yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
philately
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First use appears c. 1865. Borrowed from French philatélie, coined by French stamp collector Georges Herpin (in Le Collectionneur de Timbres-poste, Nov. 15, 1864) from Ancient Greek φιλέω (philéō, “I love”) + ἀτέλεια (atéleia), the closest word he could find in Ancient Greek to the concept of “postage stamp”, from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + τέλος (télos, “tax”). This word serves as a reminder of the original function of postage stamps, now often forgotten: the cost of letter-carrying formerly was paid by the recipient; stamps indicated it had been pre-paid by the sender, thus the letters were “carriage-free”.
Inflected forms:
form: philatelies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Stamp collecting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The study of postage stamps, postal routes, postal history, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: aerophilately
air philately
astrophilately
bibliophilately
biophilately
marcophily
paraphilately
philatelic
philatelical
philatelically
philatelics
philatelism
philatelist
prephilately
Translations:
numismatics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French numismatique, from Late Latin numisma, numismatis (“coin”), variant of Latin nomisma, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nómisma, “current coin, custom”), from νομίζω (nomízō, “to hold or own as a custom, usage, to use customarily, practise, to be used to”), from νόμος (nómos, “usage, custom”), from νέμω (némō, “to keep, hold, watch”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of coins, tokens, medals and paper money.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The study of coins.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The collecting of coins, tokens, medals and paper money.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: What! Mr. Joolby, the eminent authority on Greek numismatics? To be sure we've met.
gloss: The collecting of coins.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: exonumia
numismatist
numismatography
numismatologist
numismatology
paranumismatica
Derived words: numismatic
numismatical
numismatician
Translations:
numismatist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English numismatics
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 numismatist
From numismatics + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: numismatists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who studies and/or collects coins and/or currencies.
pos: noun
examples: In comments to Hyperallergic, ancient historian and classical numismatist Liv Yarrow noted the absence of SPQR coins during the period of the Republic and its later use as a means of justifying autocracy while harkening back to an earlier age:
With seasoned numismatists eager to fill gaps in their collections, prices are already rising.
Translations:
katakana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 片(かた)仮(か)名(な) (katakana).
Inflected forms:
form: katakana
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: katakanas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: katagana
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese syllabary used when writing words borrowed from foreign languages other than Chinese, specific names of plants and animals and other jargon, onomatopoeia, or to emphasize a word or phrase. Also used to write the Ainu language.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A character thereof.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: hentaigana
hiragana
man'yōgana
Translations:
Kongo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more Kongo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Kongo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Of or related to the Kongo languages or Kikongo-speaking peoples
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: In addition, an initial analysis of Kongo cosmology, cosmogony, and mythology allows us to see and appreciate the conceptual parallels between Kongo culture in Central Africa and in Cuba.
Translations:
outstanding
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From outstand, equivalent to out- + standing or outstand + -ing.
Base: standing
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: more outstanding
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most outstanding
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Prominent or noticeable; sovereign.
pos: adj
gloss: Exceptionally good; distinguished from others by its superiority.
pos: adj
examples: Charles S. Peirce, 1839 to 1914, was one of America's most outstanding intellects. Philosopher, mathematician, and scientist, he wrote profusely, the equivalent of almost 100,000 printed pages in all.
The Gunners captain demonstrated his importance to the team by taking his tally to an outstanding 28 goals in 27 Premier League games as Chelsea slumped again after their shock defeat at QPR last week.
gloss: Projecting outwards.
pos: adj
examples: At a distance of about seven or eight miles to the northeastward of the landing, there is an outstanding group of mountains crowning a spur from the main chain of the Coast Range, whose highest point rises about eight thousand feet above the level of the sea;...
gloss: Unresolved; not settled or finished.
pos: adj
examples: I have several outstanding tasks on my to-do list.
Are there any outstanding issues that need to be addressed?
gloss: Owed as a debt.
pos: adj
examples: You must pay any outstanding corporate card balance immediately.
The distribution of the capital shall in the case of each loan be based on the capital amount outstanding at the date of the coming into force of the present Treaty.
I kept account of every farthing I spent, and my expenses were carefully calculated. Every little item such as omnibus fares or postage or a couple of coppers spent on newspapers, would be entered, and the balance struck every evening before going to bed. That habit has stayed with me ever since, and I know that as a result, though I have had to handle public funds amounting to lakhs, I have succeeded in exercising strict economy in their disbursement, and instead of outstanding debts have had invariably a surplus balance in respect of all the movements I have led. Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.
Related words: stand out
stand-out
Derived words: days sales outstanding
outstandingly
outstandingness
Translations:
Lombard
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English Lombard, Lumbard, borrowed from Old French Lombard, Lombart (“a Lombard”), from Late Latin langobardus, longobardus (“a Lombard”), from Germanic, derived from the Proto-Germanic *langabardaz from elements *langaz + *bardaz; equivalent to long + beard. Some sources derive the second element instead from Proto-Germanic *bardǭ, *barduz (“axe”), related to German Barte (“axe”). Doublet of Langobard and longbeard. Compare with Old English Langbeardas (“Lombards”).
Inflected forms:
form: Lombards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Lumbard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Lumbar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lombard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more Lombard
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Lombard
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Lumbard
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Lumbar
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lombard
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a Germanic people who invaded Italy in the 6th century.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Lombardy, Italy.
pos: noun
gloss: A banker or moneylender.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: A Lombard house.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: a Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns
gloss: A kind of Spanish cannon of the 16th century.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Of, from or relating to Lombardy, Italy.
pos: adj
Translations:
panoramic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Etymology: Etymology tree
English panorama
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English panoramic
From panorama + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more panoramic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most panoramic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: panoramics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a panorama; with a wide view.
pos: adj
gloss: A panoramic image.
pos: noun
examples: Scenic panoramics were not the best sellers. All commercial panoramic photographers specialized in pictures of large groups.
Translations:
Malay
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Malay Melayuder.
English Malay
From Malay Melayu, from Malayu, a kingdom on Sumatra's eastern coast (today's Jambi), mentioned by the Chinese Monk Yijing as 末羅瑜國 and during the Yuan (1271–1368) and Ming (1368–1644) dynasties as 木剌由, 麻里予兒, 巫來由 and 無來由. First attested in English as 1598.
Exonymous derivation from Malayalam മല (mala, “mountain”) has not been demonstrated.
Inflected forms:
form: Malays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Malays, a people living in Brunei and coastal regions of Borneo including Kalimantan in Indonesia, on the eastern coast of Sumatra, the islands of Bangka and Belitung, the Riau archipelago, in most of the Malay Peninsula including the southernmost provinces of Thailand, states of West Malaysia (where they are politically dominant in the federation), and in Singapore.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: There were not many passengers, and the journey was uneventful until the frontier was reached at Padang Besar, although an armed escort of Malay police accompanied the train from Alor Star.
“I heard the Malay fellas talking at the office.”
gloss: In, of or otherwise relating to the languages spoken by Malays.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A person of Malay ancestry, referring to a diverse group of Austronesian peoples inhabiting the Malay archipelago and Malay peninsula in Southeast Asia.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Type of mild curry made with yoghurt and fruit, usually pineapple or lychee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She ordered chicken Malay with rice.
Translations:
magnificent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English magnificent, from Middle French magnificent, from Latin magnificentior, comparative of magnificus (“great in deeds or sentiment, noble, splendid, etc.”), from magnus (“great”) + -ficēns, a form of -ficiēns, the regular form, in compounds, of faciēns, a participle of facere (“to do”).
Inflected forms:
form: more magnificent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most magnificent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Grand, elegant or splendid in appearance.
pos: adj
examples: “Do I fidget you ?” he asked apologetically, whilst his long bony fingers buried themselves, string, knots, and all, into the capacious pockets of his magnificent tweed ulster.
Armstrong: "Isn't that something! Magnificent sight out here."
Aldrin: "Magnificent desolation."
gloss: Grand or noble in action.
pos: adj
gloss: Exceptional for its kind.
pos: adj
examples: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
Substitute Edin Dzeko scrambled in a fourth and the magnificent David Silva ran clear to add another, before the Bosnian striker inflicted the final wound seconds from the end.
Related words: magnificence
beneficent
maleficent
munificent
omnificent
Derived words: magnificent bird of paradise
magnificent frigate bird
magnificent frigatebird
magnificent seven
magnificently
magnificentness
supermagnificent
Translations:
readable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English read
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English readable
From read + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more readable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: readabler
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
rare
form: most readable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: readablest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
rare
superlative
Senses:
gloss: Legible, possible to read or at least decipher.
pos: adj
examples: If that sign were still readable we'd know where we are!
gloss: Which can be read—i.e. accessed or played—by a certain technical type of device.
pos: adj
examples: No sale, those aren't readable with my DVD-player!
gloss: Enjoyable to read, of an acceptable stylistic quality or at least functionally composed.
pos: adj
examples: These assembly instructions aren't readable, I still don't have a clue how to start!
I have been twice at the Museum looking out for Friedrich Books,—that I might examine them a little, and see whether they were worth buying. […] I have got a rather curious new German Book upon Naples and Masaniello (chiefly) whh often made me remember you. To one who knows the streets edifices &c the thing may be readabler: I mean to send it you to Scotsbg the day after tomorrow, along with my Mother’s Magazine.
Your August Potentiality will not fail to observe that those spiritual adumbrations are not evanescent or fugaceous, a latrocinous cheat, repugnant to common-sense and an insult to the most parvanimous of human intelligences, but tangible entities, altogether stationary, and as visible to every eye as the readablest of printed work.
With this brief preamble I can, without being more than usually misunderstood, proceed to my duty of reviewing the readablest and quite the maddest book produced by the war: namely, The Prussian Hath Said in His Heart, by Cecil Chesterton, who says very truly that it is what a man says in his heart that matters, and not what he says in Hyde Park.
After his childhood, which is the readablest part of even the worst autobiography, his attempts to escape from his subject are pitiable.
So far as cartoons are concerned these days, nothing—not even sewage works—is sacred, and everything is thereby readabler and believabler.
This is a masterly work of condensation, omitting nothing of importance and providing a most readable book that for a modest half-crown is incredibly good value.
A god's blue fire gone, the man is left like a page in the grate, apparently unchanged. Ash-gray, granted, and somewhat curled at the edge, but readable. Readable, he thinks. Until the passage—cat's paw?—backwash?—up the chimney?—whump-whump, rotorblades of a distant hummingbird, let's say: then all at once, old cobweb upwhipped, the words vanish.
Antonyms: unreadable
illegible
Derived words: lawyer-readable
nonreadable
readability
readableness
readably
Translations:
invent
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English inventen, borrowed from Old French inventer, from Latin inventus, perfect passive participle of inveniō (“come upon, meet with, find, discover”), from in (“in, on”) + veniō (“come”); see venture. Compare advent, covent, event, prevent, etc.
Displaced native Old English āþenċan (literally “to think out”).
Inflected forms:
form: invents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inventing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: invented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: invented
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: invent
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: invent
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: invented
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: invent
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: inventest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: invented
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: inventedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: invents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inventeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: invented
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: invent
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: invented
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: invent
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: invented
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: invent
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: inventing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: invented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To design a new process or mechanism.
pos: verb
examples: After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war
gloss: To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
pos: verb
examples: I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
gloss: To come upon; to find; to discover.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].
Synonyms: fangle
Related words: invented
invention
inventive
inventor
inventory
reinvent
discover
Derived words: coinvent
disinvent
innovent
inventable
inventful
inventible
not invented here
outinvent
uninvent
why God invented
Translations:
vary
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English varien, from Old French varier, from Latin variō (“to change, alter, make different”), from varius (“different, various”); see various.
Inflected forms:
form: varies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: varying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: varied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: varied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To change with time or a similar parameter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He varies his magic tricks so as to minimize the possibility that any given audience member will see the same trick twice.
We are to vary the customs according to the time and country where the scene of action lies.
gloss: To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You should vary your diet. Eating just bread will do you harm in the end.
a. 1687, Edmund Waller, to Phyllis
Gods, that never change their state, / Vary oft their love and hate.
gloss: Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His mood varies by the hour.
The sine function varies between −1 and 1.
[F]ear and anger, vvith alternate Grace, / Pant in her Breaſt, and vary in her Face!
gloss: To display differences.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The sprouting tendency of potatoes varies between cultivars, years and places of growing.
In the new layout, it is proposed to provide three island platforms with six platform faces varying from 1,075 to 1,290 ft. in length and including bays.
gloss: To be or act different from the usual.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I'm not comfortable with 3.Nc3 in the Caro-Kann, so I decided to vary and play exd5.
gloss: To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversify; to variegate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: God hath[…] varied their inclinations.
God hath here / Varied his bounty so with new delights.
gloss: To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key, measure, etc. See variation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: the rich jewel which we vary for
Synonyms: change
Derived words: ever-varying
time-varying
varisome
varisyllabic
varying hare
your mileage may vary
Translations:
variable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
transport
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English in the 14th century from Old French variable, from Latin variare (“to change”), from varius (“different, various”). Equates to English vary + -able.
Base: vary
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more variable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most variable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: variables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Able to vary or be varied.
pos: adj
examples: variable winds or seasons; a variable quantity; a variable resistor
gloss: Likely to vary.
pos: adj
examples: Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.
gloss: Marked by diversity or difference.
pos: adj
gloss: Having no fixed quantitative value.
pos: adj
gloss: Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.
pos: adj
gloss: Something that is variable.
pos: noun
gloss: Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.
pos: noun
examples: There are several variables to consider here.
Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.
gloss: A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.
pos: noun
gloss: A symbol representing a variable.
pos: noun
gloss: A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.
pos: noun
gloss: A variable star.
pos: noun
gloss: A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.
pos: noun
gloss: Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Synonyms: capricious
changeful
fickle
fitful
flexible
fluctuating
fluid
iffy
inconstant
irregular
mercurial
mobile
mutable
protean
shifting
shifty
slippery
spasmodic
temperamental
ticklish
uncertain
unequable
unsettled
unstable
unsteady
vacillating
volatile
waffling
wavering
yo-yo
variable
Related words: variable star
argument
variate
unsteady
Derived words: continuous variable valve timing
controlled variable time
multivariable
variability
variabilize
variable antshrike
variable binding
variable cam timing
variable cost
variable font
variable geometry
variable-length array
variable neon slug
variableness
variable squirrel
variable sweep
variable tandem repeat locus
variable valve timing
Hubble-Sandage variable
microvariable
variably
Translations:
candelabrum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin candēlābrum (“candlestick”), from candēla. Doublet of chandelier. Displaced native Old English candeltrēow (literally “candle tree”).
Inflected forms:
form: candelabra
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: candelabrums
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: A candle holder with branches to hold more than one candle.
pos: noun
examples: The chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, / Glowed on the marble, where the glass […] Doubled the flames of sevenbranched candelabra / Reflecting light upon the table as / The glitter of her jewels rose to meet it, […]
Cyby followed us holding up his candelabrum—I suppose more for his benefit than mine, but it permitted me to see well enough to keep from colliding with the dark oak shelves we passed.
Translations:
drought
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English droughte, droghte, drouȝte, from Old English drūgaþ. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde. By surface analysis, dry + -t (abstract nominal suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: droughts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: drouth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: druft
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Northern-England
Senses:
gloss: A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His village had faced a drought twice.
The weather looked like drought―a thoroughly wicked drought; if the rain did not come before long, their crops would be burnt up.
Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.
gloss: A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Sri Lanka ended their ten-game drought with a consolation win over Bangladesh.
Kane had been going through something of a drought by his own standards. His previous England goal came 500 days ago, in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Kosovo, and his header in Tirana ended a run of 496 minutes without scoring.
gloss: dryness, aridness, dry heat
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
The consequences are, that a few days of severe drought, in the early parts of summer, or even when the grain is ripening, is sometimes fatal to the crop on moss.
The seasons most unfavourable to the crop are those of excessive drought or excessive rain.
Derived words: absolute drought
antidrought
droughted
droughting
droughtless
droughtproof
drought-tolerant
droughty
flash drought
megadrought
Palmer drought index
predrought
Translations:
Manx
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Altered from Maniske, from assumed Old Norse *manskr, an adjectival form of Mǫn (“Isle of Man”), from Old Irish Mana; compare with Norwegian Bokmål mansk.
Inflected forms:
form: more Manx
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Manx
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Manks
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Manx
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Manxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Manks
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the Isle of Man or its Celto-Germanic people.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to the Manx language (also known as Manx Gaelic), a Gaelic language of the Goidelic family.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to the Manx cat breed.
pos: adj
gloss: A member or descendant of the Celto-Germanic people of the Isle of Man; a Manxman or Manxwoman.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: the Manx; Manx people.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
in-plural
uncountable
gloss: A breed of domestic cat native to the Isle of Man, principally characterized by suppression of the tail, and with a short-haired coat and rounded, cobby body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: With a truncated or missing tail.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: At the rear there is a cut-off Manx tail, similar to those of the early Cooper sports cars, and as currently used by Feirari.
The Manx Rat: This tailless rat variety is usually smaller than the standard rat with front legs that are shorter than its hind legs.
gloss: A cat of the Manx breed; a Manx cat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: Anglo-Manx
Manx English
Manxie
Manxman
Manxness
Manxwoman
Translations:
Maya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish maya, from Yucatec Maya mayab (“flat”) or Yucatec Maya maaya, a self-designation of the northern Maya for themselves, in the form maya’ found in compounds and phrases e.g. maya’ wíinik (“Maya man”).
Inflected forms:
form: Mayas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Maya
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member or descendant of various peoples:
pos: noun
gloss: A member or descendant of various peoples:
pos: noun
gloss: A member or descendant of various peoples:
pos: noun
gloss: A member or descendant of various peoples:
pos: noun
Translations:
pidgin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From pidgin English, from a Chinese Pidgin English pronunciation of English business during trade in the Far East. All attestations of pidgin from the first half of the nineteenth century given in the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary mean “business; an action, occupation, or affair” (the earliest being from 1807). Other suggested derivations include:
* Hebrew פִּדְיוֹן (pidyón, “exchange; trade; redemption”)
* Chinese pronunciation of Portuguese ocupação (“occupation; business”)
* South Seas pronunciation of beach
* Portuguese baixo (“low”)
Inflected forms:
form: pidgins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An amalgamation of two disparate languages, used by two populations having no common language as a lingua franca to communicate with each other, lacking formalized grammar and having a small, utilitarian vocabulary and no native speakers. The speech is slow and supported by mime and gesture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: ‘I didnʼt know you can speak pidgin,’ he said and laughed.
gloss: A person's business, occupation, work, or trade (also spelt as pigeon).
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
idiomatic
uncountable
examples: Forget money. That's my pidgin.
It's up to the detective sergeant to ask his own questions, that's not my pidgin. But I did wonder if either of you gentlemen had an idea of the exact time of the shot.
Related words: pidgin English
creole
Creole
Derived words: Chinese pidgin English
expanded pidgin
Melanesian Pidgin English
New South Wales Pidgin English
NSW Pidgin English
pidginisation
pidginization
pidginise
pidginize
pidginist
pidginogenic
Pijin
Port Jackson Pidgin
prepidgin
Queensland Pidgin English
Tok Pisin
West African Pidgin Portuguese
Translations:
heretic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English heretyk, heretike, from Old French eretique, from Medieval Latin or Ecclesiastical Latin haereticus, from Ancient Greek αἱρετικός (hairetikós, “able to choose, factious”), itself from Ancient Greek αἱρέω (hairéō, “to choose”).
Inflected forms:
form: heretics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hæretic
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: heretike
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: hæretick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: heretick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Someone whose beliefs are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.
pos: noun
examples: He semeth a sysmatyke
Or els an heretike,
For fayth in hym is faynte.
In the framework of traditional medical ethics, the patient deserves humane attention only insofar as he is potentially healthy and is willing to be healthy—just as in the framework of traditional Christian ethics, the heretic deserved humane attention only insofar as he was potentially a true believer and was willing to become one.
gloss: Someone who does not conform to generally accepted beliefs or practices.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Synonyms: dissident
nonconformist
sectarian
separatist
withersake
Derived words: antiheretic
arch-heretic
arch-heretical
hereticaster
hereticide
hereticize
Translations:
carillon
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
French carillonbor.
English carillon
Borrowed from French carillon.
Inflected forms:
form: carillons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carillons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carilloning
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: carillonning
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: carilloned
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: carilloned
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: carillonned
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: carillonned
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A set of bells, often in a bell tower, sometimes operated by means of a keyboard (manual or pedal), originating from the Low Countries.
pos: noun
gloss: A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.
pos: noun
gloss: To play a carillon.
pos: verb
gloss: To ring out like a carillon.
pos: verb
examples: High carilloned Anne's laughter.
Related words: chimes
glockenspiel
Derived words: carillonic
carillonist
carillonistic
carillonneur
Translations:
Mohican
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From their self-designation in Mahican [Term?] (literally “people of the estuary”).
Inflected forms:
form: Mohicans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of this tribe; a Mohican.
pos: noun
gloss: A Mohegan.
pos: noun
gloss: A hairstyle where both sides are shaved, with the hair in the centre kept long and made to stand on end.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
UK
Translations:
heretical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French eretical and from Medieval Latin haereticālis, from haereticus, equivalent to heretic + -al. See heretic.
Base: heretic
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more heretical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most heretical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hæretical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.
pos: adj
examples: At least as Auxentius reports him in the covering letter which precedes Ulfila’s confession, he is as vehement in his opposition to what he sees as heretical alternatives to his own form of belief as most other participants in the controversies of the time. Heretics are not Christians but antichrists. Homoousians, Homoiousians, and Macedonians are all included in this blanket condemnation.
gloss: Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.
pos: adj
Related words: heresy
heretic
heterodox
heterodoxy
Derived words: antiheretical
arch-heretical
heretically
hereticalness
nonheretical
unheretical
Translations:
unorthodox
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English orthodox
English unorthodox
From un- + orthodox.
Inflected forms:
form: more unorthodox
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unorthodox
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unusual, unconventional, or idiosyncratic.
pos: adj
examples: The breakthrough came after 63 minutes as United’s unorthodox defence desperately tried to hold off a spell of sustained pressure.
A driving teacher in China is using an unorthodox method to get his students to drive with more care. He calls it the “fatal blow” method. Basically, students have to manoeuvre the car with skill or risk crushing their smartphones... or those of their classmates.
Antonyms: conventional
expected
halal
kosher
orthodox
regular
standard
Translations:
orthodox
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Late Middle English orthodoxe, from Middle French orthodoxe and its etymon Late Latin orthodoxus, from Ancient Greek ὀρθόδοξος (orthódoxos), from ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).
Inflected forms:
form: more orthodox
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orthodox
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.
pos: adj
examples: Five important modifications were made by the Pietists to the orthodox doctrine of justification, each corresponding to a distinctive aspect of the movement's agenda.
‘These speakers are academics who have specialised in Islamic sciences and are well respected in scholarly circles. It is grossly unjust to suggest that they belong to some fringe ideology rather than orthodox Islam.’
gloss: Adhering to whatever is customary, traditional, or generally accepted.
pos: adj
examples: She tattled on: first to one, then to the other—then to all, till she had tattled herself out of breath;—and then the orthodox half hour had expired, and the bell was rung, and the carriage ordered, and Mrs. Hare rose to depart.
Not only the quack cures of the past but also many forms of treatment given with the best will and intentions in the world by the best and most orthodox doctors of the time seem strange to us today.
gloss: Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
pos: adj
gloss: Of a branch of Judaism.
pos: adj
gloss: Of pollen, seed, or spores: viable for a long time; viable when dried to low moisture content.
pos: adj
Synonyms: halal
homodox
kosher
orthodox
by the book
allowed
conventional
customary
natural
official
proper
routine
traditional
Antonyms: liberal
outlandish
unconventional
unorthodox
Related words: Eastern Orthodox
Greek Orthodox
left arm orthodox
Neo-orthodox
Orthodoxan
orthodox spin
orthodox spinner
orthodoxy
Orthodoxy
paleo-orthodox
Russian Orthodox Church
Serbian Orthodox Church
expected
Derived words: antiorthodox
counterorthodox
hyperorthodox
orthodoxal
orthodox file manager
orthodoxic
orthodoxise
orthodoxize
orthodoxism
orthodoxist
orthodoxization
orthodoxly
orthodoxness
protoorthodox
Translations:
convention
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Recorded since about 1440, borrowed from Middle French convention, from Latin conventiō (“meeting, assembling; agreement, convention”), from conveniō (“come, gather or meet together, assemble”), from con- (“with, together”) + veniō (“come”). Equivalent to convene + -tion.
Base: convene
Affixes: -tion
Inflected forms:
form: conventions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A meeting or gathering.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The convention was held in Geneva.
The CEF and the legal advocacy groups that have been responsible for its tremendous success over the past ten years are determined to "Knock down all doors, all the barriers, to all 65,000 public elementary schools in America and take the Gospel to this open mission field now! Not later, now!" in the words of a keynote speaker at the CEF's national convention in 2010.
gloss: A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution.
gloss: The convening of a formal meeting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A formal agreement, contract, rule, or pact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A treaty or supplement to such.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations.
gloss: A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention, not binding formal protocol.
The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.
In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
 placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention, taken to be
 optional.)
Related words: convene
convener
convenient
convent
conventicle
coven
covin
Derived words: brokered convention
concom
congoing
conreport
conventional
conventionalize
conventionary
convention bump
convention centre
convention center
conventioneer
conventioneering
conventioner
convention-goer
conventiongoer
conventionism
conventionist
convention state
counterconvention
day count convention
miniconvention
naming convention
national convention
nonconvention
open convention
postconvention
preconvention
proconvention
reconvention
stfcon
teleconvention
Translations:
carte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French carte, from Latin charta. Doublet of card and chart.
Inflected forms:
form: cartes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bill of fare; a menu.
pos: noun
gloss: A visiting card.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: "He only says she is Laura Somerset, and he sends me her carte; here it is." Now this was in the early days of cartes, and the soft ivory finish and delicate tinting of the cartes that now are taken, were unknown.
gloss: A carte de visite (small collectible photograph of a famous person).
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Celebrity cartes, and photographic portraits more generally, were valued in Victorian culture for their much-lauded ability to render the sitter as he or she really was.
gloss: A playing card.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
dated
examples: We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.
He had been to the supper of the Forest Club at the Cross Keys in Gledsmuir, a clamjamphry of wild young blades who passed the wine and played at cartes once a fortnight.
Translations:
perambulator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Italic *peri-
Latin per-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
Proto-Italic *amβi
Latin ambi-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *alō
Latin *alō
Latin ambulō
Latin perambulō
Latin perambulātusbor.
English perambulate
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Italic *-tōr
Latin -tor
Latin -ātor
Old French -eorbor.
Middle English -our
▲
Latin -torlbor.
English -or
English perambulator
From perambulate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: perambulators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A baby carriage.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
dated
examples: The reapers were slowly trooping back to their work. The nurse-girl slapped one of her charges and then began to push the perambulator up the hill.
"That will be all this afternoon," he said to the nurse, who got up with the baby and decanted it into a perambulator which was standing in the fairway.
On Queen Victoria buying numerous perambulators in 1846, their popularity soared, especially among the affluent in society. Faced with carrying growing numbers of them, railways began charging separately for their carriage from the late 1850s. […] Perambulator tickets remained until the late 20th century, although they came to be seen as a restriction on family travel.
gloss: One who perambulates.
pos: noun
gloss: A surveyor's instrument for measuring distances, consisting of a wheel that rolls over the ground, along with a clockwork apparatus and a dial plate upon which the distance travelled is shown by an index.
pos: noun
Related words: perambulate
perambulation
perambulatory
Translations:
chap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of chapman (“dealer, customer”) in 16th-century English.
Inflected forms:
form: chaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A man, a fellow.
pos: noun
examples: Who’s that chap over there?
“Now when I was a little chap I had a passion for maps.”
A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
gloss: A customer, a buyer.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
examples: If you have Blacks of any kind, brought in of late; Mantoes--Velvet Scarfs--Petticoats--Let it be what it will--I am your Chap--for all my Ladies are very fond of Mourning.
gloss: A child.
pos: noun
tags: Southern-US
gloss: Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Then would unbalanced heat licentious reign, / Crack the dry hill, and chap the russet plain.
whose fair face neither the summer's blaze can scorch nor winter's blast chap.
gloss: To strike, knock.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: And then it seems that through the open door there came the chapping of a clock.
The door was shut into my class. I had to chap it and then Miss Rankine came and opened it and gived me an angry look […]
Derived words: chapess
chapette
chap-hop
chappie
chappish
Chappism
Chappist
chappo
old chap
chap someone's hide
chapped
chapstick
chapt
Translations:
craic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of crack, respelled after Irish craic (itself a borrowing from English).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Often preceded by the: amusement, fun, especially through enjoyable company; also, pleasant conversation.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
uncountable
examples: ‘It is a great atmosphere, isn’t it?’ Leon was enthusiastic, not at all cryptic or withdrawn, wholeheartedly enjoying the ‘craic’, as he called it, slapping his hand on the table in time to the bodhrán rhythm from the group singing itself hoarse and unharmonious on the stage.
"The craic" is how the Irish celebrate life – with music, with laughter, with joy, with old friends (and new friends just waiting to be made). […] Be careful. "The craic" is mighty!
Most Irish people, you see, when asked to name their preferred aspect of living in Ireland, will instance "the crack". "The crack", which is sometimes annoyingly conveyed in the Irish-language spelling "craic", is a quintessentially Irish indicator of what in other cultures translates roughly as "fun" – except that the crack is much more than fun.
[Brendan] Kennelly has been sober for 21 years, but couldn't resist popping into some of the city's myriad Irish pubs. He nursed bottled water and listened to the accents, the stories, the craic.
"Sure, it will be a bit of craic," said Beth, "when's the last time a fortune teller came anywhere near here?"
Translations:
giddyup
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From get up or get ye/thee up.
Inflected forms:
form: giddy-up
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: giddy up
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: gedup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: geddup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: giddap
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: giddup
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: giddyap
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: giddyups
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: giddyuping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: giddyupping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: giddyuped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: giddyuped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: giddyupped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: giddyupped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: giddy-up
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: giddy up
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: gedup
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: geddup
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: giddap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: giddup
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: giddyap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Move on!, go faster!
pos: intj
gloss: To cause a horse or similar mount to speed up.
pos: verb
examples: If I could rule the world, everyone would have a gun / In the ghetto, of course, when giddy-upping on their horse
Not expecting any traffic, he giddyuped them onto the main road.
gloss: To start moving or move faster; to get a move on.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
examples: But she just kept bopping up and down and telling me to giddyup, so that I had to turn and make my way properly on the stairs for fear of her pulling us both over.
“Yeah, been partying since I was fourteen, never thought I'd wind-up in a place like this,” I sat there for a moment in quiet reflection, “been high most of my life . . . on one thing or another . . . guess it's time I giddyuped and got going on this clean up my act thing, I've hit the break point . . . gotta' do something . . . do something or it's going to kill me."
Antonyms: whoa
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: arrear
lang: Spanish
word: harrear