yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
partisan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French partisan, from Italian partigiano (“defender of a party”), from parte (“part”). Doublet of partigiano. Attested in English from the late 15th century in the noun sense of "party adherent", and in related adjective senses from the 16th century. The "guerrilla fighter" sense influenced by Serbo-Croatian partizan, Russian партиза́н (partizán), from the same source.
The sense of "guerrilla fighter" is from c. 1690.
The adjective in the military sense dates from the early 18th century.
Inflected forms:
form: partisans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: partizan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: more partisan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most partisan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: partizan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: An adherent to a party or faction.
pos: noun
examples: "Strong partisans of neither party, Indiana farmers failed to act as a block […]"
gloss: A fervent, sometimes militant, supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a band of detached light, irregular troops acting behind occupying enemy lines in the ways of harassment or sabotage; a guerrilla fighter.
pos: noun
gloss: The commander of a body of detached light troops engaged in making forays and harassing an enemy.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: Serving as commander or member of a body of detached light troops.
pos: adj
examples: partisan officer, partisan corps
gloss: Adherent to a party or faction; especially, having the character of blind, passionate, or unreasonable adherence to a party.
pos: adj
examples: They were blinded by partisan zeal.
Having put partisan interests to one side, Greenwood set about making teamwork a watchword for her chairmanship, while seeking the broadest possible participation in subsequent inquiries.
gloss: Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause.
pos: adj
examples: partisan politics
England will regard it as a measure of justice for Frank Lampard's disallowed goal against Germany in Bloemfontein at the 2010 World Cup - but it was also an illustration of how they rode their luck for long periods in front of a predictably partisan home crowd.
He finds, not “demigods” but “a combative group of exhausted, drunken, broken, petty, partisan, scheming, squabbling, bloviating, sensory-deprived, underoxygenated, fed-up, talked-out, overheated delegates so distraught they threatened violence, secession.
Related words: copartisan
part
partisanism
partisanry
partisanship
party
Derived words: affective partisan polarization
antipartisan
bipartisan
hyperpartisan
monopartisan
multipartisan
nonpartisan
partisanize
partisanly
postpartisan
transpartisan
tripartisan
unipartisan
unpartisan
Translations:
pastime
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier passtime, pass-time, from Middle English passe tyme, passetyme, calque of Middle French passetemps.
Inflected forms:
form: pastimes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: passtime
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: pass-time
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
pos: noun
examples: Chatting is a pleasant pastime.
Hunting and fishing, the most important employments of mankind in the rude state of society, become in its advanced state their most agreeable amusements, and they pursue for pleasure what they once followed from necessity. In the advanced state of society, therefore, they are all very poor people who follow as a trade what other people pursue as a pastime.
[…]lax court morals and the absurd chivalry business were in full feather, and the joust and the tournament were the frequent pastime of titled fine gentlemen who could fight better than they could spell...
An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
And your pastimes, consisted of the strange
And twisted and deranged
And I hate that little game you had called
"Crying Lightning"
Nor would there be an opportunity for the media's favorite pastime of exposing conflict among his advisors.
Translations:
pathway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English pathwei, equivalent to path + way. Cognate with German Pfadweg, Afrikaans padweg.
Base: path
Inflected forms:
form: pathways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A footpath or other path or track.
pos: noun
examples: follow the pathway
go down the pathway
on the pathway
YOU WILL REMEMBER there was no road—not even a pathway—between the castle of the Wicked Witch and the Emerald City.
gloss: A sequence of biochemical compounds, and the reactions linking them, that describe a process in metabolism or catabolism.
pos: noun
examples: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
gloss: A course of action.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: the pathway to success
Similarly, although both clinical pathway and case management programmes seek to improve system efficiency, critical pathways concentrate on high-volume conditions with high costs in which care is generally patternable […]
Derived words: biopathway
eigenpathway
endopathway
geniculostriate pathway
hedgehog signalling pathway
immunopathway
intrapathway
mesolimbic pathway
metabolic pathway
multipathway
neuropathway
pathwayed
pentose phosphate pathway
signalling pathway
subpathway
superpathway
Translations:
patrimony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From earlier patrimoyne, from patremoyne, from Middle French patrimoine/patremoine, semilearned borrowing from Latin patrimōnium, from pater (“father”) + -mōnium (“state, condition”). First attested in 1513. By surface analysis, patri- + -mony. Compare matrimony.
Displaced native Old English fæderġestrēon.
Inflected forms:
form: patrimonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any male ancestor.
pos: noun
gloss: Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
pos: noun
Related words: Derived terms of pater
Derived terms of -mony
Derived words: cultural patrimony
patrimonial
Translations:
pave
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French paver (“to pave, to cover”), from Vulgar Latin *pavāre (“to beat down, to smash”), from Latin pavīre (“to beat, strike, ram, tread down”).
Inflected forms:
form: paves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paved
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cover something with paving slabs.
pos: verb
tags: UK
gloss: To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
examples: They paved Paradise and put up a parking lot.
gloss: To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: After two weeks Miguel began to circulate freely about the city in his truck, albeit with the long, chrome-plated pistol cocked and ready on his lap. It wouldn't be for three more years that Gonzo would tell Miguel about the secret leverage that paved his path to freedom.
Derived words: depave
impave
nuke and pave
pavement
paven
paver
paveside
pave the cowpath
pave the road to hell
pave the way
paving stone
repave
unpave
Translations:
paver
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
construction
manufacturing
road
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pave
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English paver
From pave + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pavers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A flat stone used to pave a pathway, such as a walkway to one's home.
pos: noun
examples: red brick pavers
gloss: One who paves; one who lays pavement.
pos: noun
gloss: A road paving machine, a machine to lay asphalt on roads.
pos: noun
Translations:
payer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
finance
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pay
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English payer
From pay + -er (“subject of action”).
Inflected forms:
form: payers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: payor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who pays; specifically, the person by whom a bill or note has been, or should be, paid.
pos: noun
examples: The company is the largest tax payer in the region.
Health insurance depends on both the payer and the provider.
gloss: A swaption which gives its holder the option to enter into a swap in which they pay the fixed leg and receive the floating leg.
pos: noun
Antonyms: payee
Derived words: billpayer
copayer
farepayer
feepayer
multipayer
nonpayer
prepayer
ratepayer
single-payer
taxpayer
tithepayer
tithe-payer
Translations:
pearl
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sports
surfing
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English perle, from Old French perle of uncertain etymology. Probably via unattested Medieval Latin *pernula, from Latin perna (“haunch; a marine bivalve shaped like a leg of lamb”) but also derived from Medieval Latin perla, from Latin perula (“little bag”). Its typographic use follows the name given by Jean Jannon to the type used in his miniature editions of Vergil, Horace, & the New Testament in the 1620s, which were the smallest printed works to his time. Its surfing use derives from the supposed resemblance to pearl diving.
Inflected forms:
form: pearls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pearling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pearled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pearled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
sometimes
transitive
examples: Syed Omar began to walk to the airport. Sweat pearled his tough brown skin, his fat bounced in rhythm.
gloss: To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to pearl barley
gloss: To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A Teaching Company Scheme developing new technology for pearling light bulbs was established in October […]
gloss: To resemble pearl or pearls.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To bead; to form droplets.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I'm left here with the memory of all their shining words, like drops of water pearling on the window-pane
Blood pearled on the blade, its aroma filling the air.
The razorlike edges sliced shallow seams through the callouses. The fluid pearled but didn't run, and it stung in the saltwater.
gloss: To hunt for pearls
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to go pearling
gloss: To sink the nose of one's surfboard into the water, often on takeoff.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Used a pointed tip today and learned why I kept pearling with my round tipped board. Round noses like to dig into the water, causing frustrating wipeouts.
gloss: Of the nose of the surfboard: to sink in this manner.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He couldn't even turn the board or raise the nose. Consequently, the board pearled, nose-dived into the water, throwing Lee off almost like being thrown from a horse. But he persisted.
gloss: Of aquatic plants: to produce visible bubbles on the stems and leaves during photosynthesis, usually in a simulated environment like an aquarium.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To use an ender pearl to teleport by throwing it.
pos: verb
Derived words: cultured pearl
mabe pearl
mother-of-pearl
pearl ash
pearl barley
pearl cotton
pearl diver
pearler
pearlescent
pearl essence
pearl gray
pearling
pearl millet
pearl necklace
pearl of wisdom
pearl onion
pearl oyster
pearly
pearly king
pearly nautilus
pearly queen
pearly whites
perlemoen
seed pearl
sulfur pearl
Translations:
peck
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pecken, pekken, variant of Middle English piken, picken, pikken (“to pick, use a pointed implement”). More at pick.
Inflected forms:
form: pecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pecked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pecks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The birds pecked at their food.
The rooster had been known to fly on her shoulder and peck her neck, so that now she carried a stick or took one of the children with her when she went to feed the fowls.
And the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, "Fly at once to the strangers; peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces."
gloss: To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to peck a hole in a tree
gloss: To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
pos: verb
gloss: To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
pos: verb
examples: This fellow pecks up wit as pigeons peas.
1713 September 14, letter to Joseph Addison, The Guardian, issue 160.
I HAVE laid a wager, with a friend of mine, about the pigeons that used to peck up the corn which belonged to the ants.
Occasionally a little band of exploring children with the fictitious optimism of youth pecked among its rank and tangled growth in the affectation of hoping to find blackberries there; […]
gloss: To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
pos: verb
examples: He has been pecking away at that project for some time now.
gloss: To type by searching for each key individually.
pos: verb
gloss: To type in general.
pos: verb
tags: rare
gloss: To kiss briefly.
pos: verb
examples: At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls.
gloss: An act of striking with a beak.
pos: noun
gloss: A small kiss.
pos: noun
Derived words: henpeck
henpecked
hunt and peck
peck at
peckingly
pecking order
peckish
unpecked
woodpecker
peckproof
woodpeck
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: naputtaa
lang: Finnish
word: naputella
peculiarity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English peculiar
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English peculiarity
From peculiar + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: peculiarities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state or quality of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The peculiarity of meeting six people on a usually deserted trail only struck me later on.
“'There is always a moment when the familiar becomes the strange,'” Cora recited, as she stood looking around at the bustling open docking area of Tamayo Point. “'Look at your own hand and you will eventually notice the variation of textures, the growth of nails and the fade of scars, the peculiarity of having five fingers instead of three.'”
gloss: That which is peculiar; a special and distinctive characteristic or habit; a particularity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I had often heard of Miss Marchmont, and of her peculiarities (she had the character of being very eccentric), but till now had never seen her.
I thought Alice and H. J. P. would have fainted at the full spectacle; but we are fast getting used to the little peculiarities of foreigners and I trust they will forgive us many sins in return.
The peculiarity of this invention consists in a means for varying the angle at which the plaiting-blade is held in the plaiter without varying the position of the entire instrument upon the sewing-machine.
gloss: Exclusive possession or right.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: peculiaries
Derived words: unpeculiarity
Translations:
pecuniary
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin pecūniārius, from pecūnia (“money”), itself from pecū (“cattle”) and thus related to fee.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, money; monetary, financial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Perhaps the reader will suppose after this that the doctor had some pecuniary interest of his own in arranging the squire's loans; or, at any rate, he will think that the squire must have thought so.
The views of philosophers, with few exceptions, have coincided with the pecuniary interests of their class.
Translations:
pedantry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Italian pedanteria, equivalent to pedant + -ry. Compare also French pédanterie.
Base: pedant
Affixes: -ry
Inflected forms:
form: pedantries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pædantry
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An excessive attention to detail or rules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They had heard people call things pedantic, which they did not think were so ; for instance, a boy had once said that Harry himself was a pedant, for talking of the siege of Syracuse, and of the machines used there, because the boy knew nothing about them, and disliked reading. "Then you perceive," said his mother, "that the meaning of the word varies with the different degrees of knowledge of those who use it. I remember when it was thought pedantic for a woman to talk of some books, which are now the subject of common conversation. Sometimes old-fashioned learning, and sometimes useless learning, is called pedantry; and it is generally thought pedantic to produce any kind of learning that is so unusual, that it is not likely that the company is acquainted with it, or can be pleased by it. In short, pedantry may be said to be an ill-timed parade of knowledge."
Another point on which Smart insists is the distinction between serf and surf […] A distinction can of course be made, and without much difficulty, by those who think of it, and is made by those who have formed a habit of doing so; but the distinction is so rarely made as to amount almost to pedantry […]
gloss: An excessive attention to detail or rules.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I don’t want to listen to your pedantries anymore.
[T]he southern court of the ballium had become a flower-garden, with quaint terraces, statues, knots of flowers, clipped yews and hollies, and all the pedantries of the topiarian art.
gloss: An overly ambitious display of learning.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: pedanticalness
pedanticness
Related words: pedant
pedantic
pedantocracy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: педантизъм
roman: pedantizǎm
lang: Catalan
word: pedanteria
lang: Danish
word: pedanteri
lang: Dutch
word: betweterigheid
lang: Dutch
word: frikkerigheid
lang: Finnish
word: pikkutarkkuus
lang: Finnish
word: pedanttisuus
lang: Finnish
word: saivartelu
lang: French
word: pédantisme
lang: German
word: Pedanterie
lang: Greek
word: σχολαστικότητα
roman: scholastikótita
lang: Hungarian
word: pedantéria
lang: Icelandic
word: smámunasemi
lang: Icelandic
word: smásmygli
lang: Italian
word: pedantismo
lang: Polish
word: pedanteria
lang: Portuguese
word: pedantismo
lang: Russian
word: педанти́чность
roman: pedantíčnostʹ
lang: Russian
word: педанти́зм
roman: pedantízm
lang: Swedish
word: pedanteri
peek
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English *peken, piken, pyken (“to peep”), probably a fusion of Middle English pepen (“to peep”) and keken, kiken (“to keek, look, spy”), equivalent to a blend of peep + keek. Perhaps also possibly a metathetic alteration of Middle English kepen, kipen, kypen (“to keep, look, observe, watch”).
Compound parts: peep
keek
Inflected forms:
form: peeks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: peeking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: peeked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: peeked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: peeks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Close your eyes, and no peeking!
gloss: To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: A pale strip of white skin peeked out from under his waistband.
Her brown skin peeked through the empty gap in her clothing.
gloss: To briefly move out of cover (to gather visual information).
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: Sniper watching the site; don't peek.
gloss: To take a look at; to check out.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: Peek my new shoes.
gloss: To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
pos: verb
tags: dated
informal
transitive
examples: We are peeking the value from the first index's memory location.
gloss: A quick glance or look.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: peekable
peekaboo
peeker
peekhole
screen peek
Translations:
peel
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Etymology: From Middle English pelen, from Old English pilian and Old French peler, pellier; both from Latin pilō, pilāre (“to remove hair from, depilate”), from pilus (“hair”). Doublet of pill.
Inflected forms:
form: peels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: peeling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: peeled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: peeled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: peels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To remove the skin or outer covering of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I sat by my sister's bed, peeling oranges for her.
The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands.
gloss: To remove something from the outer or top layer of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I peeled (the skin from) a banana and ate it hungrily.
We peeled the old wallpaper off in strips where it was hanging loose.
gloss: To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I had been out in the sun too long, and my nose was starting to peel.
gloss: To remove one's clothing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The children peeled by the side of the lake and jumped in.
gloss: To move, separate (off or away).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The scrum-half peeled off and made for the touchlines.
gloss: The skin or outer layer of a fruit, vegetable, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The action of peeling away from a formation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A cosmetic preparation designed to remove dead skin or to exfoliate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: keep one's eyeballs peeled
keep one's eyes peeled
overpeel
peelability
peelable
peel-and-seal
peel and stick
peel away
peel back the onion
peeler
peelie
peeling skin syndrome
peel me a grape
peel off
peelout
peel out
peel rubber
peel the onion
peely
repeel
there's more than one way to peel an orange
unpeel
banana peel
chemical peel
onion peel
orange peel
orange-peel fungus
peelless
peel strength
peel tab
pizza peel
salmon peel
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: قشر
roman: qaššar
lang: Armenian
word: պլոկել
roman: plokel
lang: Bulgarian
word: беля
roman: belja
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎦᏁᎦᎵᎭ
roman: ganegaliha
lang: Cherokee
word: ᎠᏯᎨᏗᏍᎦ
roman: ayagedisga
lang: Dutch
word: schillen
lang: Finnish
word: kuoria
lang: Galician
word: estonar
lang: Ancient Greek
word: λέπω
roman: lépō
lang: Gujarati
word: છોલવું
roman: cholvũ
lang: Hindi
word: छीलना
roman: chīlnā
lang: Kapampangan
word: talipan
lang: Latin
word: glūbō
lang: Macedonian
word: лу́пи
roman: lúpi
lang: Macedonian
word: и́злупи
roman: ízlupi
lang: Māori
word: tīhore
lang: Māori
word: pīokaoka
lang: Okinawan
word: 剥ちゅん
roman: nchun
lang: Swedish
word: skala
lang: Tagalog
word: talupan
lang: Tamil
word: உரி
roman: uri
lang: Tamil
word: தோலுரி
roman: tōluri
lang: Thai
word: ปอก
roman: bpɔ̀ɔk
lang: Turkish
word: soymak
lang: Walloon
word: peler
lang: Walloon
word: schaver
Pegasus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fantasy
Etymology: From Late Middle English Pegase, Pegasus, from Latin Pēgasus, from Ancient Greek Πήγασος (Pḗgasos), traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang. Some have dismissed this as folk etymology and suggest a pre-Greek origin because of the -ασος suffix. First attested in the 14th century.
Inflected forms:
form: Pegasuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pegasi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Pegasos
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pegasus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any winged horse; pterippus.
pos: noun
gloss: Any winged horse; pterippus.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Confidence in Corinthian Pegasi grew up in the Greek zone of the island in such a way that Pegasi became the accepted coin of the realm.
gloss: Poetic inspiration; muse.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: Bellerophon
Enif
Derived words: pegacorn
Pigasus
unisus
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: حِصَان مُجَنِّح
roman: ḥiṣān mujanniḥ
lang: Arabic
word: بِيغَاسُوس
roman: bīḡāsūs
lang: Asturian
word: pegasu
lang: Bengali
word: পক্ষীরাজ ঘোড়া
roman: pokkhiraj ghōṛa
lang: Catalan
word: pegàs
lang: Dutch
word: pegasus
lang: French
word: pégase
lang: Galician
word: pegaso
lang: German
word: Pegasus
lang: Hebrew
word: פגסוס
roman: pégasus
lang: Indonesian
word: kuda semberani
lang: Indonesian
word: kuda beraksa
lang: Indonesian
word: kuda bersayap
lang: Indonesian
word: kuda pegasus
lang: Italian
word: pegaso
lang: Japanese
word: ペガサス
roman: pegasasu
lang: Japanese
word: 天馬
roman: tenma
lang: Korean
word: 페가수스
roman: pegasuseu
lang: Korean
word: 천마
roman: cheonma
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: hespê çengdar
lang: Macedonian
word: пегаз
roman: pegaz
lang: Norwegian
word: pegasus
lang: Persian
word: پِگاسوس
roman: pegâsus
lang: Polish
word: pegaz
lang: Portuguese
word: pégaso
lang: Russian
word: пега́с
roman: pegás
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pegaz
lang: Spanish
word: pegaso
lang: Swedish
word: pegas
lang: Turkish
word: tulpar
pell-mell
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French pêle-mêle, from Old French pesle-mesle, apparently a rhyme based on the stem of mesler (“to mix, meddle”). Compare meddle, melee.
Inflected forms:
form: more pell-mell
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pell-mell
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pell mell
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pellmell
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pell mell
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: pellmell
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Hasty and uncontrolled.
pos: adj
examples: Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time / Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion.
These present the appearance of masses of water-worn gravel, mixed in the most pell mell confusion, the boulders being often of very large size; but I observed no striae, nor any of the blue tenacious clay of the Till, which it so much resembled.
The whole district presents the most pell-mell throwing together imaginable.
The pell mell, hell for leather traffic of Lagos was more pell mell, hell for leather than ever.
The cattle are less disciplined, more pell-mell, heavy-footed, their hooves stamping the ground to mud in several places.
China’s pell-mell, brisk urbanization has in some ways made the challenge harder to face.
gloss: In haste and chaos; uncontrolledly, confusedly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: But ſeeing that there the murdring Enemie, / Peſle-meſle, purſued them like a ſtorme of hayle, / They gan retyre vvhere Iuba vvas encampt; […]
Never was there a great battle fought more pell-mell, since war began; never was valor so completely thrown away.
The table was covered with a confusion of papers, books, pamphlets, all heaped upon one another pell-mell; […]
Pell-mell they rushed for Inverness and safety, leaving the strange battlefield to the stalwart five.
A group of the reapers whom we had seen running from the fields were lying all pell-mell, their bodies crossing each other, at the bottom of it.
And the prompter our payments the more pell-mell the news came in and the more obligingly gruesome its detail.
Some are already packed up well; / Others are at it, most pell mell.
Translations:
pend
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French pendre (“to hang”), from Late Latin pendĕre, from Latin pendēre.
Inflected forms:
form: pends
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An archway; especially, a vaulted passageway leading through a tenement-style building from the main street, giving access to the rear of the building or an internal courtyard.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
perforce
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English par force, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French par force (“by force”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: By constraint of circumstances; of necessity; as a matter of course.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could..
"Keep fast thy hold, for by such stairs as these,"
The Master said, panting as one fatigued,
"Must we perforce depart from so much evil."
So, bevelling around by Mullett's and the Signal House which they shortly reached, they proceeded perforce in the direction of Amiens street railway terminus
Accordingly work perforce had to be begun. The first sod was cut at Anley, near Settle, in November, 1869, […]
It was by no means pleasant to realize that there was an unknown number of menaces up there over your head, quietly circling and circling until someone should arrange for them to drop - and that there was nothing to be done about them. Still, life has to go on - and novelty is a wonderfully short-lived thing. One became used to the idea perforce.
Adult immigrants must perforce learn some English, and their children are likely to become English monolinguals.
The central issue in this case is whether the procedures followed respected the applicants’ family life or constituted an interference with the exercise of the right to respect for family life which could not be justified as necessary in a democratic society. […] It is true that Article 8 contains no explicit procedural requirements, but this is not conclusive of the matter. The relevant considerations to be weighed by a local authority in reaching decisions on children in its care must perforce include the views and interests of the natural parents.
gloss: By force.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: If ſhe denie, Lord Hastings goe with him,
And from her iealous Armes pluck him perforce.
For you, most wicked sir, whom to call brother
Would even infect my mouth, I do forgive
Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require
My dukedom of thee, which, perforce, I know
Thou must restore.
Translations:
philander
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the given name Philander, used as a name for flirtatious characters in several 18th century stories, from Ancient Greek Φίλανδρος (Phílandros), name of the mythological son of the nymph Acacallis and the god Apollo. Semantically disconnected from the adjective φίλανδρος (phílandros, “loving one’s husband; excessively attracted to males, slutty, boy crazy”).
Inflected forms:
form: philanders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: philanders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: philandering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: philandered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: philandered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A lover.
pos: noun
examples: Yes, I'll baste you together, you and your Philander!
gloss: A South American opossum, bare-tailed woolly opossum, of species Caluromys philander (syn. Didelphis philander).
pos: noun
gloss: A greater bilby, an Australian marsupial of species Macrotis lagotis (syn. Perameles lagotis).
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To woo women; to play the male flirt.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: You can't be philandering after her again.
Related words: filander
Derived words: philanderess
philanderous
Translations:
phlegmatic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English fleumatik, flewmatik, flematik, fleumatyke, flewmatyk, from Old French fleumatique, from Latin phlegmaticus, from Ancient Greek φλεγματικός (phlegmatikós), from φλέγμα (phlégma), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with mildness, coldness, sluggishness, and indifference. Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots, with modern pronunciation following this new spelling.
Inflected forms:
form: more phlegmatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most phlegmatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: phlegmatick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: phlegmaticke
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: phlegmatique
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: phlegmatics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phlegmatick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: phlegmaticke
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: phlegmatique
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Not easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
pos: adj
examples: Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear eye, Mr. Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas.
2013, A.O. Scott, “How It Looks to Think: Watch Her,” Rev. of Hannah Arendt, dir. by Margarethe von Trotta, New York Times 29 May 2013: C1. Print.
Their friendship (immortalized in a splendid volume of letters that has clearly served as one of Ms. von Trotta's sources) is a fascinating study in cultural and temperamental contrast, an impulsive and witty American paired with a steady, phlegmatic German.
gloss: Generating, causing, or full of phlegm.
pos: adj
examples: cold and phlegmatic bodies
Near-synonyms: phlegmish, phlegmy
phlegmatic humors
a phlegmatic constitution
gloss: One who has a phlegmatic disposition.
pos: noun
Related words: phlegm
phlegmatically
phlegmish
phlegmy
Derived words: apophlegmatic
leucophlegmatic
sanguineophlegmatic
unphlegmatic
Translations:
lang: Romanian
word: apos
lang: Romanian
word: apoasa
lang: Romanian
word: aposi
lang: Romanian
word: apoase
pipette
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: sciences
Etymology: From French pipette, from pipe + -ette.
Inflected forms:
form: pipettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pipet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: pipettes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pipetting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pipetted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pipetted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pipet
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: A small tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, used for transferring or delivering measured quantities of a liquid.
pos: noun
gloss: To transfer or measure the volume of a liquid using a pipette.
pos: verb
examples: Thereʼs another man near him, pipetting something into a series of small glass vials.
Translations:
piquet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: From French piquet.
Inflected forms:
form: picquet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: picket
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.
The two wedding parties met constantly in each other's apartments. After two or three nights the gentlemen of an evening had a little piquet, as their wives sate and chatted apart.
They would kick off their shoes and play piquet by candle-light.
We shall together challenge the Chevalier de Belleroche to piquet; and, while we are winning money from him, we shall have the even greater pleasure of hearing you sing with your charming teacher, to whom I shall propose it.
Translations:
plagiarist
Part of speech: noun
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)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English plagiarist
From plagiary + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: plagiarists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who plagiarizes; or lifts the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his or her own, thus engaging in plagiarism; a literary thief.
pos: noun
Translations:
planner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pléh₂-n̥t-eh₂
Proto-Italic *plāntā?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂nk /*gteh₂
Proto-Italic *plānktā
Latin planta
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin plantāre
Old French
French planterdeverb.
French plant
French planbor.
English plan
English -er
English planner
From plan + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: planners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who plans.
pos: noun
examples: Johnny is a good planner. He starts his work in time to get it finished by the deadline.
Ms. Gunston is a planner for the county.
gloss: A notebook or software in which one keeps reminders of items such as appointments, tasks, projects, and contacts.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of filled pause.
pos: noun
Derived words: daily planner
day planner
dayplanner
estate planner
meeting planner
nonplanner
paraplanner
personal planner
route planner
town planner
urban planner
wedding planner
Translations:
plasticity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Hellenic *plátʰyō
Proto-Hellenic *pláťťō?
Ancient Greek πλάσσω (plássō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Hellenic *-tós
Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)
▲
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
?
Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós)
Ancient Greek πλᾰστῐκός (plăstĭkós)der.
Latin plasticusder.
English plastic
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English plasticity
From plastic + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: plasticities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being plastic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In place of a stinger, a male bee or wasp has hardened genitalia […] used for grasping the female during mating and transferring sperm. Male genitalia are a showcase of structural plasticity.
gloss: The property of a solid body whereby it undergoes a permanent change in shape or size when subjected to a stress exceeding a particular value (the yield value).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: angioplasticity
ecoplasticity
elastoplasticity
electroplasticity
genomic plasticity
hyperplasticity
hypoplasticity
metaplasticity
microplasticity
neoplasticity
neuroplasticity
nonplasticity
pathoplasticity
phenoplasticity
phenotypic plasticity
pseudoplasticity
psychoplasticity
superplasticity
thermoplasticity
visco-elasto-plasticity
viscoplasticity
Translations:
plausible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”).
Inflected forms:
form: more plausible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most plausible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely.
pos: adj
examples: a plausible excuse
In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows (innately) or learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).
Russian SPETSNAZ are irregular forces that operate covertly, providing the Russian government plausible deniability.
gloss: Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
pos: adj
examples: a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion
gloss: Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: capable of receiving a plauſible Anſwer
[…] a coachman named Richard, who was described as a "sensible, well-behaved yellow boy, who is plausible and can read and write."
Derived words: implausible
nonplausible
overplausible
plausibility
plausible deniability
plausibleness
plausibly
semiplausible
unplausible
Translations:
playmate
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + mate. Compare earlier playfeer (“playmate”) of similar construction.
Compound parts: play
mate
Inflected forms:
form: playmates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A companion for someone (especially a child) to play with.
pos: noun
examples: An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
gloss: A person's lover.
pos: noun
tags: euphemistic
Derived words: playmateship
Translations:
plight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English plit (“fold, wrinkle, bad situation”), conflation of Middle English pliht, plight (“risky promise, peril”) (from Old English pliht "danger, risk"; see Etymology 2) and Anglo-Norman plit, plyte (“fold, condition”), from Old French pleit (“condition, manner of folding”) (from Vulgar Latin *plictum, from Latin plicitum (“fold”)).
Inflected forms:
form: plights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dire or unfortunate situation.
pos: noun
examples: Though we say we are quite clear about it and understand when someone uses the expression, unlike that other expression, maybe we're in the same plight with regard to them both.
Gosling's plight worsened when he was soon shown a red card for a foul on Martin.
Despite spending £1 billion of its own resources, that balanced budget became impossible and forced TfL to issue a 'Section 114' notice of impending financial plight and go to the government for support.
gloss: A (neutral) condition or state.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: although hee live in as good plight and health as may be, yet he chafeth, he scoldeth, he brawleth, he fighteth, he sweareth, and biteth, as the most boistrous and tempestuous master of France[…].
gloss: Good health.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: All wayes shee sought him to restore to plight, / With herbs, with charms, with counsel, and with teares[…].
gloss: To expose to risk; to pledge.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: Specifically, to pledge (one's troth etc.) as part of a marriage ceremony.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "Travel shall I and woo;
Plight me shall I a flower;
Try shall I my sword so good,
To my weal or my woe in the stour."
gloss: To promise (oneself) to someone, or to do something.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: I ask what I have done to deserve it, one daughter hobnobbing with radicals and the other planning to plight herself to a criminal.
Derived words: plighter
Translations:
pollinate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pollin-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English pollinate
From pollin- (compound form of "pollen") + -ate (verb-forming suffix). From oblique stem of Latin pollen, pollinis.
Inflected forms:
form: pollinates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pollinating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pollinated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pollinated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To apply pollen to (a stigma).
pos: verb
examples: pollinate plants
pollinate flowers
self-pollinate
Bees help pollinate flowers as they collect nectar.
Farmers often import bees to pollinate their crops.
gloss: Pollinose.
pos: adj
Translations:
porch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus (“portico”). Doublet of portego, portico, and porticus.
Inflected forms:
form: porches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A covered entrance to a building, whether taken from the interior, and forming a sort of vestibule within the main wall, or projecting without and with a separate roof. A porch often has chair(s), table(s) and swings.
pos: noun
examples: He sat on his porch, waiting for his friend to come over.
But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud,[…]. We began to tell her about Mohair and the cotillon, and of our point of observation from the Florentine galleried porch, and she insisted she would join us there.
gloss: A portico; a covered walk.
pos: noun
gloss: The platform outside the external hatch of a spacecraft.
pos: noun
examples: By the time he had put on the backpack, McDivitt was ready to let him do more—to stand on the porch at least.
Synonyms: porch
portico
Related words: loggia
porte-cochère
cloisters
colonnade
entrance
entrance hall
stoa
veranda
Derived words: back porch
front porch
outporch
porched
porchful
porchless
porchlight
porchlike
porch monkey
porch piracy
porch pirate
porchscape
porch swing
porchway
snow porch
sunporch
wet porch
Translations:
portray
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English portray, from Middle French portraire.
Inflected forms:
form: portrays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: portraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: portrayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: portrayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pourtray
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To paint or draw the likeness of.
pos: verb
examples: I will portray a king on horseback.
gloss: To represent by an image or look.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death,
And in his eies the furies of his heart,
That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng,
And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.
gloss: To describe in words; to convey.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
gloss: To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event.
pos: verb
examples: For my next movie, I will be portraying Shakespeare.
gloss: To adorn.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Related words: portrait
portrayal
Derived words: misportray
portrayable
portrayee
portrayer
portrayist
Translations: