yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
pouring
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: pourings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more pouring
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pouring
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is poured.
pos: noun
examples: Liberal pourings of rum and Cokes helped lubricate the festivities.
gloss: Flowing or falling intensely.
pos: adj
examples: pouring rain
Steps away from where the Koningsdam docked, we hopped onto another much smaller vessel in the pouring rain, in search of whales and other wildlife.
Translations:
terrified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more terrified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most terrified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Extremely frightened.
pos: adj
examples: Remi is terrified of spiders.
Translations:
cropping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
mining
Inflected forms:
form: croppings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is cut short or truncated.
pos: noun
examples: The vet was regularly called upon to perform ear croppings.
gloss: The growing of crops.
pos: noun
gloss: An outcrop that is mined for the ore it contains.
pos: noun
examples: Their croppings are either entirely barren or contain only a moderate amount of copper, but much richer ore is ordinarily found just above the chalcocite zone.
The cropping of the Quincy ore-bearing bed, the equivalent of the Daly West bed, is stated to have been found at the east end of the present mine and just below the present wagon road.
Derived words: autocropping
double cropping
monocropping
multicropping
polycropping
sharecropping
strip cropping
trap cropping
upcropping
Translations:
cropped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From crop.
Inflected forms:
form: more cropped
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cropped
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Cut short; cut very short.
pos: adj
examples: Her new look includes cropped hair and less makeup.
gloss: Trimmed so as to exclude the periphery.
pos: adj
examples: He supplied only a few cropped photos. I couldn't even tell where the photos were taken because they were so cropped.
gloss: Having had crop plants grown on it.
pos: adj
examples: Patches of cropped land and uncropped land were interspersed seemingly at random, but the explanation turned out to be related to crop rotation and irrigation choices.
Related words: cropping
crop top
multicropping
Derived words: close-cropped
monocropped
uncropped
wamble-cropped
Translations:
hurrying
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: hurryings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of one who hurries; hasty motion.
pos: noun
examples: Consider the hurryings of Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate; now he stands before Pilate where he was accused of sedition, seduction and usurpation.
Translations:
trans-Neptunian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From trans- + Neptunian.
Base: Neptunian
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: transneptunian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lying beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune (especially with regard to planetary bodies).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Planet X is a legendary trans-Neptunian world.
Translations:
doctoring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: doctorings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Treatment by a doctor; the practice of treating the sick; practising medicine.
pos: noun
examples: "I knew enough of doctoring to see that in another hour he would be beyond the reach of earthly help - perhaps in another five minutes."
Olga de Coude was a very beautiful woman, and Tarzan of the Apes a very lonely young man, with a heart in him that was in need of the doctoring that only a woman may provide.
For example, some doctors have a reputation for being particularly adept at working on unconscious people. If the symptoms have lingered for a long time and doctorings have not been successful, the family may postpone further treatment […]
Now a critical mass of scientific information exists that creates clear paths to further improvements in the management of HIV disease. This information, combined with good doctoring, effective drugs, and organized communities, is the foundation of the current optimism.
Translations:
downloading
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: downloadings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process by which something is downloaded.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In late 1994, about two million copies had been downloaded, and the rate of new downloadings from the Internet was about 50,000 copies per month.
Translations:
anklet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From ankle + -et, based on bracelet.
Base: ankle
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: anklets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of jewelry/jewellery, resembling a bracelet but worn around the ankle.
pos: noun
examples: The men wear their frizzly hair gathered into a flat circular knot over the left temple, which has a very knowing look, and in their ears cylinders of wood as thick as one's finger, and coloured red at the ends. Armlets and anklets of woven grass or of silver, with necklaces of beads or of small fruits, complete their attire.
gloss: An ankle sock.
pos: noun
examples: Stretch socks are made in infant sizes, girls' and ladies' anklets […]
Derived words: ankleted
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: خَلْخَال
roman: ḵalḵāl
lang: Central Bikol
word: baksal
lang: Catalan
word: turmellera
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 腳鐲 /脚镯
roman: jiǎozhuó
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 腳鏈 /脚链
roman: jiǎoliàn
lang: Czech
word: nákotník
lang: Czech
word: řetízek na kotník
lang: Danish
word: ankelkæde
lang: Dutch
word: enkelband
lang: Esperanto
word: krurringo
lang: Finnish
word: nilkkakoru
lang: Finnish
word: nilkkarengas
lang: French
word: jambelet
lang: French
word: bracelet de cheville
lang: French
word: chaîne de cheville
lang: German
word: Fußkette
lang: German
word: Fußband
lang: Ancient Greek
word: περισφύριον
roman: perisphúrion
lang: Hindi
word: पायल
roman: pāyal
lang: Hungarian
word: bokalánc
lang: Irish
word: bráisléad murnáin
lang: Italian
word: cavigliera
lang: Japanese
word: アンクレット
roman: ankuretto
lang: Kannada
word: ತಂಡೆ
roman: taṇḍe
lang: Korean
word: 발찌
roman: baljji
lang: Lü
word: ᦶᦛᧃᦎᦲᧃ
roman: v̇aenṫiin
lang: Lü
word: ᦷᦂᧂᧈᦃᦱ
roman: k̇ong¹ẋaa
lang: Malay
word: gelang kaki
lang: Malayalam
word: പാദസരം
roman: pādasaraṁ
lang: Malayalam
word: കൊലുസ്
roman: kolusŭ
lang: Marathi
word: पैंजण
roman: paiñjaṇ
lang: Māori
word: kōmore
lang: Persian
word: پایابرنجن
roman: pây-abranjan
lang: Polish
word: łańcuszek na nogę
lang: Portuguese
word: tornozeleira
lang: Punjabi
word: ਝਾਂਜਰ
roman: jhāñjar
lang: Punjabi
word: جھان٘جَر
roman: jhāṉjar
lang: Russian
word: ножно́й брасле́т
roman: nožnój braslét
lang: Russian
word: цепо́чка на ноге́
roman: cepóčka na nogé
lang: Spanish
word: ajorca de tobillo
lang: Spanish
word: tobillera
lang: Spanish
word: carcax (karkash)
lang: Swedish
word: vristlänk
lang: Tamil
word: கொலுசு
roman: kolucu
lang: Telugu
word: అందె
roman: ande
lang: Turkish
word: ayak bilekliği
lang: Turkish
word: ayak bileziği
lang: Turkish
word: ayak zinciri
lang: Turkish
word: halhal
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: خلخال
roman: halhal
lads
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A group of friends, regardless of gender. Often the lads.
pos: noun
tags: Geordie
Ireland
Northern-England
examples: Me and the lads have had a meeting in the bar and decided it's first-class family entertainment.
I loved saying lads . . . like I was a comrade . . . like I was one of them ... me and the lads . . . alright lads, eh ... Italy, no problem .
Translations:
Poindexter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Jersey Norman Poingdestre (literally “right fist”). The sense “bookish or socially unskilled person” is from the character of the same name in the 1959 animated television series Felix the Cat, which is a revival of the original Felix the Cat animated films from 1919 to 1936. Its first use appears c. 1981 in the publication University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill Slang.
Inflected forms:
form: Poindexters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: poindexter
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bookish or socially unskilled person.
pos: noun
tags: US
colloquial
examples: Brain: A quantum-interface bomb? Are you insane in the membrane? / Philip Fry: You got it, Poindexter!
On first listen, Americans of a certain vintage would call one a Poindexter, while older Brits would regard the other as a swot.
Translations:
prostrate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English prostrat(e) (“prostrate”, also used as the past participle of prostraten), borrowed from Latin prōstrātus, perfect passive participle of prōsternō (“to prostrate”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Base: prostrat
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: prostrates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prostrating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prostrated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prostrated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Lying flat, face-down.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Prostrate fall / Before him reverent, and there confess / Humbly our faults.
Finally almost the whole world was combined against the evil-doers, who are now prostrate before us.
gloss: Emotionally devastated.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
gloss: Physically incapacitated from environmental exposure or debilitating disease.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He was prostrate from the extreme heat.
gloss: Trailing on the ground; procumbent.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Prostrated.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: To lie flat or face-down.
pos: verb
tags: often
reflexive
gloss: To throw oneself down in submission.
pos: verb
tags: also
figuratively
examples: Those who had the privilege of approaching him, had to prostrate themselves before him in profound humility[…]
But I take the view that the statue is a cheap and cynical stunt by ministers with scant knowledge of history, whose only interest lies in greasing up to modern Indian politicians. With little or no dignity, they shamelessly prostrate themselves in the most craven way.
gloss: To cause to lie down, to flatten.
pos: verb
examples: How many of these mighty pines were to be prostrated under that approaching tempest!
gloss: To overcome or overpower.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Why this very minute she's prostrated with grief.
Related words: prostration
kowtow
Derived words: deprostrate
prostrate amaranth
prostrately
prostrate pigweed
prostrater
unprostrated
Translations:
close-knit
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From close (“in an intimate or immediate manner”, adverb) + knit (“joined closely and firmly together”, adjective).
Compound parts: close
knit
Inflected forms:
form: closer-knit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more close-knit
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: closest-knit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most close-knit
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a group: closely connected or linked, as by a common bond, culture, or identity.
pos: adj
examples: a close-knit community
I come from a close-knit family; we never keep secrets from one another.
He looked rather to a close-knit company of brethren and sisters, knit so close that he could call it a family or a brotherhood, eager that God's kingdom should come.
I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown.
The close-knit ethnic enclave also provides a stable environment where the dialect is commonly used. Therefore, if an ethnic community is close-knit the ethnic mother tongue is more likely to be retained under consensual pressure of its members to maintain linguistic separateness.
Translations:
piezoelectricity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *peys-
Proto-Indo-European *peysd-der.?
Ancient Greek πῐέζω (pĭézō)
English piezo-
Ancient Greek ἤλεκτρον (ḗlektron)bor.
Latin ēlectrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
New Latin ēlectricusbor.
English electric
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English electricity
English piezoelectricity
From piezo- + electricity.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A voltage generated by certain crystals in response to an applied mechanical stress.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
panty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Recorded since 1845 in the plural, meaning “drawers for men”, a derogatory diminutive of pants (the shortening of pantaloons); meaning “underpants for women or children” first recorded 1908.
Inflected forms:
form: panties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pantie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Short trousers for men, or more usually boys.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
obsolete
gloss: An article of clothing worn as underpants by women.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
plural-normally
examples: 1952 October 13, Advertisement, Life, page 13,
For, unlike old-fashioned diapers, PLAYTEX Dryper confines all wetness to the panty area; brings your baby a whole new world of comfort plus cleaner, finer protection.
2003, Glamour, Volume 101, Issues 4-6, page number unknown,
“One time I was going to run and change before a concert because I realized I had panty lines showing,” says Britta Phillips, […] .
That puts their panty well over 1000% higher priced than the Hanes panty and roughly 300% higher priced than the Victoria′s Secret panty. All three are cotton bikini panties. Not much difference in the actual panty but a huge discrepancy in prices.
gloss: A helmet cover.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: There is a special play called “Passing the Star” that allows the jammer to remove her helmet panty and hand it over to the pivot.
We′re practicing this strategy right now. Francesca is the Jammer, and she′s supposed to pass me the helmet panty. Bruisey-Q is assisting her, helping her get through the pack by knocking the formidable ass of ThunderSmack out of the way.
"If you get jammed in, hand me the panty. You can't throw it at me."
Derived words: pantied
pantie girdle
panty girdle
pantie hose
pantihose
pantyhose
panty hose
panty-hose
Pantifa
pantiliner
pantyliner
panty liner
panty-belt
panty dropper
pantyless
panty line
panty man
panty raid
panty remover
panty shield
pantywaist
pink panty dropper
Translations:
barometric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʷreh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-us
Proto-Indo-European *gʷréh₂us
Proto-Hellenic *gʷarus
Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús)
Ancient Greek βᾰ́ρος (bắros)
English baro-
Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-trom
Proto-Hellenic *-tron
Ancient Greek -τρον (-tron)
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek μετρῐκός (metrĭkós)bor.
▲
Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron)der.
Latin metrum
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icus
Latin metricusder.
French -métriquebor.
English -metric
English barometric
From baro- + -metric.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to atmospheric pressure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A low barometric pressure is characteristic of hurricanes.
Barb Stuckey, the company's chief innovation and marketing officer, who describes herself as a hypertaster and whose tongue can detect changes in barometric pressure, greeted me in the hall carrying an armful of milk cartons.
gloss: Made or done with a barometer.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: barometer
Derived words: barometrically
barometric pressure
geobarometric
geothermobarometric
isobarometric
nonbarometric
Translations:
anti-personnel
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
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-
English personnel
English anti-personnel
From anti- + personnel.
Inflected forms:
form: antipersonnel
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Referring to devices (typically weapons) intended to harm people in particular.
pos: adj
examples: An anti-personnel mine will kill a soldier but is ineffective against a tank.
Translations:
forged
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Fake (as documents); falsified.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Forged identification documents were used to enter the building.
Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
gloss: Fabricated by forging or at a forge, by working hot metal
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The blacksmith made an expertly forged horseshoe by beating the red hot metal with his hammer.
Related words: drop-forged
Derived words: nonforged
unforged
Translations:
NaCl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the chemical formula; see Na, Cl.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Sodium chloride; table salt.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
rarebit
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: By ellipsis of Welsh rarebit, corruption of Welsh rabbit.
Inflected forms:
form: rarebits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Welsh rarebit
pos: noun
Translations:
bewildered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bewildered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bewildered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, not thinking clearly, or uncertain.
pos: adj
examples: He was just standing there, turning this way and that, with a bewildered look on his face.
The Ways of Heav’n are dark and intricate,
Puzzled in Mazes, and perplext with Errors;
Our Underſtanding traces ’em in vain,
Loſt and bewilder’d in the fruitleſs Search; […]
This shows their superiority over opium – cold, selfish, unsociable, mad, bewildered, soul-destroying opium.
The prime object in his view is the gratification of his relish for strong drink, united with that bewildered elevation of spirits, which he feels in the hour of intoxication.
Having got away the knives and lances of the men, who were bewildered and enraged with drink, she came stealthily into the cabin, feeling her way in the darkness, and hid them in the cracks and crevices of the logs.
There is perhaps a likeness in the whiteness of the moonlight to the shining clearness of snow ; at all events Janet thought very much, though in a bewildered, drink be-clouded way, of the night when Wee Amos was injured, and that early Sabbath morning when Maggie had fetched her to him through the snow.
It was a stodgy, weary display from Mourinho’s team with only sporadic moments when they threatened Salvatore Sirigu’s goal and their manager seemed bewildered afterwards when he tried to explain what had gone wrong.
Translations:
bewildering
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bewilder (“to confuse, disorientate, or puzzle someone, especially with many different choices”) + -ing (suffix forming nouns or noun-like words from verbs, denoting the act of doing something, an action, or the embodiment of an action; and forming the present participles of verbs).
Base: bewilder
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more bewildering
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bewildering
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very baffling, confusing, or perplexing, often due to a very large choice being available.
pos: adj
examples: There was a bewildering collection of curiosities filling the room.
—At once bewildering mists around him close, / And cold and hunger are the least of woes; / The Demon of the Snow, with angry roar / Descending, shuts for aye his prison door.
The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter's being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income.
Translations:
manifested
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more manifested
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most manifested
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
bidding
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: biddings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That which one is bidden to do; a command.
pos: noun
examples: I still have lots of paperwork to do at the boss's bidding.
Do their biddings, and they will lead you to "whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report."
gloss: The act of placing a bid.
pos: noun
examples: Their biddings forced existing owners into ruinous competition; they mortgaged their ancestral acres to buy up outlying properties or round off their boundaries.
Derived words: bidding box
bidding price
do someone's bidding
e-bidding
misbidding
nonbidding
unbidding
Translations:
stretching
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English strecching, strecchinge, equivalent to stretch + -ing.
Base: stretch
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: stretchings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more stretching
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stretching
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is stretched.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
gloss: A form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle (or muscle group) is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Requiring a high level of effort or performance.
pos: adj
Derived words: key stretching
stretching course
stretching frame
stretching-iron
stretching the long bow
time stretching
Translations:
snatched
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more snatched
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most snatched
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Good-looking.
pos: adj
examples: So she lifted her head and continued the trek. “See, that's more like it,” Norman said. “Walk like you own this motherfuckin' town. You are looking snatched in that dress.” Norman pretended as though he had yanked something up out of thin air.
“Everyone says that you should wait, because your body doesn’t fully come in until you’re like 30, and I’m 20 years old, and why am I going to wait until I’m 30 to be snatched?” Catera Northup, an exotic dancer from Rhode Island, said.
gloss: Having a narrow waist.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: Lucinda impressed her class when she revealed how snatched she was under her baggy sweatshirt.
gloss: Narrow.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: However, one could make a strong correlation to her success ruling Europe in the 1600s to her having a snatched waist while strutting around the castle in heels. Come on, you know the world bends to a woman with 36-24-36 body measurements.
“You know I'm endorsing a new line?” “I can tell with your extra snatched waist.” I gave her the stink eye. “Don't hate, bitch.” We both started cracking up.
gloss: Having an attractive, sculpted appearance of face and/or body.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: snatched waist
unsnatched
Translations:
sweeping
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, sweep + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: sweepings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more sweeping
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sweeping
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An instance of sweeping.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The sidewalk needed a sweeping every morning.
gloss: The activity of sweeping.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Sweeping took all morning.
The sidewalk needed sweeping every morning.
gloss: Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.
pos: adj
examples: The government will bring in sweeping changes to the income tax system.
He loves making sweeping statements without the slightest evidence.
We steamed easily across the first part of the Tay Bridge, and then after passing over the long spans in mid-stream we coasted smoothly down the 1 in 114 gradient, and around the sweeping curve through Esplanade Station.
By the time politicians in several cities backed down on Tuesday and announced that they would cut or consider reducing fares, the demonstrations had already morphed into a more sweeping social protest, with marchers waving banners carrying slogans like “The people have awakened.”
The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!
gloss: Completely overwhelming.
pos: adj
examples: He claimed a sweeping victory.
gloss: Moving in a continuous motion, rather than by intermittent jumps. (For example, the second hand on a clock face may move either in the sweeping manner or in the ticking manner.)
pos: adj
Derived words: at a sweeping reduction
minesweeping
sweeping day
sweeping flood
sweeping-machine
sweeping rain
sweepings
oversweeping
sweepingly
sweepingness
Translations:
sweeps
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: broadcasting
media
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sweep
Old English -as
Middle English -es
English -s
English sweeps
From sweep + -s (pluralia tantum suffix).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The Nielsen ratings used to measure television show viewership several times a year.
pos: noun
tags: US
plural
plural-only
Translations:
preaching
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle English prechynge
English preaching
Inherited from Middle English prechynge.
Inflected forms:
form: preachings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of delivering a sermon or similar moral instruction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: And, as I know from what you have now found upon your own souls, since he came amongst you, while under the preachings and persuadings of such a singularly serious Gospel minister, you will be restlessly solicitous till he be settled[…]
Translations:
proceeds
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Revenue; gross revenue.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: They will donate all proceeds—the entire amount collected in ticket sales—from the show to charity.
gloss: Profit; net revenue.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: They will donate net proceeds—whatever money is left after they pay their expenses—from the show to charity.
Translations:
perishing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more perishing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most perishing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: perishings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Extremely cold.
pos: adj
gloss: Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions.
pos: adj
examples: If many more white men knew of this method of obtaining and extracting water, there would be, perhaps, many saved from the horrors of perishing thirst.
A boulder ground into Joe's thigh and he yelled for what seemed an eternity in the perishing heat but, apart from a few bird calls, the horse's laboured breath was the only sound he heard.
gloss: The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction.
pos: noun
examples: Since the world of becoming, of origins and perishings, is deficient in true Being, it cannot be known in the best sense.
Translations:
sunfish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: * From sun + fish.
* (type of fish): Perhaps from the rounded body shape.
Compound parts: sun
fish
Inflected forms:
form: sunfish
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sunfishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sunfishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sunfishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sunfished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sunfished
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small freshwater fishes of the family Centrarchidae, often with iridescent colours and having a laterally compressed body.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various large marine fishes of the family Molidae that have an oval compressed body.
pos: noun
gloss: Of an animal such as a bull or a horse: to twist the body into a crescent shape and roll back and forth.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: longear sunfish
mud sunfish
ocean sunfish
Translations:
koi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 鯉 (koi).
Inflected forms:
form: koi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Ornamental domesticated varieties of the Amur carp (Cyprinus rubrofuscus), of Japan and eastern Asia with red-gold or white coloring.
pos: noun
examples: We sense that while it might be wonderful for Krystle and Alexis to have a catfight in a koi pond, it would be inappropriate for Joan to smack Linda with a koi.
Translations:
regimented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more regimented
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most regimented
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Organised, ordered, formed into regiments.
pos: adj
Translations:
fulfilled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more fulfilled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fulfilled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Emotionally satisfied; feeling a sense of fulfilment.
pos: adj
examples: emotionally fulfilled
fully fulfilled
personally fulfilled
She felt fulfilled in her new career as a teacher.
Baby, your life and mine is grooving on the danger / Revelations prophecy's nearly fulfilled / We are blessed to experience a changing world / So let's love before our fate is closed and sealed
Translations:
swinging
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
Etymology: The sexual practice is so called after the custom in swing dancing of changing partners after each dance, unlike traditional ballroom dance styles where one has a single partner.
Inflected forms:
form: swingings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more swinging
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: swinginger
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most swinging
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: swingingest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The act or motion of that which swings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mr. Henderson's chief trouble seems to be that he cannot forget his old shiftiness of views and his pendulum-like swingings between Liberalism and Independent Labourism[…]
gloss: An activity where couples engage in sexual activity with different partners, often in a group setting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Then one night in bed, Simon gently suggested swinging. I was resistant to it, but I thought Simon might leave me if I said no. I agreed to it for him, for our relationship.
gloss: That swings
pos: adj
gloss: Fine, good, successful.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: 1964, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Didn't do anything great except saw "The Beatles" on The Ed Sullivan Show and Kathy practically had a bird. They are sorta cute but I think Ringo is swingin, George is cute, Paul is a good singer and John is icky. Too!
The party was swinging.
gloss: Sexually promiscuous.
pos: adj
examples: Hey, everyone fantasizes about what kind of swinging stud or studette they could be if they were only free from the shackles of domesticity.
Derived words: go down swinging
inswinging
swinging-block
swinging boom
swinging bunt
swinging dick
swinging door
swinging-door chad
swingingly
swingingness
swinging post
Translations:
varve
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Swedish varvbor.
English varve
Borrowed from Swedish varv (“layer”).
Inflected forms:
form: varves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.
pos: noun
examples: A comparable method uses varves […] where spans of time can be measured through counting varves, and also by radiocarbon dating plant or animal residues within the varves.
Translations:
bimolecular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *dwi-
Proto-Italic *dwi-
Latin bi-bor.
English bi-
Latin mōlēs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
New Latin -cula
New Latin moleculalbor.
French moléculebor.
English molecule
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -ārisbor.
English -ar
English molecular
English bimolecular
From bi- + molecular.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: involving two molecules
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: consisting of two layers of molecules
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to bimolecules
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: molecular
unimolecular
trimolecular
Derived words: bimolecularity
bimolecularly
Translations:
unimolecular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ís?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos
Proto-Italic *oinos
Old Latin oinos
Latin ūnus
Latin ūni-der.
English uni-
Latin mōlēs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
New Latin -cula
New Latin moleculalbor.
French moléculebor.
English molecule
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -ārisbor.
English -ar
English molecular
English unimolecular
From uni- + molecular.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: involving a single molecule
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
monomolecular
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mender.
Proto-Hellenic *mónwos
Ancient Greek μόνος (mónos)
Ancient Greek μονο- (mono-)der.
English mono-
Latin mōlēs
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
New Latin -cula
New Latin moleculalbor.
French moléculebor.
English molecule
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -ārisbor.
English -ar
English molecular
English monomolecular
From mono- + molecular.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: involving a single molecule
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: consisting of a single layer of molecules
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Look at this. / Monomolecular edge. / Translation? Cool sword.
Related words: molecular
bimolecular
trimolecular
Derived words: monomolecularly
nonmonomolecular
Translations:
grenadier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
entomology
government
military
natural-sciences
ornithology
politics
war
zoology
Etymology: From French grenadier, corresponding to grenade + -ier.
Base: grenade
Affixes: -ier
Inflected forms:
form: grenadiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of soldier, originally one who threw grenades, later a member of a company formed from the tallest men of the regiment; now specifically, a member of the Grenadier Guards of Canada and the United Kingdom.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various deep-sea fish of the family Macrouridae that have a large head and body and a long tapering tail; a rattail.
pos: noun
gloss: Either of two red and black libellulid dragonflies, Agrionoptera insignis and Lathrecista asiatica, of Asia and Australia.
pos: noun
Derived words: giant grenadier
Gray's grenadier anchovy
roundnose grenadier
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: piispa
lang: Finnish
word: sinipeippo (grenadier)
gurnard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English gurnard, from Old French gournart, from the verb gronir, from Latin grunnīre (“to grunt”). Compare French grondin (“gurnard”), which evolved in a similar way.
Inflected forms:
form: gurnard
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gurnards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gurnet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various marine fish of the family Triglidae that have a large armored head and fingerlike pectoral fins used for crawling along the sea bottom.
pos: noun
gloss: Other fish with appearance like that of members of family Triglidae, such as certain of those in families Dactylopteridae, Peristediidae, and Scorpaenidae.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
Synonyms: sea robin
Derived words: African gurnard
armoured gurnard
big-headed gurnard
bluefin gurnard
Cape gurnard
eastern spiny gurnard
flying gurnard
gray gurnard
grey gurnard
helmet gurnard
jaggedhead gurnard
lantern gurnard
longfin gurnard
long-finned gurnard
lyre gurnard
oriental flying gurnard
Pacific red gurnard
piper gurnard
purple flying gurnard
plyling gurnard
red gurnard
red gurnard perch
red gurnard scorpionfish
rock gunard
sapphire gurnard
sapphirine gurnard
scaly gurnard
smallscaled gurnard
spiny red gurnard
spotted gurnard
streaked gurnard
tub gurnard
yellow gurnard
Translations:
bullfrog
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bull + frog.
Compound parts: bull
frog
Inflected forms:
form: bullfrogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bull frog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bull-frog
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull.
pos: noun
examples: The bull-frogs were also very large, and with voices proportionate to their size[.]
Translations:
dodder
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English daderen (“to quake, tremble”). Compare Norwegian dudra (“to tremble”).
Inflected forms:
form: dodders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: doddering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: doddered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: doddered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dodders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Yossarian responded to the thought by slipping away stealthily from the police and almost tripped over the feet of a burly woman of forty hastening across the intersection guiltily, darting furtive, vindictive glances behind her toward a woman of eighty with thick, bandaged ankles doddering after her in a losing pursuit.
Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks.
gloss: Any of about 100–170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
nankeen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Eye spelling of Nanking, itself a romanization of Chinese 南京 (Nánjīng, literally “Southern capital”).
Inflected forms:
form: nankeens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of cotton cloth originally from Nanking in China.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Well, I wore my diamond, as you may imagine, and rigged myself in my best clothes, viz. my blue coat and brass buttons before-mentioned, nankeen trousers and silk stockings, a white waistcoat, and a pair of white gloves bought for the occasion."
1885, L. and A. Maude (translators), Leo Tolstoy, "What Men Live By", in What Men Live By and Other Tales
He put on over his shirt his wife's wadded nankeen jacket, and over that he put his own cloth coat.
c. 1910-1920, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Thomas Seltzer (translator), A Christmas Tree and a Wedding
She was a poor widow, and her little boy, clad in a sorry-looking little nankeen jacket, looked thoroughly crushed and intimidated.
Translations:
dawning
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dawnynge, an alteration of dawing, under the influence of North Germanic cognates (compare Swedish, Danish dagning). See daw (“to dawn”).
Inflected forms:
form: dawnings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daunyng
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Dawn.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: Anone after cam the knyght with the two ſwerdes and balan his broder ⸝ and brought with hem kynge Ryons of Northwalys and there delyuerd hym to the porters and charged hem with hym ⸝ & ſoo they two retorned ageyne in the daunyng of the day ⸝[…]
[…] he arose to make an excursion to the top of Arthur's Seat, to breathe the breeze of the dawning, and see the sun arise out of the eastern ocean.
The City is of Night; perchance of Death, / But certainly of Night; for never there / Can come the lucid morning's fragrant breath / After the dewy dawning’s cold grey air; […]
He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon; / And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon, / When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor, / A red-coat troop came marching— / Marching—marching— / King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.
"The bird of dawning singeth all night long."
gloss: The first beginnings of something.
pos: noun
Translations:
daw
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dawe, from Old English *dāwe, from Proto-West Germanic *dāhwā. Cognate with German Dahle, Dohle, dialectal Tach.
Inflected forms:
form: daws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: daws
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dawing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dawed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dawed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A western jackdaw, Coloeus monedula, a passerine bird in the crow family (Corvidae), more commonly called jackdaw.
pos: noun
examples: The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws
 The whole assembly of his fellow daws.
[…] But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.
gloss: An idiot, a simpleton; fool.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Therefore to make complaynt
Of such mysadvysed
Parsons and dysgysed,
Thys boke we have devysed, […]
No good preest to offend,
But suche dawes to amend, […]
A kind of choughs, Or thievish daws, sir, that have pick'd my purse Of eight score and ten pounds within these five weeks
‘Of course I do, you great daw.’ She kissed his beautiful mouth and moved his fringe out of his eyes.
gloss: To dawn.
pos: verb
gloss: To wake (someone) up.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: ANd whanne the Quene herd them saye soo
 she felle to the erthe in a dede swoune
 and thenne syr Bors took her vp
 and dawed her
 & whanne she was awaked she kneled afore the thre knyghtes
 and helde vp bothe their handes and besoughte them to seke hym
And when the queen heard them say so she fell to the earth in a dead swoon. And then Sir Bors took her up, and dawed her; and when she was awaked she kneeled afore the three knights, and held up both their hands, and besought them to seek him
gloss: To daunt; to terrify.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
Synonyms: jackdaw
Derived words: dawish
adaw
bedaw
Translations:
Jesse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai).
Inflected forms:
form: Jesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A representation of the genealogy of Christ, in decorative art, such as a genealogical tree in stained glass or a branched candlestick.
pos: noun
Translations:
paunch
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English paunche, from Old Northern French panche, Old French pance (French panse), from Latin pantex.
Inflected forms:
form: paunches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: paunches
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: paunching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: paunched
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: paunched
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant, the rumen.
pos: noun
gloss: The contents of this stomach in a slaughtered animal, viewed as food or a byproduct.
pos: noun
gloss: The belly of a human, especially a large, fat protruding one.
pos: noun
examples: See also: pooch
Since retiring from athletics, he has developed a paunch.
Haunch Paunch and Jowl—so that's the derisive picture the radicals had drawn of me. The lean, drawn starvelings in their dream-stupefied state were jealous of my well filled out, prosperous form. It had not yet reached the terrible proportions of obesity that years in a swivel chair on the judicial bench had later given me. But I suppose I was beginning to get fat.
“And another sort of weak, flailing blow to the paunch. Neither of these two are in any condition to be fighting.”
gloss: A paunch mat.
pos: noun
gloss: The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
pos: noun
gloss: To remove the internal organs of a ruminant, prior to eating.
pos: verb
examples: (Caliban)
Why, as I told thee, 'tis a custom with him
I' th' afternoon to sleep: there thou may'st brain him,
Having first seiz'd his books; or with a log
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake,
Or cut his wezand with thy knife
Synonyms: bay window
beer baby
beer belly
beer gut
beer muscles
Buddha belly
corporation
German goitre
gorbelly
Milwaukee goiter
Molson muscle
paunch
pooch
pot
potbelly
spare tire
swagbelly
tummy
Related words: paunce
obese
Derived words: air one's paunch
paunched
paunchful
paunchless
paunchy
unpaunch
Translations:
amphipathic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From amphi- + Ancient Greek παθικός (pathikós, “remaining passive in a sexual intercourse”), from Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “on both sides”).
Base: παθικός
Affixes: amphi-
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Describing a molecule, such as a detergent, which has both hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of the surface(s) on a protein, particularly an alpha helix, where one surface of the alpha helix has hydrophilic amino acids and the opposite face has hydrophobic (or lipophilic) amino acids.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: amphiphilic
Related words: amphiprotic
amphoteric
surfactant
Derived words: amphipathicity
Translations: