yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
blessing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
Etymology: From Middle English blessinge, blessynge, from Old English blētsung, blēdsung (“a blessing”), equivalent to bless + -ing.
Base: bless
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: blessings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.
pos: noun
examples: Henceforth, wherever thou may’st roam,
⁠My blessing, like a line of light,
⁠Is on the waters day and night,
And like a beacon guards thee home.
gloss: A pronouncement invoking divine aid.
pos: noun
examples: Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
gloss: Good fortune.
pos: noun
examples: He was given blessings hoping he would pass his final exam.
gloss: A modern pagan ceremony.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.
pos: noun
examples: We will not proceed without the executive director's blessing.
Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.
gloss: Something someone is glad of.
pos: noun
examples: After two weeks of sun, last night's rainfall was a blessing.
gloss: A prayer before a meal; grace.
pos: noun
gloss: A group of unicorns.
pos: noun
examples: And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.
Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.
She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.
Antonyms: curse
Derived words: a blessing and a curse
blessing in disguise
blessing loom
blessingly
Blessing Way
blurse
Camp Blessing
count one's blessings
God's Blessing Green
houseblessing
mixed blessing
stepmother's blessing
Toronto blessing
Translations:
condemn
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English condempnen, from Old French condamner, from Latin condemnāre (“to sentence, condemn, blame”), from com- + damnāre (“to harm, condemn, damn”), from damnum (“damage, injury, loss”). Displaced native Middle English fordemen (from Old English fordeman (“condemn, sentence, doom”) > Modern English fordeem.
Inflected forms:
form: condemns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: condemning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: condemned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: condemned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To strongly criticise or denounce; to excoriate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The president condemned the terrorists.
Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country : and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents ; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
gloss: To judicially pronounce (someone) guilty.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To judicially announce a verdict upon a finding of guilt; To sentence
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The judge condemned him to death.
She was condemned to life in prison.
gloss: To confer eternal divine punishment upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To destine to experience bad circumstances; to doom.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Too many people are condemned to a life of poverty.
gloss: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.
gloss: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The house was condemned after it was badly damaged by fire.
gloss: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To declare something to be unfit for use, or further use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To determine and declare (property) to be assigned to public use. See eminent domain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To declare (a vessel) to be forfeited to the government or to be a prize.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: condemnable
condemnation
Derived words: condemnee
condemner
condemn to
forecondemn
precondemn
recondemn
uncondemn
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: clausurar
lang: Catalan
word: declarar inhabitable
lang: Catalan
word: declarar ruïna
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 判定不宜居住
roman: pàndìng bùyí jūzhù
lang: Finnish
word: todeta asumiskelvottomaksi
lang: French
word: condamner
lang: German
word: für abrissreif erklären
lang: Hungarian
word: (le)bontásra ítél
lang: Hungarian
word: (le)bontását elrendeli
lang: Norwegian
word: kondemnere
lang: Portuguese
word: condenar
lang: Spanish
word: clausurar
evangelism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English evangel
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English evangelism
From evangel + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: evangelisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of evangelizing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
evangelist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
biblical
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
religion
technology
Etymology: From Old French evangeliste, equivalent to evangel + -ist, from ecclesiastical Latin evangelista, from ecclesiastical Ancient Greek εὐαγγελιστής (euangelistḗs, “bringer of good news”), from εὐαγγελίζεσθαι (euangelízesthai, “to evangelize”), from εὐάγγελος (euángelos, “bringing good news”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + ἀγγέλλειν (angéllein, “to announce”).
Base: evangel
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: evangelists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
pos: noun
gloss: A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually capitalized (Evangelist).
pos: noun
gloss: A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
pos: noun
gloss: A patriarch.
pos: noun
gloss: A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: Booth, William (1829-1912) English evangelist; founder and first general of the Salvation Army ... his subordinates being expected to give him unquestioning obedience.
Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message. The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over the superstitious lower orders.
The film implies that the evangelist, as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.
Hendy has come out as something of an evangelist for discontinuous electrification. For Waterloo-Exeter, this could make real sense on a route where the high capital cost of wiring or third rail all the way to Devon would be prohibitive. But what about his vocal support for it on East West Rail, which is effectively a brand new line?
gloss: A person hired to promote a particular technology.
pos: noun
examples: developer evangelist
[…] and has worked in multiple roles, including as the C# Product Manager and as a Developer Evangelist in the Mid-Atlantic district.
Related words: angel
angelic
evangel
evangelism
evangelize
missionary
Christer
Derived words: evangelism marketing
evangelistic
evangelistship
technology evangelist
televangelist
Translations:
evangelize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Old French évangéliser, equivalent to evangel + -ize, from Late Latin evangelizare, from Ancient Greek εὐαγγελίζω (euangelízō). Displaced native Old English godspellian (literally “to gospel”).
Base: evangel
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: evangelizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: evangelizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: evangelized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: evangelized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: evangelise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To tell people about (a particular branch of) Christianity, especially in order to convert them; to preach the gospel to.
pos: verb
examples: his Apoſtles, whom he ſends To evangelize the Nations
gloss: To preach any ideology to those who have not yet been converted to it.
pos: verb
examples: […] nor is it the task of the Muslim to "evangelize" the unbelieving world.
gloss: To be enthusiastic about something, and to attempt to share that enthusiasm with others; to promote.
pos: verb
Related words: angel
evangelism
evangelist
Derived words: evangelization
evangelizer
televangelize
unevangelized
Translations:
Christ
Part of speech: noun
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Middle English Crist, from Old English Crist, from Latin Chrīst(us), from Ancient Greek Χρῑστός (Khrīstós), proper noun use of χρῑστός (khrīstós, “[the] anointed [one]”), a semantic loan of Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšīaḥ, “anointed”) or the Aramaic equivalent (whence ultimately also English messiah, also via Latin, Greek). Compare grime for the Proto-Indo-European root, *gʰr-ey- (“to rub, smear; to anoint”); further related to ghee.
Inflected forms:
form: Christs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: X
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: Xt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: X
pos: intj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
form: Xt
pos: intj
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: A figure or other artistic depiction of Jesus Christ.
pos: noun
gloss: An expletive.
pos: intj
Translations:
messiah
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Etymology tree
Aramaic ܡ ܫ ܚder.
Aramaic ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ (məšīḥā)bor.
Hebrew מָשַׁח
Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ)der.
Ancient Greek Μεσσῑ́ᾱς (Messī́ās)bor.
Latin Messīāsbor.
Middle English Messyasder.
English messiah
From Middle English Messyas, Messy, Messie, from Latin Messīās, from Hellenistic Ancient Greek Μεσσίας (Messías), from Aramaic ܡܫܺܝܚܳܐ (məšīḥā), from Biblical Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ (māšîaḥ, “anointed”). Doublet of Masih and Moshiach.
Inflected forms:
form: messiahs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Messiah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The one who is ordained by God to lead the people of Israel, believed by Christians and Muslims to be Jesus Christ.
pos: noun
gloss: A similar religious figure or awaited divine ruler, such as the Islamic Mahdi.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
examples: The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe- a desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy, that a man would come, a messiah, who would lead them to true freedom. The planet is Arrakis, also known as Dune.
gloss: An extremely powerful or revered figure.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: At its best, psychoanalysis is the classic therapeutic technique for exploring unconscious processes. At its less-than-best, it is a jargon-opacified oedipus-complicated, libido-theoretical, pseudo-scientific cult whose messiah is Sigmund Freud.
Girlie, as far as you're concerned, I'm the messiah of the DMV. Now, get out of the car.
Related words: de-messianisation
de-messianise
de-messianization
de-messianize
messianic
messianical
messianically
messianisation
messianise
messianism
messianist
messianistic
messianistical
messianistically
messianity
messianization
messianize
Christ
Derived words: messiah complex
messiahless
messiahlike
messiahship
pseudomessiah
Translations:
archangel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English archangel, from Old French archangele, from Latin archangelus, from Ancient Greek ἀρχάγγελος (arkhángelos) from Ancient Greek prefix ἀρχι- (arkhi-) + ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”). By surface analysis, arch- + angel.
Inflected forms:
form: archangels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A powerful angel that leads many other angels, but is still loyal to a deity, and often seen as belonging to a particular archangelical rank or order within a greater hierarchy of angels. (Judeo-Christian examples: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel).
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of angelica (“the garden herb”).
pos: noun
Related words: angel
angelic
angelical
angelically
angelologist
angelology
archangelic
archangelical
archangelically
cherub
cherubim
choir
domination
power
principality
seraph
seraphim
throne
Derived words: archangelship
Translations:
seraph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Back-formation of singular from plural seraphim, from Latin seraphim, from Biblical Hebrew שְׂרָפִים (sərāp̄īm), plural form of שָׂרָף (sārāp̄). The plural "seraphims" occurs in the King James Bible (Isaiah chapter 6).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the singular "seraph" may have originated with John Milton, who used it in Book I of Paradise Lost (1667).
Inflected forms:
form: seraphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seraphim
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seraphims
pos: noun
tags: nonstandard
plural
form: saraph
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
form: seraphim
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: A burning serpent, often winged, with human hands and sometimes feet; one of God's entourage. On Earth, they strike with burning poison; in Heaven, with burning coal.
pos: noun
gloss: A six-winged angel; one of the highest choir or order of angels in Christian angelology, ranked above cherubim, and below God.
pos: noun
examples: From these uncordial reveries he is roused by a cordial slap on the shoulder, accompanied by a spicy volume of tobacco-smoke, out of which came a voice, sweet as a seraph's
I don’t mean that,—I said,—you blessed little saint and seraph!—if there’s an angel missing in the New Jerusalem, inquire for her at this boarding house!
When I got there Mrs. Allan met me at the door. She was dressed in the sweetest dress of pale-pink organdy, with dozens of frills and elbow sleeves, and she looked just like a seraph.
Synonyms: uraeus
Related words: archangel
cherub
Derived words: seraphic
seraphlike
Translations:
angelology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English angel
English -ology
English angelology
From angel + -ology.
Inflected forms:
form: angelologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The study of angels. Angels have been grouped into nine categories or “choirs,” from lowest to highest: angel, archangel, principality, power, virtue, dominion, throne, cherub, and seraph.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: demonology
Translations:
armor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
government
hydrology
military
natural-sciences
politics
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₂(e)rmosder.
Latin arma
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin armō
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin armātūra
Old French armeure
Anglo-Norman armurebor.
Middle English armure
English armor
From Middle English armure, armour, armor, armeure, borrowed from Anglo-Norman armure and Old French armeüre, from Latin armātūra. Doublet of armature and armure. By surface analysis, arm (“to cover or furnish”) + -or (suffix forming agent nouns or nouns of quality, state, or condition).
Inflected forms:
form: armors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: armour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Australia
Canada
UK
form: armors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: armoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: armored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: armored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: armour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Australia
Canada
UK
Senses:
gloss: A protective layer over a body, vehicle, or other object intended to deflect or diffuse damaging forces.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: a suit of armor
You teach me how to be a man / Though I am someone's daughter / The path of warrior was set for me / And I had to try on the armour / No it doesn't suit me / And it feels so heavy / I'm frightened and so ashamed / That I have to combat the world alone / That I have to swing my sword alone
gloss: A natural form of this kind of protection on an animal's body.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: A metal plate, protecting a ship, military vehicle, or aircraft.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: A tank, or other heavy mobile assault vehicle.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
gloss: A military formation consisting primarily of tanks or other armoured fighting vehicles, collectively.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: Good work, Chief. Link up with our armor on the far side of the wall.
gloss: The naturally occurring surface of pebbles, rocks or boulders that line the bed of a waterway or beach and provide protection against erosion.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
gloss: To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To provide something with an analogous form of protection.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
Synonyms: mechanized
cavalry
Related words: arm
armament
armaments
arms
armure
Translations:
boulder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climbing
geography
geology
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
sports
Etymology: From late Middle English bulder, short for Middle English bulder ston (“a stone that's been worn into a round shape, boulder, cobblestone”), possibly from Old Swedish *buldersten, itself possibly from Old Swedish bulder (“rumble, noise”) + sten (“stone”); whence dialectal Swedish bullersten (“large stone in a stream, causing water to roar around it”). The first element may alternatively be allied to Old Swedish bulle, bolle (“round drinking vessel, tumbler”), from Old Norse bolli, related to Old English bolla (“round object, bowl”), see English bowl.
Inflected forms:
form: boulders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bowlder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: bulder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: boulders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bouldering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bouldered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bouldered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bowlder
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: bulder
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.
pos: noun
gloss: A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
pos: noun
gloss: A large marble, in children's games.
pos: noun
examples: There were four sizes of marbles and we called them boulders, biggies, regulars, and teenies.
gloss: A session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering.
pos: noun
gloss: To engage in bouldering.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He bouldered a route in the same area with ease. Mitchell, 11, was hanging with the older kids in an area where bouldering nearly upside down seemed to be....
As the week unfolded, we were taught about the equipment we needed, how to tie a rope and what to wear. We learnt to balance on our feet rather than cling on with our arms and to trust our rock shoes, the moulded rubber slippers that can grip the smoothest of surfaces. We abseiled, bouldered and belayed.
There's even old climbing hardware in it because people bouldered on it for years.
Related words: boulder clay
boulder holder
over-the-shoulder boulder holder
boulder opal
Derived words: boulderless
boulderlike
bouldery
Translations:
ply
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English plīen, pli, plie (“to bend, fold, mould, shape; to be flexible; to be submissive, humble oneself; to compel someone to submit”), from Anglo-Norman plier, plaier, pleier, ploier, and Middle French plier, ployer (“to bend, fold; to be submissive; to compel someone to submit”) (modern French plier, ployer), from Old French ploiier, pleier (“to fold”), from Latin plicāre (“to fold”); see further at etymology 1. The word is cognate with Catalan plegar (“to bend, fold”), Italian piegare (“to bend, fold, fold up”), Old Occitan plegar, plejar, pleyar (“to fold”) (modern Occitan plegar), Spanish plegar (“to fold”).
Inflected forms:
form: plies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To bend; to fold; to mould; (figuratively) to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: And now when at length the Vineyard has ſhed its late Leaves, and the cold Northwind ſhook from the Groves their Honours; even then the active Swain extends his Cares to the enſuing Year, and cloſe plys the deſolate forſaken Vine, cutting off the ſuperfluous Roots with Saturn's crooked Hook, and forms it by pruning.
gloss: To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Oak Upbraided the Willow, that it was Weak and Wavering, and gave way to Every Blaſt. […] Some very little while after This Diſpute, it Blew a Violent Storm. The Willow Ply’d, and gave way to the Guſt, and ſtill recover’d it ſelf again, without receiving any Damage: But the Oak was Stubborn, and choſe rather to Break than Bend.
Related words: implicate
plait
plash
plat
pleach
pleat
plex
plicate
plication
plicature
plié
ploy
replicate
Derived words: overply
plier
pliers
Translations:
plywood
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ply
English wood
English plywood
From ply (“sheet”) + wood.
Inflected forms:
form: plywoods
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: plywoods
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: plywooding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: plywooded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: plywooded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Construction material supplied in sheets, and made of three or more layers of wood veneer glued together, laid up with alternating layers having their grain perpendicular to each other.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: After the hurricane there was a severe regional shortage of plywood, especially exterior plywood.
gloss: A specific grade or type of this construction material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: We stock exterior plywoods, interior plywoods, and furniture plywoods.
gloss: To fit or block up with plywood.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: nonplywood
plywoody
Translations:
muse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French muse, from Latin Mūsa, from Ancient Greek Μοῦσα (Moûsa).
Inflected forms:
form: muses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: muses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: musing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mused
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mused
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of a person: a source of inspiration.
pos: noun
examples: Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.
gloss: A poet; a bard.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: My toung-tide Muſe in manners holds her ſtill,
While comments of your praiſe richly compil'd,
Reſerue their Character with goulden quill,
And precious phraſe by all the Muſes fil’d.
So may some gentle Muse With lucky words favour my destined urn
gloss: To become lost in thought, to ponder.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To say (something) with due consideration or thought.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When I asked about her affinity for playing self-obsessed artists, O’Hara mused: “Maybe I’m just trying to get it out of my system. I’m so afraid to be like that.”
For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.
gloss: To think on; to meditate on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.
It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
gloss: To wonder at.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; for what I will, I will, and there an end.
Related words: museum
music
muser
musing
amuse
Derived words: bemuse
green muse
museful
museless
muselike
Translations:
bash
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *basshen, *basken, likely from Old Norse *baska (“to strike”), akin to Swedish basa (“to baste, whip, lash, flog”), Danish baske (“to beat, strike, cudgel”), German patschen (“to slap”)
Inflected forms:
form: bashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To strike heavily; to beat.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: The thugs kept bashing the cowering victim.
If the engine won't start, bash it with this hammer.
It was planned that the sick men were to crawl over and simultaneously seize the fire-arms and bash us with them while the women flung themselves upon the trackers.
It isn't the creature's fault that it bashed its head against a tree outside our hole.
gloss: To collide; used with into or together.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Don't bash into me with that shopping trolley.
The bulls backed apart and ran together, tusks clashing — Ed held his trunk down while Conrad curled his high over his head, out of the way of Ed's tusks as the faces bashed together.
gloss: To criticize harshly.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: He bashed my ideas.
The entertainment industry, the artistic community, and much of the educational establishment, which so profoundly influence American culture, relentlessly assault religion, promote promiscuity, encourage illegitimacy, and bash America.
This is consistent with new research about to be published by Tax Justice UK that found that, when making the case for a more progressive tax system, bashing the wealthy resonated far less well with voters than specific arguments about closing loopholes and increasing particular taxes.
gloss: A forceful blow or impact.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He got a bash on the head.
gloss: A large party; a gala event.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: They had a big bash to celebrate their tenth anniversary.
The party level ramps up at Thornaby, where a gaggle of women on a 50th birthday bash join us.
gloss: An attempt at doing something.
pos: noun
tags: UK
informal
examples: give something a bash
I'm not sure I'll be any good at this, but let me have a bash.
This was my first bash at macramé, so I'm quite pleased with how it's turned out.
Derived words: bashable
bash about
bashedness
bash in
bash into shape
bash out
bash someone's face in
bash someone's head
bash someone's skull
bash the bishop
bash together
bash up
fag-bash
gay bash
gay-bash
note-bash
note bash
opinion bash
queer-bash
trans bash
trans-bash
unbashed
bash and grab
basher
bashfest
bashless
bashment
bashtag
bashy
beer bash
bushbash
earbash
kitbash
megabash
on the bash
photobash
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: фрасване
roman: frasvane
lang: Bulgarian
word: юмручен удар
roman: jumručen udar
lang: Czech
word: rána
lang: Czech
word: šupa
lang: Czech
word: pecka
lang: Dutch
word: neerslagen
gnash
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gnasten. Origin unknown; the word is probably either Germanic or onomatopoeic. Compare Old Norse gnastan, Danish gnaske ("munch", "crunch"), German knirschen, German Low German gnirschen, gnörschen (“gnash”), Swedish gnissla (“squeak; gnash”).
Inflected forms:
form: gnashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gnashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gnashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gnashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gnashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: gnashing your teeth
gloss: To grind between the teeth.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to gnash the air in fury
The dog was gnashing a carpet
gloss: To clash together violently.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: There they were, boiling up in snowy spouts of spray, smiting and gnashing together like the gleaming teeth of hell.
gloss: To run away.
pos: verb
tags: Geordie
gloss: A sudden snapping of the teeth.
pos: noun
Derived words: gnasher
gnashing
gnashingly
gnash one's teeth
gnash up
gnashy
weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth
Translations:
gash
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Alteration of older garsh, from Middle English garsen, from Old French garser, jarsier (Modern French gercer), from Vulgar Latin *charaxāre, from Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr, “engraver”).
Inflected forms:
form: gashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: garsh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: gashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gashed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: garsh
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A deep cut.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Unwittingly I slashed a gushing gash in my hand with a switchblade.
Then Beowulf too rallied. With his whetted dagger he slit a gash in the serpent's middle.
The victim of the attack, Russell Mills, suffered a head gash, a broken knee cap and a broken wrist.
Vowing that he was “never going to forget the lessons of that day,” President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul’s Chapel and making a surprise stop at a firehouse and a memorial museum overlooking the vast gash in the ground where the twin towers once stood.
gloss: A vulva.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
vulgar
examples: “Oh Gertie it’s true. It’s all true. They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”
gloss: A woman.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
offensive
slang
uncountable
examples: "Will you bastards quit singing the blues? You're young, and there's plenty of gash in the world, and the supply of moon goes on forever," Simonsky said.
gloss: To make a deep, long cut; to slash.
pos: verb
examples: My leg got gashed.
gloss: Of poor quality; makeshift; improvised; temporary; substituted.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
slang
vulgar
gloss: Spare, extra.
pos: adj
tags: UK
dated
not-comparable
slang
examples: "All gash kit? There won't be no trouble with the books?"
Derived words: froth at the gash
Translations:
brash
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from Scots brash, brasch (“a violent onset; an attack or assault”). Perhaps also related to Dutch bars (“stern; strict”), German barsch (“harsh; unfriendly”), Danish barsk (“harsh; rough; tough”), Swedish barsk (“harsh; impetuous”).
Inflected forms:
form: brasher
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more brash
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: brashest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most brash
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: brashes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Overly bold or self-assertive to the point of being insensitive, tactless or impudent; shameless.
pos: adj
examples: a brash young businessman; a brash tabloid; a brash sense of humour
Mrs. Mayfield looked away, and the girl stricken with remorse, hastened to her and said: “There, I have been too brash, haven’t I? You must forgive me for I didn’t intend to be brash.”
“Brash, my dear? What do you mean by that?”
She laughed. “Why, I thought everybody know’d what brash meant. Well, it’s er—too quick to say somethin’ you oughtn’t to say.”
Trouble with Silzer is, he’s too brash—shoots off his mouth too much—likes to hear himself talk.
The American’s brash unconcern for nuance indicates a young and vigorous country, the Briton’s clipped speech an ancient, proverbial reserve.
Edusco liked him, he could tell; he imagined Edusco talking about him in a gathering of other self-made Igbo men, men who were brash and striving, who juggled huge businesses and supported vast extended families.
gloss: Overly bold, impetuous or rash.
pos: adj
examples: […] just because you’re a little hot under the collar, don’t do anything brash, for fear you may regret it afterward.
Now, Mr. Reed, you’ve committed nothing but a brash act of bad taste by bypassing the standard channels.
gloss: Bold, bright or showy, often in a tasteless way.
pos: adj
examples: brash colours
a brash perfume
1963, Ian Fleming, Thrilling Cities, London: Jonathan Cape, Chapter 1, “Hong Kong,”
There are scores of brash and noisy bars along Lockhart Street and in Wanchai and North Point (on the island) and throughout the back lanes of Kowloon […]
The driveway is filled with vehicles parked bumper to bumper and the house is lit up like I’ve never seen it before, brash yellow light streaming from every window on every floor, and the tinny, nasal sound of gramophone jazz trumpeting inside.
2001, Walt Dohrn et al. “Artist Unknown”, SpongeBob SquarePants, season 2, episode 18b, Nickelodeon
Squidward: How about this one? I call it, Bold and Brash.
Art Curator: More like, belongs in the trash!
Sadly, by the 1970s the arcade had gone downmarket with brash shop fronts and cheap shops, some of doubtful reputation.
gloss: A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A sudden burst of rain.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An attack or assault.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Derived words: brashly
brashness
brashy
unbrash
water brash
weaning brash
Translations:
sash
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic شَاش (šāš, “muslin cloth”).
Inflected forms:
form: sashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To adorn with a sash.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 1796, Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace, Letter IV to the Earl Fitzwilliam, in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, London: C. and J. Rivington, 1826, Volume 9, p. 46,
[…] the Costume of the Sans-culotte Constitution of 1793 was absolutely insufferable […] but now they are so powdered and perfumed, and ribanded, and sashed and plumed, that […] there is something in it more grand and noble, something more suitable to an awful Roman Senate, receiving the homage of dependant Tetrarchs.
Translations:
quash
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English quaschen, quasshen, cwessen, quassen, from Old French quasser, from Latin quassāre, under the influence of cassō (“to annul”), from Latin quatiō (“to shake”) Cognate with Dutch kwetsen (“to hurt, injure”), German quetschen (“to crush, squash”), Spanish quejar (“to complain”).
Inflected forms:
form: quashes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quashing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quashed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quashed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To defeat decisively, to suppress.
pos: verb
examples: The army quashed the rebellion.
Contrition is apt to quash or allay all worldly grief.
Anne that she had been perfectly right in her proceedings, since, by quashing all idle hopes, both parties would see the necessity of conquering their foolish passion.
In an early scene with her father, Alma is shown rebelling against the staid, petty and occasionally vicious life of Glorious Hill, Mississippi; her father quashes her cruelly, but it is established that Alma has it in her to defy convention.
gloss: To crush or dash to pieces.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The whales / Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, / Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.
gloss: To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.).
pos: verb
examples: In the case of an appeal against conviction the Court shall, if they allow the appeal, quash the conviction.
Related words: cask
casket
concussion
discuss
discussion
fracas
percussion
rescue
squash
Derived words: quashable
quasher
toquash
unquashed
Translations:
ele
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of elephant.
Inflected forms:
form: eles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Elephant.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
funkadelic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
English funk
English -adelic
English funkadelic
From funk + -adelic.
Inflected forms:
form: more funkadelic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most funkadelic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
pos: adj
examples: It's more or less what we call funkadelic. It's a combination of R&B, psychedelic, and funky African-type beat.
gloss: Having a funky beat.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: P-Funk
Translations:
consume
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: economics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der.
Proto-Italic *emō
Latin emō
Latin sūmō
Latin cōnsūmōder.
Old French consumerbor.
Middle English consumen
English consume
From Middle English consumen, from Old French consumer, from Latin cōnsūmere, cōnsūmō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”), from sub- + emō (“to buy, take”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- (“to take, distribute”), possibly related to the root *nem- (“to take or give one's due”).
Base: sūmō
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: consumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: consuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: consumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: consumed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To use up.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The power plant consumes 30 tons of coal per hour.
gloss: To eat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Baby birds consume their own weight in food each day.
Concerns were raised around the ability of Milky Way species to consume proteins from Andromeda, so seed banks formed a significant part of the arks' cargo. We now know it is safe to consume food grown or hunted here, though enzyme supplements are recommended and have become a social norm at mealtimes.
gloss: To completely occupy the thoughts or attention of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Desire consumed him.
gloss: To destroy completely.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The building was consumed by fire.
If he were putting to my house the brand / That shall consume it.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through to steal: […]
gloss: To waste away slowly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: Therefore, let Benedick, like cover'd fire, / Consume away in sighs.
But, sir, you see how weak I am. You must see that I have been consuming from day to day […].
He assured her the child was consuming at that moment in the next room.
gloss: To trade money for good or services as an individual.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: In a materialistic society, individuals are taught to consume, consume, consume.
If you consume this product while in Japan, you may be subject to consumption tax.
gloss: To absorb information, especially through the mass media.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The Internet has changed the way we consume news.
And influencers are identifying the brands, music, and TV shows that Americans consume.
Related words: consumption
consumptive
Derived words: all-consuming
consoomer
consumable
consumation
consumeless
consumer
misconsume
overconsume
preconsume
reconsume
unconsumable
underconsume
Translations:
toro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 灯籠.
Inflected forms:
form: toros
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: toro
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Japanese lantern.
pos: noun
Translations:
consumption
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der.
Proto-Italic *emō
Latin emō
Latin sūmō
Latin cōnsūmō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin cōnsūmptiōder.
Old French consumpcionbor.
Middle English consumpcioun
English consumption
From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ion, from Middle English consumpcioun, from Old French consumpcion, from Latin cōnsūmptiō, from cōnsūmō + -tiō, from con- (“with, together”) + sūmō (“take; consume”). Equivalent to consume + -tion.
Affixes: con-
Inflected forms:
form: consumptions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of eating, drinking or using.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The consumption of snails as food is more common in France than in England.
A Guardia Civil spokesperson said that ayahuasca, San Pedro, toad poison, wild rue and mimosa pudica were prohibited substances in Spain, adding that their consumption was not authorised because, while they were natural substances, they could be highly dangerous to human health.
gloss: The amount consumed.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: gross national consumption
gloss: The act of consuming or destroying.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The fire's consumption of the forest caused ecological changes.
Driving methods have a direct bearing on fuel consumption with every type of motive power.
gloss: The wasting away of the human body through disease.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Pulmonary tuberculosis and other diseases that cause wasting away, lung infection, etc.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
usually
examples: And then as to your ſcurvys, and gouts, rheumatiſms, conſumptions, coughs and catarrhs, tar-vvater and turpentine vvill make you as ſound as a roach.
gloss: Alcoholism as it precipitates a person's death (especially of natural causes).
pos: noun
tags: dated
euphemistic
uncountable
usually
Related words: consumer
Derived words: anticonsumption
autoconsumption
coconsumption
conspicuous consumption
consumptional
consumption function
consumption good
consumption room
consumption weed
cyberconsumption
hyperconsumption
induced consumption
metaconsumption
nonconsumption
over-consumption
overconsumption
photoconsumption
power consumption
prosumption
quick consumption
reconsumption
self-consumption
specific fuel consumption
underconsumption
virtual consumption
Translations:
maximum
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
darts
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
snooker
sports
statistics
Etymology: Via French from Latin maximum.
Inflected forms:
form: maxima
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maximums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The highest limit.
pos: noun
examples: This is the fundamental principle of good legislation. It is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness and the minimum of misery
gloss: The greatest value of a set or other mathematical structure, especially the global maximum or a local maximum of a function.
pos: noun
gloss: An upper bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
pos: noun
gloss: The largest value of a batch or sample or the upper bound of a probability distribution.
pos: noun
gloss: A 147 break; the highest possible break.
pos: noun
gloss: A score of 180 with three darts.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: A scoring shot for 6 runs.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
gloss: maximum security
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: I just got out of maximum where I did 4 months for an arguent I had in the serving area.
gloss: To the highest degree.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Use the proper dose for the maximum effect.
Each Piccadilly Line train consists of seven cars, the construction of the stations below ground making this the maximum length.
Synonyms: max
Antonyms: minimum
Translations:
minimum
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
natural-sciences
sciences
statistics
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin minimum, neuter form of minimus (“least, smallest”).
Inflected forms:
form: minima
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: minimums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The lowest limit.
pos: noun
examples: We prefer candidates with a minimum of 4 years experience in the field.
We need a minimum of three staff members on duty at all times.
gloss: The smallest amount.
pos: noun
examples: He always tries to get away with doing the minimum.
Please keep noise to a minimum after 11 o'clock
Realism might be the hardest aesthetic to do well. The performances have to be genuinely moving and the setting vividly evoked; bonkers twists must be kept to a minimum.
gloss: A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).
pos: noun
examples: The Maunder minimum of the Sun reportedly corresponded to a period of great cold on Earth.
gloss: A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.
pos: noun
gloss: The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.
pos: noun
gloss: To the lowest degree.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Antonyms: maximum
Related words: minimal
minimize
minimise
Derived words: alternative minimum tax
at a minimum
at minimum
at the minimum
bare minimum Monday
maximin
minac
minarchism
minarchy
minheap
minimax
minimum connecting time
minimum contacts
minimum cut
minimum descent altitude
minimum inhibitory concentration
minimum minimorum
minimum naturale
minimum sector altitude
minimum security
minimum-security
minimum seek time
minimum skills
minimum spanning tree
minimum viable product
minimumweight
nonminimum
subminimum
Translations:
mini
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the prefix mini-.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Miniature, tiny, small.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: