yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pizzicato
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pizzicato, past participle of pizzicare (“to pluck”).
Inflected forms:
form: pizzicatos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pizzicati
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To be played by plucking the strings instead of using the bow.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A note that is played pizzicato
pos: noun
examples: The music is weaving / Haunting notes, pizzicato strings
“Trapeze” begins with pizzicatos that plunge into a circuslike cacophony with rapid trills, busy, clashing textures and motion in every direction.
Antonyms: arco
Translations:
hinny
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin hinnus, from Ancient Greek ἴννος (ínnos), γίννος (gínnos). Possibly cognate with hinnire (“to whinny”).
Inflected forms:
form: hinnies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hinney
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: henny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hinnies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hinnying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hinnied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hinnied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The hybrid offspring of a stallion (male horse) and a she-ass (female donkey).
pos: noun
examples: The curer said nothing to the cowboy but went straight to the mule, or hinny, rather, being out of San's big jenny by Alder's white horse.
gloss: To whinny
pos: verb
Derived words: singing hinny
Translations:
lofty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lofty, lofti, lofte (“of high rank; noble; ornate”), equivalent to loft (“sky, firmament; upper room”) + -y.
Base: loft
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: loftier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: loftiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: High, tall, having great height or stature.
pos: adj
examples: The lofty mountains roſe faint to the ſight and loſt their foreheads in the diſtant ſkies: the little hills, cloathed in darker green and ſkirted with embroidered vales, diſcovered the ſecret haunts of kids and bounding roes.
On my left was a river, which came roaring down from a range of lofty mountains right before me to the south-east.
When the night was half spent, I rose and walked on, till the day broke in all its beauty and the sun rose over the heads of the lofty hills and athwart the low gravelly plains.
gloss: Idealistic, implying over-optimism.
pos: adj
examples: a lofty goal
A goal from Steven Caulker, just after the hour mark, was enough to hand victory to Malky Mackay's men, with Swansea falling some way short of the lofty standards they have set previously at this level.
gloss: Extremely proud; arrogant; haughty.
pos: adj
examples: that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers
Antonyms: mean
ignoble
antonym(s) of
Related words: aloft
Derived words: loftily
loftiness
lofty ship
Mount Lofty
overlofty
unlofty
Translations:
loft
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).
Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.
Cognate with Scots loft, laft (“loft”), Irish lochta (“loft”).
Inflected forms:
form: lofts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lofting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lofted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lofted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To propel high into the air.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal.
gloss: To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: When she saw houses lofting past her window, she ran to the child, who slept on a feather bed and she gathered the coverlet around them both.
gloss: To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
pos: verb
gloss: To furnish with a loft space.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves.
gloss: To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Lofting a bed is much harder work than it seems, and pulling a nail out with the back of a hammer is much simpler than using your own nails.
Derived words: lofted drive
lofting iron
Translations:
aloft
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Old Norse á lopti (“in the sky”); equivalent to a- + loft.
Base: loft
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more aloft
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most aloft
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: At, to, or in the air or sky.
pos: adv
examples: high winds aloft
gloss: Above, overhead, in a high place; up.
pos: adv
examples: Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft.
He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down, replacing the blade in the sheath.
Lewis Cook held the trophy aloft after becoming the first England captain to lead his country to victory in a major global final since Sir Bobby Moore. A white sea of confetti slowly filled the pitch, with each England player taking hold of the trophy on the stage swiftly erected in Suwon to kick-start the celebrations.
gloss: In the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.
pos: adv
examples: I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft?
Related words: loft
lofty
alow
Derived words: come aloft
gone aloft
stitch aloft
take aloft
Translations:
sterile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle French stérile, from Latin sterilis (“barren, futile”). See also Ancient Greek στεῖρα (steîra).
Inflected forms:
form: more sterile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sterile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.
gloss: Terse; lacking sentiment or emotional stimulation, as in a manner of speaking.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Fruitless, uninspiring, or unproductive.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
gloss: Germless; free from all living or viable microorganisms.
pos: adj
examples: a sterile kitchen table
gloss: Permanently uninhabitable (as in a planet like Earth) to all life, including even microbes.
pos: adj
gloss: Free from dangerous objects, as a zone in an airport that can be only be entered via a security checkpoint.
pos: adj
gloss: Of weapons: foreign-made and untraceable to the United States.
pos: adj
tags: US
examples: An early CIA decision was to bring war surplus in Europe to the United States, rather than let it fall into the hands of left-wing movements. Some of the guns would also, it was reasoned, be useful as "sterile" weapons (foreign-made and untraceable to the United States) to be provided secretly to foreign friends.
In addition to this rapid supply system, the US Army Counterinsurgency Support Office on Okinawa helped procure special equipment including rucksacks, special rations for irregular troops, 'sterile' weapons which could not be traced to the USA and other items not procurable through foreign channels.
Synonyms: fruitless
sterile
Antonyms: fertile
non-sterile
nonsterile
unsterile
fecund
fruitful
potent
productive
Related words: sterilisation
sterilization
sterilise
sterilize
sterilised
sterilized
sterility
castrated
castrato
emasculate
neuter
Derived words: anti-sterile-neutrino
intersterile
self-sterile
semisterile
sterilant
sterile antineutrino
sterilely
sterileness
sterile neutrino
sterile oat
steripipette
ultrasterile
Translations:
offspring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English ofspring, from Old English ofspring (“offspring, descendants, posterity”), equivalent to off- + spring. Compare Icelandic afspringur (“offspring”). More at off, spring.
Base: spring
Affixes: off-
Inflected forms:
form: offspring
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: offsprings
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
Senses:
gloss: A person's daughter or son; a person's child.
pos: noun
examples: We are the offspring of Italian immigrants.
gloss: Any of a person's descendants, including of further generations.
pos: noun
gloss: An animal or plant's progeny or young.
pos: noun
examples: In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
gloss: Anything produced; the result of an entity's efforts.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Artists often treasure their works as their immortal offspring.
gloss: A process launched by another process.
pos: noun
Antonyms: genitor
parent
progenitor
father
mother
ancestors
forbear
forebear
forefather
Derived words: donor offspring
grandoffspring
large offspring syndrome
offspringless
parent-offspring conflict
Translations:
progeny
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English progenie, from Old French progenie, from Latin prōgeniēs, from prōgignō (“beget”).
Inflected forms:
form: progenies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Offspring or descendants considered as a group.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: I treasure this five-generation photograph of my great-great grandmother and her progeny.
I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny.
One worm on a single plate can give rise to thousands of progeny after just a week or so.
gloss: Descent, lineage, ancestry.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Beſides, all French and France exclaimes on thee, / Doubting thy Birth and lawfull Progenie. / Who ioyn’ſt thou with, but with a Lordly Nation, / That will not truſt thee, but for profits ſake ?
gloss: A result of a creative effort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: His dissertation is his most important intellectual progeny to date.
Related words: progenitive
progenitor
Derived words: interprogeny
progenate
Translations:
prodigy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prodige (“portent”), from Latin prōdigium (“omen, portent, prophetic sign”).
Inflected forms:
form: prodigies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extraordinary occurrence or creature; an anomaly, especially a monster; a freak.
pos: noun
gloss: An amazing or marvellous thing; a wonder.
pos: noun
examples: He is never chased; he would run away with rope-walks of line. Prodigies are told of him.
gloss: A wonderful example of something.
pos: noun
examples: Traffic at Dover Marine has developed far beyond anything envisaged when the station was built. The layout has become rather cramped, and prodigies of organisation are performed annually by all concerned to save complete saturation.
gloss: An extremely talented person, especially a child.
pos: noun
gloss: An extraordinary thing seen as an omen; a portent.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: These on the farther bank now stood and gazed, / By Heaven alarm’d, by prodigies amazed: / A signal omen stopp’d the passing host, / Their martial fury in their wonder lost.
Prodigies and Portents have infected the beſt VVritings of Antiquity; and have ſo blotted and deformed our modern Annals, that (vvith greater Juſtice than Polybius has obſerv'd it, of the former) they may be rather called Tragedies than History.
John Foxe believed that special prodigies had heralded the Reformation.
Related words: precocious
prodigal
child prodigy
prodigy house
Derived words: cyberprodigy
prodigious
Translations:
Saxony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Saxonie, from Latin Saxōnia, from Saxō (stem Saxōn-) + -ia. By surface analysis, Saxon + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: Saxonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fine soft woollen fabric.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Saxony yarn, or flannel made from this or similar yarn.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
Croatian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Croat + -ian or Croatia + -an.
Base: Croat
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Croatian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Croatian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Croatians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Croatia, the Croatian people or their language.
pos: adj
examples: Not only is the industry headed in that direction, but in 2021 Bugatti was spun off from Volkswagen Group and merged with Rimac, the Croatian company that makes the all-electric Rimac Nevera supercar.
gloss: An inhabitant of Croatia, or a person of Croatian descent.
pos: noun
examples: [A law] was enacted, controlling the guardianship of the language and the culture of the ‘Albanians, Catalans, Germanics, Greeks, Slovenians and Croatians and of those speaking French, French-Provencal, Friulan, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian’[.]
Serbian forces committed egregious violent acts against ethnic Croatians in the early 1990s, but they don’t equate to genocide, a U.N. court ruled Tuesday.
Translations:
asleep
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English aslepe, equivalent to a- (“in, on”) + sleep.
Base: sleep
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a state of sleep; also, broadly, resting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
predicative
examples: I was asleep when you called.
Never disturb a man asleep.
gloss: Inattentive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
predicative
slang
examples: How could you miss that? Were you asleep?
The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.
gloss: Having a numb or prickling sensation accompanied by a degree of unresponsiveness.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
predicative
examples: My arm fell asleep. You know, like pins and needles.
Louisa sat in the car crying, until her foot fell asleep. She shook her foot violently, afraid the numbness would turn to frostbite.
gloss: Dead.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
not-comparable
predicative
Synonyms: asleep
cold
comatose
dead to the world
dormant
down for the count
in the arms of Morpheus
in the arms of Murphy
nangry
out cold
out like a light
sacked out
sleepbound
sleeping
somnambular
unawakening
unawaking
unwaking
Antonyms: awake
Related words: pins and needles
sleepy
Derived words: asleep at the switch
asleep at the wheel
dead asleep
every shut eye isn't asleep
fall asleep
fall asleep in the Lord
falling asleep
fast asleep
half-asleep
sound asleep
unasleep
Translations:
kopi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Baagandji kopi, gabi.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A variety of gypsum found in southern Australia, sometimes containing opal, and traditionally used by Indigenous Australian in powdered form as body ornamentation for mourning ceremonies.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
uncountable
examples: "In these parts you find kopi, gypsum I think you call it, and you see it in layers exposed on the sides of certain hills."
They were made by taking a cast of woven cord, and covered in kopi, a white gypsum clay.
Translations:
nonplussed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From nonplus (“state of bewilderment or perplexity”, noun) or nonplus (“to bewilder or perplex (someone)”, verb) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives, and the past tense and past participle forms of verbs). Nonplus (noun) is derived from Latin nōn plūs (“no further, no more”), from nōn (“not”) + plūs (“additionally, more; further”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)). The etymological sense is similar to being left speechless as a result of confusion: the nonplussed person can say or do “no more”.
Adjective sense 2 (“unaffected”) is probably from a misinterpretation of the first element of the word as the prefix non- meaning “not”.
Base: nonplus
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more nonplussed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most nonplussed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: non-plussed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Unsure how to act or respond; bewildered, perplexed.
pos: adj
examples: [N]ote the honeſt Quaker vvas nonpluſſed, and greatly ſurprized at that Queſtion.
I could not discern what she meant, and I would not ask her: I was nonplussed.
For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.
You couldn’t have told it from my manner, but I was feeling more than a bit nonplussed. The spectacle before me was enough to nonplus anyone.
In the opposite direction the allowance of 103 min. for the 83.8 miles from Waterloo to Salisbury, which has remained untouched since the worst period in the war, when it included a Woking stop that long since has been excised, was another timing that left drivers completely nonplussed at times as to how to fill it out.
gloss: Unaffected, unfazed; unimpressed.
pos: adj
tags: US
informal
nonstandard
examples: "I regard Dean [W. P.] Baddeley's gambling activities with embarrassment and dismay," said Anglican dean of Melbourne S. Barton Babbage. […] The Rev. Baddeley remained nonplussed. "I don't intend to make a habit of going to the races but I feel clergymen should mix as our Lord did with all walks of life," Dr. Baddeley said.
And while many of us might be a little taken aback if Mom showed up at our offices, Secrist is utterly nonplussed, even happy about it.
One cannot help but wonder how the unnecessary death of 10 men sat on [John Charles] Fremont's conscience. From all appearances, he seemed nonplussed and never was remorseful or contrite.
My screams woke everyone on the boat the first night when a large bat flapped up against the screen door to our small cabin, with its foam double beds. My brother-in-law, Mike, was nonplussed: "Why would you get excited over a little bug like that?"
The lions in question were nonplussed. "They just stuck their noses into the wind, looked around and slumped down again into the grass," the now 73-year-old [Jonathan Scott] recalls.
Derived words: nonplussedness
Translations:
stepbrother
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew-
Proto-Germanic *steupa-
Proto-West Germanic *steupa-
Old English stēop-
Middle English step-
English step-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰréh₂tēr
Proto-Germanic *brōþēr
Proto-West Germanic *brōþer
Old English brōþor
Middle English brother
English brother
English stepbrother
From step- + brother.
Inflected forms:
form: stepbrothers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stepbrethren
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: step-brother
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The son of one's stepparent by a previous relationship.
pos: noun
gloss: The stepson of one's parent who is not one's half-brother.
pos: noun
Synonyms: stepbro
Related words: stepdaughter
stepparent
stepsister
half brother
Derived words: stepbrother-in-law
stepbrotherly
Translations:
intractable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English in-
English tractable
English intractable
From in- + tractable.
Inflected forms:
form: more intractable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most intractable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not tractable; not able to be managed, controlled, governed or directed.
pos: adj
examples: And I cannot but expect that this will repeatedly lead to the discovery that an initially intractable problem can be factored after all.
gloss: Not able to be solved in polynomial time; too difficult to attempt to solve.
pos: adj
gloss: Difficult to deal with, solve, or manage. (of a problem)
pos: adj
examples: Work—bureaucratic work in particular—poses a series of intractable dilemmas that often demand compromises with traditional moral beliefs.
gloss: Stubborn; obstinate. (of a person)
pos: adj
gloss: Difficult to treat (of a medical condition).
pos: adj
Derived words: intractability
intractableness
intractably
Translations:
volcanologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English volcanology
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 volcanologist
From volcanology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: volcanologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vulcanologist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is skilled in, professes or practices volcanology.
pos: noun
examples: An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon is gearing up for an eruption, according to volcanologists who are monitoring for activity.
Translations:
volcanology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French volcanologie, from volcan (“volcano”); and/or directly from volcano + -logy.
Base: volcano
Affixes: -logy
Inflected forms:
form: vulcanology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The study of volcanoes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
outrage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English outrage, from Old French outrage, oultrage (“excess”), from Vulgar Latin *ultrāticum ("a going beyond"), derived from Latin ultrā (“beyond”). Later reanalysed as out- + rage, whence the contemporary pronunciation, though neither of these is etymologically related.
The verb is from Middle English outragen, from Old French oultragier.
Base: rage
Affixes: out-
Inflected forms:
form: outrages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outrages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outraging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outraged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outraged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An excessively violent or vicious attack; an atrocity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]
gloss: An offensive, immoral or indecent act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Police went to the cemetery at Trafalgar, near Yallourn, and discovered that a woman's body had been stolen from a grave. They were satisfied it was the same body found at Yallourn - but made no progress in running down the ghouls responsible for the outrage.
I always had a suspicion that Calico, with his blend of simple faith and gipsy blood, had violated a temple, or looted a shrine, to save his son's life, and that the guardians of the relic tracked him and revenged the outrage.
gloss: The resentful, indignant, or shocked anger aroused by such acts.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A destructive rampage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: The Lords acknowledge the great and happy Providence of Almighty God, in the preventing of ſo horrid an Outrage, which might have endangered the Lives of the Chief Magiſtrates, and alſo hazarded the Spoil of the whole City of London.
gloss: To cause or commit an outrage upon; to treat with violence or abuse.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet
Base and insolent minds […] outrage men when they have Hopes of doing it without a Return.
1725-1726, William Broome, Odyssey
The interview […] outrages all the rules of decency.
gloss: To inspire feelings of outrage in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The senator's comments outraged the community.
gloss: To sexually violate; to rape.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
gloss: To rage in excess of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Their will the tiger sucked, outraged the storm
Related words: outrageous
Derived words: outrage culture
outrage of modesty
outrage porn
poutrage
Translations:
climatology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From climate + -ology.
Base: climate
Affixes: -ology
Inflected forms:
form: climatologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The science that deals with climates, and investigates their phenomena and causes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
atrocity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French atrocité, from Latin atrōcitās, from atrōx (“terrible, cruel”) + -tās, from āter (“matte black”).
Inflected forms:
form: atrocities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An extremely cruel act; a horrid act of injustice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: to carry out / commit / perpetrate an atrocity
The regime is guilty of mass atrocities including forced displacement and the use of chemical weapons.
[…] it seemed an atrocity or cruelty to Narses a good General, to take punishment of innoxious Hostages:
It was impossible for the convention to suffer the crimes they had committed, and the still greater atrocities which they had meditated, to pass unnoticed.
This devilish outrage, this fiendish murder, produced, as it was well calculated to do, a tremendous sensation. […] The atrocity roused my old master, and he spoke out, in reprobation of it;
“Any delay in arresting the assassin,” I observed, “might give him time to perpetrate some fresh atrocity.”
The United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union have received from many quarters evidence of atrocities, massacres and cold-blooded mass executions which are being perpetrated by Hitlerite forces in many of the countries they have overrun and from which they are now being steadily expelled.
gloss: The quality or state of being atrocious; enormous wickedness; extreme criminality or cruelty.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: 1553, John Bradford, letter, in Miles Coverdale (ed.), Certain Most Godly, Fruitful, and Comfortable letters, London: John Day, 1564, pp. 481-482,
Thys wil I muse on, & way with my self, [tha]t I may dulye knowe, both in me and in al other things, the atrocitie and bitternesse of synne which dwelleth in me, & so may the more hartely geue ouer my self wholy to [th]e lord Christ my Sauiour,
What character is so detestable as that of one who takes pleasure to sow dissention among friends, and to turn their most tender love into mortal hatred? Yet wherein does the atrocity of this so much abhorred injury consist? […] It is in depriving them of that friendship itself, in robbing them of each others affections […]
an apology devised after the commission of the deed, to cover up its atrocity
Here was one who had spent his life in lying to the world, and who was in his very heart shocked at the atrocity of a man who had lied to him!
Hernandez […] had been an inoffensive, small ranchero, kidnapped with circumstances of peculiar atrocity from his home during one of the civil wars, and forced to serve in the army.
gloss: An object considered to be extremely unattractive or undesirable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: [S]ome of the printers were good singers and others good performers on the guitar and on that atrocity the accordeon—[…]
The Pools had given them a “hanging lamp,” coveted by the farmer’s wife; a hideous atrocity in yellow, with pink roses on its shade and prisms dangling and tinkling all around the edge.
Synonyms: atrocity
depravity
infamy
iniquity
outrage
turpitude
wickedness
wrong
Related words: atrocious
crime against humanity
war crime
Translations:
wasabi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 山葵 (wasabi).
Inflected forms:
form: wasabis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant of the species Eutrema japonicum, cultivated for its edible root.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A pungent green Japanese condiment made from the plant Eutrema japonicum (syn. Wasabia japonica).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: An imitation of this condiment made from horseradish with green dye.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Synonyms: Japanese horseradish
green mustard
Translations:
labia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin labia (“lips”), plural of labium (“lip”).
Inflected forms:
form: labium
pos: noun
tags: singular
Senses:
gloss: The folds of tissue of the vulva, at either side of the vulval vestibule.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
examples: She wiped the warm wax on the left side of Ola’s outer labia and placed a white strip on the last tuft of hair.
Synonyms: beef curtains
beef flaps
cunt lips
fanny flaps
labes
lips
lower lips
meat curtains
meat flaps
mud flaps
netherlips
petals
piss flaps
pussy lips
vertical lips
wizard sleeve
Translations:
Balkanize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Balkan
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 Balkanize
From Balkan + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: Balkanizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Balkanizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Balkanized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Balkanized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Balkanise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: balkanise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: balkanize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To break up into small, mutually-hostile units, especially on a political basis.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Pentagon and the CIA were being Balkanized, partially dismantled, and a Congressional investigation had focused on Screaming Fist.
Translations:
sedition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French sedicion, from Latin sēditiō (“sedition, discord”), from sēd- (“apart”) (an alternative form of sē-) + itiō (“going”).
Inflected forms:
form: seditions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Organized incitement of rebellion or civil disorder against authority or the state, usually by speech or writing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.
But there are also strong objections to such a plan. It is not to be doubted, that a single man of prudence and good sense is better fitted, in delicate conjunctures, to balance the motives which may plead for and against the remission of the punishment, than any numerous body whatever. It deserves particular attention, that treason will often be connected with seditions which embrace a large proportion of the community; as lately happened in Massachusetts.
The prejudice against Indian settlers outside India is showing itself in a variety of ways: Under the impudent suggestion of sedition the Fiji Government has deported Mr. Manilal Doctor who with his brave and cultured wife has been rendering assistance to the poor indentured Indians of Fiji in a variety of ways.
gloss: Insurrection or rebellion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: seditious
mutiny
Derived words: seditionary
seditionist
seditious conspiracy
Translations:
bight
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian boch, bocht, bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Saterland Frisian Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), West Frisian bocht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Dutch bocht (“bay, bight”), German Bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Icelandic bót (“bight, cove, small bay”); also Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”), Ukrainian бга́ти (bháty, “to crumple, twist”), Sanskrit भुज् (bhuj, “to bend, curve; to sweep”).
Inflected forms:
form: bights
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bights
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bighting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bighted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bighted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
pos: noun
examples: the bight of a horse's knee
the bight of an elbow
I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
gloss: An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.
pos: noun
gloss: A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
pos: noun
gloss: A curve in a rope.
pos: noun
examples: I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.
gloss: To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: Bight of Benin
Bight of Biafra
Blind Bight
Dobies Bight
German Bight
Great Australian Bight
New York Bight
The Bight
Translations:
antelope
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English antelope, from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antilops, from Byzantine Greek ἀνθόλοψ (anthólops), which is of obscure origin.
Inflected forms:
form: antelope
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: antelopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several African mammals of the family Bovidae distinguished by hollow horns, which, unlike deer, they do not shed.
pos: noun
gloss: The pronghorn, Antilocapra americana.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Rarely antelopes are seen, but wolves, rabbits, and sundry ground squirrels abound.
"It reminds me of when I was hunting antelope in Colorado," he said to her.
gloss: A fierce legendary creature said to live on the banks of the Euphrates, having long serrated horns and being hard to catch.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
Related words: bontebok
dik-dik
eland
gazelle
gemsbock
hartebeest
herd
klipspringer
kudu
oryx
roan
springbok
topi
waterbuck
wildebeest
Derived words: antelabbit
antelope brush
antelope bush
Antelope County
antelope jackrabbit
antelopelike
Antelope Mesa
antelope squirrel
blue antelope
bush antelope
goat antelope
goat-antelope
harnessed antelope
jackalope
mountain antelope
roan antelope
royal antelope
sable antelope
saiga antelope
screwhorn antelope
Speke's antelope
springer antelope
Tibetan antelope
white antelope
zebra antelope
Translations:
gazelle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Middle French gazelle, from Old French gazel, from Arabic غَزَال (ḡazāl).
Inflected forms:
form: gazelles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gazelle
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gazel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: gazelles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gazelling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gazelled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gazelled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gazel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods.
pos: noun
examples: “One does not judge the gazelle by the lions that attack it,” replied Tarzan.
gloss: To leap like a gazelle.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: And all of the pine trees were in a bad state of repair, owning charred stumps of arms and blasted heads. Quite a number of them were dead; some of the corpses leaned starkly back in the arms of a live brother, but most of them preferred to fall across the road. Owing to this the car was soon gazelling again.
The biplane gazelled into the air.
When I started off [spacewalking] I didn’t run straight away—I started at a fairly fast walk, three or four miles an hour—but by the end I was jogging, well, gazelling, at almost six miles an hour.
gloss: To go fast; to speed; to rush.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Nadezhda and I biked over together, me dressed in colonial whites, trundling along with other cyclists gazelling by me on both sides […]
I actually heard the air move as about five people gazelled towards Lord Mandelson to try to stop another of his ill-timed leaks.
Translations:
oryx
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek ὄρυξ (órux, “a pickax; an oryx (the antelope)”).
Inflected forms:
form: oryxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oryx
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oryges
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: Any of several antelopes, of the genus Oryx, native to Africa, which have long, straight horns
pos: noun
Translations:
wildebeest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed in the early 19th century from early Afrikaans wildebeest, modern wildebees (literally “wild ox”), with influence from beast.
Inflected forms:
form: wildebeest
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wildebeests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wildebeesten
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: The gnu.
pos: noun
examples: Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.
Later that morning, they wrapped Ian in a wildebeest skin and buried him near a shepherd tree.
A group of wildebeest is called a confusion.
Translations:
flamingo
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Portuguese flamengo (“flamingo”) and Spanish flamenco (“flamingo”), which were adapted from Catalan flamenc (“flamingo”), of disputed ultimate origin in this sense. All three forms are used adjectivally as an ethnonym meaning 'Flemish' (of Germanic origin, cognate to English Fleming); Spanish flamenco refers also to a dance type. Compare also French flamant (“flamingo”).
*The bird's name may derive from the ethnonym by an association of a ruddy complexion or hair color with the Flemings; this etymology is supported by Corominas. (In Spanish, flamenco can be used colloquially as an adjective meaning "robust, healthy-looking".)
* Alternatively, the dance flamenco, the bird name, or both come from attaching the same Germanic-derived ending found in the ethnonym to the distinct root of Latin flamma (“flame”): i.e. Catalan flamenc has been analyzed as flama (“flame”) + -enc. Compare also Portuguese -engo.
Base: flama
Affixes: -enc
Inflected forms:
form: flamingos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flamingoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wading bird of the family Phoenicopteridae of the order Phoenicopteriformes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: After Nakuru the light remains only long enough to see the Lake Nakuru, away to the south, with its fringe of pink flamingos, and as the darkness falls the old main line to Kisumu branches to the left.
gloss: A deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Of a deep pink color tinged with orange, like that of a flamingo.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: American flamingo
Andean flamingo
Cajun flamingo
Caribbean flamingo
Chilean flamingo
flamingo flower
flamingo shot
flamingo squat
flamingo tongue
Fourchon flamingo
James's flamingo
lawn flamingo
lesser flamingo
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: flamingonpunainen
lang: Ido
word: flamingea
cheetah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi चीता (cītā, “leopard, panther”), ultimately from Sanskrit चित्र (citra, “multicolored, speckled”) (akin to Old High German haitar (“bright”) > German heiter; Old Norse heiðr (“bright”)) + Sanskrit काय (kāya, “body”), thus “having a spotted body”.
Inflected forms:
form: cheetahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chetah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: cheeta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A distinctive member (Acinonyx jubatus) of the cat family, slightly smaller than the leopard, but with proportionately longer limbs and a smaller head; native to Africa and southeast Asia (where it is nearly extinct) and also credited with being the fastest terrestrial animal.
pos: noun
Translations:
hyena
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English hiena, variant of hyene, from Old French hiene, from Medieval Latin hyēna, from Latin hyaena, from Ancient Greek ὕαινα (húaina). Displaced native Old English nihtgenġe (literally “night walker”).
Inflected forms:
form: hyenas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hyena
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hyenae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hyaena
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: hyæna
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: hyen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the family Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.
pos: noun
examples: The udder of the hyena, tied on the left arm, enticed the affection of any desired woman.
I took no systematic data on the costs to cheetahs and hyenas, but some anecdotes suggest that both parties took numerical advantage and hunger into account.
Hyenas are scavengers, which means they eat food left behind by other animals and people.
Hyena biologists often think of spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) as baboons with big teeth and relatively small brains.
This female hyena also gets erections and is larger, more aggressive than the male hyenas and lives in matrilineal clans of up to 80 individuals governed by an alpha female matriarch.
gloss: A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.
pos: noun
examples: see Citations:hyena
Synonyms: hyaenid
Related words: aardwolf
Derived words: brown hyena
cave hyena
giant hyena
hyena dog
hyenalike
hyenic
hyenine
hyenoid
hyote
laughing hyena
laugh like a hyena
running hyena
spotted hyena
striped hyena Hyaena hyaena
werehyena
Translations:
jackal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French chacal, chacale, checale, schakal, ciacale, from Turkish çakal, from Persian شغال (šaġâl), borrowed from Sanskrit शृगाल (śṛgāla, “jackal”).
Inflected forms:
form: jackals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jackall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jackals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jackaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: jackalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: jackaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: jackaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: jackalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: jackalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.
pos: noun
examples: In passing, it also mentions how the jackal and the tiger acquired their reddish spots. All of the animals referred to, except the deer, have tricksterlike personalities, both in this tale and in other story contexts. But the jackal is the most renowned of all for roguishness.
Until recently, scientists thought Ethiopian wolves were a type of jackal. They gave Ethiopian wolves names like Semien jackal, Simenian jackal, or Ethiopian jackal.
As we will see, the jackal is usually associated in the Indic context with death and impurity, and would therefore sit squarely at the bottom of Dumont's social hierarchy.
gloss: A person who performs menial or routine tasks; a dogsbody.
pos: noun
examples: A nephew of hers, after receiving some learning at her ladyship's expence, got a commission, and fell upon the field of Waterloo; another is still at her heels, as a sort of jackall to fetch and carry when required.
gloss: A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: A jack (the playing card).
pos: noun
tags: rare
slang
gloss: A player who steals the ball at the tackle.
pos: noun
gloss: To perform menial or routine tasks
pos: verb
examples: They have jackalled for the great beast, to pick in turns the bones of each other; they have subserved those above, to oppress and defraud those below; and they are suffering, and, so far as classes can, justly suffering their purgation.
Derived words: American jackal
jackalberry
jackal buzzard
maanhaar-jackal
red jackal
Simien jackal
son of a jackal
werejackal
Translations: