yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
lacerate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1425, the adjective in 1514; inherited from Middle English laceraten, borrowed from Latin lacerātus, perfect passive participle of lacerō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: lacerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lacerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lacerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lacerated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To tear, rip or wound.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Machinery, surgical precision / Lacerate the limbs of the poorest of the children / Watch them scatter through the fields of departed
gloss: To defeat thoroughly; to thrash.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: When the fixtures tumbled out of the computer for the start of a newly promoted season, Nigel Adkins must have wondered whether he had unknowingly broken any mirrors while walking under a ladder. Hot on the heels of a tough introduction to both Manchester clubs, a rampant Arsenal lacerated Southampton.
Derived words: lacerater
laceratingly
lacerative
Translations:
immolate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1534, the verb in 1548; borrowed from Latin immolātus, perfect passive participle of immolō (“to sacrifice”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: immolates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: immolating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: immolated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: immolated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To kill as a sacrifice by burning.
pos: verb
examples: Evidently some, or all, of the boars immolated themselves, for the train crew are reported to have picked up three dead boars and continued to Sézanne, the next stop, where they gave them to the local hospital cooks.
A secular style, a new beginning after the iconoclastic excesses under young Edward VI, when angels, Mothers and Children had flared and crackled in the streets, immolated to a logical absolute God who disliked images.
gloss: To kill, harm, or destroy by fire.
pos: verb
examples: She imparted these stories gradually to Miss Crawley; gave her the whole benefit of them; felt it to be her bounden duty as a Christian woman and mother of a family to do so; had not the smallest remorse or compunction for the victim whom her tongue was immolating; nay, very likely thought her act was quite meritorious, and plumed herself upon her resolute manner of performing it.
Related words: immolation
Derived words: immolatory
self-immolate
self-immolation
Translations:
await
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English awaiten, from Old Northern French awaitier (“to lie in wait for, watch, observe”), originally especially with a hostile sense; itself from a- (“to”) + waitier (“to watch”). More at English wait.
Inflected forms:
form: awaits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: awaiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: awaited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: awaited
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To wait for.
pos: verb
tags: formal
transitive
examples: I await your reply to my letter.
Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, / Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night;
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town.
In love, however, women are brave. How many clamber over rooftops of houses and palaces, and are still doing it, when their lovers await them!
After 170416 heads into the bay platform (2) to be prepared for its next trip to 'Skeggy', there's time to grab a coffee and await the arrival of RAIL's next train - the 1144 Leicester-Grimsby Town.
gloss: To expect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Glorious rewards await the good in heaven; eternal suffering awaits mortal sinners in hell.
Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a "jog" at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire.
O Eve, some further change awaits us nigh.
gloss: To serve or attend; to wait on, wait upon.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
gloss: To watch, observe.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To wait; to stay in waiting.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: These are exotic lands where great adventures await.
Synonyms: anticipate
listen
service
Derived words: awaitable
awaiter
awaitment
reawait
Translations:
apace
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English apās (“step by step, slowly; quickly, rapidly; at once, promptly”), from Old French à pas (“at a quick pace”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Quickly, rapidly, with speed.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace.
Gallop apace, you fiery footed ſteedes, / Towards Phœbus lodging, ſuch a Wagoner / As Phaeton would whip you to the weſt, / And bring in Cloudie night immediately.
Ow faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre / Drawes on apace: foure happy daies bring in / Another Moon[…]
(To one, it is ten years of years.
... Yet now, and in this place,
Surely she leaned o'er me—her hair
Fell all about my face. ...
Nothing: the autumn fall of leaves.
The whole year sets apace.)
The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man, goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. […] Once we killed bad men: now we liquidate unsocial elements.
Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west.
On the three major railway systems of Ireland, changeover to diesel traction has continued apace during the past year.
Despite efforts to prevent it, officials say, the radicalisation of young Muslims living in Europe proceeds apace.
Translations:
imbibe
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English imbiben, from Latin imbibō, from im- + bibō (“to drink”) (whence also beverage), from Proto-Italic *pibō, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₃-, whence also potable, potion.
Inflected forms:
form: imbibes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: imbibing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: imbibed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: imbibed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages).
pos: verb
examples: Perhaps in the case of the vodka-drinking peasant it is this weekly parboil which saves his life and postpones the dreadful day when the constant imbibing of unlimited quantities of the deadly liquor must be paid for.
Without its sting, the common yellowjacket would be unable to steal ham from our sandwich or imbibe the sweet juice from our peach.
gloss: To take in; absorb.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: to imbibe knowledge
“Every minute,” continued M. Krempe with warmth, “every instant that you have wasted on those books is utterly and entirely lost. You have burdened your memory with exploded systems, and useless names. Good God! in what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies, which you have so greedily imbibed, are a thousand years old, and as musty as they are ancient? I little expected in this enlightened and scientific age to find a disciple of Albertus Magnus and Paracelsus. My dear Sir, you must begin your studies entirely anew.”
To eradicate that error, already but too deeply imbibed, to subdue and triumph over human infirmity, was indeed difficult, but to Rosilia a derogation from virtue was still more so.
Like the late Dr Falk (d. 1782), Grabianka was a native of Podolia, where Sabbatian influences were strong among local Jews, and he imbibed many of their notions.
If you’ve been imbibing Craig’s Kelly’s Covid monologues over the summer and wondering why Scott Morrison lets one of his own MPs regularly contradict the official public health advice without rebuke, let me try to answer your question.
gloss: To steep; to cause to absorb liquid.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Derived words: imbibable
imbibement
imbiber
imbibition
preimbibe
reimbibe
unimbibed
Translations:
replete
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English replete (adjective) and repleten (verb), from Old French replet, from Latin repletus.
Inflected forms:
form: more replete
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most replete
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: repletes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: repletes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: repleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: repleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: repleted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Abounding, amply provided.
pos: adj
examples: A kitchen replete with all the ultimate appliances.
A peacock reign'd, whose glorious sway
His subjects with delight obey:
His tail was beauteous to behold,
Replete with goodly eyes and gold.
I am less unhappy than the rest, because I have a mind replete with images.
"Salisbury Cathedral, my dear Jonas, . . . is an edifice replete with venerable associations."
History is replete with instances of great men ruled by their barbers.
Liberal activists promised a well-funded summertime blitz, replete with home-state rallies and million-dollar ad campaigns, to try to ramp up pressure on a handful of Senate Democrats opposed to changing the rules.
gloss: Gorged, filled to near the point of bursting, especially with food or drink.
pos: adj
examples: And what an afternoon! To lie, after this feast, on their bellies in the grass, replete like animals […]
In the evening, replete with deer meat, resting on his elbow and smoking his after-supper cigarette, he said[…]
gloss: Isomorphism-closed: Inheriting all the isomorphisms of C. Formally: such that for any isomorphism f in C, if f 's source is in S, then f and f 's target is also in S.
pos: adj
gloss: A honeypot ant.
pos: noun
gloss: To fill to repletion, or restore something that has been depleted.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: repletion
complete
Derived words: lymphoreplete
overreplete
repletely
repleteness
Translations:
lambent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin lambēns, present participle of lambō (“lick”).
Inflected forms:
form: more lambent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lambent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Brushing or flickering gently over a surface.
pos: adj
examples: 1800, William Cowper, The Task, Book VI: "The Winter Walk at Noon", Poems, J. Johnson, page 232,
No foe to man / Lurks in the ſerpent now: the mother ſees, / And ſmiles to ſee, her infant's playful hand / Stretch'd forth to dally with the creſted worm, / To ſtroke his azure neck, or to receive / The lambent homage of his arrowy tongue.
“As they walked together between the houses, Lena’s smooth arm brushed his. His skin felt lambent at the touch.”
gloss: Glowing or luminous, but lacking heat.
pos: adj
examples: The lambent glow of fireflies delighted the children.
[W]hile I held my son, in the short space
Betwixt our kisses and our last embrace;
Strange to relate, from young Iülus’ head
A lambent flame arose, which gently spread
Around his brows, and on his temples fed.
1839, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jonathan Birch (translator), Faust: A Tragedy, Black and Armstrong, page 127,
The Witch, with much ceremony, fills the basin. As FAUST is about to raise it to his lips, it emits a clear flame.
MEPHISTOPHELES. Quick! quickly down with it!—no breathing time allowed! […] And does a lambent flame prevent thee quaff?
Sir Edward suddenly started from his chair; his thin and generally bending form became erect and stately, and his sunken eyes emitted a stream of lambent fire, as he exclaimed:—....
the lambent glowing light of the midnight sun. (I dislike that word lambent, but it must be employed.) A soft, benevolent radiance, you might say, playing upon the emerald green, the virgin swales of grass and moss and heather and Swede heads
Back in 2010 those comparisons seemed absurd: how could the writer-director of classy-but-overthought superhero movies, as well as middling oddities such as The Prestige, be seriously thought of in the same bracket as the lambent mind behind Dr Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon?
gloss: Exhibiting lightness or brilliance of wit; clever or witty without unkindness.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: We appreciated her lambent comments.
Byron was insouciant towards the risks he took. Many of his best passages are strikingly joyous and carefree, in prose that’s lambent, simple and brilliantly observed, as in this conclusion to a sunset at the shrine of Niamatullah: […]
Derived words: lambency
lambently
Translations:
facile
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French facile, from Latin facilis (“easy to do, easy, doable”), from Latin facere (“to do, make”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do, put”) Compare Spanish and Portuguese fácil (“easy”), Catalan fàcil, Romanian facil. First use appears c. 1484 in a translation by William Caxton.
Inflected forms:
form: more facile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most facile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Easy; contemptibly easy.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
usually
examples: […] as he that is benummed with cold, sits still shaking, that might relieve himselfe with a little exercise or stirring, doe they complaine, but will not use the facile and ready meanes to doe themselves good; […]
gloss: Amiable, flexible, easy to get along with.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: His facile disposition made him many friends.
gloss: Effortless, fluent (of work, abilities etc.).
pos: adj
examples: Her writing was facile and articulate.
we can learn the impression that he made upon a stranger and a foreigner at this period, thanks to the facile pen of Fannu Burney.
The centenary of Bradshaw has proved further scope in the railway field for his facile pen to be devoted to an officially-sponsored work, and the "most famous guide in the world" is fortunate in its choice of a biographer.
"Discipline," Jorge Julio Saavedra was repeating, "is more necessary to me than to other more facile writers.
A facile and persuasive writer, he also turned out countless newspaper articles on Russian aims in Central Asia and how best these could be thwarted.
gloss: Lazy, simplistic, superficial (especially of explanations, discussions etc.).
pos: adj
examples: He arrived with a facile understanding of her works.
There is a facile view that our green commitments – to tackling climate change, avoiding air and water pollution, protecting natural habitats – are an obstacle to growth. The message of the commodity markets is surely different.
gloss: Of a reaction or other process, taking place readily.
pos: adj
examples: Decarboxylation of beta-keto acids is facile.
Related words: difficulty
facilitate
facilitation
facilitative
facilitator
facilitatory
facility
Derived words: facilely
facileness
facilization
facilize
overfacile
unfacile
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: еңел
roman: yeñel
lang: Bulgarian
word: лесен
roman: lesen
lang: Bulgarian
word: лесно постижим
roman: lesno postižim
lang: Czech
word: snadný
lang: Czech
word: lehký
lang: French
word: facile
lang: German
word: leicht
lang: German
word: mühelos
lang: Italian
word: facile
lang: Portuguese
word: simplório
lang: Romanian
word: facil
lang: Spanish
word: fácil
lang: Swedish
word: enkel
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قولای
roman: kolay
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بسیط
roman: basît
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: یسیر
roman: yesir
bilirubin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from German Bilirubin. By surface analysis, bili- + rub- + -in. The German word was naturalized into other languages as international scientific vocabulary (e.g., bilirubin, bilirubine, bilirubina).
Inflected forms:
form: bilirubins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A bile pigment that is a product of the breakdown of the heme portion of hemoglobin (which occurs within macrophages as they digest red blood cells), and which is responsible for the yellowish color seen in bruises. Extremely high levels of bilirubin may cause jaundice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The doctors said this was very common, just her new-born liver catching up with the rest of her — the build-up of bilirubin in her blood. The substance red blood cells produce when broken down.
Translations:
cabriolet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French cabrioletbor.
English cabriolet
Borrowed from French cabriolet.
Inflected forms:
form: cabriolets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An automobile with a retractable top.
pos: noun
examples: Bodywise, the car suffers from the demon rust badly, too. Look at the wings, the door bottoms, boot, and, on cabriolets especially, the inner doors and door pillar rears.
gloss: A light two- or four-wheeled carriage with a folding top, pulled by a single horse.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.
"I think," said Isabella, startling Louisa, who had been watching the cabriolet down the street, "that Lady Penrhyn might have asked you to go with mamma."
Derived words: cab
Translations:
time-traveller
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: time-travellers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: time-traveler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: time traveler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: time traveller
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who engages in time travel.
pos: noun
Translations:
duress
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English duresse, from Old French duresse, from Latin dūritia (“hardness”), from dūrus (“hard”).
Inflected forms:
form: duresses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: duressing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: duressed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: duressed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Harsh treatment.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: […]the agreements[…]made with their landlords, during the time of ſlavery, are only the effect of dureſſe and force;[…].
gloss: Constraint by threat.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: It is unclear when it was filmed and if she was under duress during filming.
gloss: Restraint in which a person is influenced, whether by lawful or unlawful forceful compulsion of their liberty by monition or implementation of physical enforcement; legally for the incurring of civil liability, of a citizen's arrest, or of subrogation, or illegally for the committing of an offense, of forcing a contract, or of using threats.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To put under duress; to pressure.
pos: verb
examples: Someone was duressing her.
The small nation was duressed into giving up territory.
Related words: endure
Derived words: duress of circumstances
Translations:
wormhole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: First use appears c. 1594. From worm + hole. In the scientific sense, introduced by John Archibald Wheeler in 1957.
Compound parts: worm
hole
Inflected forms:
form: wormholes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: worm-hole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: worme-hole
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: wormholes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wormholing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wormholed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wormholed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: worm-hole
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: worme-hole
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A hole burrowed by a worm.
pos: noun
examples: To fill with worme-holes stately monuments.
But he had no sooner got through the worm-hole, than the lad put a small peg in the hole.
gloss: A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.
pos: noun
examples: […]where there is a net flux of lines of force, through what topologists would call "a handle" of the multiply-connected space, and what physicists might perhaps be excused for more vividly terming a "wormhole".
Wormhole distortion has overloaded main power systems!
I think the wormhole that we used to travel here passed directly through this planet's sun.
gloss: A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: To make porous or permeable through the formation of small holes or tunnels.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: rabbit hole
Translations:
hypothetical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑποθετικός (hupothetikós).
Inflected forms:
form: more hypothetical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hypothetical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hypotheticals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural.
pos: adj
examples: Such a subjunctive as appears in the principal clause (i.e. the apodosis) of a conditional sentence may be called a hypothetical subjunctive. An hypothetical subjunctive expresses an action¹ which, while its non-occurrence is implied, is yet supposed to occur, if some other action occur.
To establish standing under Article III, a plaintiff must satisfy the following three requirements: (1) "the plaintiff must have suffered an injury in fact - an invasion of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized, and (b) actual or imminent, not conjectural or hypothetical"; ...
gloss: Conditional; contingent upon some hypothesis/antecedent.
pos: adj
gloss: A possible or hypothetical situation or proposition.
pos: noun
examples: These hypotheticals serve no purpose until we have more information.
He told ABC News: “Just to give you a hypothetical, we would respond by leading a Nato – a collective – effort that would take out every Russian conventional force that we can see and identify on the battlefield in Ukraine and also in Crimea and every ship in the Black sea.”
Philosophers of doom tend to get hung up on elaborate sci-fi-inflected hypotheticals.
Antonyms: actual
categorical
Derived words: antihypothetical
hypothetical baptism
hypothetical imperative
hypotheticality
hypothetically
hypothetical taxonomic unit
nonhypothetical
unhypothetical
Translations:
mar
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English merren, from Old English mierran (“to mar, disturb, confuse; scatter, squander, waste; upset, hinder, obstruct; err”), from Proto-Germanic *marzijaną (“to disturb, hinder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mers- (“to annoy, disturb, neglect, forget, ignore”). Cognate with Scots mer, mar (“to obstruct, impede, spoil, ruin”), Dutch marren (“to push along, delay, hinder”), dialectal German merren (“to entangle”), Icelandic merja (“to bruise, crush”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍂𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (marzjan, “to annoy, bother, disturb, offend”), Lithuanian miršti (“to forget, lose, become oblivious, die”), Armenian մոռանալ (moṙanal, “to forget, fail”), Sanskrit मृष् (mṛṣ, “forget, neglect”).
Inflected forms:
form: mars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marred
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marred
pos: verb
tags: past
form: marre
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: mars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] and putteth ether many a good mā by ignorance in ieopardy of his life, or marreth good medicines to the great diſhoneſtie both of the Phiſician and of Goddes worthy creatures, the herbes and medecines:
Prospero: […]huſh, and be mute / Or elſe our ſpell is mar'd.
Ire, envy, and despair / Marred all his borrowed visage, and betrayed / Him counterfeit.
Mother, tho' wiſe your ſelf, my Counſel weigh; / 'Tis much unſafe my Sire to disobey; / Not only you provoke him to your Coſt, / But Mirth is marr'd, and the good Chear is loſt.
[…] I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Sin defiles the soul; it mars its beauty, impairs its health and vigor. It perverts its powers, and deranges all its dignified energies and attributes.
The Court's ability to reinterpret the words in the treaty that do not appeal to it mars its logic, and demeans other words there, most significantly the solemnity of the United States oath.
[page 85] Mar resistance is related to abrasion resistance, but there is an important difference. Abrasion may go deeply into the coating, whereas marring is usually a near-surface phenomenon; mars less than 0.5 μm deep can degrade appearance. […] [page 210] Eventually, sufficient resin can accumulate to drip down on products going through the ovens, marring their finish.
They extracted a ninth boy on Tuesday, the Thai Navy said, with reports suggesting two more. If confirmed, one child and an adult remain to be rescued, bringing to a close an epic operation marred by one diver's death.
gloss: A blemish.
pos: noun
examples: For concealing deep mars, some manufacturers offer putty sticks in colors that match their panels.
Translations:
faster-than-light
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, the theoretical speed limit for travel within the universe.
pos: adj
tags: comparative-only
examples: Faster-than-light drives use element zero cores to reduce the mass of a ship, allowing higher rates of acceleration. This effectively raises the speed of light within the mass effect field, allowing high speed travel with negligible relativistic time dilation effects.
Translations:
shortcut
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-der.?
Proto-Germanic *skertaną
Proto-Germanic *skurtaz
Proto-West Germanic *skurt
Old English sċort
Middle English schort
English short
English cut
English shortcut
From short + cut.
Inflected forms:
form: shortcuts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shortcutting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shortcutted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shortcutted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shortcut
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shortcut
pos: verb
tags: past
form: short cut
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: short-cut
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To take or use a shortcut
pos: verb
Translations:
tachyon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Formed as: tachy- + -on, from ταχύς (takhús, “swift”, “rapid”).
Coined by American physicist Gerald Feinberg in 1967.
Base: tachy
Inflected forms:
form: tachyons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hypothetical particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
pos: noun
tags: particle
gloss: A flaw in a physical theory that predicts the existence of tachyons or similar paradoxical results. Compare with ghost.
pos: noun
Synonyms: tachyonic particle
Related words: luxon
tardyon
Derived words: tachyonic
Translations:
Everest
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Everesting.
Inflected forms:
form: Everests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: Everesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: Everested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: Everested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To repeatedly cycle up steep roads with a total distance equal to the height of Mount Everest.
pos: verb
examples: Training for an Everest expedition in 1994, Mallory wrote, he had Everested by cycling eight times up Mount Donna Buang, outside Melbourne.
Translations:
parkour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Borrowed from French parkour, altered spelling of parcours (“course, route”).
Inflected forms:
form: parkours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: parkouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: parkoured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: parkoured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An athletic discipline, in which practitioners traverse any environment in the most efficient way possible using their physical abilities, and which commonly involves running, jumping, vaulting, rolling, flipping, and other similar physical movements.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: On Astypalea, the possibilities for parkour routines are endless, as illustrated by the variety of tricks each athlete unveiled at Art of Motion.
gloss: To freerun; to use parkour (to move over).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: It's about running at 100mph through the world, then parkouring up an exploding cube van that's 100ft in the air, bouncing off it and hitting the wall and keeping on going.
They had parkoured seven roofs, clambered down a mango tree, and crossed over the bridge in the back of a donkey cart, unnoticed even by the driver.
The daring Ukrainian can be found on his website dangling off of tall buildings with one hand, scaling bridges and parkouring through urban landscapes in search of a personal thrill.
Translations:
loa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Haitian Creole lwabor.
English loa
Borrowed from Haitian Creole lwa.
Inflected forms:
form: loas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: loa
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lwa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
pos: noun
examples: Here, on the Island Below the Sea, the loa have their permanent residence, their primal location.
Some will caution you at great length about the dangers of Vodou. They will tell you that the lwa are jealous, thin-skinned, and hot-tempered.
Equally surprising is to find St Patrick so prominent in many Vodou shrines, until one remembers that he too had been a slave who had twice crossed the sea, the second time to freedom, and that he had particular power over snakes, like the loa (Haitian equivalent of orisha) Dambala Wèdo.
Translations:
kula
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a South Slavic language, from Turkish kule, from Persian قله (qolle), from Arabic قُلَّة (qulla, “pinnacle, zenith”).
Inflected forms:
form: kulas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A tower, turret or steeple in Southeast Europe erected during the period of Ottoman domination on the area.
pos: noun
examples: Instead of the haïdooks, their next of kin, the zaptiés now hold a kula on the highest point of the pass; here one pauses to rest after scrambling up the vile Turkish road on one side of the ravine, and before scrambling down the vile Turkish road on the other.
The most important kulas of the Čengić-begs are those in Zagorje, in Rataji and the River Odžak near Ustikolina.
The kulas were indeed like fortresses, with as many as twenty 'guns', i.e. adult men ready to fight.
Translations:
Jap
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of Japanese, attested as a noun since 1872, and adjectivally since 1878. Compare Nip (shortened from Nipponese).
Inflected forms:
form: Japs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Japanese person.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
ethnic
slur
examples: Among our Japs on board are two returning from Italy, where they have been with silk-worms' eggs, on cards, to sell. This has become a great speculation, and the Japs are going into it with zeal. The Japs almost always—always when they can—take cabin passages ; the Chinese seldom, or never.
gloss: An Imperial Japanese Army soldier.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
historical
examples: The Japs had been confident that this first and sudden land grab could be accomplished without their becoming involved in a major war, and they were right.
‘The telegram says “missing”.’
’Nothing about “presumed drowned”?’ Sorrel asked.
’Nothing.’
’Then he could easily be a prisoner in the hands of the Japs,’ she persisted.
gloss: Japanese; of or pertaining to Japan or its people.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
ethnic
not-comparable
slur
examples: A soldier might grab his rifle and batter his way to the heart of some Jap position. Back home they gave him all sorts of medals but his companions dismissed him as the poor bastard who finally went Asiatic.
Translations:
story
Part of speech: verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
Proto-Indo-European *wéydtōr
Proto-Hellenic *wístōr
Ancient Greek ἵστωρ (hístōr)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορέω (hĭstoréō)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía)bor.
Latin historiader.
Old French estoire
Old French estoriebor.
Middle English storie
English story
From Middle English storie, storye, from Anglo-Norman estorie by aphesis, from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ῐ̔στορῐ́ᾱ (hĭstorĭ́ā, “learning through research”). Doublet of history and storey.
Inflected forms:
form: stories
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: storying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: storied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: storied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: storie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: what's the story
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: what's the story, bud
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: story, bud
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing.
It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high.
The further claim is that we create or invent the self specifically by “writing” and “storying” it.
gloss: To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
capitalized
sometimes
examples: But Portman, quite self-deprecating about her social-media savvy, says she . . . isn’t quite fully at ease yet with the world of double-taps and geotags and storying.
I hereby argue that the only thing that would make these mini Friends reunions truly complete would be contributions from Aniston herself, who decidedly does not have an Instagram page. Imagine the content possibilities: Aniston looking flawless and chic by the pool; Aniston Storying herself shopping at Gelson’s; […]
gloss: Used as a greeting, short for what's the story?
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
idiomatic
examples: *Any non-Irish person should be aware that it is not necessary to take the question literally i.e. one shouldn't start to explain your life story when greeted with 'What's the story?' rather they should respond in kind e.g. Greeting: 'What's the story?' Response: 'What's the story?' There are several variations on the theme, the most popular being 'What's the story, bud?' or the pithy : 'Story, bud?' or the pithier still 'Story?'
Translations:
macrophage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From macro- + -phage, both from Ancient Greek.
Affixes: macro-
-phage
Inflected forms:
form: macrophages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A white blood cell that phagocytizes necrotic cell debris and foreign material, including viruses, bacteria, and tattoo ink. It presents foreign antigens on MHC II to lymphocytes. Part of the innate immune system.
pos: noun
Translations:
pronto
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pronto, from Latin prōmptus. Doublet of prompt.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Quickly, very soon, promptly.
pos: adv
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: I need to finish this assignment pronto.
“[…] I burst through the door with a pregnancy bump and shouted at him, pretending to be his mistress. I’ve never seen a man look so horrified in his life. I then went into a spontaneous lip-sync of ‘I Will Survive’.” (We need footage, pronto.)
Translations:
skinflint
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.
Inflected forms:
form: skinflints
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.
pos: noun
examples: You know, he is quite a different sort from the Public Prosecutor and our other provincial skinflints--fellows who shiver in their shoes before they will spend a single kopeck.
Translations:
joke
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jeu, Italian gioco, Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego, Romanian joc, English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol.
Inflected forms:
form: jokes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jokes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: joking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: joked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: joked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An amusing story.
pos: noun
examples: Or witty joke our airy senses moves / To pleasant laughter.
gloss: Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
pos: noun
examples: It was a joke!
gloss: A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke.
The president was a joke.
The other wheel on the tender of the L.N.W.R. engines operated the tender brake, and this was always rather a joke. Sometimes it operated with good results and on other occasions it did not.
gloss: Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The final exam was a joke.
gloss: To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I didn’t mean what I said — I was only joking.
gloss: To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Relax, man, I'm just joking with you.
gloss: To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: to joke a comrade
He made more than one visit to Oxbridge, where the young fellows were amused by entertaining the old gentleman, and gave parties and breakfasts and fêtes, partly to joke him and partly to do him honour.
Synonyms: joke
Related words: jocular
fun
laugh
witty
ridicule
laughingstock
jester
joker
jeer
mock
Derived words: all jokes aside
antijoke
anti-joke
bad joke
beyond a joke
blonde joke
brick joke
brown joke
dad joke
dial-a-joke
dick joke
dirty joke
fourth wall joke
green joke
half joke
in-joke
inside joke
Irish joke
joke book
jokee
jokefest
jokefic
jokeful
joke Joyce
jokeless
jokelet
jokelike
joke line
jokely
jokeman
jokeproof
jokes aside
joke shop
jokesmith
jokesome
jokester
joke theft
joke thief
jokette
jokey
jokish
jokist
joky
Kerryman joke
knock-knock joke
knock knock joke
lightbulb joke
light bulb joke
make a joke of
metajoke
Newfie joke
no joke
nonjoke
one joke
practical joke
private joke
running joke
sick joke
standing joke
take a joke
the joke is on someone
the jokes write themselves
there's a grain of truth in every joke
joke around
joke it up
joke up
joking relationship
outjoke
unjokingly
Translations:
lang: Azerbaijani
word: məzə
lang: Hungarian
word: vicc
lang: Polish
word: dowcip
whoopee
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: whoopees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whoopeeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whoopeed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whoopeed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A spontaneous expression of delight or joy.
pos: intj
examples: Whoopee! I won!
gloss: To behave exuberantly; to make whoopee.
pos: verb
examples: "If the 'twenties," said the stage-hand, who was a politician, "had done a bit more thinking and a bit less whoopeeing, we mightn't be where we are today.
Translations:
horsy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From horse + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German rössich (“horselike, equipped with a horse”).
Base: horse
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: horsier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: horsiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: horsey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: horsie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: horsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: horsey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: horsie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, relating to, or similar to horses.
pos: adj
examples: All the horses had been seized and sent to the front, but the whole place still smelt of horse-piss and rotten oats. I was at the barracks about a week. Chiefly I remember the horsy smells, the quavering bugle-calls […]
Pirates, these women, with their ladylike briefcases for the loot and their horsy, acquisitive teeth.
gloss: Involved in breeding or riding horses.
pos: adj
gloss: Clumsy, clunky, bulky, inelegant, or unrefined.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: crude
gloss: A child's term or name for a horse.
pos: noun
tags: childish
endearing
gloss: A game where a child rides on the back of another, who is on all fours.
pos: noun
examples: When he got in the house, if I'd left him to read his newspaper in quiet, then he'd play horsey with me, riding me around the house on his back; I'd put a pillow on his back for my saddle
When you get down on the floor and play “horsey”, you are giving yourself a heck of a workout – and it is fun for the kids!
The best barometer of my mounting physical limitations was the game of horsy. In my stallion's prime I could pack three little boys on my back at once and do the length of the hall in no time flat.
Synonyms: gee-gee
Related words: horseliness
Derived words: horsily
horsiness
unhorsy
Translations:
eejit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Hiberno-English and Scottish English pronunciation of idiot.
Inflected forms:
form: eejits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eedjit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: eegit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: eejut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ijjit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ijut
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An idiot; a fool; an imbecile.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
Scotland
derogatory
Translations:
scuba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *swé?
Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *selbaz
Old English self
Old English self-
Middle English self-
English self-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *ten-
Proto-Indo-European *tn̥-eh₁-(ye)-tider.
Proto-Italic *tenēō
Latin teneō
Latin contineōder.
Latin continērelbor.
Old French contenirbor.
English contain
Old English -ed
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz
Old English -od
Middle English -ed
English -ed
English contained
English self-contained
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
Proto-Indo-European *wed-
Proto-Indo-European *-r̥
Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥
Proto-Germanic *watōr
Proto-West Germanic *watar
Old English wæter
Middle English water
English water
English underwater
Middle English breethder.
Middle English brethen
English breathe
Proto-Germanic *-ungō
Old English -ung
Middle English -ynge
English -ing
English breathing
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der.
Latin parō
Latin apparō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin apparātuslbor.
English apparatus
English SCUBA
English scuba
From SCUBA, acronym of self-contained underwater breathing apparatus; now usually viewed as anacronymic.
Inflected forms:
form: scubas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An apparatus carried by a diver, which includes a tank holding compressed, filtered air and a regulator which delivers the air to the diver at ambient pressure which can be used underwater.
pos: noun
Translations:
incest
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin incestus. Displaced Old English mǣġhǣmed (literally “relative-sex”). Doublet of inchaste.
Inflected forms:
form: incests
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: incests
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: incesting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: incested
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: incested
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.
For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.
gloss: Romantic relationships between close relatives, also widely taboo.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
usually
gloss: To engage in incestuous sexual activities.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I do not want anyone to feel that my lesbianism is a result of being incested.
Her erotic transference ultimately devolved into a revelation that she had been consistently incested by her brother
[…] the most powerful of that bunch of immortal giants called Titans was Cronus, who “incested” with sister Rhea, who then birthed the Olympians (Zeus and his bunch) […]
Related words: incestuous
Derived words: anti-incest
cousincest
fauxcest
Folgercest
incested
incester
incestic
incesting
incestism
incestlike
incestophile
incestophilia
incestophobe
incestophobia
incestophobic
incestual
incestualist
incestuality
incestualize
incestually
incestuous
incestuously
incestuousness
pro-incest
proincest
pseudoincest
selfcest
sibcest
spiritual incest
step-incest
twincest
Waycest
wincest
yaoicest
yuricest
Translations: