yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
ankh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Egyptian anx-Z1 (ꜥnḫ, “life, to live, symbol for life”).
Inflected forms:
form: ankhs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: onch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cross shaped like a T with a loop at the top, the Egyptian hieroglyph representing the Egyptian triliteral ꜥnḫ (“life”) and often used as an amulet or charm for this concept.
pos: noun
examples: On temple wall paintings, the ankh is often seen being carried by gods who hold it up to the nose of the pharaoh. This gesture symbolizes the offering of the "breath of life" or eternity. Sometimes the pharaoh is also depicted with a stream of water in the form of ankhs being poured over him during a purification ritual.
The ankh combines the male and female sexual symbols: a female oval surmounting a male cross. It was also called the Key of the Nile, and was said to represent the sacred marriage between the God and Goddess which took place each year at the source of the Nile before the river flooded. Egyptians regarded the ankh as a universal life charm.
Now, the ankh that Thoth always held hovered in the air between Sekhmet and the Magus, and both fixed their gaze upon it.
gloss: A tau cross.
pos: noun
Related words: ☥
𓋹
Translations:
treacherous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French trecheros, tricheros (“deceitful”), equivalent to treacher + -ous. See treacher.
Base: treacher
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more treacherous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most treacherous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Exhibiting treachery.
pos: adj
examples: I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous seducer of young women, / I mark the ranklings of jealousy and unrequited love attempted to be hid […]
gloss: Deceitful; inclined to betray.
pos: adj
gloss: Unreliable; dangerous.
pos: adj
examples: a treacherous mountain trail
Work on the muskeg resulted in the formation in the first instance, and later in lengths of newly-laid track disappearing without trace into the treacherous bog.
[…] they stood in the region of perpetual snow, amidst the glittering, treacherous glaciers and crevasses, with vast slippery-pathed precipices yawning round.
There are many treacherous paths leading toward history’s realms of darkness, but when it comes to routes hacked out by imperialist powers in the Congo, we really do seem near darkness’s heart.
It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous.
Synonyms: booky
dastardly
disleal
disloyal
double-crossing
double-dealing
double-faced
double-hearted
doublehearted
faithless
false
falseheart
false-hearted
guiled
guileful
hollow-hearted
illoyal
infidelitous
insidious
Judaslike
Judasly
nonfaithful
perfidious
proditorious
proditory
Punic
ratlike
recreant
renegade
reptilian
reptitious
swike
traitorish
traitorlike
traitorly
traitorous
traitorsome
treacherous
treachersome
trothless
unfaithful
unleal
unloyal
unsteadfast
untrue
viperish
viperous
Antonyms: faithful
fidelitous
leal
loyal
steadfast
true
untraitorous
untreacherous
Related words: treacher
treachery
trick
trickster
tricky
betray
betrayal
betrayer
Derived words: treacherously
treacherousness
treacherous turn
untreacherous
Translations:
treachery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English trecherie, from Old French tricherie, trecherie, from tricher, trichier (“to cheat”).
Inflected forms:
form: treacheries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Deliberate, often calculated, disregard for trust or faith.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Suddenly, in the midst of high-camp treachery and sleuthery, each character does a star turn, breaking out in song.
gloss: The act of violating the confidence of another, usually for personal gain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Treason.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An act or instance of treachery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: These submerged treacheries left an atmosphere. Even two such practised obliterators of their species as Bradly and Podson could not fail to note that each was secreting a certain reservation of opinion on the other.
Related words: trick
trickster
tricky
trickery
Derived words: treacher
treacherous
Translations:
passerine
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Adjective sense 1 is borrowed from New Latin Passer (“bird genus”) (from Latin passer (“sparrow”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peth₂- (“to spread out; to fly (in the sense of spreading out wings)”)) + English -ine (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
Adjective sense 2 is borrowed from New Latin passerinus (“bird species”) + English -ine. Passerinus is derived from Latin passerīnus (“of or fit for sparrows”), from passer (“sparrow”) (see above) + -īnus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
The noun is borrowed from New Latin Passerinae (“former order of birds”), a calque of French passereaux, the plural of passereau (“sparrow; passerine (bird of the order Passeriformes)”), from Latin passer (“sparrow”) (see above) + -eau (suffix forming diminutive masculine nouns, specifically the names of young animals).
Cognates
* French passerin (“sparrowlike”) (obsolete), Provençal French passerine (“passerine whitethroat, a bird from order Passeriformes”)
Inflected forms:
form: passerines
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the Passeriformes order of perching birds, which are generally anisodactyl (“having three toes pointing forward and one back, which facilitates perching”).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Chiefly in the former names of some birds: approximately the size of a sparrow.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
gloss: Any bird of the order Passeriformes, which comprises more than half of all bird species.
pos: noun
examples: If we examine the names of the Orders of Birds, we find that they are in Latin, […] We might venture to anglicize the terminations of the names which Cuvier gives to the divisions of these Orders: thus the Predators are the Diurnals and the Nocturnals; the Passerines are the Dentirostres, the Fissirostres, the Conirostres, the Tenuirostres, and the Syndactyls: the word lustre showing that the former termination is allowable.
Derived words: nonpasserine
Translations:
mayfly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From May + fly. Compare Saterland Frisian Moaifljooge (“blowfly”).
Compound parts: May
fly
Inflected forms:
form: mayflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mayfly
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the many fragile insects of the order Ephemeroptera that develop in fresh water and live very briefly as winged adults.
pos: noun
examples: While some animals take months to reproduce, mayfly need just one perfect day.
[A] silver fish clooped a lazy arc downstream, not really caring that the mayfly were out of reach; […]
Adult mayflies have large compound eyes and most have two pairs of wings.[…]Mayfly nymphs are distinguished by their three tails (two cerci and a terminal filament) and the set of gills on each side of their abdomen.
Mayflies are fragile, gossamer-winged insects that arise from bodies of water and often swarm in great numbers.
Stoneflies have negligible consumptive (thin solid line) and behavioral effects (thin dashed line) on mayfly abundance. Consumption by trout decreases the abundance of mayflies (solid line), but trout suppress mayfly emigration (drift) and thereby increase their abundance (thick dashed line).
gloss: Characterized by a short duration; short-lived.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
figuratively
examples: Dipping a French fry in her tomato ketchup, she admits that her name recognition could be higher. But it did spike a year ago during the mayfly premiership of Liz Truss.
Related words: hatch
Translations:
stonefly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From stone + fly.
Compound parts: stone
fly
Inflected forms:
form: stoneflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the freshwater aquatic insects in the order Plecoptera.
pos: noun
Translations:
webinar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of Web + seminar.
Compound parts: Web
seminar
Inflected forms:
form: webinars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Webinar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An interactive seminar conducted via Internet. Usually a live presentation, lecture or workshop that happens in real time, as users participate through text-based chat, voice, video, or file-sharing.
pos: noun
examples: I just got an email invitation to a webinar on the value of primary sources.
Web conferences or Webinars are a great way to learn about products or subjects of interest.
Webinars are often painfully short on exposure to the actual product, devoting half of the typical one-hour length to an “expert” disserting on some lofty topic, another fifteen minutes to a fluffy presentation about the company and its strategic direction, and a scant five minutes to a quick demo.
It's not that all women aren't interested in learning to download files or take Webinars, it's that their “why bother” factor may well kick in.
Register today for our informative webinar and executive book offer.
One other point: An impressive site design can never rescue poorly written copy, sloppy videos, or boring webinar recordings.
Although there are many other tools that are available in a webinar tool, these are the ones you'll find yourself using most often.
In response to this decline, a panel of Harvard scholars convened last week for a webinar to discuss how civil society groups can protect and promote democracy in such times of crisis.
Translations:
waffling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: wafflings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A repetitive speech or response to a question.
pos: noun
Translations:
flower-fly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: flower-flies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the hover-fly
pos: noun
Translations:
elapse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French elapser, from Latin elapsus.
Inflected forms:
form: elapses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: elapsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: elapsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: elapsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To pass or move by.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He allowed a month to elapse before beginning the work.
Several days elapsed before they met again.
The week that was yet to elapse, she spent in wandering through her uncle's favourite walks in hours of tearful vigil, beside his tomb, and in collecting together every trifle on which he had set a value.
Many years elapsed before the success of Kemp Town as a residential district was assured; the foundations of the estate were laid in 1823, but some houses remained untenanted until the 1850s.
Translations:
firewall
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
government
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
politics
Etymology: From fire + wall. Compare West Frisian brânmuorre, Dutch brandmuur, German Brandmauer, Feuermauer, Swedish brandvägg, brandmur, Icelandic eldvegg. The verb sense for using maximum power or acceleration comes from the engine's firewall being the limit of forward movement of the throttle controls on many simpler vehicles; thus, to get the maximum engine output, one would push the throttle levers or pedal all the way to the firewall. The politics sense is a calque of German Brandmauer.
Compound parts: fire
wall
Inflected forms:
form: firewalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: firewalls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: firewalling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: firewalled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: firewalled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.
pos: noun
gloss: The software that monitors traffic in and out of a private network or a personal computer and allows or blocks such traffic depending on its perceived threat.
pos: noun
gloss: A hypothetical phenomenon where an observer falling into a black hole encounters high-energy quanta at or near the event horizon.
pos: noun
gloss: An ethical wall; an organizational or legal separation between two entities that might otherwise cause conflicts of interest.
pos: noun
examples: The book explains this in Adam Hochberg's (@adamhochberg) chapter discussing the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism's concerns related to non-profit news organizations: donor transparency, editorial independence, the firewall between journalism and fundraising, and conflicts of interest.
gloss: An unwritten agreement among major political parties to refuse to govern or cooperate with national conservative and ultranationalist parties.
pos: noun
tags: Germany
especially
examples: "Honest government must be preceded by honest negotiations," Mr Kickl said when Austria's president tasked him with beginning coalition talks after the centrist firewall failed.
Other firewalls have fallen around Europe, including in the Netherlands, Hungary and Italy. In Austria, the hard-right Freedom Party has been part of federal coalitions and appeared set to lead its next government, before negotiations with a center-right party collapsed this week.
Most of the time, German parties come to power in states and nationally by forming coalitions. As long as the firewall holds, the only way the AfD can take power is by winning a straight-up majority. Which is what it seems poised to do in the September elections.
gloss: To protect with a firewall.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To block with a firewall.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To use maximum engine power or acceleration.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
Related words: balls to the wall
Derived words: Great Firewall of China
Chinese firewall
Translations:
Hummel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Hummels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Hummel figurine
pos: noun
Translations:
housefly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From house + fly. Cognate with Dutch huisvlieg (“housefly”), Danish husflue (“housefly”), Swedish husfluga (“housefly”), Faroese húsfluga (“housefly”).
Compound parts: house
fly
Inflected forms:
form: houseflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: house fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: house-fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any fly regularly found in human dwellings.
pos: noun
gloss: Any fly regularly found in human dwellings.
pos: noun
examples: Of the three potential means (carriage on the body and legs, regurgitation and defecation) by which houseflies can transmit pathogens, one involves passage through the gut. During passage through the housefly, pathogens may replicate within the gut.
In the housefly, M. domestica, sex pheromone production is correlated with egg development.
Houseflies are known to carry at least 100 different pathogens and they are vectors for at least 65 of these.
Translations:
lang: Aklanon
word: eangaw
lang: Arabic
word: ذُبَابَة مَنْزِلِيَّة
lang: Azerbaijani
word: otaq milçəyi
lang: Basque
word: etxe-euli
lang: Catalan
word: mosca comuna
lang: Cebuano
word: langaw
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 家蠅 /家蝇
roman: jiāyíng
lang: Czech
word: moucha domácí
lang: Dutch
word: huisvlieg
lang: Estonian
word: harilik toakärbes
lang: Faroese
word: húsfluga
lang: Faroese
word: búfluga
lang: Finnish
word: huonekärpänen
lang: French
word: mouche domestique
lang: German
word: Stubenfliege
lang: German
word: Flüüge
lang: Hiligaynon
word: langaw
lang: Inuktitut
word: ᑎᒻᒥᕗᖅ
roman: timmifoq
lang: Italian
word: mosca domestica
lang: Japanese
word: 家蝿
roman: iebae
lang: Kinaray-a
word: langaw
lang: Korean
word: 집파리
roman: jip'pari
lang: Latin
word: Musca Domestica
lang: Malayalam
word: ഈച്ച
roman: īcca
lang: Māori
word: ngaro huka
lang: Navajo
word: tséʼédǫ́ʼii
lang: Norman
word: moûque dé tchuîsinne
lang: Polish
word: mucha domowa
lang: Portuguese
word: mosca doméstica
lang: Romanian
word: muscă de casă
lang: Russian
word: ко́мнатная му́ха
roman: kómnatnaja múxa
lang: Shona
word: nhunzi
lang: Spanish
word: mosca doméstica
lang: Spanish
word: mosca común
lang: Swedish
word: husfluga
lang: Tagalog
word: langaw
lang: Tamil
word: ஈ
roman: ī
lang: Tumbuka
word: membe
lang: Turkish
word: karasinek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قره سیڭك
roman: kara siñek
lang: Vietnamese
word: ruồi nhà
lang: Welsh
word: pryf tŷ
lang: Welsh
word: pry ffenestr
lang: Welsh
word: cleren tai
anatta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Pali anattan, from Sanskrit अनात्मन् (anātman, “no soul”), from अन्- (an-, “non-, un-, a-”) + आत्मन् (ātman, “soul”).
Inflected forms:
form: anattas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The idea that there is no separate self or soul; egolessness. One of the three marks of existence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The texts indicate that when the Buddha's first disciples heard about anatta, their hearts were filled with joy and they immediately experienced Nirvana.
Translations:
philippic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin philippicus, from Ancient Greek φιλιππικός (philippikós), from Φίλιππος (Phílippos, “lover of horses”), from φίλος (phílos, “loving”) + ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).
Inflected forms:
form: philippics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: philippick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the discourses of Demosthenes against Philip II of Macedon, defending the liberty of Athens.
pos: noun
examples: […] the Bema, from whence Demosthenes thundered his philippics and fired the wavering patriotism of his countrymen.
gloss: Any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Mrs. Ferrars looked exceedingly angry, and drawing herself up more stiffly than ever, pronounced in retort this bitter phillipic; “Miss Morton is Lord Morton’s daughter.”
"Sir Robert Akhurst is a good man, a very good man, notwithstanding his philippic; but he is an old one, which makes all the difference."
Skin-the-Goat, assuming he was he, evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances in a forcible-feeble philippic anent the natural resources of Ireland, or something of that sort, which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God’s earth, far and away superior to England
As a young man, Lytton Strachey admired Hastings and wrote a long thesis on him, while dismissing Burke as ‘an ignorant enthusiast’. What strikes me on rereading those great philippics is, on the contrary, their exactness and perceptiveness.
Derived words: philippicize
philippize
Translations:
extraction
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: dentistry
government
medicine
military
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From Old French estraction, from Medieval Latin extractio.
Inflected forms:
form: extractions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
gloss: A person's origin or ancestry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our companion on these tours was a young tourist, an American of Russian extraction, whose questions and remarks drew our attention to some details of Haifa life that have become too familiar and would have otherwise passed unnoticed. ...
gloss: The act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The removal of a tooth from its socket.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The extraction yield of a brewed coffee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: reduction
Derived words: agroextraction
autoextraction
buccal fat extraction
coextraction
cold extraction
collocation extraction
comedo extraction
cryoextraction
dilation and extraction
electroextraction
extractional
extraction shooter
hot extraction
hydroextraction
immunoextraction
intact dilation and extraction
microextraction
nonextraction
overextraction
perstraction
phytoextraction
postextraction
preextraction
reextraction
root extraction
solvent extraction
Soxhlet extraction
underextraction
Translations:
displeasure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French desplaisir, equivalent to dis- + pleasure. See displease.
Base: pleasure
Affixes: dis-
Inflected forms:
form: displeasures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A feeling of being displeased with something or someone; dissatisfaction; disapproval.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Tangling with Ziv, Cameron caught him with a flailing elbow, causing the Israeli defender to go down a little easily. However, the referee was in no doubt, much to the displeasure of the home fans.
gloss: That which displeases; cause of irritation or annoyance; offence; injury.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Hast thou delight to see a wretched man / Do outrage and displeasure to himself?
gloss: A state of disgrace or disfavour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [King Lear] charged me, on pain of their perpetual displeasure, neither to speak of him [Edgar], entreat for him, nor any way sustain him.
[H]ee went into Poland, being in displeasure with the pope for ouermuch familiaritie with a kinswoman of his.
Antonyms: contentment
happiness
pleasure
satisfaction
ease
approbation
approval
blessing
Derived words: displeasurable
take a displeasure
take displeasure
displeasurement
Translations:
wite
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wīten (“to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect”), Old English wītan (“to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną. Connected to Old English wīte, see below.
Inflected forms:
form: wites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: witing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: wyte
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: wites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To regard (someone) as guilty; to accuse; to blame; to fault.
pos: verb
examples: [H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.
gloss: To censure (someone); to mulct; to reproach.
pos: verb
examples: [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.
gloss: To guard (something); to keep; to observe, preserve, or protect.
pos: verb
gloss: Blame; responsibility; guilt.
pos: noun
examples: Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.
gloss: Punishment; penalty; fine; bote; mulct.
pos: noun
Translations:
codfish
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From cod + fish.
Compound parts: cod
fish
Inflected forms:
form: codfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: codfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cod (any of various fish, especially the Atlantic cod).
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Codfish include ten families with more than 200 species. Almost all live in cold salt water in the Northern Hemisphere. Cod were thought to have developed into their current forms about 120 million years ago in the Tethys Sea, a tropical sea that once ran around the earth east-west and connected all other oceans. Eventually the Tethys merged with a northern sea, and the cod became a fish of the North Atlantic. Later, when a land bridge between Asia and North America broke, cod found their way into the northern Pacific. In gadiform fish, evolution is seen in the fins.
gloss: The flesh of a cod as food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: codfish aristocracy
Translations:
tilapia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Tswana tlhapider.
taxonomic name Tilapialbor.
English tilapia
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Tilapia, from Tswana tlhapi (“fish”).
The drag race slang usage is a reference to the comment by Gia Gunn on entering Ru Paul's Drag Race (season 6) "Just landed like fresh tilapia".
Inflected forms:
form: tilapias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tilapia
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various edible fish, formerly species of the genus Tilapia, but now placed in other cichlid genera (such as Oreochromis), native to Africa and the Middle East but cultivated worldwide.
pos: noun
examples: Well I dined last night with Scarface Ron
On tilapia fishcakes and fried black swan.
gloss: A fishy (resembling a cisgender woman) drag queen; a drag queen who could pass for a woman, as opposed to one who is exaggeratedly feminine.
pos: noun
examples: Vietnamese tilapia Plastique Tiara was at the forefront of one of Drag Race's most controversial eliminations earlier this year. Although the Texan performer and biological woman was leaving us gooped week-after-week with her runways, she was – spoiler alert! – eliminated in eighth place after lip-syncing against Miss Vanjie, despite having a better track record.
Derived words: banded tilapia
blackchin tilapia
blackfin tilapia
black tilapia
blue tilapia
Graham's tilapia
Guinean tilapia
kariba tilapia
longfin tilapia
magadi tilapia
mango tilapia
Manyara tilapia
Mozambique tilapia
Nile tilapia
Okavango tilapia
Otjikoto tilapia
redbelly tilapia
redbreast tilapia
Singida tilapia
spotted tilapia
threespot tilapia
Wami tilapia
Zill's tilapia
Translations:
neep
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek νᾶπῠ (nâpŭ)der.
Latin nāpusbor.
Old English nǣp
Middle English neep
English neep
From Middle English neep, from Old English nǣp (“turnip, rape”), borrowed from Latin nāpus. Compare Icelandic næpa (“turnip”).
Cognate with English turnip.
Inflected forms:
form: neeps
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The swede (rutabaga); turnip.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: Poor Mr Piddle with his long think neck and his long thin head, as bald as a neep and something the shape […]
Translations:
rearguard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
games
government
hobbies
lifestyle
military
politics
soccer
sports
war
Etymology: From rear + guard. Attested in The Song of Roland c. 1150 (rereguarde). Doublet of retrogarde.
Compound parts: rear
guard
Inflected forms:
form: rearguards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rear guard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rear-guard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The rearmost part of a force, especially a detachment of troops that protect the rear of a retreating force.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
gloss: The defence, collectively the defenders.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
examples: Mancini's side only showed enough ambition when it was too late and by then battle lines were drawn as James Collins and former City captain Richard Dunne fought a magnificent rearguard action at the heart of Villa's defence.
Derived words: rearguard action
Translations:
bez
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See bezantler.
Inflected forms:
form: bezes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The second tine of an antler's beam.
pos: noun
Translations:
ghostwrite
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
Etymology: Back-formation from ghostwriter.
Inflected forms:
form: ghostwrites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ghostwriting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ghostwrote
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ghostwritten
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ghost-write
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ghost write
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Mariana would rather not ghostwrite for a living because she finds it a thankless task.
gloss: To author a literary work or speech in the place of another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The president has someone to ghostwrite his addresses.
Before I read her book, I wondered if it had been ghostwritten, like many such books.
Related words: ghostwriter
ghostwritten
Translations:
novi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of novice.
Inflected forms:
form: novis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A new pupil.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: In part it is sensible, requiring a novi to know names of masters, whereabouts of rooms, colours of houses and so on.
Translations:
catarrh
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English catarre, from Medieval Latin catarrus, from Late Latin catarrhus, from Ancient Greek κατάρροος (katárrhoos), which is derived from καταρρέω (katarrhéō, “to flow down”), which is composed of κατά (katá, “down”) and ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).
Inflected forms:
form: catarrhs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of a mucous membrane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.
Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever […]
"Where I went wrong," he said, still speaking in that low, husky voice as if he had been a ghost suffering from catarrh, "was in getting engaged to Phyllis Mills."
gloss: Inflammation of a mucous membrane.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He coughed violently and spat out the catarrh irritating his throat.
gloss: Inflammation of a mucous membrane.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
metonymically
uncountable
Related words: cold
flu
grippe
grip
influenza
pose
sinusitis
Derived words: catarrhal
catarrhal fever
catarrhally
catarrhine
catarrhous
catarrhy
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: نَزْلَة
roman: nazla
lang: Bulgarian
word: катар
roman: katar
lang: Catalan
word: catarro
lang: Danish
word: katar
lang: Dutch
word: slijmvliesontsteking
lang: Dutch
word: catarre
lang: Esperanto
word: kataro
lang: Estonian
word: limaskestapõletik
lang: Estonian
word: katarr
lang: Faroese
word: rovubruni
lang: Finnish
word: katarri
lang: French
word: catarrhe
lang: German
word: Katarrh
lang: Ancient Greek
word: κατάρροος
roman: katárrhoos
lang: Hebrew
word: נַזֶּלֶת
roman: nazélet
lang: Hindi
word: ज़ुकाम
roman: zukām
lang: Hindi
word: जुकाम
roman: jukām
lang: Hindi
word: सर्दी
roman: sardī
lang: Hindi
word: प्रतिश्याय
roman: pratiśyāy
lang: Hungarian
word: hurut
lang: Ido
word: kataro
lang: Irish
word: réama
lang: Italian
word: catarro
lang: Latin
word: gravēdō
lang: Latin
word: coryza
lang: Latin
word: catarrhus
lang: Latin
word: dēstīllātiō
lang: Latin
word: gravitūdō
lang: Latin
word: īnflūxiō
lang: Latin
word: rheuma
lang: Macedonian
word: катар
roman: katar
lang: Māori
word: kauanu
lang: Māori
word: hinamokimoki
lang: Navajo
word: chʼiish
lang: Polish
word: katar
lang: Portuguese
word: catarro
lang: Russian
word: ката́р
roman: katár
lang: Sanskrit
word: प्रतिश्याय
roman: pratiśyāya
lang: Sicilian
word: catarru
lang: Spanish
word: catarro
lang: Swedish
word: katarr
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: نزله
roman: nezle
lang: Urdu
word: سردی
roman: sardī
lang: Venetan
word: catar
lang: Vilamovian
word: śnöp
lang: Volapük
word: katar
acquis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Shortened from acquis communautaire: French acquis (“that has been acquired or obtained”) + communautaire (“of the community”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Ellipsis of acquis communautaire.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Despite the clarity with which this principle has been reiterated, most applicants believe that their own circumstances are unique and deserve an equality of respect, even when this might challenge a principle of at least part of the acquis. The UK, for example, believed that its wider trading links merited special consideration. The realisation that such consideration would not be forthcoming was particularly humiliating, given that the UK had been invited to participate in forming the acquis in 1955–57.
[T]he process of absorption of the EU Internal Market acquis by the new EU member states (Hungary and Estonia, e.g. completed their alignment wih the Internal Market acquis within three years) is not feasible for the Moldovan economy, at least in the following three to five years.
In general, the existing acquis communautaire was adhered to as closely as possible in the drafting of the PEICL [Principles of European Insurance Contract Law]. Exceptions were made where shortcomings could be identified. Therefore, a number of directives, for example the insurance acquis, have been taken into account in the PEICL.
It is a remarkable story of how the EU has managed to create an entire acquis that ensures that the whole of Europe speaks about consumer contract using the same terminology and policy framework.
gloss: Ellipsis of acquis communautaire.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Acquis is a French term meaning "that which has been agreed". In the context of the Tripartite Free Trade Agreement (TFTA) means that the negotiations should start from the point at which […] the COMESA, EAC and SADC trade negotiations have reached. Tariff negotiations and the exchange of tariff concessions would be among Member/Partner States of the Tripartite FTA that have no preferential arrangements in place between them. This will both preserve the acquis and build on it.
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: acquis
lang: Georgian
word: აკისი
roman: aḳisi
lang: Polish
word: acquis
neeps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: mashed swede (called "turnip" in Scotland), especially when served with tatties (potatoes) and haggis.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
Translations:
luncheon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier lunching, of uncertain origin.
Possibly derived from an earlier *lumpchin, *lumpchen, a diminutive of lump (“chunk, parcel of food, lunch”), thus related to lunch, q.v. It is unclear which came first: whether lunch is a shortening of luncheon, or whether luncheon is an augmentation of lunch. Possibly influenced by nuncheon (“light snack taken in the afternoon”).
The "sausage" sense is probably a shortening of luncheon sausage or luncheon meat.
Inflected forms:
form: luncheons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lunching
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lunchen
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: slunchin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lunshin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lunchion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: lunchin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A formal meal served in the middle of the day.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
Superintendent Chalmers: Well, Seymour, I made it — despite your directions.
Principal Skinner: Ahhh, Superintendent Chalmers! Welcome! I hope you're prepared for an unforgettable luncheon.
Most people thought the food at the luncheon was mediocre.
gloss: A large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
countable
uncountable
examples: Filled Roll (x2) 1x luncheon, tomato, lettuce, and mayonnaise / 1x cheese and onion
Ian bought the luncheon since it was on special.
gloss: Any midday meal; lunch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: Have you had luncheon?
gloss: A lump of food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
Related words: nuncheon
Derived words: bruncheon
luncheon bar
luncheon cart
luncheoner
luncheonette
luncheonless
luncheon meat
luncheon plate
luncheon sausage
luncheon truncheon
luncheon voucher
luncheonware
preluncheon
Translations:
cichlid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Translingual Cichlidaebor.
English cichlid
Borrowed from Translingual Cichlidae.
Inflected forms:
form: cichlids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many tropical fish, of the family Cichlidae, popular as aquarium fish.
pos: noun
Translations:
rear-guard
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, a rearguard.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or relating to, resistance in politics, etc.
pos: adj
Antonyms: avant-guard
Translations:
expenditure
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From stem of Medieval Latin expenditus, irregular perfect passive participle of expendō (“to weigh, to pay out”), + -ure (“process or result”).
Affixes: -ure
Inflected forms:
form: expenditures
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Act of expending or paying out.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: The amount expended; expense; outlay.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: The expenditure of time, money, and political capital on this project has been excessive.
Derived words: capital expenditure
energy expenditure
government expenditure
misexpenditure
operating expenditure
overexpenditure
Translations:
firing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, fire + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: firings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the pots have been glazed, they go back into the kiln for a second firing.
gloss: The fuel for a fire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No more dams I’ll make for fish;
Nor fetch in firing
At requiring […]
Downstairs there was a kitchen common to all lodgers, with free firing and a supply of cooking-pots, tea-basins, and toasting-forks.
gloss: The act of adding fuel to a fire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: One driver told him that a fireman who did not know the route might easily go "over the side" between Corby and Harringworth, unless warned beforehand of the reverse curves; he himself, in his firing days, used to try so to plan his firing that it was unnecessary to add any more coal while passing over this stretch at speed.
The doors are at the right level for firing, which normally is down one side of the firebox at a time, unlike our own practice, which is to fire each side of the firebox with alternate shovelfuls.
gloss: The discharge of a gun or other weapon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] they fir’d several Times, making other Signals for the Boat. At last, when all their Signals and Firings prov’d fruitless, and they found the Boat did not stir, we saw them by the Help of my Glasses, hoist another Boat out, and row towards the Shore […]
He heard the firing and as he walked he felt it in the pit of his stomach as though it echoed on his own diaphragm.
gloss: The dismissal of someone from a job due to poor work performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Even the most seasoned analysts of British politics were struck by the brutality of Ms. May’s hirings and firings.
gloss: Cauterization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: biscuit firing
co-firing
firing iron
firing line
firing party
firing pin
firing point
firing range
firing solution
firing squad
nonfiring
oil firing
overfiring
quiet firing
superfiring
test firing
underfiring
Translations:
melodic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French mélodique. By surface analysis, melody + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more melodic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most melodic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or having melody.
pos: adj
examples: Debussy's melody is fractional, fragmentary. But at the core all his music is melodic and melody is its main motive force.
gloss: Melodious, tuneful.
pos: adj
Derived words: amelodic
countermelodic
melodeath
melodically
melodic death metal
melodic dubstep
melodic hardcore
melodicism
melodicist
melodicity
melodic line
melodic minor scale
neomelodic
nonmelodic
supermelodic
unmelodic
Translations:
indeclinable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From French indéclinable, from Middle French, from Latin indeclinabilis. Equivalent to in- + declinable.
Base: declinable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: indeclinables
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That one cannot decline; unavoidable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He'd planned to work a double shift Friday night, but Gladys Silverman's indeclinable invitation threw a hefty wrench into David's plans.
gloss: Not grammatically declinable; having no inflections.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A word that is not grammatically inflected.
pos: noun
Synonyms: undeclinable
Derived words: indeclinableness
indeclinably
Translations:
submariner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English submarine
English -er
English submariner
From submarine + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: submariners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the crew of a submarine.
pos: noun
gloss: A pitcher that throws with an underhand motion.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Jones was a submariner and could often confuse a batter with his unorthodox delivery.
Translations:
sleazebag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From sleaze + bag.
Compound parts: sleaze
bag
Inflected forms:
form: sleazebags
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A morally reprehensible, disreputable, or sleazy person.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
haro
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See harrow or haro.
The claim has been made that the word is from Old French haro, harou, from two words, "Ha" and "Rollo", referring to Duke Rollo of Normandy; his name became well known as a cry for justice and was later shortened to "Haro."
-"The Little Duke", Charlotte Young, 1955
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation of distress; alas.
pos: intj
tags: obsolete
gloss: A call for help, a demand for protection against harm, or for assistance to arrest an adversary.
pos: intj
Derived words: clameur de haro
Translations:
phylogenetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From phylo- + genetic, from German phylogenetisch, coined by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, from Phylogenese + -isch.
Base: genetic
Affixes: phylo-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to phylogeny or phylogenetics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: To each of these subdivisions of the phylum thus differentiated the name race may appropriately be restricted, and the sum of the peculiarities of each race may be termed race-characters. This is the phylogenetic side of anthropology, and its nomenclature should be kept clearly separate from that of the ethnological side.
gloss: Of, or relating to the evolutionary development of organisms.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: phylogenetics
phylogenesis
phylogeny
taxonomic
Derived words: cophylogenetic
ecophylogenetic
geophylogenetic
monophylogenetic
nonphylogenetic
phylogenetically
phylogenetic tree
prephylogenetic
Translations:
Linnaean
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From Linnaeus + -an. After Carolus Linnaeus (1707–1778), Swedish naturalist who helped to standardize biological nomenclature.
Base: Linnaeus
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: Linnean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Linean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Linnæan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Linæan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist, either personally or in a wider sense, to the era influenced by him.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the binomial nomenclature originated by him
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Nowhere was the victory of Linnaeanism more complete than in Britain. When William Hudson's Flora Anglica, organized in the Linnaean manner, appeared in 1762, it displaced all previous floras.
gloss: Relating to the nomenclature Codes that have their starting point in a work by Linnaeus or are derived from such a Code. This includes the idea of a ranked taxonomy, which was not initiated by Linnaeus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
snowboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From snow + board.
Compound parts: snow
board
Inflected forms:
form: snowboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snowboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snowboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snowboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snowboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A board, somewhat like a broad ski, or a very long skateboard with no wheels, used in the sport of snowboarding.
pos: noun
gloss: To ride a snowboard.
pos: verb
Translations:
snowboarding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The sport of sliding downhill on a snowboard.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:snowboarding.
Translations: