yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
weathercock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English wetharcoke, weþercok, wedercoc, wederkok, equivalent to weather + cock.
Compound parts: weather
cock
Inflected forms:
form: weathercocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: weathercocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: weathercocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: weathercocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: weathercocked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A weather vane, sometimes in the form of a cockerel.
pos: noun
gloss: One who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
gloss: A kind of wind pump whose top behaves like a weather vane, moving with the wind direction, but which also has a wheel attached to measure wind speed.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: To turn upwind because of the difference in water pressure on two sides.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To veer into the direction of the oncoming (relative) wind.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To act as a weathercock for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: weathervane
weather vane
windsock
wind sock
Translations:
multiverse
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
cosmology
fiction
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
sciences
Etymology: First appeared c. 1895. Blend of multiple + universe, coined by American philosopher William James. By surface analysis, multi- + -verse.
Inflected forms:
form: multiverses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The world, considered as lacking in purpose, design, or predictability.
pos: noun
examples: Visible nature is all plasticity and indifference, a multiverse, as one might call it, and not a universe.
I've never gone through a place like Racine without thinking which house with the rubber-tire swing for kids and piano-practicing inside was like Stiva Lausch's, who had two daughters brought up with every refinement, including piano lessons, and how such little-speaking Odessa-bred sons had gotten on a track like this through the multiverse.
gloss: The hypothetical group of all the possible universes in existence.
pos: noun
examples: Our universe is a very small part of the multiverse.
And, it must be remembered, that in the great multiverse they were a mere scattering of seeds; seeds that must survive many elements if they were to grow.
I have been describing show us that the multiverse exists and that it contains many counterparts of each particle in the tangible universe. To reach the further conclusion that the multiverse is roughly partitioned into parallel universes, we must consider interference phenomena involving more than one tangible particle.
I can’t help feeling that in the closest arm of the multiverse, there is a version of me that is fatter and happier.
gloss: The different canons, continuities or timelines of a fictional property, considered as a whole.
pos: noun
examples: In the DC multiverse, our reality is called "Earth-33". But in the Marvel multiverse, it's "Earth-1218".
What’s better than a Marvel Cinematic Universe? A Marvel Cinematic Multiverse. Once limited to theoretical physics and comic-book plot conveniences, the notion of a multiverse has been an essential tool for Hollywood. Whether it’s a role that’s been cast and recast, a franchise character that gets a spin-off when the larger story ends, or simply a reboot telling a new story without upending its origins, the answer to any big movie problem is often: multiverse.
Related words: universe
nulliverse
Derived words: multiversal
quantum multiverse
Translations:
weaving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: weavings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The process of making woven material on a loom.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A piece of such material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: In the 1960s, in addition to small-scale weavings influenced by American Indian, Peruvian and African art, she began producing enigmatic assemblage boxes and collages, including postcard collages, which she sent to friends.
gloss: An unsteady back and forth motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Through some ill-understood quirk of balance, his drunken weavings did nothing to upset the tray — it seemed to remain calmly horizontal.
gloss: The uncontrolled crossing of multiple streams of traffic in the same general direction.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: basketweaving
Chilkat weaving
figure weaving
lentil-weaving
underwater basket weaving
Translations:
webbed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: With the digits connected by a thin membrane.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Resembling a web.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a feather or part of a feather, having a vane.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The two middle feathers of the tail are in the form of slender wires about five inches long, and which diverge in a beautiful double curve. About half an inch of the end of this wire is webbed on the outer side only, awe coloured of a fine metallic green, and being curled spirally inwards form a pair of elegant glittering buttons, hanging five inches below the body, and the same distance apart.
gloss: Connected to the World Wide Web.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: webbed foot
webbed feet
Translations:
whimsy
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
business
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
mining
Etymology: Probably from whims + -y. Related to whim-wham, whim.
Base: whim
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: whimsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whimsey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: whimsies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whimsying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whimsied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whimsied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: whimsey
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: whimsier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: whimsiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: whimsey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A quaint and fanciful idea; a whim; playfully odd behaviour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: […] Take heed of filling their [i.e., children's] heads with VVhimzies, and unprofitable Notions; for this vvill ſooner learn them to be malepert and proud, than ſober and humble.
These days! where e'en th' extravagance of poetry, / Is at a loss for figures to express / Men's folly, whimsies, and inconstancy, / And by a faint description makes them less.
[A]ll the ridiculous and extravagant ſhapes that can be imagin'd, all the fancies and whimſies of Poets and Painters and Ægyptian Idolaters, if ſo be they are conſiſtent with Life and Propagation, would be now actually in Being, if our Atheiſt's Notion were true: […]
Egad, if her Majeſty has often theſe VVhimſies, I ſhall petition the Court to build a Bridge over the River, or let me reſign my Employment.
It’s a lovely sequence cut too short because the show seems afraid to give itself over to romance and whimsy and wistfulness when it has wedgie jokes to deliver.
[…] but in effect it seemed to have heaps of Amelie-style whimsy but no deeper unity or coherence.
gloss: An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: A whim (capstan or vertical drum).
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: A jigsaw puzzle piece that has been cut into a recognizable shape, as if on a whim; often the shape is representative of the theme of the image used for the puzzle.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: "Dori, you have to solve this puzzle!" / "Sure, right away doctor. Quality construction … clean edges. Oh, a whimsy!"
gloss: The support that protects a finished piece as it is detached from a punty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A wantonneſſe in wealth, methinks I agree not with, / Tis ſuch a trouble to be married too, / And have a thouſand things of great importance, / Jewells and plates, and fooleries moleſt mee, / To have a mans brains whimſied with his wealth: […]
gloss: Synonym of whimsical.
pos: adj
examples: Whimsiest of the fairy brood, I cannot scold you if I would
[…] and if in a whimsy mood I choose to read the opening chapters last, and the closing chapters first, […]
Derived words: whimsical
whimsy-whamsy
Translations:
sanctimonious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sanctimony
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *h₃édosder.?
Proto-Italic *-ōtsos or *-otsos
Latin -ōsus
Old French -usbor.
Middle English -ous
English -ous
English sanctimonious
From sanctimony + -ous.
Inflected forms:
form: more sanctimonious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sanctimonious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Making a show of being morally better than others, especially hypocritically pious.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: smug; see also Thesaurus:arrogant
Thou conclud'st like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the Ten Commandements, but scrap'd one out of the table.
[O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory.
It'd be easy to write off Michael Moore as a fat, scruffy, sanctimonious Bolchevik poseur (actually, I do write off Michael Moore as a fat, scruffy, sanctimonious Bolchevik poseur) but the fact is that there's about five minutes of cleverness in this […]
And this is indeed needed, since we who consider these awkward Christian ideas are but fearful, sanctimonious people, as Kierkegaard once put it so passionately: O, you sanctimonious people with your love which does not set you apart […]
gloss: Holy, devout.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
Related words: sanctimony
Derived words: DeSanctimonious
nonsanctimonious
sanctimoniously
sanctimoniousness
unsanctimonious
Translations:
propitiate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin propitiāt-, the past participial stem of propitiāre (“make favourable”), from propitius (“favourable, gracious”).
Inflected forms:
form: propitiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: propitiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: propitiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: propitiated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage,
The god propitiate, and the pest assuage.
But polite and politic it is, to propitiate your hostess.
[H]e heard . . . one of the soldiers singing as he cleaned his rifle—the men always sang over this business, as if to propitiate the gun god.
The androgynous creative deity was best supplicated or propitiated by offerings concerned with the pleasures of the flesh. In such circumstances, to the worshipper as to the god, licentiousness was not a sin: on the contrary, it was a duty.
By saying unequivocally that conscription is not an option, the Bush administration and the Rumsfeld Pentagon, while propitiating the ghost of Vietnam, are also profiting from the success of the all-volunteer military.
gloss: To make propitious or favourable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But what was that compared to the pleasure of gazing on him, and listening to his words of pity or of praise! to witnessing the sparkling of his eyes when he gazed on his boy, and sought, by every possible medium, to coax him to his arms, a task not to be achieved in a moment; or in listening to that praise of Lord Allerton, which was likely to propitiate Mary in his favour!
gloss: To make propitiation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: propitious
Derived words: propitiatingly
propitiation
propitiative
propitiatory
propitious
propitiousness
repropitiate
unpropitiated
unpropitiating
Translations:
torpid
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin torpeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin torpidus
English torpid
From Latin torpidus (“tired, numb”).
Inflected forms:
form: more torpid
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most torpid
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: torpids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: unmoving
pos: adj
gloss: dormant or hibernating
pos: adj
gloss: lazy, lethargic or apathetic
pos: adj
gloss: An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: In our first year I had seen him coming away from Blackwell's clutching a great textbook of chemistry with an air of anticipatory delight, and also on the river as cox of one of the Lincoln torpids.
Related words: torpidity
torpidness
torpor
torpedo
Derived words: nontorpid
semitorpid
torpidly
untorpid
Translations:
jarhead
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From jar + head, due to the regulation high and tight haircut of the Marines.
Compound parts: jar
head
Inflected forms:
form: jarheads
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A US marine.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
dystocia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυστοκία (dustokía, “difficult childbirth”), from δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) + τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”), from τίκτω (tíktō, “I give birth”).
Inflected forms:
form: dystocias
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A slow or difficult labour or delivery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In macaques, baboons and chimpanzees, dystocia because of breech birth is the commonest category of fetal death.[…]Breech dystocia is rarely a problem for mother or neonates in small, multitocus species like marmosets and tamarins.
Dystocia is defined as difficult delivery. Pelvic dystocia is due to aberrations of the pelvic architecture and its relationship to the presenting fetal part.[…]Fetal dystocia may be due to excessive fetal size from gestational diabetes or congenital anomalies.
Although fetal dystocias are sometimes relieved by manipulation and instrumentation, cesarean sections are often the only practical methods of treatment.
It is an appropriate way to allow resolution of the dystocia, after clearing the airway and checking for a nuchal cord.
The prevailing thinking is that the time window in which to resolve a shoulder dystocia before asphyxial insult (not injury) is about 4 minutes.
Translations:
designate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dēsignātus, perfect passive participle of designō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of design.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: designates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: designating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: designated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: designated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Designated; appointed; chosen.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Used after a role title to indicate that the person has been selected but has yet to take up the role.
pos: adj
tags: UK
not-comparable
examples: King designate
gloss: To mark out and make known; to point out; to indicate; to show; to distinguish by marks or description
pos: verb
examples: to designate the boundaries of a country
to designate the rioters who are to be arrested
gloss: To call by a distinctive title; to name.
pos: verb
examples: "Yes, let 'Sister' Davis have a whack at it too," urged George Bland. Tom Davis, who was Joe Matson's particular chum, was designated "Sister" because, in an incautious moment, when first coming to Excelsior Hall, he had shown a picture of his very pretty sister, Mabel.
gloss: To indicate or set apart for a purpose or duty — with to or for; to designate an officer for or to the command of a post or station.
pos: verb
Synonyms: entitle
name
style
earmark
Related words: codesignative
designation
designative
designatum
Derived words: Commissioner-designate
designatable
designated driver
designated hitter
designator
designatory
designee
indesignate
nondesignating
predesignate
redesignate
Translations:
totally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English total
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English totally
From total + -ly.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: To the fullest extent or degree.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: They've totally demolished the bank on Main Street.
Antonio. He misses not much.
Sebastian. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.
The languages of different nations did not totally differ […] They were therefore easily learned;
Your conjecture is totally wrong, I assure you.
I trust him totally and without reservation.
The project poses exceptional challenges, given that Antarctica is the coldest, windiest and driest continent on Earth, as well as the most remote and inaccessible, being almost totally covered by a vast ice sheet.
gloss: Very; extremely.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
not-comparable
examples: That was totally wicked!
gloss: Definitely; for sure.
pos: adv
tags: colloquial
modal
not-comparable
examples: That was totally not what happened.
Well, we’ve spoken to a lawyer, and the answer, it turns out, is, ‘Yes. That would totally be assault.’ So we’ll say that I didn’t do it.
Derived words: totally disconnected
totally geodesic
totally kind day
totally nice day
totally ordered
totally ordered set
totes
Translations:
historically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From historical + -ly or historic + -ally.
Base: historical
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more historically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most historically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a historic manner; with reference to history or the historical record.
pos: adv
examples: Historically speaking, this company has always collected payment before starting work.
Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed historically.
gloss: According to history: formerly, in the past, traditionally.
pos: adv
examples: Historically, this company collected payment before starting work.
Holden Matthews, 21, has been charged in connection with fires at three historically black churches in Louisiana.
gloss: To an unprecedented or extremely rare degree.
pos: adv
examples: In January, the anti-corruption organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, or CREW, released a detailed report on the historically unethical presidency of Donald Trump.
Translations:
newly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English newly, newely, neweliche, from Old English nīewlīċe (“newly”), equivalent to new + -ly. Compare Dutch nieuwelijks, German neulich, Danish nylig, Icelandic nýlega. More at new, -ly.
Base: new
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more newly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most newly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very recently/lately; in the immediate past.
pos: adv
examples: She smelled the newly budding flowers.
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.”
Translations:
allocated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Having been granted an allocation; having received (something) as part of a plan or scheduled disbursement; having been assigned (something) that was set aside for a particular purpose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
vulgarism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vulgar
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English vulgarism
From vulgar + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: vulgarisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Vulgarity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Amidst his manuscript notes for Democratic Vistas he [Walt Whitman] wrote himself a reminder to "offset the statement of depravity [and] vulgarism ... of the masses by a full acknowledgment of the latent heroism."
gloss: A word or term that is considered offensive or vulgar.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "Shit" is a vulgarism.
gloss: A spelling, word, or phrase used in common speech that is considered improper or incorrect for formal communication.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We never descended to the vulgarism of a quarrel. People said that neither of us had a heart, but it appears to me that politeness is an excellent substitute.
Editors of newspapers allow more vulgarisms to go to print today than they used to.
Related words: vulgar
vulgarist
vulgarity
Translations:
sheik
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Arabic شَيْخ (šayḵ, “elder”). Sense 4 (“a romantic lover”) is from the 1921 film The Sheik.
Inflected forms:
form: sheiks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sheikh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: shaykh
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The leader of an Arab village, family or small tribe.
pos: noun
examples: Tarzan, who, by this time, with the assistance of Abdul, had picked up quite a smattering of Arab, questioned one of the younger men who had accompanied the sheik while the latter paid his respects to Captain Gerard.
gloss: An Islamic religious cleric; the master of a Sufi order.
pos: noun
examples: He then studied under a variety of scholars (shuyook) and institutes around the world in his quest for authentic knowledge.
gloss: An official title for members of the royal family as well as some prominent families.
pos: noun
gloss: A romantic lover.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
slang
examples: When your last natural tooth goes, the time when you can kid yourself that you're a Hollywood sheik, is definitely at an end.
gloss: An Arab, especially one dressed in traditional clothing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An honorific for specialists in spirituality, for example in Sufism.
pos: noun
Related words: sheikha
Derived words: sheik al-Yahud
sheikdom
sheiklike
sheikly
Translations:
congruent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English congruent, from Latin congruēns, present active participle of congruō (“meet together, agree”).
Inflected forms:
form: more congruent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most congruent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Corresponding in character; congruous.
pos: adj
examples: In the course of this work it was borne in on me, increasingly, that the notion of I-schemes, schemes of selving, as the basic structures of our dynamic selves is congruent with developing directions of inquiry both within psychoanalysis and outside it.
gloss: Harmonious.
pos: adj
gloss: Having a difference divisible by a modulus.
pos: adj
gloss: Coinciding exactly when superimposed.
pos: adj
gloss: Satisfying a congruence relation.
pos: adj
Derived words: congruently
congruent number
congruent triangle
incongruent
noncongruent
scissor-congruent
scissors-congruent
ultracongruent
uncongruent
Translations:
congruous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Latin congruus, from congruō (“to coincide with; to agree”).
Inflected forms:
form: more congruous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most congruous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Corresponding in character.
pos: adj
gloss: Harmonious.
pos: adj
Derived words: congruously
congruousness
noncongruous
Translations:
congruency
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: congruencies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being congruent
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: congruence
congruity
Antonyms: incongruence
incongruency
incongruity
Derived words: incongruency
Translations:
congruity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French congruité.
Inflected forms:
form: congruities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of agreeing; the quality of being suitable and appropriate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An instance or point of agreement or correspondence; a resemblance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: discongruity
Translations:
bollock
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English ballok, from Old English bealluc (“testicle”, literally “little ball”). By surface analysis, ball + -ock.
Inflected forms:
form: bollocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ballock
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Ireland
form: bollocks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bollocking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bollocked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bollocked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ballock
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Ireland
Senses:
gloss: A testicle.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
in-plural
vulgar
examples: You've got a bollock hanging out of your shorts.
gloss: To reprimand severely and grossly.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
transitive
vulgar
examples: The boss bollocked me for coming in late.
The goalkeeper gave his defenders a bollocking when they made a mistake.
Translations:
nad
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: noun animate dependent
pos: noun
Translations:
nads
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of gonads.
Inflected forms:
form: nad
pos: noun
tags: singular
form: gnads
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: 'nads
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The testicles.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
slang
gloss: Courage; strength of will.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-normally
slang
examples: Do you really have the ’nads to go through with this?
Related words: cojones
balls
bottle
nuts
stomach
Translations:
hitch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
government
military
mining
politics
war
Etymology: Probably from Middle English hicchen, hytchen, icchen (“to move; to move as with a jerk”), of obscure origin. Lacks cognates in other languages. Compare itch, hike.
Inflected forms:
form: hitches
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sudden pull.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope.
pos: noun
gloss: A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer.
pos: noun
examples: His truck sported a heavy-duty hitch for his boat.
gloss: A problem, delay or source of difficulty.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The banquet went off without a hitch
The service operated according to plan on the Monday morning with only a few hitches.
Over the next week, the hitch in my dad's stride eased a bit. But we'd run out of things to talk about.
gloss: A hidden or unfavorable condition or element.
pos: noun
examples: The deal sounds too good to be true. What's the hitch?
gloss: A period of time spent in the military.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: She served two hitches in Vietnam.
U.S. TROOPS FACE LONGER ARMY HITCH; SOLDIERS BOUND FOR IRAQ, ... WILL BE RETAINED
gloss: A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda.
pos: noun
gloss: A hole cut into the wall of a mine on which timbers are rested.
pos: noun
examples: An upcast fault is when the seam is thrown up; to counteract this a "canch" of top stone must be taken down outbye over from the fault, and a "canch" of bottom stone taken up inbye over from the fault, then level up to the bottom of your "canch" at the foreside of the hitch outbye over until you have a regular gradient to the seam on the hitch.
A coal cutter and conveyor is used along the face, and after each cut the hitch had to be crossed at a new point.
Translations:
tuck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
diving
entertainment
gymnastics
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
medicine
music
nautical
sciences
sewing
sports
surgery
textiles
transport
Etymology: From Middle English tuken, touken (“to torment, to stretch (cloth)”), from Old English tūcian (“to torment, vex”) and Middle Dutch tucken (“to tuck”), both from Proto-Germanic *teuh-, *teug- (“to draw, pull”) (compare also *tukkōną), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Akin to Old High German zucchen (“to snatch, tug”), zuchôn (“to jerk”), German Low German tuken (“to tug, pluck, grab and pull towards”), Old English tēon (“to draw, pull, train”). Doublet of touch.
Inflected forms:
form: tucks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of tucking; a pleat or fold.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A fold in fabric that has been stitched in place from end to end, as to reduce the overall dimension of the fabric piece.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A curled position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A plastic surgery technique to remove excess skin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: tummy tuck
gloss: The act of keeping the thumb in position while moving the rest of the hand over it to continue playing keys that are outside the thumb.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A curled position, with the shins held towards the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The afterpart of a ship, immediately under the stern or counter, where the ends of the bottom planks are collected and terminate by the tuck-rail.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Food, especially snack food.
pos: noun
tags: India
UK
dated
uncountable
examples: 'What on earth do Coker and his parcel of tuck matter to us? You're not thinking of snooping his tuck, I suppose, like Bunter.'
Related words: tucker
Derived words: French tuck
pintuck
puck
tuck box
tucker
tuck-in
tuck-out
tuck pointing
tuck shop
tuck up
tummy tuck
Translations:
jizz
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: The earliest known appearance in print dates from 1922, in Thomas Coward's "Country Diary" column for the Manchester Guardian of 6 December 1921; the piece was subsequently included in his 1922 book Bird Haunts and Nature Memories. He attributed it to "a west-coast Irishman", and explained:
:if we are walking on the road and see, far ahead, someone whom we recognise although we can neither distinguish features nor particular clothes, we may be certain that we are not mistaken; there is something in the carriage, the walk, the general appearance which is familiar; it is, in fact, the individual's jizz.
There are several theories as to the etymology of “jizz”:
* From the military term GIS (“general impression and shape”).
* Possible contraction of just is (in the sense that a particular bird species “just is” that species).
An essay by Greenwood and Greenwood in 2018 debunks these theories. Other suggestions include variants of guise, gist and gestalt (mispronounced).
Inflected forms:
form: jizzes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jizzes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jizzing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: jizzed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: jizzed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gism
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: jazz
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: jism
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: jiz
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: jizzum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The physical and behavioural characteristics of a bird that enable it to be immediately recognised by an experienced birder as a certain type of bird, especially to family or genus level.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A West Coast Irishman was familiar with the wild creatures which dwelt on or visited his rocks and shores; at a glance he could name them, usually correctly, but if asked how he knew them would reply ‘By their "jizz".’
Ennion's work is instantly recognisable. It is not detailed, it is often ‘impressionistic’ and it sometimes almost borders on caricature, yet few bird artists can capture the jizz, movement and atmosphere of birds the way he did.
Political cartoonists rely a lot on jizz. When a new president or prime minister comes into office it usually takes the cartoonists a little while to decide which features to select as field marks but they then stylise these in ways that make them instantly recognisable to the rest of us, even though they may be grossly exaggerated.
His birds are not carefully posed to illustrate every plumage detail; they are impressions rather than portraits. With a few deft strokes of his pencil, he captures their 'jizz'.
gloss: To ejaculate; to eject semen.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
gloss: To ejaculate on, over, or into; to cover in semen.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
Related words: jizz up
Translations:
mettle
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From figurative use of metal (since 16th century). The two spellings were originally interchangeable variants, but came to be distinguished by sense in the 18th century.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Spirited, vigorous, stout-hearted.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
examples: And then one afternoon in the hinder end of April came young Heriotside riding to the Skerburnfoot. His arm was healed, he had got him a fine new suit of green, and his horse was a mettle beast that well set off his figure.
Translations:
indignant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin indignāns, present participle of indignor (“to consider as unworthy, be angry or displeased at”), from in- (“privative”) + dignor (“to deem worthy”), from dignus (“worthy”).
Inflected forms:
form: more indignant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most indignant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing anger or indignation, especially at something unjust or wrong.
pos: adj
examples: indignant dissent
indignant look
indignant response
indignant tone
Translations:
immunization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French immunisation. Coined by Albert Calmette. Equivalent to immunize + -ation or immune + -ization.
Base: immunize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: immunizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: immunisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: The process by which a person is safely exposed in a controlled manner to a material that is designed to prime their immune system against that material.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: vaccination (broadly synonymous)
Immunization against influenza is important for all child-care workers.
It will do little for the future of immunization to prepare excellent vaccines, test them to a fare-thee-well for safety and efficacy, and then not insure that they are adequately used.
gloss: One such exposure.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
examples: The first immunization a baby gets is against HBV.
Our results are consistent with those obtained by other groups screening camelid-derived libraries, where an impressive diversity in the Nb nucleotide sequence, specificity and neutralizing capacity was found, especially after successive immunizations to promote the development of superimmunity.
gloss: The process by which any organism's body develops immunity against a pathogen.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: Immunization via previous infection is not unusual among infectious diseases, but the degree and duration of such immunization varies by disease and depends on other factors as well (such as immunocapability and dietary sufficiency).
Derived words: active immunization
alloimmunization
autoimmunization
coimmunization
deimmunization
hyperimmunization
immunization passport
isoimmunization
overimmunization
postimmunization
preimmunization
reimmunization
underimmunization
xenoimmunization
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تمنيع
lang: Armenian
word: իմունիզացիա
roman: imunizacʻia
lang: Bulgarian
word: имунизация
roman: imunizacija
lang: Catalan
word: immunització
lang: Czech
word: imunizace
lang: Esperanto
word: imunigo
lang: French
word: immunisation
lang: Indonesian
word: imunisasi
lang: Indonesian
word: vaksinasi
lang: Italian
word: immunizzazione
lang: Japanese
word: 予防接種
roman: yobōsesshu
lang: Japanese
word: 感作
roman: kansa
lang: Kazakh
word: иммундау
roman: immundau
lang: Macedonian
word: имуниза́ција
roman: imunizácija
lang: Polish
word: immunizacja
lang: Portuguese
word: imunização
lang: Russian
word: иммуниза́ция
roman: immunizácija
lang: Slovak
word: imunizácia
lang: Spanish
word: inmunización
lang: Swedish
word: immunisering
lang: Ukrainian
word: імуніза́ція
roman: imunizácija
lang: Armenian
word: իմունիզացիա
roman: imunizacʻia
lang: Bulgarian
word: имунизация
roman: imunizacija
lang: Esperanto
word: imunigo
lang: Indonesian
word: imunisasi
lang: Indonesian
word: vaksinasi
lang: Macedonian
word: имуниза́ција
roman: imunizácija
lang: Portuguese
word: imunização
lang: Slovak
word: imunizácia
intuition
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French intuition, from Medieval Latin intuitiō (“a looking at, immediate cognition”), from Latin intueor (“to look at, consider”), from in- (“in, on”) + tueor (“to look, watch, guard, see, observe”). Equivalent to intuit + -ion.
Base: intuit
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: intuitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: intuïtion
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Immediate cognition without the use of conscious rational processes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The native speaker's grammatical competence is reflected in two types of intuition which speakers have about their native language(s) — (i) intuitions about sentence well-formedness, and (ii) intuitions about sentence structure. The word intuition is used here in a technical sense which has become standardised in Linguistics: by saying that a native speaker has intuitions about the well-formedness and structure of sentences, all we are saying is that he has the ability to make judgments about whether a given sentence is well-formed or not, and about whether it has a particular structure or not. [...]
gloss: A perceptive insight gained by the use of this faculty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: tutor
tutorial
Derived words: counterintuition
Gettier intuition
intuit
intuitional
intuitionism
intuitionist
intuitionistic
intuitionless
intuition line
intuition pump
intuitive
line of intuition
twintuition
Translations:
scrum-half
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Etymology: From scrum + half, in reference to position on the field of play; compare half-back and full-back.
Base: scrum
Inflected forms:
form: scrum-halves
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrumhalf
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A player who introduces the ball into a scrum.
pos: noun
Translations:
binnacle
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Corruption of earlier bittacle, from French habitacle. Or from obsolete Spanish or Portuguese bitácula, both from Late Latin habitāculum (“little dwelling place”). Compare modern Spanish bitácora.
Inflected forms:
form: binnacles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The wooden housing for a ship's compass, with its corrector magnets and illuminating arrangements.
pos: noun
examples: The lamp, or candle, which lights the binnacle, is placed in the cabin, of course the expence of one light is saved, and all the inconveniences of blowing out in a squally night, and likewise the trouble of trimming the lamp, are avoided.
gloss: The instrument cluster on a car or motorcycle.
pos: noun
Derived words: binnacle list
Translations:
iodoform
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From iodo- + -form.
Base: iodo
Inflected forms:
form: iodoforms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A halogenated hydrocarbon, CHI₃; a yellow crystalline compound, formerly used as a mild antiseptic.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
lineout
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Inflected forms:
form: lineouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: line-out
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A set piece where the hooker throws the ball into play between a row of players from each team.
pos: noun
examples: Turner looked assured, picking out his men at the lineouts, while Redpath was seeing plenty of the ball and also looked the part as the Scots probed for opening.
gloss: The lineup of players in a lineout (sense 1).
pos: noun
gloss: An out produced by catching a line drive.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: autové seřazení
fly-half
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Inflected forms:
form: fly-halves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A rugby player who is normally the first receiver of the ball from the scrum half after a scrum; a half-back.
pos: noun
examples: Fly-half Holly Aitchison has had a mixed tournament with the boot up until this match, with Mitchell saying in the week he had no concerns over her kicking and being proved correct in Bordeaux.
Translations:
knock-on
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
Inflected forms:
form: knock-ons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A foul in which a player knocks the ball forward, often unintentionally.
pos: noun
examples: It took until the 33rd minute for England to get on the scoreboard, Wilkinson finally finding his range from out left, but a knock-on from James Haskell from the re-start put his team straight back under pressure.
gloss: Resulting as an indirect effect.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Related words: knock-on effect
Translations:
pacifier
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English pacify
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English pacifier
From pacify + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: pacifiers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that pacifies.
pos: noun
examples: Many people have failed to see the political significance of the women's music movement, for they categorize all of music as part of the cultural periphery that distracts people from real social injustices. However, far from being a pacifier, women's music has presented an experience which contrasts with the social inequities of our culture's traditionally male-dominated music.
gloss: A rubber or plastic device imitating a nipple that goes into a baby’s mouth, used to calm and quiet the baby.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Synonyms: binky
bink
bo-bo
comforter
dodie
dummy
nookie
paci
piece
pippy
soother
Derived words: paci
pacifier gag
Translations:
rayon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Name chosen by the National Retail Dry Goods Association of America, probably from French rayon (“a beam of light, ray”) and so called because it is shiny; however, the Oxford English Dictionary states that it is apparently a blend of ray + cotton.
Compound parts: ray
cotton
Inflected forms:
form: rayons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A manufactured regenerated cellulosic fiber.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
chthonic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χθών (khthṓn, “ground, soil”) + -ic.
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more chthonic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most chthonic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: chtonic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
uncommon
form: cthonic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
uncommon
form: ctonic
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Dwelling within the underworld.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The young pantheon had remanded their elders to the role of smouldering, chthonic gods; to inhabiting dark, deep places, hidden from mortal eyes and influence.
In this ceremony the Olympian Gods are placed in opposition to the Chthonic genii, the divinities of death and the dark side of nature, in which class the heroes are also reckoned; but Zeus Soter is conceived as a third and lord over both worlds.
In connexion with these Chthonic surroundings, the form of the head-dress which crowns the recumbent figure of Dionysos-Pluto, and is also occasionally seen on the kead of the Kourotrophos at the foot of the couch, is of considerable significance.
There is no god more chthonic than the god of death, Leinth, and it is he that holds on his left knee Maris Halna, who (in mere innocence) shows no fear of him.
The snake symbolizes the chthonic force, the being which crawls along the ground; the bird symbolizes the higher realms of the consciousness, the being which is liberated from earth and can fly off to Heaven.
Beowulf's mood as he gets ready to fight the dragon - who could be read as a projection of Beowulf's own chthonic wisdom refined in the crucible of experience - recalls the mood of other tragic heroes.
[H. Patrick] Glenn refers to Indigenous law as chthonic law, because it is the law of chthonic peoples – peoples 'who live ecological lives by being chthonic, that is, by living in or in close harmony with the earth'.
A most striking thing about Hainin’s fauna is how chthonic it is.
Translations:
conjunctive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrology
astronomy
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
logic
mathematics
mysticism
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Latin coniunctivus (“serving to connect”), from coniunctus, past participle of coniungere; compare conjoin. From late 15th c; grammatical sense from 1660s.
Inflected forms:
form: conjunctives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Connective: tending to join, unite, connect.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Connected: being joined, united, connected.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to a conjunction (appearance in the sky of two astronomical objects with the same right ascension or the same ecliptic longitude).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to a conjunction (part of speech).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Relating to the conjunctive mood.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a personal pronoun, used only in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, such as French je or Irish sé
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Subjunctive: inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to logical conjunction.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Closely united.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: She is so conjunctive to my life and soul / That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, / I could not but by her.
gloss: A conjunction.
pos: noun
gloss: The subjunctive.
pos: noun
gloss: A conjunction.
pos: noun
Related words: conjunct
conjunction
conjunctional
conjunctiva
Derived words: canonical conjunctive normal form
conjunctive adjunct
conjunctive adverb
conjunctive approach
conjunctive archaeology
conjunctive conjunction
conjunctive error
conjunctive eye movement
conjunctive grammar
conjunctive illocutionary act
conjunctively
conjunctive management
conjunctive membrane
conjunctive mode
conjunctive mood
conjunctiveness
conjunctive normal form
conjunctive operation
conjunctive participle
conjunctive symbiosis
conjunctive tissue
conjunctive tunic
conjunctive use
conjunctive verb
conjunctivism
conjunctivist
conjunctivity
non-conjunctive
nonconjunctive
subconjunctively
unconjunctive
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: свързващ
roman: svǎrzvašt
lang: Bulgarian
word: съединителен
roman: sǎedinitelen
lang: Catalan
word: conjuntiu
lang: Finnish
word: konjunktiivinen
lang: French
word: conjonctif
lang: German
word: verbindend
lang: Korean
word: 접속적
roman: jeopsokjeok
lang: Portuguese
word: conjuntivo
lang: Russian
word: соедини́тельный
roman: sojedinítelʹnyj
lang: Russian
word: присоедини́тельный
roman: prisojedinítelʹnyj
lang: Spanish
word: conjuntivo