yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
learner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *leys-
Proto-Indo-European *(le-)lóys-e
Proto-Germanic *lizanąder.
Proto-West Germanic *liʀnōn
Old English leornian
Middle English lernen
English learn
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English learner
From learn + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: learners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is learning; one receiving instruction.
pos: noun
examples: She’s still a learner, so she’s prone to making mistakes.
Cambridge University Press has released a new series aimed at young learners with epilepsy.
gloss: A scholar.
pos: noun
tags: dated
obsolete
Synonyms: learner
Antonyms: educator
preceptor
teacher
tutor
Related words: student
alumnus
autodidact
collegian
dropout
graduate
protege
education
attendant
beginner
Derived words: adult learner
distance learner
e-learner
language learner
learner permit
learnership
learner's license
learner's permit
metalearner
nonlearner
superlearner
telelearner
Translations:
grrr
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Elongated form of grr.
pos: intj
Translations:
dirtbag
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From dirt + bag.
Compound parts: dirt
bag
Inflected forms:
form: dirtbags
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dirty, grimy, sleazy, or disreputable person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
slang
examples: Near-synonym: douchebag
I'm just a teenage dirtbag, baby. Listen to Iron Maiden, baby...with me.
gloss: A poor climber, alpinist, skier or other outdoorsman who lives cheaply, without normal employment, and with few amenities in order to spend as much time on their sport as possible.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Related words: hosebag
scumbag
sleazebag
scumbucket
scuzzball
scuzzbucket
Derived words: dirtbaggery
dirtbag left
Translations:
critique
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”), feminine of criticus (“critical”); see critic.
Inflected forms:
form: critiques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: critiques
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: critiquing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: critiqued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: critiqued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The art of criticism.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An essay in which another piece of work is criticized, reviewed, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I ſhould as ſoon expect to ſee a Critique on the Poſie of a Ring, as on the Inſcription of a Medal.
I did not always agree with Malcolm X, specifically his critiques of Dr [Martin Luther] King and of the philosophy of nonviolent resistance.
The Department for Transport has conceded that the instruction to the train operators under its control (either through direct management or a contractual relationship) to close ticket offices will be withdrawn, following a devas[ta]ting critique by Transport Focus on the proposal's shortcomings.
gloss: A point made to criticize something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Bob liked most of my presentation, but offered three minor critiques.
gloss: To review something; to criticize.
pos: verb
examples: I want you to critique this new idea of mine.
Newly declassified documents from the FBI reveal how the US federal agency under J Edgar Hoover monitored the activities of dozens of prominent African American writers for decades, devoting thousands of pages to detailing their activities and critiquing their work.
While many commented on the sweet nature of the video, others were quick to critique her parenting choice, with one saying: "Giving food like this to a child is child abuse."
On Tuesday, in what was unquestionably the most quintessential MSNBC moment I caught this week, a protester heckled correspondent Katy Tur for mentioning looting and she conceded that he was right to critique the media’s fascination with that aspect of recent events.
But as this quartet of women filmmakers make new contributions to a very old genre, they’re united […] in critiquing the frontier illusion itself, the fantasy that fleeing toward the next horizon offers riches as well as freedom from the waste and damage left behind.
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten critiqued standardized testing Thursday – and specifically cited the racial makeup of heavily Asian Stuyvesant High School as an example of what’s wrong with the system.
Synonyms: animadversion
criticism
criticization
critique
dressing-down
handbagging
slam
stricture
Antonyms: accolade
applause
encomium
plaudit
tribute
Related words: critic
criticize
offense
Derived words: immanent critique
transcendental critique
self-critique
Translations:
cous
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of cousin.
Inflected forms:
form: couses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cuz
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: cousin (usually as a term of address, but not necessarily towards one's cousin)
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
informal
Translations:
broaden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-der.?
Proto-Germanic *braidaz
Proto-West Germanic *braid
Old English brād
Middle English brod
English broad
English -en
English broaden
From broad + -en (verbal suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: broadens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: broadening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: broadened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: broadened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make broad or broader.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: broaden one’s knowledge
broaden the canal
Travel broadens the mind.
gloss: To become broad or broader.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The roads gradually broadened as we drove into the countryside.
Her knowledge broadened after spending a year in South America.
Derived words: broadener
broaden someone's horizons
overbroaden
unbroadened
Translations:
brainless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English braynles; equivalent to brain + -less.
Base: brain
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more brainless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most brainless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no brain.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Surely it was more likely that a brainless creature, acting solely by vague predatory instinct, would give up the chase when I disappeared, and, after a pause of astonishment, would wander away in search of some other prey?
gloss: Unintelligent, with little common sense.
pos: adj
tags: comparable
examples: "I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, the worn-out, passionless men, the enervated matrons of the summer capital,[…]!"
gloss: Overly repetitive and unchallenging, not requiring any careful attention or providing any significant stimulation.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: automatic, rote, dull
Derived words: brainlessly
brainlessness
Translations:
autopilot
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.?
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.
Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)
Ancient Greek τόν (tón)?
Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)
Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)
Proto-Indo-European *mn̥tós
Proto-Hellenic *mətós
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτος (autómătos)
Ancient Greek αὐτόμᾰτον (autómăton)der.
Classical Latin automatum
New Latin automaticusbor.
English automaticclip.
English auto-
English pilot
English autopilot
From auto- + pilot.
Inflected forms:
form: autopilots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: autopilots
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: autopiloting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: autopiloted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: autopiloted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system used to guide a vehicle without assistance from a human being.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I set the autopilot to due south, so I could get some rest.
gloss: A state of mind where one no longer thinks about doing one's actions, but acts mechanically.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: I've been doing this 12 hours non-stop, and am so hungry and tired that I've stopped thinking: I'm now on autopilot.
But while the wackiness gets exasperating fast (a running joke about Hazel’s father, played by Ray Romano on autopilot, having a sex doll for a wife is even unfunnier than it sounds), Milioti works overtime to keep us invested.
gloss: To pilot itself; to drive or travel automatically.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: automatic
Translations:
repeater
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
communications
education
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
firearms
government
hobbies
horology
human-sciences
lifestyle
manufacturing
marketing
mathematics
medicine
military
mysticism
mythology
natural-sciences
nautical
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
politics
sciences
telecommunications
telegraphy
textiles
tools
transport
ufology
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
English repeat
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English repeater
From repeat + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: repeaters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who or that which repeats.
pos: noun
gloss: A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
pos: noun
gloss: A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
pos: noun
gloss: A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
pos: noun
gloss: One who votes more than once at an election.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The pimps and the panders, the cadets and maquereaux… they vote the ticket of the organization; they contribute to the campaign funds; they serve as colonizers and repeaters at the polls.
gloss: A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
pos: noun
gloss: A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
pos: noun
gloss: An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
pos: noun
examples: […] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]
gloss: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
pos: noun
gloss: A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
pos: noun
gloss: A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
pos: noun
gloss: A repeating decimal.
pos: noun
gloss: In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.
pos: noun
Synonyms: translator
Related words: repeat offender
Derived words: antirepeater
banner repeater
digipeater
minute repeater
nonrepeater
repeatered
repeaterlessbanner repeater
soft-gamma repeater
Translations:
ambergris
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French ambre gris (“grey amber”). Though the term was initially spaced as two words, single-word forms predominated by the 19th century. In the 17th century, folk etymologies interpreting the term as amber grease or amber [of] Greece enjoyed some popularity.
Inflected forms:
form: ambergrises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: amber-gris
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber gris
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergreece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-greece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber greece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergrease
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-grease
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber grease
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergreese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-greese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergrise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-grise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber grise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergreace
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-greace
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber greace
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergrece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-grece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber grece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergrese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-grese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber grese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergrice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-grice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber grice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergriece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-griece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber griece
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambergriese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber-griese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber griese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambregrise
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ambregris
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: amber de gris
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A solid, waxy, flammable substance of a dull gray to blackish color, formed within the intestines of the sperm whale and used in the production of perfumes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Your onely way to make a good pomander, is this. Take an ownce of the pureſt garden mould, clenſed and ſteeped ſeauen daies in change of motherleſſe roſe water, then take the beſt Labdanum, Benioine, both Storaxes, amber greece, and Ciuet, and muſke, incorporate them together, and work them into what form you pleaſe; this, if your breath bee not to valiant, will make you ſmell as ſweete as my Ladies dogge.
And as for the other whale, why, I’ll agree to get more oil by chopping up and trying out these three masts of ours, than he’ll get from that bundle of bones; though, now that I think of it, it may contain something worth a good deal more than oil; yes, ambergris.
Translations:
switchboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
communications
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
telecommunications
Etymology: From switch + board.
Compound parts: switch
board
Inflected forms:
form: switchboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: switchboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: switchboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: switchboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: switchboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.
pos: noun
gloss: A large piece of power-distribution equipment that directs electricity to multiple loads.
pos: noun
gloss: To transmit or relay through, as if through, a switchboard.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: switchboarding
Translations:
pissy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English piss
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English pissy
From piss + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: pissier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pissiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Soaked or dirtied by urine.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: David's father immediately threw his baby's pissy clothes into the wash.
gloss: Resembling or smelling like urine.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Dan Valentine works as a bartender in a pissy and discreet Boston Village gay bar called "Bonaparte's".
I admit the car still has a pissy smell from what happened last year.
gloss: Resembling or smelling like urine.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: I wish these pissy rain showers would either build up into a storm or go away.
gloss: Anal retentive, whinging and pernickety.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Stop being pissy: you knew what I meant when I said "Don't touch the dial", but you prodded the dial with a fork.
gloss: Annoyed; angry; in a bad mood; pissed off.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
gloss: Worthless; crappy.
pos: adj
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: About those times when she'd stay here while you were out on the road with your pissy little band, off to Truro or Moncton or wherever. What do you think she was doing back here? Helping her mom with the laundry?
Related words: pissy-bed
Derived words: pissily
pissiness
pissy-eyed
pissy-pants
Translations:
slippy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From slip + -y. Compare Old English slipiġ (“slippy, slimy, viscid”).
Base: slip
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: slippier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slippiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Slippery.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
Pennsylvania
UK
Western
examples: It was darker now and there were stones and bits of wood on the strand and slippy seaweed.
gloss: Spry, nimble.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
UK
dated
examples: Well, come on then, let's look slippy.
Derived words: slippily
slippiness
slippy map
Translations:
mwah
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeic. From the sound made when kissing, or the sound of a fretless bass.
Inflected forms:
form: mouah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: muah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mwa
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mwuah
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: mouah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: muah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mwa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mwuah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The sound of a kiss, to indicate blowing a kiss to someone.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
often
examples: Thanks guys. 3 kisses for you all: mwah mwah mwah!
'Cause he looks like how Bayboy draws Sam the dog / With the beard I can sink my lips into like mwah
gloss: The hallmark sound of a fretless bass guitar played with a certain technique, where treble frequencies increase gradually after the attack.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Play it again, but with more mwah this time.
Translations:
lardass
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Bahuvrīhi compound of lard + ass.
Compound parts: lard
ass
Inflected forms:
form: lardasses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lard-arse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An overweight or obese person.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
derogatory
slang
vulgar
examples: It was soon realized that there werenąt^([sic]) enough creaky knees, arthritic hips and aching backs outside of the sunbelt to support carts so they went after the lardass trade. And when they realized that there were not sufficient numbers of creaky knees, arthritic hips, aching backs and lardasses, they targeted the morally crippled. And when they saw that creaky knees, arthritic hips, aching backs, lardasses and the morally crippled didnąt^([sic]) do it for them, they finally made carts mandatory for everyone.
Translations:
gymnast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek γυμναστής (gumnastḗs, “trainer of athletes”), from γυμνάζω (gumnázō, “I train naked, exercise”), from γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”).
Inflected forms:
form: gymnasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who performs (the sport of) gymnastics.
pos: noun
Translations:
doable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English doable, equivalent to do + -able.
Base: do
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more doable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most doable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: do-able
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: doables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: do-able
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Possible to do; feasible.
pos: adj
examples: "I think this is embarrassing for the rail industry to put out non-workable options in a major public consultation that lots of people have given plenty of time to for then, at this stage, for us to be told that none of it was doable in the first place.
The work will, for now, continue in a different, disparate form. “It’s doable but it is disruptive,” said Kate Marvel, a climate scientist at GISS.
gloss: Worthy of sexual conquest.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Look at that chick - she's so doable!
gloss: Something that can be done; a possible or practical task.
pos: noun
Derived words: doability
undoable
Translations:
beluga
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian белу́га (belúga), from бе́лый (bélyj, “white”).
In modern standard Russian, белу́га (belúga) denotes the fish Huso huso only, while белу́ха (belúxa) denotes the cetacean.
Inflected forms:
form: belugas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Beluga
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A whale, Delphinapterus leucas, found in the Arctic Ocean.
pos: noun
gloss: A fish, Huso huso, that is a source of caviar, which is found in the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
pos: noun
Derived words: beluga lentil
beluga caviar
narluga
Translations:
aftershave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep
Proto-Indo-European *-o
Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep(o)teros
Proto-Germanic *after
Old English æfter
Middle English after
English after
▲
Old English æfter
Old English æfter-
Middle English after-
English after-
English shave
English aftershave
From after- + shave.
Inflected forms:
form: aftershaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: after-shave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a lotion, gel, or liquid used after finishing shaving
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The box was jam packed full o' gifts for each manjack of us: razors, aftershave, toothbrushes, an' books.
Translations:
narine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the nares; narial.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the narine membrane
Translations:
estrangement
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Old French estrangement. By surface analysis, estrange + -ment (“act, state”).
Inflected forms:
form: estrangements
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of estranging; the act of alienating; alienation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The impeachment crisis is also a symptom of a country caught in a massive political estrangement that is tearing apart any sense of common patriotic purpose. It has exposed a political culture in which the facts – in this case, of the President’s actions – are no longer sacrosanct and that has been laced with a fog of misinformation by his allies.
gloss: The state of being alien; foreign, non-native.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: alienation
Related words: estrange
estranged
Derived words: cognitive estrangement
Translations:
frenzied
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more frenzied
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frenzied
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: phrenzied
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a state of hurry, panic or wild activity.
pos: adj
examples: Preparations for the president's arrival made for a frenzied week.
Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.
From the off, the game was bewilderingly frenzied. There was little pattern, little composure, no sense of feeling the opponent out, just a manic intensity as though neither side could quite believe they were in a European final.
Translations:
harried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Stressed, rushed, panicked, overly busy or preoccupied.
pos: adj
examples: The entire place teemed with harried executives who had no time to talk to one another.
gloss: Harassed.
pos: adj
Derived words: harriedness
unharried
Translations:
forefront
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English forefrount, forfrount, forefronte, equivalent to fore- + front.
Base: front
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: forefronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: forefronts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: forefronting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: forefronted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: forefronted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The leading position or edge.
pos: noun
examples: That laboratory researches topics at the forefront of technology.
Today, the pocket calculator is a dying product, a casualty of digitization, which has been relegated to the role of a graphic icon on phone and computer screens rather than an object in its own right, but back in the early 1970s, it was at the forefront of consumer technology.
It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
He said that with the world facing a climate crisis, "it is up to those at the forefront of our industry - like Network Rail - to lead by example".
gloss: To bring to the forefront; to emphasize, or focus on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The impact of austerity and economic circumstances were forefronted in the more economically deprived countries of the partner countries (BG, GR) and seen as producing a fateful impact on access to diet and healthy lifestyle options.
Translations:
juju
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a West African language, probably originally from French joujou.
Inflected forms:
form: jujus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ju-ju
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jou-jou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A fetish or charm believed by West Africans to have magical or supernatural powers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Pendants round the neck, bangles round the wrists or ankles, potatoes or nutmegs in the pocket are as old or older than civilisation, carrying the same prophylactic magic as any juju in an African witchdoctor's armamentarium.
gloss: The magical or supernatural power of such a charm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: They are believed to be "Ju-Ju" or were-leopards, and in this guise to roam through the forest in bands, bent on evil and destruction.
The party had nominal hosts, all famous, but the real hostess, as everyone knew, was La Doll, who had more connections and access and juju than all of those people combined.
The blues juju—or jou-jou—relies upon the enjoyment of desires that cannot be satisfied.
gloss: The (usually negative) karmic consequences of an action or behavior.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: That's some bad juju.
Derived words: jujuism
jujuist
jujuman
Translations:
moded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more moded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most moded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Put in an embarrassing situation.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: outmoded.
pos: adj
Derived words: multimoded
Translations:
fretted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From fret.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having frets.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The dulcimer and sitar are fretted instruments.
Translations:
oldie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English old
English -ie
English oldie
From old + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: oldies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something or someone old.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A song or record from a previous era.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: The genre of music composed of popular music from previous eras.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
informal
examples: an oldies radio station
Synonyms: classic hit
Derived words: golden oldie
oldie but goodie
Translations:
galago
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Scientific Latin / translingual Galago (as a genus name), probably from Wolof golo (“monkey”).
Inflected forms:
form: galagos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: galagoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of small, nocturnal and arboreal African primates, of the family Galagidae, with a catlike head and very large, translucent eyes.
pos: noun
examples: From the trees comes the doleful cry of the black-faced dioch, and the weary rustle of galagos creeping back to their nests after a meticulous night's prowl.
Translations:
urbanite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English urban
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)der.
Ancient Greek -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs)der.
Latin -ītēsbor.
French -iteder.
English -ite
English urbanite
From urban + -ite (“resident of a particular area”).
Inflected forms:
form: urbanites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who lives in a city or similar urban area.
pos: noun
examples: But an electric car doesn’t make sense for individual urbanites. Few of them drive enough.
gloss: One of a demographic class of young, socially-conscious, urban professionals.
pos: noun
Translations:
scruffy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English scruff
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English scruffy
From scruff + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: scruffier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: scruffiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: scruffies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Untidy in appearance; scrubby; shabby.
pos: adj
examples: A scruffy little dog came scampering down the road.
scruffy clothes
scruffy man
scruffy outfit
"So you wanna be a rock 'n roll star?!" screams the centerspread of a scruffy rag produced by the Boston activist group Rock Against Sexism (R.A.S.) Amid a jumbled collage picturing shaggy-headed, bare-chested, "fuckin' awesome" white guy rockers, photo captions tell us how to succeed at rock 'n roll.
And I will think of my father, sun-baked, scruffy and far from home, stalking the wilds of Clapham Common, saved from a dinner of roasted aesculin by people who knew the importance of making someone feel at home.
gloss: Scurfy.
pos: adj
gloss: An artificial intelligence researcher who believes that intelligence is too complicated (or computationally intractable) to be solved with the sorts of homogeneous system favoured by the "neats".
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: An arctic fox.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:scruffy.
Related words: scruff
Derived words: scruffily
scruffiness
scruffy chic
Translations:
scruff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See scurf.
Inflected forms:
form: scruffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scruffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scruffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scruffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scruffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone with an untidy appearance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That candidate will never get the job: he's a right scruff.
gloss: Stubble, facial hair (on males).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Crust.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Scurf.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To lift or carry by the scruff.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She gently scruffed the kitten who was trying to climb her leg.
Derived words: Apple scruff
scruffy
Translations:
refuel
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English fuel
English refuel
From re- + fuel.
Inflected forms:
form: refuels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refueling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: refuelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: refueled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: refueled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: refuelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: refuelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: refuels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To refill with fuel.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: […] bundle the sorted, weighed, zipcoded parcels aboard the already refueled aircraft, which speedily take off […]
On a vast, dry lakebed called Tianshuihai, we came to a community of sorts, a desperate huddle of concrete and mud structures. My map labeled the region “Soda Plain,” and it seemed a long time since any water had gathered there. It was also, evidently, earthquake country. Buildings, many of them abandoned, had been shaken off their foundations; their walls had cracked and roofs fallen in. The military post and gas depot where Qu stopped to refuel had been shored up by heavy concrete buttresses. Thousands of fifty-gallon drums littered the ground, along with broken machinery, derelict vehicles, chunks of concrete, goat carcasses, cans, bottles, and shit.
Guided by the Earth’s magnetic field, starlight and other biocompasses that scientists have yet to fully divine, the birds wheel over land and sea, alighting opportunistically en route to rest, preen and refuel.
In his statement, Miliband said the two flights had refuelled at Diego Garcia. Each one had a single detainee on board who did not leave the aircraft.
The United States refuels military jets and provides intelligence support to the military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, that is trying to defeat Houthi insurgents in Yemen.
The president of the FIA, Jean Todt, has said he would like to see a return of in-race refuelling to Formula One as a way to improve the sport.
During the frostiest days of the Cold War, avoiding the Soviet Bloc meant flying north around Greenland to Alaska, refueling in Anchorage, and then around the Bering Straits to reach Japan.
gloss: An act or instance of refilling with fuel.
pos: noun
Derived words: hot refuel
Translations:
playpen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From play + pen.
Compound parts: play
pen
Inflected forms:
form: playpens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An enclosure in which babies or small children can play.
pos: noun
gloss: An area or domain in which a person can exercise their activities or endeavors freely.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
Translations:
plunger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: Etymology tree
English plunge
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English plunger
From plunge + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: plungers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that is used to remove blockages from the drain of a basin or tub, by suction.
pos: noun
gloss: The internal piece of a syringe that pushes out or pulls in any contents.
pos: noun
gloss: The sliding activator of an exploder, an electrical generator used to trigger electrical detonators such as blasting caps.
pos: noun
gloss: Certain equipment for brewing coffee.
pos: noun
gloss: Certain equipment for brewing coffee.
pos: noun
gloss: One who plunges; a diver.
pos: noun
gloss: A horse that plunges, or throws itself suddenly forward.
pos: noun
gloss: A cavalryman.
pos: noun
gloss: A device similar to a piston but without a mechanism; a long solid cylinder used, instead of a piston or bucket, as a forcer in pumps.
pos: noun
gloss: The moving portion of a solenoid.
pos: noun
gloss: The spring-loaded assembly that propels the ball onto the table.
pos: noun
gloss: A reckless gambler or gamble.
pos: noun
tags: dated
slang
examples: Well I suppose there's not one of you gentlemen here who hasnt^([sic]) at some time or other taken a plunger, and how many of you hasnt^([sic]) come back sadder and wiser.
gloss: A boiler in which clay is beaten by a wheel to a creamy consistency.
pos: noun
examples: Another part of the invention relates to making articles of earthenware by a plunger, which is forced into a mould
gloss: The firing pin of a breechloader.
pos: noun
Synonyms: plumber's helper
plumber's friend
Derived words: autoplunger
coffee plunger
cryoplunger
plungerless
plungerlike
plunger mute
plunger pump
Translations:
hissy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hiss
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English hissy
From hiss + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: hissier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: hissiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hissies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Accompanied with hisses.
pos: adj
gloss: Making a hissing sound.
pos: adj
examples: Each is very inexpensive ($60 per two-pack for the Midland, $100 a pair for the Audiovox), and feels it. Each is also tiny, no bigger than a bar of Ivory. Both are far hissier than their more expensive rivals, and don't have as much range (more on this in a moment).
gloss: Childish or petulant.
pos: adj
examples: Viewers were aghast. . . . As co-host Regis Philbin flinched, Gifford launched into a teary, it's-not-my-fault, TV hissy fit: "You can say I'm ugly, you can say I'm not talented, but when you say I don't care about children, how dare you!"
Midwestern-bred and still wholesome despite his exposure to New York’s hissiest, Sam remains the play’s anchor.
gloss: A tantrum, a fit.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: get into a hissy
Synonyms: sibilant
infantile
milky
huffy
irritable
Derived words: hissily
hissiness
hissy fit
Translations:
capitan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish capitán. Doublet of captain and chieftain.
Inflected forms:
form: capitans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Captain (in Spanish-speaking contexts).
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
underbelly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From under- + belly.
Base: belly
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: underbellies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The underside of an animal.
pos: noun
examples: We identified the species of the snake by its blue-grey underbelly.
The soft underbelly of the dragon. In the legend, the dragon's armor doesn't cover its stomach.
The biologist and his team were greeted by a nonstop squid review, with Humboldt squid darting in toward the boat and flashing their underbellies in attempts to lure small schooling fish near the surface.
gloss: The underside of any thing.
pos: noun
examples: A jolt told me that the Nautilus had bumped the underbelly of the Ice Bank, still quite thick to judge from the hollowness of the accompanying noise.
gloss: The side which is not normally seen, normally a dark, immoral place.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The area by the canal is the underbelly of town – not something you’d see in the guidebooks.
In order to take the initiative, military leaders from Great Britain and the United States decided to attack in Africa, cross the Mediterranean, and move up against the "soft underbelly" of German-dominated Europe.
The documents in this report reveal how such doctrinal disagreements have historically driven wedges within the upper echelons of al-Qa'ida. It is this intra-movement contention that comprises the soft underbelly of violent jihad, which can be exploited to great ends.
Twenty-one years after the movie "Trainspotting" gave the world a glimpse into Edinburgh's seedy, heroin-filled underbelly, the franchise is back on the map with “T2 Trainspotting.”
The book arrives at a moment of reckoning for the running world, as more female runners have come forward to share their stories of the sport’s dark underbelly, one that can be rife with manipulation, eating disorders and physical and emotional abuse.
Another danger for Vance is that the MAGA establishment he is courting may turn out to be less than meets the eye, that the ability of the professoriate at the Claremont Institute — or the angry bloggers and social media stars who make up the hard-right underbelly — to influence major blocs of Republican primary voters is a mirage masking real political weakness..
Derived words: soft underbelly
Translations:
pizzeria
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pizzeria, from pizza + -eria (“-ery”).
Inflected forms:
form: pizzerias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pizzerie
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A restaurant that bakes and sells pizzas.
pos: noun
examples: The talented artist quickly became fluent in English, found work at a pizzeria and dreamed of becoming a veterinary assistant.
Translations:
papaya
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish papaya, from Lokono papáia. Doublet of pawpaw.
Inflected forms:
form: papayas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tropical American evergreen tree, Carica papaya, having large, yellow, edible fruit.
pos: noun
gloss: The fruit of this tree.
pos: noun
examples: It was that image, its practical mundanity, the preparation of fruit I have seen you do a thousand times, the spoon gliding along the papaya’s flesh-orange core, a slush of black seeds plopping into the steel sink, that made it unbearable.
gloss: An orange colour, like that of papaya flesh.
pos: noun
Synonyms: pawpaw
Related words: papain
Derived words: mountain papaya
raw papaya
yaya papaya
Translations:
lang: Basque
word: papaiondo
lang: Central Bikol
word: tapayas
lang: Bulgarian
word: папая
roman: papaja
lang: Dutch
word: papajaboom
lang: Dutch
word: meloenboom
lang: Finnish
word: papaija
lang: French
word: papayer
lang: Gujarati
word: પપૈયું
roman: papaiyũ
lang: Hindi
word: पपीता
roman: papītā
lang: Hunsrik
word: Mammongbaam
lang: Ido
word: papayiero
lang: Indonesian
word: pepaya
lang: Isan
word: บักหุ่ง
roman: bàk-hùng
lang: Isan
word: หมากหุ่ง
roman: màak-hùng
lang: Javanese
word: ꦏꦠꦺꦱ꧀
roman: katès
lang: Macedonian
word: папа́ја
roman: papája
lang: Malayalam
word: കപ്ലം
roman: kaplaṁ
lang: Paicî
word: mâmîâpo
lang: Polish
word: papaja
lang: Portuguese
word: mamoeiro
lang: Russian
word: папа́йя
roman: papájja
lang: Spanish
word: papayo
lang: Spanish
word: frutabomba
lang: Spanish
word: papayero
lang: Spanish
word: lechoso
lang: Swahili
word: mpapai
lang: Tamil
word: பப்பாளி
roman: pappāḷi
lang: Telugu
word: బొప్పాయిచెట్టు
roman: boppāyiceṭṭu
lang: Central Thai
word: มะละกอ
roman: má-lá-gɔɔ
lang: Northern Thai
word: บะก้วยเต๊ศ
roman: bpa-gûai-dtêet
lang: Southern Thai
word: ลอกอ
roman: lɔɔ-gɔɔ
lang: Turkish
word: papaya
lang: Vietnamese
word: cây đu đủ
lang: Welsh
word: papaia
pawpaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Via Portuguese and Spanish papaya from Lokono papáia; compare also Kari'na kapaja. Doublet of papaya.
Alternatively from Yuchi pahpah.
Inflected forms:
form: pawpaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: papaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: paw-paw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several types of trees having edible fruit:
pos: noun
gloss: The fruit of these trees.
pos: noun
examples: Throughout the years it's gone by a lot of names—frost banana, Indiana banana, fetid-bush, bandango, custard apple, prairie banana, poor man's banana—but most of the time it's just been called pawpaw. At first glance, both the fruit and the tree seem out of place in North America.
Xavier sliced the pawpaw in half, emptying the tiny black seeds over the veranda wall.
If there were such a thing as an anticapitalist fruit, the pawpaw, commonly foraged in the wild and inherently resistant to commodification, might qualify.
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: асимина
roman: asimina
whorehouse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English horehous, equivalent to whore + house. Cognate with Dutch hoerenhuis (“whorehouse”), German Hurenhaus (“whorehouse”), Danish horehus (“whorehouse”), Swedish horhus (“whorehouse”), Icelandic hóruhús (“whorehouse; brothel”).
Compound parts: whore
house
Inflected forms:
form: whorehouses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whore-house
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Brothel.
pos: noun
tags: vulgar
examples: The Towne Hall is a big inflatable building in the middle of the Snooze ’n’ Crusie. It is Derelict Las Vegas: convenience store, video arcade, laundromat, bar, liquor store, flea market, whorehouse.
Translations:
retriever
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
English retrieve
English -er
English retriever
From retrieve + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: retrievers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who retrieves something.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter.
pos: noun
gloss: A tool for retrieving materials from the body after an operation.
pos: noun
Derived words: Flat-coated Retriever
Golden Retriever
Labrador retriever
Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever
retrieverish
Translations:
rance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French ranche, from Latin ramex, ramus.
Inflected forms:
form: rances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ranced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ranced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of coloured marble from Belgium. Rance is red and often has white or blue graining.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A prop or shore.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
countable
uncountable
gloss: A round or spreader between the legs of a chair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To prop or shore up.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
transitive
Translations:
nationwide
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tisder.
Proto-Italic *gnātiō
Latin nātiōbor.
Old French nacionbor.
Middle English nacioun
English nation
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *wīdaz
Old English wīd
English wide
English -wide
English nationwide
From nation + -wide.
Inflected forms:
form: nation-wide
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: nation-wide
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Extending throughout an entire nation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: (in federations) federal
There was a nationwide search on for the bankrobbers.
To assist in this mind-bogglingly complex endeavour, Switzerland has developed sophisticated software tools that allow infrastructure managers (IMs), operators and local/national authorities to co-ordinate civil engineering projects with planned service enhancements, demand forecasts, pathing requirements, nationwide timetables, and asset utilisation up to 15 years ahead.
Kraft Heinz said the new products will be available nationwide to all school administrators to procure and offer to students either for purchase in the lunchroom – though the company did not disclose the cost to schools – or for free through the National School Lunch Program (NSLP).
gloss: Throughout a nation.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonym: (in federations) federally
…Toote became the principal Black surrogate (highest “rank” in the Reagan campaign operation), booking Reagan for appearances before Black organizations and traveling nationwide in his behalf.
Translations: