yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
duma
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Russian ду́ма (dúma, “elective legislative assembly”, originally: “thought”), from Proto-Slavic *duma (“breath, spirit; word; mind, thought; advice”). The drink is named after the legislative assembly.
Inflected forms:
form: dumas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Duma
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament).
pos: noun
examples: Hence, while preserving his autocratic power, the Czar decrees a “Gosudarstvennaia Duma,” or State Council. The elections for this Duma will cover the whole territory of the Empire, ...
gloss: A drink mixing wine and vodka.
pos: noun
Derived words: dumaist
Translations:
dun
Part of speech: noun
adj
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English dun, donn, dunne, from Old English dunn (“dun, dingy brown, bark-colored, brownish black”), from Proto-West Germanic *duʀn, from Proto-Germanic *duznaz, *dusnaz (“brown, yellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Cognate with Old Saxon dun (“brown, dark”), Old High German tusin (“ash-gray, dull brown, pale yellow, dark”), Old Norse dunna (“female mallard; duck”).
Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Brythonic (compare Middle Welsh dwnn (“dark (red)”)), from Proto-Celtic *dusnos (compare Old Irish donn and Scottish Gaelic donn (“brown”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (compare Old Saxon dosan (“chestnut brown”)). More at dusk.
Inflected forms:
form: duns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: duns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dunning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dunned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dunned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A brownish grey colour.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Of a brownish grey colour.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Come, thick Night,
 And pall thee in the dunneſt ſmoake of Hell,
 That my keene Knife ſee not the Wound it makes,
 Nor Heauen peepe through the Blanket of the darke,
 To cry, hold, hold.
My Miſtres eyes are nothing like the Sunne,
 Currall is farre more red, then her lips red,
 If ſnow be white, why then her breſts are dun:
 If hairs be wiers, black wiers grow on her head: [...]
Red o'er the forest glows the setting sun, / The line of yellow light dies fast away / That crown'd the eastern copse, and chill and dun / Falls on the moor the brief November day.
Where is the nobility in these streets paved with greasy carbon and dun ash?
gloss: To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And hath she sent so soon to dun?
Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.
gloss: To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rich bitches who had to be dunned for their milk bills would pay him right now.
gloss: Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music.
pos: intj
examples: How would you deal with that power? (Dun, dun, DUN! Insert dramatic music here.)
Dun, dun! Dun, dun! As the music continues, the long shot of Griff's walk is broken down into repeating tight shots of his face, his legs, and his shifting point of view of Brockie.
'DUN DUN DUN DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN! DUN DUN DUN DUNDUN-DUN-DUN... PRESSURE!' By 2.05 a.m. I am Very Awake Indeed and the catastrophising continues.
Whenever that iconic riff in the score cued up—Dun dun ... dun dun ... dun dun dun dun dun-dun-dun-dun ... —Jack's heart would race, and she'd feel the fear on her skin.
Translations:
dunker
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
nautical
sports
transport
Etymology: From dunk + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix).
Base: dunk
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: dunkers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who dunks.
pos: noun
gloss: A person tasked with performing or training others in slam dunks.
pos: noun
gloss: A biscuit that is suitable for dunking in a cup of tea.
pos: noun
gloss: Any snack food suitable for dunking in sauce.
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of sonobuoy.
pos: noun
examples: Active sonar, for aircraft purposes still largely associated with dunking, suffers less variability but often has less range. […] Development of both dunkers and sonobuoys continues towards lower frequencies, implying bigger arrays, and deeper deployments.
Then they drop the dunker into the water and spin it around a few times so you end up upside-down.
Translations:
dunner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dun
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 dunner
From dun + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dunners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.
pos: noun
Translations:
dyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English dye
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 dyer
From dye + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: dyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who dyes, especially one who dyes cloth etc. as an occupation.
pos: noun
examples: Natural dyers commonly coax a rainbow of color from plants, fungi, flowers, and minerals; however, some of the most vibrant and colorfast reds come from insects.
Translations:
dynamo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: astrophysics
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: A shortening of dynamo-electric machine. The element dynamo- is ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”).
Inflected forms:
form: dynamos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.
pos: noun
examples: "As usual, it isn't telling the truth about it or you. But your body is. I can feel its vitality like the pulse of a dynamo."
gloss: The mechanism by which a celestial body, such as the Earth or a star, generates a magnetic field.
pos: noun
gloss: An energetic person.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: That new Vice President of Marketing is a real dynamo; sales have already gone up this quarter.
Related words: dynamics
Derived words: dynamo theory
dynamo torch
dynostarter
geodynamo
Translations:
dynast
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Late Latin dynastēs, from Ancient Greek δυνάστης (dunástēs, “lord, ruler”), from δύναμαι (dúnamai, “to be powerful”).
Inflected forms:
form: dynasts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ruler or governor, especially a hereditary ruler or someone who founded or is part of a dynasty.
pos: noun
examples: Now the dynasts who rule each country are cementing political ties.
Translations:
dyne
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the French dyne, from the Ancient Greek δῠ́νᾰμῐς (dŭ́nămĭs, “force”).
Inflected forms:
form: dynes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A unit of force in the CGS system; the force required to accelerate a mass of one gram by one centimetre per second per second. Symbol: dyn.
pos: noun
Translations:
earing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
nautical
transport
Inflected forms:
form: earings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A line used to fasten the upper corners of a sail to the yard or gaff.
pos: noun
gloss: A line for hauling the reef cringle to the yard.
pos: noun
examples: You've forgot to pass the tack-earing, but wid time and help ye'll larn. There's good and just reason for ivry rope aboard, or else 'twould be overboard. D'ye follow me?
gloss: A line fastening the corners of an awning to the rigging or stanchions.
pos: noun
gloss: A manufacturing defect in which the edges of sheet metal form a wave pattern during deep drawing.
pos: noun
gloss: A ploughing of land.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: For these two yeeres hath the famine bene in the land: and yet there are fiue yeeres, in the which there shall neither be earing nor haruest.
Sixe dayes thou shalt worke, but on the seuenth day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in haruest thou shalt rest.
gloss: An earring.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
rare
examples: Gustave. (Gets up.) What? I believe you are wearing my earings yet!
Translations:
eddy
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *éti
Proto-Germanic *idi-
Proto-West Germanic *id-
Old English ed-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂
Proto-Germanic *ahwō
Proto-West Germanic *ahu
Old English ēa
Old English edēa
Middle English eddy
English eddy
From Middle English eddy, from Old English edēa, from ed- (“turning, back, reverse”) + ēa (“water”), equivalent to ed- + ea. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁é, and, consequently, cognate with Latin et. Related also to Danish ide (“eddy”), Swedish eda (“eddy”), Norwegian ida, ia, ea (“eddy”), Icelandic iða (“eddy”).
Base: ea
Affixes: ed-
Inflected forms:
form: eddies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eddies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eddying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eddied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eddied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A current of air or water running back, or in an opposite direction to the main current.
pos: noun
examples: In the bow old Dobbs fought the stream cunningly, twisting the nose into eddies and backwaters, taking advantage when he could of set of current, and when he could not, paddling doggedly, not so powerfully, perhaps, as his partner, but with equal steadiness.
gloss: A circular current; a whirlpool.
pos: noun
examples: And smiling eddies dimpled on the main.
Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play.
It was as though the room were instantly flooded with water. After a moment’s hesitation first one couple, then another, leapt into mid-stream, and went round and round in the eddies.
gloss: To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He waded out, the stream eddying around his legs.
Eddying round and round they sink.
Neither in his voiceless cabin, fragrant with planks of new-cut pine, nor along the lake, nor in the sunset clouds which presently eddied behind the lavender-misted mountains, could Babbitt find the spirit of Paul as a reassuring presence.
It’s a uniquely American news story, one that eddies until it surges, and then, after it has mostly receded from view, surges again.
Related words: countercurrent
dust devil
stream pool
Derived words: eddy current
eddy kinetic energy
eddyline
eddy root
Mediterranean eddy
Translations:
eft
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English evete, from Old English efete, of unknown origin.
Inflected forms:
form: efts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A newt, especially a smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris, syn. Triturus punctatus), of Europe.
pos: noun
examples: Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs […].
How did he like it when the live creatures
Tickled and toused and browsed him all over,
And worm, slug, eft, with serious features
Came in, each one, for his right of trover?
Translations:
egger
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English egg
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 egger
From egg + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: eggers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who gathers eggs.
pos: noun
Translations:
eider
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Icelandic æðar, genitive of æðr, probably reaching English via Swedish eider (now ejder), from a North Germanic root.
Inflected forms:
form: eiders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of the species of Somateria spp. and Polysticta stelleri or of the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).
pos: noun
Translations:
eland
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans eland, from Dutch eland (“elk”), from Middle Dutch elant, from obsolete early modern German elend, from Middle High German elen, see German Elen for more. Doublet of elk.
Inflected forms:
form: eland
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: elands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A genus of large South African antelope (Taurotragus), valued both for its hide and flesh.
pos: noun
examples: As a matter of fact, however, I had never seen an eland in a wild state before.
You almost forget you're in Africa. But suddenly you remember when a big eland goes trudging off from beside the road.
Translations:
elate
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English elat, elate, from Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty”), perfect passive participle of efferō (“bring forth or out; raise; exalt”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: elates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: elating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: elated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: elated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make joyful or proud.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: That happy minute would elate me, / End all my sorrow, grief, and cares; / Then do not frown, altho' you hate me, / But smile and dissipate my fears: […]
gloss: To lift up; raise; elevate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Elated; exultant.
pos: adj
examples: Oh thoughtless Mortals! ever blind to Fate,
 Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate.
Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress.
gloss: Lifted up; raised; elevated.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: c. 1707, Elijah Fenton, a letter to the Knight of the Sable Shield
with upper lip elate
a. 1794, William Jones, an ode in imitation of Alcaeus
And sovereign law, that State's collected will, / O'er thrones and globes, elate, / Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Related words: elated
elation
efferent
Derived words: elatement
elater
unelating
Translations:
elegy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle French elegie, from Latin elegīa, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐλεγείᾱ (elegeíā), ellipsis of ἐλεγείᾱ ᾠδή (elegeíā ōidḗ, “an elegiac song”).
Inflected forms:
form: elegies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.
pos: noun
examples: funeral elegy
pastoral elegy
solemn elegy
He composed an elegy for his late friend.
gloss: A composition of mournful character.
pos: noun
gloss: A classical poem written in elegiac meter
pos: noun
Synonyms: monody. See dirge
Derived words: elegiac
elegiast
elegiographer
elegist
elegize
Translations:
elide
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Latin ēlīdō (“to knock, dash or strike out”), from ex- (“out, away”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence e- (“assimilated form of ex-”)).
Base: laedō
Affixes: ex-
Inflected forms:
form: elides
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eliding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: elided
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: elided
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To leave out or omit (something).
pos: verb
examples: Graham Hough's apparently objective assertion that 'Ozymandias' is 'extremely clear and direct', for example, elides the question of 'to whom?'.
gloss: To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable.
pos: verb
gloss: To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between.
pos: verb
examples: As Ms Shafak summarises, “the state is privileged, all-powerful and yet paradoxically safeguarded as if it were a fragile entity in need of protection.” Between it and its citizens a gulf looms; conversely, officials elide its interests with their own.
Related words: allide
allision
collide
collision
elision
lesion
ellipsis
Derived words: elidable
elidible
unelided
Translations:
ell
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English elle, elne, from Old English eln (“the length of the forearm from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger; a unit of measure”), from Proto-West Germanic *alinu, from Proto-Germanic *alinō, from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l-én-eh₂, from *Heh₃l- (“elbow, forearm”).
Cognate with Dutch el (“ell”), German Low German Ell (“ell”), German Elle (“ell”), Swedish aln (“cubit; ell”), Icelandic alin (“cubit; ell”), Latin ulna (“forearm”).
Inflected forms:
form: ells
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A measure of length. An English ell was 1¼ yards (45 inches or 114 cm), a Scottish ell was about 37 inches (94 cm), a Flemish ell was ¾ yard (27 inches or 69 cm), while certain European ells were less than 50 cm.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: At certain times in the ice-mountains of Switzerland there happen cracks which have shewn the great thickness of the ice, as some of these cracks have measured three or four hundred ells deep.
A homely proverb recognises the existence of a troublesome class of persons who, having an inch conceded them, will take an ell.
Berkhyas is described as being a mountain in size, his face black, his body covered with hair, his neck like that of a dragon, two boar's tusks from his mouth, his eyes wells of blood, his hair bristling like needles, his height 140 ells, his breadth 17, pigeons nestling in his snaky locks.
If he had imputed to them conditions it was all his own doing: it came from his inveterate habit of abysmal imputation, the snatching of the ell wherever the inch peeped out, without which where would have been the tolerability of life?
Translations:
emmer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First used in 1908; borrowed from German Emmer (compare the obsolescent related German synonym Amelkorn, whence English amelcorn).
Inflected forms:
form: emmers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of species Triticum dicoccum, one of a group of hulled wheats that are important food grains.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Emmer Wheat or Farro Emmer wheat, T. turgidum dicoccum, was probably the second wheat to be cultivated. It grew in warmer climates than einkorn, and became the most important cultivated form from the Near East through northern Africa and Europe until early Roman times, when it was superseded by durum and bread wheats. But pockets of emmer cultivation survived in parts of Europe, and emmer is now widely available under its Italian name, farro.
Translations:
enol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Clipping of alkenol.
Inflected forms:
form: enols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An organic compound containing a hydroxyl group bonded to a carbon atom which is doubly bonded to another carbon atom.
pos: noun
examples: 1996, Ludvik Labler, August Rüttimann, Alfred Giger, Chapter 2: Coupling Reactions: Part I: Enol Ether and Aldol Condensations, George Britton, Synnove Liaaen-Jensen, Hanspeter Pfander (editors), Carotenoids, Volume 2: Synthesis, Springer (Birkhäuser), page 27,
Since research on the total synthesis of carotenoids began, the enol ether and the aldol condensations have been frequently used for the formation of carbon-carbon double bonds.
A solution to the use of the thermodynamic ketone enolate lies in the selective formation and reaction of silyl enol ethers.
It is interesting to note that relative enol stability (pK_E) plays little or no role in the relative acidity of enols for example, as in the case of 45 and 45’²⁴³.
Translations:
epoxy
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ep-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-der.?
Ancient Greek ὀξύς (oxús)
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
French oxygènebor.
English oxygen
English -oxy
English epoxy
From ep- + -oxy.
Inflected forms:
form: epoxies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: epoxies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: epoxying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: epoxied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: epoxied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: epoxyed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: epoxyed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Derived from an epoxide.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A thermosetting polyepoxide resin used chiefly in strong adhesives, coatings and laminates; epoxy resin.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The largest epoxy sales values were into Germany, Denmark, Spain and Austria. […] Across Europe, the sector accounts for turnover of €4 billion and employs around 25,000 people, with epoxies being present in many different products across the sector.
gloss: To glue with epoxy.
pos: verb
Translations:
erg
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon, “work”). Doublet of ergon and work.
Inflected forms:
form: ergs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ergs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: erging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: erged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: erged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10⁻⁷ joules.
pos: noun
gloss: To use an ergometer.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
transitive
examples: I erg every morning.
She erged a steady state piece.
What I mean to sy is, the exercise is helping. Although I'm not sure how you erg properly at this stage, Pulling into the sternum would be problematic.
Translations:
erode
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French éroder, from Latin ērōdō.
Inflected forms:
form: erodes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eroding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eroded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eroded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To wear away by abrasion, corrosion, or chemical reaction.
pos: verb
examples: The cliff is gradually being eroded by the waves.
gloss: To destroy gradually by an ongoing process.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: to erode a person’s trust
to erode society’s morals
We've been worried about adolescents' diminishing writing and speaking skills for years. Lately, we have noticed that these skills are eroding at an accelerating rate, month-over-month.
Related words: erosion
Derived words: bioerode
erodable
eroder
erodible
noneroding
reerode
Translations:
eros
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs, “love, desire”).
Inflected forms:
form: erotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A winged figure of a child representing love or its power.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Physical love; sexual desire.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He would introduce her to the wonders of eros; she would bloom under his expert tutelage.
gloss: a type of love that seeks fulfillment without violation or something else.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: libido
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: collective instincts for self-preservation; life drive.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Antonyms: death drive
Thanatos
Translations:
escrow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Law French escrowe, from Old French escroe (“register, note; bit of parchment; piece”), from Frankish *skrōda (“piece”), from Proto-Germanic *skraudō, derivative of Proto-Germanic *skraudaną (“to shred”). Doublet of scrow and shred and partially scroll.
