yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
trigon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astrology
biology
entertainment
geometry
human-sciences
lifestyle
mathematics
music
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
zoology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρίγωνον (trígōnon, “triangle”), neuter substantive of τρίγωνος (trígōnos, “three-sided”), from τρεῖς (treîs, “three”) + γωνία (gōnía, “bend, angle”). Equivalent to tri- + -gon. Doublet of trigone and trigonon.
Base: tri
Inflected forms:
form: trigons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A triangle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
gloss: An ancient triangular harp of Oriental origin which had four strings and was often used for banquet music. Also called sabbeka, sackbut, sambuca.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
gloss: A division consisting of three star signs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The Cancer trigon is composed of Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces
gloss: A trine; an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In the horoscope of Christ's nativity.[…]Whether a trigon or no, this tetragon I am sure there was.
gloss: An old ball game played by three people standing in a triangular formation. (See Wikipedia's entry for the game)
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
gloss: The cusp (cutting region) of the crown of an upper molar, usually the anterior part.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: triangle
trigonal
trigone
trigonid
trigonometry
trigonon
Derived words: trigonic
Translations:
poly
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
roguelikes
sciences
video-games
Etymology: Shortening of various words.
Inflected forms:
form: polys
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: polying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: polyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: polyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A polytechnic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: Polyethylene (polythene).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Polyurethane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A polygon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The most common poly budget in use for games at the time of this writing is between 5,000 and 10,000 tris.
gloss: Polyester.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: a cotton-poly blend
gloss: Polyamory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A polyamorous person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: A polycule.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: Polyamorous.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: Whether the family is poly, L.G.B.T.Q. or another minority, such as a religious one, coming out is very much a personal decision.
gloss: To polymorph; to transform by magic.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
cacao
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl. Doublet of cocoa.
Inflected forms:
form: cacaos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tree, Theobroma cacao, whose seed is used to make chocolate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The seed of this tree, the cocoa bean.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Cocoa (hot drink).
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
examples: Therefore they left Port à Paix just as the first streaks of gray were appearing in the east, depending on a good hot cup of cacao and a couple of bananas to nourish them sufficiently until they could enjoy the breakfast that Dave would prepare for them at the end of their morning’s share of the day’s trip. […] “Doctor, we always say ‘cocoa’ in the north, but you and all these people where it grows say ‘cacao,’ I notice. How is that?” asked Hal. / “There are four very distinct vegetable growths that have names so much alike that they are constantly mixed in the minds of those who are not botanists or do not know them in nature,” the Doctor began. “These are: Cacao berries, Coca leaves, Coco roots, and Cocoa nuts.[…]”
Cacao was copiously used at their feasts, being colored with the red seeds of the achiote, or arnotto (Bixa orellana Linnæus), so that it resembled blood. At the festivals an intoxicating beer of corn was also copiously used and the rolled leaves of tobacco were smoked. […] And the Indians, both men and women, continued to drink the above-mentioned beverage, going and coming with it, and in the course of this drinking there were brought large cups of cacao prepared as they are accustomed to drink it.
“I wouldn’t mind something to drink,” Niko Daun said clearly. “You say you’ve got local cacao?” […] He set down the mug of cacao from which he’d been sipping with evident approval.
Related words: cocoa
crème de cacao
Derived words: cacaine
cacao butter
Cacao yellow mosaic virus
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: كَاكَاو
roman: kākāw
lang: Central Bikol
word: kakaw
lang: Bulgarian
word: кака́о
roman: kakáo
lang: Catalan
word: cacau
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 可可豆
roman: kěkědòu
lang: Czech
word: kakaový bob
lang: Danish
word: kakaobønne
lang: Dutch
word: cacaoboon
lang: Esperanto
word: kakao
lang: Finnish
word: kaakaopapu
lang: French
word: fève de cacao
lang: Galician
word: cacao
lang: German
word: Kakao
lang: Greek
word: κακάο
roman: kakáo
lang: Hungarian
word: kakaóbab
lang: Irish
word: síol cócó
lang: Italian
word: cacao
lang: Japanese
word: カカオ
roman: kakao
lang: Kannada
word: ಕೋಕೋ
roman: kōkō
lang: Korean
word: 카카오
roman: kakao
lang: Central Kurdish
word: کاکاو
roman: kakaw
lang: Lithuanian
word: kakava
lang: Classical Nahuatl
word: cacahuatl
lang: Polish
word: kakao
lang: Portuguese
word: cacau
lang: Romanian
word: cacao
lang: Russian
word: кака́о
roman: kakáo
lang: Slovak
word: kakao
lang: Spanish
word: cacao
lang: Swedish
word: kakao
lang: Swedish
word: kakaoböna
lang: Turkish
word: kakao
lang: Turkish
word: Hint bademi
lang: Vietnamese
word: cacao
lang: Vietnamese
word: ca-cao
lang: Welsh
word: ffa cacao
castello
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian castellobor.
English castello
Borrowed from Italian castello.
Inflected forms:
form: castellos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: castelli
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A municipality of San Marino.
pos: noun
examples: The bus wound its way up into San Marino, passing through the various small castellos that add up to form the diminutive country, […]
Translations:
jolly
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English joli, jolif (“merry, cheerful”), from Old French joli, jolif (“merry, joyful”). For the loss of final -f in English, compare tardy, hasty, hussy, etc.
It is uncertain whether the Old French word is from Old Norse jól ("a midwinter feast, Yule", hence "fest-ive"), in which case, equivalent to yule + -ive, compare Dutch jolig (“happy, festive, frolicsome, jolly”), West Frisian joelich, joalich (“merry, jolly”), Middle High German jœlich (“hooting, jubilant”). Alternatively, the Old French adjective has been conjectured to derive from a Vulgar Latin *gaudivus (from Latin gaudeō, more at joy), in which case it would require Early Old French ⟨d⟩ /ð/ to irregularly become ⟨l⟩ in jolif rather than being dropped, which is the usual case (alternatively, /l/ may be a hiatus filler inserted into expected *joïf). A possible parallel of ⟨d⟩ to ⟨l⟩ can be seen in the French name Valois, according to one hypothesis from Latin Vadensis, though this origin is itself uncertain and disputed.
Base: yule
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: jollier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jolliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: jollies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jollying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jollied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jollied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Full of merriment and high spirits; jovial; joyous; merry.
pos: adj
examples: "Full jolly Knight he seemed […] full large of limb and every joint / He was, and cared not for God or man a point."
"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! / But something ails it now: the spot is curst. ..."
[…] he is swelled into jolly dimensions by frequent potations of malt liquors […]
gloss: Splendid, excellent, pleasant.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
dated
examples: Jo silently notices how white and small her hand is and what a jolly servant she must be to wear such sparkling rings.
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: informal
gloss: To amuse or divert.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To praise or talk up.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
informal
transitive
examples: I do not believe in 'jollying' and 'soft soaping' a man when his work is really bad.
Derived words: jollification
jolliment
jolliness
jollisome
Jolly Nose
jollytail
unjolly
Translations:
fiat
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin fīat (“let it be done”).
Inflected forms:
form: fiats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fiats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fiated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An arbitrary or authoritative command or order to do something; an effectual decree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A royal fiat.
A presidential fiat.
The reflection that the fate of a fellow-creature depended on his sole fiat, would naturally inspire scrupulousness and caution; [...]
Beatrice raised her head: she looked at me as if on my words hung the fiat of life or death, fear and earnestness dilating her dark eyes—for an unconfessed hope had arisen within her.
It must be an absolute fiat - something of the nature of a Mystery or of Religion or Magic - and not to be disputed.
The increases from December 4 in the prices of table d'hôte meals in British Railways restaurant cars were expected, in view both of a general upward trend in meal prices in the catering trade and of the fiat that train meals must pay for themselves.
gloss: Authorization, permission or (official) sanction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A government fiat.
To rule by fiat.
gloss: A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
pos: noun
tags: English
countable
uncountable
gloss: An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord Chancellor's signature.
pos: noun
tags: English
countable
uncountable
gloss: (Pertaining to) fiat currency.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
countable
uncountable
examples: But let us trace a little more particularly the differences between the "fiat" dollar and the greenback. The greenback, in common with every bank note any of you have ever seen, contains a promise to pay dollars.
But, say these men who claim for our Congress creative power, we will pass a law making these 'fiat' dollars legal tender for all debts, public and private.
The gold dollar is as much a fiat dollar as the silver dollar or a paper dollar, for none of them are money without this fiat [of the government, that it is legal tender].
All silver content in coins had to be removed from the currency supply, and fiat coins (or tokens) had to take their place.
[…] a unit of a fiat medium of exchange like the dollar bill. Like fiat money, gold has an unstable value in relation to other goods and services. The stock of gold is historically given and cannot rapidly accommodate changes in demand.
gloss: To make (something) happen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To issue a fiat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:fiat.
Derived words: fiat currency
fiat lux
fiat money
fiatsplain
Translations:
frogging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
climbing
hobbies
knitting
lifestyle
manufacturing
sports
textiles
Inflected forms:
form: froggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of decorative looped fastener on a garment, especially on a military uniform.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of intentionally unravelling part of a work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I’ve been known to rip out finished and blocked shawls because something was not exactly right. That’s why I make all of my samples: frogging is an important part of my design process.
Translations:
colourful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From colour + -ful.
Base: colour
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more colourful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most colourful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: British standard spelling of colorful.
pos: adj
examples: It was a colourful vase with red and white hoops on the lid, and red bands above and below the main frieze. These bands also carry a metope pattern in white of triple lines and blobs, which can just be distinguished on the photographs.
One of the most colourful people in motor racing, he writes in a colourful manner.
Hussain celebrated reaching his ton with a gesture towards the media centre, pointing to the number three on the back of his shirt and offering some colourful language.
And Netherlands, backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes
In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell.
Translations:
Tg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: T_g
pos: noun
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: glass transition temperature
pos: noun
Translations:
freckle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Swedish fräknar, Danish fregner), s-less variant of Old English sprecel from Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). Cognate with Albanian fruth (“measles”). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.
Inflected forms:
form: freckles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: freckles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freckling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freckled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freckled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
pos: noun
examples: Steve has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on his cheeks and nose.
The rabbits came out from their burrows to peep, / The wind whispered, "Hush! little Jane's gone to sleep!" / And the spiders came spinning a curtain of lace, / Lest the sun should make freckles on Jane's pretty face.
Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
gloss: Any small spot or discoloration.
pos: noun
gloss: A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
gloss: The anus.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
gloss: To cover with freckles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To become covered with freckles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: ephelis
lentigo
Related words: freckled
freckleface
freckly
Derived words: a hair past a freckle
banana freckle
freckleless
frecklesome
frecklish
smelly freckle
freckle up
Translations:
freckled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English frekled; equivalent to freckle + -ed.
Base: freckle
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more freckled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most freckled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having freckles; covered with freckles.
pos: adj
examples: A smile grew across Jim's freckled face.
Pro. […]Then was this Iſland / (Saue for the Son, that he^([sic]) did littour heere, / A frekelld whelpe, hag-borne) not honour'd with / A humane ſhape.
At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
Translations:
punto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Latin punctum (“point”) via Italian and Spanish punto, from pungō (“to prick, to puncture”). Doublet of point, pointe, ponto, puncto, punctum, and punt.
Inflected forms:
form: puntos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hit or point.
pos: noun
examples: To see thee fight, to see thee foin, to see thee traverse, to see thee here, to see thee there, to see thee pass thy puncto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, thy montant.
gloss: A traditional small Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 0.16 mm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: punto reverso
punto riverso: a back-handed strike
Translations:
coma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κῶμα (kôma, “deep sleep”).
Inflected forms:
form: comas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of unconsciousness from which one may not wake up, usually induced by some form of trauma.
pos: noun
examples: go into a coma
slip into a coma
come out of a coma
An a aphrodisiac, it results in santonin poisoning, followed by coma and death.
I wonder if a person who comes out of a coma feels refreshed and well rested.
Translations:
George
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος (Geṓrgĭos), from γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) Doublet of Jorge and Geevarghese.
The aircraft autopilot sense is probably from George DeBeeson, who patented an early (1931) autopilot system, and/or a reference to the expression let George do it. The Pullman porter sense derives from George Pullman, who hired Black people to staff his sleeping cars, and the patrons of the service seeing the Black people as servants of George Porter, much like how a slave was named after the master.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter G.
pos: noun
Translations:
essay
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
finance
hobbies
lifestyle
media
philately
publishing
Etymology: Since late 16th century, borrowed from Middle French essay, essai (“essay”), meaning coined by Montaigne at the same time, from the same words with the earlier meanings 'experiment; assay; attempt', from Old French essay, essai, assay, assai, from Latin exagium (“weight; weighing, testing on the balance”), from exigere + -ium.
Inflected forms:
form: essays
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: essays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: essaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: essayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: essayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject.
pos: noun
examples: In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”
gloss: A test, experiment; an assay.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An attempt.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: My first essay at getting employment was fruitless; but after no small number of mortifying rebuffs from various parties to whom I applied for assistance, I was at last rewarded by a comparative success.
This was Lee's first essay in the kind of offensive-defensive strategy that was to become his hallmark.
gloss: A proposed design for a postage stamp or a banknote.
pos: noun
gloss: To attempt or try.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: Shall we essay a walk on the promenade?
He retraced his steps to the front gate, which he essayed to open.
The train took the slow to branch spur at the north end at a not much slower speed, then essayed the short sharply curved climb with a terrific roar, smoke rising straight from the chimney to a height of some 60 ft., the long train twisting and curling behind.
They, at least, had talked about it. And however full of death and darkness their accounts had been, they'd at least essayed a certain personal honesty.
There was the counter, there was the bulletin board, above her the dull sound of music being played over headphones. Something jaunty. She liked the beat. Then the sound of a chair being pushed back, and someone humming as they walked away from her, and she darted up to plunge the bayonet into their kidneys from behind. A followup stroke through the back of the neck, and the second soldier was down. She didn't even stop to see if it was a man or a woman, young or old. There were further hurdles to essay before she reached her destination.
gloss: To move forth, as into battle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: assay
essayist
essayistic
Derived words: argumentative essay
counteressay
eight-legged essay
essayette
essayic
essayish
essayism
essaykin
essaylet
essaylike
essay mill
essay question
in this essay I will
miniessay
photo essay
photo-essay
video essay
unessayed
Translations:
narrative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots narrative, nerrative, from Middle French narratif, from Latin narrātīvus, from narrō (“to narrate”). By surface analysis, Latin narr- + -ate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more narrative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most narrative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: narratives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Telling a story.
pos: adj
gloss: Overly talkative; garrulous.
pos: adj
examples: But wise through time, and narrative with age.
gloss: Of or relating to narration.
pos: adj
examples: the narrative thrust of a film
There is a deep divide in our species. On one side, the narrators: those who are indeed intensely narrative, self-storying, Homeric, in their sense of life and self, whether they look to the past or the future.
gloss: The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is narrated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A representation of an event or story in a way to promote a certain point of view.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: changing, controlling the narrative
Yes, there were instances of grandstanding and obsessive behaviour, but many were concealed at the time to help protect an aggressively peddled narrative of [Oscar] Pistorius the paragon, the emblem, the trailblazer.
[Alexandra] Bell challenges the dominant coverage of Brown’s killing with the aim of introducing “a perspective and a narrative which is probably how a lot of people from these communities saw it go down”.
The posters quickly became embroiled in the interminable battle over narrative in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
gloss: A manner of conveying a story, fictional or otherwise, in a body of work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The plot is full of holes, but the narrative is extremely compelling.
The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
Related words: narrate
narration
narrator
Derived words: grounded narrative inquiry
narrative arc
narrative art
narratively
narrative present
narrative structure
narrative verdict
narrativise
narrativization
narrativize
nonnarrative
pseudonarrative
seminarrative
semionarrative
antenarrative
antinarrative
counternarrative
cybernarrative
geonarrative
grand narrative
ludonarrative
metanarrative
micronarrative
multinarrative
narrative hook
narrativeless
narrativist
narrativistic
narrativity
narreme
self-narrative
sequential art narrative
subnarrative
Translations:
triliteral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tri- (“three”) + Latin litera (“letter”) + -al.
Affixes: tri-
Inflected forms:
form: triliterals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of word roots in Afroasiatic languages: consisting of three letters.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: [T]he philologist may well refuse to accept a body of triliteral roots, developed on a highly artificial and uniform plan, as the ultimate fact in Semitic lexicography.
gloss: A word root in an Afroasiatic language that consists of three letters.
pos: noun
Translations:
Semitic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Semite + -ic (18th century), from German semitisch, from Ancient Greek Σήμ (Sḗm), from the Hebrew שֵׁם (Šēm, “Shem”), the name of the eldest son of Noah in biblical tradition (Genesis 5.32, 6.10, 10.21), considered the forefather of the Semitic peoples. Perhaps derived from Akkadian 𒈬 (šumu, literally “name" or "son”). The word was coined and first applied to the Semitic languages by August Ludwig von Schlözer in 1781.
Base: Semite
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: semitic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Shemitic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: shemitic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afroasiatic Semitic languages: Akkadian, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Maltese, Phoenician, Syriac, Tigrigna etc.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: On the other hand, scholars say that the Philistines were an Indo-European people not related to the Semitic Palestinians.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:Semitic.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Semites; of or pertaining to one or more Semitic peoples.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Thus we trace ever and again the similarities which are to be found among the Semitic religions.
The Semitic religions (Christianity and Islam) are nationally honored in much of Africa.
In contrast to these Semitic religions some religions of Indian origin like Buddhism and Jainism, are pacifist to the extent of banning the killing of animals even for food.
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: սեմական
roman: semakan
lang: Bengali
word: সামী
roman: samī
lang: Catalan
word: semític
lang: Czech
word: semitský
lang: Finnish
word: seemiläinen
lang: French
word: sémitique
lang: German
word: semitisch
lang: Hindi
word: सामी
roman: sāmī
lang: Icelandic
word: semískur
lang: Irish
word: Seimíteach
lang: Polish
word: semicki
lang: Portuguese
word: semita
lang: Portuguese
word: semítico
coda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
geography
geology
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
music
natural-sciences
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian coda (literally “tail”), from Latin cauda. Doublet of queue and cola.
Inflected forms:
form: codas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A passage that brings a movement or piece to a conclusion through prolongation.
pos: noun
examples: In classical music there are, as the analytical programs tell us, first subjects and second subjects, free fantasias, recapitulations, and codas; there are fugues, with counter-subjects, strettos, and pedal points; there are passacaglias on ground basses, canons ad hypodiapente, and other ingenuities, which have, after all, stood or fallen by their prettiness as much as the simplest folk-tune.
gloss: The optional final sound of a syllable or word, occurring after its nucleus and usually composed of one or more consonants.
pos: noun
examples: The word “salts” has three consonants — /l/, /t/, and /s/ — in its coda, whereas the word “glee” has no coda at all.
gloss: In seismograms, the gradual return to baseline after a seismic event. The length of the coda can be used to estimate event magnitude, and the shape sometimes reveals details of subsurface structures.
pos: noun
gloss: A conclusion (of a statement or event, for example), final portion, tail end.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Downstairs, a little later, in the drawing room, the coda of the party was unwinding, and Gerald opening new bottles of champagne as though he made no distinction between the boring drunks who "sat," and the knowing few of the inner circle, gathered round the empty marble fireplace.
2014, Paul Salopek, Blessed. Cursed. Claimed., National Geographic (December 2014)https://web.archive.org/web/20150212214621/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2014/12/pilgrim-roads/salopek-text
In gray stormy light, their painted eyes stare out at the Mediterranean—at Homer’s wine-dark sea, at a corridor into modernity. But in memory my walk’s true coda in the Middle East came earlier.
Redundancies accounted for a smaller proportion of the change, although no less significant to those affected. Rail News, BR's staff magazine, included a coda to its August 1964 assessment of the Beeching cuts: "For the individuals involved it is a worrying time [...] Rail News feels deeply for those affected and expresses the sympathy of its readers with them."
gloss: A series of clicks used by sperm whales for communicating with each other.
pos: noun
Related words: vowel
𝄌
Derived words: codaless
codalike
d.c. al coda
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: loppu
lang: German
word: Abschluss
lang: German
word: Schluss
lang: German
word: Endpunkt
stare
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English staren, from Old English starian (“to stare”), from Proto-West Germanic *starēn, from Proto-Germanic *starjaną, *starāną (“to be fixed, be rigid”), from Proto-Indo-European *ster-.
Cognate with Dutch staren (“to stare”), German starren (“to stare”), German starr (“stiff”). More at start.
Inflected forms:
form: stares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: staring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stares
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To look fixedly (at something).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She found him staring with raised eyebrows at her.
Her sturdy stallion had now unbutton'd, and produced naked, stiff, and erect, that wonderful machine, which I had never seen before, and which, for the interest my own seat of pleasure began to take furiously in it, I star'd at with all the eyes I had
A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
gloss: To influence in some way by looking fixedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to stare a timid person into submission
gloss: To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: staring windows or colours
gloss: To stand out; to project; to bristle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Makest my blood cold, and my hair to stare.
Take off all the staring straws, twigs and jags in the hive.
gloss: A persistent gaze.
pos: noun
examples: the stares of astonished passers-by
Who's that lounging in my chair? / Who's that casting devious stares in my direction?
Synonyms: gaw
gloar
glom
stare
Derived words: astare
outstare
overstare
stare at the wall
stare daggers
stare down
staredown
staree
stare into space
stare like a stuck pig
stare out
starer
stare someone in the face
stareworthy
starey
upstare
Translations:
wank
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Origin unknown. First known use as a verb is 1905, as a noun 1948. Perhaps compare regional slang term wang, whang (“to whack or beat”). Compare Dutch wanken (“to move back and forth; move with the hands”).
Inflected forms:
form: wanks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wanking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wanked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wanked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wanks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To masturbate.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
ambitransitive
intransitive
slang
examples: I was so embarrassed when my mother caught me wanking.
She wanked me in the morning.
gloss: To argue in an inappropriate manner or about pretentious or insubstantial matters; to engage in wank.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Internet
Ireland
UK
intransitive
slang
vulgar
gloss: An act of masturbation.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
slang
vulgar
examples: He’s having a wank!
gloss: An undesirable person.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: You utter wank! How could you behave like that?
gloss: Nonsense, rubbish.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: This opera is wank.
Did you see that thing on Channel 4? Yeah, it was wank.
I do sell a lot of wank, don't I?
gloss: Ridiculous, circular or inappropriately elaborate argument about something, especially if obnoxious, pretentious or unsubstantial.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Internet
Ireland
UK
slang
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: Drama, turmoil, or disagreement within a fannish space.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Sometimes those involved in the wank will attempt to steer discussion by disguising themselves with a different user name and posting their own support.
As we've seen, the wank that broke out at the very first Supernatural fan convention (Asylum) in Coventry, UK in 2007 was partly inspired by Jensen Ackles' joke about Wincest.
The general mission of Twankhard was to highlight various wanks in the fandom and cultivate anon-based discussion of them.
Related words: wanker
wankery
wankfest
wanky
wank off
Derived words: danger wank
fanwank
posh wank
tit wank
wank bank
wank sock
wankstain
Translations:
lone
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Shortened from alone.
Inflected forms:
form: lones
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: loning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: loned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: loned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Solitary; having no companion.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a lone traveler or watcher
When I have on those pathless wilds appeared, / And the lone wanderer with my presence cheered.
The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
The director of a school in Thailand's central province of Sing Buri is in police custody under suspicion of being the lone perpetrator of a gold shop robbery at a mall in Lop Buri province on January 9th, during which three people, including a two-year old^([sic]) boy, were murdered and four others [were] wounded.
gloss: Isolated or lonely; lacking companionship.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Sole; being the only one of a type.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the lone male audience member at the concert
gloss: Situated by itself or by oneself, with no neighbours.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a lone house;  a lone isle
By a lone wall a lonelier column rears.
gloss: Unfrequented by human beings; solitary.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: Thus vanish sceptres, coronets, and balls, / And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls.
He made a turn or two in the shop, and looked for Hope among the instruments; but they obstinately worked out reckonings for the missing ship, in spite of any opposition he could offer, that ended at the bottom of the lone sea.
gloss: Single; unmarried, or in widowhood.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: Queen Elizabeth being a lone woman.
A hundred mark is a long one for a poor lone woman to bear.
gloss: Not divided into multiple districts.
pos: adj
tags: Philippines
not-comparable
examples: lone congressional district
gloss: Only used in lone it
pos: verb
Related words: alone
lonely
lonesome
Derived words: Lone Butte
lone gunman
lone it
loneness
lone pair
loner
lone rangering
lone star tick
lone wolf
Lone Wolf
no-lone zone
Translations:
notable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English notable (“worthy of note, profitable, useful”), in some senses from Anglo-Norman notable (“noteworthy”), from Latin notābilis (“noteworthy, extraordinary”), from notō (“to note, mark”); in some senses from Middle English note (“benefit, profit, use, advantage”), from Old English notu (“t-use, profit, advantage, employment”) + -able; equivalent to note + -able. Compare English noteful (“useful”).
Base: note
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more notable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most notable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: nottable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: notables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nottable
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Worthy of note; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished.
pos: adj
examples: [...] how sayest thou, that my master is become a notable lover?
gloss: Easily noted (without connotations of value); clearly noticeable, conspicuous.
pos: adj
examples: A notable lubber, as thou reportest him to be.
gloss: That can be observed; perceptible.
pos: adj
examples: Dyslexia is most notable in children who are unable to focus on their assignments.
Another most notable change concerns rolling stock liveries. Back then, corporate Rail Blue was omnipresent, whereas now there is a kaleidoscope of colours and styles.
gloss: Industrious, energetic; (specifically) (usually of a woman) capable, efficient in household management.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: During his residence abroad, his concerns at home were managed by his mother Hester, an active and notable woman.
Hester looked busy and notable with her gown pinned up behind her, and her hair all tucked away under a clean linen cap; […]
gloss: Useful; profitable.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Your honourable Uncle Sir Robert Manſell, who is now in the Mediterranean, hath been very notable to me, and I ſhall ever acknowledge a good part of my education from him.
gloss: A person or thing of distinction.
pos: noun
examples: July 16 1875, Carl Schurz, letter to W. M. Grosvenor
What we ought to have, in my opinion, is a meeting of notables—men whose names will be of weight with the country and who can be depended upon to agree to an independent course.
Synonyms: illustrious
distinguished
eminent
forestanding
markworthy
mentionable
nameable
namely
nameworthy
notable
sensational
noteworthy
extraordinaire
noticeable
observable
outstanding
pass-remarkable
ponderable
prominent
remarkable
signal
sovereign
Antonyms: non-notable
boring
ignorable
improminent
irrelevant
negligible
normal
trifling
trivial
unremarkable
Related words: famous
pertinent
strange
wonderful
Derived words: nonnotable
non-notable
notability
notableness
unnotable
Translations:
forehead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English forhed, forheed, from Old English forehēafod, from Proto-West Germanic *forēhaubid, corresponding to fore- + head. Cognate with Scots foreheid (“forehead”), Dutch voorhoofd (“forehead”), German Vorhaupt (“forehead”), Danish forhoved (“brow; forehead; face”). Compare also West Frisian foarholle (“forehead”), German Low German Vörkopp (“forehead”).
Base: head
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: foreheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: for'ead
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: forrad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: forread
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: forred
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: forrid
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The part of the face above the eyebrows and below the hairline.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 'This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, ‘everybody has won, and all must have prizes.’'
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[…]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue.[…].
gloss: confidence; audacity; impudence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility
gloss: The upper part of a mobile phone, above the screen.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: brow
Derived words: fivehead
foreheaded
forehead thermometer
midforehead
Translations:
uppercase
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Germanic *ub
Proto-Germanic *upp
Proto-West Germanic *upp
Old English upp
Middle English up
Proto-Indo-European *-yōs
Proto-Germanic *-izô
Proto-West Germanic *-iʀō
Proto-Germanic *-ōzô
Proto-West Germanic *-ōʀō
Old English -ra
Middle English -er
Middle English upper
English upper
English case
English uppercase
From upper + case.
Inflected forms:
form: upper-case
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: uppercases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uppercasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uppercased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uppercased
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Written in upper case; capital.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In German, the ß character is called eszett. It’s used in “Straße,” the word for street, and in the expletive “Scheiße.” It’s often transliterated as “ss,” and strangely enough, it’s never had an official uppercase counterpart.
gloss: To convert (text) to upper case.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: lowercase
Translations:
lowercase
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the noun phrase lower case, which itself consists of an adjective modifying a noun; when used as a noun adjunct then, to render its syntactical function clearer and simpler, it is written as a single word or with a hyphen as a sort of chunking.
Inflected forms:
form: lower case
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lower-case
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lowercases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lowercasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lowercased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lowercased
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lower case
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: lower-case
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In lower case.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To convert (text) to lower case.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Sister Jadallah apologizes for being unable to bring her readers facts and figures on Palestinian Lesbianism (forgive my capital "L" in Lesbianism, but like my Black brothers I cannot bring myself to lower-casing our recently empowering accoutrements of our Gay identities)
I never asked Rob e. Hanson why he lowercased his middle initial; I suppose he figured a man just shouldn’t accumulate too much capital.
Antonyms: uppercase
Translations:
xor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: xors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The logic function exclusive OR (as opposed to inclusive OR), whose output is true only when exactly one of its inputs is true.
pos: noun
Translations:
hail
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English hayle, haile, hail, hawel, haghil, haȝel, from Old English hæġl, hæġel, hagol (“hail”), from Proto-West Germanic *hagl, from Proto-Germanic *haglaz, of uncertain origin. Either from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰlos (“pebble”); or alternatively from *ḱoḱló-, a reduplication of *ḱel- (“cold”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hail (“hail”), West Frisian heil (“hail”), Low German Hagel (“hail”), German Hagel (“hail”), Dutch and Swedish hagel (“hail”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Icelandic hagl (“hail”). Compare also Old Norse héla (“frost”). Doublet of haglaz, if the second etymology (“cold”) is correct.
Root-cognates outside of Germanic include Ancient Greek κάχληξ (kákhlēx, “pebble”), or alternatively Sanskrit शिशिर (śíśira, “cool, cold”), possibly also Lithuanian šešėlis (“shade, shadow”), depending on the etymology.
Inflected forms:
form: hails
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hails
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hailing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hailed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hailed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An occurrence of this type of precipitation; a hailstorm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A rapid, intense barrage by a large number of projectiles or other objects.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
examples: Their lack of good intelligence also meant that they vastly overestimated the size of their foes for far too long, hails of armor-piercing shells doing comparatively little damage compared to the high explosive that they should have been using.
gloss: To have hailstones fall from the sky.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
examples: They say it's going to hail tomorrow.
gloss: To send or release hail.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The cloud would hail down furiously within a few minutes.
gloss: To pour down in rapid succession.
pos: verb
Derived words: hailfall
haillike
hailproof
hail shaft
hailshot
hailstone
hail storm
hail sugar
haily
rail hail
hail down
Translations:
sleet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English slete, probably from Old English *slēte, *slȳte, *slīete, from Proto-West Germanic *slautijā, from Proto-Germanic *slautijǭ (“sleet”). Walter W. Skeat, the author of Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, suggests Old Norse slydda (whence Danish slud (“mixture of rain and snow”)). The word appears to be akin to Low German Sloot (“hail”), dialectal German Schloße (“large hailstone”), Old Gutnish sloyta (“slush, sleet”). Doublet of slut.
Inflected forms:
form: sleets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sleets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sleeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sleeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sleeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Pellets of ice made of mostly-frozen raindrops or refrozen melted snowflakes.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Precipitation in the form of a mixture of rain and snow.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Northeastern
UK
US
countable
uncountable
examples: Though it never really snows it’s more like horizontal sleet
gloss: A smooth coating of ice formed on ground or other objects by freezing rain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To be in a state in which sleet is falling.
pos: verb
tags: impersonal
examples: I won't bother going out until it's stopped sleeting.
It was dark, it was cold, it was sleeting - dreadful conditions for driving... perfect conditions for an accident.
Related words: freezing rain
graupel
hail
Derived words: sleetful
sleetless
sleetlike
sleetproof
sleety
thunder sleet
Translations: