fulminans
aurum mosacium
aurum musivum
Translations:
menace
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English manace, from Old French manace, menace, &c., from Late Latin minācia (“threat, menace”), from Latin mināx (“threatening”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Inflected forms:
form: menaces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: menaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: menacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: menaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: menaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A perceived threat or danger.
pos: noun
examples: the dark menace of the distant war.
gloss: The act of threatening.
pos: noun
gloss: An annoying and bothersome person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
transitive
examples: to menace a country with war
My master […] did menace me with death.
The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!
Bradley Barcola, on for Kvaratskhelia, menaced with his jet-heeled pace on the counter.
gloss: To threaten (an evil to be inflicted).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death,
And in his eies the furies of his heart,
That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng,
And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.
By oath he menaced / Revenge upon the cardinal.
gloss: To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Derived words: lavender menace
menaceful
red menace
yellow menace
Translations:
muscled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Bearing muscles or muscle tissue.
pos: adj
gloss: Having large muscles.
pos: adj
Synonyms: muscled up
Derived words: bemuscled
double-muscled
overmuscled
undermuscled
unmuscled
Translations:
softy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sem-
Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz
Proto-Germanic *-jaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ī
Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī)
Old English sōfte
Middle English softe
English soft
English -y
English softy
From soft + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: softies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: softie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A weak or sentimental person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
mildly
gloss: Somebody who finds it difficult to scold or punish.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A soft drink containing no alcohol.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
informal
gloss: A soft toy.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A flaccid state of the penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: softhearted
Translations:
muscling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: muscles in the body, meant collectively
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The legs are set wide apart due to the very thick muscling.
gloss: the process of muscle formation or growth
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The effects of muscling were of secondary importance to the effects of fatness.
Derived words: double muscling
Translations:
spotted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more spotted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most spotted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Discoloured by spots; stained.
pos: adj
gloss: Characterized by spots (used especially of animals and plants).
pos: adj
tags: no-comparative
superlative
examples: a spotted hyena
Translations:
welling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wellings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
pos: noun
examples: It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.
Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.
Translations:
crooner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English croon
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English crooner
From croon + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: crooners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who croons; a singer, usually male, especially of popular music.
pos: noun
examples: My mom likes to listen to old crooners like Frank Sinatra and Tommy Dorsey.
“But, you know, crooners gonna croon.”
“Curious.” “Ah, don't waste those big Vulcan brain juices, T'Lyn. He's just a novelty beach crooner.” “Krog is my favorite musician.” “Oh. Sorry. I-I've heard he's very, uh, tropical.” “He is a master of the Vibe Tubes.”
Translations:
bottling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bottlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A batch of bottled liquids, as from a single vat, barrel, or seasonal growth.
pos: noun
examples: The bottlings from the barrel-aged wines bear a premium label.
gloss: The act of pelting (a musical act on stage, etc.) with bottles as a sign of disapproval.
pos: noun
Translations:
bottled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeHw-der.
Ancient Greekbor.?
Latin buttis
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
Latin -culus
Late Latin butticula
Old French boteillebor.
Middle English botel
English bottle
English -ed
English bottled
From bottle + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more bottled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bottled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Packaged in a bottle.
pos: adj
examples: bottled water
gloss: drunk
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Then turning to the others at the table as though appealing to a jury, he asked, "Y'know what this Arkansas Ape did the last time we got bottled? […]
gloss: Shaped or protuberant like a bottle.
pos: adj
gloss: Kept in restraint; bottled up.
pos: adj
Derived words: bottled gas
bottled in bond
estate-bottled
nonbottled
Translations:
semantic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
computing
design
engineering
human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημαντικός (sēmantikós). Compare French sémantique.
Inflected forms:
form: semantics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to semantics or the meanings of words.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Reflecting intended structure and meaning.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Petty or trivial; (of a person or statement) quibbling, niggling.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
gloss: In such writing systems as the Chinese writing system, the portion of a phono-semantic character that provides an indication of its meaning; contrasted with phonetic.
pos: noun
examples: Its semantic is polysyllabic, viz. it uses the word formations of spoken Chinese.
In this particular case, the semantic is on the left of its host sinogram.
The 亻(人) ren2 'person' semantic has been replaced by 氵(水) shui3 'water' semantic in浸, but帚 zhou3 'broom' has phonetically or semantically nothing to do with 浸 and is just a residue of 侵 after亻(人) ren2 'person' has been removed.
Antonyms: antisemantic
Related words: semantical
semantics
semasiology
sematic
sematology
seme
sememe
semiotic
semiotics
Derived words: asemantic
autosemantic
biosemantic
endosemantic
episemantic
ethnosemantic
exosemantic
extrasemantic
grammaticosemantic
isosemantic
lexicosemantic
metasemantic
monosemantic
morphosemantic
neurosemantic
nonsemantic
phonosemantic
phono-semantic compound
phono-semantic matching
polysemantic
presemantic
psychosemantic
quasisemantic
semanteme
semantically
semantic analysis
semantic bleaching
semantic borrowing
semantic calque
semantic change
semantic differentiation
semantic drift
semantic field
semantician
semanticism
semanticist
semanticity
semanticization
semanticize
semantic layer
semantic loan
semantic memory
semantic net
semantic network
semantic-pragmatic disorder
semantic satiation
semantic shift
semantic tableau
semantic versioning
semantic Web
synsemantic
unsemantic
zoosemantic
Translations:
egged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Containing or bearing eggs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
egging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: eggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of pelting with eggs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “I stand in relation to him something like that of a child to a parent,” Douglass wrote of the owlish man who had stood with him through mobbings and eggings.
gloss: The act of gathering the eggs of wild birds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Plover egging was once a popular tradition.
Derived words: turtle-egging
Translations:
stipulate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
law
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin stipulātus, perfect active participle of stipulor (“to demand a formal promise, stipulate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: stipulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stipulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stipulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stipulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To require (something) as a condition of a contract or agreement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In general, steel springs were stipulated for primary suspension, although rubber was accepted for auxiliary springing; hydraulic dampers were specified and the use of laminated springs ruled out.
My contract stipulated that I would make dinner for him at six o'clock and leave at seven after finishing the dishes; but the Professor began objecting to this schedule as soon as my son arrived on the scene.
gloss: To specify, promise or guarantee something in an agreement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Out of special love and affection they stipulate that the survivor shall remain in full possession and use the entire temporal estate which they leave behind and none of the heirs shall demand an account or proof or balance so that the survivor may manage the estate in the manner he or she thinks best.
gloss: To acknowledge the truth of; not to challenge.
pos: verb
tags: US
formal
transitive
examples: The defense stipulates that the witness has identified my client.
The parties stipulate that Exhibits 1 through 3 accompanied the initial Verified Complaint and Jury Demand, and that they are displayed in this text in the Exhibits section solely for clarity of the layout.
gloss: To ask for a contractual term.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Although another person cannot stipulate for us, yet in our stipulations we can associate with ourselves another person who stipulates for the same performance, and is called an adstipulator.
gloss: To mutually agree.
pos: verb
tags: formal
intransitive
examples: Parties stipulate to serve discovery and notice discovery depositions no later than 45 days after the opening of discovery, and to respond to discovery within 30 days and take discovery depositions no later than the closing date of discovery.
gloss: Having stipules; that is, having outgrowths borne on either side of the base of the leafstalk.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: exstipulate
Related words: stipulation
Derived words: restipulate
stipulatable
stipulated
stipulative
Translations:
stimulated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stimulated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stimulated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a condition or state of stimulation.
pos: adj
Translations:
rebuy
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English buy
English rebuy
From re- + buy.
Inflected forms:
form: rebuys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rebuying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rebought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rebought
pos: verb
tags: past
form: rebuys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To buy again, especially to buy something previously sold (or pawned)
pos: verb
gloss: A type of poker tournament that allows players to purchase more chips during the course of the tournament.
pos: noun
Translations:
corking
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more corking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most corking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: splendid, enjoyable, bang-up
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: a wonderful all around ballplayer and a corking fine fellow
gloss: The formation of white, cork-like striations on a jalapeño pepper.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
corked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more corked
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most corked
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a container, especially a bottle, closed with a cork.
pos: adj
examples: Once someone discovered a bottle of wine in the sand that was still corked.
gloss: Of (a bottle of) wine, tainted by mould/mold in the cork.
pos: adj
examples: Waiter, this wine is corked. Could you bring us another bottle?
gloss: Blackened by burnt cork.
pos: adj
examples: the corked faces of the outlaws
Related words: cork taint
Derived words: corked bat
corked up
Translations:
stilt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stilte, stulte, from Old English *stilte, *stylte, from Proto-Germanic *stiltijǭ, *staltijǭ, *stultijǭ (“stilt”), from Proto-Germanic *stelt- (“to be stiff”). Akin to Danish stylte, Dutch stelt, German Stelze.
Inflected forms:
form: stilts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stilts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stilting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stilted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stilted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Either of two poles with footrests that allow someone to stand or walk above the ground; used mostly by entertainers.
pos: noun
gloss: A tall pillar or post used to support some structure; often above water.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various wading birds of the genera Himantopus and Cladorhynchus, related to the avocet, that have extremely long legs and long thin bills.
pos: noun
gloss: A crutch.
pos: noun
gloss: The handle of a plough.
pos: noun
examples: He[…]shot MacLaren when between the stilts of his plough,[…]
gloss: to raise on stilts, or as if on stilts
pos: verb
gloss: to apply unnecessary pomp or formality
pos: verb
Derived words: banded stilt
black-necked stilt
black-winged stilt
stiltbird
stilt bug
stilter
stilt grass
stilt house
stiltify
stiltish
stiltlike
stilt palm
stilt plover
stilt root
stilt sandpiper
stiltwalker
stiltwalking
stilty
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ոտնացուպ
roman: otnacʻup
lang: Belarusian
word: хаду́ля
roman: xadúlja
lang: Belarusian
word: ды́ба
roman: dýba
lang: Bengali
word: রণপা
roman: ronpa
lang: Bulgarian
word: коки́ли
roman: kokíli
lang: Catalan
word: xanca
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 高蹺 /高跷
roman: gāoqiāo
lang: Czech
word: chůdy
lang: Danish
word: stylte
lang: Dutch
word: stelt
lang: Estonian
word: kark
lang: Finnish
word: puujalka
lang: French
word: échasse
lang: Galician
word: zanco
lang: Galician
word: chanca
lang: Georgian
word: ოჩოფეხა
roman: očopexa
lang: German
word: Stelze
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κωλόβαθρον
roman: kōlóbathron
lang: Hungarian
word: gólyaláb
lang: Icelandic
word: stulta
lang: Irish
word: cos croise
lang: Italian
word: trampolo
lang: Japanese
word: 竹馬
roman: takeuma
lang: Korean
word: 죽마
roman: jungma
lang: Latin
word: grallae
lang: Macedonian
word: наногалка
roman: nanogalka
lang: Macedonian
word: кокила
roman: kokila
lang: Māori
word: poukoki
lang: Māori
word: poutoti
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stylte
lang: Polish
word: szczudło
lang: Portuguese
word: perna de pau
lang: Romanian
word: piciorong
lang: Romanian
word: catalige
lang: Russian
word: ходу́ля
roman: xodúlja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ходуља
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: гигаља
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: шту̏ла
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: hodulja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gigalja
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: štȕla
lang: Spanish
word: zanco
lang: Swedish
word: stylta
lang: Tagalog
word: kikik
lang: Turkish
word: tahta bacak
lang: Udmurt
word: турикук
roman: turikuk
lang: Ukrainian
word: хі́для
roman: xídlja
lang: Ukrainian
word: хі́длі
roman: xídli
lang: Ukrainian
word: ди́би
roman: dýby
lang: Ukrainian
word: ходу́ля
roman: xodúlja
lang: Vietnamese
word: cà kheo
mockingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mocking
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English mockingly
From mocking + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more mockingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most mockingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Said, written, or done with the intent to mock, or ridicule; with mocking effect.
pos: adv
examples: I remember how mockingly bright the day seemed as I went back on my melancholy pilgrimage to the little house at Woking, how busy the streets and vivid the moving life about me.
It then mockingly says they connect “like-minded Tesla owners with one another, facilitating a vibrant community through shared contact information.”
Translations:
sealing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sek-
Proto-Indo-European *-nóm
Proto-Italic *seknom
Latin signum
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -lum
Latin sigillum
Anglo-Norman seelbor.
Middle English sel
English seal
English -ing
English sealing
From seal (“device”) + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: sealings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Used for closing securely.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Action of the verb to seal in any sense.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
sealed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Closed by a seal (something to prevent leakage).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
gloss: Preventing entrance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a road: having an asphalt or macadamised surface.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Not subclassable; from which one cannot inherit.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: heat-sealed
hermetically sealed
keep one's lips sealed
my lips are sealed
nonsealed
presealed
sealed battery
sealed beam
sealed-beam headlight
sealed bearing
sealed bid
sealed book
sealed cabin
sealed crustless sandwich
sealed earth
sealed indictment
sealed instrument
sealed jar technique
Sealed Knot
sealed off
sealed-off
sealed orders
sealed pattern
sealed porter
sealed record
sealed refrigeration compressor
sealed room
sealed round
sealed second-price auction
sealed server
sealed source
sealed system
sealed unit
sealed verdict
signed, sealed and delivered
tar-sealed
unsealed
Translations:
comedic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek κῶμος (kômos)
Proto-Hellenic *awéidō
Proto-Hellenic *-ā́
Proto-Hellenic *awoidā́
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓οιδή (ăoidḗ)
Ancient Greek ᾠδή (ōidḗ)
Ancient Greek κῶμος (kômos)
Proto-Hellenic *awoidós
Ancient Greek ἀοιδός (aoidós)
Ancient Greek κωμῳδῐ́ᾱ (kōmōidĭ́ā)bor.
Latin cōmoediader.
Middle French comediebor.
Middle English comedie
English comedy
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English comedic
From comedy + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more comedic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most comedic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: comœdic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to comedy.
pos: adj
examples: It was done for comedic purposes
Translations:
leaked
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of a document, etc, produced by a company or organization, intended to be confidential but having been released to the public or the press.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A leaked memo from Downing Street reports that the Prime Minister is planning to call a general election next week.
Translations:
leaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: leakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something leaks.
pos: noun
gloss: That which leaks out.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: […] on rainy nights the audience in the pit held up their umbrellas to screen themselves from the leakings through the roof.
Translations:
laborious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French laborios, from Latin laboriosus. By surface analysis, labor + -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more laborious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most laborious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: labourious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: laborous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: labourous
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Requiring much physical effort; toilsome.
pos: adj
examples: Let us face it, our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
The coal is then transferred to broad-gauge wagons for transport to Dublin. The transhipment is a rather laborious business, the coal being shovelled by hand from one wagon to another.
gloss: Mentally difficult; painstaking.
pos: adj
gloss: Industrious.
pos: adj
examples: All, with united Force, combine to drive / The lazy Drones from the laborious Hive.
Related words: labor
labour
Derived words: laboriosity
laboriously
laboriousness
nonlaborious
ultralaborious
unlaborious
Translations:
bedbound
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bed + bound.
Compound parts: bed
bound
Inflected forms:
form: more bedbound
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bedbound
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to leave one's bed (for any reason, such as illness, injury, or disability).
pos: adj
examples: Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.
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