Inflected forms:
form: escrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: escrows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: escrowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: escrowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: escrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A contractual arrangement whereby money or assets are held in trust by an independent agent by the agreement of the parties, which can only be released to the relevant party once certain contractual conditions have been fulfilled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: GCN staffers wrote and called our landlords, complaining about the building's disrepair, for months before informing them, in September, 1985, that we would pay our rent into an escrow account until repairs were made.
The court will decide which party is the rightful owner of the items in escrow.
“Well, Dominic,” Della suddenly chimed in. “Seeing as this place of yours is still under escrow, seems to me it's not really yours yet, is it?”
gloss: The money or assets so held.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
gloss: To place in escrow.
pos: verb
examples: The regulators suggest that in underwriting these loans, lenders be required to take into account the ability of the borrowers to make monthly payments at the higher rates and also property taxes and homeowners insurance, which are often not escrowed monthly in subprime loans.
Related words: stakeholder
Derived words: nonescrow
software escrow
Translations:
estop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English estoppen (“to prevent (conception)”), from Anglo-Norman and Old French estoper, from a Late Latin stuppō.
Inflected forms:
form: estops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: estopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: estopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: estopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To impede or bar by estoppel.
pos: verb
examples: […] we twitted them, while we were together in the sun of the Continent, about English heating habits. Having done that, we are now estopped from bringing the matter up.
2020: "Nancy Pelosi Should Take All the Time She Needs to Submit Articles of Impeachment" by Philip Bobbitt, Slate.com
Finally, new evidence—emails surrounding the decision to withhold appropriated military assistance from Ukraine—has come out since the vote. Is anyone suggesting that the House managers be estopped from presenting this evidence?
gloss: To stop up; to plug.
pos: verb
Derived words: unestopped
Translations:
ethane
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *áitʰō
Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō)
▲
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)influ.?
Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr)der.
Latin aethērbor.
German Äther
German Ether
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
German -yl
German Ethylbor.
English ethyl
English eth-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānusder.
English -ane
English ethane
From eth- + -ane.
Inflected forms:
form: ethanes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An aliphatic hydrocarbon, C₂H₆, gaseous at normal temperatures and pressures, being a constituent of natural gas.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The same compound, subjected to modification by replacing one or more of the hydrogen atoms with other radicals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: chlorinated ethanes; halogenated ethanes
The dissociation constants for ethanes in which the two halves of the molecule are different are not always close to the mean of the dissociation constants of the corresponding symmetrical ethanes.
Analysis of the ethane fraction also revealed anomalous deuteration of the ethane, the ethanes C₂H₅D, C₂H₄D₂ and C₂H₃D₃ being observed as well as C₂H₆. Ethanes with more than three D atoms were not detected.
Derived words: aminoethane
benzathine
bromoethane
chloroethane
cyanoethane
diazoethane
dibromoethane
dichlorodiphenyldichloroethane
dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
dichloroethane
dicyanoethane
diiodoethane
epiethane
epoxyethane
etanidazole
ethanedinitrile
ethanedithiol
ethanium
ethanoic
ethanol
fluoroethane
geoethane
halothane
hexafluoroethane
hydroxyethane
iodoethane
mitotane
monohydroxyethane
nitroethane
pentafluoroethane
silicoethane
trichloroethane
trifluoroethanol
Translations:
ethyl
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eydʰ-der.
Proto-Hellenic *áitʰō
Ancient Greek αἴθω (aíthō)
▲
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓ήρ (āḗr)influ.?
Ancient Greek αἰθήρ (aithḗr)der.
Latin aethērbor.
German Äther
German Ether
Proto-Indo-European *swel-der.?
Ancient Greek ῡ̔́λη (hū́lē)der.
German -yl
German Ethylbor.
English ethyl
From German Ethyl, from Ether + -yl.
Affixes: -yl
Inflected forms:
form: ethyls
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The univalent hydrocarbon radical, C₂H₅, formally derived from ethane by the loss of a hydrogen atom.
pos: noun
Translations:
ewer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ewer, from Anglo-Norman or Old French ewer, eawer (modern French évier), from Latin aquārium, from aqua (“water”). Doublet of aquarium.
Inflected forms:
form: ewers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug with a shape like a vase and a handle, and originally used for carrying water.
pos: noun
Translations:
exhume
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Medieval Latin exhumō, from Latin ex- + humō (“to bury”).
Inflected forms:
form: exhumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exhuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exhumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exhumed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.
Not so long ago a Scotsman is reported to have exhumed the body of his daughter and burnt her heart, as he thought she was devitalising her remaining brother and sister and making them ill.
gloss: To uncover; to bring to light.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Long dead traditions are exhumed just for the tourists.
Memorial was permeated by a sense of mission, a moral imperative to exhume the truth and display it to the eyes of its compatriots, whatever feelings of shame, outrage, denial, or shock might ensue.
Synonyms: dig up
disinter
unbury
unearth
Antonyms: bury
inhume
inter
Derived words: exhumable
exhumation
exhumer
reexhume
unexhumed
Translations:
exude
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Latin exudāre, exsudāre (“to sweat out”), from ex- (“out, out of”) + sudāre (“to sweat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sweyd-.
Inflected forms:
form: exudes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exuding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exuded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exuded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: There are five hundred and fifty-five trees, and they exude the sweetest odours
gloss: To flow out through the pores.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The molten glass exudes into the space outside the outer crucible, and a filament is pulled from the exudant to form a cored glass fiber.
gloss: To give off or radiate a certain quality or emotion, often strongly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Wearing that suit, Jasper just exudes class.
Derived words: exudant
exudate
exudation
exuder
exudivore
exusion
nonexuding
unexuded
Translations:
eyelet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English oylet, from Old French oillet, equivalent to Old French oil (“eye”) + -et (diminutive suffix). Spelling and pronunciation were later on influenced by eye (which is distantly related to oil via Proto-Indo-European) as though suffixed with -let (a double diminutive also from -et).
Inflected forms:
form: eyelets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eyelets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: eyeletting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eyeleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: eyeletted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eyeletted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: eyeleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: eyeleted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc. An eyelet may reinforce a hole.
pos: noun
examples: Push the aglet of the shoelace through each of the eyelets, one at a time.
gloss: A shaped metal embellishment containing a hole, used in scrapbook. Eyelets are typically set by punching a hole in the page, placing the smooth side of the eyelet on a table, positioning the paper over protruding edge and curling the edge down using a hammer and eyelet setter.
pos: noun
gloss: Cotton fabric with small holes.
pos: noun
gloss: The contact tip of the base of a light bulb.
pos: noun
gloss: A peephole.
pos: noun
gloss: A little eye.
pos: noun
gloss: To make eyelets in.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: eyeleteer
Translations:
eyer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₃ekʷ-der.
Proto-Germanic *augô
Proto-West Germanic *augā
Old English ēage
Middle English eye
English eye
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 eyer
From eye + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: eyers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who eyes someone or something.
pos: noun
examples: 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixot, London, Notes vpon Book II. Chap. IV, p. 47,
The Amoretto was wont to take his stand at one place about the pew, where sate his Mistresse, who was a very attentive hearer of the man above her, and the sutor was as diligent an eyer of her, for having a book, and black-lead pen alwaies in his hand, (as if he took notes of the sermon) at last he got her exact picture.
You knew less about sex than you knew about sleuthing, but you soon figured out what the goods were and got them. You were not so much a private eye as an eyer of privates.
Translations:
facer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Late Latin faciō
Proto-Italic *-jēs
Late Latin -iēs
Late Latin faciēs
Late Latin facia
Old French facebor.
Middle English face
English face
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 facer
From face (noun) + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: facers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A blow in the face, as in boxing.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
slang
examples: I made £150 by Alton Locke, and never lost a farthing; and I got, not in spite of, but by the rows, a name and a standing with many a one who would never have heard of me otherwise, and I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer, while I was winning by the cross, though I didn't mean to fight one.
gloss: An unexpected and stunning blow or defeat.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
slang
examples: “You're such a snob,” she said, with a provoking laugh; coming from the family he was thought to be snobbish about, this was a bit of a facer.
He [Joschka Fischer] was for Nato, looser visa rules and—quite the facer for his pacifist colleagues—the bombing of Serbia.
gloss: A serving of alcoholic drink; a dram.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Dory […] poured a little whisky into a glass, and grew reminiscent. “I had a facer myself this morning before I came down,” he said.
Translations:
fard
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic فَرْض (farḍ, “religious duty”), from فَرَضَ (faraḍa, “to ordain, make obligatory, specify”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Required as a matter of religious duty or obligation.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The second fundamental of Islam is "to perform the ritual prayer (namâz, salât) [five times a day in accordance with its conditions and fards] when the time for prayer comes." It is fard for every Muslim to perform salât five times every day after each time of salât starts and to know that he or she performs it in due time.
Translations:
farina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin farīna (“flour, meal”), from far (“kind of grain”).
Inflected forms:
form: farinas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A particular grade of wheat meal, commonly used as hot breakfast cereal in North America.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A powdery, pale yellow, crystalline secretion consisting of flavonoids in Primula and other species.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Hot breakfast cereal made from prepared farina in milk.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: farinaceous
farinaceously
farinose
farinulent
Translations:
faro
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: card-games
games
Etymology: Presumably an alteration of pharaoh, itself a transcription of French pharaon, perhaps as a name for the King of Hearts.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
fay
Part of speech: verb
adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English feyen, feien, from Old English fēġan (“to join, unite”), from Proto-West Germanic *fōgijan, from Proto-Germanic *fōgijaną (“to join”), from *fōgō (“joint, slot”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fasten, place”). Akin to Saterland Frisian fougje (“to join, add”), West Frisian foegje (“to join, add”), Dutch voegen (“to add, place”), German Low German fögen (“to join, add”), German fügen (“to connect”), Old English fōn (“to catch”). More at fang.
Inflected forms:
form: fays
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: faying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fayed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fayed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more fay
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most fay
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: fays
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To fit, to add.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To join (pieces of timber) tightly. The long edges of the staves of a barrel have to be fayed so that when it is assembled it will not leak.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I have a strip cutter and I can cut the exact widths I need to fit, they are easy to fay together and attach very firmly to the bulkheads.
gloss: Of pieces of timber: to lie close together.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To fadge.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: Fitted closely together.
pos: adj
examples: Under the four outer corners of the horizontal frame platform 22 are four tubular leg sleeves 23 that are fay together one at each outer corner.
gloss: A fairy.
pos: noun
examples: that mighty Princesse did complaine / Of grieuous mischiefes, which a wicked Fay / Had wrought [...].
Synonyms: attach
put together
Derived words: faying surface
Translations:
fedora
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a 19th-century play by Victorien Sardou titled Fédora. The heroine, Fédora Romazov, wore a center-creased, soft brimmed hat. The name comes from the Russian Федо́ра (Fedóra), feminine form of Фёдор (Fjódor), from Ancient Greek Θεόδωρος (Theódōros, “gift of god”), derived from θεός (theós, “god”) and δῶρον (dôron, “gift”).
Inflected forms:
form: fedoras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A felt hat with a fairly low, creased crown with a brim that can be turned up or down.
pos: noun
examples: Another friend was present while I was there, veteran criminal defense attorney William J. Brennan, jealously guarding an SUV full of memorabilia he’d purchased, including a Rizzo fedora and walking stick, the former of which he told me he hoped Rizzo was wearing during the famous “crumb bum” exchange with television reporter Stan Bohrman.
Translations:
fermi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Italian physicist Enrico Fermi.
Inflected forms:
form: fermis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An obsolete name of the unit of length equal to one femtometre (10⁻¹⁵ m).
pos: noun
Translations:
ferric
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin ferricus, from ferrum (“iron”).
Inflected forms:
form: more ferric
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ferric
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron.
pos: adj
gloss: Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of +3.
pos: adj
Related words: ferritic
Derived words: deferric
diferric
ferric acid
ferric ammonium citrate
ferric bromide
ferric carbide
ferric chloride
ferric fluoride
ferric orthophosphate
ferric oxide
ferric phosphate
ferricrete
ferric state
ferric sulfate
ferric sulfide
ferric sulphide
ferric sulphate
ferrod
ferrosoferric
ferrosoferric oxide
hypoferric
mafic
microferric
monoferric
nonferric
potassio-ferric sulfate
potassio-ferric sulphate
Translations:
fescue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French festu (modern fétu), from Proto-Romance festu, from Latin festūca (“stalk, stem, straw”).
Inflected forms:
form: fescues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fescues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fescuing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fescued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fescued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: to come under the fescue of an imprimatur
‘Now then,’ Mason rapping upon the Table’s Edge with a sinister-looking Fescue of Ebony, whose List of Uses simple Indication does not quite exhaust, whilst the Girls squirm pleasingly
gloss: A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates, of the genus Festuca.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: with thy golden fescue play'dst upon
Thy hollow harp
gloss: The style of a sundial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
pos: verb
examples: A minister that cannot be trusted to pray in his own words without being chewed to, and fescued to a formal injunction of his rote lesson, should as little be trusted to preach, besides the vain babble of praying over the same things immediately again ; for there is a large difference in the repetition of some pathetical ejaculation raised out of the sudden earnestness and vigour of the inflamed soul, (such as was that of Christ in the garden,) from the continual rehearsal of our daily orisons;
Derived words: red fescue
seaside fescue
sheep's fescue
tall fescue
Translations:
fetal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English fetus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English fetal
From fetus + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: foetal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: fœtal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: fætal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phoetal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: phœtal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: fetal circulation
fetal membranes
gloss: In the fetal position.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
examples: I was fetal on my left side, unable to move. My legs fell off my queen-sized bed and were propped up by a rocking chair.
By 12:00 when Keith arrived home with Connor, I was fetal on the couch and praying for a quick death.
Gage had gone foetal: knees raised, chin ducked , arms shielding his head.
Related words: intrauterine
prenatal
Derived words: afetal
early fetal demise
embryofetal
extrafetal
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
fetal alcohol syndrome
fetally
fetalness
fetal position
fetofetal
go fetal
intrafetal
maternofetal
multifetal
nonfetal
oncofetal
Pinard fetal stethoscope
postfetal
uterofetal
Translations:
fete
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: * The noun derives from French fête. Doublet of feast, fiesta, and fest.
* The verb derives from French fêter.
Inflected forms:
form: fetes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fête
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fetes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: feting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: feted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: feted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: fête
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A festival open to the public, the proceeds from which are often given to charity.
pos: noun
examples: The final fete of the year was held at the Plymouth Hoe on 20 July, where fine weather and crowds of people ensured much support for local charities and boosted club finds.
She was joined at the New York City fete by fellow Trump throne-sniffer Lee Zeldin, the Long Island congressman who, like Boebert and Staten Island Representative Nicole Malliotakis, were among the cohort of coup supporters who did not vote to certify the 2020 election results—and are now fundraising off a presumptive “Trump’s Majority” in advance of next year’s midterms.
gloss: A feast, celebration or carnival.
pos: noun
gloss: To celebrate (a person).
pos: verb
tags: passive
transitive
usually
examples: Danielle Salamon was also four when she was feted as a musical genius in 1953.
Saxophonist Pete Wareham, his friend and collaborator in Polar Bear and the critically feted groups Acoustic Ladyland and Fulborn Teversham, soon punctures that idea.
In another LRB review, he had written after reading Martin Amis’s latest, elsewhere feted as a glorious return to form: “I read The Zone of Interest straight through twice from beginning to end and it feels like I’ve read nothing at all.”
For three days Emmanuel Macron was wooed and fêted by Donald Trump, treated to marching bands and banquets.
Translations:
fib
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Unknown. Probably from fable; compare fible-fable (“nonsense”).
Inflected forms:
form: fibs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fibs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fibbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fibbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fibbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A lie, especially one that is more or less inconsequential.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Aſk me no queſtions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Wouldn’t that serve as an excuse, in Boston? I am told they are very sincere; they don't tell fibs.
gloss: A liar.
pos: noun
tags: informal
rare
examples: "Oh! you dreadful fib," said Flora.
gloss: To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
Translations: