yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
bashaw
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant of pasha, several forms or relatives of which start with /b-/, e.g. Arabic بَاشَا (bāšā).
Inflected forms:
form: bashaws
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bassa
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bassaw
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A pasha.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
examples: Radzivilius was much taken with the bassa’s palace in Cairo […].
The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace, where he intended to die […].
he fancies himself in company with beautiful women; he dreams that he is an emperor, or a bashaw, and that the world is at his nod.
Insecure about his infirmity, the Bashaw decreed that all who desired to come into his presence must first submit to having their eyes put out.
gloss: A grandee.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
broadly
derogatory
often
gloss: A very large siluroid fish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat.
pos: noun
Derived words: bashawism
bashawship
Translations:
baste
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Old French bastir (“build, construct, sew up (a garment)”).
Inflected forms:
form: bastes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: basting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: basted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: basted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bastes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He bastes the coat together with thick white thread almost like string, using stitches big enough to be ripped out easily later.
gloss: A basting; a sprinkling of drippings etc. in cooking.
pos: noun
examples: "Just like a leg of mutton being roasted before a slow fire without any one to give it a baste," groaned the old man.
Translations:
bate
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English baten (“to abate”), an apheretic form of abaten, from Old French abatre (“to knock down”).
Inflected forms:
form: bates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To reduce the force of something; to abate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ah, left ſome Thorn ſhoul'd pierce thy tender Foot, / Or thou ſhoul'dſt fall in flying my purſuit! / To ſharp uneven Ways thy ſteps decline; / Abate thy Speed, and I will bate of mine.
gloss: To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] and to his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story of the stroke with the willow wand.
gloss: To cut off, remove, take away.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
sometimes
transitive
examples: Also about Autumne bate the earth from about the roots of Olives, and lay them bare, but in stead thereof put good mucke thereto.
Nay, if he be of a proud humour, […] he will not Bate an Ace of abſolute certainty, but however doubtful or improbable the thing is, coming f[r]om him it muſt go for an indiſputable truth.
gloss: To leave out, except, bar.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Bate the King, and be he fleſh and blood, / He lyes that ſaies it, thy mother at fifteen / Was black and ſinful to her.
Bate (I beſeech you) widdow Dido.
gloss: To waste away.
pos: verb
examples: Bardoll, am I not falne away vilely ſince this laſt action? do I not bate? do I not dwindle? Why, my skinne hangs about me like an old Ladies looſe gowne.
gloss: To deprive of.
pos: verb
examples: When baseness is exalted, do not bate / The place its honour for the person's sake; […]
gloss: To lessen by retrenching, deducting, or reducing; to abate; to beat down; to lower.
pos: verb
examples: [W]hen the Landholder's Rent falls, he muſt either bate the Labourer's Wages, or not imploy, or not pay him; which either way makes him feel the want of Money.
The shopkeeper is very good-natured; he will show you everything he has, and does not seem to mind if you buy nothing. He bates a little, but not so much as the Klings, who almost always ask twice what they are willing to take.
gloss: To allow by way of abatement or deduction.
pos: verb
examples: Theſe are the conditions of his treating with God, to whom he bates nothing or what he ſtood upon with the Parlament: as if Commiſſions of Array could deale with him alſo.
gloss: Strife; contention.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] and weares his Boot very ſmooth, like vnto the Signe of the Legge; and breedes no bate with telling of diſcreete stories:
So the strife redoubled and the weapons together clashed and ceased not bate and debate and naught was to be seen but blood flowing and necks bowing; […]
The other merely needs jealousy and bate, of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart.
Derived words: bate an ace
with bated breath
Translations:
bated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more bated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Reduced; lowered; restrained
pos: adj
Translations:
baton
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
baking
cooking
engineering
entertainment
food
government
gymnastics
heraldry
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
military
monarchy
music
natural-sciences
nobility
performing-arts
physical-sciences
politics
sports
tools
war
weaponry
Etymology: From French bâton. Doublet of baston.
Inflected forms:
form: batons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bâton
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: batons
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: batoning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: batoned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: batoned
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bâton
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes.
pos: noun
gloss: A ceremonial staff of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military office.
pos: noun
gloss: The stick of a conductor in musical performances.
pos: noun
examples: The conductor raised his baton and the orchestra fell silent.
gloss: An object transferred by runners in a relay race.
pos: noun
examples: In the relay race, the runner dropped the baton.
gloss: A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.
pos: noun
gloss: A short stout club used primarily by policemen.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The police officer carried a baton for self-defense.
gloss: A bend with the ends cut off, resembling a baton, typically borne sinister, and often used as a mark of cadency, initially for both legitimate and illegitimate children, but later chiefly for illegitimate children.
pos: noun
examples: Alternative forms: batune, baston
gloss: A short vertical lightweight post, not set into the ground, used to separate wires in a fence.
pos: noun
gloss: A batonnet, a long slice of a vegetable, thicker than a julienne.
pos: noun
gloss: A short baguette.
pos: noun
gloss: To strike with a baton.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: She passed the baton to her successor after retiring.
accept/refuse/receive the baton
Synonyms: wand
rod
bat
club
Related words: baston
batonnet
Derived words: baton charge
batonic
batonist
batonless
batonlike
baton round
baton sinister
pass the baton
sugar cane baton
Translations:
batt
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English in the sense "piece, lump," of uncertain origin, but possibly related to the noun bat with the sense of "beaten" fabric.
Inflected forms:
form: batts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pieces of fabric or fibre used for stuffing; as for batting or insulation
pos: noun
gloss: A shoe.
pos: noun
tags: Polari
plural-normally
examples: As feely homies, when we launched ourselves onto the gay scene, polari was all the rage. We would zhoosh our riahs, powder our eeks, climb into our bona new drag, don our batts and troll off to some bona bijou bar.
Translations:
bawd
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *bʰóltosder.
Proto-Germanic *balþaz
Frankish *balþbor.
Old French baudbor.
Middle English bawde
English bawd
From Middle English bawde, baude, from Old French baud (“bold, lively, jolly, gay”). Doublet of bold. An association with Welsh bawddyn (“dirty fellow, scoundrel”), from baw (“dirt”), was suggested by the Rev. Henry Todd.
Inflected forms:
form: bawds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: baud
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: baude
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who keeps a brothel, or procures women for prostitution; a procurer or madam.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
historical
examples: Of late in the Park, a fair fancy was seen / Betwixt an old Baud and a lusty young Quean, / Their parting of Money began the uproar, / I'll have half says the Baud, but you shan't says the Whore
As Whores decay'd and past their Labours, / Turn Bawds, and so assist their Neighbours.
[…] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
Compared with their opponents, bawds and their associates increasingly had deeper pockets and greater confidence in manipulating the law.
gloss: A person who facilitates an immoral act, especially one of a sexual nature.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
obsolete
examples: In ſaying this thou wrongſt me Gaueſton, / Iſt not enough that thou corrupts my Lord, / And art a Bawd to his affections, / But thou muſt call mine honour thus in queſtion?
gloss: A lewd person.
pos: noun
Synonyms: brothelkeeper
pimp
procurer
procuress
Derived words: bawdish
bawdship
bawdy
cock-bawd
pitcher-bawd
Translations:
bawdy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *bʰóltosder.
Proto-Germanic *balþaz
Frankish *balþbor.
Old French baudbor.
Middle English bawde
English bawd
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English bawdy
From bawd + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: bawdier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more bawdy
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: bawdiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most bawdy
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bawdies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Obscene; filthy; unchaste.
pos: adj
gloss: Sexual in nature and usually meant to be humorous but considered rude; ribald.
pos: adj
gloss: A bawdy or lewd person.
pos: noun
examples: The Bawdies were girls who danced naked on a ramp in the middle of a room full of tables with tops the size of pie plates.
Our scholarly studies and discoveries about bodies and bawdies and the forbidden mysteries of S-E-X proved that participatory education had to be the very best.
Derived words: bawdily
bawdiness
bawdy basket
bawdy-house
Translations:
bayou
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Louisiana French bayou, from Choctaw bayuk (“a creek”). Doublet of bogue.
Inflected forms:
form: bayous
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buyou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: byo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.
pos: noun
examples: You natural persons old and young! / You on the Mississippi and on all the branches and bayous of the Mississippi! / You friendly boatmen and mechanics! you roughs!
gloss: A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.
pos: noun
examples: At that time I had no staff officer who could be trusted with that duty. In the woods, at a short distance below the clearing, I found a depression, dry at the time, but which at high water became a slough or bayou.
Derived words: Bayou of Pigs
bayou physa
Translations:
beck
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bek, bekk, becc, from Old English bæc, bec, bæċe, beċe (“beck, brook”), from Proto-Germanic *bakiz (“stream”).
Cognate with Old Norse bekkr (“a stream or brook”), Low German bek, beck, German Bach, Dutch beek, Swedish bäck, Doublet of batch. More at beach.
Inflected forms:
form: becks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stream or small river.
pos: noun
tags: Norfolk
Northern-England
examples: […]Whence, climing to the Cleeves, her selfe she firmlie sets / The Bourns, the Brooks, the Becks, the Rills, the Rivilets[…]
[…] the sky is blue, and the larks are singing, and the becks and brooks are all brim full.
This is the boundary at Earnleie: First from Earesbrook and [qu. to] the short thorns, […] and from the tree to Tudelesbeck, along the beck to the Severn, up along the Severn to Leofric's boundary, […]
Beck water cold and clear, will never clean your wound
The beck is crossed by a pretty ford and a number of bridges, and in spring the cottages look out over a dancing sea of daffodils.
Translations:
berate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epider.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁pi
Proto-Germanic *bider.
Proto-Germanic *bi-
Proto-West Germanic *bi-
Old English be-
Middle English bi-
English be-
English rate
English berate
From be- + rate (“to scold, upbraid”).
Inflected forms:
form: berates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: berating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: berated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: berated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To chide or scold vehemently.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: What society tells people that they can “do whatever they want” to dissidents, and yet berates anyone for treating them well?
Gabord, still muttering, turned to us again, and began to berate the soldiers for their laziness.
A thousand times I berated myself for being drawn into such a trap as I might have known these pits easily could be.
Lenerengo, as usual, forgot everything else in the fiercer pleasure of berating her spouse.
During the rally, he berates the crowd for their cowardice.
France were supposedly a team in pieces, beaten by Tonga just a week ago and with coach Marc Lievremont publicly berating his players, but so clear-cut was their victory that much of the atmosphere had been sucked from the contest long before the end.
Translations:
betony
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English betayny, betanie, from Medieval Latin betōnia (possibly through Old French), from Latin betōnica or ve(t)tōnica, from Vettones, a people in Lusitania. Compare French bétoine.
Inflected forms:
form: betonies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vetony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bettony
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any plant of the genus Stachys.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any plant of the genus Stachys.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any plant of the genus Pedicularis (louseworts).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
countable
uncountable
Synonyms: heal-all
self-heal
woundwort
lamb's ears
hedgenettle
Translations:
bey
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish بك (bey, “gentleman, chief”), from Old Anatolian Turkish بك (beg, “ruler”), from Proto-Turkic *bēg (“lord”). See there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: beys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A governor of a province or district in the Turkish (e.g. Ottoman) dominions.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess.
Whether his position with the Third Circle made the difference or the fact that he ranked as a bey, life in El Iskandryia was proving easier than he'd ever dreamed possible when he stepped off the plane.
gloss: in various other places, a prince or nobleman
pos: noun
Derived words: begum
beydom
beyship
Translations:
bezel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from French bisel, a dialectal variant of biseau (“sloping edge”), a variation on bijou (“jewel”), itself from Breton bisou, bizou (“ring worn on the finger”), from biz (“finger”).
Unrelated to similar bevel, which is of a different French origin.
Inflected forms:
form: bezels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sloping edge or face on a cutting tool.
pos: noun
gloss: The oblique side or face of a cut gem; especially the upper faceted portion of a brilliant (diamond), which projects from its setting.
pos: noun
gloss: The rim and flange which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, such as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
pos: noun
examples: “There,” she went on, “it must be one like to it, and yet never did I see one like to it, for thereto hung a history, and he who wore it prized it much. But the scarab that I knew was not set thus in the bezel of a ring.
gloss: The panel that covers the front of a computer case, or the panel covering each drive bay that can be removed to install a removable drive that requires external access, such as a CD/DVD-ROM drive, which usually has its own preinstalled bezel.
pos: noun
gloss: The area on the front of a computing device surrounding the display.
pos: noun
examples: Modern smartphones have very thin bezels.
Related words: beazle
bevel
collet
Derived words: bezelless
Translations:
bibb
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From bib.
Inflected forms:
form: bibbs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of bibcock.
pos: noun
Translations:
bibber
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bib (“drink heartily”) + -er (agent noun suffix); see bib (“clothing to prevent spills from mouth”). Bib is from Middle English bibben. First attested in the 1530s.
Base: bib
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: bibbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler.
pos: noun
Translations:
bilk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.
Inflected forms:
form: bilks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bilks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bilking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bilked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bilked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.
pos: noun
gloss: A deception, a hoax.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A cheat or swindler.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They also perpetrate nonviolent crimes like bilking elderly couples out of their life savings and running a business with ruthless disregard for the welfare of the workforce or stakeholders.
Mr. Gallagher, who went by the nickname Doc, pleaded guilty on Aug. 31 to several charges connected to what prosecutors described as a Ponzi scheme that lasted nearly 10 years and bilked older people of their retirement savings.
gloss: To steal fuel from a self-service filling station by driving away without paying after filling the fuel tank or other container; to commit a drive-off.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
gloss: To evade, elude.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
Derived words: bilker
Translations:
biopsy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From French biopsie, from bi- + -opsy.
Affixes: bi-
-opsy
Inflected forms:
form: biopsies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: biopsies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: biopsying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: biopsied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: biopsied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The removal and examination of a sample of tissue, cells, or bodily fluid from a living body for diagnostic purposes.
pos: noun
examples: We will need to perform a biopsy to determine whether the tumour is malignant or benign.
All the while he was talking, he took lots of biopsies, small samples of tissue to be examined by pathologists using a microscope.
gloss: To take a sample (a biopsy) for pathological examination.
pos: verb
examples: They biopsied the lump but it turned out to be non-cancerous.
Translations:
biota
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin biota, from Ancient Greek βιοτή (biotḗ), from βίος (bíos).
Inflected forms:
form: biotas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The living organisms of a region.
pos: noun
examples: Although the broad macroevolutionary consequences of mass extinctions are well known (as in the dinosaurs-mammals changeover), their long-term effects on the temporal and spatial dynamics of clades and biotas are rarely investigated.
gloss: A coniferous tree, Oriental arborvitae (Platycladus orientalis, syn. Biota orientalis).
pos: noun
Derived words: epibiota
macrobiota
microbiota
mycobiota
paleobiota
Translations:
biotic
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βιωτικός (biōtikós, “of life”), from βίος (bíos, “life”). Equivalent to bio- + -otic.
Base: bio
Inflected forms:
form: biotics
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A nutritional substance that improves the health of gastrointestinal microorganisms, especially one that occurs naturally.
pos: noun
examples: This is done by manipulating the microflora that reside within the GIT of all living things and this is the point at which all the "biotics" come into play.
Thus, there is a principal difference between biotics and synthetic compounds. Biotics possess a number of structural and functional properties that allow them to enter biological molecular structures without too much difficulty and to function with high activity in the composition of these structures and biological cycles.
You can't buy elevated biotics packaged up in bottles at the store, and you can't even find them in fermented foods. They don't exist in any area of industry; they exist on a fresh sprout or microgreen or an organic apple you pick from a tree or on kale you pluck from your backyard plot. These elevated biotics create the strongest beneficial bacteria environment possible in the intestinal tract, and this greatly benefits the liver in ways undiscovered by medical research and science.
We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the therapeutic benefits of biotics in CKD.
The indicative references cited in this chapter clearly illustrate the critical contribution of these biotics to the general health and well-being of cultured organism.
gloss: A simple organic organism that is more complex than an organic molecule but simpler than a plant or animal.
pos: noun
examples: The biotics constitute an extensive group of organic materials that are simple, living microorganisms and cannot be expressed as chemical formulas.
The absence of fusulinids in the Manzanita despite the presence of biotics of similar size suggests that there was not indiscriminate transport of biotics from the shelf.
In addition to foraminifera, fragments and whole specimens of several different biotics are present within the sand sized fraction of the Fram cores.
These isotropic fields have been modified to include isotopic compositional data for biotics and cements for limestones and carbonate sediments from the Pacific and Caribbean from Saller (1986), Gonzalez and Lohmann (1985), and […]
Translations:
bisect
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
geometry
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
philately
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From bi- (“bi-, two”) + Latin secāre (“to cut”).
Base: secāre
Affixes: bi-
Inflected forms:
form: bisects
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bisecting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bisected
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bisected
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bisects
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cut or divide into two parts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The river bisects the town.
The quadrennial period of games and festivals in Greece was probably arrived at by bisecting an older octennial period.
gloss: To cut or divide into two parts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To cut or divide into two parts.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
pos: noun
gloss: An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available.
pos: noun
Synonyms: dichotomize
dimidiate
bipartition
bisect
half
halve
Antonyms: double
Related words: dissect
vivisect
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: разполовявам
roman: razpolovjavam
lang: Bulgarian
word: разполовя
roman: razpolovja
lang: Finnish
word: puolittaa
lang: Finnish
word: halkaista kahtia
lang: German
word: halbieren
lang: Hawaiian
word: pālua
lang: Hungarian
word: félbevág
lang: Hungarian
word: elfelez
lang: Ido
word: bisekar
lang: Māori
word: weherua
lang: Russian
word: разделать пополам
roman: razdelatʹ popolam
lang: Swedish
word: halvera
lang: Swedish
word: dela i tu
blat
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Imitative. First attested in 1846 in the intransitive sense of "bleat". Compare English bleat, Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”).
Inflected forms:
form: blats
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blatting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blatted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blatted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cry, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Near-synonym: baa (sheep or goat)
gloss: To make a senseless noise.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A moment later the engine roared into life. Exhaust blatted through the straight-pipes; people stopped on the street to look.
gloss: To talk inconsiderately; blab.
pos: verb
gloss: To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
pos: verb
gloss: To utter loudly or foolishly; blurt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: To open a new business in Russia you need blat.
Alena Ledeneva's book is the first to analyse blat in all its historical, socio-economic and cultural aspects, and to explore its implications for post-Soviet society. In a socialist distribution system which resulted in constant shortages, blat developed into an 'economy of favours' which shadowed an overcontrolling centre and represented the reaction of ordinary people to the social constraints they faced.
“We call her that but really it’s more post-Soviet. She's the blat girl.”
“The what?”
“Blat. What the old boys in your country called juice, I think. She's connected, Marina is.
The bribe caused the inflation of the social capital defined as blat. Monetarization of social relations led to the inflation of the social investments that the ordinary citizen has put in their blat networks. Only blat networks of the powerful survived […]
I argue that just as blat was an essential type of know-how of Soviet socialism, these postsocialist informal practices represent the “know-how” of post-Soviet Russia.
The distinction between the use of blat for personal enrichment and for smoothing the work of the enterprise was emphasized in the interview testimony. […] The supply agent, for example, often has large quantities of money at his disposal for arranging his blat, much of which he might use for himself but which he devotes instead to making deals of advantage to the enterprise.
Semukhina and Reynolds mention underlying reasons for the widespread corruption: pre-Soviet and Soviet practices (especially the system of blat⁽¹⁹¹⁾, which continued in the wake of the breakdown of the Soviet Union), institutional factors within the police (e.g. highly militarised structure, lack of accountability), a weak civil society, economic causes (maximising income and minimising risks) and a culture of ‘disrespect for the law’⁽¹⁹²⁾.
Translations:
bloop
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
broadcasting
games
hobbies
lifestyle
media
sports
television
Etymology: Imitative.
Inflected forms:
form: bloops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blooping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blooped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blooped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: bloops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To blow air bubbles or audibly slosh about in water.
pos: verb
tags: especially
onomatopoeic
examples: The ducks quack,
The birds chirp,
The fish bloop.
gloss: To make a hit just beyond the infield.
pos: verb
gloss: To produce a low-pitched beeping sound.
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Optical track can be blooped by using blooping tape, which is available from motion picture equipment dealers.
gloss: The sound of a fish blowing air bubbles in water.
pos: noun
tags: onomatopoeic
examples: Slowly exhale using short, quick bursts through the mouth, making 'bloop' sounds to mimic a fish each time.
gloss: The sound of something, especially a fish, sloshing about in water.
pos: noun
tags: onomatopoeic
examples: A loud bloop bloop from the fish tank made me jump, the three-year-old Reader’s Digest almost slipping from my grip.
Still, it’s a good place to stand and try to catch sight of a heron or to be quiet to hear the bloop, bloop of fish surfacing to eat a water bug.
gloss: A low-pitched beeping sound.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: The robot produced a series of beeps and bloops before giving its answer to the problem.
A fiendish yell then followed / Ev'ry salvo's 'bang' and 'bloop'.
gloss: Synonym of blooper.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Derived words: blooper
unblooped
bloopery
bloopy
Translations:
boa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English boa, from Latin boa (“large snake”), a species of serpent mentioned in Pliny's Naturalis Historia (Natural History). The scarf was named attributively, for its resemblance to the snake when worn.
Inflected forms:
form: boas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boæ
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of large American snakes, of the genus Boa, subfamily Boinae, or family Boidae, including the boa constrictor and the emperor boa of Mexico.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of long scarf; typically made from synthetic or real feathers (or occasionally fur), and usually worn by being draped across the shoulders with the ends hanging low, sometimes also with a loop around the neck.
pos: noun
examples: Do not take up your boa as if it were the rope with which you meant to hang yourself; nor wrap your shawl round you as if it were your shroud.
Related words: Boa
Derived words: banana boa
boaed
emerald tree boa
feather boa
javelin sand boa
northern eyelash boa
rainbow boa
rosy boa
rubber boa
sand boa
tree boa
water boa
Translations:
bobble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
hobbies
knitting
lifestyle
manufacturing
sports
textiles
Etymology: * (noun): from bob + -le (diminutive suffix).
* (verb): from bob + -le (frequentative suffix).
Compare bauble.
Base: bob
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: bobbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bobbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bobbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bobbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bobbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A furry ball attached on top of a hat.
pos: noun
gloss: Elasticated band used for securing hair (for instance in a ponytail), a hair tie
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A pill (a ball formed on the surface of the fabric, as on laundered clothes).
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A localized set of stitches forming a raised bump.
pos: noun
examples: From the top the sample shows four stitch popcorns, five stitch bobbles, two rows of bells and a central leaf with leaves sloping to the left and right each side.
gloss: A wobbling motion.
pos: noun
examples: My favourite dubious history of the head bobble was put forward by an Indian management consultant […]
gloss: To bob up and down.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make a mistake in.
pos: verb
tags: US
gloss: To roll slowly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A neat interchange between Mikel Arteta and Wilshere set up Podolski and his finish bobbled into the net via Gallas.
gloss: To mishandle a ball.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To use the bobble stitch.
pos: verb
tags: rare
examples: You've been cabling, twisting, popcorning and bobbling. See, we told you that they weren't so hard.
Derived words: bobble hat
bobblehead
bobbly
debobble
hair bobble
head bobble
bobbler
Translations:
bock
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From German Bockbier.
Inflected forms:
form: bocks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strong dark beer brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for spring consumption.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
bole
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bole, from Old Norse bolr, akin to Danish bul and German Bohle (“plank”). See also bulwark (“defensive wall”).
Inflected forms:
form: boles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The trunk or stem of a tree.
pos: noun
examples: Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean / Upon the dusky brushwood underneath / Their broad curved branches, fledged with clearest green, / New from its silken sheath.
A fine powder filled the air and caressed the cheek with a tingle in its touch, and the black boles of the trees showed up in a light that seemed to come from below.
Translations:
bolo
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Philippine Spanish bolo, from Tagalog bolo.
Inflected forms:
form: bolos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bolos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boloing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boloed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boloed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A long, heavy, single-edged machete.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of punch; an uppercut.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
examples: He jerked me off balance and the hand with the brass knucks came around in a looping bolo punch.
gloss: To cleave or dismember (a person or an animal) with a bolo knife.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: "In the first place," began Drina, "you are to lie down flat on the floor and creep about and show us how the Moros wriggle through the grass to bolo our sentinels." […] Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
Related words: golok
gulok
machete
palang
parang
itak
kampit
sundang
tabak
Translations:
bonito
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish bonitobor.
English bonito
Borrowed from Spanish bonito.
Inflected forms:
form: bonito
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bonitos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bonitoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various marine fish of the genus Sarda that are related to and resemble the tuna, but smaller.
pos: noun
examples: Mr Scott, the chief mate, being a capital fisherman, the table was almost daily furnished with an albacore, bonito, or dolphin, and not unfrequently with all three, which he struck with a gig.
gloss: A large tropical fish of species Katsuwonus pelamis (skipjack tuna), allied to the tunny.
pos: noun
examples: Making dashi is simple once you have katsuobushi (shaved, dried bonito flakes) and kombu (sea kelp), which have become increasingly easy to find across the United States. (You can also order them online.)
gloss: The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern United States and the West Indies.
pos: noun
gloss: The cobia or crab eater (Rachycentron canadum), an edible fish of warm waters globally.
pos: noun
Related words: skipjack
tunny
Derived words: Atlantic bonito
Australian bonito
eastern Pacific bonito
large bonito
leaping bonito
Pacific bonito
plain bonito
striped bonito
Translations:
bonzer
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Entered use 1890s, origin unknown.
In 2020 James Lambert reviewed previous theories, and supports derivation from:
* boncer (“large marble”) < bouncer (“something prodigiously large”)
Lambert also notes as not supported by evidence:
* bonanza
* French bon (“good”)
* "more fanciful" suggestions:
** born star
** Japanese 万歳 (banzai, “long live..., huzzah, hurrah”)
** bonnie
Inflected forms:
form: more bonzer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bonzer
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: boncer
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: bonza
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Remarkable; wonderful; excellent; terrific.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
examples: To see their faces brighten and to hear their 'Thanks Cobber, that was bonzer!' was a joy
To all the earth she gives the soft glad-eye;
She picks no fav′rits in this world o′ men;
She peeps in nooks, where ′appy lovers sigh,
To make their joy more bonzer still; an′ then,
O′er Spadger′s Lane she waves a podgy ′and,
An′ turns the scowlin′ slums to Fairyland.
You’ll make the bonzerest couple ever seen this side the Tropic.
By cripes, you couldn′t have a more bonzer place for doing the thing in style with girls.
Inside sat one of the most bonzer sights she′d ever seen.
The sadness about his father left his face, and he smiled. He seemed pleased to have something positive to do. / 'That's bonzer, Annie. Thanks' he said. 'You're a good sort. And as for Ches, well, he's real bonzer too.'
If playin' hero is so bonzer, what're you doin' in this job? Y'oughta be workin' for one o' those scandal rags, or with a crowd o' do-gooders, or for some investigation outfit or somethin'.
Translations:
borax
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Middle Persian *bōragbor.
Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq)der.
Medieval Latin boraxder.
Anglo-Norman boreisbor.
Middle English boras
English borax
From Middle English boras, from Anglo-Norman boreis, from Medieval Latin borax, baurach (“borax”), from Arabic بَوْرَق (bawraq), from Middle Persian bwlk' (bōrag), which yielded Persian بوره (bure).
Inflected forms:
form: boraxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boraces
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boraxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: boraxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: boraxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: boraxed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, found in nature as a mineral, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: “The best way to clean the machine is to put a pound of borax and a gallon of vinegar in the machine and run the longest, hottest cycle you have,” he says.
gloss: The sodium salt of boric acid, Na₂B₄O₇, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallization.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
sometimes
uncountable
usually
examples: Furniture isn't made to last thirty years or longer because they took a survey and found that young homemakers like to throw their furniture out and bring in all new, color-coded borax every seven years.
gloss: To treat with borax.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: boric acid
Derived words: boracic
boraciferous
boracium
borax bead test
borise
borize
boron
poke borax
unboraxed
Translations:
boric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or containing the element boron.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
botfly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bot + fly.
Compound parts: bot
fly
Inflected forms:
form: botflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bot fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bot-fly
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One of several dipterous insects of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which are parasites on many animals, including humans.
pos: noun
Translations:
bowfin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From bow + fin.
Compound parts: bow
fin
Inflected forms:
form: bowfins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the two extant elongated fish of the genus Amia, native to North America, previously thought to be the same species.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of the two extant elongated fish of the genus Amia, native to North America, previously thought to be the same species.
pos: noun
Synonyms: John A. Grindle
Johnny Grindle
dogfish
mudfish
choupique
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: àmia
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 弓鰭魚 /弓鳍鱼
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 弓鳍鱼
roman: gōngqíyú
lang: Czech
word: kaproun obecný
lang: Finnish
word: amia
lang: French
word: amie
lang: German
word: Kahlhecht
lang: German
word: Schlammfisch
lang: Icelandic
word: eðjufiskur
lang: Icelandic
word: boguggi
lang: Icelandic
word: leirgedda
lang: Italian
word: amia
lang: Korean
word: 아미아고기
roman: amiagogi
lang: Polish
word: amia
lang: Polish
word: miękławka
lang: Portuguese
word: alcaraz
lang: Russian
word: и́льная ры́ба
roman: ílʹnaja rýba
lang: Russian
word: а́мия
roman: ámija
lang: Turkish
word: kel balık
boyar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian боя́ре (bojáre), plural of боя́рин (bojárin).
Inflected forms:
form: boyars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boiar
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boiarin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: boyard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bolyard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of a rank of aristocracy (second only to princes) in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Serbia and Romania.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush.
A long series of wars was fought in the sixteenth century to keep Polish influence at bay in the West Russian lands, and prevent it from seducing Muscovy's restless boyars, the warrior-barons whose independence the grand dukes were determined to crush.
some of his family looked to Orthodox Christianity to sustain them, and not only many of his boyars but most of his subjects were Orthodox Christians.
To understand Russia, you have to dive deep into its history — boyars and czars, Pushkin and Pasternak, Stalin and Stalingrad.
Translations:
bract
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin bractea (“a thin plate of metal; gold leaf”).
Inflected forms:
form: bracts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bracte
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bractea
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A leaf or leaf-like structure from the axil out of which a stalk of a flower or an inflorescence arises.
pos: noun
examples: In this vegetable monster the bractes, or divisions of the spike, become wonderfully enlarged; and are converted into leaves.
A Verticil or Whirl may be[…]Naked; that is without involucre, bracte or brittle. Bracted - or Involucred
Great dense patches of them grew, four and five and six feet deep, impenetrable swathes of dark green bracts that advertised their danger.
When you peel away the bracts and reveal the soft heart, you have reached what Ms. Eury called the most prized part of the artichoke.
Translations:
brad
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English brad, variant of brod(d), from Old Norse broddr (“spike, shaft”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz (compare Old English brord, Old High German brort), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrusdʰos (compare Welsh brath (“sting, prick”), Albanian bredh (“fir-tree”), Lithuanian bruzdùklis (“bridle”), Czech brzda (“brake”). Doublet of prod.
Inflected forms:
form: brads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: brads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bradding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bradded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bradded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A thin, small nail, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head, or occasionally with a small domed head, similar to that of an escutcheon pin.
pos: noun
examples: Into the middle arch of each desk silver-headed brads had been hammered to form a lion, a bear, a ram, a dove, and in the midst a flaming torch.
gloss: A paper fastener, a fastening device formed of thin, soft metal, such as shim brass, with a round head and a flat, split shank, which is spread after insertion in a hole in a stack of pages, in much the same way as a cotter pin or a split rivet.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: To attach using a brad.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To upset the end of a rod inserted in a hole so as to prevent it from being pulled out, as when riveting.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: bradawl
brads
Translations:
brae
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bro, bra (“bank of a stream; raised edge of a ditch or pit”), from Old Norse brá (“eyebrow; eyelash”) (probably in the sense of the brow of a hill), from Proto-Germanic *brēwō (“eyebrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃bʰrúHs (“eyebrow”).
The English word is cognate with Old English brǣw, brēaw (“eyelid”), Old High German brāwa (Middle High German brā, modern German Braue (“eyebrow”)), Old Saxon brāwa, brāha (“eyebrow; eyelash”); and is a doublet of bree (“(Scotland) brow; forehead; (obsolete or dialectal, Scotland) eyebrow; eyelid”) and brow.
Inflected forms:
form: braes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The sloping bank of a river valley.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: Was it not Wat the Devil, who drove all the year-old hogs off the braes of Lanthorn-side, in the very recent days of my grandfather's father?
Ye banks, and braes, and ſtreams around / The caſtle of Montgomery, / Green be your woods, and fair your flowers, / Your waters never drumlie!
Degged with dew, dappled with dew / Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, / Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, / And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn.
By yon bonnie banks, and by yon bonnie braes, / Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomon', / Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae, / On the bonnie, bonnie banks o' Loch Lomon'.
gloss: Any hillside or slope.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
examples: You are directed to the particular part of the brae where the Covenanters stationed themselves, (at the time of my visit it was a field of pasture, on which some cows were quietly feeding,) and the eminence behind, [...]
The party was in a big bungalow with an enormous brae for a garden.
Derived words: Bellbrae
braeface
Braefield
Braehead
braehead
braeman
Braemeadows
Braeside
braeside
Glenbrae
Gowanbrae
Heatherbrae
Logie Brae
Orchard Brae
Sunnybrae
Urrbrae
Translations: