yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
flatulence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French flatulence, ultimately from Latin flō (“breathe, blow”).
Inflected forms:
form: flatulences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of having gas, often smelly, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The release of such gas; breaking wind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: afflatus
Derived words: antiflatulence
flatulate
flatulence tax
flatulist
flatulogenic
vaginal flatulence
Translations:
zona
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Latin zōna.
Inflected forms:
form: zonas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zonae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zonæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A zone or band; a layer.
pos: noun
gloss: shingles.
pos: noun
Related words: zona glomerulosa
zona incerta
zona pellucida
zona radiata
zona reticularis
Translations:
metropolis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
ecology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin mētropolis, from Ancient Greek μητρόπολις (mētrópolis, “mother city”), from μήτηρ (mḗtēr, “mother”) + πόλις (pólis, “city (state)”). By surface analysis, metro- + -polis. Doublet of metropole.
Inflected forms:
form: metropolises
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metropoleis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metropoles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metropolizes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metropoli
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: metropolisses
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
form: metropolis's
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
Senses:
gloss: The mother (founding) polis (city state) of a colony.
pos: noun
examples: Colonies certainly did not become "clones" of their metropolises, but it is equally false that their colonial heritages were not influenced by the organization of the metropolises.
gloss: A large, busy city, especially as the main city in an area or country or as distinguished from surrounding rural areas.
pos: noun
examples: Holonym: metropolitan area
An immense metropolis, like London, is calculated to make men selfish and uninteresting.
[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.
Love is dead in metropolis / All contact through glove or partition
They call me the Hiphopopotamus / Flows that glow like phosphorous / Popping off the top of this esophagus / Rocking this metropolis
gloss: The see of a metropolitan bishop, ranking above its suffragan diocesan bishops.
pos: noun
gloss: A generic focus in the distribution of plants or animals.
pos: noun
Related words: megalopolis
regiopolis
Derived words: aerotropolis
metro
metropole
Metropolis
Metropolis of Lyon
metropolitan
metropolize
minimetropolis
Translations:
exaggerate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out, up”) + aggerō, aggerāre (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerō, aggerere (“to bear, carry to (some place), bring together”), from ad- (“to, toward”) + gerō (“to carry”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: exaggerates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exaggerating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exaggerated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exaggerated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more exaggerate
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most exaggerate
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To overstate, to describe more than the fact.
pos: verb
examples: I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!
He said he’d slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he’s exaggerating. The real number is about ten.
These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics.
gloss: Exaggerative; overblown.
pos: adj
examples: And in general, if it is a natural feeling, let it be, but at normal, living levels, not too exaggerate.
Water was invading, like some loving arms, some protecting wings, but its love and care were too exaggerate, they were deadly.
You will leave [the camp] and when confronted to the smallest inconvenience you will have again these reactions that, for me, are very exaggerate.
From this comparison, it seems that the data in Table 7.7 are reasonable, while Ashbel's values are exaggerate.
Antonyms: trivialize
Translations:
obviate
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1567; borrowed from Latin obviātus, perfect passive participle of obviō (“to block, to hinder”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: obviates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: obviating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: obviated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: obviated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: obviates
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To anticipate and prevent or bypass (something which would otherwise have been necessary or required); to render (something) unnecessary.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] and in the kindest manner she now urged Fanny’s taking one for the cross and to keep for her sake, saying everything she could think of to obviate the scruples which were making Fanny start back at first with a look of horror at the proposal.
The door it was necessary to keep ajar in hers, as in most cottages, because of the smoke; but she obviated the effect of the ribbon of light through the chink by hanging a cloth over that also.
gloss: To avoid (a future problem or difficult situation).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A mild dose of a warm active aperient to obviate costiveness, or to produce two motions daily, is generally very beneficial.
If the predisposition to the disease has arisen from a plethoric state of the system, or from a turgescence in the vessels of the head, this is to be obviated by bleeding, both generally and topically, but more particularly the latter; an abstemious diet and proper exercise; and by a seton in the neck.
Some change requests, rather than extend the scope, obviate some of the existing scope of a project.
Thus, to obviate resistance, the discussion should be relevant to the patient′s problems.
A government that thinks it can take on the world with Brexit can’t take back a bereaved teenaged mother with fundamentalist delusions. Moreover, the risk does not obviate two crucial facts in this case. First and foremost, she is a citizen […] Second, when Begum went to Syria she was a child.
gloss: Synonym of obviative.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of obviative.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Colville has a rich deictic system with forms which distinguish, for example, between source and location, with each possibility characterized as proximate and obviate as well (Mattina, 1973).
The renovated system involved an obviate-proximate pronominal alternation (yu- vs. mu- respectively in Tolowa; see Bommelyn 1997), with the pronouns coming most likely out of the deictic pronoun system.
This use of the obviate deictic category—that, there, those—contrasts sharply with the use of the proximate in the body of the narrative— this, here, these.
Synonyms: avert
preclude
prevent
Antonyms: ensure
entail
necessitate
require
Related words: obviable
obviation
obviator
obvious
Translations:
libido
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astronomy
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin libīdō (“lust, desire”). Used originally in psychoanalytic contexts.
Inflected forms:
form: libidos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sexual urges or drives.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Good grief man, control your libido!
gloss: Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: For Freudians, libido means the desire to "unite and bind" with objects in the world.
The ego as an organ which seeks to synthesize thoughts in the psyche is said to be driven by libido or eros.
gloss: Synonym of albedo in terms of a planet's, such as that of Mars, average surface spectral reflectivity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: libido dominandi
nymphomaniac
hypersexuality
masturbator
Derived words: antilibido
libidinize
libidoless
non-libidoist
Translations:
mano
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mano (“hand”). Doublet of manus.
Inflected forms:
form: manos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stone resembling a rolling pin, used to grind maize or other grain on a metate.
pos: noun
Translations:
placebo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English placebo, borrowed from Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“to please”).
Inflected forms:
form: placebos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: placeboes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment.
pos: noun
examples: The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.
The trials overall showed some but limited effectiveness, and in one of the largest and longest trials, the placebo performed better in treating spasticity, pain and bladder dysfunction, Dr. Bowling wrote.
gloss: The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
pos: noun
examples: There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.
Related words: drug
nocebo
Derived words: antiplacebo
nonplacebo
placebic
placebo button
placebo-controlled
placebo effect
placebogenic
placebolike
placebology
placebome
Translations:
herb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English herbe, erbe, from Old French erbe (French herbe), from Latin herba. Initial h was restored to the spelling in the 15th century on the basis of Latin, but it remained mute until the 19th century and still is for many speakers. Doublet of yerba.
Inflected forms:
form: herbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: Grass; herbage.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
examples: flocks grazing the tender herb
gloss: Any green, leafy plant, or parts thereof, used to flavour or season food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A plant whose roots, leaves or seeds, etc. are used in medicine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: If any medicinal herbs used by witches were supposedly evil, then how come people from at least the past benefited from the healing properties of such herbs?
For twenty-five years he has done all sorts of odd jobs: digging ginseng (a herb) in the Long White Mountains, fishing in the Black River, and washing gold dust at Hailanpao. Without this education, he would never have become an undaunted revolutionary.
gloss: Cannabis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The room was thick and sour with the smell of herb.
You think he's got any herb?
gloss: (always with pronounced /h/) A lame or uncool person.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
examples: George (AO) describes the tie between fighting and respect: 'Cause some people could come up to you and say, “Ah, he's a herb, he can't fight. He's nothing.”
Related words: arbour
herbaceous
herbage
herbal
herbarium
herbicidal
herbicide
herbivore
herbivorous
herbed up
herblet
pseudoherb
Derived words: African dream herb
cowherb
death's herb
devil's herb
fuller's herb
herbarian
herb bennet
herb box
herb butter
herb Christopher
herb doctor
herbed
herb Gerard
herbiferous
herbish
herbist
herb knife
herbland
herbless
herblike
herblore
herbmaster
herbmistress
herb of grace
herb of repentance
herb of the cross
herbology
herbous
herb-paris
herb paris
herb Peter
herb Robert
herbs and spices
herb tea
herb trinity
herb twopence
herbwoman
megaherb
multiherb
paleoherb
potherb
rice paddy herb
rosebay willow herb
strewing herb
superherb
willowherb
willow herb
Translations:
Tzotzil
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Tzotzils
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tzotzil
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Tsotsil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Tsotsile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Tzotzile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Zotzil
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Zotzile
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an indigenous Maya people of Southern Mexico.
pos: noun
Translations:
Khmer
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Khmer ខ្មែរ (khmae).
Attributed to the Pali term khemara (“one who is wholesome”). The elision form, ក្មេរ (kmera), is found in ancient stone inscriptions, or a borrowing from Northern Khmer เขมร (/⁠khmɛːr⁠/).
Inflected forms:
form: Khmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Khmer
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Khmer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Khmer
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A member of an ethnolinguistic group that constitutes most of the population of Cambodia.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Khmer people or their language.
pos: adj
Translations:
hierophant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἱεροφάντης (hierophántēs, from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, make known”)).
Base: ἱερός
Inflected forms:
form: hierophants
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hierophantes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
pos: noun
examples: The exhibition of ancient statues, relics, and symbols, concealed from daily adoration (as in the Catholic festivals of this day), probably, made a main duty of the Hierophant.
If books are as provocative as you suggest, one would expect every librarian to utter the shrill screams of a hierophant, to clash ecstatic castanets in his silent alcoves!
Most scholars name the rectangular enclosure anaktoron, locate in it the throne of the hierophant, and suppose that from it emanated the central revelation which occurred, in Plutarch's phrase, ‘when the anaktora were opened’.
gloss: An interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge.
pos: noun
examples: Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Thus I became the hierophant of those three worthy and talented men, who, in spite of their literary accomplishments, were not wise, since they were infatuated with occult and fabulous sciences, and believed in the existence of phenomena impossible in the moral as well as in the physical order of things.
What did even the hierophants of science know of the potencies of, for them, unvintageable evil?
Ambassadors of northern countries stand / Impassive while our hierophants intone / Long canticles of Christ the Contraband: / Our grandees' hearts are shrunk to kidney stones.
No, I must play creator / And make them up, these hierophants.
gloss: One who explains or makes a commentary.
pos: noun
Related words: hierophany
hieromnemon
Derived words: hierophantic
hierophantically
Translations:
tsarina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Via Italian czarina or Spanish czarina, from German Czarin, Zarin, feminine form of Czar, Zar. By surface analysis, tsar + -ina.
Inflected forms:
form: tsarinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tsar
pos: noun
tags: masculine
form: czarina
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: tzarina
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An empress of several Eastern European countries, especially Russia, or the wife of a tsar.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The biggest Russian czarina was Catherine the Great, a German, who incidentally made Crimea part of Russia.
Translations:
suitcase
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English suit
English case
English suitcase
From suit + case.
Inflected forms:
form: suitcases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: suit-case
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: suitcases
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: suitcasing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: suitcased
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: suitcased
pos: verb
tags: past
form: suit-case
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.
pos: noun
examples: My suitcase is stowed in the luggage rack.
A stocky cabwoman removed a large wheeled suitcase.
Many seats carry reservation labels, while the luggage racks are festooned with backpacks and suitcases.
gloss: In the Classic Mac OS operating system, a file containing fonts, icons, sounds, and other resources.
pos: noun
gloss: To trade using samples in a suitcase.
pos: verb
gloss: To smuggle in one's rectum.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Derived words: fold like a cheap suitcase
suitcase farmer
suitcaseful
suitcaseless
suitcaselike
suitcase nuke
Translations:
clothes
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English clothes, cloþes, plural of cloth, cloþ (“cloth, garment”), from Old English clāþas (“clothes”), plural of clāþ (“cloth”), equivalent to cloth + -es. Cognate with Scots clathes, claes (“clothes”), Danish klæder, Norwegian Bokmål klær, Norwegian Nynorsk klede, German Kleider.
Base: cloth
Affixes: -es
Inflected forms:
form: cloathes
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: clotheses
pos: noun
tags: alternative
childish
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Items of clothing; apparel.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: suit of clothes.
Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
gloss: The covering of a bed; bedclothes.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: She turned each way her frighted head, / Then sunk it deep beneath the clothes.
gloss: Laundry (hung on a clothesline).
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
Related words: clothing
gear
habiliment
threads
Derived words: bedclothes
change of clothes
clothes-bag
clothes bag
clothesbasket
clothes basket
clothesbrush
clothes-brush
clothes brush
clothescare
clothes don't make the man
clothes drier
clothes dryer
clothes free
clothes hanger
clotheshorse
clothes horse
clothes-horse
clothes iron
clothesless
clothes line
clothesline
clothes maiden
clothesmaker
clothes make the man
clothes maketh the man
clothesmaking
clothesman
clothes minded
clothes moth
clothes on one's back
clothes peg
clothespeg
clothes-peg
clothespin
clothes pole
clothes press
clothes-press
clothespress
clothesprop
clothes prop
clothes-prop
clothes rack
clothes screen
clothes shop
clothes stand
clothestree
clothes tree
clothes valet
clothes washer
clotheswoman
clothesy
clothesyard
clothist
dead-clothes
dress clothes
emperor's new clothes
free clothes association
graveclothes
gym clothes
long clothes
nightclothes
old-clothesman
overclothes
plain clothes
rainclothes
roast-meat clothes
shortclothes
smallclothes
street clothes
Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes
swaddling clothes
swathing clothes
under clothes
underclothes
webbing clothes moth
Translations:
nudism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French nudisme. By surface analysis, nude + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: nudisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The belief in or practice of going nude in social, nonsexualized and frequently mixed-gender groups specifically in cultures where going nude in the social situation is not the norm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
nudist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English nude
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English nudist
From nude + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: nudists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who practices nudism.
pos: noun
gloss: An artist who makes nudes: nude paintings, sculptures, photographs, etc.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: Relating to, or reserved for, nudists and nudism.
pos: adj
tags: attributive
not-comparable
usually
examples: nudist beach
nudist camp
nudist colony
Related words: nudism
Derived words: nudist beach
nudist colony
Translations:
naturist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁-sḱé-ti
Proto-Italic *gnāskōrder.
Latin nāscor
Proto-Indo-European *-tew-?
Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂?
Latin -tūra
Latin nātūralbor.
Old French naturebor.
Middle English nature
English nature
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English naturist
From nature + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: naturists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more naturist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most naturist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: One who follows a philosophical belief in a naked, natural life and prefers to live without clothes, often for reasons of ecology, health, religious belief, and/or ethical concerns.
pos: noun
gloss: One who believes in the doctrine of naturism, which attributes everything to nature.
pos: noun
examples: I have thought fit to lay dovvn the tvvo foregoing limitations, […] partly becauſe they contain ſomething, that may be added to vvhat hath been lately repreſented on behalf of the divine providence (as it falls under the naturiſt’s conſideration.)
gloss: Of or relating to naturism, the philosophical belief in a naked, natural life and prefers to live without clothes, often for reasons of health, ecology, religious belief, and/or ethical concerns.
pos: adj
gloss: Relating to or believing in the doctrine of naturism, which attributes everything to nature.
pos: adj
Synonyms: naturist
nudist
Antonyms: clothist
Related words: naturalist
naturism
Derived words: anarchist naturist
anarcho-naturist
naturist anarchism
naturist anarchist
Translations:
naturism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French naturisme. By surface analysis, natur(e) + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: naturisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The belief in or practice of going nude in social settings, often in mixed-gender groups, specifically either in cultures where this is not the norm or for health reasons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The worship of the powers of nature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: naturalism
naturist
Derived words: anarchist naturism
anarcho-naturism
Translations:
batman
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From bat (“packsaddle”) + man. The element bat is from French bât, from Old French bast, from Late Latin bastum, possibly from Ancient Greek βαστάζω (bastázō, “to bear, carry, lift”).
Base: bat
Inflected forms:
form: batmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: batmans
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: batmanning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: batmanned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: batmanned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A servant or valet to a military officer.
pos: noun
examples: “Private McLean,” he called to his batman who, for one-and-six a week, cared for his belongings, “tak' chairge o' the dog, wull ye, an' fetch 'im to the non-com mess when ye come to put ma kit i' gude order.”
Having left that soldier who was evidently drunk, Rostóv stopped the horse of a batman or groom of some important personage and began to question him.
[A]s a rule the chambers were occupied only by Stack, who had been Wilfrid's batman in the war, and had for him one of those sphinx-like habits which wear better than expressed devotions.
gloss: A personal assistant or supporter.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
informal
examples: He became my retainer, my batman, the solution to my ever-growing need for an extra pair of hands.
Thank you to a special Carer, Thank you for being my nurse, My housemaid, and my cook, My batman and my chauffeur, And my eyes when I forget to look!
The Quease, as you will have read, thought this a huge cheek and, as is ever the case with her, was not slow to point it out. She further accused me of treating him as my batman.
gloss: To act as a batman, wait on an officer.
pos: verb
examples: Batmanning was voluntary. McPherson was a bit incensed about the loss of his batman, but he made do with somebody else.
OK, I batmanned. Give me an Xterm.
Yes, well, had I known you were having a row with the loo, I would have batmanned the other direction.
The preservation of the batmanning system in captivity was established through an Anglo-German agreement of 1918, which had allowed one orderly to be allocated to a group of seven imprisoned captains, one to a group of four field officers and one to each general.
Translations:
outfox
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
Proto-Indo-European *púḱsos
Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz
Old English fox
Middle English fox
English fox
English outfox
From out- + fox.
Inflected forms:
form: outfoxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outfoxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outfoxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outfoxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To beat (someone) in a competition of wits with superior cleverness or cunning; to outsmart.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can win games in two ways. You either outtalent and outmuscle your opponent because you have all the big, fast studs, or you outfox, outplot, and outmaneuver your opponent because you have a system that your opponents can't prepare for in one week.
Translations:
outwit
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English wit
English outwit
From out- + wit.
Inflected forms:
form: outwits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outwitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outwitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outwitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To get the better of; to outsmart, to beat in a competition of wits.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But my dear Lady Teazle 'tis your own fault if you suffer it—when a Husband entertains a groundless suspicion of his Wife and withdraws his confidence from her—the original compact is broke and she owes it to the Honour of her sex to endeavour to outwit him—
Translations:
outsmart
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úd
Proto-Germanic *ūt
Proto-Germanic *ūt-
Old English ūt-
Middle English ut-
English out-
English smart
English outsmart
From out- + smart.
Inflected forms:
form: outsmarts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: outsmarting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: outsmarted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: outsmarted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To beat in a competition of wits.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Maldonado, who is in only his second season in Formula 1, won the Spanish Grand Prix after his team outsmarted Ferrari with pit-stop timing.
Translations:
femur
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
arachnology
biology
entomology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin femur (“thigh”).
Inflected forms:
form: femurs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: femora
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thighbone.
pos: noun
gloss: The middle segment of the leg of an insect, between the trochanter and the tibia.
pos: noun
gloss: A segment of the leg of an arachnid.
pos: noun
Derived words: femoral
femur fibula ulna syndrome
femur head
forefemur
mesofemur
metafemur
prefemur
transfemoral
Translations:
practical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
Etymology: From Middle English practical, practicale, praktycall, from Medieval Latin practicālis.
Inflected forms:
form: more practical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most practical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: practicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to, or based on, practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis.
pos: adj
examples: Jack didn't get an engineering degree, but has practical knowledge of metalworking.
Modern engineering applies science to practical problems.
gloss: Being likely to be effective and applicable to a real situation; able to be put to use.
pos: adj
examples: Jack's knowledge has the practical benefit of giving us useful prototype parts.
Recruits will be taught in-depth electrical and mechanical engineering as well as gaining practical experience in rail maintenance.
gloss: Of a person, having skills or knowledge that are practical.
pos: adj
examples: All in all, Jack's a very practical chap.
gloss: Of a prop: having some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Light fixtures used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
pos: adj
examples: Practical lighting can help sell the illusion that the film is a real situation.
gloss: A part of an exam or series of exams in which the candidate has to demonstrate their practical ability
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A prop that has some degree of functionality, rather than being a mere imitation.
pos: noun
examples: Practicals are used onstage as they would be used in real life. If the sound cue is to be from a radio or television, give qualities to the recording that will maintain the sense of the medium.
gloss: A light fixture used for set lighting and seen in the frame of a shot as part of the scenery.
pos: noun
examples: A naturalistic set is normally dressed with all the furnishings and props to be found in a real room. This includes electric light fittings which, when they actually light, are known as practicals.
gloss: Laboratory experiment, test or investigation
pos: noun
Antonyms: theoretical
impractical
Related words: practicable
practice
practise
practitioner
pragmatic
Derived words: agropractical
empractical
for all practical purposes
nonpractical
practical alchemy
practical completion
practical effect
practicalism
practicalist
practicality
practicalize
practical joke
practical joker
practical light
practically
practicalness
practical number
practical nurse
practical reason
semipractical
theoretico-practical
ultrapractical
unpractical
visuopractical
Translations:
ob
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ob, abbreviation of obolus.
Inflected forms:
form: obs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a halfpenny
pos: noun
tags: historical
Translations:
chortle
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of chuckle + snort. Coined by Lewis Carroll in his poem Jabberwocky, completed in 1855 but only introduced to the public in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass.
Compound parts: chuckle
snort
Inflected forms:
form: chortles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chortles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chortling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chortled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chortled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A joyful, somewhat muffled laugh, rather like a snorting chuckle.
pos: noun
examples: He frequently interrupted himself with chortles while he told us his favorite joke.
gloss: A similar sounding vocalisation of various birds.
pos: noun
gloss: To laugh with a chortle or chortles.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The old fellow chortled as he recalled his youthful adventures.
'O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy.
Synonyms: chuckle
Translations:
trait
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French trait (“line, feature”), from Latin tractus (“drawing, pulling”), from Latin trahō. Doublet of tract.
Inflected forms:
form: traits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An identifying characteristic, habit or trend.
pos: noun
examples: inherited traits and acquired traits
The number one personality trait I hate is hypocrisy. Why can't you be consistent!?
The English, of all classes, value themselves on this trait, as distinguishing them from the French, who, in the popular belief, are more polite than true.
The positive and constructive aspect of possibility gives the key to understanding the two chief traits of immaturity, dependence and plasticity.
Turning to our second trait, if you have straight hair, then both of your parents must carry an allele for this trait.
gloss: An uninstantiable collection of methods that provides functionality to a class by using the class’s own interface.
pos: noun
examples: Traits are somewhat between an interface and a mixin.
Traits are parametrized on other methods, which must be provided to create a class using the trait. Using a trait-like mechanism to compose large collections of mutually-dependent classes or traits could lead to parameter explosion.
Related words: portrait
sickle cell trait
tract
tractate
treat
treaty
Derived words: character trait
eigentrait
multitrait
neurotrait
personality trait
subordinate trait
subtrait
traitless
traitlike
X-linked trait
Translations:
lady
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz
Proto-West Germanic *hlaib
Old English hlāf
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *daigijǭder.
Old English dǣġe
Old English hlǣfdīġe
Middle English lady
English lady
From Middle English lady, laddy, lafdi, lavedi, from Old English hlǣfdīġe (“mistress of a household, wife of a lord, lady”, literally “bread-kneader”), from hlāf (“bread, loaf”) + dǣġe (“kneader”), related to Old English dǣġe (“maker of dough”) (whence dey (“dairymaid”)). Compare also lord. More at loaf, dairy, dough. Unrelated to lad.
Inflected forms:
form: ladies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ladying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ladied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ladied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To address as “lady”.
pos: verb
examples: “[…]When I am dead ye’ll mind I said it, my leddy.” “Ah, Elspeth, but do not lady me; say Christine, just wee Christine.[…]”
“I thought you would never come, Lady Mary,” and he kissed her again. “Why will you persist in ladying me? Have I not told you—stop, now, will you?” and she pushed his mouth away. “Have I not told you as many times as you have seen me to call me Mary only?”
I see Bey still continues jealous of poor Mou; does she still go by that name? In Greek it means “my” and her Paramanas always called her Lady Mary Mou, so we called her Mou. I hope you admire my teaching you Greek. I beg you will break Bruce of ladying her, if it should grow up with him it would be detestable.
‘Then, Lady Placida, there is something I wish to ask of you.’ ‘Only,’ she said sternly, ‘if you stop Ladying me. I have a name, dear.’
“Lady!” “No, do not ‘lady’ me!” Margaret admonished.
“How can I help, my lady?” “Stop the ladying.[…]”
Translations:
ordnance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: A reduced form of ordinance, which is attested from the late 14th century in the sense of “military equipment or provisions”. The sense of “artillery” arises in the early 15th century, the sense “military logistics” in the late 15th century. The shortened form ordnance arises by the 17th century, now often distinguished in writing from the other meanings of ordinance. Also doublet of ordonnance.
Inflected forms:
form: ordnances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ordinance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ordenance
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncountable
examples: When the Turkes tooke Conſtantinople, they melted the Bells into Ordnance; I haue heard both Bells and Ordnance, but neuer been ſo much affected with thoſe, as with theſe Bells.
What Mr. Vance’s trip made clear is that both sides think they emerged as the victor of the first round: the United States by dropping so much ordnance on Iran, the Iranians by surviving. Neither seems in the mood for compromise.
gloss: Artillery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Let all the Battlements their Ordinance fire, / The King shal drinke to Hamlets better breath,
From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
Derived words: ordie
ordnanceman
Ordnance Survey
soft ordnance
Translations:
bonjour
Part of speech: intj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French bonjour (“good afternoon/good day/good morning”).
Inflected forms:
form: bon jour
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: bonjours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bonjouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bonjoured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bonjoured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bon jour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Good morning; hello.
pos: intj
examples: Say bonjour to the botched R.S.V.P. The practice of replying to invitations, let alone actually showing up to parties as promised, has become as antiquated as the chimney sweep, and much messier.
gloss: To greet in French with "bonjour".
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: He went on down the boulevard, bonjouring right and left, lifting his hat, bowing. He moved very slowly.
Connaughton entered the simple but cheery restaurant, checked his coat, bonjoured the maître d'...
They bonjoured back and stood there awkwardly. Finally, Flood broke the silence.
Translations:
rand
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rand, from Old English rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *rand, from Proto-Germanic *randaz, *randō (“edge, rim, crust”), from Proto-Indo-European *rem- (“to rest, prop or support oneself”). Cognate with Dutch rand (“edge, border, outskirts, rim”), German Rand (“edge, border, margin, rim, outskirts”), Swedish rand (“rand, stripe, edge, verge”). Related to rind.
Inflected forms:
form: rands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The border of an area of land, now especially marshland.
pos: noun
examples: at the wald's rand; the rand of the marsh
Outside the rand or steep edge of this dome the bog is permanently ringed around by a zone liable to base-rich flooding, and this zone, the lagg, carries a persistent fen or carr vegetation.
Lagg (1) Marginal zone outside the rand containing fen vegetation and representing the transition between raised bog peat and mineral soils.
[…] the rands, especially near the Teifi river, are very steep.
gloss: A strip of meat; a long fleshy piece of beef, cut from the flank or leg; a sort of steak.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
obsolete
examples: They came with chopping-knives / To cut me into rands and sirloins
gloss: A border, edge or rim; a strip, as of cloth.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
rare
examples: They quarrelled an' fought 'mang the clippin's an' rands, / The tailor insistin' the colour was blue.
gloss: A strip of leather used to fit the heels of a shoe.
pos: noun
gloss: A single rod woven in and out of the stakes.
pos: noun
Translations:
vain
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English veyn, from Old French vain, from Latin vānus (“empty”).
Inflected forms:
form: vainer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more vain
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: vainest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most vain
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wayn
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Overly proud of oneself, especially concerning appearance; having a high opinion of one's own accomplishments with slight reason.
pos: adj
examples: Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
gloss: Having no real substance, value, or importance; empty; void; worthless; unsatisfying.
pos: adj
examples: I will not hear thy vain excuse
Let no man deceive you with vain words.
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
gloss: Effecting no purpose; pointless, futile.
pos: adj
examples: vain toil    a vain attempt
Vain is the force of man / To crush the pillars which the pile sustain.
At our old pastimes in the hall
⁠We gambol’d, making vain pretence
⁠Of gladness, with an awful sense
Of one mute Shadow watching all.
But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance. After a few moments' vain remonstrance her husband complied. His manner and appearance were suggestive of a satiated sea-lion.
gloss: Showy; ostentatious.
pos: adj
examples: Yet ſhall (my Lord) your juſt, your noble Rules / Fill half the land with imitating Fools: / VVho random dravvings from your ſheets ſhall take, / And of one beauty many blunders make; / Load ſome vain Church with old Theatric State, / Turn Arcs of Triumph to a Garden-gate, […]
Synonyms: conceited
narcissistic
self-adoring
self-admiring
self-obsessed
vain
vainglorious
Antonyms: modest
nonnarcissistic
Related words: vanity
one-dimensional
shallow
superficial
arrogance
beauty
Derived words: Richard of York gave battle in vain
take someone's name in vain
in vain
vainness
vainly
Translations:
vane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
ornithology
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From Middle English vane, Southern Middle English variant of fane, from Old English fana (“cloth, banner, flag”), from Proto-West Germanic *fanō, from Proto-Germanic *fanô, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“something woven; weave; tissue; fabric; cloth”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foone (“flag, banner”), Dutch vaan (“banner, flag”), German Low German Fahn (“flag”), German Fahne. Doublet of obsolete fane (“weathercock; banner”) and fanon.
Inflected forms:
form: vanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A weather vane.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of several usually relatively thin, rigid, flat, or sometimes curved surfaces radially mounted along an axis, as a blade in a turbine or a sail on a windmill, that is turned by or used to turn a fluid.
pos: noun
gloss: The flattened, web-like part of a feather, consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft.
pos: noun
gloss: A sight on a sextant or compass.
pos: noun
gloss: One of the metal guidance or stabilizing fins attached to the tail of a bomb or other missile.
pos: noun
Derived words: Cooper vane
wind vane
Translations:
burglar
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 16th century, from Medieval Latin burglātor, British byform of burgātor (“burglar”), derived from burgō (“to commit burglary”), from Late Latin burgus (“fortified town”), itself probably from Frankish *burg (“fortress”), from Proto-Germanic *burgz, *burgiją (“borough, watch-tower”).
The -l- in burglātor may have been inserted under influence from Latin latro (“thief”). The shortened English form may have arisen through confluence with Old French burgeor (“burglar”), itself from the same Latin source.
Inflected forms:
form: burglars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: burglars
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: burglaring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: burglared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: burglared
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person who breaks in to premises with the intent of committing theft.
pos: noun
examples: The burglar made off with a large diamond from the museum.
In the village itself his lionheartedness had been a legend ever since he had brained a burglar with a number seven iron, and the jury in Guildford had, despite the clear direction of the judge, resolutely declined to convict him for the use of unnecessary force.
There’s good reason to worry. In an earlier memoir, “Five-Finger Discount,” Stapinski recreated the terrifying world of swindlers, embezzlers, burglars and mobster wannabes who made up her extended Jersey City family.
Corona, who carries a pistol filled not with bullets but with tequila and drives around in his pickup truck that says “Porder Batrol” on the side, says he was playing pickleball at the time, which allowed the burglar free rein to the territory.
gloss: To commit burglary.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The latter, with another constable, remained to watch the burglared premises both back and front, […]
Translations:
burgle
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Back-formation from burglar (1867).
Inflected forms:
form: burgles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: burgling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: burgled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: burgled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To commit burglary.
pos: verb
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: In St. Louis, burglars burgle by daylight
The New York World has coined a new verb -- "to burgle."
The language grows apace. A "cablegram" has been received, and $400 have been "burgled."
Burgled his safe and bolted with the tin.
[S]he went and burgled three pears out of the dish ...
Conceive the Great Lexicographer admitting to his Dictionary such excrescencies as: "Burgle, verb active, To break into a dwelling-house,"
Burglarize, to, a term creeping into journalism. ... The word has a dangerous rival in the shorter burgle.
When an American says, "I've been burgled" -- where an Englishman would say, "My house has been broken into by thieves" -- he succeeds in shortening the statement by more than half ...
Well, I hope to goodness the house won’t be burgled during the night.
gloss: To take the ball legally from an opposing player.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: And when scrum-half Ben Youngs, who had a poor game, was burgled by opposite number Irakli Abuseridze and the ball shipped down the line to Irakli Machkhaneli, it looked like Georgia had scored a try of their own, but the winger's foot was in touch.
Foden did his job admirably. The fact that both City goals came from burgling possession in the final third indicated how successfully City managed collectively to disrupt Real’s buildup play.
Related words: burglar
burglary
cat-burgle
breaking and entering
rob
steal
thieve
purloin
Derived words: unburgled
Translations: