yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
lest
Part of speech: conj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: c. 1200, contracted from Middle English les te (“less that”), from Old English þȳ lǣs þe (“whereby less that”), from þȳ (instrumental case of demonstrative article þæt (“that”)) + lǣs (“less”) + þe (“that,” relative particle). The þȳ was dropped and the remaining two words contracted into leste.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: For fear that; that not; in order to prevent something from happening; in case.
pos: conj
tags: formal
literary
examples: He won't go outside, lest he be eaten by those ravenous eagles.
I brought my notes lest faulty memory lead me astray.
I thought to haue told thee of it, but I fear'd / Leaſt I might anger thee.
And then Robert Loo came out swiftly with the half-filled jar lest more be said.
Stay free from petty jealousies / Live by no man's code / And hold your judgment for yourself / Lest you wind up on this road
Lest any astrologer reading this result get cocky, Dr Cajochen does not believe that what he has found is directly influenced by the Moon through, say, some tidal effect. What he thinks he has discovered is an additional hand on the body’s clock-face.
gloss: that (without the negative particle; introduces the reason for an emotion.)
pos: conj
tags: formal
literary
examples: There was danger/alarm lest the plan become known.
I am afraid lest I revealed too much.
That you and I should be in the same house together and not able to speak to each other is in itself a misery, but this is terribly enhanced by the dread lest this state of things should be made to continue.
[M]y ward, or rather my adopted son Leo Vincey and myself have recently passed through a real African adventure, of a nature so much more marvellous than the one which you describe, that to tell the truth I am almost ashamed to submit it to you lest you should disbelieve my tale.
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
Related words: in case
lest we forget
Translations:
lethal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin lētālis (“deadly, mortal, fatal”), improperly written lēthālis, from lētum (“death”), improperly written as lēthum, from a supposed connection with Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “oblivion, forgetfulness”).
Inflected forms:
form: more lethal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lethal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lethals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.
pos: adj
examples: Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.
gloss: Any weapon that causes death.
pos: noun
gloss: An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.
pos: noun
Translations:
liable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French lier (“to bind”), from Latin ligō, ligāre (“to bind, to tie”).
Compare typologically Russian обя́занный (objázannyj), обяза́тельный (objazátelʹnyj) (akin to вяза́ть (vjazátʹ)).
Inflected forms:
form: more liable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most liable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable.
pos: adj
examples: The surety is liable for the debt of his principal.
He inveighed against the folly of making oneself liable for the debts of others; vented many bitter execrations against the brother; and concluded with wishing something could be done for the unfortunate family.
The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, seems liable to this inconvenience
The document states that despite its ongoing advancements, generative AI is liable to the United States’s current copyright principles, which take a strict stance on what material—human- or machine-made—qualifies for protection.
gloss: Subject; susceptible; prone.
pos: adj
examples: This crime is liable to imprisonment for life.
A man liable to heart disease.
☞ This word [earth] is liable to a coarſe vulgar pronunciation, as if written Urth;[…]
gloss: Exposed to a certain contingency or causality, more or less probable.
pos: adj
examples: Electronic devices are liable to malfunction when exposed to extreme heat.
gloss: Likely.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: Someone is liable to slip on your icy sidewalk.
Related words: liability
oblige
reliable
Derived words: liableness
nonliable
unliable
Translations:
lictor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin līctorbor.
English lictor
Borrowed from Latin līctor.
Inflected forms:
form: lictors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lictour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: An officer in Ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.
pos: noun
examples: Hee brought-in likevvise the ancient cuſtome againe, that in vvhat moneth hee had not the Knitches of rods vvith Axes borne before him, a publique Officer called Accensvs ſhould huiſher him before, and the Serjeants or Lictours follovv after behinde.
“Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”
‘Beware the power of the mob, Caesar.’ Then, schooled in needful agility, he ran away before a lictor’s whip could reach him.
Translations:
liege
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English liege, lege, lige, from Anglo-Norman lige, from Old French liege (“liege, free”), from Middle High German ledic, ledec (“free, empty, vacant”) (Modern German ledig (“unmarried”)) from Proto-Germanic *liþugaz (“flexible, free, unoccupied”).
Akin to Old Frisian leþeg, leþoch (“free”), Old English liþiġ (“flexible”), Old Norse liðugr (“free, unhindered”), Old Saxon lethig (“idle”), Low German leddig (“empty”), Middle Dutch ledich (“idle, unemployed”) (Dutch ledig (“empty”) and leeg (“empty”)), Middle English lethi (“unoccupied, at leisure”).
An alternate etymology traces the Old French word to Late Latin laeticus (“of or relating to a semifree colonist in Gaul”), from Latin laetus (“a semi-free colonist”), from Gothic *𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (*lēts) (attested in derivatives such as 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐌻𐌴𐍄𐍃 (fralēts)), from Proto-Germanic *lētaz (“freeman; bondsman, serf”), from *lētaną (“to let; free; release”).
Inflected forms:
form: lieges
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A free and independent person; specifically, a lord paramount; a sovereign.
pos: noun
gloss: A king or lord.
pos: noun
examples: More health and happiness betide my liege / Than can my care-tuned tongue deliver him!
Kings, my liege, may take a lesson from him
gloss: The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
pos: noun
gloss: Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a liege lord
She look'd as grand as doomsday and as grave: / And he, he reverenced his liege lady there;
gloss: Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, such as a vassal to his lord; faithful.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a liege man; a liege subject
gloss: Full; perfect; complete; pure.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: it was a release by Katherine de Ros in her liege widowhood to Sir Thomas de Stirkeland
Related words: liege lord
liegeman
Derived words: liegedom
liegeful
liegeless
liegewoman
ligeance
Translations:
lifelike
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English life
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -like
English -like
English lifelike
From life + -like.
Inflected forms:
form: more lifelike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most lifelike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation
pos: adj
examples: a lifelike portrait
The robot was so lifelike, Jack could hardly tell it apart from his sister.
The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
But part of the movie’s nonstop fun is the way [Christopher] McQuarrie taps back into the genre’s (and this series’) games of subterfuge, misdirection, and indeterminate loyalties, beginning with the fiendishly clever rug-pull of its worst-case-scenario prologue and epitomized by the goofily irresistible sight of characters dramatically ripping off lifelike rubber masks.
Translations:
likewise
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English lykewise, lykewyse, lyke wyse, lijk wise, a shortened form of Middle English in lik wise (“in like wise”); equivalent to like + -wise. Compare with otherwise.
Base: like
Affixes: -wise
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In a similar manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Public transportation is virtually inaccessible in this country; likewise, its hospitals are also not very user-friendly.
Chu Li-chih in late 1941 was director of the board of trade and president of the Border Region Bank in the Shen-Kan-Ning border government. Kuo Hung-t'ao served as secretary of the Shen-Kan-Ning Party Committee, the highest party post in the area, until 1938, when he was transferred to the Shansi-Chahar-Hopeh area where he likewise became secretary of the Party Committee. After Kuo's transfer, Kao Kang replaced his rival in the top party post in Shen-Kan-Ning and thereafter steadily increased his power within the border region as the leading figure among Shensi communists.
gloss: also; moreover; too.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: Margaret enjoys playing tennis on Saturdays, Jeremy likewise.
"But it looks like the kid ain't got no appetite to git well, for they misses him from the tent in the night and finds him rootin' in the grass, and likewise a drizzle fallin'. 'G'wan,' he says, 'lemme go and die like I wanter. He said I was a liar and a fake'—McGuire says—'and I was playin' sick. Lemme alone.'
gloss: The same to you; used as a response.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: It was very nice meeting you, Samantha. ― Likewise, Mr Thompson.
‘Let me know if you need any help.’ ‘Likewise.’
Translations:
limp
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
poker
Etymology: From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”).
Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).
Inflected forms:
form: limps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: limping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: limped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: limped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: limps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: limper
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: limpest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To walk lamely, as if favoring one leg.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Dirk Kuyt sandwiched a goal in between Carroll's double as City endured a night of total misery, with captain Carlos Tevez limping off early on with a hamstring strain that puts a serious question mark over his participation in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United at Wembley.
gloss: To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: The bomber limped home on one engine.
gloss: To move or proceed irregularly.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: limping verses
The business limped through the recession
I think, too, of other organizations that are doing much good work for us, and maybe with words are cheered on, but when it comes to the dollars and cents, few are willing to make any sort of sacrifice to put their money where their mouth is. The National Gay Task Force is an excellent example... drawing on the support of gay people in fifty states, yet having to limp along on $65,000 a year budgets. Organizations like Christian Cause, that would wipe us out if they could, draw ten times that amount with little effort.
And so we limped along for another month or two, pretending we still had a reason to be together.
gloss: To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: An irregular, jerky or awkward gait.
pos: noun
examples: She walks with a limp.
gloss: A scraper for removing poor ore or refuse from the sieve.
pos: noun
gloss: Flaccid; flabby, resembling flesh.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking stiffness; floppy, flimsy.
pos: adj
examples: a limp rope
gloss: Soft; weak, in special physically weak.
pos: adj
examples: Another line-out was stolen, and when the ball was sent left Clerc stepped and spun through limp challenges from Wilkinson, Chris Ashton and Foden to dive over and make it 11-0.
gloss: Not erect.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Not having an erection.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Derived words: limpard
limper
limp in
limping iamb
limple
Alexandra limp
Alexandrian limp
limpless
limplike
limpsome
limpdick
limp-dick
limp dick
limp-dickedness
limpish
limply
limpness
limp of the wrist
limp-wrist
limpwrist
limp-wristed
limpy
Translations:
lisp
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lispen, lipsen, wlispen, from Old English *wlispian (attested in āwlyspian (“to lisp”)), from Old English wlisp, wlips (“stammering, lisping”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *wlispaz (“lisping”), from Proto-Indo-European *wlis-, *wleys- (“rod”), from *wel- (“to turn, roll”). Cognate with Middle Low German wlispen (“to lisp”), Dutch lispen (“to lisp”), German lispeln (“to lisp”), Danish læspe (“to lisp”), Swedish läspa (“to lisp”).
Inflected forms:
form: lisps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lipsey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lithp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lisps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lisping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lisped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lisped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lipsey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: lithp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act or a habit of lisping.
pos: noun
examples: He used to have a terrible lisp before going to a speech therapist.
It's common for children to speak with a lisp.
gloss: To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/, /ð/). This is a speech impediment common among children.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Until the age of 10, Dominic would lisp, but this was fixed by a speech therapist.
gloss: To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: As yet a Child, nor yet a Fool to Fame, / I liſp'd in Numbers, for the Numbers came.
gloss: To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.
gloss: to express by the use of simple, childlike language.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: But the fashion spreads deeper and wider; the village is infected and the village green; Amelias and Claras sweep your rooms and cook your dinners, gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline.
to speak unto them after their own capacity, and to lisp the words unto them , according as the babes and children of that age might sound them againagain
gloss: To speak with reserve or concealment; to utter timidly or confidentially.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: to lisp treason
"You have done well, sir," said Delwood, calmly, as he placed double the amount of Mrs. Santon's bribe in the Signor's hand; "you have done well, sir; and mark my words,—gold can never relieve a guilty conscience! Go, sir, and see that you lisp not a syllable of this to any one."
Related words: brogue
drawl
lallation
lilt
twang
Derived words: lisper
lispingly
unlisping
Translations:
lithe
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English lithe, from Old English līþe (“gentle, mild”), from Proto-West Germanic *linþ(ī), from Proto-Germanic *linþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lentos.
Akin to Saterland Frisian lied (“thin, skinny, gaunt”), Danish, Dutch, and archaic German lind (“mild”). Some sources also list Latin lenis (“soft”) and/or Latin lentus (“supple”) as possible cognates.
Inflected forms:
form: lither
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lithest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lithes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Mild; calm.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: lithe weather
gloss: Slim but not skinny.
pos: adj
examples: lithe body
The noise of their battle with Numa had drawn an excited horde of savages from the nearby village, and a moment after the lion’s death the two men were surrounded by lithe, ebon warriors, gesticulating and jabbering—a thousand questions that drowned each ventured reply.
She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
The coaches are grim, tan, lithe-looking women, clearly twirlers once, on the far side of their glory now and very serious-looking, each with a clipboard and whistle.
gloss: Capable of being easily bent; flexible.
pos: adj
examples: the elephant’s lithe trunk.
… she danced with a kind of passionate fierceness, her lithe body undulating with flexuous grace …
Doolittle and myself waited. Colebrook kept on cautiously, squirming his long body in sinuous waves like a lizard's through the grass, and was soon lost to us. No snake could have been lither.
gloss: Adaptable.
pos: adj
examples: Yet the 2016 Éxilé rosé from Lise et Bertrand Jousset in the Loire Valley, made mostly of gamay, was yeasty let^([sic – meaning yet]) light and lithe, while the 2016 Indigeno from Ancarani in Emilia-Romagna, made of trebbiano, was taut and earthy.
gloss: Shelter.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
examples: So Cospatric got him the Pict folk to build a strong castle there in the lithe of the hills, with the Grampians dark and bleak behind it, and he had the Den drained and he married a Pict lady and got on her bairns and he lived there till he died.
Related words: -inda
lind
linden
Linda
Derived words: lissom
lithely
litheness
slithy
Translations:
longhand
Part of speech: noun
adv
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From long + hand, by analogy with shorthand.
Compound parts: long
hand
Inflected forms:
form: longhands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The written characters used in the common method of writing; opposed to shorthand, or typing or printing; handwriting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When, however, in any particular case, he has no assured means of determining the true spelling of the name, he should always quietly interrupt the dictater with the request, " Spell it , please," and then write the name in longhand from the dictater's spelling.
gloss: Written by hand in normal characters, as opposed to shorthand.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Written by hand (with pen or pencil), rather than printed out; handwritten.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I had to write the essay out twice longhand – they wouldn’t let me print it out. It took forever!
Translations:
lorgnette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French lorgnette, from lorgner (“to take a sidelong look at”) (from Middle French lorgne (“crosseyed”)).
Inflected forms:
form: lorgnettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An opera glass with a handle.
pos: noun
examples: In the valley, near the Acropolis, […] Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette.
gloss: Elaborate double eyeglasses.
pos: noun
Translations:
lout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Of dialectal origin, likely derived from Middle English louten (“to bow, bend low, stoop over”), from Old English lūtan (“to bow, bend forward, stoop”), from Proto-West Germanic *lūtan, from Proto-Germanic *lūtaną (“to bow down, lout”).
Alternatively, derived from Middle English louten (“to hide, lurk”), from Old English lūtian (“to lurk, skulk”), from Proto-West Germanic *lūtēn (“to be hidden, be concealed”). Compare Old Norse lútr (“stooping”), Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍉𐌽 (lutōn, “to deceive”).
Non-Germanic cognates are probably Old Church Slavonic лоудити (luditi, “to deceive”), Serbo-Croatian lud and Albanian lut (“to beg, pray”).
Inflected forms:
form: louts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A troublemaker, often violent; a rude violent person; a yob.
pos: noun
examples: But the lout looked only to his market, and was not easily repulsed. “He’s there, I tell you,” he persisted. “And for threepence I’ll get you to see him. Come on, your honour! It’s many a Westminster election I’ve seen, and beer running, from Mr. Fox,[…]when maybe it’s your honour’s going to stand! Anyway, it’s, Down with the mongers!”
You see louts fresh from school kicking grey-haired servants.
gloss: A clownish, awkward fellow; a bumpkin.
pos: noun
examples: The faire Pamela, whose noble hart I finde doth greatly disdaine, that the trust of her vertue is reposed in such a louts hands, as Dametas, had yet to shew an obedience, taken on a shepeardish apparell[…]
Sebaſtian, I haue entertained thee, / Partly that I haue neede of ſuch a youth, / That can with ſome diſcretion doe my buſineſſe: / For ’tis no truſting to yond fooliſh Lowt;
Derived words: belout
lager lout
litter lout
loutish
loutsome
louty
Lycra lout
Saga lout
Translations:
lowly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From low + -ly; compare Middle English lowly.
Base: low
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: lowlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: lowliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more lowly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most lowly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not high; not elevated in place; low.
pos: adj
examples: And those whom Tiber's holy forests hide,
Or Circe's hills from the main land divide;
Where Ufens glides along the lowly lands,
Or the black water of Pomptina stands.
And I watched you waltz from tree to tree
As I slunk in my lowly lair
gloss: Low in rank or social importance.
pos: adj
examples: One common right the great and lowly claims.
gloss: Not lofty or sublime; humble.
pos: adj
examples: Where our apt used to be they built a fancy condominium high-rise.
Which at a lowly income none of us could ever really quite afford.
For all who read, and reading, not disdain / These rural poems, and their lowly strain
gloss: Having a low esteem of one's own worth; humble; meek; free from pride.
pos: adj
examples: Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart.
gloss: In a low manner; humbly; meekly; modestly.
pos: adv
examples: Walking through the park, it wasn't quite dark / There was a man sitting on a bench / Out of the crowd as his head lowly bowed
gloss: In a low condition; meanly.
pos: adv
gloss: At low pitch or volume.
pos: adv
examples: These words were lowly and sweetly murmured in the same way with the word mother, being changefully varied in their modulations, […]
Derived words: lowlihead
lowlihood
lowlily
lowliness
unlowly
Translations:
luckily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lucky
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English luckily
From lucky + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more luckily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most luckily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately.
pos: adv
examples: They luckily escaped injury.
Antonyms: unfortunately
unluckily
Translations:
mall
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from The Mall, a major street in London, England, which was originally a pall mall alley.
Inflected forms:
form: malls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: malls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: malling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: malled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: malled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Canada
New-Zealand
US
countable
uncountable
examples: The preliminary plans provide for one million square feet of selling space in three main buildings and a double row of shops along a central shopping mall.
America′s first pedestrianized shopping mall opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian malls, it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
gloss: An enclosed shopping centre.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America′s enclosed shopping malls.
Cancel plans just in case you'd call / And say, "Meet me behind the mall"
gloss: An alley where the game of pall mall was played.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A public walk; a level shaded walk, a promenade.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.
gloss: A heavy wooden mallet or hammer used in the game of pall mall.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I also fell slightly; but his fall proving a severe one, he arose in wrath, and struck me with the mall which he held in his hand, until my blood flowed copiously […]
gloss: The game of polo.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: An old game played with malls or mallets and balls; pall mall.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: But playing with the Boy ar Mall,
(I rue the Time, and ever shall)
I struck the Ball, I know not how
gloss: to beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise
pos: verb
gloss: to build up with the development of shopping malls
pos: verb
gloss: to shop at the mall
pos: verb
tags: informal
Derived words: cybermall
dead mall
ghost mall
mall cop
mallcore
mall emo
mallgoer
mall-goer
mallgoth
mallification
mall ninja
mall rat
mall shooter
mall shooting
mallsoft
mallspeak
mallternative
mall traffic
mall walker
mall walking
megamall
mini-mall
minimall
pall-mall
shopping mall
strip mall
supermall
unmalled
Translations:
mammy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English mam
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English mammy
From mam + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: mammies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mammie
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: mamma; mother
pos: noun
tags: childish
gloss: In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
historical
often
examples: That's what you for—to help white folks keep niggers down. That's why he sent you to me. They be calling you mammy in a few years. You be running the whole house when the old man dies.
Derived words: grandmammy
Mammygate
Translations:
lang: French
word: maman
lang: German
word: Mami
lang: German
word: Mama.
lang: Hebrew
word: אמא
lang: Macedonian
word: мама
roman: mama
lang: Portuguese
word: mamãe
lang: Spanish
word: mamá
lang: Spanish
word: mami.
lang: Walloon
word: moman
lang: Walloon
word: mame
lang: Walloon
word: man
mangonel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French mangonel, from Latin manganellus, manganum, from Ancient Greek μάγγανον (mánganon).
Inflected forms:
form: mangonels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and burning objects.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: The cavalry were on the wings and the siege-engines, mangonels and catapults, planted on sand-dunes.
gloss: A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and burning objects.
pos: noun
tags: historical
often
proscribed
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: mangeneel
lang: Dutch
word: mangonel
lang: Finnish
word: mangoneli
lang: French
word: mangonneau
lang: Polish
word: trebusz ciągniony
lang: Polish
word: trebusz trakcyjny
lang: Portuguese
word: manganela
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: منجنیق
roman: mencenik, mancınık
marge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of margarine.
Inflected forms:
form: marges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: marged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: marged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: marg
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To add margarine to.
pos: verb
tags: informal
Translations:
martinet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: After the example of 17th-century French army officer Jean Martinet.
Inflected forms:
form: martinets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strict disciplinarian.
pos: noun
examples: Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
The same Aubrey deLint I'd dismissed for years as a 2-D martinet knelt gurneyside to squeeze my restrained hand and say ‘Just hang in there, Buckaroo,’ […]
In Seattle, he was replaced by a martinet from Annapolis, a man so vain and incompetent, so impatient with advice from experienced sailors and sure of his own right way, that, when the Hull set sail for the South Pacific, twenty men went AWOL, certain that to ship with this man was a death sentence.
gloss: Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Before I met Mr. Bowen Cooke I had been given to understand that he was of a reserved nature, and on occasion could be a "bit of a martinet"; [...].
gloss: A short whip with multiple lashes once used in France.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: martinetish
martinetism
martinetship
Translations:
marvel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested from 1300, from Middle English merveile, from Old French merveille (“a wonder”), from Vulgar Latin *miribilia, from Latin mīrābilia (“wonderful things”), from neuter plural of mīrābilis (“strange, wonderful”), from mīror (“to wonder at”), from mīrus (“wonderful”). Doublet of mirabilia.
Inflected forms:
form: marvels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: marvail
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: marvell
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: marvels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: marveling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: marvelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: marveled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: marveled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: marvelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: marvelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
form: marvail
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: marvell
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a portent.
pos: noun
examples: The mysteries of this wonderful universe rise more palpable upon the departing spirit, so soon to mingle with their marvels.
He found ways to film fiery, elaborate car-wrecks, keeping everything visually clear and beautiful without killing or even seriously injuring anyone. On a sheer technical level, the movie is a marvel.
gloss: Wonder, astonishment.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: No maruel though you bite so sharp at reasons,
You read not any where that Eſau had faith, no not ſo much as a little: Therefore no marvel, if where, the fleſh only bears ſway […]
Use lessens marvel.
gloss: To become filled with wonderment or admiration; to be amazed at something.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Marueile not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
Men marvel at the works of man / And with unstinted praises sing / The greatness of some worldly thing / Encompassed during one life's span;
The ads show tourists hiking with a selfie stick, (“Very nice!”), drinking fermented horse milk (“Mm, that’s actually very nice!”), marvelling at the architecture (“Wow, very nice!”) and posing for a photograph with Kazakhs in traditional dress (“That’s very nice!”).
If Cleopatra or Elizabeth I were to time-travel to the present day, they would marvel at a world we take for granted, with its vaccines and antibiotics, and a flushing toilet and fridge in every home.
gloss: To wonder at.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: I maruell that her Grace did leaue it out.
I maruell why I answer'd not againe,
gloss: To cause to wonder or be surprised.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 15th century, Anonymous, Richard the Redeless
But much now me marvelleth.
Derived words: marvel grass
marvellous
marvel of Peru
marvelous
marveler
marveller
marvelment
marvelry
marvelsome
outmarvel
unmarveling
unmarvelling
Translations:
maze
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mase, from Middle English masen (“to perplex, bewilder”); or perhaps from Old English *mæs (“delusion, bewilderment”); akin to Old English āmasian (“to perplex, confound”), Icelandic masa (“to chatter”). More at amaze.
Inflected forms:
form: mazes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.
pos: noun
examples: There's plenty for toddlers too: experience the Wild West in Bear City, play with sand diggers, splash in the paddling pool and discover meerkats, reptiles and alpacas in the Zoo-Farm. Rain doesn't stop play, just head for the indoor fun factory with a rocking and rolling tugboat, mirror maze, ferris wheel and soft play.
gloss: Something made up of many confused or conflicting elements; a tangle.
pos: noun
examples: A beech wood with silver firs in it rolled down the face of the hill, and the maze of leafless twigs and dusky spires cut sharp against the soft blueness of the evening sky.
The project developer, Poseidon Resources Corp., has been winding its way through a maze of state and local agencies for six years
gloss: A confusion of thought; a state of bewilderment.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: But first they came to Canterbury, an olde Citie, somewhat decayed, yet beautiful to behold, most famous for a Cathedrall Church, the very Maiestie whereoff, stroke them into a maze, where they saw many monuments, and heard tell of greater, then either they euer saw, or easely would beleeue.
Derived words: bead maze
bemaze
Cincinnati water maze
extramaze
hedge maze
intermaze
intramaze
island maze
logic maze
mazal
mazed
mazeful
mazelike
mazement
mazework
mazey
mazy
mizmaze
Morris water maze
radiation maze
submaze
T-maze
tube maze
turf maze
watermaze
water maze
Y-maze
Translations:
meiosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μείωσις (meíōsis, “a lessening”), from μειόω (meióō, “I lessen”), from μείων (meíōn, “less”). The biological sense was coined by British biologists John Bretland Farmer and John Edmund Sharrock Moore in 1905 as maiosis in a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopic Science, with the spelling corrected on etymological grounds later that year. Doublet of miosis.
Inflected forms:
form: meioses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: maiosis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: miosis
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rhetoric
uncountable
examples: I knew, with one of those secret knowledges that can exist between two people, that her suicide was a direct result of my having told her of my own attempt – I had told it with a curt meiosis that was meant to conceal depths; and she had called my bluff one final time.
gloss: Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: apomeiosis
meiome
meiotic
meiotically
postmeiosis
premeiosis
Translations:
melodrama
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French mélodrame, the second element refashioned by analogy with drama; ultimately from Ancient Greek μέλος (mélos, “limb”, “member”, “song”, “tune”, “melody”) + δρᾶμα (drâma, “deed”, “theatrical act”). Compare melodrame. Cognate to German Melodram and Spanish melodrama.
Inflected forms:
form: melodramas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: melodramata
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
gloss: A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: A passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The grave-digging scene in Beethoven's “Fidelio” has much melodrama.
Rudolf was the bold, bad Baron of traditional melodrama. Irene was young, as pretty as a picture, fresh from a music academy in England. He was the scion of an ancient noble family; she an orphan without money or friends.
gloss: Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
figuratively
uncountable
Derived words: melodramatic
melodramatics
melodramatist
melodramatize
melofarce
Translations:
melodramatic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From melodrama + -tic. Modelled after dramatic.
Base: melodrama
Affixes: -tic
Inflected forms:
form: more melodramatic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most melodramatic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: melo-dramatic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
pos: adj
gloss: Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
pos: adj
examples: She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.
Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette, the melodramatic food of the gamins, galopins, mechanics, and semi-artists of France.
In it, the officer insisted he did not depart from NCND and gave a melodramatic account of my "long pauses" as I said I needed the story, before I eventually became cooperative and said I had "seen the light".
Related words: melodramatics
Derived words: melodramatically
melodramaticism
melodramaticness
nonmelodramatic
unmelodramatic
Translations:
merganser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin merganser, from Latin mergus (“waterfowl, diver”), from mergō (“to dip, immerse”) + ānser (“goose”).
Inflected forms:
form: mergansers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various diving ducks of the genera Mergus or Lophodytes, which feed on fish and have a sharply serrated bill.
pos: noun
Translations:
mesh
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computer-graphics
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English mesche, from Old English masc (“net”) (perhaps influenced in form by related Old English mæscre (“mesh, spot”)), from the related Proto-Germanic *maskwǭ and *maskrǭ respectively, from Proto-Indo-European *mezg- (“to knit, twist, plait”).
Akin to Old High German māsca (“mesh”), Old Saxon maska (“net”), Old Norse mǫskvi, mǫskun (“mesh”).
Inflected forms:
form: meshes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: meshes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: meshing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: meshed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: meshed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.
pos: noun
examples: a golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men
gloss: The opening or space enclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads enclosing such a space.
pos: noun
gloss: The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.
pos: noun
gloss: A measure of fineness (particle size) of ground material. A powder that passes through a sieve having 300 openings per linear inch but does not pass 400 openings per linear inch is said to be -300 +400 mesh.
pos: noun
gloss: A polygon mesh.
pos: noun
gloss: In mesh analysis: a loop in an electric circuit (to which Kirchhoff's voltage law can be applied).
pos: noun
gloss: A network topology with each device connected to multiple other devices in lieu of a central switch. Redundancy on a mesh network prevents single points of failure.
pos: noun
gloss: To connect together by interlocking, as gears do.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To fit in; to come together harmoniously.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
figuratively
intransitive
examples: The music meshed well with the visuals in that film.
The headliners — Weezer and Dinosaur Jr. — were alt rock acts that had turned the sound of disconnection into an audience almost two decades ago. Exactly how that was going to mesh with blue skies and umbrella drinks wasn’t clear to me.
gloss: To catch in a mesh.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I know how loue doth rage vpon a yelding minde:
How smal a net may take and meash a hart of gentle kinde
Derived words: biomesh
enmesh
inmesh
intermesh
mesh current
meshfree
mesh hood
meshless
meshlet
meshlike
meshness
mesh network
mesh number
mesh stick
meshwork
meshy
micromesh
nanomesh
navigation mesh
navmesh
polygonal mesh
polymesh
submesh
synchromesh
unmesh
weldmesh
meshable
remesh
Translations:
mess
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps a corruption of Middle English mesh (“mash”), compare muss, or derived from Etymology 2 "mixed foods, as for animals". Compare also Old English mes (“dung, excrement”).
Inflected forms:
form: messes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: messes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: messing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: messed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: messed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: a thing or group of things in a disagreeable, disorganised, or dirty state; hence a bad situation
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: No, look, I know that the place looks like a bit of a mess but it's actually a very delicate ecosystem. Everything is connected. It's like the rainforest. You change one thing, even the tiniest bit, and the whooole rainforest dies. You don't want the rainforest to die, do ya?
He made a mess of it.
My bedroom is such a mess; I need to tidy up.
gloss: a large quantity or number
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
uncountable
examples: Messerschmidts! A whole mess of Messerschmidts!
My boss dumped a whole mess of projects on my desk today.
She brought back a mess of fish to fix for supper.
gloss: excrement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
uncountable
examples: There was dog mess all along the street.
Did you hear that? It scared the mess out of me.
gloss: a person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Between the pain and the depression, I'm a mess.
He's been a mess and a half ever since you excommunicated him.
I'm a mess in a dress, can't show up on time even if it would save my life. According to you.
gloss: To make untidy or dirty.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: It seems like all you do is cry, eat, and mess your diapers!
gloss: To make untidy or dirty.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
gloss: To throw into disorder or to ruin.
pos: verb
tags: often
transitive
examples: Charles Dickens, quoted in: 1875, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens
Yet I was not sorry that the creature found the loophole for escape. The officers had taken him illegally without any warrant; and really they messed it all through, quite facetiously.
But it wasn't right to be messing another man's sleep with tidal waves that didn't belong to the other man.
gloss: To interfere.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This doesn't concern you. Don't mess.
Derived words: don't mess with success
hot mess
in a mess
mess about
mess around
messer
mess of greens
mess over
mess-up
mess up
mess with
mess with the bull and you get the horns
messy
unmess
Translations:
metabolic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μεταβολικός (metabolikós), from μεταβολή (metabolḗ, “change”) + -ικός (-ikós), thus by surface analysis, metabola + -ic. Compare metabolism.
Base: μεταβολή
Affixes: -ικός
Inflected forms:
form: metabolics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to metabolism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: metabolic activity
metabolic force
To date, no independent, well-controlled studies support claims of DAT’s effectiveness and the claim that dolphin echolocation produces beneficial cellular metabolic changes in individuals with ASD.
gloss: Of or pertaining to metamorphosis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Pertaining to or involving change.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
rare
gloss: A nutritional supplement.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Related words: metabolize
metabolism
Derived words: ametabolic
antimetabolic
basal metabolic rate
bradymetabolic
cardiometabolic
cerebrometabolic
chronometabolic
cometabolic
dismetabolic
dysmetabolic
endocrinometabolic
endometabolic
exometabolic
genometabolic
glucometabolic
glycometabolic
hemimetabolic
heterometabolic
high anion gap metabolic acidosis
holometabolic
hypermetabolic
hypometabolic
immunometabolic
isometabolic
lipometabolic
macrometabolic
mechanometabolic
metabolical
metabolically
metabolic pathway
metabolic rate
metabolics
metabolic syndrome
metaboreceptor
metametabolic
neurometabolic
nonmetabolic
normometabolic
oncometabolic
osteometabolic
photometabolic
phylometabolic
physiometabolic
plurimetabolic
proteometabolic
protometabolic
psychometabolic
radiometabolic
reprometabolic
saccharometabolic
submetabolic
tachymetabolic
thermometabolic
vasculometabolic
Translations: