yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
southpaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From south + paw. First attested in 1813. Originating from 19th-century ballparks often oriented with the batter facing east to avoid the afternoon sun, placing a left-handed pitcher's arm on the south side. However, earlier usage suggests it may stem from 1840s boxing slang for a left-handed punch.
For Baseball:
* Early 19th-century ballparks were often built with home plate on the west side and the pitcher's mound on the east to prevent the sun from being in the batter's eyes. Consequently, a left-handed pitcher's arm would be facing the southern side of the diamond.
For Boxing:
* Evidence suggests the term existed before baseball, being used in the 1840s to describe a left-handed punch or "paw" in boxing. A 1848 political cartoon described a "south paw" blow in this context.
Compound parts: south
paw
Inflected forms:
form: southpaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: south paw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who is left-handed, especially in sports.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Never touch the food until your host has said grace ("Bismillah") and then not till he has told you to. Eat only with your right hand—it is considered very rude to use the left, even if you are a southpaw.
gloss: One who is left-handed, especially in sports.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Since home plate is generally in the southwest corner to avoid glare in the batter's eyes, a southpaw's pitching hand is to the south.
Eleanor would pitch, probably southpaw. Rosalind was outfield, wonderful hitter, Clara first base, maybe.
gloss: One who is left-handed, especially in sports.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: һулаҡай
roman: hulaqay
lang: Basque
word: ezkerti
lang: Finnish
word: vasuri
lang: French
word: gaucher
lang: French
word: gauchère
lang: German
word: Linkshänder
lang: German
word: Linkshänderin
lang: Japanese
word: 左利き
roman: hidarikiki
lang: Polish
word: mańkut
lang: Polish
word: leworęczny
lang: Portuguese
word: canhoteiro
lang: Romansh
word: tschanchin
lang: Russian
word: левша́
roman: levšá
lang: Spanish
word: zurdo
lang: Spanish
word: zurda
lang: Tagalog
word: kaliwete
lang: Volapük
word: nedetaskilan
lang: Volapük
word: nedetahiskilan
lang: Volapük
word: nedetajiskilan
kerf
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English kerf, kirf, kyrf, from Old English cyrf (“an act of cutting, a cutting off; a cutting instrument”), from Proto-West Germanic *kurbi, from Proto-Germanic *kurbiz (“a cut; notch; clipping”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Käärf, West Frisian kerf, Swedish korv. Related also to Dutch kerf, German Low German Karve, Karv, German Kerbe.
Inflected forms:
form: kerfs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kerfs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kerfing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kerfed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kerfed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
gloss: The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
pos: noun
examples: They pass through a cleft that has been made across a low range of hills, like a kerf in the top of a log, and enter into a lovely territory of subtly swelling emerald green fields strewn randomly with small white capsules that he takes to be sheep.
gloss: The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.
pos: noun
examples: 1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
gloss: The distance between diverging saw teeth.
pos: noun
examples: 1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
gloss: The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.
pos: noun
examples: Sebastian, still not alone, is seated on the white-and-cinder-grey trunk of a felled tree. […] A Camberwell Beauty skims past and settles on the kerf, fanning its velvety wings.
gloss: To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.
pos: verb
Related words: carve
swarf
Derived words: kerf allowance
kerf graft
Translations:
nuance
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French nuance (“nuance, shade, hue”). Omitting several steps, from Latin nūbēs.
Compare typologically Italian sfumatura (< Latin fūmus).
Inflected forms:
form: nuances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nuances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nuancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nuanced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nuanced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A minor distinction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: hidden nuances
gloss: Subtlety or fine detail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Understanding the basics is easy, but appreciating the nuances takes years.
[…] the richer our collections become, the more numerous are the proofs that all is more or less shaded (nuance), that the remarkable differences become obliterated […]
It’s a miracle Lindsey Graham has met the concept of nuance. And this is the man who once warned “the world is literally about to blow up.” So you’re not dealing with someone who likes to dabble with grey areas.
gloss: To apply a nuance to; to change or redefine in a subtle way.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: nuanced
nuanceless
nuancely
Translations:
pitch
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English picche, piche, pich, from Old English piċ, from Proto-West Germanic *pik, from Latin pix. Cognate with Ancient Greek πίσσα (píssa, “pitch, tar”), Latin pīnus (“pine”). More at pine. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pik (“pitch, tar”), Dutch pek (“pitch, tar”), German Low German Pick (“pitch, tar”), German Pech (“pitch, tar”), Catalan pega (“pitch”), Spanish pegar (“to stick, glue”), Franco-Provençal pouatche (“sap from a pine”) and French poix (“sap”). The adjective is probably back-formed from pitch-black, reinterpreting "pitch" as meaning "intense(ly)".
Inflected forms:
form: pitches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pitches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pitching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pitched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pitched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pitcher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pitchest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
gloss: A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: tar, coal tar, asphalt, bitumen
They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
The barrel was sealed with pitch.
It was pitch black because there was no moon.
gloss: Pitchstone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To cover or smear with pitch.
pos: verb
examples: “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”
gloss: To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
pos: verb
examples: 1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas
Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.
gloss: Very dark black; pitch-black.
pos: adj
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:pitch.
gloss: Intense, deep, dark.
pos: adj
examples: Then I got back here - difficulty again: no trolly-bus, and and black pitcher than black - and have since been conning the Beveridge Report.
If you lose even once, that's it: The screen goes, like, the pitchest black ever, and you're [out].
For some of us postpartum depression is the pitchest black we have ever known. From the dark womb we welcome new life, and our own new life, a life we haven't known, unfolds[…]
Related words: piceous
Derived words: Burgundy pitch
Canada pitch
dark as pitch
earth pitch
Greek pitch
Jews' pitch
pitch apple
pitch-black
pitch black
pitchblende
pitchcapping
pitch coal
pitch dark
pitch-dark
pitch darkness
pitchlike
pitch mining
pitch moth
pitch peat
pitch pine
pitch-tar
the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready
pitchless
Translations:
screwball
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From screw + ball.
Compare typologically German Spinner (akin to spin). Also compare weirdo and weird, from Old English wyrd (“fate”), ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, to spin”).
Compound parts: screw
ball
Inflected forms:
form: screwballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more screwball
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most screwball
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A pitch thrown with added pressure by the index finger and a twisting wrist motion resulting in a motion to the right when thrown by a right-handed pitcher.
pos: noun
examples: The screwball is not thrown much because it tends to damage pitcher's arms.
gloss: One who behaves in a crazy manner.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
informal
examples: I will not listen to this screwball any longer.
gloss: A screwball comedy.
pos: noun
gloss: Crazy, offbeat, bizarre, zany, or weird.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook, an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.
Unleashed as part of the second wave of Nicktoons, Rocko's Modern Life introduced young viewers to the sort of existential crises that adults face daily, all while delighting both kids and grownups with witty observational humor, screwball characters, and subversive gags.
Translations:
oops
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A presumably 'natural' exclamation, attested in writing since 1921. Related to or a variation of whoops (itself attested since 1933). A shortening of whoops-a-daisy, whoopsie-daisy, or oops-a-daisy, which in turn is a mispronunciation of ups-a-daisy or upsy-daisy.
Inflected forms:
form: oopses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oopses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: oopsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: oopsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: oopsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Used to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Oops! I left the lid off the ketchup.
Oops, I did it again / I played with your heart, got lost in the game
gloss: Used to indicate mild surprise or shock.
pos: intj
tags: informal
gloss: A minor mistake or unforeseen difficulty.
pos: noun
examples: It's an oops, but one that's your fault, not your puppy's.
Every plan and every activity has an “oops.” Oops, we forgot to..., oops, who was supposed to do that? We all have experienced “oopses”.
Isn't she the same woman who works at Wings that you and Billy almost got arrested for helping her with her last little oops?
My parents had moved to this house, which sat on the border of Corktown and Mexicantown, from their tiny apartment in Ann Arbor—once they found out that their little oops was actually two little oops.
gloss: To make a mistake; to blunder.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
Derived words: oops baby
oopsie
oopsortunity
Translations:
squelch
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: broadcasting
electrical-engineering
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
radio-technology
Etymology: Unknown. Perhaps a blend of squash + quell + quench. Compare also English squolsh, English squoosh.
Compound parts: squash
quell
quench
Inflected forms:
form: squelches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squelching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squelched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squelched
pos: verb
tags: past
form: squelches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To halt, stop, eliminate, stamp out, or put down, often suddenly or by force.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
examples: Even the king's announcement could not squelch the rumors.
Oh 'twas your luck and mine to be squelched.
If you deceive us you will be squelched.
The party’s dominant right wing squelched not only Sherman’s hopes for an early convention, but may have also put the MLA out of contention for the leadership.
We believe that Facebook is using privacy as a pretext to squelch research that it considers inconvenient.
gloss: To suppress the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting a threshold level for signal strength.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make a sucking, splashing noise as when walking on muddy ground.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
examples: The mud squelched underfoot; it had been raining all night.
[After they both fell into the lake.] Reaching the mainland some moments later and squelching back to the house, accompanied by Bobbie, like a couple of Napoleons squelching back from Moscow, [...]
gloss: To walk or step through a substance such as mud.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
examples: The mud was thick and sticky underfoot, but we squelched through it nonetheless.
gloss: A squelching sound.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: The suppression of the unwanted hiss or static between received transmissions by adjusting the gain of the receiver.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A heavy blow or fall.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
gloss: A kind of electronic beat or sound mainly used in acid house and related music genres.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Through a process of experimentation the 'acid squelch' sound came forth, which was recorded and passed on to DJ Ron Hardy to play at his Warehouse club.
Derived words: squelcher
squelchingly
break squelch
squelchy
Translations:
wishy-washy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reduplication of washy; more at Wikipedia under ablaut reduplication. The wish portion of the term is explained much more by the ablaut reduplication than by any coincidental semantic appropriateness (such as that wishy-washy people wish that they could have it both ways), although the latter effect may play some nonzero cognitive role in word-finding. Compare also swish, swash, splish, and splash regarding any possible sound symbolism.
Inflected forms:
form: wishy-washier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more wishy-washy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wishy-washiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most wishy-washy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wavering; lacking in commitment, certainty, support, and (often) clarity; namby-pamby.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: vacillating, vacillatory
Not wanting to be pressed for details, public relations gave a wishy-washy answer.
I’m not about to vote Conservative myself (I’m a wishy-washy centrist who liked Tony Blair’s early work and has since mostly voted Labour, with an occasional swing to the Liberal Democrats and Greens)[…]
gloss: Thin or watery.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: watered-down, diluted, dilute
The wishy-washy orange juice served by the cafeteria not only failed to be sweet; it was barely orange.
Usually the quality of the liquor is judged by the "bite" of it. The hotter the better. A drink of first class, aged whisky would be ridiculed in most parts of Maine as a wishy-washy beverage fit only for mollycoddles. The Down East "soak" wants something that stings and burns all the way, and usually he gets it[…]
And you will appreciate drinking the hot cup, or rather billy, of tea—which is more than one can call the wishy-washy concoction served up in some 'tea-houses'.
Related words: wish-wash
Translations:
hey
Part of speech: intj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: country-dancing
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English hey, hei, also without h- in ey, from Old English *hē, ēa (interjection), attested as first element in hēlā, ēalā (“O!, alas!, oh!, lo!”). Cognate with Dutch hé, hei (“hi, hey”), German hei (“hey, wow”), Danish and Swedish hej (“hello, hey”), Faroese hey (“hey, hello”), Old Norse, Icelandic and Norwegian hei (“hey”), Polish hej (“hey, hello”), Romanian hei, Russian эй (ej, “hey”); see heigh. Probably a natural expression, as may be inferred from its presence with similar meaning in many other unrelated languages: for example, Burmese ဟေး (he:), Finnish hei, Unami hè, and Mandarin 哎 (āi), and various sound-alikes as Ancient Greek εἶα (eîa) and Latin eia, eho, Sanskrit हे (he). See also hello.
Inflected forms:
form: hay
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: heigh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: heys
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: heying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: heyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: heyed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: hay
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: heigh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: heys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation to get attention.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Hey, look at this!
Hey! Listen!
gloss: A protest or reprimand.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Hey! Stop that!
gloss: An expression of surprise.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Hey! This is new!
gloss: An informal greeting, similar to hi.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Hey! How's it going?
gloss: A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Hey? How's that?
gloss: Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: "Who 's a cur - now - hey?"
gloss: A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: The chorus is "nana na na, nana na na hey hey hey, goodbye".
gloss: To greet with a "hey"
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: A choreographic figure in which three or more dancers weave between one another, passing by left and right shoulder alternately.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Synonyms: yo
gee whiz
yowzah
howdy
wotcher
ahem
ahoy
cooee
hey
heyo
hoi
oi oi
yoohoo
Related words: huh
hay is for horses
attention
pay attention
Derived words: but hey
heyday
hey hey
hey ho
hey Joe
hey mister
heyo
hey pass
hey presto
hey rube
hey Rube
hey there
hey up
hey ya
like hey-go-mad
stomp clap hey
what the hey
yehey
Translations:
anglicize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: anglicizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: anglicizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: anglicized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: anglicized
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: American and Oxford British English standard spelling of anglicise.
pos: verb
Translations:
trustworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trust + -worthy.
Base: trust
Affixes: -worthy
Inflected forms:
form: more trustworthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: trustworthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
uncommon
form: most trustworthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: trustworthiest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
superlative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Deserving of trust, reliable.
pos: adj
examples: The storage of cryptographic secrets is one of the paramount requirements in building trustworthy systems.
Translations:
kata
Part of speech: noun
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
programming
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: From Japanese 型 (literally “pattern, model”).
In English use since the 1950s.
Inflected forms:
form: katas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kata
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more kata
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most kata
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.
pos: noun
examples: judo kata
About fifty kata, or "formal exercises," are practiced at the present time, some having been passed down from generation to generation, others having been developed fairly recently.
Katas are a series of motions, such as punches, strikes, and kicks, arranged in a specific pattern. The pattern allows the motions to flow into one another. A student must learn a new kata to advance to each new belt level.
When the competitor's name is called, she stands on the designated line, bows to the panel of judges, and announces the name of the kata she will perform.[…]She then performs the kata. When she is finished, her opponent performs her kata. At the end of the second kata, both return to the mat area to await the decision of the judging panel.
gloss: A short programming exercise to improve one's skills through practice and repetition.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: These kata will give you the C# syntax for inheritance.
gloss: In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
pos: adv
examples: Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.
Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.
Derived words: gun kata
Translations:
untrustworthy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English trustworthy
English untrustworthy
From un- + trustworthy.
Inflected forms:
form: more untrustworthy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: untrustworthier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
uncommon
form: most untrustworthy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: untrustworthiest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
superlative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Not deserving of trust; unreliable.
pos: adj
examples: While a corrupt Chuch and untrustworthy nobles and kings scraped for power, businessmen in Italy honored pledges of businessmen from England and Scandinavia. This trust (some have called it honor among thieves) is still a hallmark of modern brokerage.
Antonyms: true
accurate
sincere
faithful
reliable
Translations:
hangdog
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hang + dog.
Compound parts: hang
dog
Inflected forms:
form: hangdogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hangdogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hangdogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hangdogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hangdogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A base, degraded person.
pos: noun
gloss: Low; sneaking; ashamed.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The poor colonel went out of the room with a hangdog look.
Asper Argo, the Well-Beloved, Commdor of the Korellian Republic greeted his wife’s entry by a hangdog lowering of his scanty eyebrows. To her at least, his self-adopted epithet did not apply. Even he knew that.
He looked at them in a kind of dread, not daring to ask for details; and he observed that they, too, looked as though they had been in a battle; something hangdog in their looks suggested that they had been put to flight.
Adam Sandler hangdog in the Levi’s Stadium stands, Jon Bon Jovi mooching on the sideline like a retired dentist on a cruise, Billie Joe Armstrong belting out American Idiot during the pre-game show under his motionless meringue of fogey-blond hair: were they a sign?
gloss: To move or loiter in a sneaking or ashamed manner.
pos: verb
examples: With a twenty-one to three victory, Pinewood high-stepped it off the field while our Falcons hangdogged their way to the locker room.
Just a few stragglers left hangdogging around, latchkey types with no place to be, cutting up in the dim and bleachered gym perimeter.
Translations:
hanger-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: Agent noun of hang on.
Inflected forms:
form: hangers-on
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hanger on
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone who hangs on, or sticks to, a person, place, or service.
pos: noun
examples: Her love was sought, I do aver, / By twenty beaux and more; / The king himself has follow'd her / When she has walk'd before. / But now her wealth and finery fled, / Her hangers-on cut short all […]
Not that he was what is commonly called a Screw; that is to say he was not a mere screw; but he was acute and malicious; saw everybody's worth and position at a glance; could not bear to expend his choice wines and costly viands on hangers-on and toadeaters, though at the same time no man encouraged and required hangers-on and toadeaters more.
The Rhymney (51 route miles), once an impecunious hanger-on of the Taff Vale, had enjoyed its own route through Caerphilly into Cardiff since 1871, [...].
“I thought you really liked us.” “I did. Deeply and desperately. And all I wanted was for you to like me. Instead, you treated me like... an afterthought.” “I have got absolutely no really close female friends anymore.” “An annoyance.” “Oh, nice going, dipshit.” “A hanger-on.” “Stand over there and just pretend not to listen.” “I can do that.” “An inconvenience.” “You did R-S-veep "yes."” “Sort of hard to shuffle things around at this late stage.”
gloss: An onsetter.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: onhanger
Related words: flunky
Translations:
ouch
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Some sources say the interjection is attested since 1838 (and specifically in American English) and derives ultimately from German autsch, perhaps specifically via Pennsylvania German outch (“cry of pain”), as early attestations of the interjection are from Pennsylvania. However, others say the interjection is a "mere" or "natural" exclamation attested since the mid 1600s, and the 1933 OED cites one instance of a verb "ouch" in 1654, "Sancho Pancas Runs Ouching round the mountaine like a ranck-Asse".
Inflected forms:
form: ouches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ouches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ouching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ouched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ouched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An expression of one's own physical pain.
pos: intj
examples: Ouch! You stepped on my toe! That hurt!
gloss: An expression in sympathy at another's pain.
pos: intj
examples: Ouch! Her sunburn looks awful.
gloss: A reply to an insult seen as savage (frequently one that is tongue-in-cheek or joking).
pos: intj
examples: Ouch. How could you say that?
gloss: An expression of disappointment.
pos: intj
examples: Ouch, I really wanted to do that.
gloss: Expressing surprise at the high price of something.
pos: intj
tags: slang
examples: Ouch, one hundred thousand dollars for a car! I could never afford that!
gloss: Something that causes discomfort or pain.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: RhuliGel soothes the itches and ouches of summer.
gloss: To exclaim "ouch!" in discomfort or pain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Imperturbability your skill, not mine / I ouch out loud and clear / Your forgiveness, like Pope's divine / I'm just an angry queer
Translations:
feeler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English feler, feeler, felar, equivalent to feel + -er. Animal organ definition from 1660s. Transferred sense of "proposal put forth to observe the reaction it gets" is from 1830.
Base: feel
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: feelers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that feels.
pos: noun
tags: literally
examples: Are you more of a feeler or more of a thinker?
gloss: An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect.
pos: noun
gloss: Something ventured to test another's feelings, opinion, or position.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: I sent out some feelers but they didn't seem interested.
This survey is designed to get a feeler about how the citizens feel about the proposed new highway.
In 1905, the Russo-Japanese war fought itself to a standstill, and with the destruction of Rozhiestvensky's fleet at Tsushima, the Japanese, for financial reasons, had to put out feelers for peace.
Mr. Dayan's peace feeler would he more attractive to Cairo if it were accompanied by suggestions from Jerusalem, public private, for safeguarding Israeli security interests there without sacrificing Cairo's claim to ultimate sovereignty.
gloss: a presumptive person; someone who bases on gut feeling, such as assuming or imagining that something said or done, whether positive or negative, was for a person despite having no concrete confirmation but gut feeling, or someone who assumes one's affection is reciprocated, or indulges in one's own wishful thinking or flatters oneself
pos: noun
tags: Philippines
Derived words: feelered
feeler gauge
put out feelers
touchy-feeler
Translations:
hyperlink
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From hyper- + link, or a blend of hypertext + link.
Base: link
Affixes: hyper-
Inflected forms:
form: hyperlinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hyperlinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hyperlinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hyperlinked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hyperlinked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Some text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Click the hyperlink to go to the next page.
gloss: The URL or other address that defines a hyperlink's target or function.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Copy the hyperlink and paste it into an email.
gloss: To point to another document by a hyperlink.
pos: verb
examples: Their Web page hyperlinks to your Web site.
gloss: To add a hyperlink to a document.
pos: verb
examples: One valuable thing a blogger often does is hyperlink to magazine and newspaper stories or other interesting blogs, she says.
gloss: To use a hyperlink to jump to a document.
pos: verb
examples: Indeed, what consumers will see on a Web site is likely to vary depending on the point or Web page at which they access the Web site, how many pages they “hyperlink” through when reviewing the site, and how much of the page containing the disclosure is displayed by consumers' Web browsers without requiring additional scrolling.
Synonyms: hyperlink
link
Related words: hypertext
linkify
linkback
linkrot
link doping
link whoring
link whore
link spam
click me
Derived words: hyperlink cinema
hyperlinkable
nonhyperlinked
Translations:
grandiloquent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French grandiloquent, from Latin grandiloquus, from grandis (“great, full”) + loquēns, present participle of loquor (“to speak”). Compare eloquent.
Inflected forms:
form: more grandiloquent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most grandiloquent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive number of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid.
pos: adj
examples: The American people believe that they have a free country, and we are treated to grandiloquent speeches about our flag and our reputation for freedom and enlightenment.
Translations:
know-it-all
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English know
English it
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós
Proto-Germanic *allaz
Proto-West Germanic *all
Old English eall
Middle English all
English all
English know-it-all
From know + it + all.
Inflected forms:
form: know-it-alls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: know-all
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
Senses:
gloss: Someone who claims to be knowledgeable or an expert in something, obnoxiously dismissing the opinions, advice, suggestions, etc. of others.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
examples: We had it all figured out, but this know-it-all marched in with "the correct way of solving it", leaving our experiment in shambles.
The same holds true for supporting details—they help you to learn more about a topic. Be a know it all by sharing these details and supporting details with friends.
She's a mean, bossy know-it-all.
Have you ever gone shopping with a Know-It-All girlfriend and she insists, without your consent or consulting you first, to choose your outfits for you?
Antonyms: wise person
Translations:
output
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: business
computing
economics
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From out + (verb) put; nominalisation of put out.
Compound parts: out
put
Inflected forms:
form: outputs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: outputs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outputting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: output
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: output
pos: verb
tags: past
form: outputted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outputted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The factory increased its output this year.
Output at the Pen-ch'i mine, which produced somewhat under 1 million tons annually during 1942-1944, was around 500,000 tons in 1949.
It misdesigned goods, adversely selected technologies, misallocated and misremunerated factors of production, encouraged work to rule, underproduced, misdistributed outputs and was subject to a myriad of moral hazards.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid and unique to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
gloss: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a six-page output; six pages of output
gloss: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: That which is produced by something, especially that which is produced within a particular time period or from a particular effort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To produce, create, or complete.
pos: verb
examples: We output 1400 units last year.
gloss: To send data out of a computer, as to an output device such as a monitor or printer, or to send data from one program on the computer to another.
pos: verb
examples: When I hit enter, it outputs a bunch of numbers.
Related words: input
Derived words: cardiac output
economic output
industrial output
input-output section
input-output table
multioutput
netput
nonoutput
output area
output arm
output rating
outputter
reoutput
Translations:
Wikipedian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Wikipedia + -ian (compare encyclopedist).
Base: Wikipedia
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: Wikipedians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who contributes to Wikipedia, especially a regular contributor well versed in the ways of the website.
pos: noun
examples: He is proud to be a Wikipedian.
That is because Wikipedians, as they call themselves, can not only contribute whatever they want but can also edit entries posted by other writers as they see fit.
Britannica, somewhat representative of old media in general, instinctively regards Wikipedia as a threat, whereas Wikipedians are not the least bit tempted to reciprocate.
This change takes care of casual or heat-of-the-moment vandalism, but it does little to address a new category of Wikipedian somewhere between committed community member and momentarily vandalizing teenager, one that creates tougher problems.
gloss: Of or relating to Wikipedia.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Many scholars of Wikipedian theology theorize that if consensus is ever reached, Wikipedia will spontaneously disappear.
In these Googlial Wikipedian times, a vast collection of wordbooks may seem slow, unnecessary or both.
If people stopped believing in the Wikipedian ideal, and used its tools for vandalism, "it's unlikely the whole enterprise would survive a week"
Translations:
bath
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁-
Proto-Germanic *baþą
Proto-West Germanic *baþ
Old English bæþ
Middle English bath
English bath
From Middle English bath, baþ, from Old English bæþ (“bath”), from Proto-West Germanic *baþ, from Proto-Germanic *baþą (“bath”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₁- (“to warm”). Corresponding inherited verbs are beath and bathe.
Cognate with Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, and Swedish bad (“bath”), Faroese and Icelandic bað (“bath”), German Bad (“bath”).
Inflected forms:
form: baths
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bathing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bathed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bathed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To wash a person or animal in a bath.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
transitive
examples: Somewhere to bath the baby: don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place to bath the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his, bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor.
For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose.
If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week.
gloss: To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
informal
intransitive
examples: “Oh, dear no, not me; I never bath, ’tis the cat has been bathing, in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to the thermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.”
A man's home may be handy to the mine, in which case he would not need to lose the bath, but if he lived any distance away he would bath at the mine.
In a flight of fancy, Millot even wanted to create public bath houses alongside the Seine, so young children could bath in the river’s healthful waters.
Parents would bath after all the children had gone to bed or older children sent into the front room.
Translations:
uh-oh
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: uh oh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: uhoh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: oh-oh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: oh oh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ruh-roh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
humorous
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation of error, concern, or awareness of a problem.
pos: intj
tags: informal
examples: Uh-oh! I made a mistake.
Uh-oh. I emerged from the Underground station at London King's Cross the other day to find a dense throng of people filling the main line station's concourse.
Translations:
uh
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Onomatopoeia of the natural expression of thought. Compare with er.
Inflected forms:
form: uhs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Expression of thought, confusion, or uncertainty.
pos: intj
examples: Uh, who was that?
gloss: Space filler or pause during conversation.
pos: intj
examples: Uh, let me see...
As the years go by, speech reverts to childhood levels of disfluency, with more pauses, more errors, more repeated words, but even the peak years are not great: up to 8 percent of the average person’s word output consists of meaningless fillers and placeholders like um, uh and er.
And the very highly paid legal defense team for Alec Baldwin, uh basically Manhattan lawyers from uh Emmanuel Quinn, a top 50 worldwide law firm, highly paid.
gloss: An occurrence of the interjection "uh".
pos: noun
examples: Although Shakespeare refers to “hums and ha’s,” sifting through etiquette manuals and public-speaking guides turns up scant evidence of a prohibition against ums, ers and uhs, which are profuse in the first recording of Thomas Edison’s voice, in 1888. Mr. Erard, rather ingeniously, traces the prohibition on um and other speech flaws to the advent of radio in the early 1920s.
Related words: huh-uh
nuh-uh
uh-huh
uh-uh
unh-uh
yuh-uh
er
erm
um
uh-oh
oh
Translations:
aha
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English a ha, aha, natural expression. Equivalent to ah + ha!.
Inflected forms:
form: a-ha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ah-ha
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An exclamation of understanding, realization, invention, or recognition.
pos: intj
examples: Aha! That will work.
gloss: An exclamation of surprise, exaltation, or contempt.
pos: intj
examples: Aha! Now I've got you!
Related words: ah
ha
eureka
Derived words: aha effect
aha experience
aha moment
Translations:
ha
Part of speech: intj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Attested early 14th century, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Danish ha, Dutch ha, Finnish ha, Hungarian ha, Latin ha, Latvian ha, Swedish ha.
Inflected forms:
form: has
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A representation of laughter.
pos: intj
examples: Ha, ha, ha! That’s funny.
gloss: An exclamation of triumph or discovery.
pos: intj
examples: Ha! Checkmate!
gloss: An exclamation of grief.
pos: intj
tags: archaic
gloss: A sound of hesitation: er, um.
pos: intj
tags: dated
gloss: The sum of bodily parts; the physical body.
pos: noun
tags: Egypt
Related words: ah
aha
funny ha-ha
hah
haha
ha-ha
ha-ha funny
ha ha Herman
ha ha only serious
ha-ha pigeon
haw
he
heh
ho
hoo-ha
muahahaha
yeeha
Translations:
vivisect
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vivisects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vivisecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vivisected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vivisected
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
vivisection
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Latin vīvus (“alive”) + sectiō (“cutting”). Compare French vivisection. See also vivid and section.
Compound parts: vīvus
sectiō
Inflected forms:
form: vivisections
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or instance of cutting, surgery, or other invasive treatment of a living organism for the purposes of physiological or pathological scientific investigation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
vivisectionist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vivisection
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English vivisectionist
From vivisection + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: vivisectionists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who practices or advocates vivisection; a vivisector.
pos: noun
Translations:
unh-uh
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: unh-uh!
pos: intj
tags: canonical
form: unh uh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: uh-uh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: uh uh
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: no; disagreement; negative reply
pos: intj
examples: Unh-uh. No way!
Translations:
rein
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rein, reyne, from Anglo-Norman reyne, resne, from Early Medieval Latin retina, ultimately from Classical Latin retineō (“hold back”), from re- + teneō (“keep, hold”). Compare modern French rêne.
Displaced native Old English brīdel (“bridle, rein”), Old English wealdleþer, ġewealdleþer (“rein, bridle”, literally “control strap”), Old English sāl (“cord, rein”), Old English tiġel (“rein”), and Old English lāttēh, lāttēh (“leash, rein”).
Inflected forms:
form: reins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: reins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reined
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, other animal or young child.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The government is attempting to keep a rein on rising prices.
Let their eyes rove without rein.
gloss: To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He mounts and reins his horse.
gloss: To restrain; to control; to check.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Being once chafed, he cannot / Be reined again to temperance.
After an interval that he judged to have lasted twenty minutes, the bed began to shake with poorly reined sobs.
gloss: To obey directions given with the reins.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: She worked each horse at a walk, trot, and then a canter. The horses reined well and executed stops quickly.
Derived words: bearing rein
bridoon rein
checkrein
check-rein
gag rein
garde de rein
garde rein
leading rein
lungeing rein
pull the reins in on someone
pull the reins in on something
rein-back
rein holder
rein hook
reinless
reinsman
reinswoman
running rein
safety rein
unrein
who died and gave you the reins
free rein
hold the reins
keep a tight rein on
take the reins
rein in
draw rein
hand over the reins
rein back
rein up
Translations:
mice
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mys, mice, muis, mise, mis, from Old English mȳs (“mice”), from an umlauted form of Proto-Germanic *mūsiz (“mice”), nominative and vocative plural of Proto-Germanic *mūs (“mouse”). Compare Scots mice, mise, myse, myce (“mice”), West Frisian mûzen (“mice”), Dutch muizen (“mice”), German Mäuse (“mice”), Swedish möss (“mice”), Faroese mýs (“mice”), Icelandic mýs (“mice”). More at mouse.
Inflected forms:
form: mices
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: micing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: miced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: miced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be distracted or inattentive (possibly alluding to a cat being distracted by a mouse).
pos: verb
examples: That cat's mysin, he doesn't see the dog coming.
A breakfast diner might describe an incident with someone who was "not too tightly wrapped". Or not wanting to waste time on someone who was always "micin". Another breakfast guest might explode with "what'chu mean?", only to be told half-jokingly, “Bie ... shut yor mouth”.
Translations: