yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
shoo
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English schew, schowe, show, showe, scou (“shoo!”, interjection). Compare Middle High German schū, schuo (“shoo!”, interjection) (modern German scheu! (“shoo!”)), Dutch schuwen (“to shun”), German scheuchen (“to scare, drive away”).
Inflected forms:
form: shoos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shooing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shooed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shooed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shoo!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
Senses:
gloss: To induce someone or something to leave.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Don't just shoo away mosquitoes, kill them!
See if you can shoo off the insurance salesmen.
It was those damned bandages over my eyes, the medley of voices that had shouted back at me down the corridor. But I certainly was getting the willies - and once you get 'em, they grow. Already they were past the stage where you can shoo them off by whistling or singing at yourself.
gloss: To leave under inducement.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: You kids had better shoo before your parents get a call.
gloss: To usher someone.
pos: verb
tags: informal
rare
examples: Shoo the visitor in.
gloss: Go away! Clear off!
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Shoo, fly, don't bother me!
Derived words: shoo away
shooer
shoofly pie
shoo-fly plant
shoo-in
shoo off
Translations:
embodiment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English embody
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English embodiment
From embody + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: embodiments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of embodying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A physical entity typifying an abstract concept.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: You are the very embodiment of beauty.
The law is the true embodiment / Of everything that's excellent. / It has no kind of fault or flaw, / And I, my Lords, embody the law.
And with his trademark smoking jackets and pipes – and the silk pajamas he would often wear to work – Hefner became the embodiment of a sexually adventurous yet urbane image and lifestyle, a seeming role model for generations of men.
gloss: The ways that knowledge, personality, culture, etc. are modulated by being experienced through a physical body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In many respects, the genre [science fiction] was exceptionally well suited to extrapolate from contemporary social concerns and promote visions of alternative societies, new forms of embodiment, and novel pathways for desire and pleasure.
Synonyms: incarnation
Derived words: disembodiment
reembodiment
Translations:
crackling
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
Etymology: By surface analysis, crackle + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: cracklings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fat that, after roasting a joint, hardens and crispens
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
in-plural
often
uncountable
examples: For the first time in his life […]he tasted crackling.
gloss: The crispy rind of roast pork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
uncountable
examples: To make chicken crackling, use 500 g (1 lb 1V2 oz) chicken skin. Wash and remove excess fats.
gloss: A crispy, fried skin or rind, especially of pork.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: ... but often forgotten are the equally delicious chicken cracklings. In this recipe, baguette slices spread with a delicious maple and sea salt butter are baked, then topped with crispy pan-fried chicken skin, sweet soft dates,[…]
gloss: The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the bangs and cracklings of fireworks
gloss: Food for dogs, made from the refuse of tallow melting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
plural-normally
uncountable
gloss: Three stripes of velvet worn on the sleeves of students at St John's College, Cambridge.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Sounding with small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: —With wreathing spire
Up went the crackling flame,—and that old man
Forgetful of his anguish, boldly cried
—"Courage, my brother!—we this day will light
Such fire in christendom, as ne'er shall die."
Synonyms: cracklin(s)
Derived words: pork crackling
Translations:
menagerie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French ménagerie, derived from ménager (“to keep house”), household. Housekeeping used to include taking care of domestic animals.
Inflected forms:
form: menageries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ménagerie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.
pos: noun
gloss: The enclosure where they are kept.
pos: noun
examples: In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus menagerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.
gloss: A diverse or miscellaneous group.
pos: noun
examples: [Brigitte] Bardot, the stunning, desirable beauty who once stood for sexual freedom for women, spent the latter part of her life at her home near Saint Tropez with her husband and a menagerie of pets.
gloss: The orchestra of a theatre.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
Related words: aviary
conservatory
Derived words: menagerist
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: գազանանոց
roman: gazananocʻ
lang: Belarusian
word: звяры́нец
roman: zvjarýnjec
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 動物園 /动物园
roman: dòngwùyuán
lang: Czech
word: zvěřinec
lang: Finnish
word: eläintarha
lang: French
word: ménagerie
lang: Georgian
word: სამხეცე
roman: samxece
lang: German
word: Menagerie
lang: Greek
word: θηριοτροφείο
roman: thiriotrofeío
lang: Ancient Greek
word: θηριοτροφεῖον
roman: thēriotropheîon
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ζωγρεῖον
roman: zōgreîon
lang: Ido
word: menajerio
lang: Italian
word: serraglio
lang: Italian
word: recinto
lang: Latin
word: vīvārium
lang: Macedonian
word: ѕверилник
roman: dzverilnik
lang: Macedonian
word: менажерија
roman: menažerija
lang: Polish
word: menażeria
lang: Polish
word: zwierzyniec
lang: Portuguese
word: menagerie
lang: Portuguese
word: viveiro
lang: Romanian
word: menajerie
lang: Russian
word: звери́нец
roman: zverínec
lang: Spanish
word: casa de fieras
lang: Swedish
word: menageri
lang: Turkish
word: aslanhane
lang: Ukrainian
word: звіри́нець
roman: zvirýnecʹ
lang: Volapük
word: nimikonlet
phew
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Attested since the early 17th century. An onomatopoeia for rapid exhalation, as one may make when a trying situation is over, or in order to get rid of an unpleasant odour. Compare Scots feuch, Spanish fu, Czech fuj, and many more such forms.
Inflected forms:
form: whew
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: pew
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express relief of tension, fatigue, or surprise.
pos: intj
examples: Phew, that took a long time to cook!
gloss: Used to show disgust.
pos: intj
examples: Phew, it stinks in here!
Related words: whew
whewee
phewee
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: uf
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 喲 /哟
roman: yo
lang: Czech
word: uf
lang: Dutch
word: oef
lang: Dutch
word: hehe
lang: Finnish
word: huh
lang: Finnish
word: huhhuh
lang: Finnish
word: huh huh
lang: French
word: pfou
lang: French
word: ouf
lang: German
word: puh
lang: German
word: pfoah
lang: Greek
word: ουφ
roman: ouf
lang: Greek
word: φου
roman: fou
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φεῦ
roman: pheû
lang: Hebrew
word: פיו
roman: fyu
lang: Hungarian
word: püh
lang: Italian
word: uff
lang: Italian
word: uffa
lang: Italian
word: uh
lang: Japanese
word: ふぅ
roman: fū
lang: Korean
word: 후유
roman: huyu
lang: Korean
word: 휴
roman: hyu
lang: Korean
word: 어휴
roman: eohyu
lang: Korean
word: 에휴
roman: ehyu
lang: Latin
word: ufa
lang: Māori
word: kaitoa
lang: Eastern Mari
word: фу-у
roman: fu-u
lang: Navajo
word: hwááh
lang: Polish
word: uff
lang: Portuguese
word: ufa
lang: Russian
word: уф!
roman: uf!
lang: Russian
word: фуф
roman: fuf
lang: Russian
word: фух
roman: fux
lang: Spanish
word: fíu
lang: Spanish
word: menos mal
lang: Swedish
word: puh
lang: Swedish
word: pust
lang: Vietnamese
word: phù
woohoo
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: whoo-hoo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: whoo hoo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: woo hoo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: woo-hoo
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express sudden or exuberant joy, happiness, excitement, approval or delight.
pos: intj
examples: Woohoo! It’s summer again!
She […] hath ſtiled him with an immortall penne, the bawewawe of ſchollars, the tutt of gentlemen, the tee-heegh of gentlewomen, the phy of citizens, the blurt of Courtiers, the poogh of good letters, the faph of good manners, and the whoop-hooe of good boyes in London ſtreetes.
Translations:
didgeridoo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Likely onomatopoeic in reference to the sound made by the instrument, or the words spoken into the instrument to play it.
The earliest known description of the instrument was in 1829 by Captain Collet Barker, in which it was described as making the sound didoggerry whoan. In 2002, Lonergan proposed that the term could derive from Irish dúdaire dubh (“black hummer”) or Scottish Gaelic dùdaire dùth (“native piper”), though the latter seems to be coincidental, since there is no corroborating evidence and the terms would refer to the player (rather than the instrument itself).
Inflected forms:
form: didgeridoos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: didjeridu
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: didjeridoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: digeridoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A musical instrument, endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed-out log which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerising drone with sweeping rhythms.
pos: noun
Translations:
apoplectic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French apoplectique, from Late Latin apoplēcticus, from Ancient Greek ἀποπληκτικός (apoplēktikós), from ἀπόπληκτος (apóplēktos), from ἀποπλήσσω (apoplḗssō), from ἀπό (apó, “of, from”) + πλήσσω (plḗssō, “I strike”).
Inflected forms:
form: more apoplectic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most apoplectic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: apoplectics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to apoplexy.
pos: adj
gloss: Marked by extreme anger or fury.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Once she heard Jem refer to our father as 'Atticus' and her reaction was apoplectic.
Speak of the devil—he marches through the door, and becomes apoplectic when he learns of the upheaval.
The decision left Potters boss Tony Pulis apoplectic on the touchline, a feeling his West Ham counterpart Avram Grant was to share immediately after the break.
If older man/younger women matchups make many people uncomfortable, the older man/much younger women combo tends to make them apoplectic.
Yet when one relistens to the original Rock, Rot & Rule broadcast, the most salient element is not the comedy. It’s the apoplectic phone calls from random WFMU listeners.
gloss: Effused with blood.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: A person suffering from apoplexy.
pos: noun
Related words: apoplectically
apoplexy
Derived words: antiapoplectic
postapoplectic
Translations:
pufferfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English puffer
Proto-Indo-European *péysks
Proto-Germanic *fiskaz
Proto-West Germanic *fisk
Old English fisċ
Middle English fisch
English fish
English pufferfish
From puffer + fish.
Inflected forms:
form: pufferfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pufferfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any species of fish of the family Tetraodontidae that have the ability to inflate themselves to a globe several times their normal size by swallowing water or air when threatened; puffer, blowfish, swellfish, balloonfish, globefish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Recently, however, a scientist in Britain proposed a short cut that would use the genome of the fugu, a pufferfish known as a dangerous delicacy among Japanese sushi eaters, to speed the search for human genes.
gloss: The meat of these fish, a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins; (Japanese) fugu.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: balloonfish
blowfish
globefish
puffer
swellfish
fugu
Translations:
neurotoxin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neuroscience
pharmacology
sciences
toxicology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξῐκός (toxĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón)der.
Latin toxicum
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English toxin
English neurotoxin
From neuro- + toxin.
Inflected forms:
form: neurotoxins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A toxin that specifically acts upon neurons, their synapses, or the nervous system in its entirety.
pos: noun
examples: There were stretches of days when the lakes were closed because of the algae. It sometimes secreted neurotoxins that could be fatal.
Among those who think of fugu as merely a distant delicacy, knowledge rarely goes beyond the fish’s infamous trait: In the most delicious species, the innards are suffused with the neurotoxin called tetrodotoxin (TTX).
Translations:
fluffer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fluff
English -er
English fluffer
From fluff + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: fluffers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that fluffs (in various senses).
pos: noun
examples: Woe betide the camera-shy or the fluffers of lines.
To them, we were the dope-smuggling hippie liberals, the prisoner lovers, the pillow fluffers. To us, they were the sadistic, mean-spirited, right-wing thugs.
gloss: One who arouses male pornographic actors before filming.
pos: noun
examples: "This isn't MGM. I don't do this full-time," she said. "During production, I'm the AD. Occasionally, I fill in as a fluffer."
gloss: One who is employed to clean the tracks in the tunnels of the London Underground.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: One who promotes or publicizes, especially one who makes something seem better or more important than it is.
pos: noun
examples: Thus it was only as I approached the table that I discovered Lafayette hovering behind the chair next to mine, accompanied by Easy Mather, as well as their new best friend and Lafayette's personal fluffer, Jillian Noble.
There is always a “fluffer” who will posture for “good girl, good boy” attention, who will bring up some off-topic item—“good food drive effort” or “great basketball game the other night.”
. In many retellings of the story, Aphrodite acts as Helen's fluffer.
gloss: A fluffy animal.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: DoggoLingo, sometimes referred to as doggo-speak, "seems to be quite lexical, there are a lot of distinctive words that are used," says Internet linguist Gretchen McCulloch. "It's cutesier than others, too. Doggo, woofer, pupper, pupperino, fluffer — those have all got an extra suffix on the end to make them cuter."
Derived words: mattress fluffer
motherfluffer
Translations:
refectory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Middle English refectori from Late Latin refectorium, from Latin reficere (“to remake, to rebuild”).
Inflected forms:
form: refectories
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dining hall, especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.
pos: noun
examples: They compare very well with similar cafes elsewhere and the quality, for example, is far better and the price cheaper than in my college refectory.
With a clattering of chairs, upended shell cases, benches, and ottomans, Pirate's mob gather at the shores of the great refectory table, a southern island well across a tropic or two from chill Croydon.
Translations:
peachy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (p-a-r-s /⁠pārsa⁠/)bor.
Ancient Greek Πέρσης (Pérsēs)bor.
Late Latin Persa
Late Latin persicus
Late Latin persicum
Late Latin persica
Vulgar Latin *pessica
Old French peschebor.
Middle English peche
English peach
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English peachy
From peach + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: peachier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: peachiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a peach, peach-like.
pos: adj
examples: peachy cheeks
Although this is an apricot pie, it tastes peachy.
Young Fledgeby had a peachy cheek, or a cheek compounded of the peach and the red red red wall on which it grows, and was an awkward, sandy-haired, small-eyed youth, exceeding slim (his enemies would have said lanky), and prone to self-examination in the articles of whisker and moustache.
[…] she had deep, tender eyes, with long, curved lashes; and she had peachy cheeks, and a dimpled chin, and such a dear little dewy rosebud of a mouth; and she was so dove-like, so pure, and so gracious, so sweet and bewitching.
“If I am not well-informed it shall be by no fault of my own,” she would say to herself through the tears that would occasionally glide down her peachy cheeks when she was fairly baffled by the portentous obscurity of many of these educational works.
“Mercy! If I had a husband whose business it was to look at women's beautiful eyes, peachy cheeks, and luxurious tresses, I should go crazy! […]”
Not quite nude, not quite pink, the peachy sheen is a pretty (and pretty easy) direction for summer.
gloss: Very good, excellent, typically used sarcastically to indicate a state of misery, resentment or great frustration.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Oh, life is just peachy now that winter has come, it’s snowing all the time, and I’m freezing my backside off.
Everything's peachy as Apple restores emoji's 'bum' features [title]
Derived words: impeachy
peachily
peachiness
peachy keen
Translations:
capitalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: accounting
business
economics
finance
government
sciences
taxation
Etymology: From capital + -ize, the first element ultimately from Latin capitālis (“of the head”).
Base: capital
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: capitalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: capitalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: capitalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: capitalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: capitalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In writing or editing, to write (something: either an entire word or text, or just the initial letter(s) thereof) in capital letters, in upper case.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In German, all nouns are capitalized.
gloss: To contribute or acquire capital (money or other resources) for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Some states require proof that a new venture is properly capitalized before the state will issue a certificate of incorporation.
To have any hope of success a new venture must be properly capitalized.
gloss: To convert into capital, i.e., to get cash or similar immediately fungible resources for some less fungible property or source of future income.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If we obtain a loan using the business as collateral, the effect will be to capitalize our next ten years of income, giving us cash today that we can use to buy out our competitor.
gloss: To treat as capital, not as an expense.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To profit or to obtain an advantage.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The home team took several shots on goal but was unable to capitalize until late in the game.
In early morality plays, there appeared several vices representing some of the deadly sins, such as Covetousness, Lust, or Pride. Later plays, particularly those performed between 1560 and 1575, featured a single, composite character labelled as "the Vice" (Miyajima, 1977). The Vice, like the Devil, operated by capitalizing on observed human vulnerability.
gloss: To seize, as an opportunity; to obtain a benefit from; to invest on something profitable.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The home team appeared to have the advantage throughout the game, and finally capitalized on their opponents' weakness with just two minutes remaining, scoring several points in quick succession.
Related words: capitalizable
capitalization
Derived words: capitalizer
decapitalize
miscapitalize
overcapitalize
recapitalize
uncapitalize
undercapitalize
Translations:
testy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Middle English testif (“headstrong”), from Old French testu, from teste (“head”) + -u. Compare modern French tête (“head”), têtu (“stubborn”).
Inflected forms:
form: testier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: testiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Easily annoyed, irritable.
pos: adj
gloss: Marked by impatience or ill humor.
pos: adj
examples: He made testy remarks.
Otherwise, we could end up with a repeat of what happened with social media companies after the 2016 election — a collision of Silicon Valley power and Washington ignorance, which resulted in nothing but gridlock and testy hearings.
Synonyms: touchy
tetchy
Related words: heady
teston
Derived words: testily
testiness
untesty
Translations:
irritable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French irritable, from Latin irritabilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more irritable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most irritable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being irritated.
pos: adj
gloss: Easily exasperated or excited.
pos: adj
examples: an irritable old man
gloss: Responsive to stimuli.
pos: adj
Synonyms: atrabilious
bad-tempered
bilious
bitchy
brainish
cantankerous
carnaptious
choleric
crabbit
crabby
cranky
crotchety
dyspeptic
edgy
fantoddish
fiery
fractious
fretful
grumpy
grotchy
grouchy
hissy
hot-livered
hot-tempered
hotheaded
huffy
humpy
ill-natured
ill-tempered
irascible
irritable
liverish
out of sorts
ornery (chiefly US)}
peevish
pettish
petulant
prickly
quick-tempered
querulous
raspy
ratty
short-tempered
snappish
snappy
snippety
snippish
snippy
snitchy
splenetic
stressy
surly
temperamental
testy
tetchy
tetty
thin-skinned
thorny
touchy
twitchy
umbrageous
volatile
waspish
Antonyms: calm
imperturbable
serene
Related words: like a bear with a sore head
on edge
combative
quarrelsome
Derived words: hyperirritable
inirritable
irritability
irritable bowel syndrome
irritable heart
irritable male syndrome
irritableness
irritably
nonirritable
superirritable
unirritable
Translations:
allodynia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From allo- + -odynia.
Base: allo
Inflected forms:
form: allodynias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pain produced by innocuous stimulation of normal skin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
readily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English redily, rediliche. By surface analysis, read(i) + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: readilier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more readily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: readiliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most readily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without unwillingness or hesitation; showing readiness.
pos: adv
examples: The suspect readily answered all questions the police officers asked him.
gloss: Without impediment, easily.
pos: adv
examples: readily available; readily achievable
Cantharidin, although readily decomposed by chemical agents, is so permanent in the body that it has been detected in the corpse of a cat eighty-four days after death.
Light does not pass through water nearly as readily as it passes through air, and in order to function efficiently, an animal that lives in the water must rely on other senses in addition to light.
Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.
Translations:
pervade
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin pervādōlbor.
English pervade
Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō.
Inflected forms:
form: pervades
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pervading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pervaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pervaded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be in every part of; to spread through; to permeate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Cruel wars pervade history.
"I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places.[…]"
The animals were thoroughly frightened. It seemed to them as though Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers.
Even at the busiest periods, an air of quiet orderliness pervades the hall, and the first impression gained by the traveller is one of efficiency, neatness and cleanliness.
Translations:
caress
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French caresse, from Italian carezza (“dear”), from Latin cārus (“dear”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂-, akin to Sanskrit काम (kāma, “love”). Doublet of karezza.
Inflected forms:
form: caresses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: caresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: caressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: caressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: caressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An act of endearment; any act or expression of affection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness.
pos: noun
examples: He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command.
And he wooed her with his soft caresses, / Wooed her with his smile of sunshine, […]
gloss: A gentle stroking or rubbing.
pos: noun
gloss: To touch or kiss lovingly; to fondle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She loves being caressed by her boyfriend.
The Guacho then goes up to him, caresses him, removes the poncho from his eyes, continues to caress him; so that, according to the notion of the country, the horse becomes [...]
He very likely will take a step or two in your direction. Caress him and repeat. Soon commence to snap the finger, at the same time touch him with the whip, and he will follow readily. Now takea longer bow top whip, get a little ways off and snap the finger. If he comes, caress him and repeat. Every time he comes to you, caress him and let him stand; do not drive him away.
gloss: To affect as if with a caress.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The love and anguish in his voice caressed my mind and soul.
Derived words: caressable
caressingly
caressive
uncaressed
Translations:
fondle
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fond
English -le
English fondle
From fond (“love, admire”) + -le (frequentative suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: fondles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fondling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fondled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fondled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fondles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To touch or stroke lovingly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Mothers fondle their babies.
idly fondling the cat's ears
gloss: To grasp.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The lovers fondled each other.
gloss: A caress.
pos: noun
examples: I gave the sleeping dog's ears a fondle as I walked past.
Synonyms: canoodle
caress
chuckle
coax
cosset
dally
dandle
dawt
faddle
feel up
fond
fondle
grabble
grope
nantle
pet
pettle
shift
smuggle
tiddle
touch up
worship
Related words: cop a feel
get to second base
make out
massage
Derived words: fondleable
fondler
fondleslab
fondlesome
fondlingly
overfondle
unfondled
Translations:
titillate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin tītillātus, from tītillāre (“to tickle”).
Inflected forms:
form: titillates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: titillating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: titillated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: titillated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To stimulate or excite sensually.
pos: verb
examples: The dancer titillated her audience with gyrations and suggestive movements.
Translations:
pertinent
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English pertinent, borrowed from Old French pertinent and Latin pertinēns, pertinentem.
Inflected forms:
form: pertinents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more pertinent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pertinent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A right that attaches to land, in Scots law.
pos: noun
gloss: Important with regard to (a subject or matter); pertaining; relevant.
pos: adj
examples: Fourthly, I have made an effort to call the attention of the reader to the pertinent literature.
Antonyms: irrelevant
Translations:
insinuate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1529; Borrowed from Latin īnsinuātus, perfect passive participle of īnsinuō (“to push in, creep in, steal in”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- (“in”) + sinus (“a winding, bend, bay, fold, bosom”) -ō (verb-forming suffix). Regular participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: insinuates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: insinuating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: insinuated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: insinuated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hint; to suggest tacitly (usually something bad) while avoiding a direct statement.
pos: verb
examples: She insinuated that her friends had betrayed her.
And wilt thou inſinuate what I am? and praiſe me? And ſay I am a Noble Fellow?
And, moreover, you need not for a moment to insinuate that the virtues have taken refuge in cottages and wholly abandoned slated houses.
‘You are quite wrong, my love, in your guess at my meaning. What I insinuated was, that my Georgiana’s little heart was growing conscious of a vacancy.’
gloss: To creep, wind, or flow into; to enter gently, slowly, or imperceptibly, as into crevices.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: 1728-1729, John Woodward, An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England
Water will insinuate itself into Flints through certain imperceptible Cracks
Some speakers allow the sound of r to insinuate itself between the a and s of wash
gloss: To ingratiate; to obtain access to or introduce something by subtle, cunning or artful means.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: All the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment.
Horace laughs to shame all follies and insinuates virtue, rather by familiar examples than by the severity of precepts.
He[…] insinuated himself into the very good grace of the Duke of Buckingham.
[…] he insinuated himself into the confidence of one already so forlorn—[…]
Nanny didn't so much enter places as insinuate herself; she had unconsciously taken a natural talent for liking people and developed it into an occult science.
Related words: insinuation
insinuator
sinuous
Derived words: insinuatingly
insinuatingness
insinuative
insinuatory
uninsinuated
Translations:
demure
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English demure, demwre, an abbreviation of Anglo-Norman de mure port (“with a mature demeanor”) (compare Old French meur from Latin mātūrus):
*si il seyt coy e de mure port (Amur curteiz) (“he sits quietly and with a mature appearance”)
* Documents illustrating the history of Scotland, CLV, 1306, Orders for the custody of Scottish prisoners, CLV: …et que eles soient de bon et meur port (“…with a good and mature demeanor”)
* mss. Arundel, 220: ke cely qe vus amerez soyt de gentil manere, coy, de meure porture (“with a mature demeanor”)
* (Monastic rule): de aunciene dame de meure porture ke pusse les plus ieuenes rieueler e endoctriner (“an old lady with a mature demeanor able to rule and educate the young girls”).
Inflected forms:
form: demurer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: demurest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Modest, quiet, reserved, or serious.
pos: adj
examples: She is a demure young lady.
Nan was very much delighted in her demure way, and that delight showed itself in her face and in her clear bright eyes.
I was coming back from the ladies' room when I saw her. She looked demure. Oval wire-rimmed glasses. A sky blue jacket buttoned over a long black-and-white flowered shirt.
[H]owever hard she pushed the tough-talkin' shtick, she remained doe-eyed, glowing and somehow unassailably demure.
And in their daily lives, girls and women are pushed to conform to fairly narrow templates of behavior as demure or delicate.
gloss: Affectedly modest, decorous, or serious; making a show of gravity.
pos: adj
examples: Miss Lizzy, I have no doubt, would be as demure and coquettish, as if ten winters more had gone over her head.
Derived words: demurely
demureness
demurity
undemure
Translations:
incite
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French inciter, from Latin incitō (“to set in motion, hasten, urge, incite”), from in (“in, on”) + citō (“to set in motion, urge”), frequentative of cieō (“to rouse, excite, call”).
Inflected forms:
form: incites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: inciting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: incited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: incited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To call into action.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
incite people to violence
Human rights groups blame the anti-Rohingya propaganda for inciting murders, rapes and the largest forced human migration in recent history.
Who and what exactly incited Amir?
President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both.
gloss: To entreat an act.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To instigate a specific incident.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: abet
actuate
goose
light a fire under
send
sting
bring about
cheer
draw
drive
encourage
egg on
engender
evoke
excite
foment
goad
grill
ignite
impel
incite
induce
inflame
instigate
invoke
lash
motive
motivate
move
obligate
oblige
push
promote
prompt
provoke
rouse
set off
spark off
spur
spur on
stimulate
stir
stir up
stoke
tempt
urge
whet
whip up
Antonyms: curb
daunt
demoralize
demotivate
deter
discourage
dishearten
dissuade
halt
prevent
stop
Related words: excite
incitement
ignite
instigate
Derived words: incitable
incitee
inciteful
inciter
incitor
incitingly
incitive
incitory
reincite
unincited
Translations:
minge
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Angloromani mintš, from Romani minʒ (“female genitals”), probably from Old Armenian մէջ (mēǰ, “middle, midst; inside, interior; the middle part of the body; loins, reins; waist; belly, abdomen; back”). Doublet of medius.
Other possible etymology: from the Latin mingere (“to urinate”), synecdochically used to describe the organ through an associated function (possibly ironically or euphemistically).
Inflected forms:
form: minges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The pubic hair and vulva.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
slang
vulgar
examples: Last week, she ended up on a binge / She got off her tits and showed the bouncers her minge
Big Bird / Sesame / Big minge energy
Translations:
kiss-up
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
English kiss updeverb.
English kiss-up
Deverbal from kiss up.
Inflected forms:
form: kiss-ups
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who flatters a supervisor, or superior, in order to get special attention
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Joe got that promotion because he was a kiss-up, not because he knew the job.
Translations:
fat-ass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fat
English -ass
English fat-ass
From fat + -ass.
Inflected forms:
form: fat-asses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fatass
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fatarse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fat-arse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rotund, overweight, or obese person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: He is such a fat-ass he can barely put his feet together.
gloss: A jibe used on someone disliked, frequently someone regarded as lazy.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
vulgar
examples: My boss is a fat-ass who doesn't know his job as well as I do.
Yes, your whole department is full of fat-asses.
Translations:
pleb
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.
Inflected forms:
form: plebs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
pos: noun
gloss: A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: You're under my roof, you pleb.
gloss: A freshman cadet at a military academy.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
slang
usually
examples: I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.
At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.
gloss: Of or concerning the lower class of a society.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
not-comparable
Synonyms: prole
plebe
plebeian
Antonyms: toff
posho
Related words: plebe
plebeian
plebs
Derived words: Plebbit
plebby
Plebgate
Translations:
transpose
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
board-games
chess
entertainment
games
graph-theory
law
lifestyle
linear-algebra
mathematics
music
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English transposen, from Old French transposer, from Latin trānspositus, perfect passive participle of trānspōnō (“to put across”), from trāns (“across”) + pōnō (“to put”).
Inflected forms:
form: transposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transposed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: transposes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reverse the direction of every edge of (a graph).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: After e6, the opening transposed to a Sicilian.
gloss: Created by transposing a specified matrix.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Created by transposing a specified graph.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The matrix derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix.
pos: noun
gloss: A graph whose every edge has had its direction reversed.
pos: noun
Synonyms: interchange
swap
swap over
swap round
switch
Derived words: mistranspose
nontransposing
retrotransposable
retrotranspose
retrotransposing
transposability
transposome
untransposed
transpose conjugate
conjugate transpose
transposable
transposal
transposase
transposer
transposing
transposition
transposon
Translations:
juxtapose
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French juxtaposer, corresponding to juxta- + pose, derived from Latin iuxtā (“near, next to”) + pōnō (“place”).
Inflected forms:
form: juxtaposes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: juxtaposing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: juxtaposed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: juxtaposed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To place side by side, especially for contrast or comparison.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The artist used contrasting colors to juxtapose light and dark.
The documentary effectively juxtaposes the lives of two rival politicians.
In the study, they juxtaposed economic growth with social welfare indicators.
Translations:
elated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin elatus (“raised”).
Inflected forms:
form: more elated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most elated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely happy and excited; delighted; pleased, euphoric.
pos: adj
examples: She was elated with her new car.
Antonyms: displeased
dissatisfied
Translations:
torment
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English torment, from Old French torment, from Latin tormentum (“something operated by twisting”), from torquere (“to twist”).
Inflected forms:
form: torments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: torments
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tormenting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tormented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tormented
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A catapult or other kind of war-engine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Torture, originally as inflicted by an instrument of torture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I've gone through living torment.
gloss: Any extreme pain, anguish or misery, either physical or mental.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He behaved bitter from the torments of the divorce.
They brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments.
gloss: To cause severe suffering to (stronger than to vex but weaker than to torture.)
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The child tormented the flies by pulling their wings off.
Moyes, who never won a derby at Liverpool in 11 years as Everton manager, did not find the Etihad any more forgiving as City picked United apart in midfield, where Toure looked in a different class to United's £27.5m new boy Marouane Fellaini, and in defence as Aguero tormented Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand.
But the divine children were both noisy and mischievous. They tormented their venerable grandmother with their shrill uproar and tricky behaviour.
Related words: torture
Derived words: tormentful
tormentless
tormentry
tormentuous
tormentous
Translations:
brio
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian brio (“finesse, talent”), from Spanish brío, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brīgos.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Vigour or vivacity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He lay tossing restlessly on a dirty old straw palliasse, and was in great pain; but greeted his friend with a dash of the old brio.
And as if to undermine their authority still further, Welsh Philpott in his innocence has made the error of placing Rick beside the pulpit in the very spot from which in the past he has read us the day's lesson with such brio and persuasion.
Translations:
vivacity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From vivac(ious) + -ity, borrowed from Latin vīvācitās.
Base: vivacious
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: vivacities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being vivacious.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But reposed natures may do well in youth. […] On the other side, heat and vivacity in age, is an excellent composition for business.
1738, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, Book I, Part I, Section III. Of the Ideas of the Memory and the Imagination,
We find by experience, that when any impression has been present with the mind, it again makes its appearance there as an idea; and this it may do after two different ways: either when in its new appearance it retains a considerable degree of its first vivacity, and is somewhat intermediate betwixt an impression and an idea: or when it entirely loses that vivacity, and is a perfect idea.
The one entertained me with her vivacity when I was gay, the other with her sense when I was serious.
In the name of truth and common sense, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise than another? or, in other words, that she has a sound constitution; and why to damp innocent vivacity, is she darkly to be told, that men will draw conclusions which she little thinks of?
Some secret sorrow, or the brooding spirit of some moody passion, had quenched the light and ingenuous vivacity of youth in a countenance singularly fitted to display both […]
[…] an extraordinary observer might have seen that the chin was very pointed and pronounced; that the big eyes were full of spirit and vivacity; that the mouth was sweet-lipped and expressive; that the forehead was broad and full; in short, our discerning extraordinary observer might have concluded that no commonplace soul inhabited the body of this stray woman-child […]
Translations:
vex
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin vexōbor.
Old French vexerbor.
Middle English vexen
English vex
From Middle English vexen, from Old French vexer, from Latin vexāre (“disturb, agitate, annoy”). Displaced native Old English dreċċan and gremman.
Inflected forms:
form: vexes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vexing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vexed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vexed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: vext
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: vext
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
Senses:
gloss: To annoy, irritate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Billy's professor was vexed by his continued failure to improve his grades.
The first thing that greets you on entering the church is a notice asking you not to vex the goat, since it renders valuable service in keeping the churchyard tidy.
gloss: To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I will not again vex her ear with words of love, however true, however deep: ours is an evil destiny, and we may not control it!
I vex my heart with fancies dim:
⁠He still outstript me in the race;
⁠It was but unity of place
That made me dream I rank’d with him.
gloss: To trouble aggressively, to harass.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: In that tyme Herode the kynge layed hondes on certayne of the congregaciõ, to vexe them.
gloss: To twist, to weave.
pos: verb
tags: rare
transitive
examples: some English wool, vexed in a Belgian loom
gloss: To be irritated; to fret.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Wake when thou would'st wake, fear nought, vex for nought
gloss: To toss back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: White curl the waves, and the vexed ocean roars.
Synonyms: afflict
aggrieve
plague
atray
cag
distress
engrieve
grame
harass
harrow
harry
torment
trouble
vex
rend
wring
Antonyms: alleviate
comfort
Related words: quake
vexatious
offend
Derived words: vexation
vexatious
vexed
vexer
vexingly
Translations: