yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
stubble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English stuble, from Anglo-Norman stuble, estuble, from Old French estoble, esteule (whence Modern French éteule), from Latin stipula (“stalk, straw”). Cognate with Dutch stoppel, Central German Stoppel, Upper German Stupfel.
Inflected forms:
form: stubbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stubbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stubbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stubbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stubbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
gloss: The short stalks left in a field after crops have been harvested.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: Lord (ſayth he) Put them as a wheele and a ſtoble before the face of the wynde. For as the ſtoble, whyle the wynde bloweth wauereth and flyethe aboue in the ayre, nowe hygh nowe lowe, but anone as the wynde paſſeth it falleth adowne to the erthe and lyeth there ſtylle.
gloss: To produce a crop in a field of stubble that remains after a preceding crop is removed, either by sowing a second crop or by allowing shoots to sprout from the roots of the stubble.
pos: verb
examples: Here a system ( if it may be called a system ) of stubbling prevails — wheat succeeding wheat for a series of years, and without any material diminution of the yield.
In 1919 the stubbled crop was heavier than either that fallowed or plowed.
Both spring and fall ploughing produced a crop freer from weeds than where the seed was stubbled in.
Because the biggest single expense in producing the crop is planting, good stubbling ability is prized.
Synonyms: stub
stump
Related words: etiolate
stipula
Derived words: permastubble
stubbleless
stubbleward
stubbly
Translations:
gasket
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sailing
transport
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle French garcette (“gasket”), from Old French garce (“young woman”), feminization of garçon.
Inflected forms:
form: gaskets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gaskets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gasketing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gasketed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gasketed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A length of rope or canvas band used for reefing a sail, or holding a stowed sail in place.
pos: noun
gloss: Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.
pos: noun
examples: Three major types of oil-pan gaskets are available: cork/ neoprene composition, neoprene and Hypalon Duraprene. Most professionals prefer cork/neoprene gaskets because the oil-pan bolts seem to lose their torque with the others.
gloss: A material which may be clamped between faces and acts as a static seal. Gaskets may be cut, formed, or molded to the desired configuration.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of a wide variety of seals or packings used between matched machine parts or around pipe joints to prevent the escape of a gas or fluid.
pos: noun
gloss: To fit a gasket
pos: verb
gloss: To seal with a gasket
pos: verb
Derived words: Apollonian gasket
blow a gasket
bust a gasket
gasketless
harbor gasket
head gasket
Sierpinski gasket
Translations:
enervation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French énervation.
Inflected forms:
form: enervations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Act of enervating; debilitation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: State of being enervated; debility.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His early-morning alertness had gradually given way to bad-tempered enervation as the sun went down, and now his legs dragged, his shoulders slumped as he walked, and even from here I could hear his breath wheezing out of his nose.
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: enervació
lang: Catalan
word: enervament
lang: French
word: énervation
lang: Māori
word: whakaruhinga
lang: Spanish
word: enervación
frenemy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of friend + enemy. Invented independently multiple times. Attested in 1952 without any scare quotes or self-referential apology, clearly suggesting that the writer expected his audience to be unsurprised by encountering the word, but used by other writers in 1979 and 1992 in ways that indicate that those writers considered it a nonce blend and expected that their audiences would view it that way too; these examples are evidence that the word existed for many decades during which it was not yet widely familiar or established (which it now is).
Compound parts: friend
enemy
Inflected forms:
form: frenemies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who has traits of an enemy and a friend.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
sometimes
examples: Painting with a bland stroke, hardly mixing color on palette or canvas, working neatly, quickly, deftly, and a bit hygienically—like an Old World gentleman—over his “spontaneous” projects—indeed, “tickling” his way along, to borrow frenemy Picasso's devastating verb—he [Henri Matisse] seems never to be deeply involved or even slightly carried away by his work.
Another enemy / Not even a frenemy.
Frenemies who when you're down ain't your friend
In France the Seine has all the advantages of Northernness (a quality underrated by our Gallic frenemy) but it is too fatally interested in Paris […]
You know when you dump a guy, only to discover years later that he's evolved into the perfect boyfriend—for the high-school frenemy who convinced you to dump him in the first place...?
So why did we break up? Enter Blaize St. John, frenemy extraordinaire. She came, she saw, she stole my boyfriend.
Gates made a rare and instructive appearance with his longtime frenemy Steve Jobs.
gloss: A fair-weather friend who is also a rival.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
sometimes
examples: So, we're definitely not going to be friends with Ferguson? Maybe we can be frenemies. A love-hate relationship's the next best thing.
Related words: keep your friends close, and your enemies closer
backfriend
love-hate
on-again, off-again
kismesis
Derived words: frenemyship
Translations:
statuary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).
Inflected forms:
form: more statuary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most statuary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The craft of making statues.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Statues considered collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Simply on aesthetic grounds I can almost applaud the Victorians’ fig obsessed Bowdlerisation of Greek and Roman statuary.
gloss: Of, relating to, or characteristic of statues.
pos: adj
examples: He [Francis Bacon] lyeth interred in the Church of St. Michael at St. Albans in Hartfordſhire, and hath there a fair ſtatuary monument erected for him of white Marble at the coſt of Sir Thomas Meautis, his ancient ſervant, who was not neerer to him living then dead: […]
There is the lady’s own book, complete without a teacher—showing how the waist should be boddiced; the parasol handled; the statuary attitudes; the Parisian curtsy; the prettiest toss of the head, and swing of the train.
Characteristically, the photo series ends with the trainer having successfully contorted the boy’s body into a classical, statuary pose, even as the boy forces a pained smile for the camera.
Translations:
skerry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From dialectal Scots (Shetlandic and Orcadian) skerry, from Old Norse sker (whence Danish skær and Norwegian Bokmål skjær). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-.
Inflected forms:
form: skerries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small rocky island which may be covered by the sea at high tide or during storms.
pos: noun
examples: The Seal (phoca vitulina, Lin. Syft.) which is here generally known by the name of selchy, is very common on most of our low shores, but particularly on those of the small holms and remote skerries, where it is frequently seen reposing and basking in the sun [...].
His companions were very unwilling to leave him on the skerries, perhaps to perish, but the surge increased so fast that after many unsuccessful attempts to bring the boat in close to the stacks, they were obliged to depart and leave the unfortunate man to his fate.
The fog disappeared gradually, disclosing the blue line of the coast and the far outlying naked skerries, while before us lay the ocean in its interminable extent, blushing in the morning sun.
Grim the Halogalander's crew sailed along Borgarfjord beyond the skerries, then cast anchor until the storm died down and the weather brightened up.
The three men proceeded, with a little difficulty, to scale the skerry, finding Gannets and Guillemots on the upper reaches.
Translations:
skewer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From Middle English skeuier, skuer, likely a variant of Middle English *skever, *skiver (compare Modern English skiver), probably of North Germanic origin, compare Icelandic skífa (“to slice”), Norwegian skive, Swedish skiva, Swedish skifer (“a slate”).
Inflected forms:
form: skewer a b c d e f g h 8 8 7 [Alt: {{{square}}} black queen] [Alt: {{{square}}} black king] 7 6 6 5 [Alt: {{{square}}} black bishop] 5 4 [Alt: {{{square}}} white king] [Alt: {{{square}}} white rook] 4 3 [Alt: {{{square}}} white queen] 3 2 2 1 1 a b c d e f g h The white king is skewered by the black bishop
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: the bishop can capture the white queen.
pos: noun
tags: canonical
form: skewers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: skewers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skewering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skewered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skewered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.
pos: noun
examples: Larissa, 107 miles from Salonica, is reached at 10.33, and there is a halt of 17 min. while vendors of oranges, cheese, meat on skewers, sweetmeats, and Turkish coffee do a brisk trade.
gloss: Food served on a skewer.
pos: noun
gloss: A scenario in which a piece attacks a more valuable piece which, if it moves aside, exposes a less valuable piece.
pos: noun
gloss: To impale on a skewer.
pos: verb
gloss: To attack a piece which has a less valuable piece behind it.
pos: verb
gloss: To severely mock or discredit.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Parody, in its purest form, is an act of both mockery and appreciation. True masters of the practice possess a bone-deep understanding of their targets; they skewer because they love—or at least, because they’ve done their homework.
A journalist outside 10 Downing Street on Thursday displaying one of the many tabloid covers skewering Mr. Johnson.
As resident jester at the maverick journalism outlet The Free Press, Nellie Bowles scours the news for the absurd and hypocritical, and then skewers the best of the worst in her column, TGIF.
Synonyms: brochette
Related words: spit
Derived words: bonnet skewer
quick release skewer
skewerlike
skewerable
skewerer
unskewered
Translations:
prefab
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: A clipping.
Inflected forms:
form: pre-fab
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: prefabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pre-fab
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: prefabs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prefabbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prefabbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prefabbed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pre-fab
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Prefabricated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A prefabricated building.
pos: noun
examples: Having donned our PPE, we walk through the site to the prefab that controls access to the tunnel.
gloss: A prefabricated section of a building.
pos: noun
gloss: A single-storey prefabricated home built in many British cities immediately after World War II, intended to have a short life, but in a few cases still in use.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A reusable object in a video game world.
pos: noun
gloss: To prefabricate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
anesthesiology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: anaesthesiology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
form: anæsthesiology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
archaic
form: anaesthesialogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: anesthesialogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
rare
Senses:
gloss: The science of administering anesthetics.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
Translations:
baklava
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish baklava, from Ottoman Turkish باقلوا (baklava) (see for more); possibly from Middle Mongol ᠪᠠᠭᠯᠠᠭ᠎ᠠ (baɣlag-a, “bundle, package”).
Inflected forms:
form: baklavas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baklavalar
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bocklava
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: boclava
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: baclava
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: baklawa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: baklawah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: paklava
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sweet pastry found in many cuisines of the Middle East and the Balkans, made of chopped nuts layered with phyllo pastry.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It meant lifting tea towels off trays in her Muslim neighbours’ kitchens to help herself to sticky triangles of baklava, half lemon slices pressed into the syrupy pastry filled with walnuts and raisins.
Translations:
mystify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mystifier, from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”) + Latin -ficare.
Inflected forms:
form: mystifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mystifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mystified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mystified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Solar eclipses continued to mystify ancient humans for thousands of years.
I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.
Translations:
hardened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Inflected forms:
form: more hardened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hardened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: harden'd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Made physically hard.
pos: adj
examples: hardened steel
gloss: Having been accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant through exposure or experience; inured.
pos: adj
examples: hardened police officers
gloss: Unfeeling; pitiless; callous.
pos: adj
examples: The bloody scene could reduce even the most hardened soldier to tears.
In the past, Lutao was considered somewhat mysterious, because of the national penitentiary which housed the most hardened criminals, and the restrictions on travel to the island, which have since been loosened.
Hardened royalists staged a protest against Amnesty International Thailand at Silom Complex on Monday. The group said that the human rights watchdog is undermining the country’s stability by campaigning for the rights of the detained protest leaders who are calling for the reformation of the royal institution.
gloss: Firmly established in a behavior seen as bad; unlikely to change one's ways; inveterate.
pos: adj
examples: hardened criminals
gloss: Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.
pos: adj
examples: a hardened air base
a hardened server
Derived words: battle-hardened
case-hardened
nonhardened
radiation-hardened
unhardened
Translations:
confiscate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cōnfiscātus, the perfect passive participle of Latin cōnfiscō (“to seize for the public treasury (fiscus)”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: confiscates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: confiscating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: confiscated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: confiscated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: confuscate
pos: verb
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: To use one's authority to lay claim to and separate a possession from its holder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In schools, it is common for teachers to confiscate electronic games and other distractions.
We doe confiscate
(Towards the satisfying of your accounts)
All that you haue.
1768, Alexander Dow (translator), The History of Hindostan by Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī, London: T. Becket & P.A. de Hondt, Volume 2, Section 4, p. 63,
The Persian having evacuated the imperial provinces, the vizier became more cruel and oppressive than ever: he extorted money from the poor by tortures, and confiscated the estates of the nobility, upon false or very frivolous pretences.
Why, your cavalier is a rebel—an exile, whose property is confiscated, and for whose neck the gibbet stands prepared!
Whenever you strike a frontier—that’s the border of a country, you know—you find a custom-house there, and the gov’ment officers comes and rummages among your things and charges a big tax, which they call a duty because it’s their duty to bust you if they can, and if you don’t pay the duty they’ll hog your sand. They call it confiscating, but that don’t deceive nobody, it’s just hogging, and that’s all it is.
They took photographs of the bodies, but these were confiscated on return to Baghdad, and orders were given that nothing was to be said of what they had seen.
But his grandson Francis, a Yorkist friend of Richard III, backed the wrong side in the Wars of the Roses and was declared a traitor by Henry VII, who confiscated his estates.
Translations:
bookkeeper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: accounting
business
finance
Etymology: From book + keeper.
Compound parts: book
keeper
Inflected forms:
form: bookkeepers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: book-keeper
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person responsible for keeping records or documents, such as of a business.
pos: noun
gloss: A bookseller
pos: noun
Synonyms: accountant
Derived words: bookkeeperess
Translations:
electroencephalography
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French électro-bor.
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Latin electro-bor.
English electro-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Ancient Greek ἐν (en)
Ancient Greek ἐν- (en-)
Proto-Hellenic *kʰepʰəlā́
Ancient Greek κεφᾰλή (kephălḗ)
Ancient Greek -ος (-os)
Ancient Greek ἐγκέφᾰλος (enképhălos)der.
English encephalo-
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-
Proto-Hellenic *grə́pʰō
Ancient Greek γρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
Ancient Greek -ᾱ (-ā)
Ancient Greek -η (-ē)
Ancient Greek γραφή (graphḗ)
Ancient Greek -γραφίᾱ (-graphíā)bor.
French -graphieder.
English -graphy
English electroencephalography
From electro- + encephalo- + -graphy.
Inflected forms:
form: electroencephalographies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: EEG
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
form: electro-encephalography
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The measurement and recording of electrical activity in the brain for diagnostic purposes.
pos: noun
examples: Indeed, while many philosophers of language in the 20th century proposed that we think in sentence-like strings of language, use of brain imaging technology like electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG) has since revealed that thinking more probably happens in a complex combination of images and associations.
Translations:
neuritis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
Etymology: From neur- + -itis.
Base: neur
Inflected forms:
form: neuritides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neuritises
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Inflammation of one or more nerves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Optic neuritis (or retrobulbar neuritis) is the inflammation of the optic nerve that may cause a complete or partial loss of vision.
Translations:
neurologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-wr̥
Proto-Indo-European *snéh₁wr̥der.
Ancient Greek νεῦρον (neûron)
Ancient Greek νευρο- (neuro-)der.
English neuro-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Ancient Greek λόγος (lógos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā)
Ancient Greek -λογῐ́ᾱ (-logĭ́ā)bor.
Latin -logialbor.
French -logiebor.
English -logy
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 -logist
English neurologist
From neuro- + -logist.
Inflected forms:
form: neurologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A doctor or scientist who practices or specializes in neurology.
pos: noun
examples: When a neurologist ruled out medical causes like Lyme disease, Ms. Abaspour recalled, her husband said, “I think we should just give her a placebo — it’s all in her head.”
And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones.
Translations:
esophagitis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From esophag- + -itis.
Base: esophag
Inflected forms:
form: esophagitides
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oesophagitis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: œsophagitis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An inflammation of the oesophagus.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
Translations:
apple-corer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: apple-corers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: apple corer
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A tool used to remove the apple core from an apple, especially a cooking apple being prepared for apple pies, apple sauce, apple butter, and so on; some forms of the tool segment the apple at the same time as removing its core.
pos: noun
Translations:
deep-frying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: deep-fryings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: deep frying
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: deepfrying
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A method of cooking by immersion in hot oil.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Notice, too, that Crisco is being strained back into its can—ready for many other deep-fryings.
Andrikopoulos et al. (2002) determined total phenols during successive pan-fryings and deep-fryings of virgin olive oil under conditions applied in domestic cooking.
“Right, because your fish is so much healthier than my shrimp.” / “I’m thinking more of your multiple deep-fryings. And multiple servings.” / “It’s all-you-can-eat,” Jackson said. “Besides, what’s with this health kick?”
Translations:
fritter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English fryture, from Middle French friture, from Old French friture, from Vulgar Latin *frīctūra, from Latin frīgō (“to fry”); compare fry.
For the development of Middle English /iu̯r(ə)/ into /ə(ɹ)/, compare armour, batter, border, solder.
Inflected forms:
form: fritters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fritters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: frittering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: frittered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: frittered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A dish made by deep-frying food coated in batter.
pos: noun
gloss: A fragment; a shred; a small piece.
pos: noun
examples: And cut whole giants into fritters.
gloss: To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
examples: I was supposed to do work, but I frittered around all afternoon.
He can’t figure out how to finish the paper he’s writing, so he’s resorted to frittering with the fonts.
It is quite possible to fritter one's life away in answer to the endless calls of others.
gloss: To sinter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To break into small pieces or fragments.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Break all nerves, and fritter all their sense.
Related words: tempura
Derived words: apple fritter
corn fritter
French fritter
fritter batter
fritterlike
fritterware
oyster fritter
rice fritter
spam fritter
fritter away
frittered
fritterer
frittering
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: suikaloida
lang: German
word: kleinschneiden
lang: German
word: zerteilen
lang: German
word: würfeln
lang: German
word: zerkleinern
lang: Russian
word: нарезать
roman: narezatʹ
forthright
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English forþright, forþriʒt, forþriht, from Old English forþriht (“direct, plain”). By surface analysis, forth + right.
Base: forþriht
Affixes: -e
Inflected forms:
form: more forthright
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most forthright
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more forthright
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most forthright
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Straightforward; not evasive; candid and direct.
pos: adj
examples: The witness was considered eminently credible thanks to her forthright answers.
gloss: Frank, outspoken.
pos: adj
examples: TSSA General Secretary Manuel Cortes was typically forthright in his criticism by claiming that Sunak had "blatantly failed" to cure "a growing tragedy", as "every single day, more and more families can't make ends meet".
gloss: Markedly simple.
pos: adj
gloss: Fixed; settled; decided.
pos: adj
gloss: Proceeding straight forth.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: Expressly, frankly, unhesitatingly.
pos: adv
gloss: At once, forthwith.
pos: adv
gloss: Swiftly.
pos: adv
gloss: Straight forward, in a straight direction.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
Derived words: forthrightly
forthrightness
unforthright
Translations:
puree
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French puréebor.
English puree
Borrowed from French purée.
Inflected forms:
form: purees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: purée
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: purees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pureeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pureed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pureed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: purée
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A food that has been ground or crushed into a thick liquid or paste.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Tomato sauce is generally a puree.
gloss: To crush or grind food into a puree.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
antifouling
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anti-
English fouling
English antifouling
From anti- + fouling.
Inflected forms:
form: antifoulings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That prevents or counteracts the buildup of barnacles and other deposits on undersea surfaces such as those of boats.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any substance that prevents or counteracts the buildup of barnacles and other deposits on undersea surfaces such as those of boats.
pos: noun
examples: These antifoulings release the biocides by a hydrolysis or ion exchange reaction of an acrylic polymer with seawater.
Translations:
effluvium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin effluvium (“an outlet”), from effluō (“flow out or away”), from ex (“out of, from”) + fluō (“flow”).
Inflected forms:
form: effluvia
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: effluviums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A gaseous or vaporous emission, especially a foul-smelling one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: She was now bending over a huge light wood blaze, with a pipe of rude structure and no small dimensions in her mouth, from which the occasional puff went forth, filling the apartment with the unpleasant effluvia of the vilest leaf-tobacco.
It was the mere effluvium of the flame, the subtle ether that it cast off as it passed, working on us, and making us feel strong as giants and swift as eagles.
And he breathed the breath of the house—a dank savour rather than a smell—a cold, musty effluvium as from underground vaults mingled with the reeking exhalations of linoleum and mildewed and rotten woodwork.
gloss: A condition causing the shedding of hair.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Reversible hair loss or effluvium occurs following either endogenous or exogenous damage to anagen hair follicles[…].
Derived words: effluvial
effluviate
telogen effluvium
Translations:
scrumptious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Probably from scrimp (“to put on short allowance, limit, straiten; to be frugal”) + -ious (suffix forming adjectives denoting the presence of a quality in any degree (usually an abundance)), possibly modelled after scrimption (“small portion, little bit, scrap”). Douglas Harper instead derives the word from sumptuous. As the early cites in British English have a clearly different sense from the early cites in American English, only to merge together later, it may be that there were originally two unrelated words.
Base: scrimp
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more scrumptious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most scrumptious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of food: delectable, delicious.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: What a scrumptious treat!
gloss: Of a person or thing: excellent, wonderful; also, very aesthetically pleasing or attractive; good enough to eat.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: […] I came here to have a wink at the fash'nables—hang me, if ever I see such a scrumptious lot.
Barbara Cartland scratched out this trusty 19th-century romancer concerning the scrumptious Serena Staverly (Diana Rigg), who has the dreadful misfortune to be lost in a game of cards to the flint-hearted Lord Justin.
gloss: Fastidious, picky.
pos: adj
tags: informal
obsolete
rare
gloss: Very small; tiny.
pos: adj
tags: informal
obsolete
rare
Related words: appetizing
sumptuous
tasty
tempting
Derived words: delumptious
plumptious
scrumdiddlyumptious
scrummy
scrumplicious
scrumptiously
scrumptiousness
scrumtrulescent
unscrumptious
yumptious
Translations:
rationalizing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: rationalizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who rationalizes.
pos: noun
examples: But it is evident that many of these are juristic rationalizings of what had been done for a long time through formal transactions.
Translations:
mealy-mouthed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Possibly from German Mehl im Maule behalten, via Martin Luther
Inflected forms:
form: more mealy-mouthed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mealy-mouthed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mealmouthed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: meal-mouthed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: mealymouthed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Prone to speaking evasively, indirectly, or duplicitously; not forthright.
pos: adj
examples: The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature.
The editors engage in mealy-mouthed apologetics, setting up Orthodox Jews as agents of gentrification, yet they fail to note that it is not white hipsters being beaten but longtime residents of Williamsburg and Crown Heights.
Translations:
ziti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian zite or ziti, plural of zita, zito, from a Southern (Neapolitan or Sicilian) word likely from Vulgar Latin pittitus (“small, worthless”), originally denoting a young boy or girl. See also petty.
Inflected forms:
form: zitis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A type of macaroni pasta in the form of long smooth hollow tubes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
choker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
English choke
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English choker
From choke + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: chokers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of jewelry or ornamental fabric, worn as a necklace or neckerchief, tight to the throat.
pos: noun
examples: After half a minute or so there was a shuffle of feet outside. The door was opened, and a head appeared. It was a small head with a tweed cap on the top of it. It had a stringy-looking choker beneath and a dark unshavenness across its face.
Anne Talbot looked demurely ravishing, as was her intention, in a very low-cut evening frock of bottle-green, choker of Kelantan silver, earrings in the shape of krises.
She appears on the 90th anniversary issue of French Vogue wearing nothing but a mask, gloves and a choker – everything but her now iconic gap-toothed pout and impressive cleavage is obscured.
The words: “Take your hands off when I say no, take your eyes off when I say no” were spelled out on video screens as the first model marched past in loose black layers, a punky choker and black shoes.
gloss: One who, or that which, chokes or strangles.
pos: noun
examples: The Yorkshire Choker, a serial killer who quotes Shakespeare, is pursued by Dalziel and Pascoe.
gloss: One who operates the choke of an engine during ignition.
pos: noun
gloss: Any disappointing or upsetting circumstance.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I lost £100 on the horses today — what a choker!
gloss: One who performs badly at an important part of a competition because they are nervous, especially when winning.
pos: noun
examples: The choker tag will always follow the Proteas until we win a trophy — Temba Bavuma
gloss: A loop of cable fastened around a log to haul it.
pos: noun
Derived words: choker chain
chokered
choker fan
chokerman
hogchoker
muffin choker
nigger choker
white choker
Translations:
recourse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English recours (noun) and recoursen (verb), from Old French recours, from Latin recursus, past participle of recurrō.
Inflected forms:
form: recourses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of seeking assistance or advice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Thus dyed this great Peer in the thirty sixth year of his age compleat, and three days over, in a time of great recourse unto him, and dependence upon him
All other means have fail'd to move her heart; / Our laſt recourſe is, therefore, to your Art.
gloss: The use of (someone or something) as a source of help in a difficult situation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Tarzan would have liked to subdue the ugly beast without recourse to knife or arrows. So much had his great strength and agility increased in the period following his maturity that he had come to believe that he might master the redoubtable Terkoz in a hand to hand fight were it not for the terrible advantage the anthropoid's huge fighting fangs gave him over the poorly armed Tarzan.
Nor were the wool prospects much better. The pastoral industry, which had weathered the severe depression of the early forties by recourse to boiling down the sheep for their tallow, and was now firmly re-established as the staple industry of the colony, was threatened once more with eclipse.
This was done, and in many cases still is done by the main-line railway groups, through the exercise of running powers, which on application to Parliament by the company using them have been granted for the express purpose of affording this access without the necessity for building independent tracks. In other cases, such running powers have been granted without recourse to Parliament, by voluntary agreement between the parties.
Careful consideration of every aspect, from car-parking facilities, lay-out of circulating areas, heating and lighting, handling of G.P.O. traffic, signposting, litter facilities, train information, waiting rooms and sanitation, to materials and colour should persuade the most pessimistic individual that, given the will, our most out-dated, inadequate and inconvenient railway stations can be transformed without recourse to complete demolition.
gloss: A coursing back, or coursing again; renewed course; return; retreat; recurrence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: [B]y the ſwift recourſe of fluſhing blood / Right plaine appeard, though ſhe it would diſſemble, / And fayned ſtill her former angry mood, / Thinking to hide the depth by troubling of the flood.
For Phyſick is either curative or preventive; Preventive we call that which by purging noxious humors, and the cauſes of diſeases, preventeth ſickneſs in the healthy, or the recourſe thereof in the valetudinary; [...]
gloss: Access; admittance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: [...] Ile giue you a pottle of burn'd ſacke, to giue me recourſe to him, and tell him my name is Broome: onely for a ieſt.
Related words: recur
recursion
recursive
Derived words: legal recourse
nonrecourse
recourseful
recourseless
without recourse
Translations:
cornstarch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From corn + starch.
Compound parts: corn
starch
Inflected forms:
form: cornstarches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: corn starch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A very fine starch powder derived from corn (maize) used in cooking as a thickener, to keep things from sticking, or as an anti-caking agent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
headliner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English headline
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English headliner
From headline (verb) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: headliners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The headlining band or performer at a concert or similar event; the best-known and first billed musician, comedian, etc., often performing as the final act of the evening.
pos: noun
examples: I was ahead of my deadline so I watched "Flatliners," about some serious deadliners with a headliner complex.
There, amid the curses and catcalls of sweaty beer drinkers, the tour's headliners are set to engage in a hallowed feminist ritual:
Translations:
tribulation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tribulation, from Old French tribulacion, from Late Latin trībulātiō (“distress, trouble, tribulation, affliction”), from Latin tribulāre (“to press, probably also thresh out grain”), from trībulum (“a sledge consisting of a wooden block studded with sharp pieces of flint or with iron teeth, used for threshing grain”), from terēre (“to rub”); see trite.
Inflected forms:
form: tribulations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any adversity; a trying period or event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: What wit have we (poor fools) to wit what will serve us, when the blessed Apostle himself in his sore tribulation, praying thrice unto God to take it away from him, was answered again by God in a manner that he was but a fool in asking that request, but that the help of God's grace in that tribulation to strengthen him was far better for him, than to take that tribulation from him?
Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer
And mark me, brother! not in the proudest days of the mitred Abbey, was a Superior ever chosen, whom his office shall so much honour, as he shall be honoured, who now takes it upon him in these days of tribulation.
Baltimore's tribulations were indeed sore; there was no peace for him day nor night.
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die. It is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.
Essentially stoic, passive characters, Kristina and the others triumph by surviving — by outliving their plagues and tribulations.
Translations:
peppercorn
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English peper corn, peper-corn, pepercorn, from Old English piporcorn (“peppercorn”), corresponding to pepper + corn. Compare Dutch peperkorrel (“peppercorn”), German Pfefferkorn (“peppercorn”), Danish peberkorn (“peppercorn”), Swedish pepparkorn (“peppercorn”), Icelandic piparkorn (“peppercorn”).
Compound parts: pepper
corn
Inflected forms:
form: peppercorns
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The seeds of the pepper plant Piper nigrum, commonly used as a spice, usually ground or crushed.
pos: noun
gloss: A small, insignificant quantity; a whit or jot.
pos: noun
examples: A 75 ¢ book must look 40 ¢ better to the distributor and wholesaler, because if one peppercorn of doubt that people will pay 75 ¢ for the book gets thrown into the distribution mill, the books may never leave their cartons […]
gloss: A small, insignificant quantity; a whit or jot.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: peppercorn rent
Derived words: peppercorn hair
peppercorn rent
peppercorny
pink peppercorn
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: hitunen
lang: Polish
word: ździebko
baguette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin baculumder.
Vulgar Latin *baclitta
Italian bacchettabor.
French baguettebor.
English baguette
Borrowed from French baguette (“stick”), from Italian bacchetta.
Inflected forms:
form: baguettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A narrow, relatively long rectangular shape.
pos: noun
gloss: A gem cut in such a shape.
pos: noun
gloss: A variety of bread that is long and narrow in shape.
pos: noun
gloss: A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
pos: noun
gloss: A French person, or a person of French descent.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
mildly
offensive
slang
slur
gloss: Money.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: I ain't pray for these baguettes, I prayed for better days (Better days)
Translations:
profanity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin profānitās. By surface analysis, profane + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: profanities
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: prophanity
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being profane; quality of irreverence, of treating sacred things with contempt.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The overwhelming power of his imagination led him to contemplate acts of impiety and profanity, and to a vivid realisation of the dangers these involved.
gloss: Obscene, lewd or abusive language.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He ran up and down the street screaming profanities like a madman.
Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.
Mr. [Kash] Patel said he would not tolerate any more “Mickey Mouse operations,” an official on the call recounted. It was one of his few utterances without profanity, the person added.
Derived words: antiprofanity
profanity delay
Translations:
breezeway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English breeze
English way
English breezeway
From breeze + way.
Inflected forms:
form: breezeways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A covered walkway, with open sides, that connects two buildings.
pos: noun
examples: One of his favorite pastimes was strolling through the breezeway on warm spring afternoons.
If you are on a higher level and can't get to a lower apartment, hunker down in the breezeway of the apartment building
gloss: The space between two groups of rowhouses in the middle of a city block.
pos: noun
tags: Mid-Atlantic
US
Related words: wind tunnel
Translations:
brunt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English brunt, bront (“sudden onset, attack, charge, blow”), from Old Norse brundr or brundtíð (“oestrus, rut”) (from Proto-Germanic *brunstiz), or bruna (“to rush”, literally “to advance like wildfire”) (see brenna).
Inflected forms:
form: brunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The full adverse effects; the chief consequences or negative results of a thing or event.
pos: noun
examples: Unfortunately, poor areas such as those in New Orleans bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina’s winds.
There is an economy in the matter of breakages and repairs, for if the plough should be brought up upon a landfast rock, instead of the brunt coming simply on the draught rope, which would either snap or pull the framework of the plough to pieces, it is, through the pull of the one drum upon the other, immediately spread all over the field wherever the rope goes […]
Though the storm raged up the East Coast, it has become increasingly apparent that New Jersey took the brunt of it.
gloss: The force or shock of an attack in war.
pos: noun
gloss: The major part of something; the bulk.
pos: noun
examples: If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.
gloss: A violent attack or charge in battle.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Tech[elles]. I heare them come, ſhall wee encounter them?
Tam[burlaine]. Keep all your ſtandings, and not ſtir a foot,
Myſelfe will bide the danger of the brunt.
gloss: A sudden harmful onset or attack (of disease, unbelief, persecution, etc.).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
obsolete
gloss: A spurt, a sudden effort or straining.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
Derived words: at a brunt
at the first brunt
bear the brunt
Translations:
sprouted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having sprouts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
imperturbability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Italic *n̥-
Latin in-bor.
Middle English in-
English im-
English perturbability
English imperturbability
From im- + perturbability.
Inflected forms:
form: imperturbabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of calm, unruffled self-assurance; aplomb, composure.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "As I sat alone at my breakfast--Mrs. Challenger is in the habit of keeping her room of a morning--it suddenly entered my head that it would be entertaining and instructive to see whether I could find any limits to this woman's imperturbability."
Translations: