yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
malic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: From French malique, from Latin mālum.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to apples.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The fruit tastes very tart and has a green apple/malic flavor that is more pronounced than any berry type flavors.
gloss: Of or pertaining to malic acid or its derivatives.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: malamic acid
malamide
malate
pyromalic
Translations:
malkin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Malde, an early form of Maude or Matilda + -kin (diminutive ending). Compare grimalkin.
Affixes: -kin
Inflected forms:
form: malkins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maukin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: maulkin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A (stereotypical name for a) lower-class or uncultured woman; a kitchenmaid; a slattern.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
regional
examples: Ȝe ne haue na more meryte · in masse ne in houres / Þan Malkyn of hire maydenhode · þat no man desireth.
You gain no more merit from mass or your prayers / Than Malkin from her maidenhood, which no man desires.
We did but keep you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.]
gloss: A mop, especially one used to clean a baker's oven.
pos: noun
tags: regional
examples: "She had no sooner said so, but they all vanished saving onely one Peter Grospetter, whom a little after she saw snatch'd up into the aire, and to let fall his Maulkin (a stick that they make clean Ovens withall) and her self was also driven so forcibly with the wind, that it made her almost Lose her breath."
gloss: A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A scarecrow.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
regional
examples: [A] straw malkin like thee, which the very crows are not afraid to perch on[.]
gloss: A cat.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Now she was strong enough to walk and watch them circling in the sky or to sit in the arbour at the end of the long lawn and, with the sunlight smouldering in her dark-red hair and lying wanly over the area of her face and neck, watch the multiform and snow-white convolutions of her malkins.
gloss: A hare.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: There was milk punch and spiced whisky, a smell of goose and maukin roasting on the spit.
Translations:
malversation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French malversation, from malverser, from Latin male versari (“behave badly”). Compare Spanish malversación (“embezzlement”).
Inflected forms:
form: malversations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Corrupt behaviour, illegitimate activity, especially by someone in authority.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the euyl exempil of ther maluersatione prouokyt the pepil til adhere to vice & to detest vertu.
The Decreet was for Sallary, and it was offered to be proven, that Rue (for his Malverſation) was by warrand from General Monk, excluded from Collection that year.
The walī looked angrily on my brother, saying: ‘Shameless ill-doer, it is quite clear from these marks upon your back that you have practised every sort of crime and malversation.’
I see nothing quite conclusive in the art of temporal government,
But violence, duplicity and frequent malversation.
In addition to their absolute power they were wasteful and extravagant, their malversations were constant and enormous, and they treated the local whites with an arrogance and superciliousness that galled these little potentates with their two or three hundred slaves.
Translations:
marginalize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English marginal
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English marginalize
From marginal + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: marginalizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marginalizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marginalized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marginalized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: marginalise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To relegate (something, especially a topic or a group of people) to the margins or to a lower limit; to exclude socially or otherwise.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The practice of only analysing Indian English in terms of how it differs from a notional standard English that resides in the Englishes of the varieties of the Inner Circle is one of the key ways in which Indian English is marginalised.
gloss: To find a marginal distribution of a joint probability distribution.
pos: verb
examples: Ideally, we would like to integrate out the parameters #92;theta, i.e. marginalize in order to obtain a prediction. Since this is again hard to realize analytically, one usually approximates the integral via sampling from the posterior.
Synonyms: alienate
invisibilize
peripheralize
sideline
Antonyms: prioritize
accept
Related words: marginal
marginalization
marginalize out
Derived words: demarginalize
marginalizable
marginalizer
remarginalize
Translations:
dissolving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: dissolvings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something dissolves.
pos: noun
examples: For example, the only manifestation of solubility is dissolving, and being immersed in liquid is its only circumstances of manifestation. Perhaps there are some differences between particular immersions or dissolvings, but they must be similar enough […]
Translations:
manometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French manomètre, formed from Ancient Greek μανός (manós, “thin, rare”) + μέτρον (métron), equivalent to mano- + -meter.
Affixes: mano-
-meter
Inflected forms:
form: manometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manometre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: An instrument to measure pressure in a fluid, especially a double-legged liquid column gauge used to measure the difference in the pressures of two fluids.
pos: noun
examples: As soon as the manometer of the pump indicated the maximum of rarification, the apparatus was inclined […]
Pökler helped in working out the Halbmodelle solution: bisecting the model lengthwise and mounting it flat-side to the wall of the test chamber, bringing the tubes through that way to all the manometers outside.
Translations:
spilt
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English spill
English -t
English spilt
From spill + -t.
Inflected forms:
form: spilled
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That has been spilled.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Don't cry over spilt milk; tears won't put it back in the glass.
Translations:
sickie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From sick + -ie, from sick leave.
Base: sick
Affixes: -ie
Inflected forms:
form: sickies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sicky
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A day, or time, off work due to (supposed) illness.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: Sickies are when one really is sick, but, y’know, probably not to the extent that merits a day off. It’s the exaggerated head cold. It’s the sore throat overdramatised by a theatrical croak.
gloss: A person who is unwell.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I'll tell you why, because I'm a sickie! But I'm getting cured.
Related words: duvet day
Derived words: chuck a sickie
pull a sickie
throw a sickie
Translations:
consumptive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der.
Proto-Italic *emō
Latin emō
Latin sūmō
Latin cōnsūmō
Latin cōnsūmptus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -ive
Middle English consumptive
English consumptive
From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ive, from Middle English consumptive, from Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō.
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: more consumptive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most consumptive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: consumptives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
pos: adj
examples: a long consumptive war
[O]n ſome occaſions, he diſplayed all his fund of good humour, vvith a vievv to beguile her ſorrovv; he importuned her to give him the pleasure of ’ſquiring her to ſome place of innocent entertainment; and, finally, inſiſted upon her accepting a pecuniary reinforcement to her finances, vvhich he knevv to be in a moſt conſumptive condition.
gloss: Of or relating to consumption.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
pos: adj
examples: consumptive cough
The lean, conſumptive, wench, with coughs decay'd, / Is call'd a pretty, tight, and ſlender maid.
gloss: A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
pos: noun
examples: The consumptive has managed to shake the servant from her side and walks alone, striving to make it look easy.
Derived words: consumptively
consumptiveness
nonconsumptive
photoconsumptive
unconsumptive
Translations:
narcosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νάρκωσις (nárkōsis). By surface analysis, narco- + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: narcoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Unconsciousness caused by a drug, anaesthetic or other chemical substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
masturbator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English masturbate
English -or
English masturbator
From masturbate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: masturbators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: masturbater
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who masturbates.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
gloss: A sex toy used to complement and help stimulate its user's erogenous zones during masturbation, and often designed to simulate an erotic body part (of an imaginary partner).
pos: noun
Synonyms: fapper
handfucker
master baiter
masturbationist
onanist
self-abuser
self-pleasurer
self-polluter
wanker
Antonyms: celibate
fapstronaut
nofapper
Related words: handjob
Masturbation
masturbate
masturbation
Person engaged in sexual activity
copulator
sexual partner
Derived words: maskurbator
Translations:
ethics
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English etik, from Middle French ethique, from Late Latin ethica, from Ancient Greek ἠθική (ēthikḗ), from ἠθικός (ēthikós, “of or for morals, moral, expressing character”), from ἦθος (êthos, “character, moral nature”).
Inflected forms:
form: ethics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Morality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her decision was guided by her strong personal ethics.
gloss: The standards that govern the conduct of a person, especially a member of a profession.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The professor teaches a course on business ethics.
Medical ethics require doctors to prioritize patient welfare.
gloss: The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: ethic
ethical
ethos
Derived words: astroethics
code of ethics
cyberethics
ethicist
genethics
geoethics
nanoethics
neuroethics
xenoethics
Translations:
hurray
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hurrays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hurraying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hurrayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hurrayed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cheer with a "hurray".
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Translations:
confide
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle Scots confide, confyde (“to put trust in”), from Latin confīdere (“to put trust in, have confidence in”), from con- (“together”) + fidēre (“to trust”). First attested in English use in the early 17th century. Doublet of faith and fidelity.
Inflected forms:
form: confides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: confiding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: confided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: confided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To trust, have faith (in).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: "Be calm, lovely Antonia!" he replied; "no danger in near you: confide in my protection."
I shall do nothing rashly: you know me sufficiently to confide in my prudence and consideration whenever the safety of others is committed to my care.
In thy protection I confide.
gloss: To entrust (something) to the responsibility of someone.
pos: verb
tags: dated
transitive
examples: I confide this mission to you alone.
gloss: To take (someone) into one's confidence, to speak in secret with.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I could no longer keep this secret alone; I decided to confide in my brother.
gloss: To say (something) in confidence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: After several drinks, I confided my problems to the barman.
She confided that her marriage had been in trouble for some time.
One student had been so afraid to come out to our meetings that he would secretly meet me in the bookshelves of the library and confide about the miseries of being gay, closeted, and a virgin.
Related words: confidant
confidante
confidence
confident
confidential
overconfident
Derived words: confidable
confidee
confide in
confider
confiding
misconfide
reconfide
unconfided
Translations:
superintendent
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law-enforcement
Etymology: From Ecclesiastical Latin superintendens, a calque of Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos); thence being distantly related to English bishop.
Inflected forms:
form: superintendents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
pos: noun
gloss: A police officer rank, positioned above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
examples: “No, don't,” replied the superintendent; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.”
gloss: The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same.
pos: noun
gloss: The head of a Sunday school.
pos: noun
gloss: In some Protestant churches, a clergyman having the oversight of the clergy of a district.
pos: noun
gloss: A janitor.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: Overseeing; superintending.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: manager
foreman
chief
head
head man
controller
comptroller
overseer
supervisor
Related words: superintend
superintendency
woman police constable
detective constable
detective sergeant
detective inspector
detective chief inspector
Derived words: chief superintendent
detective chief superintendent
detective superintendent
sidewalk superintendent
SP
superintendentess
superintendential
superintendentship
supt.
Translations:
christening
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English cristenynge, from Old English cristnung; compare christen + -ing.
Base: christen
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: christenings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Christianing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The Christian sacrament at which someone, usually a child, is baptized and given a Christian name.
pos: noun
gloss: Any instance of someone's or something's being christened.
pos: noun
Derived words: as demure as an old whore at a christening
as demure as a whore at a christening
Translations:
wuss
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1976–1981 in US college slang. Perhaps abbreviated from wussy, or blend of wimp and puss. Compare earlier wussy.
Inflected forms:
form: wusses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wusses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wussed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A weak, ineffectual, cowardly, or timid person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
mildly
slang
examples: 1976, Univ. N. Carolina, Chapel Hill, Campus Slang typescript
Nov. 6 Come on you wuss, hit a basket..! John's a wuss.
You are a wuss: part wimp, and part pussy
...if you got a reputation as a wuss around the league, nobody else would ever even trade for you, or pick you up if you got cut.
`Fatty's under the thumb. Yeah it's not hard to see who wears the pants in that family. The wuss.'
And finally, don't be a wuss. Have a rich-man's attitude. Men who have money are generally confident and assertive.
...stop, study the map, and wait for the others. It's better to be a wuss than a stud.
gloss: Only used in wuss out
pos: verb
Translations:
baptized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: baptised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, who has been subjected to the rite of baptism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
baptised
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more baptised
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most baptised
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: baptized
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Who has been baptised.
pos: adj
Translations:
revere
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from French révérer, ultimately from Latin revereor, from re- + vereor (“to fear”).
Base: vereor
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reveres
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: revering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: revered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: revered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: reveres
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a highly revered musician
gloss: To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g., a saint, or an idol.
pos: verb
tags: also
transitive
gloss: A revers.
pos: noun
Synonyms: esteem
honor
idolize
lay store by
look up to
prize
hallow
put store by
put store in
rate
regard
respect
revere
set store by
value
venerate
worthy
Antonyms: despise
offend
Related words: reverence
hold dear
Derived words: reverable
reverer
Translations:
withal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *wí
The adverb is derived from Middle English withal, with-al, withalle (“against, in opposition to; in association with, together with; by means of”), from with (“against; close to, near; directly opposite to; in the company of, together with; on, upon; within; etc.”, preposition) + al (“total number in a group, all, everyone, everything”). The word displaced Old English mid ealle.
The postposition is derived from the adverb.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The means; the wherewithal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She didn’t have the withal to pay the fee.
Translations:
homemade
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From home + made.
Compound parts: home
made
Inflected forms:
form: more homemade
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most homemade
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made at home.
pos: adj
examples: a homemade chicken casserole
[T]he very wet winter will have washed much of the goodness out of the soil. Homemade compost and the load of manure we get from a friendly farmer may not be enough to compensate for what has leached from the ground.
gloss: Made by oneself.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: homebrew, handmade
a homemade bomb
gloss: In a simple style as if made at home.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonym: homespun
a homemade aphorism
Related words: DIY
Derived words: semihomemade
semi-homemade
uglier than homemade soap
Translations:
sublet
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
law
property
real-estate
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-der.
English sub-
English let
English sublet
From sub- + let.
Inflected forms:
form: sublets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subletting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sublet
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sublet
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sublets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To grant a sublease out of property held under a lease.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Synonym of sublease.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
treating
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Inflected forms:
form: treatings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Treatment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] it would appear that before taking this precaution Mr. Bree must have had the thrift to remove a modest competency of the gold; at any rate, it was at about that time that he entered upon that memorable series of potations and treatings which is still one of the cherished traditions of the San Juan Smith country […]
gloss: The practice of men providing young women ("charity girls") with entertainment outings, gifts, etc. in exchange for companionship and intimate activity.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
gloss: The electoral offence of offering an inducement such as food, drink or entertainment to a voter.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
UK
uncountable
examples: In the ensuing year [ 1804 ], in the Middlesex case, Mr. Mainwaring was charged with treating - by means of victuals supplied at an inn, at Brentford, by the order of persons proved to be his agents, and for which other persons, also proved to be his agents, had promised to pay.
Where such a combination does not exist, any amount of bribery, treating, and intimidation may be carried on with perfect impunity
He said the ballots were double-cast or cast from false addresses; false statements were made against Mr Biggs [John Biggs AM, candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets]; there was money that was given to organisations who were ineligible for organisations; treating took place, that is to say free food and drink was dished out to people to vote for Mr Rahman; and there was what is called spiritual influence - voters were told it was their religious duty to vote for Mr Rahman.
Derived words: antitreating
heat-treating
Translations:
effected
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Modified by effects.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Their palette was covered with heavily effected guitars, synthetic loops and samples, electronic drums, and cold industrial sound effects.
Translations:
counting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: countings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A count.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act by which something is counted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: numbering
citation
counting
numeration
telling
Antonyms: miscounting
Related words: count
Derived words: card counting
counting agent
counting cell hemocytometer
counting frame
counting glass
counting-house
counting measure
counting of the Omer
counting-out game
counting rhyme
counting rod
counting room
counting sort
double counting
emergent counting
finger-counting
photocounting
Translations:
manumit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English manumitten, from Latin manūmittere, from pre-Classical Latin manū ēmittere (literally “send out from one’s hand”).
Inflected forms:
form: manumits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manumitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manumitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manumitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To release from slavery, to free.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […]Lungs, I will manumit thee from the Fornace; / I will reſtore thee thy complexion, Puffe, / Lost in the embers; and repayre this brayne, / Hurt with the fume o'the Mettalls.
Turn now to the temperance revolution. In it we shall find a stronger bondage broken, a viler slavery manumitted, a greater tyrant deposed; in it, more of want supplied, more disease healed, more sorrow assuaged.
Persons taken in war were considered at the absolute control of their captors, and were therefore, de facto, slaves; and the children of a female slave followed the condition of their mother, and belonged to her master. But masters could manumit their slaves, who thus became Roman citizens, with some restrictions.
Ruth wept much but Sara set her beauty to a fierce grimness which, even when, as you shall hear later, she was manumitted, she never entirely lost.
Translations:
backswing
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From back + swing.
Compound parts: back
swing
Inflected forms:
form: backswings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: backswings
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backswinging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backswung
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backswung
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.
pos: noun
gloss: To swing backward.
pos: verb
Translations:
manumission
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English manumissioun, from Middle French manumission and its etymon Latin manūmissiō.
Inflected forms:
form: manumissions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; the act of manumitting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The manumission of the slaves in New York has been gradual.
The most important law of Augustus, was the lex oelia sentia, deserving of all praise, which related to the manumission of slaves.
In the west, and especially in Cornwall, the names of the serfs were mainly Celtic,—Griffith, Modred, Riol, and so forth,—as may be seen from the list of manumissions preserved in a mass-book at St. Petroc's, or Padstow.
In the light of her bedroom candle Marguerite hung not in greater ecstasy over the jewel-casket than hung Zuleika over the box of tricks. She clasped her hands over the tremendous possibilities it held for her—manumission from her bondage, wealth, fame, power. Stealthily, so soon as the house slumbered, she packed her small outfit, embedding therein the precious gift.
The more innocent dreamed of a manumission kindly bestowed by the new Emperor as one of a number of acts of justice and clemency proper to a new reign.
Rather than encouraging his countrymen to liberate their slaves, he opposed both private manumission and public emancipation.
Translations:
wetsuit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From wet + suit.
Compound parts: wet
suit
Inflected forms:
form: wetsuits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A close fitting, insulating garment usually made from neoprene or similar material designed to keep one warm during activities on or under water.
pos: noun
Translations:
neoprene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: US, 1930s; genericized trademark for DuPont brand of polychloroprene. neo- (“new”) + isoprene (dropping the iso-), the latter from terpene. Originally called duprene (blend of DuPont and isoprene); the “new” is because neoprene was the first mass-produced general-purpose synthetic rubber.
Base: isoprene
Affixes: neo-
Inflected forms:
form: neoprenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A synthetic rubber, a polymer of chloroprene, commonly used in wetsuits, laptop sleeves, orthopedic braces, electrical insulation, liquid and sheet-applied elastomeric membranes and flashings, car fan belts, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
tracksuit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
Etymology: From track + suit.
Compound parts: track
suit
Inflected forms:
form: tracksuits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A garment, usually consisting of a top and trousers (commonly known as tracksuit bottoms) worn as an outer layer by participants in sporting events such as athletics. The tracksuit is usually designed to be easily removed or replaced, before or after competing. Tracksuits have also been adopted in some cultures as leisurewear.
pos: noun
examples: With such focus from within the footballing community this week on Remembrance Sunday, there was something appropriate about Colchester being the venue for last night’s game. Troops from the garrison town formed a guard of honour for both sets of players, who emerged for the national anthem with poppies proudly stitched into their tracksuit jackets.
Translations:
maquette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French maquettebor.
English maquette
Borrowed from French maquette.
Inflected forms:
form: maquettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
pos: noun
examples: His presence would be an affront to my body; so, for it, there would be the rare delight of extinguishing an imperfect and distressed version of itself, a prototype, a maquette.
And I thought, if I can imagine this place in real life, I can build it in the studio and then paint from the maquette as if it were a real landscape. In terms of process this was a breakthrough for me[…]
Translations:
marae
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Māori marae and Tahitian marae, from Proto-Oceanic *malaqe.
Inflected forms:
form: maraes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: morai
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The path ended down by the sea at a crumbling ‘ingot’ of black coral, twenty yards in length & in height two men. ‘A marae, this is called,’ Mr Wagstaff informed me. ‘All over the South Seas you see ’em, I’m told.’
gloss: The courtyard of a Maori wharenui or meeting-house, seen as a cultural and spiritual focal point; (by extension) the buildings and people around it; a spiritual or cultural centre.
pos: noun
tags: New-Zealand
Translations:
margrave
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle Dutch marcgrāve (modern Dutch markgraaf), cognate with Old High German marcgrāvo (modern German Markgraf), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”) + *grafa (“military rank”), from Latin graphio. More at mark, graft.
Compare marchion, marquis, landgrave.
Inflected forms:
form: margraves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: margraf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: markgraf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: markgrave
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A feudal era military-administrative officer of comital rank in the Carolingian empire and some successor states, originally in charge of a border area.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: 1973: Among pulverised heads of stone margraves and electors, reconnoitering a likely-looking cabbage patch, all of a sudden Slothrop picks up the scent of an unmistakable no it can’t be yes it is it’s a REEFER! — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
gloss: A hereditary ruling prince in certain feudal states of the Holy Roman Empire and elsewhere; the titular equivalent became known as marquis or marquess.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The Margrave of Bruges was their head.
Related words: burgrave
landgrave
palsgrave
waldgrave
Derived words: margravate
margravely
margravial
margraviate
margravine
Translations:
marmoreal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin marmoreus (“of, pertaining to, consisting of or made of marble; resembling marble; adorned with statues”) + English -al (suffix forming adjectives). Marmoreus is derived from marmor (“block or piece of marble; marble building or statue”) (from Ancient Greek μάρμᾰρος (mármăros, “marble”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). By surface analysis, Latin marmor + -eal.
Inflected forms:
form: more marmoreal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most marmoreal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Resembling marble or a marble statue; cold, smooth, white, etc.; marblelike.
pos: adj
tags: literary
examples: How many a night serene, shall I behold / Those vvarm attractive orbits, close inshrined / In ether, over vvhich Love's column rose / Marmoreal, trophied round vvith golden hair.
[T]he green / And glancing shadows of the sea did play / O'er its marmoreal depth: […]
Each feminine delight of florid lip, / Eyes brimming o'er and brow bowed down with love, / Marmoreal neck and bosom uberous,— […]
The marmoreal whiteness of her perfect neck and firm, well-rounded arms was emphasized by a sharp contrast. Of color there was none, save for the slight flush of health in her cheeks and the rich, red line of her strong, sensitive mouth.
Youth's infinite choice of roads had given place to a rigid groove, presided over by a relentless marmoreal blonde.
Irma had collapsed into a chair, and her long marmoreal face was buried in her hands.
[I]f now the soldier's fingertips, the pads, seemingly endowed with a sudden clairvoyance, could sense through those different stuffs the hems of subterranean garments and even the very minute roughness of skin, pores and moles—if, as I said, his fingertips arrived at this, perhaps her flesh, marmoreal and lazy, was hardly aware that these were, in fact, fingertips, and not for example, nails or knuckles.
The gods, of course, were a quite farcical invention, though necessary for the as it were marmoreal exaltation of the civic virtues.
gloss: Made out of marble.
pos: adj
tags: literary
obsolete
examples: But each night as he stood on that high marble terrace with the curious urns and carven rail and looked off over that hushed sunset of beauty and unearthly immanance he felt the bondage of dream's tyrannous gods; for in no wise could he leave that lofty spot, or descend the wide marmoreal flights flung endlessly down to where those streets of elder witchery lay outspread and beckoning.
Related words: marmoraceous
marmorean
marmoreous
marmarization
marmarized
Derived words: marmorealise
marmorealize
marmoreally
Translations:
martel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English martel, from Old French martel m (modern French marteau m), from Late Latin martellus m, from Latin martulus m, a variant of marculus m (“small hammer”).
Inflected forms:
form: martels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A hammer, especially a war hammer.
pos: noun
Translations:
revers
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French revers (“lapel, reverse side”). Doublet of reverse.
Inflected forms:
form: revers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rever
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: revere
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lapel of a garment, turned back to show the reverse side.
pos: noun
Translations:
mathesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman mathesis, Middle French mathesie, and their source, Late Latin mathesis (“astrology, liberal arts, science”), from Ancient Greek μάθησις (máthēsis, “learning”), from the same base as μανθάνω (manthánō, “to learn”).
Inflected forms:
form: matheses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mental calculation or discipline; science, especially mathematical learning.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Forget the Boys, forget your loyalties to your Dead, first of all to Rebekah, for she, they, are but distractions, temporal, flesh, ever attempting to drag the Uranian Devotee back down out of his realm of pure Mathesis, of that which abides.
gloss: The science of establishing a systematic order for things. (After Foucault.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
I’m using 'mathesis' — a universal science of measurement and order […]
Derived words: mathetics
Translations:
refrigeration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin refrigero. Morphologically refrigerate + -ion.
Base: refrigerate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: refrigerations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of transferring heat from an object in order to cool it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of preserving something by cooling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The cooling of the body for therapeutic purposes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: autorefrigeration
nonrefrigeration
overrefrigeration
refrigerational
refrigeration ton
ton of refrigeration
Translations:
cognomen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin cognōmen, from con- (“with”) + nōmen (“name; family name”).
Base: nōmen
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: cognomens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cognomina
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A personal epithet or clan name added to the given name and family name of Ancient Romans.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Julius Caesar's actual name was Gaius Iulius Caesar. Gaius was his praenomen or forename, Iulius his nomen or surname, and Caesar his cognomen, denoting which part of the Iulius family he belonged to.
"Five hundred years or more afterwards, the family migrated to Rome under circumstances of which no trace remains, and here, probably with the idea of preserving the idea of vengeance which we find set out in the name of Tisisthenes, they appear to have pretty regularly assumed the cognomen of Vindex, or Avenger."
The Romans evolved a quite different system of nomenclature, which in its classical form consisted of three names, the praenomen (e.g. Marcus), nomen (e.g. Tullius), and cognomen (e.g. Cicero), and two other designations (the name of the father and of the tribe): […]
Roman tradition suggests that he might also have had the cognomen Octavian to indicate his biological family.
gloss: Synonym of nickname, any epithet used similar to the Roman cognomina.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
literary
examples: In this by-place of nature, there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane; who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow[…]. The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person.
Her husband was evidently a sensible man, and he might have given his wife a little more sense than she could have derived from her downright father and her silly mother-in-law, who were really as great a pair of noodles as ever were exhibited in the pages of a modern novel, under the cognomen of "amiable rustics."
gloss: Synonym of surname, a family name.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
literary
uncommon
examples: What's in a name? Well, to the Dragons, it would seem rather a lot, as they've tonight committed their cash to personalised products and to the man with the most famous cognomen in confectionery. I'll leave you to look that one up.
Related words: cognominal
Translations:
medulla
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin medulla (“pith, marrow”), perhaps from medius (“middle”).
Inflected forms:
form: medullas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: medullae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: medullæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The soft inner part of something, especially the pith of a fruit.
pos: noun
gloss: The inner substance of various organs and structures, especially the marrow of bones.
pos: noun
gloss: The medulla oblongata.
pos: noun
gloss: The internal tissue of a plant.
pos: noun
Derived words: adrenomedullin
extramedullary
medulla oblongata
medullar
medullary
medulla spinalis
medullated
medullectomy
medullin
medullitis
medullization
medulloblastoma
medullose
renal medulla
rostromedulla
transmedulla
Translations:
megillah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Hebrew מגילה / מְגִלָּה (m'gilá, “scroll”). Doublet of magilla.
Inflected forms:
form: megillahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: megillot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: megilloth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: megilla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Megillah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Megilla
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the Five Scrolls of the Hebrew Scriptures (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, and Esther)
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
examples: Song of Songs, one of the five Megillot ("Scrolls") of Ketuvim ("Writings") recited either before or after Minhah on the eve of every Sabbath, after the Seder on Passover, and publicly in the synagogue in the Ashkenazic tradition.
gloss: The Book of Esther.
pos: noun
tags: Judaism
specifically
Translations:
menhir
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂sder.?
Proto-Celtic *maginos
Proto-Brythonic *maɣɨnder.
Breton maen
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-rós
Proto-Celtic *sīros
Proto-Brythonic *hirder.
Breton hir
Breton maen-hirbor.
French menhirbor.
English menhir
Either borrowed from French menhir, or from its etymon Breton maen-hir, compound of maen (“stone”) + hir (“long”). Compare with Welsh maen hir, and Cornish men hir.
Inflected forms:
form: menhirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single tall standing stone as a monument, especially one dating to prehistoric times.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: orthostat
[N]o time has passed since we lived in caves, grappled with fish at the reedy shore, buried our dead with a song, with red-ochre and pulled up our dolmens, temples and menhirs and standing stones to the glory of some indeterminate god or gods, […]
On the coast tree ferns and pandanus palms. Inland termite menhirs seventeen feet high.
Translations:
menorah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מְנוֹרָה (m'norá). From the same Proto-Semitic root *nūr- (“light”) as minaret.
Inflected forms:
form: menoroth
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: menorot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: menorahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: menora
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A holy candelabrum with seven branches used in the Temple of Jerusalem.
pos: noun
examples: ‘Heathen muck,’ Liberalis said, as the pillaging began. The veil of the Temple was rent. The great menorah was taken away.
gloss: A candelabrum with nine branches, used in Jewish worship on Hanukkah.
pos: noun
examples: My father brings home a big brass antique menorah, shaped like an archway, heavy, on a pedestal, on a round base.
In America every December my mother had decorated our home with metal Stars of David she hung on strings in the doorways and lit the menorah as we gathered at the table.
However, traditional Sefardi families follow the halacha that each household uses only one menorah lit by the head of the household, to represent everyone in unison.
A far-right Polish MP has extinguished candles on a menorah lit for Hanukah in Poland’s parliament, disrupting proceedings before a planned vote of confidence in the new government.
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: مَنَارَة
roman: manāra
lang: Arabic
word: مِنُورَة
roman: minūra
lang: Arabic
word: الشَّمْعَدَان السَّبَاعِيّ
roman: aš-šamʕadān as-sabāʕiyy
lang: Arabic
word: مِينُورَاه
roman: mīnūrāh
lang: Catalan
word: menorà
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 猶太教燈臺 /犹太教灯台
roman: Yóutàijiào dēngtái
lang: Dutch
word: menora
lang: Esperanto
word: menoro
lang: Esperanto
word: menorao
lang: Finnish
word: menora
lang: German
word: Menora
lang: Greek
word: επτάφωτος λυχνία
roman: eptáfotos lychnía
lang: Hebrew
word: מְנוֹרָה
roman: m'norá
lang: Hungarian
word: menóra
lang: Indonesian
word: menorah
lang: Italian
word: menorah
lang: Japanese
word: メノーラー
roman: menōrā
lang: Korean
word: 메노라
roman: menora
lang: Ladino
word: menora
lang: Lithuanian
word: menora
lang: Macedonian
word: мено́ра
roman: menóra
lang: Malay
word: menorah
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: menora
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: menora
lang: Polish
word: menora
lang: Portuguese
word: menorá
lang: Russian
word: мено́ра
roman: menóra
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: менора
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: menora
lang: Sinhalese
word: මෙනොරා
roman: menorā
lang: Spanish
word: menora
lang: Spanish
word: menorá
lang: Swedish
word: menora
lang: Tamil
word: மெனொரா
roman: meṉorā
lang: Telugu
word: మెనొరా
roman: menorā
lang: Turkish
word: menora
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎎𐎐𐎗𐎚
roman: mnrt
lang: Ukrainian
word: менора́
roman: menorá
lang: Yiddish
word: מנורה
roman: menoyre
undergarment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From under- + garment.
Base: garment
Affixes: under-
Inflected forms:
form: undergarments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: undergarnment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: undergartment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Any garment worn underneath others, especially one worn next to the skin; an item of underwear.
pos: noun
examples: Richard DeLongpre: Are you okay, my boy angel?
Allen Gregory DeLongpre: I have a broken heart. And undergarments filled with my own unruly waste.
In the Victorian Era, exposing your shirtfront in public was considered improper, as shirts were viewed as undergarments. Waistcoats concealed this and helped [to] tame oversized, billowy shirts.
gloss: Temple garments worn by the followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
Translations: