yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
laura
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
Etymology: From the Late Latin laura, from Ancient Greek λαύρα (laúra, “lane, path”).
Inflected forms:
form: lauras
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: laurae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lavra
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The solitaries of the Thebaid found that they became selfish wild beasts, or went mad, if they remained alone; and they formed themselves into lauras, 'lanes' of huts, convents, under a common abbot or father.
gloss: A cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the centre.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: There were the cenobia, or monasteries proper, where the life was according to the lines laid down by St Basil; and there were the lauras, wherein a semi-eremitical life was followed, the monks living in separate huts within the enclosure.
Translations:
needless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English needlees, nedelees, nedeles, equivalent to need + -less.
Base: need
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more needless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most needless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: needles
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Not needed; unnecessary.
pos: adj
examples: This new project of yours will only be a needless expense.
[…]they were needless bursts of imagination from a man who’d made such a show of unshowiness.
Translations:
relegation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin relēgātus
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin relēgātiō, relēgātiōnisbor.
English relegation
Borrowed from Latin relēgātiō, relēgātiōnis.
Inflected forms:
form: relegations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of being relegated
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of being relegated
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of being relegated
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: religation
Derived words: relegation zone
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изпадане
roman: izpadane
lang: Dutch
word: degradatie
lang: Finnish
word: alennus
lang: French
word: relégation
lang: German
word: Abstieg
lang: German
word: Absteigen
lang: Greek
word: υποβιβασμός
roman: ypovivasmós
lang: Hungarian
word: lefokozás
lang: Hungarian
word: leminősítés
lang: Hungarian
word: száműzetés
lang: Polish
word: degradacja
lang: Polish
word: relegacja
lang: Portuguese
word: despromoção
lang: Russian
word: разжа́лование
roman: razžálovanije
lang: Russian
word: низвожде́ние
roman: nizvoždénije
seneschal
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English seneschal (recorded in English since 1393), from Old French seneschal, from Medieval Latin siniscalcus, from Frankish *siniskalk, from Proto-Germanic *siniskalkaz, from Proto-Germanic *siniz (“senior”) + *skalkaz (“servant”); latter term as in marshal. As an officer of the French crown, via French sénéchal.
Inflected forms:
form: seneschals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seneskal
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
rare
Senses:
gloss: A steward, particularly (historical) one in charge of a medieval nobleman's estate.
pos: noun
examples: Beside stood seneschals, the appointed witnesses of the ensuing games.
[…] so the very keenest seneskal can't see no sign […]
It was in the queer little Church of Vera Cruz, beneath the castle, that the Knights Templar performed their secret rites of chivalry, standing vigil over their arms all night, in all the mysterious splendour of seneschal, gonfalon, and accolade.
gloss: An officer of the crown in late medieval and early modern France who served as a kind of governor and chief justice of the royal court in Normandy and Languedoc.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: seneschalship
Translations:
afflict
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English afflicten (attested in past participle afflicte), from Latin afflīctō (“to damage, harass, torment”), from ad- + flīctus, past participle of afflīgō (“strike, beat”), from ad- + flīgō (“strike”) (whence af-).
Base: flīctus
Affixes: ad-
Inflected forms:
form: afflicts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: afflicting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: afflicted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: afflicted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cause (someone) pain, suffering or distress.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses. But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.
[T]he wench was afflicted with religion and unapproachably austere.
To me it seems that extensive investment in relatively low-powered units may have the same ultimate result of motive power shortage as that which afflicts the London Midland Region today, and which has compelled the re-engining of some of the earlier multiple-unit diesel train sets.
While the defense lawyers have likened the condition to the post traumatic stress disorders afflicting war veterans and battered women, which have been used in other insanity defense cases, they have said that they know of no previous trials when a "black rage" defense has been raised.
gloss: To strike or cast down; to overthrow; to result.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: reassembling our afflicted powers
gloss: To make low or humble.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The Argument of mine afflicted stile
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error before an afflicted truth.
Related words: affliction
afflictive
Derived words: afflictee
afflicter
afflictingly
reafflict
unafflicting
Translations:
arbitrate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin arbitratus, past participle of arbitrari (“to be a witness, act as umpire”), from arbiter (“umpire”); see arbiter.
Inflected forms:
form: arbitrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: arbitrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: arbitrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: arbitrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter
pos: verb
examples: to arbitrate a disputed case
There shall your swords and lances arbitrate / The swelling difference of your settled hate.
gloss: To submit (a dispute) to such judgment
pos: verb
gloss: To assign an arbitrary value to, or otherwise determine arbitrarily.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: We wish to show f is continuous. Arbitrate epsilon greater than zero...
Related words: arbitary
arbiter
arbitrability
arbitrable
arbitrage
arbitrary
arbitration
arbitrator
Derived words: rearbitrate
Translations:
coelacanth
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the New Latin genus name Coelacanthus, from Ancient Greek κοῖλος (koîlos, “hollow”) + ἄκανθα (ákantha, “spine”), referring to the hollow caudal fin rays of the first fossil specimen described and named by Louis Agassiz in 1839.
Inflected forms:
form: coelacanths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cœlacanth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Any of the class Actinistia of primitive lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes—thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until a living specimen was discovered in 1938. Most species are large and plump and they all have bodies covered in tough elasmoid scales that act as armor.
pos: noun
examples: Among them were ancient relatives of the piranhas and those popular aquarium fish the tetras, along with garfish and freshwater coelacanths, known as mawsonids.
gloss: Any of the class Actinistia of primitive lobe-finned fish in the order Coelacanthiformes—thought to have been extinct for 70 million years until a living specimen was discovered in 1938. Most species are large and plump and they all have bodies covered in tough elasmoid scales that act as armor.
pos: noun
Derived words: coelacanthid
coelacanthine
coelacanthous
Translations:
lang: Assamese
word: চিলাকেন্থ
roman: silakentho
lang: Assamese
word: চিলাকেন মাছ
roman: silaken mas
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 矛尾魚 /矛尾鱼
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 矛尾魚 /矛尾鱼
roman: máowěiyú
lang: Finnish
word: latimeria
lang: French
word: cœlacanthe
lang: German
word: Quastenflosser
lang: Greek
word: κοιλάκανθος
roman: koilákanthos
lang: Hungarian
word: bojtosúszós maradványhal
lang: Indonesian
word: ikan raja laut
lang: Italian
word: celacanto
lang: Japanese
word: シーラカンス
roman: shīrakansu
lang: Occitan
word: celacant
lang: Polish
word: latimeria
lang: Portuguese
word: celacanto
lang: Romanian
word: celacant
lang: Russian
word: целака́нт
roman: celakánt
lang: Russian
word: латиме́рия
roman: latimérija
lang: Spanish
word: celacanto
lang: Swedish
word: kvastfening
lang: Swedish
word: havstofsstjärt
lang: Swedish
word: tofsstjärtfisk
lang: Swedish
word: blå kvastfening
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠍꠤꠟꠣꠇꠦꠘ ꠝꠣꠍ
roman: sílaxen masó
lang: Vietnamese
word: cá vây tay
displace
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French desplacer (French: déplacer).
Inflected forms:
form: displaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: displacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: displaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: displaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put out of place; to disarrange.
pos: verb
gloss: To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
pos: verb
examples: Manipur: Thousands displaced as ethnic clashes grip north-eastern state
gloss: To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
pos: verb
gloss: To replace, on account of being superior to or more suitable than that which is being replaced.
pos: verb
examples: Electronic calculators soon displaced the older mechanical kind.
All have gone the same way, and since the war have displaced up-to-date steam power on all their principal services by the all-conquering diesel.
gloss: To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
pos: verb
gloss: To repress.
pos: verb
examples: Freud considered shyness to be evidence of displaced narcissism.
Derived words: displaceability
displaceable
displacement
displacer
displacive
redisplace
retrodisplace
Translations:
dividend
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arithmetic
business
finance
Etymology: From Middle French dividende, from Latin dīvidendum (“thing to be divided”), future passive participle of dīvidō (“to divide”), by surface analysis, divide + -end.
Inflected forms:
form: dividends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dividends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dividending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dividended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dividended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually).
pos: noun
examples: On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...
Quarterly or annual dividend payments provide good income streams for investors who need cash in the short-term. And for those playing the longer game, dividends can be reinvested to buy even more shares in those same companies.
gloss: A number or expression that is to be divided by another.
pos: noun
examples: In "42 ÷ 3" the dividend is the 42.
gloss: Beneficial results from a metaphorical investment (of time, effort, etc.)
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: His 10,000 hours of practice and recitals eventually paid dividends when he become first-chair violinist.
That blood and pain paid a dividend, too, even when the subject wasn't a sorcerer.
The money I'd spent on getting scuba certified was about to pay a dividend. My half-baked escape plan came together.
'Why not: you, Elvira, will shortly pay a dividend, that is, have a child.'
The United States is not the only country where xenophobia pays dividends for politicians.
gloss: To pay out a dividend.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He held instead that the words "sell or otherwise dispose of" in Clause 2 of the Shareholders' Agreement prevented the dividending of the shares in Hawker Holdings to the shareholders of Hawker Siddeley […]
Therefore, $125 million of 1983 Preferred Shares (Blue Jay) would be tendered for retirement with $135 million of the $370 million dividended up to Blue Jay.
Derived words: cum dividend
demographic dividend
dividend equalisation reserve
dividend king
dividendless
dividend queen
dividend reinvestment plan
dividend reinvestment program
dividend stripping
dividend trap
dividend value trap
ex dividend
high-dividend yield trap
high dividend yield trap
liar's dividend
pay dividends
peace dividend
predividend
splividend
Translations:
divisor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
algebraic-geometry
arithmetic
geometry
mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: divisors
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In an expression involving division, the number by which another number is being divided.
pos: noun
examples: In "42 ÷ 3" the divisor is the 3.
gloss: An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times, the former being called a divisor of the latter.
pos: noun
examples: 10 is a divisor of 100, but not of 101.
The positive divisors of 6 are 1, 2, 3 and 6.
gloss: An integer that divides another integer an integral number of times, the former being called a divisor of the latter.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
gloss: Any of several kinds of formal object associated to an algebraic variety, scheme, etc., which play a role similar to that of homology or cohomology groups in the study of topological spaces.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several kinds of formal object associated to an algebraic variety, scheme, etc., which play a role similar to that of homology or cohomology groups in the study of topological spaces.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several kinds of formal object associated to an algebraic variety, scheme, etc., which play a role similar to that of homology or cohomology groups in the study of topological spaces.
pos: noun
Related words: successor
+ =
+ +... =
× =
× ×... =
Or sometimes
=
√ =
log(base) =
Derived words: divisor function
divisorial
greatest common divisor
nondivisor
proper divisor
zero divisor
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: делител
roman: delitel
lang: Danish
word: divisor
lang: Galician
word: divisor
lang: German
word: Teiler
lang: Hungarian
word: osztó
lang: Japanese
word: 約数
roman: yakusū
lang: Korean
word: 약수
roman: yaksu
lang: Māori
word: tau whakawehe
lang: Polish
word: dzielnik
lang: Romanian
word: divizor
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: дѐлитељ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: дјѐлитељ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: dèlitelj
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: djèlitelj
feminist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in 1852. Ultimately from Latin fēminīnus, from fēmina (“woman”). See also feminine, feminism.
Inflected forms:
form: more feminist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most feminist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: feminists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or in accordance with feminism.
pos: adj
examples: Feminist struggle takes place anytime anywhere any female or male resists sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
Whatever else, Irréversible is already a succès de scandale. [Gaspar] Noé's claims that it is a "feminist" movie sound far-fetched, but he certainly offers an extraordinarily pessimistic view of male sexuality.
gloss: An advocate of feminism; a person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in all aspects of public and private life.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a feminist political movement.
pos: noun
Related words: femicentric
femi-centric
feminacentric
feminine
feminism
feminocentric
feminocentrism
Derived words: Afrofeminist
anarcha-feminist
anarchist feminist
anarcho-feminist
antifeminist
counterfeminist
cyberfeminist
ecofeminist
effeminist
extrafeminist
fauxminist
fembitch
femcunt
femicommie
femifascism
femifascist
feminar
feminasty
feminazi
feminerd
feminist dance therapy
feministic
feministly
feminist studies
feministy
feminoid
feminut
femmie
femmunist
femonationalist
femsplain
femtard
gender-critical feminist
hyperfeminist
meninist
neofeminist
neurofeminist
nonfeminist
postfeminist
prefeminist
profeminist
protofeminist
pseudofeminist
radical feminist
semifeminist
STEMinist
third wave feminist
third-wave feminist
transfeminist
unfeminist
Translations:
racquet
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
French raquettebor.
English racquet
Borrowed from French raquette.
Inflected forms:
form: racquets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: racqueting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: racqueted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: racqueted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To hit with a racquet.
pos: verb
examples: You two might indeed have racqueted the ball betwixt you, as you say.
Potter drove up along the wire fence of the yard, and there on the tennis court, a kid racqueted a ball against a brick wall behind the courts.
One of the tennis center's satellite courts was lit to near daylight brightness by white floodlights; as I approached I could hear the steady, dry pock . . . pock of a tennis ball being racqueted back and forth.
gloss: To play a game that involves using a racquet.
pos: verb
examples: When he isn't racqueting, Brad claims he puts in the time with Alfred Dunhill of London.
...played no games as a boy, but since he did me that good turn I have racqueted about happily.
I arrived to find a tennis foursome - architect & his wife, you & my mother, racquetting through a country english afternoon just as it's been bonged since Shakespeare penned his pages.
gloss: To dart about in a manner reminiscent of a ball hit by a racquet.
pos: verb
examples: Flashlights in hand, they made their way down the slope and racqueted out upon the lake.
Fancy his disgust when (having given up all hopes of watching the full moon, he had just fallen asleep) he was awakened by the noise of that rat once more racqueting about all over the room.
gloss: To exchange back and forth, similar to the way a tennis ball volleys back and forth.
pos: verb
examples: Many of his choicest years of life were employ'd in wrangling, and receiving and racquetting back reproach, accusation and sarcasm.
More astounding still is the volume of trading, as a manic afternoon sees Netscape shares change hands 13.88 million times; an average of almost two and a half times each, with some racqueted back and forth like tennis balls . . . a curious pattern which will become familiar to dotcom stock-watchers.
Translations:
badminton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Badminton House, an estate in Gloucestershire owned by the Duke of Beaufort, where the game was first played in England. For the house name, see Badminton.
Inflected forms:
form: badmintons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A racquet sport played indoors on a court by two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs of players (doubles), in which a shuttlecock is volleyed over a net and the competitions are presided by an umpire in British English and a referee in American English.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Four pairs of women's doubles badminton players, including the Chinese top seeds, have been ejected from the Olympic tournament for trying to throw matches in an effort to secure a more favourable quarter-final draw.
gloss: A cooling summer drink made with claret, sugar, and soda water.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: badminton ball
badminton court
badmintonist
badminton player
badminton racket
para-badminton
Translations:
shuttlecock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From shuttle (from the back-and-forth sense of the word originating with loom weaving) + cock (from resemblance to a male bird's plume of tail feathers).
Inflected forms:
form: shuttlecocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shittlecock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shuttlecocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shuttlecocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shuttlecocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shuttlecocked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shittlecock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lightweight object that is conical in shape with a cork or rubber-covered nose, used in badminton the way a ball is used in other racquet games.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Seven or eight of them, standing in a circle, were engaged in a game of shittlecock. They had in their hands no battledores. They did not employ the hand or arm, any way, in striking it. But, after taking a short race, and springing from the floor, they met the descending shittlecock with the sole of the foot, and drove it up again, with force, high into the air. [...] The shittlecock was made of a piece of dried skin rolled round, and bound with strings. Into this skin were inserted three long feathers spreading out at top, but so near to each other, where they were stuck into the skin, as to pass through the holes, little more than a quarter of an inch square, which are always made in the centre of Cochin-chinese copper coins.
In a severe gale like this, while the ship is but a tossed shuttlecock to the blast, it is by no means uncommon to see the needles in the compasses, at intervals, go round and round.
The practice of the game in this country is to keep the shuttlecock in the air by striking it from one person to another.
Crudely as they had calculated they were at first justified by the event; she was the little feathered shuttlecock they fiercely kept flying between them.
gloss: The game of badminton.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
examples: Fla[via]. Come, Sir Pergamus, till your horse come, you and I'll go play at shuttle-cock. / Per[gamus]. A match i'faith. I love that sport a' life. Yet my mother charged me not to use it for fear of putting my arm out of joint.
Two people stand at opposite ends of the room, as in playing shuttlecock […]
gloss: To move rapidly back and forth.
pos: verb
gloss: To send or toss back and forth; to bandy.
pos: verb
examples: to shuttlecock words
if the phrase is to be shuttlecocked between us!
Related words: battledore and shuttlecock
shuttlecock diplomacy
Translations:
prole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From proletariat (“working class”) by shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: proles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the proletariat; a proletarian.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A pleb (ordinary person).
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: prolefeed
Translations:
modish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mode
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English modish
From mode + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more modish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most modish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Conforming with fashion or style.
pos: adj
examples: As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish negroes, two bucks and a girl.
The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.
gloss: In the current mode.
pos: adj
Derived words: modishly
modishness
unmodish
Translations:
momentous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English moment
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English momentous
From moment (“weight, importance”) + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more momentous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most momentous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.
pos: adj
examples: The reason why I did not publish this book till the end of the last sessions of parliament was, because I did not care to interfere with more momentous affairs.
"It has been a momentous month, and I hope we shall all retain healthful recollections of it as long as we live."
What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.
The last train ran on December 31, 1932, almost unnoticed, for it coincided with the running of the last steam passenger train down the main line from London to Brighton, a much more momentous event.
Natural selection is arguably the most momentous idea ever to occur to a human mind, because it — alone as far as we know — explains the elegant illusion of design that pervades the living kingdoms and explains, in passing, us.
Translations:
preso
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: presentation + -o
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: presos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A presentation.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: We need to provide a pause of "down time" after each preso for the streaming team to save the captured video to disk before beginning the next presentation.
“Now that I've finished Russ's preso, neither do I!”
Sorry no formal preso for you, but the first point is a real killer in my book.
Translations:
xu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese xu, from French sou. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, solidus, and sou.
Inflected forms:
form: xu
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: xus
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: su
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A former unit of currency in Vietnam, equivalent to a hundredth of a dong.
pos: noun
Translations:
Teutonic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: PIE word
 *tewtéh₂
1580, from Latin Teutonicus, from Teutonēs, Teutonī (“the Teutons”, name of a Germanic tribe that inhabited coastal Germany and devastated Gaul between 113–101 B.C.), equivalent to Teuton + -ic.
Base: Teuton
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more Teutonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Teutonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Teutonick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Teutonics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Teutonick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the ancient Germanic people, the Teutons.
pos: adj
gloss: Having qualities that are regarded as typical of German people.
pos: adj
tags: dated
offensive
examples: Teutonic exactitude
He waited and waited, in the faith that Schinkel was dealing with them in his slow, categorical Teutonic way, and only objurgated the cabinetmaker for having in the first place paltered with his sacred trust.[…]
Sure, the map says it’s Italy, but after walking through the centuries-old market at Piazza Erbe (Obstplatz) and seeing one too many suspiciously Teutonic-looking locals munching wurst, you might think you’ve crossed the Austrian border.
My disorderliness was anathema to his Teutonic soul. “Here, I will write it down. Oh, you are so chaotic. Hand me the telephone.”
gloss: Relating to the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: An ancient Germanic, or modern German, individual.
pos: noun
Derived words: Panteutonic
Proto-Teutonic
Teutonically
Teutonicise
Teutonicism
Teutonicize
Teutonic Knight
Teutonic Knights
Teutonic Order
Translations:
pon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
games
mahjong
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 碰 (pon).
Inflected forms:
form: pons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A call for forming a set of three identical tiles using a discarded tile.
pos: noun
tags: Japanese
Translations:
courteous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English curteis, from Old French curteis (French courtois), from cort (“court”). By surface analysis, court + -eous.
Compare typologically Czech zdvořilý (<~ dvůr), German höflich (<~ Hof). Also note Russian прийти́сь ко двору́ (prijtísʹ ko dvorú).
Compare typologically civil, urbane. See pagan for the opposite.
Inflected forms:
form: more courteous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most courteous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing regard or thought for others; especially, displaying good manners or etiquette.
pos: adj
examples: a courteous gentleman   a courteous gesture
Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; [...]
His exhortations to his assistants to waste no time in getting on with the job, and to be tactful and courteous with those outside the railway service with whom they had to deal, are as apposite today as they were a century ago.
Translations:
vertebral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
zootomy
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vertebra
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English vertebral
From vertebra + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: vertebrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to a vertebra or the spine.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having or made of vertebrae.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a spinal column.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Any of the large dorsal scales along the top of a snake's back.
pos: noun
Synonyms: backboned
spinal
vertebrate
Antonyms: backboneless
invertebrate
nonspinal
Derived words: basivertebral
costovertebral
craniovertebral
discovertebral
extravertebral
facioauriculovertebral
hemivertebral
intervertebral
intravertebral
ischiovertebral
lumbovertebral
meningovertebral
nonvertebral
oculoauriculovertebral
paravertebral
perivertebral
postvertebral
prevertebral
protovertebral
retrovertebral
sacrovertebral
sinuvertebral
sternovertebral
subvertebral
supravertebral
trivertebral
vertebral arch
vertebral artery
vertebral canal
vertebral column
vertebrally
Translations:
quartile
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From Middle French quartil, from Medieval Latin quartilus. By surface analysis, quart + -ile.
Inflected forms:
form: quartiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: quartiles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: quartiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: quartiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: quartiled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of the three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts, each containing a quarter of the population.
pos: noun
gloss: Any one of the four groups so divided.
pos: noun
examples: This school is ranked in the first quartile.
The Department for Transport's National Travel Survey shows that workers in the lowest income quartile are twice as likely to use public transport.
In June 2021, the top-income quartile of Chase customers had a median cash buffer of 43 days, while the lowest-income quartile had a median cash buffer of 22 days.
Total activity levels in the lowest quartile were equivalent to walking for 49 minutes at roughly 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per hour daily. Total activity levels in the second-, third- and fourth-highest quartiles were equivalent to 78, 105 and 160 minutes, respectively.
gloss: To divide into quartiles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: interquartile
intraquartile
lower quartile
semiquartile
upper quartile
interquartile range
Translations:
easeful
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ease + -ful.
Base: ease
Affixes: -ful
Inflected forms:
form: more easeful
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most easeful
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: easefull
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: full of ease, restful, comfortable
pos: adj
examples: easeful death
His particular End in every Man is, by the infliction of pain, damage, and diſgrace, that the Senſes and common perceivance might carry this Meſſage to the Soul within, that it is neither eaſeful, profitable, nor praiſ-worthy in this Life to do evil.
Ah, for repose down underneath the grass, where the firm feet of the trees grip hold upon the world, where never shall come the wind that now blows through my bones, and the rain shall come warm and trickling, not driven by storm, where is the easeful falling asunder of bone from bone in the dark.
Translations:
clerestory
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Middle English clerestory, from clere (“clear: light, lighted”) + story (“storey/story: level of a building”).
Inflected forms:
form: clerestories
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clearstory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: clerstory
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The upper part of a wall containing windows to let in natural light to a building, especially in the nave, transept and choir of a church or cathedral.
pos: noun
examples: Following these signs, he beheld three or four men with bent bows, leaning from the clerestory gallery.
On the Visby-Västerhejde Railway there is a steam car. [...] The upperworks consist of a short clerestory coach body with end platforms and the engine chimney protruding from the roof like a stovepipe.
The cars built before 1913 had clerestory roofs, after the American style, and also were provided with gates and end vestibule platforms requiring gatemen.
Translations:
Teletext
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-der.
Ancient Greek τῆλε (têle)lbor.
English tele-
English text
English Teletext
From tele- + text.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A text-based information retrieval system using television sets with a suitable decoder; developed by the BBC.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
uncountable
Translations:
ticker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English tick
English -er
English ticker
From tick + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: tickers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who makes a tick mark.
pos: noun
examples: A teacher now is a typist, a printer, a laboratory assistant, a designer of work sheets and booklets, a form-filler, a ticker of boxes and a sender of returns to faculty heads, to head teachers, to education authorities and to the Ministers […]
gloss: A measuring or reporting device, particularly one which makes a ticking sound as the measured events occur.
pos: noun
examples: The ticker was showing an increased rate of flow.
gloss: A ticker tape, either the traditional paper kind or a scrolling message on a screen.
pos: noun
examples: I checked the prices on the ticker one last time before placing the trade.
To my surprise, the ticker showed that the deal had already gone through.
gloss: A heart, especially a human one.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: My ticker gave out and I had to go to the hospital for surgery.
gloss: A watch (timepiece).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A right nice ticker it was. Real gold.
gloss: A birdwatcher who aims to see (and tick off on a list) as many bird species as possible.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A beer drinker who aims to try as many different beers as possible and keeps a record of all the beers they have drunk.
pos: noun
examples: My weekday visit found a great mix of luncheoners, locals and real ale tickers.
This book has not been written with the goal of pleasing beer geeks, tickers, fetishists, raters or advocates.
Today's tickers are equipped with smartphones with downloaded apps like Untappd. I've seen tickers peruse beer lists for new beers they haven't tried.
Derived words: newsticker
news ticker
stock ticker
ticker symbol
Translations:
vibrato
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vibrato m, past participle of vibrare (“to vibrate”).
Inflected forms:
form: vibratos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more vibrato
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vibrato
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The musical effect or technique where the pitch or frequency of a note or sound is quickly and repeatedly raised and lowered over a small distance for the duration of that note or sound.
pos: noun
examples: He felt his teeth methodically, one after the other, with a vibrato movement of finger and thumb.
gloss: Distorted by editing a sound so it becomes more wobbled, usually for humorous purposes.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
humorous
examples: Yoshi Dance But Every Time He Showing His Face It Gets Vibrato
Translations:
stewed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stew
English -ed
English stewed
From stew + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more stewed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stewed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering (see stew).
pos: adj
gloss: Of tea: bitter from having been steeped too long.
pos: adj
gloss: Drunk.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Ed Wimperis—big, fleshy, well tailored, stewed—talked television, clamping Joanna's arm and explaining in slow careful words why cassettes were going to change everything.
Derived words: stewed as a prune
stewed to the ears
stewed to the eyeballs
stewed to the eyebrows
stewed to the gills
unstewed
Translations:
antitoxin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énti
Ancient Greek ᾰ̓ντῐ́ (ăntĭ́)
Ancient Greek ἀντι- (anti-)der.
English anti-
Ancient Greek τόξον (tóxon)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξῐκός (toxĭkós)
Ancient Greek τοξικόν (toxikón)der.
Latin toxicum
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ineclip.
English -in
English toxin
English antitoxin
From anti- + toxin.
Inflected forms:
form: antitoxins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A medicine able to neutralize a toxin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Through the needle-hole thus stained with dye it was possible to "superinject" antitoxin, using a slightly wider needle avoid back leak along the old needle track, and thus to ensure a distribution of both toxin and antitoxin solutions from the same point the skin.
gloss: An antibody capable of neutralizing specific toxins.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: These albuminous substances, whether found as normal products or created artificially in the blood, are distinguished as antitoxins, protective proteïds, vaccines, or alexines; physiologically they have been divided into sozines, those found in animals naturally immune, and phylaxines, those found in animals which by subcutaneous injections have artificially been made immune.
Related words: immunity
Derived words: antiantitoxin
Translations:
seminar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Seminar, from Latin sēminārium, from sēmen (“seed”). Compare seminary.
Inflected forms:
form: seminars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seminars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: seminaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: seminared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: seminared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A class held for advanced studies in which students meet regularly to discuss original research, under the guidance of a professor.
pos: noun
examples: Students attended a seminar on climate change.
She gave a guest lecture during the philosophy seminar.
gloss: A meeting held for the exchange of useful information by members of a common business community.
pos: noun
examples: The company hosted a training seminar for new employees.
gloss: To participate in or lead a seminar.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Synonyms: ovular
Related words: semen
seminary
Derived words: e-seminar
feminar
proseminar
seminarlike
teleseminar
webinar
Translations:
womankind
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wommankynde. By surface analysis, woman + -kind.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Women, taken collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The infinite simplicity and silliness of mankind and womankind at large were too well known to the Serjeant to cause him dismay, let them be shown in ever so egregious a fashion.
Translations:
bonnie
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *bonie (attested only rarely as bon, boun), probably from Old French bon, feminine bonne (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”). See bounty, and compare bonus, boon.
Inflected forms:
form: bonnier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more bonnie
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bonniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most bonnie
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bonny
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bonie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bonnies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bonny
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bonie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Merry; happy.
pos: adj
examples: Be you blithe and bonny
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into Hey nonny, nonny.
gloss: Beautiful; pretty; attractive; handsome.
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
Scotland
examples: O once I lov'd a bonnie lass, / Aye, and I love her still
gloss: Fine, good (often used ironically).
pos: adj
tags: Geordie
Scotland
examples: My bonnie friend, come over here.
gloss: A bonfire; chiefly one several storeys tall and burned to celebrate Eleventh Night.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-Ireland
colloquial
Derived words: Inchbonnie
Translations:
sesamoid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sesame
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)der.
Latin -o-
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs)
Latin -oīdēslbor.
English -oid
English sesamoid
From sesame + -oid.
Inflected forms:
form: more sesamoid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sesamoid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sesamoids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Resembling a sesame seed in size or shape.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to a sesamoid bone.
pos: adj
gloss: A sesamoid bone or sesamoid cartilage.
pos: noun
examples: There are also at least two examples of more complex ectopic digits. The first is in the aye-aye, a Madagascan lemur, which has a distinct pseudothumb on its forelimb consisting of a bony part that is an expanded radial sesamoid and a dense cartilaginous extension (Hartstone-Rose et al., 2019).
Translations:
inimitable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French inimitable, from Latin inimitabilis, corresponding to in- + imitable.
Base: imitable
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: more inimitable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inimitable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Beyond imitation, surpassing all others; matchless.
pos: adj
examples: Moreover, a perfect Medal has its Profile and out-ſtroaks ſharp (Nummus aſper) and by no means rugged; the Figures clean and well poliſh'd; the Contours neatly trimm'd, and exactly round and carefully preſerv'd; that the Extancy and Relievos correſpond with the Ingraving, and have not ſuffer'd in Percuſſion; in all which, there is a certain Spirit of Antiquity and Excellency to be diſcern'd in Antient Medals almoſt inimitable.
Sterling himself, though he had the most picturesque and inimitable vocabulary of vituperation, was highly squeamish about ordinary smut or profanity. He had indeed that nice-Nelliness which is often characteristic of the Don Juan type.
Let's see you pay for your drink in your own inimitable fashion, huh? A song, Denton! How about it?
Antonyms: imitable
Translations:
munchie
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English munch
English -ie
English munchie
From munch + -ie.
Inflected forms:
form: munchies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A snack.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Another homemade mix treat that any youngster will love—a big jar filled with Country-style Granola. It can be eaten as a “munchie” or a cereal, or used in a recipe for cookies or apple crisp.
As the handler returns to his dog, have him raise his arm with a delicious munchie visible in his hand, so that the dog gets in the habit of looking up.
This will gratify your longing for a tasty munchie.
Crunchers eat munchies. On one side of the river there are three munchies and three crunchers. All six have to cross the river. There is only one boat and it has room for two only. At no time must two crunchers be left with one munchie or the munchie gets eaten.
We “graze,” moving from one munchie to the next, stopping to chat when we come upon a fellow grazer.
If it’s true that you have to hit rock bottom before you can begin to climb back up again, then the nadir of my self-inflicted dining misadventures came about in the small hours of one munchie-ridden night.
Creamcheese can be substituted for Brie for an equally tasty munchie.
Eaten alone as a munchie, added to tonic teas, or in tincture, all these sweet berries are superb.
Translations:
patellar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English patella
English -ar
English patellar
From patella + -ar.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: near or relating to the patella or kneecap
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations: