yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
handkerchief
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hand + kerchief.
Compound parts: hand
kerchief
Inflected forms:
form: handkerchiefs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: handkerchieves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: handkercher
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.
pos: noun
examples: He sneezed into his handkerchief during the meeting.
Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow.
Harriet, who was as a rule good at handkerchiefs, discovered to her annoyance that on this particular morning she had provided herself only with an elegant square of linen, suitable for receiving such rare and joyful drops as might be expected on one’s honeymoon. Peter came to the rescue with what might have been a young flag of truce.
gloss: A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth.
pos: noun
Derived words: drop the handkerchief
flying handkerchief
handkerchief code
handkerchiefed
handkerchiefful
handkerchiefless
handkerchief tree
pocket-handkerchief
smell like a tart's handkerchief
Spanish handkerchief
throw the handkerchief
Translations:
handless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English handles, from Old English *handlēas, from Proto-Germanic *handulausaz (“handless”), equivalent to hand + -less. Cognate with West Frisian hânleas (“handless”), German handlos (“handless”), Icelandic handlauss (“handless”).
Base: hand
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more handless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most handless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Without any hands.
pos: adj
examples: Together with his mangled Myrmidons, That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him
gloss: Not handy; awkward.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: We’ll take a dram for luck, and as soon as this handless man of mine has the collops ready, we’ll dine and take a hand at the cartes as gentlemen should.
This, however, was a thing that, left to himself, would have simply rendered Bill Lampiere a most handless workman at everything he attempted.
Related words: handed
hands-free
hands-off
Derived words: handlessness
Translations:
handmade
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hand + made.
Compound parts: hand
made
Inflected forms:
form: handmades
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Made by hand; manufactured manually.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: handmade jewels
handmade products
handmade shoes
gloss: An art or craft object made by hand.
pos: noun
Translations:
Hispanic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin hispānicus, from Hispānia (“Iberia”) + -icus.
Inflected forms:
form: more Hispanic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Hispanic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Hispanics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Spain.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Iberian peninsula, its people, its culture or its languages.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to a Spanish-speaking people or culture, as in Latin America.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: Houses in New Mexico, California and Florida exhibit a strong Hispanic architectural influence.
gloss: Mestizo.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
gloss: A native or descendant of a Spanish-speaking country.
pos: noun
gloss: A person of Spanish ancestry.
pos: noun
gloss: A mestizo.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
Synonyms: of Spain
Related words: Hispanist
Hispano-
hispano-
Hispanophile
Hispanophilia
Hispanophilic
Hispanophobe
Hispanophobia
Hispanophobic
Hispanophone
Hispanophone Caribbean
Hispanophonia
Hispano
spaniel
Spanish
Hispania
Hispaniola
Iberian
Ibero-
Ibero-America
Ibero-American
Ibero-Romance
Latin
Latina
Latin American
Latino
Latinx
Derived words: Hispanicisation
Hispanicise
Hispanicism
Hispanicity
Hispanicization
Hispanicize
Translations:
Hispano
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish hispano, from Latin Hispānus, from Hispānia.
Inflected forms:
form: Hispanos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Hispano
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Hispano
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A Hispanic; a person of Spanish descent.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: There are many famous Hispanos in the music world.
Hispanos are quickly becoming the largest minority in the United States.
gloss: A person from Spain.
pos: noun
gloss: of Spanish descent
pos: adj
Translations:
pinnacle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: architecture
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English, borrowed from Old French pinacle, pinnacle, from Late Latin pinnāculum (“a peak, pinnacle”), from Latin pinna (“a pinnacle”); see pin. Doublet of panache.
Inflected forms:
form: pinnacles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pinnacles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pinnacling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pinnacled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pinnacled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The highest point.
pos: noun
gloss: A tall, sharp and craggy rock or mountain.
pos: noun
examples: Kings, who remain in many respects the representatives of a vanished world, solitary pinnacles that topple over the rising waste of waters under which the past lies buried.
gloss: An all-time high; a point of greatest achievement or success.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The pinnacle of the effort to fix restrictive meanings to a set of terminology can be found in two papers in American Speech by Feinsilver (1979, 1980).
gloss: An upright member, generally ending in a small spire, used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire.
pos: noun
examples: Some renowned metropolis / With glistering spires and pinnacles around.
In the city’s midst the gleaming marble of a thousand steps climbed to the citadel where arose four pinnacles beckoning to heaven, and midmost between the pinnacles there stood the dome, vast, as the gods had dreamed it.
gloss: To place on a pinnacle.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And down this vast gulf upon which we were pinnacled the great draught dashed and roared, driving clouds and misty wreaths of vapour before it, till we were nearly blinded, and utterly confused.
gloss: To build or furnish with a pinnacle or pinnacles.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The pediment of the Southern Transept is pinnacled, not inelegantly, with a flourished cross
Derived words: Pinnacle Swamp
The Pinnacles
Translations:
stepfather
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stepfader, from Old English stēopfæder, from Proto-Germanic *steupafadēr (“stepfather”), equivalent to step- + father.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stäiffoar (“stepfather”), Dutch stiefvader (“stepfather”), German Low German Steevvader (“stepfather”), German Stiefvater (“stepfather”), Swedish styvfar (“stepfather”), Icelandic stjúpfaðir (“stepfather”).
Base: father
Affixes: step-
Inflected forms:
form: stepfathers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: step-father
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The husband of one's biological mother after her initial marriage to or relationship with one's biological father.
pos: noun
examples: My stepfather loved me as much as he loved his own three sons. I knew how much he wanted to help me and how lacking in financial resources he was. Nothing could erase the image I gained of my real father that day: a carefree, well-to-do man who didn't really give a damn about the hopes and dreams of his firstborn son.
gloss: The husband of one's parent distinct from one's biological father or person with a similar relationship.
pos: noun
examples: In suboptimal cases the gynaecologist takes sperm from anonymous donors. In this case the husband can only be stepfather of the child.
Telegony or Inheritance from the Stepfather
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Synonyms: stepdad
co-father
father-in-law
Related words: stepaunt
stepbrother
stepchild
stepdaughter
stepfamily
stepfather-in-law
stepmother
stepnephew
stepniece
stepsister
stepson
stepuncle
Derived words: ex-stepfather
stepfatherhood
stepfatherly
Translations:
hara-kiri
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 腹切り (harakiri), ultimately from 腹 (hara, “belly”) + 切る (kiru, “to cut”).
Compound parts: 腹
切る
Inflected forms:
form: harakiri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hari-kari
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: harikari
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
form: harikiri
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Ceremonial suicide by disembowelment, as by slicing open the abdomen with a dagger or knife: formerly practised in Japan by the samurai when disgraced or sentenced to death.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: On the downfall of his power in 1867 he was urged by one of his Council to save the honour of his family by a voluntary suicide. He flatly refused to do so and left the room, whereupon his faithful adviser retired to another part of the castle and solemnly performed the hara-kiri.
gloss: Suicide or any suicidal action.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: ...the report that was issued at the time officially blamed a disgruntled crewman who had been accused of theft and may have decided to do the ultimate hara-kiri, but quite how you prove that I don't know...
gloss: An act against one's own interests.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Regarded logically, therefore, Japan’s decision to go to war made no sense. It was hara-kiri.
They are haunted by the spectre of the 1984 election, when Mr Walter Mondale committed hara-kiri by acknowledging the need to raise taxes if America were to get its economy straight.
But with GSM players lobbying hard for more spectrum, taking MVNOs on board now would be hara-kiri.
Related words: bushido
kamikaze
seppuku
suicide
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: harakiri
lang: German
word: Harakiri
handling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: From Middle English handlinge, hondlunge, from Old English handlung (“handling”), equivalent to handle + -ing. Cognate with Dutch handeling (“trade, operation, action”), German Handlung (“act, action”), Swedish handling (“act, deed, action”).
Base: handle
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: handlings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A touching, controlling, managing, using, taking care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: baggage handling
the heauens, and your faire handeling / Haue made you maister of the field this day
1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
[…] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
gloss: The mechanism for handling or manipulating something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: In mortal terror of people forcing an entrance at such an hour, and in such a manner as to leave no doubt of their purpose, I would have turned to fly when first I heard the noise, only that I feared by any quick motion to catch their attention, as I also ran the danger of doing by opening the door, which was all but closed, and to whose handlings I was unaccustomed.
gloss: The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A miniature[…]remarkable for its brilliancy of colour and charming freedom of handling.
gloss: A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: antihandling
ballhandling
double-handling
ground handling
handling charge
handling fee
handling time
material handling
materials handling
puck-handling
puck handling
request-handling
shiphandling
shipping and handling
special handling unit
Translations:
unwise
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English unwis, from Old English unwīs (“unwise, foolish, ignorant, uninformed, insane”), equivalent to un- + wise. Cognate with Dutch onwijs (“unwise”), German unweise (“unwise”), Danish uvis (“unwise”), Swedish ovis (“unwise”), Icelandic óvís (“unwise”).
Base: wise
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unwiser
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: unwisest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not wise; lacking wisdom
pos: adj
examples: unwise man
unwise kings
unwise measures
If the kind of network we envisage is to be established, it would be unwise to begin any of its services hurriedly with older stock, which, however admirable in its day, now has an air of faded Edwardian splendour that is out of joint with the times.
Their use was “impermissible not because it is unwise or ineffective, but because [federal law]^([sic]) does not allow it”, the decision explained.
Antonyms: wise
Translations:
unwisely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English vnwysely, vnwisely, vnwyseliche, from Old English unwīslīċe (“unwisely, foolish”), equivalent to un- + wisely.
Base: wisely
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more unwisely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most unwisely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an unwise manner; foolishly.
pos: adv
examples: The scope of the new upgrade isn't just restricted to the station and junction. It has involved more than simply putting back what was unwisely taken away.
Translations:
itinerary
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English itinerarie, from Latin itinerārium (“an account of a journey, a road-book”), from iter (“a way, journey”). By surface analysis, Latin itiner- + -ary.
Inflected forms:
form: itineraries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more itinerary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most itinerary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A written schedule of activities for a vacation or road trip.
pos: noun
gloss: A route or proposed route of a journey.
pos: noun
examples: The length of the Wengernalp Railway from Lauterbrunnen over the Kleine Scheidegg to Grindelwald or vice versa, Riggenbach rack-and-pinion operated throughout, should be a "must" in the itinerary of every Oberland tourist; [...].
gloss: An account or record of a journey.
pos: noun
gloss: A guidebook for travellers.
pos: noun
gloss: Itinerant; travelling from place to place; done on a journey.
pos: adj
examples: It were rather an itinerary circuit of justice than a progress.
Related words: itinerance
itinerancy
itinerant
itinerarium
itinerate
itineration
Translations:
arrogant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English arrogaunt, from Old French arrogant, from Latin arrogāns, present active participle of arrogō.
Inflected forms:
form: more arrogant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most arrogant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: arrogaunt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt or disrespect for others.
pos: adj
examples: sound arrogant
an arrogant assumption
seem arrogant to others
He was too arrogant to admit his mistake.
Her arrogant attitude alienated the team.
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.
Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you’ll call me.
Transport Minister Marples, meanwhile, used arrogant rhetoric and showed his personal contempt for railways when confirming in Parliament that a third of the network was to be closed even before the survey results were known.
Antonyms: humble
modest
servile
sycophantic
Translations:
noogie
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Yiddish נודזשען (nudzhen, “to badger”), or possibly from Hebrew נוגות (nugot, “afflict”) (see Eicha/Lamentations 1:3) or possibly via an alteration of nudge, matching the alteration of wedge to wedgie.
Inflected forms:
form: noogies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: noogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nuggie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nuggy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: nugie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: noogies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: noogying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: noogied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: noogied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: noogy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: nuggie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: nuggy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: nugie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An act of putting a person in a headlock and rubbing one's knuckles on the other person's head, often a playful gesture of affection when done lightly.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: give someone a noogie
get a noogie
Marti Page: Mom, is Grandpa Walter going to give me noogies? Susan Page: Of course he's going to give you noogies. He loves giving you noogies. That's how he tells you he loves you. Little Neal Page: Why doesn't he give me noogies? Susan Page: Because you get Indian burns. Little Neal Page: But I prefer noogies.
1991, shooting script of Columbia Pictures My Girl Script, see also My Girl (film).
Phil then proceeds to give Harry a noogie
HARRY: HEY! WATCH THE HAIR!! THIS SHIRT GIVES!!! ALL RIGHT!!!!"
gloss: To perform a noogie on.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Translations:
penultimate
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
mathematics
scholarly
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin paene
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-
Proto-Italic *-tm̥mos
Proto-Italic *oltm̥mos
Latin ultimus
Latin paenultimus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English penultimate
From Latin paenultimus (“penultimate”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), from paene (“almost”) + ultimus (“last”). Equivalent to pene- + ultimate. Compare French pénultième.
Base: paenultimus
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: pænultimate
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Next to last, second to last; immediately preceding the end of a sequence, list, etc.
pos: adj
tags: UK
literary
not-comparable
examples: […] they [the sounds of an echo] next strike the ultimate secondary object, then the penultimate and antepenultimate; […]
But it should frequently happen that offspring should resemble its penultimate rather than its latest phase, and should thus be more like a grand-parent than a parent.
“Your clothes don't weigh more'n seven pounds. And seven from—hum—say one hundred an' twenty-three—one hundred an' sixteen is your stripped weight.”
But at the penultimate word, Mary cried out with sharp reproof:
“Why, Billy Roberts, people don't talk about such things.”
gloss: Of or pertaining to a penult.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to or denoting an element of a related collection of curves that is arbitrarily close to a degenerate form.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
rare
gloss: pre-eminent, ultimate, best; par excellence, top-quality
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
examples: This Book is the Proud Purple Penultimate!!
This treatment, where two therapists massage the body using warm oils infused with plant extracts, is truly the penultimate experience.
Ultimately, I reach the most penultimate existential questions: “What is the meaning of this? Is there any?”
Antonyms: second
Related words: penult
ultimate
peninitial
Derived words: antepenultimate
penultimately
penultimatum
preantepenultimate
prepenultimate
propenultimate
propreantepenultimate
Translations:
Brussels
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-West Germanic *brōk
Old Dutch *bruoc
Old Dutch *sali
Dutch Brusselbor.
English Brussels
Borrowed from Dutch Brussel.
The metonymic meaning of Brussels as the European Union stems from the fact that the EU headquarters is based in Brussels.
Inflected forms:
form: Brussels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A Brussels carpet.
pos: noun
examples: If the same design be produced in a Brussels and in a Tapestry it will be found that the Brussels shows sharp, clean-cut outlines, where the Tapestry gives ragged, uneven effects, […]
gloss: A Brussels sprout.
pos: noun
examples: We cooked a big Christmas dinner with turkey, stuffing, Brussels, and parsnips.
Translations:
peen
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from a North Germanic source, compare dialectal Norwegian penn (“peen”), Danish pind (“peg”), German Pinne (“the peen of a hammer”), Old Swedish pæna (“to pound iron with a hammer”).
Inflected forms:
form: peens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pane
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: pein
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: piend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: peens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: peening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: peened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: peened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: pane
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: pean
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: pein
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: piend
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
pos: noun
gloss: To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
postulate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin poscō?
Latin postulō
Latin postulātusnom.
Latin postulātumbor.
English postulate
Borrowed from Latin postulātum, a neuter nominalization of postulātus, perfect passive participle of postulō, possibly from poscō. See -ate (noun-forming suffix) for more. Cognate with French postulat.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: postulates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: postulates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: postulating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: postulated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: postulated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument. Sometimes distinguished from axioms as being relevant to a particular science or context, rather than universally true, and following from other axioms rather than being an absolute assumption.
pos: noun
gloss: A fundamental element; a basic principle.
pos: noun
gloss: An axiom.
pos: noun
gloss: A requirement; a prerequisite.
pos: noun
gloss: To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
pos: verb
examples: 1883, Benedictus de Spinoza, translated by R. H. M. Elwes, Ethics, Part 3, Prop. XXII,
But this pleasure or pain is postulated to come to us accompanied by the idea of an external cause; […]
[T]he attempt to arrive at a physical explanation of existence led the Ionian thinkers to postulate various primal elements or simply the infinite τὸ ἀπειρον.
gloss: To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical office.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
historical
examples: [A]lthough Douglas was postulated to it [the Abbacy of Arbroath], and signed letters and papers under this designation his nomination […] was never completed.
gloss: To request, demand or claim for oneself.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
obsolete
Derived words: Bertrand's postulate
Hebb's postulate
Koch's postulate
parallel postulate
universal postulate
postulation
postulational
repostulate
unpostulated
Translations:
igloo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
government
military
natural-sciences
politics
war
zoology
Etymology: From Inuktitut ᐃᒡᓗ (iclo, “house, building (of any kind)”), from Proto-Inuit *ǝɣlu, from Proto-Eskimo *ǝŋlu.
Inflected forms:
form: igloos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow.
pos: noun
gloss: A cavity, or excavation, made in the snow by a seal, over its breathing hole in the sea ice.
pos: noun
gloss: A reinforced bunker for the storage of nuclear weapons.
pos: noun
examples: General James Walsh signalled Strategic Air Command that the B-47 tore apart the igloo and knocked about 3 mark sixes.
gloss: A kind of airfreight cargo container.
pos: noun
examples: Since most major airlines have interline agreements, if your cargo is in an igloo or container, it can be moved as is […]
Related words: twigloo
quinzhee
snow fort
Derived words: iglooless
igloolike
pigloo
twigloo
Translations:
lies
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: lyes
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Great, wonderful
pos: adj
examples: That kebab was lies!
Translations:
alert
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
government
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
war
Etymology: From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).
Inflected forms:
form: more alert
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most alert
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: alerts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alerts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alerting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alerted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alerted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Attentive; awake; on guard.
pos: adj
gloss: brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself
gloss: An alarm.
pos: noun
gloss: A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
pos: noun
gloss: A state of readiness for potential combat.
pos: noun
examples: an airborne alert; ground alert
gloss: Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
pos: noun
gloss: To give warning to.
pos: verb
Derived words: A&O assessment
alert and oriented assessment
alert and oriented
alertless
alertly
alertness
hyperalert
nonalert
overalert
superalert
unalert
alert fatigue
alert five
amber alert
drink alert
e-alert
margin alert
medical alert jewelry
on alert
on the alert
red alert
silver alert
spew alert
spoiler alert
Translations:
polygonum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From translingual Polygonum, from Ancient Greek πολύγονον (polúgonon, “knotweed”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + γόνυ (gónu, “knee”), so called in allusion to the numerous joints, or neuter of πολύγονος (polúgonos, “prolific”), from πολύς (polús, “many”) + γόνος (gónos, “offspring”). If the former of those two hypotheses is true, then the word would be related to polygon (from γωνία (gōnía, “corner, angle”), a derivative of γόνυ (gónu)).
Base: πολύς
Inflected forms:
form: polygonums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: polygona
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of many plants, of the family Polygonaceae, embracing a large number of species, including bistort, knotweed, smartweed, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonym: polygony
Translations:
aa
Part of speech: noun
pron
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Polynesian *kaha
Proto-Polynesian *kakaha
Hawaiian ʻaʻābor.
English aa
Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻaʻā.
Inflected forms:
form: a'a
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'a'a
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'a'ā
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: a-a
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: a aa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: a-aa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A form of lava flow associated with Hawaiian-type volcanoes, consisting of basaltic rock, usually dark-colored with a jagged and loose, clinkery surface. Compare pahoehoe.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: We...saw ‘pahoihoi’ or solid lava forming, and also ‘aa’ or clinkers.
Cooling and solidification frequently takes a different course [...] in lava flows, producing the clinker-like ‘aa’ lava.
Both pahoehoe and aa lava flows are common on the upper slopes of Mauna Loa with a preponderance of aa flows found at the lower elevations.
gloss: I.
pos: pron
tags: Northumbria
personal
Translations:
pomme
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: Borrowed from French pomme (“apple”), ultimately from Latin poma. Doublet of pome.
Inflected forms:
form: pommes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pommeis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pomey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A roundel vert (green circular spot), resembling or representing an apple.
pos: noun
Translations:
wee
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wey, weygh, wegh, weȝe, wæȝe (“little bit”), from Old English wǣġ, wǣġe (“weight”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāgu, from Proto-Germanic *wēgō (“scales, weight”) and *wēgǭ (“weight”), related to Middle English weġan (“to move, weigh”) (15c).
Inflected forms:
form: weer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: weest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: weeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: weed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: weed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Small, little.
pos: adj
tags: Ireland
New-Zealand
Northern-England
Scotland
examples: You looked a little cold, so I lit a wee fire.
The beat of its wee heart held against her own, sent her intense maternity surging like the spring sap in a young tree.
Was anyone hurted? Sure, they were just trailin' theirselves off the ground. Ye wud have died larfin'. There's Jimmy Hanlon was never his own man since, and I had me nose broke on me—I find it yet—and some says there was a wee girl from Tanderagee got herself killed.
I had not seen a wee boy do it like that before. He was weer than me and his swimming was just like splashing about.
"I suppose my first objective was to try and help a department, which was very much civil servants who are rotating around on a regular basis, to try and understand public transport a wee bit better and try and understand what was required to run a bus and rail network," muses Conway.
gloss: A short time or short distance.
pos: noun
gloss: To urinate.
pos: verb
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: I need to wee! I can't hold it any longer!
When I was young, I was up every night until the wee hours. Now I'm up every hour at night to wee.
Translations:
handsel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English handsell, hanselle, from Old English handselen and/or Old Norse handsal (literally “hand-gift”). Cognate with Scots hansel, Danish handsel.
Inflected forms:
form: handsels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: handsale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: handsell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: hansel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: handsels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: handseling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: handselling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: handseled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: handseled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: handselled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: handselled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: handsale
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: handsell
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: hansel
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A lucky omen.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A gift given at New Year, or at the start of some enterprise or new situation, meant to ensure good luck.
pos: noun
examples: their first good handsel of breath in this world
Our present tears here, not our present laughter, / Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.
gloss: Price, payment; especially the first installment of a series.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: That whoso hardy hand on her doth lay ,
It dearly shall abye and death for handsel pay
"I see the first handsel that God gives them on their voyage to the Land of Promise; thirst and bitterness."
(From Contemplations, Book Five, Contemplation 1, The Waters of Marah (Found in volume 1 of The Works of Joseph
Hall, edited by Peter Hall, published by Talboys, Oxford, 1837, page 88))
gloss: To give a handsel to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: She would leave a gold guinea to hansel the baby.
gloss: To inaugurate by means of some ceremony; to break in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And it is better undecently to faile in hanseling the nuptiall bed, full of agitation and fits, by waiting for some or other fitter occasion, and more private opportunitie, lest sudden and alarmed, than to fall into a perpetuall miserie, by apprehending an astonishment and desperation of the first refusall.
gloss: To use or do for the first time, especially so as to make fortunate or unfortunate; to try experimentally.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Indeed there is no contrivance of our body, but some good man in Scripture hath hanselled it with prayer.
The lads, dressed like their papas, seemed uncomfortable in their new clothes (many that day handselled their first pair of boots), […].
[…]the success of the one did not handsel usurpation[…]of the other's.
Derived words: Handsel Monday
the first Monday of the new year
when handsels
presents are given to servants
children
unhandseled
Translations:
handspring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From hand + spring.
Compound parts: hand
spring
Inflected forms:
form: handsprings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hand-spring
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
pos: noun
Translations:
hand-tight
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: As tight as can be made by the strength of one's hand wielding a standard tool: that is, without special equipment or leverage.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
handwheel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *handuz
Proto-West Germanic *handu
Old English hand
Middle English hond
English hand
Proto-Indo-European *kʷel-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷekʷléh₂
Proto-Germanic *hweulō
Old English hwēol
Middle English whel
English wheel
English handwheel
From hand + wheel.
Inflected forms:
form: handwheels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hand wheel
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.
pos: noun
examples: Front damper doors on each hopper and the back damper door of the centre hopper are opened and closed by screw gear worked from a handwheel on the fireman's side of the cab.
When the large handwheel seen in the illustration of a 68000 class cab is moved from "stop" to "run", the traction circuit contactors are closed and the locomotive moves off with the diesel engine running at idling speed.
Translations:
aggression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der.
Latin gradior
Latin aggredior
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin aggressiōder.
Middle French aggressionbor.
English aggression
From Middle French aggression, from Latin aggressio, from aggressus, past participle of aggredior (“to approach, address, attack”). By surface analysis, ag- + -gress + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: aggressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of initiating hostilities or invasion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Control, dispossession, violence, and tyranny are not “defensive”: they are part of an organized, ongoing aggression.
gloss: The practice or habit of launching attacks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The decision to impose a steel and aluminum tariff is an act of aggression which makes trade war between the two pillars of the West a grim possibility.
gloss: A desire for confrontation and often violence; an urge to physically harm something or someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The initiation or threat of conflict; coercion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: nonaggression
Related words: aggress
aggressive
aggressiveness
aggressor
Derived words: aggressionism
aggressionist
antiaggression
autoaggression
counteraggression
cute aggression
cyberaggression
hyperaggression
macroaggression
microaggression
nanoaggression
non-aggression axiom
non-aggression principle
overaggression
passive-aggression
unaggression
war of aggression
Translations:
asinine
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin asinīnus (“of a donkey or ass”).
Inflected forms:
form: more asinine
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most asinine
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very foolish; failing to exercise intelligence or judgement or rationality.
pos: adj
examples: They danced on silently, softly. Their feet played tricks to the beat of the tireless measure, that exquisitely asinine blare which is England's punishment for having lost America.
“Look at this festive assembly. All of us, gathered here together, chuckling at jokes and silliness.” [laughter] “And jackanapery.” [rim shots] “I guess there's only one thing left to say. What is this shit?” [rim shot] [laughter] “[laughs] Very good.” “You call yourselves vampires? Bah. This entire evening has been nothing but a pageant of insipid nonsense.” “[laughing] Yes.” “Worshipping at the altar of your own mediocre frivolity. A jester's hollow dance. And who is laughing?” “Yeah! [whoops] [grunts]” “Vampires are supposed to have blood orgies and slaughter circles. Gah! You have all gone soft. You even invited humans to this asinine affair.”
gloss: Characteristic of an ass (an asshole): objectionably inconsiderate or jerky.
pos: adj
examples: Philo Vance is an asinine jerk - a rude, Nietzschean snob who holds most of the people he meets and the things he sees in utter disdain. He's an insufferable smarty-pants, always convinced he's right and that everyone else is wrong. Of course, he is right, but that doesn't make him any less of a jerk.
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of donkeys.
pos: adj
examples: Don Quixote had put himself but a little way ayont the village of Don Diego, when he encountered two apparent priests, or students, and two husbandmen, who came mounted on four asinine beasts.
Synonyms: asinary
assy
Related words: asinicide
Derived words: asininely
asinineness
asininity
Translations:
astral
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
fantasy
natural-sciences
parapsychology
pseudoscience
Etymology: From Late Latin astralis, from Latin astrum (“star”), from Ancient Greek ἄστρον (ástron, “star”).
Inflected forms:
form: more astral
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most astral
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: astrals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to or resembling the stars; starry.
pos: adj
examples: Some Aſtral forms I muſt invoke by prayer, / Fram'd of all pureſt Atoms of the Air; [...]
gloss: Relating to an aster.
pos: adj
examples: astral rays
astral sphere
gloss: Composed of ethereal material or non-physical (sometimes supersensible), and capable of sometimes separating from the physical body (as an astral body) to travel to other places or to other realms of existence (in or via the astral plane).
pos: adj
examples: In the case of an inanimate body, […] when the physical object was broken the astral counterpart would also be divided; but it would not be possible to break an astral counterpart, and in that way to affect the physical object. In other words the act of fraction must begin on the physical plane. One could of course move a purely astral object by means of an astral hand if one wished, but not the astral counterpart of a physical object. In order to perform this latter feat it would be necessary to materialize a hand and move the physical object, when the astral counterpart would of course accompany it.
"[I could] see her astral form sitting on the edge of her bed. She was waiting for me."
[He could] see her astral projection; she looked like a celestial being, holding her hand out to him. With relief rushing through his body, he called out to her, "I've got you angel, and I'm coming!" Hammering the gas the car took off[…]
[Other actions], such as the moving of solid articles, either by an astral hand projected to draw them towards her, or by using an Elemental; others by reading in the Astral Light, and so on. But the proof of the reality of her mission from those whom she spoke of as Masters lay not in these[…]
gloss: A supernatural being from the astral plane.
pos: noun
examples: Now both of you sit there and wait for any guides to come to you, any astrals or people from that life to make themselves known to you.
Related words: astrologist
astrology
astrometry
astronomer
astronomical
astronomically
astronomy
astrophysics
Derived words: anastral
astral body
astral crown
astral jelly
astral lamp
astrally
astral plane
astral-project
astral projection
astral spirit
interastral
monoastral
periastral
subastral
Translations:
Corsican
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin Corsicabor.
English Corsica
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Corsican
From Corsica + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: more Corsican
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Corsican
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Corsicans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to Corsica, France or the Corsican language.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Corsica, France.
pos: noun
Translations:
ballroom
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ball + room.
Compound parts: ball
room
Inflected forms:
form: ballrooms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ball-room
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: ballrooms
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ballrooming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ballroomed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ballroomed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ball-room
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A large room used for dancing and banquets.
pos: noun
examples: The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
gloss: A type of elegant dance.
pos: noun
gloss: To take part in ballroom dancing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: ballroom dance
ballroom dancing
ballroomy
Epstein Ballroom
Translations:
beefcake
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From beef + cake. In sense 1, by analogy with cheesecake (“an image of a sexy young woman”).
Compound parts: beef
cake
Inflected forms:
form: beefcakes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: beef-cake
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Imagery of one or more muscular, well-built men.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: No look at gay related calendars would be complete without at least a mention of those beefcake spreads. GCN only received one such calendar, the rather disappointing Men of Venice Beach.
gloss: Such a male, especially as seen as physically desirable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
examples: The audience goes bugshit. The security beefcakes separate them and the host gets between them, talking in a voice that is soothing on top, inciteful beneath.
gloss: A patty made of beef.
pos: noun
tags: countable
literally
uncountable
examples: Beefcake with Burgundy Mushroom Cream
Related words: beefy
Derived words: beefcakey
Translations:
centennial
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin centennis (“100-year”) + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: centennials
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a centennial ode
gloss: Happening once in a hundred years.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a centennial jubilee    a centennial celebration
gloss: Lasting or aged a hundred years.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In her grand villa, half-way up the hill, / O'erlooking Florence, but retired and still; / With iron gates, that opened through long lines / Of sacred ilex and centennial pines, […]
gloss: The hundredth anniversary of an event or happening.
pos: noun
Synonyms: hundred-year-old
centenary
Derived words: demisesquicentennial
intercentennial
Translations:
penalty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
business
finance
games
hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
soccer
sports
Etymology: From Middle French pénalité, from pénal, from Latin poenālis, from poena, borrowing of Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ), from Proto-Hellenic *kʷoinā́, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂, comprising *kʷey- + *-néh₂.
Inflected forms:
form: penalties
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pœnalty
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A legal sentence.
pos: noun
examples: The penalty for his crime was to do hard labor.
gloss: A punishment for violating rules of procedure.
pos: noun
examples: Was it so irreconcilable, Warwick wondered, as still to peal out the curfew bell, which at nine o'clock at night had clamorously warned all negroes, slave or free, that it was unlawful for them to be abroad after that hour, under penalty of imprisonment or whipping?
gloss: A payment forfeited for an early withdrawal from an account or an investment.
pos: noun
gloss: In sports:
pos: noun
gloss: In sports:
pos: noun
examples: A penalty was called when he tripped up his opponent.
gloss: A disadvantageous consequence of a previous event.
pos: noun
examples: "But you, my noble, my generous girl!" exclaimed Lord Avonleigh, "I dare not let you pay the penalty of my former folly."
Synonyms: censure
correction
discipline
penalty
punishment
punition
sanction
sentence
Antonyms: compensation
reward
Related words: penal
penality
penalize
free kick
Derived words: counterpenalty
death penalty
drive-through penalty
face mask penalty
fixed penalty notice
long lap penalty
loyalty penalty
marriage penalty
match penalty
minor penalty
pay the penalty
penalty arc
penalty area
penalty box
penalty card
penalty copy
penalty corner
penalty envelope
penalty function
penalty goal
penalty kick
penalty kill
penalty loop
penalty mark
penalty phase
penalty point
penalty rate
penalty shootout
penalty shoot-out
penalty shot
penalty spot
penalty throw
penalty try
penalty turn
penalty unit
Pessi
point penalty
prepayment penalty
stop-and-go penalty
Translations:
Vietnamese
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Vietnam
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-iskbor.
Late Latin -iscus
▲
Vulgar Latin -iscus
Latin -ēnsis
Old French -eisbor.
Middle English -eys
English -ese
English Vietnamese
From Vietnam + -ese.
Inflected forms:
form: Viet-Namese
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Vietnamese
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Viet-Namese
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Vietnam.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As I rubbed my face, a middle-aged man gripped my neck, the way Vietnamese fathers or uncles often do when trying to pour their strength into you.
gloss: A person or people from Vietnam or of Vietnamese descent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
examples: They were buried in a gravesite near Kai Tak, alongside other Vietnamese who hadn’t made it safely to shore.
gloss: Vietnamese cuisine; traditional Vietnamese food.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations: