yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
unsporting
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English sporting
English unsporting
From un- + sporting.
Inflected forms:
form: more unsporting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unsporting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: unfair, or not sportsmanlike
pos: adj
gloss: Not taking part in sport; unsporty.
pos: adj
examples: The bright, unsporting boy is labelled a swot, geek or nerd, the artist any other term that throws his masculinity into doubt.
Translations:
tactic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chemistry
chess
games
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin tactica, from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós, “fit for ordering”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to order, to arrange”).
Inflected forms:
form: tactics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tactick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tactick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end.
pos: noun
examples: Omar has challenged Elliott Abrams’s record in Latin America, taken a firm line against Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, and advocated for—wait for it—the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine (even though the headlines have focused on her expressing support for the right to boycott as a tactic).
gloss: A maneuver used against an enemy.
pos: noun
gloss: A sequence of moves that limits the opponent's options and results in an immediate and tangible advantage, typically in the form of material.
pos: noun
gloss: Tactical; of or relating to the art of military and naval tactics.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: But time will teach the Russ, ev'n conquering War
Has handmaid arts: aye, aye, the Russ will woo
All sciences that speed Bellona's car,
All murder's tactic arts, and win them too […]
gloss: Describing a polymer whose repeat units are identical
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: counter-tactic
countertactic
delaying tactic
delay tactic
scare tactic
cistactic
ditactic
endotactic
intertactic
transtactic
tritactic
Translations:
basically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English basic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English basically
From basic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more basically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most basically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a fundamental, essential or basic manner.
pos: adv
examples: They've added some fancy features, but it's basically still a crappy car.
gloss: Essentially; mostly; pretty much.
pos: adv
gloss: Used to refer to the most important or fundamental point that the speaker is making or to indicate a generalization or simplification; sometimes tending towards a meaningless filler word.
pos: adv
examples: I shouldn't have done it, basically.
To get your eyes tested, you should basically go to the opticians.
Synonyms: fundamentally
more often than not
Translations:
waterlogged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: more waterlogged
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most waterlogged
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Soaked with water.
pos: adj
examples: The sudden inundation from the remnants of Ida transformed familiar scenes of life in New York into otherworldly and waterlogged chaos on Wednesday night.
On a cold morning in Abilene, Texas, a column of 18-wheelers crawls down bumpy, waterlogged roads, past cattle grazing on dusty shrubs.
gloss: In danger of sinking because of excess water onboard.
pos: adj
Synonyms: saturated
sodden
Related words: waterlog
Translations:
comprehension
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
computing
education
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French compréhension, from Latin comprehēnsiō (“taking together”), from com- (“with, together”) + prehendō (“take”).
Base: prehendō
Affixes: com-
Inflected forms:
form: comprehensions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thorough understanding.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Students will be tested on their comprehension of sentences in the foreign language.
What appeal to him are the broad visions, the specious comprehension of the social order as a whole which a planned system promises.
gloss: The totality of intensions, that is, attributes, characters, marks, properties, or qualities, that the object possesses, or else the totality of intensions that are pertinent to the context of a given discussion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A compact syntax for generating a collection in some programming languages, traditionally lists in functional programming languages.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The inclusion of nonconformists within the Church of England.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Reading comprehension.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: understanding
Related words: comprehend
comprehensibility
comprehensible
comprehensive
comprehensiveness
Derived words: incomprehension
intercomprehension
listening comprehension
miscomprehension
noncomprehension
reading comprehension
uncomprehension
Translations:
prepared
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English prepare
English -ed
English prepared
From prepare + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more prepared
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prepared
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Disposed, willing, ready (to do something).
pos: adj
examples: The journalist interviewed an eye-witness who was not prepared to disclose his identity.
Are you prepared to testify in court?
Translations:
riches
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English riches, plural of riche (“power, wealth”), from Old English rīċe (“power, authority, dominion”). Confused with Middle English richesse (“wealth”), from Old French richesse, from riche (“rich, wealthy”), of Germanic origin, from Frankish *rīki (“rich”) from Proto-Germanic *rīkijaz (“rich, powerful”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, direct, make right”). Akin to Old High German rīhhi (“rich”) (German reich (“rich”)), Old English rīċe (“rich”), Old English racu (“explanation, reasoning”). More at rich.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Money, goods, wealth, treasure.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Cal.[…]Sometimes a thouſand twangling Inſtruments
 Will hum about mine eares ; and ſometime voices,
 That if I then had wak'd after long ſleepe,
 Will make me ſleepe againe, and then in dreaming,
 The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches
 Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd
 I cri'de to dreame againe.
gloss: An abundance of anything desirable.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
plural
plural-only
examples: You will enjoy the riches of this forest.
Related words: rich
Derived words: embarrassment of riches
Translations:
waveform
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From wave + form.
Compound parts: wave
form
Inflected forms:
form: waveforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The shape of a wave function represented by a graph showing some dependent variable as function of an independent variable.
pos: noun
gloss: The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a characteristic of the phenomenon (such as voltage) versus another variable, often time.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: شَكْل مَوْجِيّ
roman: šakl mawjiyy
lang: Armenian
word: ալիքի ձեւ
roman: alikʻi jew
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 波形
roman: bōxíng
lang: Finnish
word: aaltomuoto
lang: German
word: Wellenform
lang: Greek
word: κυματομορφή
roman: kymatomorfí
lang: Indonesian
word: bentuk gelombang
lang: Malay
word: bentuk gelombang
lang: Norwegian
word: bølgeform
lang: Polish
word: kształt fali
lang: Swedish
word: vågform
lang: Thai
word: รูปคลื่น
roman: rûup-klʉ̂ʉn
lang: Turkish
word: dalga biçimi
lang: Turkish
word: dalga formu
lang: Turkish
word: dalga şekli
freestyle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From free + style.
Compound parts: free
style
Inflected forms:
form: freestyles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: freestyling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: freestyled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: freestyled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: free-style
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To improvise one's own style; to ad-lib.
pos: verb
tags: especially
intransitive
examples: And just hours after the famous golfer died in an airplane accident, I freestyled to a less talented rival, “Stop now before you get hurt / Your whole style should never take flight like Payne Stewart.”
gloss: To improvise one's dance moves; dance freely.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To improvise something in an unrestricted way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
lang: Icelandic
word: spuna
lang: Swedish
word: brösta
lang: Swedish
word: fjädra
lang: Swedish
word: frilira
lang: Swedish
word: frirälsa
lang: Swedish
word: fri­stila
lang: Swedish
word: höfta
lang: Swedish
word: kråma
lang: Swedish
word: pråla
lang: Swedish
word: spåna
lang: Swedish
word: svansa
lang: Swedish
word: svissa
lang: Swedish
word: improvisera
lang: Swedish
word: impulsera
lang: Swedish
word: extemporera
instar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin instar (“form, likeness”), which is of obscure origin.
Inflected forms:
form: instars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: instars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: instarring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: instarred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: instarred
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.
pos: noun
gloss: An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.
pos: noun
examples: In A. orientalis, first and second instars were more susceptible than third instars to H. bacteriophora TF strain, […]
gloss: A stage in development.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars.
California spirituality is a late instar of America’s utopian impulse, and corporate meritocracy derives from the Whig dream of the self-made man that entranced young Abraham Lincoln.
gloss: To stud or adorn with stars or other brilliants; to star.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way;
And, as angelic feet instar the sky,
Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness.
Espey could distinguish through the clear darkness the fringed branches of a pine-tree clinging to the heights above and waving against the instarred sky, and below a vague moving whiteness […]
He was dreaming, surely; or were those deep, instarred eyes really fixed upon him with that wistful gaze which he had seen only twice before?
gloss: To make a star of; set as a star.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
carping
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more carping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most carping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: carpings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: complaining excessively.
pos: adj
examples: Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as "Jane Eyre:" in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry -- that parent of crime -- an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of certain simple truths.
However, since there are 488 pages in all for a bargain price of a guinea one must not be too carping.
Written as a ripost to Samuel Constant’s short story "Le Mari sentimental", in which the husband is driven to despair and ultimately suicide by his carping wife, Mistress Henly begins with an account of the wife’s reading of the Constant story and how as a reader she links the text of imagination to the realities of her own life.
gloss: Excessive complaining.
pos: noun
examples: “Oh, stop your carping, Dawn!” I told myself. “You can't expect charming tones, and Oriental do-dads and apple trees in a German boarding-house.”
Translations:
serous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From French séreux, from Latin serosus, from serum.
Inflected forms:
form: more serous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most serous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Containing, secreting, or resembling serum; watery; a fluid or discharge that is pale yellow and transparent, usually representing something of a benign nature. (This contrasts with the term sanguine, which means blood-tinged and usually harmful.)
pos: adj
Translations:
dono
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English donation
English -o
English dono
From donation + -o.
Inflected forms:
form: donos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A donation.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
linger
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lengeren, frequentative of lengen (“to stay, dwell, tarry”), from Old English lenġan (“to lengthen, delay, extend”), from Proto-West Germanic *langijan, from Proto-Germanic *langijaną (compare West Frisian lingje (“to linger”), Dutch lengen, German längen, Icelandic lengja (“to lengthen”)), related to the root of English long. Equivalent to linge or long + -er (frequentative verb suffix).
Base: long
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: lingers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lingering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lingered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lingered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Still more foole I ſhall appeare / By the time I linger here
His tone lingered in the air, almost like the tone of a musical instrument.
She lingered in the window until the windy sunset died in bat-colored dusk; then, going to bed, she lay sleepless all night.
Stars fading but I linger on, dear / Still craving your kiss / I'm longin' to linger till dawn, dear / Just saying this
It takes into account […] predictions of how long radioactive contaminants will linger in the soil and water near the nuclear facility.
Mrs. Clinton’s main opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described Democratic Socialist, has proved to be more formidable than most people, including Mrs. Clinton, anticipated. He has brought income inequality and the lingering pain of the middle class to center stage and pushed Mrs. Clinton a bit more to the left than she might have gone on economic issues.
gloss: To remain alive or existent although still proceeding toward death or extinction; to die gradually.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He lingered through the day, and died that evening as the sun went down.
During his absence the queen fell ill, and after lingering for some time she died.
gloss: To consider or contemplate for a period of time; to engage in analytic thinking or discussion.
pos: verb
tags: idiomatic
intransitive
often
examples: Trump doesn't linger on the poll.
Derived words: lingerer
lingering
lingerly
linger on
linger out
lingersome
outlinger
overlinger
Translations:
spod
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
Etymology: Origin unknown; possibly related to English spud, in the sense of a potato.
Inflected forms:
form: spods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spodding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spodded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spodded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who uses talkers, an early form of chat room.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: One who studies excessively and is disliked by fellow students because of it; a swot.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: One who wastes time on nonproductive activities online.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A person of clumsy or awkward appearance.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A container used to distribute a large amount of bait in a single cast.
pos: noun
gloss: To fish using a spod.
pos: verb
Synonyms: bait rocket
Derived words: spoddy
Translations:
agog
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English agogge, from Old French en + gogues (“in a merry mood”). See also Italian agognare (“to desire eagerly”).
Inflected forms:
form: more agog
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most agog
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more agog
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most agog
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In eager desire, eager, astir.
pos: adj
examples: Everyone’s agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
gloss: Wide open.
pos: adj
examples: Cotton Mather came galloping down
All the way to Newbury town,
With his eyes agog and his ears set wide,
And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;
. . . and did not move even when the frogs crept out of the water and listened, with their gold-rimmed eyes all agog, and their yellow throats palpitating.
People leaning forward, their lips parted a little, their eyes agog, staring at her, Elinor, with a horrible ghoulish excitement . . .
Joe shook his head in awe, eyes agog and mouth hanging open as mine once must have hung for the tales of the north woods' legendary denizens.
gloss: In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest.
pos: adv
examples: Whenever they managed to steal a peak at what he was doing, the other girls were agog that he loved me so much.
Translations:
cornetto
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cornetto, a diminutive of corno (“horn”), from Latin cornū.
Inflected forms:
form: cornettos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cornetti
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A trumpet-like wind instrument used in European music of the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.
pos: noun
gloss: An Italian pastry, a kind of croissant.
pos: noun
examples: Frock-coated waiters flitted in and out dispensing champagne cocktails, stripy-jumpered gondoliers were handing out cornettos and bite-size pizzas, courtesy of the high street pizza chain that was sponsoring the whole bash,[…]
A quick espresso, maybe a roll with a little marmalade or a cornetto at the local bar, and then it's off to work or school.
Synonyms: cornett
Translations:
valise
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French valisebor.
English valise
Borrowed from French valise.
Inflected forms:
form: valises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of hand luggage such as a suitcase or travelling bag.
pos: noun
examples: Finding upon the corpse more money than was required for the funeral, he transmitted it to the abbess, together with a small valise, containing, besides apparel, some trifling articles of jewellery, and the bracelet transmitted to you,...
Though he studiously concealed his hand, this morning before breakfast, in writing the direction-card which he attached to the little brown valise of happier days, the eagle-glance of matrimonial anxiety detected, d, o, n, distinctly traced.
In spite of the falling rain, which had somewhat lessened, he took a small valise in his hand, and, leaving the remainder of his luggage at the inn, ascended the hills towards East Endelstow.
Nothing to declare / Not in the valise of my mind
Translations:
infield
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
ball-games
baseball
business
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English field
English infield
From in- + field.
Inflected forms:
form: infields
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: infields
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: infielding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: infielded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: infielded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more infield
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most infield
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The area inside a racetrack or running track.
pos: noun
examples: We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.
gloss: A constrained scope or area.
pos: noun
examples: Let’s keep this problem in the infield.
gloss: An area to cultivate: a field
pos: noun
gloss: The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
pos: noun
examples: They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.
gloss: (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
pos: noun
examples: Jones ran out an infield single.
gloss: The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
pos: noun
gloss: To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Toward or into the infield.
pos: adv
examples: [Huw] Jones was also involved in the second try, which started when [Finn] Russell received the ball near his own 22 and immediately detected that England’s defence was narrow, with Jonny May having strayed infield.
Antonyms: outfield
Derived words: corner infield
infielder
infield fly
infield fly rule
infield hit
infield shift
middle infield
Translations:
plagiarize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin plagium
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Latin plagiārius
English plagiary
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English plagiarize
From plagiary + -ize, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”).
Base: plagiary
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: plagiarizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plagiarizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plagiarized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plagiarized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: plagiarise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: She was caught trying to plagiarize an article for her thesis.
It’s unethical to plagiarize someone else’s work for personal gain.
Students should learn to write in their own words and avoid plagiarizing.
Translations:
palatable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-osder.
Latin palātumder.
Old French palatbor.
Middle English palate
English palate
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English palatable
From palate + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more palatable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most palatable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: palateable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pleasing to the taste, tasty.
pos: adj
examples: For some instant noodles make a palatable, if not especially nutritious, meal.
The fermentation of flour by means of brewer’s or distiller’s yeast produces, if rightly managed, results far more palatable and wholesome.
gloss: Tolerable, acceptable.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The agreement was palatable to both of them.
“I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palateable to you, as it seems to be at present;[…]”
Whether it’s palatable for the vice-chairman of Hillary’s presidential campaign to be embroiled in allegations of conflicts of interest, obtaining patronage jobs, or misrepresenting time worked remains to be seen.
AOC's [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] cooking live streams perfect the recipe for making politics palatable [title]
In every case, a story is worked out by the corporate media that is politically palatable for the bourgeoisie: car crash, robbery gone wrong, suicide by hanging. There is no serious investigation or follow-up, whether by the police or those purporting to call themselves “journalists.”
Related words: palatability
palate
Derived words: hyperpalatable
impalatable
nonpalatable
palatableness
palatably
Translations:
garish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from obsolete Middle English gawren (“to stare”) which is of uncertain origin, probably from Old Norse gá (“to watch, heed”) or gaurr (“rough fellow”) (Proto-Indo-European *gʰow-rós, from *gʰew- (“to be angry”)). Compare with English gaw.
Inflected forms:
form: more garish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most garish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Overly ostentatious; so colorful as to be in bad taste.
pos: adj
examples: The dress fits her well, but the pattern is rather garish.
"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."
On the other hand, to arrive after dusk, when the multitude of garish little public-houses are lit up, giving glimpses of crowded jostling bars and taprooms, is an introduction to a fine city well calculated to affect even the most nonchalant.
Leela: He gave me mechanical ears / Effective though just a bit garish.
She also said that Thameslink trains were deliberately garish, so as to lure drivers stuck on the M1, which runs alongside the line around Radlett.
Translations:
ferule
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French ferule (modern French férule), from Latin ferula (“giant fennel”). Doublet of ferula.
Inflected forms:
form: ferules
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ferules
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: feruling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: feruled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: feruled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, […].
He [a midshipman] lords it over those below him, while lorded over himself by his superiors. It is as if with one hand a school-boy snapped his fingers at a dog, and at the same time received upon the other the discipline of the usher's ferule.
The master, who stood at the end of the room, with a huge ferule under his arm, bent full upon me a look of stern appeal; […]
The schoolmaster, always severe, grew severer and more exacting than ever, for he wanted the school to make a good showing on "Examination" day. His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now—at least among the smaller pupils.
It is to keep a man awake, to keep him alive to his own soul and its fixed design of righteousness, that the better part of moral and religious education is directed; not only that of words and doctors, but the sharp ferule of calamity under which we are all God’s scholars till we die.
gloss: To punish with a ferule.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And they were right in their assumption; I could cudgel a great lubberly delinquent of a boy[…]but when it came to feruling a girl[…]my manhood rebelled[…].
Translations:
oubliette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French oubliette, from oublier (“to forget”).
Inflected forms:
form: oubliettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dungeon only accessible by a trapdoor at the top.
pos: noun
Translations:
parr
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Scottish Gaelic bradan (“salmon”).
For the salmon life stage, the word originates from the Middle English parren (“to enclose”), referring to the spots running along the side of the fish, resembling the bars of a fence.
Inflected forms:
form: parrs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: parr
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
panegyric
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French panégyrique, from Ancient Greek πανηγυρικός (panēgurikós).
Inflected forms:
form: panegyrics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: panegyrick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: panegyry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more panegyric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most panegyric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: panegyrick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: panegyry
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A formal speech publicly praising someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My little Friend Grildrig, you have made a moſt admirable Panegyrick upon your Country: […]
Want of something else to say, and a very shady lane, disposed him to confidence; and he forthwith began a panegyric on himself, and on the good fortune of Miss Arundel, stating, he was now on his road to offer himself and his debts to her acceptance.
The painter's absurd fits of jealousy, his wild devotion, his extravagant panegyrics, his curious reticences—he understood them all now, and he felt sorry.
He then spoke in the usual boastful manner of his progenitors, added a flaming panegyric upon himself, and strolled down the road to repeat his speech at the next house.
Another manifestation, significantly reaching its apogee in the midst of Antonine virtues, was the growing popularity of adoxographical exercises. Mock panegyrics were dashed off, not just by sardonic intellectuals such as Lucian, but also by trained courtiers and polished encomiasts of the stamp of [Marcus Cornelius] Fronto.
gloss: Someone who writes or delivers such a speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: panegyrical
pos: adj
Related words: encomium
eulogy
laudation
oration
paean
praise
tribute
Derived words: panegyrical
panegyrically
panegyricize
panegyrist
Translations:
tache
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of m(o)ustache.
Inflected forms:
form: taches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: 'tache
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tash
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'stache
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stache
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: stash
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Moustache, mustache.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
chatterbox
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From chatter + box.
Compound parts: chatter
box
Inflected forms:
form: chatterboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who chats or talks to excess.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: [S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
gloss: Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of chatterbot.
pos: noun
gloss: The orchid Epipactis gigantea.
pos: noun
Synonyms: jabberer
chatterer
yakker
airbag
babblemouth
bag of wind
blab
blabberer
blatherer
blabbermouth
blatherskite
bloviator
chatterbag
chatter-basket
chatterbox
Chatty Cathy
chewet
gabbler
gasbag
jangler
Mag
motormouth
patterer
prater
prattler
rattle
tongue-pad
twaddler
windbag
yapper
Related words: chatter
prattle
talkative
informant
Translations:
busty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bust
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English busty
From bust (“breast”) + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bustier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bustiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having large breasts.
pos: adj
examples: I could see a busty blonde at the end of the boardwalk.
Antonyms: flat-chested
Translations:
litigant
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From French litigant, from Middle French, from Latin litigans.
Inflected forms:
form: litigants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more litigant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most litigant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit.
pos: noun
gloss: Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit.
pos: adj
examples: the parties litigant
litigant Scholars
Translations:
tramline
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
film
hobbies
human-sciences
lexicography
lifestyle
linguistics
media
medicine
rail-transport
railways
road
sciences
sports
television
tennis
transport
Etymology: From tram + line.
Compound parts: tram
line
Inflected forms:
form: tramlines
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tram line
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tramlines
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tramlining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tramlined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tramlined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tram line
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The rails that a tram runs on.
pos: noun
gloss: Either of the two pairs of sidelines marked on a tennis court which mark the outside of the singles and doubles playing areas.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A scratch on a film, usually vertical, that extends through multiple frames.
pos: noun
examples: The tramline is therefore much less obvious on the screen. Also, if the scratch is on the base (i.e., on the back of the film), then it will not be in sharp focus.
gloss: A mark or bruise having the shape of two parallel lines.
pos: noun
examples: a tramline scar
The well-reported "tramlines" or parallel punctate scars on either side of the vein were seen in only four patients.
gloss: A pair of vertical bars (||) placed to the left of the headword in certain editions of the OED to indicate that the term is "alien or not fully naturalized" (such as a recent borrowing).
pos: noun
examples: Those words that [James] Murray classified as denizens and aliens, as well as those casuals approaching these two prior categories, were marked by two parallel lines beside the headword (||), a symbol known by the in-house term tramline. Murray himself admitted to the inherent subjectivity of his method of classification, which unsurprisingly led to a number of inconsistencies in the use of tramlines, and may even have contributed to the patchiness of the OED's regional coverage that Weiner acknowledged many years later.
gloss: Of a vehicle: to tend to follow the contours of the ground with its wheels.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: alley
Translations:
watermark
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From water + mark.
Compound parts: water
mark
Inflected forms:
form: watermarks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: watermarks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: watermarking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: watermarked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: watermarked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
pos: noun
gloss: A logo superimposed on a digital image, a television broadcast, etc.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A value stored in a datafile to ensure its integrity, so that if the file's contents are changed then the watermark will no longer match the contents.
pos: noun
gloss: A default hint caption displayed in a text box prior to the user inputting any text.
pos: noun
gloss: A mark indicating the level to which water has risen.
pos: noun
gloss: To mark paper with a watermark.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To mark a datafile with a digital watermark.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: digital watermark
watermark disease
Translations:
defloration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French desfloracion (French défloration), from Latin defloratio.
Inflected forms:
form: deflorations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the act of deflowering
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
decamp
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * French décamper, Old French descamper.
Inflected forms:
form: decamps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: decamping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: decamped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: decamped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To break camp and move on.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To disappear suddenly and secretly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Colombia is a red herring, however. The songs that became Madame X actually came together during Madonna’s two years in Portugal, where she decamped in 2017 when her son David enrolled in Benfica’s football academy. Madonna absorbed the local sounds with more of a mature, simpatico rather than asset-stripping eye.
Though unusual in the Dublin area he knew that it was not by any means unknown for desperadoes who had next to nothing to live on to be abroad waylaying and generally terrorising peaceable pedestrians by placing a pistol at their head in some secluded spot outside the city proper, famished loiterers of the Thames embankment category they might be hanging about there or simply marauders ready to decamp with whatever boodle they could in one fell swoop at a moment's notice, your money or your life, leaving you there to point a moral, gagged and garrotted.
gloss: To debark, to disembark.
pos: verb
examples: I let the civilian members of our team decamp the bus first and then the main members of Team Seven and finally the hippie from Iceland, Oran! ACT 50 I noticed an RAF truck at the bottom.
It required much honking of horns (not only the bus's), several passengers decamping like rats leaving a sinking ship, and much waiting around while a large truck trying to negotiate the same alley found room to back up[…]
That vehicle was incapacitated when, during a strafing attack by American planes, its driver neglected to set its brakes before decamping, and the bus crashed into a stone wall. Whitney spent the next three nights in a windowless cellar[…]
Synonyms: abscond
absquatulate
Derived words: decampee
decamper
decampment
Translations:
vintage
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vendage, vyndage, from Anglo-Norman vendenge, from Old French vendage, vendenge (cognate with French vendange), from Latin vindēmia (“a gathering of grapes, vintage”), from vīnum (“wine”) + dēmō (“take off or away, remove”), from de (“of; from, away from”) + emō (“take”).
Inflected forms:
form: vintages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more vintage
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vintage
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: vintages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vintaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vintaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vintaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The yield of grapes or wine from a vineyard or district during one season.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Wine, especially high-quality, identified as to year and vineyard or district of origin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.
gloss: The harvesting of a grape crop and the initial pressing of juice for winemaking.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The year or place in which something is produced.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of or relating to a vintage, or to wine identified by a specific vintage.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
gloss: Having an enduring appeal; high-quality.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
gloss: Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
pos: adj
tags: attributive
gloss: Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
pos: adj
tags: attributive
gloss: Classic, or old enough to be recognizably outdated but not old enough to be antique (such as watches, video or computer games from the 1980s or 1990s, old magazines, etc.).
pos: adj
tags: attributive
gloss: To harvest (grapes).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make (wine) from grapes.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: classic
veteran
Derived words: make vintage
vintage port
vintage shop
vintage shout
vintage store
non-vintage
nonvintage
post-vintage thoroughbred
rack vintage
unvintaged
vintage audio
vintage base ball
vintage car
vintage chocolate
vintage clothing
vintage dance
vintage guitar
vintage jewellery
vintage jewelry
vintage model
vintager
vintage snowmobiling
vintage song
vintage spring
vintage time
vintage wine
vintage year
vintaging
Translations:
unnoticed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English noticed
English unnoticed
From un- + noticed.
Inflected forms:
form: more unnoticed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most unnoticed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not noticed.
pos: adj
examples: In the midst of a world war many centenaries pass unnoticed, but one which fell on August 2, namely, the opening of Fenchurch Street station, is deserving of record.
The announcement was slipped out almost unnoticed on the last day before Parliament was dissolved to prepare for a General Election.
Mr. Hankwitz’s endorsement of Betterment was unsolicited, but the power of so-called finfluencers like him has not gone unnoticed.
The change of blue of the flags adorning the Elysée Palace was first made a year ago but went largely unnoticed.
Translations:
greensward
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
English sward
English greensward
From green + sward.
Inflected forms:
form: greenswards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: green-sward
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: green sward
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tract of land that is green with grass.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This is the prettieſt Lovv-borne Laſſe, that euer / Ran on the greene-ſord: […]
Ventagladia is also a Latin form of the name Vindogladia, and would, as it seems to me, be a good name for the broad reach of greensward below, above and south of Woodyates' Inn. Gwent gledd would mean the open or unenclosed land of greensward.
One of the first roads was Norton Way, running from north to south of the town area, and is 60 feet between boundaries, with a 16-foot carriage way of 9-inch slag bottom and 4-inch granite metalling, kerbed with 4-inch pennant kerbing; on either side two 12-foot greenswards and two 10-foot paths; the surface being drained by open ditches in the greensward (Plate VI., No 3).
From the pools of blood and the enormous lumps of flesh scattered in every direction over the green sward we imagined at first that a number of animals had been killed, but on examining the remains more closely we discovered that all this carnage came from one of these unwieldy monsters, which had been literally torn to pieces by some creature not larger, perhaps, but far more ferocious, than itself.
To be plunged straight into the old nut and bolt shop, as was the writer's experience, during a spell of cloudless June Weather was a real hardship, and the mind kept flitting back to the glint of blue water under willow trees and the click of ball on bat on a quiet spacious greensward.
He followed much of Olmsted and Vaux's plan, creating features such as South Open Ground, a vast greensward created by thinning out native oaks and shaping tons of soil and animal waste into “pleasing slopes and graceful undulations.”
Translations:
haired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English hered, equivalent to hair + -ed. Compare Dutch behaard (“haired”), German behaart (“haired”).
Base: hair
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more haired
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most haired
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bearing one's own hair as grown and yet attached; neither bald nor hairless.
pos: adj
examples: It was pointed at the tip, and whilst its dorsum was haired the opposite surface was hairless, hollowed out into a concha and directed forwards and outwards.
He made only one exception: our big rangy Llewellin setter named Frank, a blue-ticked genius that knew integral calculus where quail were concerned, and was haired almost as thinly as a pointer.
Their tails are both indistinctly bicolored, but N. picta has a thinner and more haired tail.
gloss: Bearing some specific type of hair.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
examples: He had never walked anywhere arm-in-arm with Colonel Wallis (who was a fine military figure, though sandy-haired) without observing that every woman's eye was upon him; every woman's eye was sure to be upon Colonel Wallis.
Mr Brogley himself was a moist-eyed, pink-complexioned, crisp-haired man, of a bulky figure and an easy temper […]
At half-past six the sun settled down upon the levels, with the aspect of a great forge in the heavens, and presently a monstrous pumpkin-like moon arose on the other hand. The pollard willows, tortured out of their natural shape by incessant choppings, became spiny-haired monsters as they stood up against it.
1924, Yevgeny Zamyatin, We, translated by Gregory Zilboorg, New York: Dutton, 1952, Record Twenty-Seven, p. 145,
Long-haired, austere eyebrows turned to me.
He was a tiny wiry-haired fellow with a pale, sharp-featured face and restless movements.
A clean-shaven, close-haired saint was an anomaly.
Even the curly-haired boys from merchant families, very much to the disgust of their parents, fraternized with Coloured girls.
Remember the Furies, / The snake-haired, dreadful sisters / Who climb from the hell of conscience / Whirling their torches.
She was a raven-haired beauty.
Derived words: hairedness
haired up
Slovak Rough-haired Pointer
underhaired
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: karvainen
lang: Spanish
word: cabelludo
lang: Spanish
word: cabellado
lang: Spanish
word: melenudo
lang: Spanish
word: peludo
lang: Spanish
word: peloso