yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
puncheon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English punchoun, from Anglo-Norman ponchon, pounceon et al., and Middle French ponçon, poinchon et al., from Old French ponchon, from Latin pūnctiōnem (“act of piercing”). Doublet of punction. Related to Middle High German punze (“chisel; burin, graver”), ponze (“puncheon, standardized cask”), German Punze (“puncheon, punch, counter”).
Inflected forms:
form: puncheons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: punchion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A figured stamp, die, or punch, used by goldsmiths, cutlers, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud.
pos: noun
examples: he chose to regard [his father] with a lowering and suspicious mien, unless it were in the dead hours of the night, when he developed a morbid craving to be trotted back and forth and up and down the puncheon floor [...].
gloss: A piece of roughly dressed timber with one face finished flat (by either hewing or sawing).
pos: noun
gloss: A split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used especially for flooring but also for log cabin walls, piers, or plank roads.
pos: noun
gloss: A walkway or short, low footbridge over wet ground constructed with such timbers, made by laying one or more planks or dressed timbers over sills set directly on the ground.
pos: noun
gloss: A short low bridge of similar construction.
pos: noun
gloss: A cask of a certain size; its volume used as a measure of capacity varying from 72 to 120 gallons.
pos: noun
examples: Once in the Grenada islands, when I and above eight others were pulling a large boat with two puncheons of water in it, a surf struck us, and drove the boat and all in it about half a stone's throw, among some trees, and above the high water mark.
Again, by 28 Hen. VIII, cap. 14, it is re-enacted that the tun of wine should contain 252 gallons, a butt of Malmsey 126 gallons, a pipe 126 gallons, a tercian or puncheon 84 gallons, a hogshead 63 gallons, a tierce 41 gallons, a barrel 31.5 gallons, a rundlet 18.5 gallons.
Then he went to the scullery, wetted his hands, scooped the last white dough out of the punchion, and dropped it in a baking-tin.
Related words: punch
Translations:
lang: Basque
word: oinzubi
lang: Catalan
word: palanca
lang: Danish
word: spang
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: klopp
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: kavlebru
lang: Swedish
word: spång
firkin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle Dutch *vierdekijn, diminutive of vierde (“fourth”), from vier (“four”); equivalent to fourth + -kin.
Base: fourth
Affixes: -kin
Inflected forms:
form: firkins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A varying measure of capacity, usually being a quarter of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: 23 Hen. VIII, cap. 4... The barrel of beer is to hold 36 gallons, the kilderkin 18 gallons the firkin 9. But the barrel, kilderkin, and firkin of ale are to contain 32, 16, and 8 gallons.
But for his other guests he let bear in the massy cups of silver, and the great eared wine jars holding two firkins apiece, and he let pour forth to the Witches and the Foliots, and they drank the cup of memory unto King Gorice XI., slain that day by the hand of Goldry Bluszco.
Barrels came in firkins, nine gallons; kilderkins, eighteen gallons; halves, twenty-seven gallons; barrels, thirty-six gallons and hogsheads, fifty-four.
gloss: A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, used for butter, lard, etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A measurement for the mass of butter, equalling 56 pounds.
pos: noun
Translations:
falt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: falts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An old English measure of wheat in London containing 9 bushels.
pos: noun
examples: ...1 Hen. V, cap. 10... This statute also denounces the London falt, which contained nine bushels, and a practice which had grown up in the city of making sellers of corn not only submit to this extra measure, but to a tax for measuring corn.
Translations:
windle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English windel, from Old Norse vindla (“to wind up”) or Middle Dutch windelen (“to turn around, spin”). Related to Old English windelstān (“tower with a winding staircase”), bewindla (“a hedge or border”), hringġewindla (“a sphere”).
Inflected forms:
form: windles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: windling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: windled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: windled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bind straw into bundles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To wind yarn.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
transitive
gloss: To whirl around in the air; (of snow) to drift.
pos: verb
tags: dialectal
intransitive
Translations:
apposite
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin appositus, past participle of adponere, from ad- + ponere (“to put, place”). See apposition.
Inflected forms:
form: more apposite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most apposite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Strikingly appropriate or relevant; well suited to the circumstance or in relation to something.
pos: adj
examples: c. 1833–1856, Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol, in Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association/Volume 2/3,
Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation; ….
Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr. F's Aunt had a great deal of spirit.
Rough-neck is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English navvy, and it is over-whelmingly more American.
On the other hand, many of the happiest railway experiences are casual events—so much so that in many cases only the keen eye and apposite knowledge of the real enthusiast spots an item of more than passing interest.
Information on almost every aspect of London Transport's railways—and on the Southern Region's Waterloo & City line—is here contained, with many apposite and well-captioned illustrations, in 125 pages, all for the modest price of one guinea.
And so it is good to see the big society born again, resurrected in Cameron's Christmas message. The timing was apposite: as the prime minister pointed out, many of the most active volunteers are Christians.
As a new political year begins, those nine words seem more apposite than ever, and they snugly fit one defining fact of our national predicament: that the wreckage of Brexit is all around us but our politicians will still not acknowledge it.
Or is that just the way art is now? The neo-Victorian craze is very apposite.
gloss: Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
pos: adj
examples: In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.
gloss: Related, homologous.
pos: adj
examples: If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.
Related words: appositely
appositeness
apposition
inapposite
Derived words: unapposite
Translations:
hundredweight
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: 16th century, from hundred + weight.
Compound parts: hundred
weight
Inflected forms:
form: hundredweight
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hundredweights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cwt.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A measure of weight containing a hundred pounds, variously understood as
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A measure of weight containing a hundred pounds, variously understood as
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
examples: The hundredweight of 112 avoirdupois lbs. becomes general in the period before me, and is employed for the commoner kinds of materials.
gloss: A measure of weight containing a hundred pounds, variously understood as
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A measure of weight containing a hundred pounds, variously understood as
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: long hundredweight
imperial hundredweight
centenary
Related words: bushel
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قِنْطَار
roman: qinṭār
lang: Bengali
word: হন্দর
roman: hondor
lang: Breton
word: kantolz
lang: Bulgarian
word: центнер
roman: centner
lang: Catalan
word: quintar
lang: Finnish
word: sentneri
lang: French
word: quintal
lang: Middle French
word: quintal
lang: Old French
word: quintal
lang: Galician
word: quintal
lang: Georgian
word: ცენტნერი
roman: cenṭneri
lang: German
word: Zentner
lang: Hindi
word: क्विंटल
roman: kviṇṭal
lang: Hindi
word: कुंटल
roman: kuṇṭal
lang: Hindi
word: कुंतल
roman: kuntal
lang: Indonesian
word: kuintal
lang: Irish
word: céad
lang: Norman
word: chent
lang: Persian
word: قنطار
roman: qentâr
lang: Portuguese
word: quintal
lang: Spanish
word: quintal
lang: Turkish
word: kental
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قنطار
roman: kantar
lang: Vilamovian
word: cȧnkner
lang: Welsh
word: canpwys
coomb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *comb, *cumb (> Scots cumb, coom (“tub, cistern”)), from Old English cumb (“a vessel; a liquid measure”), from Proto-Germanic *kumbaz (“bowl, vessel”). Compare German Kumpf (“bowl”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Latin cumba (“boat, tomb of stone”), from Ancient Greek κύμβη (kúmbē, “hollow of a vessel, cup, boat”).
Inflected forms:
form: coombs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: comb
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An old English measure of corn (e.g., wheat), equal to half a quarter or 4 bushels.
pos: noun
examples: It was equal to half a quarter, i.e. is identical with the coomb of the eastern counties.
Two kilderkins, or strikes, make a measure called a barrel, liquid, and a coomb, dry; this last term being ancient and little used.
Translations:
mett
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: metts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mitta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Once the mitta, or mett, a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire.
Translations:
mitta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *metan (“to measure”). Cognate with German Metze.
Inflected forms:
form: mittas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mett
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Once the mitta, or mett, a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire.
Translations:
tonto
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tonto (“stupid, foolish; idiot, fool”), of uncertain etymology. Originally in US use but now chiefly British. Cf. earlier Tonto, with which it is sometimes confused.
Inflected forms:
form: tontos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more tonto
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tonto
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of idiot: someone who is foolish or stupid.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Even us tontos figured that one out.
gloss: Synonym of crazy.
pos: adj
tags: offensive
possibly
slang
examples: He told the businessmen that the law that required the certification by the President was ‘tonto’.
His two heroes are both ex-FO types and both terminally tonto about cricket.
Yes, and then I got drunk one night and snogged one of his friends, and he went tonto.
AMERICA! The richest prize on the bloody planet. Gone, for want of a few paltry seats on the cross benches. George the bloody Third wasn't just mad, he was completely tonto!
Whether you're based in Cyprus or you know we do longer tours in Kenya or Oman or are busy just making it to the brigade at the moment up in Estonia, you know it's going to be a busy army and unfortunately we've got a busy adversary now in Putin. Gone full tonto, I think, as I'd say, and you know that's going to be quite... We've got 1,000 people on standby.
Oi, bruv. He's gone full tonto.
Translations:
clove
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English clove, an alteration of earlier clowe, borrowed from the first component of Old French clou (de girofle) (modern French clou de girofle), from Latin clāvus (“nail”) for its shape. Also see clāva (“knotty branch, club”). Doublet of clou and clavus.
Inflected forms:
form: cloves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.
Related words: cloy
cloying
Derived words: clove camphor
cloved
clove gilliflower
clove gillyflower
cloveless
clove lilli pilli
clove pink
cloveroot
clovetree
clovewort
Translations:
tey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Derived from Middle English teies, teyse, taken as a plural, from Anglo-Norman teice, from Old French teise, toise.
Inflected forms:
form: teys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An English measure of length for rope, perhaps equivalent to the fathom.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The tey or toise, the modern fathom, is employed as a measure of rope.
Translations:
dicker
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English diker (“measure of ten”), from Late Latin dacra (“a dicker”), from Latin decuria (“a ten of something”), from decem (“ten”).
Inflected forms:
form: dickers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dickering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dickered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dickered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To bargain, haggle or negotiate over a sale.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: At Bouira the detachment detrained, and the balance of the journey was made in the saddle. As Tarzan was dickering at Bouira for a mount he caught a brief glimpse of a man in European clothes eying him from the doorway of a native coffeehouse, […]
In the brilliant sparkle of the morning when everything that was not superlatively blue was superlatively green, I dickered with a man who was taking a party up the inlet that he should drop me off at the village I was headed for.
gloss: To barter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Then, the white men who penetrated to those semi-wilds were always ready to "dicker" and to "swap," and to "trade" rifles, and watches, and whatever else they might happen to possess, almost to their wives and children.
gloss: To fiddle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They sat in a booth near the door and drank the first cold ones of the evening while watching three impassioned pinballers dickering with flashing, promising, tilting machines.
gloss: A unit of measure, consisting of 10 of some object, particularly hides and skins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 1599, attributed to Thomas Heywood, Edward IV, Part One, Act III, Scene 1, https://books.google.ca/books?id=d_MuAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Hobs [the Tanner of Tamsworth]. […] My taking is more than my spending, for here's store left. I have spent but a groat; a penny for my two jades, a penny to the poor, a penny pot of ale, and a penny cake for my man and me, a dicker of cowhides cost me.
The dicker, or daker, was ten, and is found, though generally at later times than the period before us, as a measure for hides and gloves.
gloss: A chaffering, barter, or exchange, of small wares.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: to make a dicker
“Grant that the North’s insulted, scorned, betrayed,
O'erreached in bargains with her neighbor made,
When selfish thrift and party held the scales
For peddling dicker, not for honest sales,—
Whom shall we strike? Who most deserves our blame?
Synonyms: daker
Derived words: dickerer
dicker-rod
Translations:
paya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A dish from the Indian subcontinent, made from an animal's trotters cooked with herbs and spices.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
dovecote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dove + cote.
Compound parts: dove
cote
Inflected forms:
form: dovecotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dovecot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
pos: noun
examples: If you haue writ your Annales true, 'tis there, / That like an Eagle in a Doue-cote, I / Flutter'd your Volcians in Corioles.
she could see the malt-house with its dovecote
gloss: In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Related words: dove
Derived words: flutter in the dovecote
flutter the dovecote
Translations:
Mormon
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the title of the chief work of Joseph Smith the Book of Mormon. Followers of his religious movement were called this since the 1830s. The title of the book comes from the name from the prophet who they believe compiled it, called Mormon, father of Moroni, and/or the Waters of Mormon mentioned in it.
Various implausible etymologies have been proposed, usually in attempts to discredit or defend the Mormon faith.
Inflected forms:
form: Mormons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A believer in the Mormon religion, which views Joseph Smith as a prophet of God and holds the Bible and the Book of Mormon as its primary scriptures.
pos: noun
tags: proscribed
sometimes
examples: That year, 1871, had marked a change which had been gradually coming in the lives of the peace-loving Mormons of the border.
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, the faith established by Joseph Smith, Jr.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
sometimes
Translations:
vanga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From translingual Vanga.
Inflected forms:
form: vangas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several passerine birds, of the family Vangidae, from Madagascar.
pos: noun
Translations:
grope
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gropien, from Old English grāpian, related to grīpan (whence English gripe); compare also grip.
Inflected forms:
form: gropes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: groping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: groped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: groped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gropes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To feel with or use the hands; to handle.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see.
pos: verb
examples: a. 1812. Joseph Stevens Buckminster, sermon
to grope about a little longer among the miseries and sensualities of a worldly life
In the hollow shades of the roof could be seen pale dangling arms of ivy which had crept through the joints of the tiles and were groping in vain for some support, their leaves being dwarfed and sickly for want of sunlight; [...]
Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Through the darkest sky, groping for the light / Like crying for the moon / Never-ending black, forgot what I want / Never felt that hard to me
gloss: To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually.
pos: verb
examples: The parents found the couple kissing and groping.
gloss: To intentionally and inappropriately touch or rub against another person, in such a manner as to make the contact appear accidental, for the purpose of one's sexual gratification.
pos: verb
examples: That old man groped that girl on the train!
gloss: To examine; to test; to sound.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Felix gropeth him, thinking to have a bribe.
gloss: An act of groping, especially sexually.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The old man tried to get a quick grope of the young lady on the train.
gloss: An iron fitting of a medieval cart wheel.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Gropes appear to be pieces of iron binding together the inner joint of the fitting, and grope-nails to have been used for fastening these to the wood.
Synonyms: glaum
root
feel up
touch up
Derived words: agrope
gropeable
gropefest
groper
gropery
gropingly
gropy
Translations:
alar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ala (“wing”) + -ar (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the armpit; axillary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having, resembling, or composed of wings or alae.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: alar canal
alar chest
alar foramen
alar ligaments
alarplasty
greater alar cartilage
interalar
lesser alar cartilage
postalar
prealar
subalar
Translations:
strake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
fluid-dynamics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
physics
transport
Etymology: From Middle English strake, from Old English *straca (> Anglo-Latin straca), from Proto-West Germanic *strakō, from Proto-Germanic *strakaz (“straight”). Akin to Old English streċċan (“to make straight, stretch”).
Inflected forms:
form: strakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An iron fitting of a traditional wooden wheel, such as a hub component or bearing (e.g., box, bushel), a cleat, or a rim covering.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The separate pieces of iron, forming together the fitting of the wheel, are called strakes, and the great nails by which they are fastened to the woodwork, and which had thick projecting heads, are called strake-nails and occasionally, it seems, cart-nails, great nails, or frets.
Iron strakes were the separate plates fitted to a cart wheel before the use of the iron ring or tyre. [Evans was glossing the term as encountered in a ledger entry of 1827.]
gloss: A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
pos: noun
gloss: Also used more generally to regulate fluid flow in pipes or vents to prevent turbulence or vortexes.
pos: noun
gloss: A continuous line of plates or planks running from bow to stern that contributes to a vessel's skin. (FM 55-501).
pos: noun
examples: With regard to materials, all the frames should be of oak and so should the stem piece, stern post, upper portion of dead woods, knight heads, apron, beams, shelf clamp, bilge strakes, and keelson; the keel will generally be found to be either English or American elm. The garboard strakes are generally of American elm, and it is best that the planking above should be of American elm or oak to within a foot or so of the load water-line, and teak above to the covering board or deck edge.
But only last night a telephone call roused Mr. Tulloch from his bed—a sheer-strake gone; how long for repairs?
You felt the power of the Olympic's twenty-nine boilers transmitted upward through the strakes of the hull.
gloss: A shaped piece of wood used to level a bed or contour the shape of a mould, as for a bell
pos: noun
gloss: A trough for washing broken ore, gravel, or sand; a launder.
pos: noun
gloss: A streak.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut^([sic]) tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
His burning eyen, whom bloody strakes did staine
Derived words: garboard strake
lapstrake
ringstraked
Translations:
moa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Māori moa, from Proto-Polynesian *moa (“fowl”).
Inflected forms:
form: moa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of large, extinct, flightless birds of the family Dinornithidae that were native to New Zealand; until its extinction, one species was the largest bird in the world.
pos: noun
examples: The moas (order Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand are likewise extinct but almost certainly some still survived when Tasman first sighted the islands in 1642.
For instance, the little bush moa fed nearly exclusively on forest vegetation, whereas the heavy-footed moa was a grazer in open vegetation habitats.
gloss: An extremely tall individual.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
uncommon
Derived words: broad-billed moa
bush moa
coastal moa
crested moa
eastern moa
giant moa
heavy-footed moa
lesser moa
little bush moa
Mantell's moa
Mappin's moa
moa bed
moalike
moan
moa-nalo
moa stone
North Island giant moa
slender moa
South Island giant moa
stout-legged moa
upland moa
Translations:
lath
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
geography
geology
mining
natural-sciences
petrology
Etymology: From Middle English laththe, laþþe, earlier lathe, laþe, altered from Old English lætt (“lath”), from Proto-West Germanic *lattu, from Proto-Germanic *laþô (compare Dutch lat, German Latte) from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lat- (compare Welsh llath (“rod, wand, yard”)).
Inflected forms:
form: laths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: latt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: laths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lathing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lathed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lathed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lat
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: latt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Scotland
Senses:
gloss: A thin, narrow strip, fastened to the rafters, studs, or floor beams of a building, for the purpose of supporting a covering of tiles, plastering, etc.
pos: noun
examples: "You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut."
The rubble waits him, sloping up to broken rear walls in a clogging, an openwork of laths pointlessly chevroning-flooring, furniture, glass, chunks of plaster, long tatters of wallpaper, split and shattered joists […].
Lanna says about wishing she was bigger in the chest and I goes that I had nothing to beat there and I was thin as a lat.
gloss: Microscopic, needle-like crystals, usually of plagioclase feldspar, in a glassy groundmass
pos: noun
gloss: One of the sharp-edged, thick planks driven forward to hold back loose earth or mud when digging the way through for tunnelling or spiling. Also called a spill.
pos: noun
gloss: To cover or line with laths.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: cement board
drywall
gyprock
gypsum board
gypsum plaster
lathe
plaster
plasterboard
sheetrock
wallboard
Derived words: counterlath
dagger of lath
lath and plaster
plaster and lath
lath board
lath brick
lathen
lathless
lathlike
lath nail
lath plaster
lath strapping
lathwork
lathy
Translations:
busk
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Apparently from French busquer or Spanish buscar.
Inflected forms:
form: busks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: busking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: busked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: busked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: busks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
pos: verb
tags: UK
especially
intransitive
gloss: To sell articles such as obscene books in public houses etc.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: The frothy orator, who busked his tales
In quackish pomp of noisy words
gloss: To tack, cruise about.
pos: verb
gloss: A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
pos: noun
examples: Her long slit sleeves, stiffe buske, puffe verdingall, / Is all that makes her thus angelicall.
gloss: A corset.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Off with that happy busk, which I envie, / That still can be, and still can stand so nigh.
Derived words: busker
busk it
busked
unbusk
Translations:
buckram
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bukeram (“fine linen”), from Anglo-Norman bokeram, from Old French boquerant, bougherant (“fine cloth”), bougueran, probably ultimately from Bokhara, a city in southeastern Uzbekistan.
Inflected forms:
form: buckrams
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buckrams
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buckraming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: buckramed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buckramed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: buckrammed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: buckrammed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Four rogues in buckram let drive at me—
Buckram was probably from the first a stiffened material employed for lining, often dyed.
gloss: A crab that has just molted; a papershell.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: To stiffen with or as if with buckram.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: unbuckramed
Translations:
patella
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
mycology
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin patella (“a small pan or dish, a plate; the kneepan, patella”), diminutive of patina (“a broad shallow dish, pan”). Doublet of paella.
Inflected forms:
form: patellas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: patellae
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sesamoid bone of the knee; the kneecap.
pos: noun
examples: Subluxed patellas, more commonly referred to as slipped stifles, like all inherited factors will continue to cripple a breed as long as breeders continue to mate affected animals.
2005, Roger E. Stevenson, 20: Limbs, Roger E. Stevenson, Judith G. Hall, Human Malformations and Related Anomalies, page 920,
Since patella diameter is a feature of continuous variation, the majority of small patellas represent simply the lower extreme of normal anatomic variation.
Both patellae are well preserved for Dolni Věstonice 3 and 13-15, and the left patella remains for Dolni Věstonice 16 (Figures 18.22 to 18.26).
The patellae may be up to 30° externally rotated at birth. In young children it is considered normal for the patellae to be externally rotated, but by 5 years of age the patellae should face forwards.
gloss: A little dish or vase.
pos: noun
gloss: An orbicular sessile apothecium, with a marginal rim distinct from the thallus.
pos: noun
Related words: chondromalacia patellae
nail-patella syndrome
patella femoral pain syndrome
patellar
patellar reflex
patellate
patellectomy
Translations:
cultivar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of cultivated + variety or cultigen + variety. Coined by American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1923.
Compound parts: cultivated
variety
Inflected forms:
form: cultivars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cultivated (not necessarily botanical) variety of a plant species or hybrid of two species.
pos: noun
Translations:
kneecap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: anatomy
business
construction
manufacturing
medicine
roofing
sciences
Etymology: From knee + cap.
Compound parts: knee
cap
Inflected forms:
form: kneecaps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kneecaps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kneecapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kneecapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kneecapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The flat, roundish bone in the knee.
pos: noun
gloss: A metal cover trim that fits over a panel rib after it has been cut and bent.
pos: noun
gloss: A cap or strong covering for the knees, used chiefly for horses, to protect their knees in case of a fall.
pos: noun
gloss: To destroy the knees of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees, as a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Sinn Féin press officer Richard McAuley freely admitted, “Back four or five years ago, people were getting kneecapped who should not have been kneecapped.”
gloss: To attack (someone) in a way that is excessively and needlessly damaging: to cut (someone) off at the knees.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
transitive
examples: This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told. On an alternate timeline without Donald Trump in office dismantling the American scientific establishment and Elon Musk kneecapping the American state, it might have been the manifesto of a new politics.
Related words: kneecapping
kneecapper
Translations:
kneecapping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: kneecappings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of injuring the knees of (a person), usually by shooting at the knees; often a punishment carried out by criminals or terrorists.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gerund
uncountable
examples: The mafiosi punished the informer by giving him a kneecapping.
Five kneecappings have been reported this month.
gloss: An excessively and needlessly damaging attack or disparagement.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
gerund
uncountable
Translations:
effortless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English effort
Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.
Proto-Germanic *leusaną
Proto-Germanic *lausaz
Proto-Germanic *-lausaz
Proto-West Germanic *-laus
Old English -lēas
Middle English -les
English -less
English effortless
From effort + -less.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Without effort.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: She made the move look completely effortless.
Translations:
acidly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin acidusbor.
French acidebor.
English acid
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English acidly
From acid + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more acidly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most acidly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: sourly; tartly
pos: adv
examples: Perchance, when you are speculating why he is so acidly disposed some morning, he is but meditating upon that other half-hour which he wanted in bed, to bring his wits and his good-temper about him.
Flay involuntarily propels his gawky body forwards as he hears that his Lordship wants him, but he pulls himself up at the end of his first long step towards the door, and peers even more suspiciously and acidly at the youth in his immaculate black cloth.
In a brief two decades, the young British dramatists who railed angrily at the Establishment have been succeeded by caustic young playwrights who acidly mock the welfare state.
Commenting acidly on the loss of Vladivostok 115 years later (and on President Ford’s summit with Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev in that city), Deng Xiaoping told me that the different names given to the city by the Chinese and the Russians reflected their respective purposes: the Chinese name translated roughly as “Sea Slug,” while the Russian name meant “Rule of the East.” “I don’t think it has any other meaning except what it means at face value,” he added.
Translations:
acidulous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin acidulus (“sourish, acidulous”), diminutive of acidus (“sour, acid”). See acid. By surface analysis, acid + -ule + -ous.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Slightly sour; subacid; sourish.
pos: adj
examples: the hard, acidulous, metallic tincture of the spring
gloss: Sharp; caustic.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: He talked with acidulous tolerance of the exalted personages who had sent Ashenden to X.
gloss: Containing carbonic acid.
pos: adj
examples: acidulous mineral waters
Derived words: acidulously
acidulousness
nonacidulous
subacidulous
Translations:
id
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychoanalysis
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From New Latin id (“it”), chosen by Freud’s translator as a translation of his use of German Es (“it”) as a noun for this concept from the pronoun es (“it”).
Inflected forms:
form: ids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The unconscious impulsive component of the personality in the Freudian psychoanalytic model.
pos: noun
examples: "There is one sentence in it, however - namely: 'I protest strongly against the insufferable and entirely dogmatic assertion that each separate id is a microcosm possessed of an historical architecture elaborated slowly through the series of generations.' Have you no desire, in view of later research, to modify this statement?"
Almost as an afterthought, we’re given an origin story for Barney’s alcoholism: he was once a sober, studious, Ivy League-bound high school scholar before Homer forced a beer on him that transformed him into a drooling, slurring, out of control rampaging id.
The phenomenon may seem like a random burble of the internet’s id, but Alvarez has been making similarly entrancing—if mostly nonmusical—work for the past few years.
Translations:
laden
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: See lade.
Inflected forms:
form: more laden
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most laden
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Weighed down with a load, burdened.
pos: adj
examples: The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.
gloss: Heavy.
pos: adj
examples: His comments were laden with deeper meaning.
When applied to other persons, the idea of comfort is an intuitive measure of trustworthiness, reliability, and predictability in a polycentric world that managers often find troubling, ambiguous, and anxiety-laden.
gloss: Oppressed.
pos: adj
examples: Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].
gloss: In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
pos: adj
examples: Once laden it is easy to regenerate the adsorbent and retrieve the adsorbed species as a gas.
Derived words: debt-laden
ladenness
theory-laden
unladen
value-laden
Translations:
makeshift
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Deverbal from make shift. First appears c. 1554, in the publications of H. Hilarie.
Inflected forms:
form: makeshifts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: make-shift
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: make shift
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more makeshift
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most makeshift
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: make-shift
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: make shift
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A temporary (usually insubstantial) substitution.
pos: noun
examples: And I am not a model clergyman—only a decent makeshift.
Hoboism cannot be cured or prevented by makeshifts or by local measures and efforts, although community interest naturally is vital in dealing with a problem that comes home to every community.
gloss: Made to work or suffice; improvised; substituted.
pos: adj
examples: They used the ledge and a few branches for a makeshift shelter.
Hodgson was able to introduce Arsenal teenager Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain for his debut late on as this makeshift England line-up closed out a victory that was solid for the most part without ever threatening to be spectacular.
The first US service members to die in the conflict between the US and Iran were killed by a direct Iranian strike on a makeshift operations center at a civilian port in Kuwait on Sunday morning local time, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
Translations:
indeed
Part of speech: adv
intj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English indede, univerbation of the phrase in dede (“in sooth, in fact”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian innerdoat, innedoat (“indeed”), West Frisian yndied (“indeed”), Dutch inderdaad (“indeed”), German in der Tat (“indeed”). By surface analysis, in + deed. Compare in fact, in truth, etc. First attested in the early 14ᵗʰ century.
Inflected forms:
form: endeed
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: indeedy
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Canada
US
regional
form: endeed
pos: intj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: indeedy
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Canada
US
regional
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of actually or truly.
pos: adv
tags: modal
not-comparable
examples: Indeed, he made several misplays.
Yes, I do indeed look very similar to you.
Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time that he wore kilts. But I see that I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed, she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria,[…].
gloss: In fact.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: As a soccer player, he is terrible indeed.
gloss: Indicates agreement with another speaker's previous statement.
pos: intj
examples: "I am a great runner." "Indeed!"
gloss: Indicates doubt or disagreement with another speaker's previous statement.
pos: intj
examples: "I am a great runner." "Indeed?"
Derived words: a friend in need is a friend indeed
indeedie
Translations:
demob
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of demobilize.
Inflected forms:
form: demobs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: demobbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: demobbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: demobbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: demobs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To demobilize; to release someone from military service.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: When Lil’s husband got demobbed, I said— / I didn't mince my words, I said to her myself, / Hurry up please its time / Now Albert’s coming back, make yourself a bit smart. […] think of poor Albert, / Hes been in the army four years, […]
gloss: Demobilization; release from military service.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: […] word was, some men were getting their demob quicker than others.
gloss: A person released from military service.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: There are hundreds—thousands—of young demobs like yourself to be had to-day for the asking.
Derived words: demob-happy
demob suit
Translations:
acknowledgment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
Etymology: Etymology tree
English acknowledge
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English acknowledgment
From acknowledge + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: acknowledgments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acknowledgement
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The act of acknowledging
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: .
gloss: The act of recognizing in a particular character or relationship; recognition of existence, authority, truth, or genuineness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He just grunted in acknowledgment of my greeting.
gloss: A reward or other expression or token of gratitude.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An expression of gratitude for a benefit or an obligation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the acknowledgment of a favor
gloss: A message from the addressee informing the originator that the originator's communication has been received and understood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the acknowledgment of a wedding invitation
gloss: A response (ACK) sent by a receiver to indicate successful receipt of a transmission (See Wikipedia article on transmission).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A recognition as genuine or valid; an avowing or admission in legal form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: acknowledgment of a deed
This is conveniently done by means of a written instrument, called a bill of exchange, which is, in fact, a transferable order by a creditor upon his debtor, and when accepted by the debtor, that is, authenticated by his signature, becomes an acknowledgment of debt.
gloss: The act of a person admitting a child as their own.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A formal statement or document recognizing the fulfillment or execution of a legal requirement or procedure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: land acknowledgment
nonacknowledgment
unacknowledgment
Translations: