yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
assault
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: fencing
government
hobbies
law
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
Etymology: From Middle English assaut, from Old French noun assaut, derived from the past participle of the verb assalir, from Late Latin assalīre, from Latin ad (“at, towards”) + salīre (“jump”). See also assail. Spelling Latinized around 1530 to add an l.
Inflected forms:
form: assaults
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: assaults
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: assaulting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: assaulted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: assaulted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A violent onset or attack with physical means, for example blows, weapons, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The army made an assault on the enemy.
The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault.
Unshaken bears the assault / Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest.
Hostilities peaked with the Skyllian Blitz of 2176, an attack on the human capital of Elysium by batarian-funded pirates and slavers. In 2178, the Alliance retaliated with a crushing assault on the moon of Torfan, long used as a staging base by batarian-backed criminals. In the aftermath, the batarians retreated into their own systems, and are now rarely seen in Citadel space.
gloss: A violent verbal attack, for example with insults, criticism, and the like
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She launched a written assault on the opposition party.
gloss: An attempt to commit battery: a violent attempt, or willful effort with force or violence, to do hurt to another, but without necessarily touching the person, such as by raising a fist in a threatening manner, or by striking at the person and missing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The crime whose action is such an attempt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
singular-only
uncountable
gloss: An act that causes someone to apprehend imminent bodily harm (such as brandishing a weapon).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The tort whose action is such an act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
singular
singular-only
uncountable
gloss: A non-competitive combat between two fencers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To attack, physically or figuratively; to assail.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tom was accused of assaulting another man outside a nightclub.
Loud music assaulted our ears as we entered the building.
gloss: To threaten or harass.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: onfall
onrush
aggression
assailment
assault
attack
attempt
offense
offensive
onset
onslaught
strike
Antonyms: defense
defence
Related words: fight
Derived words: antiassault
apesault
counterassault
cyberassault
nonassault
reassault
microassault
assaultable
assaultee
assaulter
assaultive
nonassaulted
sexually assault
unassaulted
Translations:
assert
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Latin assertus, perfect passive participle of asserō (“declare someone free or a slave by laying hands upon him; hence free from, protect, defend; lay claim to, assert, declare”), from ad (“to”) + serō (“join, range in a row”).
Inflected forms:
form: asserts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: asserting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: asserted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: asserted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: asserts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.
pos: verb
examples: Numerous experimental tests and other observations have been offered in favor of animal mind reading, and although many scientists are skeptical, others assert that humans are not the only species capable of representing what others do and don’t perceive and know.
He would often assert that there was life on other planets.
gloss: To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.
pos: verb
examples: to assert one's authority
Salman Rushdie has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work.
gloss: To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to.
pos: verb
examples: to assert our rights and liberties
gloss: To insist on the legitimacy of one's rights, opinion, etc; not to allow oneself to be dismissed; to ensure that one is taken into consideration; to make oneself respected; to be assertive. See assert oneself.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: Since going to therapy, I've found it much easier to assert myself.
gloss: To declare that a condition or expression must be true at a certain point in the source code (in some cases causing the program to fail if it is not, as a safeguard).
pos: verb
gloss: To set a signal on a line using a voltage or electric current.
pos: verb
gloss: Synonym of assertion.
pos: noun
Antonyms: remit
deny
deassert
Derived words: assertability
assertable
asserter
assertive
assertment
assert oneself
assertor
counterassert
misassert
overassert
reassert
unassert
Translations:
assertion
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
computing
engineering
finance
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English assercioun, from Latin assertiō. By surface analysis, assert + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: assertions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of asserting; positive declaration or averment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Do tell us the real name of your country, and then when you are gone we shall know how to talk about you." To this luminous argument and remonstrance I could oppose nothing but assertion, and the whole party remained firmly convinced that I was for some reason or other deceiving them.
gloss: Something which is asserted; a declaration; a statement asserted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: You're a man of strong assertions!
Suppose you are given the semifactual assertion, "even if Nora had liked mathematics then she would have became^([sic]) a scientist" and then you find out that Nora did in fact become a scientist.
gloss: A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: That's just a bare assertion.
Drivers' union ASLEF bluntly rebuffed the claim of unofficial action, calling it a lie. And Avanti West Coast was unable to provide any proof for its assertion, when questioned by RAIL.
However, that assertion is not backed up by US intelligence, sources told CNN. […] That claim came despite the Trump administration’s repeated assertions that the US had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program in military strikes last year.
gloss: Maintenance; vindication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives
gloss: A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The user should be absolutely confident that the error issued is a real design error. In other words, a user should be confident that his assertion code is correct and that the assertion failure is not a false condition.
gloss: The set of information that the statement preparer is providing in a financial statement audit.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: accusation
allegation
censure
charge
crimination
impeachment
Related words: assertoric
Derived words: assertional
assertionless
counterassertion
deassertion
nonassertion
overassertion
reassertion
self-assertion
unassertion
Translations:
asthenic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a- + sthenic. By surface analysis, a- (“not”) + sthen- (“strength”) + -ic (“adjective suffix”).
Base: sthenic
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more asthenic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most asthenic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: asthenics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.
pos: adj
gloss: A person who has asthenia.
pos: noun
Translations:
asymmetry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀσυμμετρία (asummetría), from ἀσύμμετρος (asúmmetros) + -ία (-ía), from ἀ- (a-) + σύμμετρος (súmmetros); equivalent to a- + symmetry.
Base: symmetry
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: asymmetries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An absence of symmetry or proportion between the parts of a thing, or a distinction that produces such a lack of symmetry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Despite the generally symmetrical appearance of the two hemispheres, however, a number of biological asymmetries have been documented during the last hundred years.
If the planet is on moderate eccentric orbit (0.01), it creates large-scale azimuthal assymetries which evolve at the orbital velocity of the corresponding resonance, for example at half time the planet velocity for the stronger resonance, the 2:1 one.
In this sense, the concern of political economy with assymetries of information among political actors is well-placed.
Transnational feminists argue that feminists need to understand the material conditions that shape women's lives in diverse locations, particularly in a world "structured by transnational economic links and cultural assymetries" (Grewal and Kaplan, 3).
gloss: The lack of a common measure between two objects or quantities; incommensurability.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: asymmetrization
magnetoasymmetry
pseudoasymmetry
Translations:
avow
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English avowen, from Old French avouer, from Latin advocare (“to call to, call upon, hence to call as a witness, defender, patron, or advocate”), from ad (“to”) + vocare (“to call”). Doublet of advoke, avouch, and advocate. Not related to vow.
Inflected forms:
form: avows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: avowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: avowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: avowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] in 1786, and for some period later, there were few, if any, prominent Americans, who avowed themselves in favor of broadly democratic systems.
gloss: To bind or devote by a vow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: No man may halewe and avowe the firste gendrid thingis that perteynen to the Lord, whether it is oxe, whether scheep, tho ben the Lordis part.
gloss: To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry.
pos: verb
examples: avow himself the accomplice of his crimes
Antonyms: disavow
Related words: advocate
avowable
avowably
avowal
avowance
avowed
avowedly
avower
reavow
unavowable
unavowed
Translations:
backer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English back
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 backer
From back + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: backers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs an entrant in a contest, or who supports an enterprise by funding it.
pos: noun
Translations:
badinage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French badinage, from the verb badiner (“jest, joke”) from badin (“playful”), from Occitan badar (“gape”). Distantly related to abash.
Inflected forms:
form: badinages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: badinages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: badinaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: badinaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: badinaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Playful raillery; banter.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I am persuaded, if all gay badinage were prefaced by an explanation, it would be infinitely better received.
Your badinage so airy, / Your manner arbitrary, / Are out of place / When face to face / With an influential Fairy.
"[…] God knows that if you were only safely married to Jacob I would not care how much you saw of Henri; but as you are not, I think these badinages are very ill-timed and take your mind off the principal business."
[…] take the word 'barnshoot'—a corruption of the Hindustani word bahinchut. A vile and unforgivable insult in India, this word is a piece of gentle badinage in England.
[Talia:] You'll forgive me if I'm not in the mood for your usual badinage.
"No, this was more a night of bellowed barbed badinage, boisterous BS, outrageous declamations and defiant roars."
Described at the time as "photographic badinages" the photographs in Die Erotik in der Photographie include one of a nude model stretched out languidly on a bearskin […]
gloss: To engage in badinage or playful banter.
pos: verb
Translations:
bailiwick
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From bailie (“bailiff”) and wick (“dwelling”), from Old English wīc.
Inflected forms:
form: bailiwicks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The district within which a bailie or bailiff has jurisdiction.
pos: noun
examples: The Bailiwick of Jersey.
gloss: A person's concern or sphere of operations, their area of skill or authority.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: I established the fairly well-understood pattern that affairs of state were not in my bailiwick.
Jack is full of these insights, thoughtful turns of phrase from a character whose perpetual struggle between wastrel and righteous is all too familiar a bailiwick for the universal insecurities of the human condition.
This “feminist chortling” (as she calls it) about the disgraced royal is right in the bailiwick of the writer who virtually invented the term mansplaining.
Related words: bailie
bailiff
Translations:
bailey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French baile (“palisade, enclosure”), from Latin bacula, plural of baculum (“stick, rod”).
Inflected forms:
form: baileys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The outer wall of a feudal castle.
pos: noun
gloss: The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
pos: noun
gloss: A prison or court of justice.
pos: noun
examples: the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester
gloss: An argument which is controversial and more difficult to defend (in the context of a motte and bailey fallacy).
pos: noun
examples: "Birds are dinosaurs" is the bailey; "birds are more similar to dinosaurs than anything else" is the motte.
Derived words: motte and bailey
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: ulkomuuri
lang: German
word: Burgmauer
lang: Irish
word: bábhún
lang: Latin
word: ballium
lang: Portuguese
word: paliçada
lang: Sicilian
word: bagghiu
lang: Finnish
word: linnanpiha
lang: German
word: Burghof
lang: Sicilian
word: bagghiu
baize
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French baies, feminine plural of adjective bai (“bay-colored”) mistaken as a singular noun.
Inflected forms:
form: baizes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: baizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: baized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: baized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A coarse woolen material with a long nap; usually dyed in plain colors.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: my goods being all English manufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, baize, and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage...
At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with a red baize; and through this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the doctor's cabinet.
gloss: To cover or line with baize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: baize door
green baize
knight of the green baize
Translations:
bale
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bale (“evil”), from Old English bealu, from Proto-West Germanic *balu, from Proto-Germanic *balwą.
Cognate with Low German bal- (“bad, ill”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (balweins, “torture”), Old High German balo (“destruction”), Old Norse bǫl (“disaster”).
Inflected forms:
form: bales
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: baling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: baled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: baled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Evil, especially considered as an active force for destruction or death.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Suffering, woe, torment.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: That other ſwayne, like aſhes deadly pale,
 Lay in the lap of death, rewing his wretched bale.
Rome, and her Rats, are at the point of battell,
 The one ſide muſt haue baile.
Ffor if you wold comfort me with a kisse,
 Then were I brought ffrom bale to blisse,
 Noe longer here wold I lye.
gloss: To wrap into a bale.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: baleful
Translations:
banker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bank + -er, after French banquier.
Base: bank
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bankers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.
pos: noun
examples: I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.
gloss: The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.
pos: noun
gloss: A money changer.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
pos: noun
examples: [T]he new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked[.]
gloss: A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge.
pos: noun
Related words: bank
banking
Derived words: bankerage
bankerdom
bankeress
bankerish
banker lamp
banker's lamp
bankerless
bankerly
banker's acceptance
banker's card
banker's cheque
banker's dozen
banker's draft
banker's envelope
bankership
bankers' hours
banker's lien
banker's order
bankers' rounding
bankster
biobanker
city banker
investment banker
merchant banker
nonbanker
private investment banker
Russian Banker
shadow banker
zombie banker
Translations:
barque
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English barke (“boat”), borrowed from Middle French barque, itself borrowed from Italian barca or a Medieval Latin equivalent, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris) 'Egyptian boat', from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic Egyptian br, from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”), b-bA-A-y:r*Z1-P1. Doublet of bark, barge and baris. Possibly cognate with Spanish barco.
Inflected forms:
form: barques
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bark
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged
pos: noun
examples: On being told, however, that the Norwegian barque Daphne was about to leave An-peng for Tamsui, I had my things taken on board, and we set sail a few hours later.
gloss: Any small sailing vessel.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: Barque of phosphor
On the palmy beach…
Derived words: solar barque
Translations:
bauble
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).
Inflected forms:
form: baubles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
pos: noun
examples: […] as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.
Have none before or after him staked all their treasure of life, as a savage does his land and possessions against a draught of the fair-skins’ fire-water, or a couple of bauble eyes?
Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.
gloss: Anything trivial and worthless.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: His hind quarters were likewise short, and not racinglike, and taken as a specimen of the horse, he was a mere bauble when looked at by the side of an English race-horse, much less a hunter.
gloss: A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
pos: noun
gloss: A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
pos: noun
Derived words: baublery
Translations:
beacon
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English beken, from Old English bēacn (“sign, signal”), from Proto-West Germanic *baukn, from Proto-Germanic *baukną, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂u-, *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”).
Doublet of buoy. Compare West Frisian beaken (“buoy”), Dutch baken (“beacon”), Middle Low German bāke (“beacon, sign”), German Bake (“traffic sign”), Middle High German bouchen (“sign”).
Inflected forms:
form: beacons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: beaconing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: beaconed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: beaconed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To act as a beacon.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That beacons the darkness of heaven.
gloss: To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: beckon
Translations:
beastly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bestely, bestly, equivalent to beast + -ly. Compare West Frisian bistachtich (“beastly”), Dutch beestachtig (“beastly”), German biestig (“beastly”).
Base: beast
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: beastlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more beastly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: beastliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most beastly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more beastly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most beastly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
pos: adj
tags: UK
gloss: Similar to the nature of a beast; contrary to the nature and dignity of human beings.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: beastly culture
gloss: Abominable; very unpleasant; hideous.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dated
examples: beastly weather
Stop being so beastly to her!
And all the time, whenever we went to the Cedars, there was all sorts of silly fuss going on about the beastly wedding; boxes coming from London with hats and jackets in, and wedding presents—all glassy and silvery, or else brooches and chains—and clothes sent down from London to choose from.
“Yes, I’ve got the most beastly headache.”
"If you saw the care she takes over hoisting her beastly old carcass up and down those stairs, you could make a sure bet against her having another accident there."
gloss: Of computer hardware or motor vehicles etc.: ostentatiously powerful.
pos: adj
tags: UK
slang
examples: In addition to a Core i7-860 with a full-sized heatsink and 4GB of DDR3 RAM, the company showed its SUGO SG07 housing today's most beastly graphics card, the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, which is about 30cm long.
A very big, very black, and very beastly Hummer H2, Spotted in China in in the rain the great city of Zigong in Sichuan Province.
Huawei’s Mate 20 phones have instantly become the best iPhone XS rivals out there, at least on paper, and the high-end model is easily the most beastly Android phone the world has seen so far.
gloss: Like a beast; brutishly.
pos: adv
tags: UK
examples: Beastly he threwe her downe, ne car'd to spill / Her garments gay with scales of fish that all did fill.
They have insulted me most beastly. Moreover, they are, everyone of them, black-satan filthmen.
gloss: Very much; terribly.
pos: adv
tags: UK
colloquial
dated
examples: "I'm beastly sorry, Wynn, old man," he muttered. "I ought to have remembered."
The baths were mostly tiled showers, with an endless variety of spouting mechanisms, but with one definitely non-Laodicean characteristic in common, a propensity, while in use, to turn instantly beastly hot or blindingly cold upon you, depending on whether your neighbor turned on his cold or his hot to deprive you of a necessary complement in the shower you had so carefully blended.
Related words: nature of the beast
Derived words: beasterly
beastlihead
beastlihood
beastlily
beastliness
beastly careless
beastlyhead
Translations:
beatification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French béatification, from Medieval Latin beātificātiō.
Inflected forms:
form: beatifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; especially, in the Roman Catholic Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, — usually a stage in the process of canonization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bedeck
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From be- + deck. Compare West Frisian bedekke (“to cover”), Dutch bedekken (“to cover, coat, overlay”), German bedecken (“to cover, top, overlay”), Swedish betäcka (“to cover, shelter”). Doublet of bethatch.
Base: deck
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: bedecks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bedecking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bedecked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bedecked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To deck, ornament, or adorn
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She bedecked her wedding gown with seed pearls.
gloss: to grace.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: bedecker
Translations:
behalf
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English bihalve (“nearby”), from Old English bī healfe (“by [his/her] side”), from bī (“by”) + healfe (“side, half”), equivalent to be- + half.
Base: half
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: behalves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: behalfs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The interest, benefit, or wellbeing of someone or something.
pos: noun
examples: The one exception to this was William Hilhouse, who was widely regarded as the colonist with the greatest experience of the interior and its native inhabitants, on whose behalf he endlessly campaigned.
The NUL, on the other hand, never felt that its position among civil rights organizations was threatened, and considered itself unique because of its historic commitment to advocacy on behalf of low-income African Americans.
gloss: One's role or rightful place; stead or authority.
pos: noun
examples: He was not only my Representative who died on my behalf; He was my Substitute who died in my very stead.
Which indeed is so true, that she herself may seek back for her own gain the dowry offered by another on her behalf, unless by chance he who offered it immediately (that is, at the time of offering or of promising) stipulated or made an agreement that the afore-mentioned dowry would be returned to him.
The Agent shall have all of the powers, rights, discretions, elections, and authority conferred by statute, the common law, or rule of court or governmental agency that are reasonably necessary for the Agent to act on my behalf for any purpose.
Hillary Clinton hasn’t hit the campaign trail yet on behalf of Democrats running in 2018, but that isn’t stopping Republicans from using the former 2016 Democratic presidential nominee as a reliable campaign boogeyman.
Derived words: behalfism
on behalf of
in behalf of
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: puoli see (puolesta)
lang: German
word: Vorteil
lang: German
word: Nutzen
lang: German
word: Interesse
lang: Italian
word: a vantaggio di
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vegne
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vegner
lang: Swahili
word: niaba
belay
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
Etymology: From Middle English beleggen, bileggen, from Old English beleċġan (“to cover, invest, surround, afflict, attribute to, charge with, accuse”), From Proto-West Germanic *bilaggjan, equivalent to be- (“about, around”) + lay. Cognate with Dutch beleggen (“to cover, overlay, belay”), German belegen (“to cover, occupy, belay”), Swedish belägga (“to pave”).
Base: lay
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: belays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: belaying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: belayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: belayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: belaid
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: belaid
pos: verb
tags: past
form: belays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make (a rope) fast by turning it around a fastening point such as a cleat.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To handle a climbing rope to prevent (a climber) from falling to the ground.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He would need an experienced partner to belay him on the difficult climbs.
I could only hope the remaining piton would belay his fall.
gloss: To lay aside; to stop; to cancel.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Belay that order!
"We landed in their killbox?" "We did. I am sor... No, belay that. Heads down! Cavalry incoming!"
gloss: The general command to stop or cease.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To surround; to environ; to enclose.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To overlay; to adorn.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: jacket […] belayd with silver lace
gloss: To besiege; invest; surround.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To lie in wait for in order to attack; block up or obstruct.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: The securing of a rope to a rock or other sturdy object.
pos: noun
gloss: The object to which a rope is secured.
pos: noun
gloss: A location at which a climber stops and builds an anchor with which to secure their partner.
pos: noun
examples: But instead of swapping over at the ice axe belay, you carry on in the lead, cutting or kicking steps until you are about twenty feet above.
Derived words: belayer
belay my last
belay device
Translations:
benevolent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French benevolent, borrowed from Latin benevolēns ("benevolent"). Displaced native Old English welwillende (literally well-wishing).
Inflected forms:
form: more benevolent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most benevolent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a disposition to do good.
pos: adj
examples: Chinese and Eastern mythologies describe dragons as benevolent.
Benevolence? vvhich ſhall I be benevolent to; or vvhich firſt? I am puſſell'd in the choice.
gloss: Possessing or manifesting love for mankind.
pos: adj
gloss: Altruistic, charitable, good, just and fair.
pos: adj
examples: This bill was not a gift from a benevolent legislature; it was a victory for the community which worked for its passage.
Antonyms: malevolent
Related words: benefactor
beneficent
well-wisher
Derived words: benevolent absolutism
benevolent assimilation
benevolent dictator for life
benevolently
benevolentness
benevolent overlord
ecobenevolent
nonbenevolent
omnibenevolent
pseudobenevolent
semibenevolent
superbenevolent
ultrabenevolent
unbenevolent
Translations:
benison
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English benysoun, beneson, borrowed from Old French beneïson, from Latin benedictiō, benedictiōnem. First known use: 14th century. Doublet of benediction.
Inflected forms:
form: benisons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blessing; benediction.
pos: noun
tags: literary
examples: That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white,
“Sorrow and sickness on thee alight”
That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small,
“No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”
Poor old men! how could they be cordial with their sore consciences and shamed faces? how could they bid God bless him with hearty voices and a true benison, knowing, as they did, that their vile cabal had driven him from his happy home, and sent him in his old age to seek shelter under a strange roof-tree?
Antonyms: malison
Translations:
bequeath
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English biquethen, from Old English becweþan (“to say, to speak, to address, exhort, admonish, blame, bequeath, leave by will”). Cognate with Old Frisian biquetha.
Inflected forms:
form: bequeaths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bequeathing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bequeathed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bequoth
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
past
form: bequeathed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bequoth
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
form: bequethen
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
rare
form: bequothen
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
pos: verb
gloss: To hand down; to transmit.
pos: verb
examples: Ownership of manufacturing workshops is not essential to that job; but BR happen to have been bequeathed a considerable number with a proud history.
First Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Looks like I already did. You're the sad figment of my twisted psyche's tragic dividend. You're the un-me. I'm the real me. You wanna be me?
Second Xavier (Vernon Chatman): Kiddo, I was the real me when you were still in my short pants.
First Xavier: Hate to break it to you, but I wore them first. Me bequeathed thee the psychopathological hand-you-down.
Second Xavier: So you're the one who stained them!!
First Xavier: Whoever found it, browned it.
The queen’s longevity always meant that Charles’s reign would be relatively short and therefore one of his most important tasks would be to bequeath the institution to Prince William in reasonable repair.
gloss: To give; to offer; to commit.
pos: verb
examples: These young gay men and lesbians were more militant and began to reject advice from the homophile movement to try to "fit into" society, not to make waves, and to rely on professionals and establishment figures to bequeath them social rights.
Synonyms: leave
Related words: quethe
quoth
bequest
Derived words: bequeathable
bequeathal
bequeather
bequeathment
unbequeathed
Translations:
berserker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Borrowed from Old Norse berserkr (“Norse warrior who fights with frenzy”), probably from bjǫrn (“bear”) + serkr (“coat; shirt”), referring to the bearskins worn by the warriors. Bjǫrn is possibly ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”); and serkr from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, tie together; thread”). Alternatively, it has been suggested that the first element of the word is from berr (“bare, naked”), suggesting warriors who went into battle without armour, but this is now thought unlikely. Doublet of berserk.
The word was introduced in English by the Scottish author and historian Walter Scott (1771–1832) in Illustrations of Northern Antiquities (1814) (spelled berserkir), and in his novel The Pirate (1822) (spelled berserkar). The sense “type of von Neumann probe whose mission is to exterminate alien lifeforms” was coined by the American author Fred Saberhagen (1930–2007) in 1963 in his Berserker series of novels and short stories.
Cognates
* Icelandic berserkur
* Swedish bärsärk
Base: bjǫrn
Inflected forms:
form: berserkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: berserkar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: berserkir
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: berzerker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: beserker
pos: noun
tags: alternative
common
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: A Norse warrior who purportedly fought in a trance-like frenzy; a berserk.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: One who fights as if frenzied, like a berserker.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: A type of von Neumann probe whose mission is to exterminate alien lifeforms.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Derived words: berserker hypothesis
Translations:
besiege
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English besegen, bisegen, equivalent to be- (“around, about”) + siege.
Base: siege
Affixes: be-
Inflected forms:
form: besieges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: besieging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: besieged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: besieged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.
They should have inflicted a much heavier loss on their besieged opponents, the highlight being a late goal for Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins on debut after he came on as a substitute.
gloss: To assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: besiegement
besieger
besiegingly
rebesiege
unbesieged
Translations:
biceps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonology
prosody
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwís
Proto-Italic *dwis
Old Latin duis
Latin bis
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Italic *kaput
Proto-Indo-European *ís
Proto-Italic *is
Proto-Italic *-kaput-isder.
Old Latin -cipesder.
Latin -ceps
Latin bicepsder.
English biceps
Derived from Latin biceps (“double-headed, two-peaked”), from bis (“twice”) + -ceps (“headed”).
Inflected forms:
form: biceps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bicepses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bicipites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any muscle having two heads.
pos: noun
examples: The leg is bent by the action of the flexor muscles situated on the back of the thigh, the chief of these being called the biceps of the leg.
gloss: Specifically, the biceps brachii, the flexor of the elbow.
pos: noun
examples: The arm muscles are the show muscles of the physique. When someone asks to "see your muscles," they are most likely referring to your arms, and more specifically, your biceps.
gloss: The upper arm, especially the collective muscles of the upper arm.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Today, Stonewall's flexed biceps measure 18 inches around.
Biting her lip, she held his biceps for balance and waded farther.
Odin examined the arm-ring, then pushed it onto his arm, up high on his biceps.
gloss: A point in a metrical pattern that can be filled either with one long syllable (a longum) or two short syllables (two brevia).
pos: noun
examples: Also it is advisable to distinguish this ( ˘ ˘ ) — ˘ ˘ — rhythm, where the princeps was probably shorter in duration than the biceps (as in the dactylic hexameter), from true (marching) anapaests, in which they were equal.
This means that in the metrical sequence[…] recited in ordinary speech rhythm, the princeps occupied a slightly shorter time than the biceps (5:6), and if a long syllable was used to fill the biceps it had to be dragged a little[…]
Related words: biceps brachii
biceps cubiti
biceps femoris
bicipital
quadriceps
triceps
Derived words: back double biceps
bicep
bicep curl
biceps femoris
double biceps
front double biceps
gluteobiceps
rear double biceps
Translations:
bifurcation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
computer
computing
engineering
geography
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
science
sciences
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bifurcate
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English -ion
English bifurcation
From bifurcate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: bifurcations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A division into two branches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any place where one thing divides into two.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of bifurcating; branching or dividing in two.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Get away from me, freak.” “Actually, my designation is Logic-y. I take issue with the pejorative when I am simply a product of your self-inflicted bifurcation.”
gloss: Either of the forks or other branches resultant from such a division.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A place where two roads, tributaries etc. part or meet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The point where a channel divides when proceeding from seaward.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The change in the qualitative or topological structure of a given family as described by bifurcation theory.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A command that executes one block or other of commands depending on the result of a condition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: bifurcate
trifurcation
quadfurcation
Derived words: bifurcational
bifurcation theory
great bifurcation
postbifurcation
prebifurcation
rebifurcation
Translations:
biggest
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: biggests
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Something that is bigger than all others in its class.
pos: noun
examples: The Guinness Book of Records lists many biggests.
Translations:
biologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷeyh₃-der.
Ancient Greek βίος (bíos)
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
New Latin -logia
New Latin biologialbor.
English biology
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English biologist
From biology + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: biologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A student or professor of biology; one versed in the science of biology.
pos: noun
examples: Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.[…]A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
Wildlife biologist Stanley Temple hypothesised that perhaps the dodo tree was dependent on its seeds passing through the digestive system of dodos in order to properly germinate and that the handful of individuals in the 1970s were the last remaining trees from seeds that passed through a dodo in the 1690s-1700s when they went extinct.
Translations:
bipedal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English biped
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English bipedal
From biped + -al.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Walking on two feet or two legs; biped.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Initial reports indicate the vessel contains a large number of intelligent bipedal aliens in some form of hibernation.
gloss: Pertaining to a biped.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: bipedal locomotion
Synonyms: two-footed
two-legged
Related words: quadruped
quadrupedal
Derived words: anterobipedal
bipedalism
bipedality
bipedally
nonbipedal
semibipedal
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: ikiayaqlı
lang: Bengali
word: দুপেয়ে
roman: dupeẏe
lang: Indonesian
word: bipedal
lang: Māori
word: waewae-rua
lang: Polish
word: dwunożny
lang: Spanish
word: bipedal
lang: Swedish
word: tvåbent
lang: Volapük
word: telfutafik
lang: Volapük
word: hitelfutafik
lang: Volapük
word: jitelfutafik
lang: Volapük
word: follögafik
lang: Volapük
word: hifollögafik
lang: Volapük
word: jifollögafik
bivouac
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French bivouac (earlier biouac, bivac), from Alemannic German Biiwacht (“reinforcements of guard or town watch”), from bii- + Wacht (“watch, guard”).
Inflected forms:
form: bivouacs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bivouack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: biouac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bivoac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bihovac
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bivy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bivvy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bivouacs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bivouacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bivouacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bivouacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bivouacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bivouacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bivouack
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: biouac
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bivoac
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bihovac
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: bivy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: bivvy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An encampment for the night, usually without tents or covering.
pos: noun
examples: Townsend hare inhabit this area, particularly above the cabin, and a skier is likely to have one explode from a tree well and disappear into the whiteness as he skis by. Life is a constant bivouac for them -- they spend days huddled in tree wells during storms -- but I suspect they are as content and warm in their luxurious coats as we are in a cabin.
gloss: Any temporary encampment.
pos: noun
gloss: A temporary shelter constructed generally for a few nights.
pos: noun
examples: Behold the Mansion reared by Dædal Jack!
See the Malt stored in many a plethoric sack,
In the proud cirque of Juan's bivouac!
The outing begins by Thursday noon, when the recreational vehicles start rumbling into town and their owners set up bivouacs.
gloss: The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
pos: noun
tags: dated
gloss: A structure formed by migratory ants out of their own bodies to protect the queen and larvae.
pos: noun
gloss: To set up camp.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: We'll bivouac here tonight.
They reached the fir wood which had caused them so much trouble while it was still daylight, and bivouacked in a hollow just above it. It was tedious gathering the fire wood; […]
gloss: To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: bivouac sack
bivouac sheet
bivouacer
Translations: