yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
mole
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English māl (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-West Germanic *mail, from Proto-Germanic *mailą (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”).
Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌻 (mail, “spot, blemish”).
Inflected forms:
form: moles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: moles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: moling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: moled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: moled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mool
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: moule
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: mowle
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: mold
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.
pos: noun
gloss: To create a network of channels in (waterlogged soil) to improve drainage.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
shrew
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *schrewe, from Old English sċrēawa (“shrew”), from Proto-Germanic *skrawwaz (“thin; meagre; frail”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut; shorten; skimp”). Cognates include Old High German scrawaz (“dwarf”), Norwegian skrugg (“dwarf”).
Inflected forms:
form: shrews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shrow
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of numerous small, mouselike, chiefly nocturnal, mammals of the family Soricidae.
pos: noun
gloss: Certain other small mammals that resemble true shrews.
pos: noun
gloss: An ill-tempered, nagging woman: a scold.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. 'Rogue,' 'old miser,' 'old sneak,' and a great many worse names, she called him.
His wife was a shrew with warts on her face and she spoke to him sharply when others were present, but Simcha did not complain.
“Cease thy squalling, thou shrew!”
Synonyms: battle axe
bitch
brim
brimstone
cat
crow
dragon
faggot
fishwife
harpy
harridan
hellcat
jade
nag
nudnik
scold
she-devil
shrew
termagant
virago
vixen
witch
Related words: banshee
blowsabella
fury
hothead
hotspur
hoyden
spitfire
Derived words: armored shrew
Bendire's shrew
common shrew
elephant shrew
Elliot's short-tailed shrew
erd shrew
Etruscan shrew
hardishrew
hero shrew
Himalayan shrew
house shrew
Jesus shrew
jumping shrew
marsh shrew
marsupial shrew
McCarthy's shrew
mole shrew
musk shrew
Nelson's small-eared shrew
northern tree shrew
ornate shrew
otter shrew
Pearson's long-clawed shrew
red-toothed shrew
Sado shrew
Saint Lawrence Island shrew
shrewd
shrewdom
shrew-faced squirrel
shrewish
shrewlike
shrewly
shrew mole
shrewmouse
shrew opossum
shrew possum
shrew-run
Sierra shrew
slender shrew
Tate's shrew rat
tree shrew
tree-shrew
treeshrew
true shrew
tule shrew
water shrew
West Indies shrew
Translations:
laser
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lewk-der.
Proto-Germanic *leuhtaz
Proto-West Germanic *leuht
Old English lēoht
Middle English light
English light
Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃-lo-s
Proto-Italic *amlos?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder.
Proto-Italic *amβi
Latin ambi-
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós
Proto-Italic *plēnosder.
Latin plēnus?
Latin ambiplus?
Latin amplus
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-fakāō
Latin -ficō
Latin amplificō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin amplificātiōlbor.
English amplification
Proto-Indo-European *(s)tey-?
Latin stimulus
Latin stimulo
Latin stimulatusbor.
English stimulate
Proto-Germanic *-ōd-
Old English -ode
Middle English -ede
English -ed
English stimulated
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ex-
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *méyth₂eti
Proto-Italic *meitō
Old Latin mītō
Latin mittō
Latin ēmittō
▲
Latin -tiō
Latin ēmissiōlbor.
Middle French émissionbor.
English emission
Latin radius
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin radiō
▲
Latin -tiō
Latin radiatiolbor.
English radiation
English LASER
English laser
From LASER, acronym of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation. Coined by American physicist Gordon Gould in 1957. Originally called an optical maser.
Inflected forms:
form: lasers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lasering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lasered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lasered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To cut, destroy or treat with a laser.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I'm having my eyes lasered to correct my astigmatism.
gloss: To throw or kick with laser-like precision.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: None was any more sensational than No.6, a fantastic 27-23 last-gasp win over the Arizona Cardinals, cemented by a brilliant toe-sticking TD catch by Santonio Holmes in the back of the end zone with 35 seconds remaining on a pass lasered by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger.
gloss: To point a laser at an aircraft, potentially disorienting the pilot or pilots.
pos: verb
Derived words: laser in on
unlasered
Translations:
AOL
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the propensity of America Online users for making unnecessary "me too" posts in Usenet discussions.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Me too, I agree.
pos: intj
tags: Internet
humorous
examples: >Now Black Velvet by Alannah Miles^([sic]) has always sent shivers down my spine, something about her voice.
AOL! I've heard that one being karaoke'd, by someone with a pretty good voice, but it really needs Alannah Miles's vocals to do it justice.
Translations:
modem
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Clipping of modulator-demodulator
Inflected forms:
form: modems
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: modems
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: modeming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: modemming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: modemed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: modemed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: modemmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: modemmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone line.
pos: noun
examples: Choose and rent, over PC and modem and fiber-optic line, from tens of thousands of second-run films, documentaries, the occasional sport, old beloved non—‘Happy Days’ programs, wholly new programs, cultural stuff, and c.[…]
gloss: To transmit by modem.
pos: verb
examples: Personal modeming is most prevalent in the U.S., where a modem generally doesn't have huge taxes slapped on it, and after-tax income is comparatively high.
“Books” can even be faxed or modemed to you!
He had to modem in to the agency and say that there was an emergency […]
Translations:
Occitan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French occitan; see there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: Occitans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Occitan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Occitan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Someone of the regional culture that speaks this language; an inhabitant of Occitania.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Romance language Occitan, or the regional culture of the people who speak it.
pos: adj
Translations:
nit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian gli̇̀nda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)).
Inflected forms:
form: nits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: nits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: nitting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: nitted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: nitted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The egg of a louse.
pos: noun
gloss: A young louse.
pos: noun
gloss: A head louse regardless of its age.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
broadly
gloss: A fool, a nitwit.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
gloss: A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
pos: noun
gloss: A nitpicker.
pos: noun
gloss: To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.
pos: verb
tags: Multicultural-London-English
examples: Can’t miss no dots
Every shot let caused I’m hittin
Used to bag it up in the toilet
My mumsie thought I was shittin
Ever seen a junky fittin?
Ever stepped in a room full of needles?
No I ain’t doin no nittin
Synonyms: dickies
Derived words: nit comb
nitgrass
nit-keeper
nit nurse
nitpicker
nit-picking
nitpicking
nitpicky
nitter
Translations:
goggles
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Probably from goggle, from the appearance it gives the wearer.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Protective eyewear set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Goggles must be worn in the swimming pool.
We had to put on our goggles as it was snowing outside.
Regretted that I had not provided myself with goggles, as the road is so constantly traveled that the dust became a most serious nuisance.
gloss: Any safety glasses.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
plural
plural-only
gloss: Blinds for shying horses.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: Any glasses (spectacles).
pos: noun
tags: broadly
plural
plural-only
slang
Synonyms: pair of goggles
Related words: safety glasses
swimming goggles
Derived words: Arabian goggles
beer goggles
deployment goggles
love goggles
microgoggles
money goggles
nostalgia goggles
snow goggles
Translations:
rim
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
beverages
cycling
food
hobbies
journalism
lifestyle
media
oenology
sports
transport
vehicles
wine
Etymology: Etymology tree
Old English rima
Middle English rim
English rim
From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima (“rim, edge, border, bank, coast”), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô (“edge, border”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- (“to rest, support, be based”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim (“plank, wooden cross, trellis”), Old Saxon rimi (“edge; border; trim”), Icelandic rimi (“a strip of land”).
Inflected forms:
form: rims
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: rimming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rimmed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rimmed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An edge around something, especially when circular.
pos: noun
examples: That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.
gloss: A wheelrim.
pos: noun
examples: About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.
gloss: A semicircular copydesk.
pos: noun
examples: COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.
A copy chief with poor people skills makes life miserable for copy editors on the rim; […]
On the rim are copy editors who edit stories for accuracy, brevity and clarity.
gloss: The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: To form a rim on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Palm trees rim the beach.
A walking path rims the island.
gloss: To roll around a rim.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: Near-synonym: lip out
The golf ball rimmed the cup.
The basketball rimmed in ... and out.
gloss: To coat the rim of a glass with salt or another powder.
pos: verb
Related words: mag wheel
alloy wheel
Derived words: above the rim
elbow rim
hornrims
Pacific Rim
push rim
rimbase
rimbellisher
rim brake
rimfire
rimjob
rimland
rimless
rim lock
rimmaker
rimmaking
rimmer
rim out
rimpull
rimrock
rim shot
rimshot
rimstone
rim tape
Scenic Rim
sea-rim
split rim
Translations:
Rom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Romani rrom (“Romani man”), probably ultimately from Sanskrit डोम (ḍoma, “member of a low caste of travelling musicians and dancers”). See some more information at Roma. Doublet of Dom.
The other major categories of words for the Roma are cognates of Gypsy (words related to Egypt) and cognates of tzigane (words derived from Greek); see those entries for more information.
Not related to Romanian or Roman.
Inflected forms:
form: Roms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Roma
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Romani people.
pos: noun
gloss: A male member of the Romani people who is married and considered respectable amongst the family.
pos: noun
Translations:
rood
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English rode, rood (“cross”), from Old English rōd (“cross”), from Proto-Germanic *rōdō, *rōdǭ (“rod, pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *rōt-, *reh₁t- (“bar, beam, stem”).
Cognate with German Rute (“rod, cane, pole”), Norwegian roda (“rod”). Largely displaced by cross. More at rod.
Inflected forms:
form: roods
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A crucifix, cross, especially in a church.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: The Citizens in their rage, imagining that euery poſt in the Churche had bin one of yᵉ Souldyers, ſhot habbe or nabbe at randon^([sic – meaning random]) uppe to the Roode lofte, and to the Chancell, leauing ſome of theyr arrowes ſticking in the Images.
Have you forgot me? No, by the rood, not so.
By holy rood, a royal beard! / How say you? we have slept, my lords. / My beard has grown into my lap.
gloss: A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.
pos: noun
examples: Next a marsh, it would seem, and now mere earth / Desperate and done with; (so a fool finds mirth, / Makes a thing and then mars it, till his mood / Changes and off he goes!) within a rood— / Bog, clay and rubble, sand and stark black dearth.
[…] a bumptious fool whose god was property, not property in vast estates such as a true man might worship, but in paltry roods.
Perhaps, however, he could ensure against being completely alone by cultivating the few roods of garden wished upon him.
gloss: An area of sixty-four square yards.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A measure of five and a half yards in length.
pos: noun
tags: UK
dialectal
obsolete
examples: Thus Satan […] his other parts besides / Prone on the flood, extended long and large, / Lay floating many a rood […]
gloss: The human face.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Nou goth sonne under wode,—
Me reweth, Marie, thi faire Rode.
Nou goth sonne under tre,—
Derived words: by the rood
holy rood
Holyrood
Holy Rood
rood beam
Rood End
rood goose
rood-loft
Roodmas
rood screen
rood-steeple
rood-tree
Translations:
sap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English sap, from Old English sæp (“juice, sap”), from Proto-West Germanic *sap (“sap, juice”) (compare Dutch sap, German Saft, Icelandic safi), from Proto-Indo-European *sab-, *sap- (“to taste”) (compare Welsh syb-wydd (“fir”), Latin sapa (“must, new wine”), Russian со́пли (sópli, “snivel”), Old Armenian համ (ham, “taste”), Avestan 𐬬𐬌-𐬱𐬁𐬞𐬀 (vi-šāpa, “having poisonous juices”), Sanskrit सबर् (sabar, “juice, nectar”)). More at sage.
sap (“naive person”) is a clipping of sapskull (literally “person with sap in their skull”).
Inflected forms:
form: saps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The juice of plants of any kind, especially the ascending and descending juices or circulating fluid essential to nutrition.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The sapwood, or alburnum, of a tree.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Any juice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Vitality.
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: In the preceding centuries the Ashkenazic Synagogue song had been Germanized to a degree that jeopardized not only its distinctive Jewishness but its very existence. In Eastern Europe, on the other hand, the ever-renewed Oriental sap penetrated also into the song.
gloss: A naive person; a simpleton.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: Look at the sap mowing our lawn while we pretend our own lawnmower is broken.
"Or trying to reproduce it."
"The Mafia wouldn't do that."
"Don't be a sap," Hiro says. "Of course they would."
Y.T. seems miffed at Hiro.
She said I'm such a sap, I'm such a jerk / Can't I ever forget the way that we are / Spend all your time with your eyes on the ground / Looking for the stars
gloss: To exhaust the vitality of.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Somewhat he knoweth of art magical, yet useth not that art; for it sappeth the life and strength, nor is it held worthy that a Demon should put trust in that art, but rather in his own might and main.
While Tuchel will be delighted with the way his players responded, there will be concern at how much the energy-sapping 120 minutes has taken out of them.
Alcaraz flew out of the blocks in the first-to-10 match tie-break of the deciding set, sapping every last bit of Sinner's energy before sealing victory with a remarkable running forehand winner that fizzed down the line.
gloss: To drain, suck or absorb sap from (a tree, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: cell sap
coconut sap
crude sap
elaborated sap
milk-sap
pine sap
pinesap
sap ball
sapcicle
sapfest
sapful
sap green
saphead
sapheaded
sapless
saplike
sapling
sap moon
sap poison
sappy
sap rot
sap shield
sapskull
sap stain
sapstreak
sapsucker
sapsucking
sap tube
sapwood
tree sap
Translations:
goddess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English goddesse, equivalent to god + -ess, formed about 1350. The figurative meaning is first found in Edmund Spenser's Shepheardes calender (1579). Displaced Old English gyden.
Base: god
Affixes: -ess
Inflected forms:
form: goddesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A female deity.
pos: noun
examples: […] since the goddess Antu did not hold a prominent status at Uruk before the fifth century. The primary purpose of MLC 1890 was evidently to present Antu as universal goddess and all-encompassing cosmic location.
gloss: An incredibly beautiful, gorgeous, sexy, attractive woman honored and adored for her beauty or of superior charm and intelligence.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The girls who had tormented me in high school had fallen, hard, from their pedestals. The cheerleader goddesses were Wal-Mart moms, wearing enough eyeliner and dark shadow to supply a Goth nightclub for a month.
gloss: A woman of substantial authority or influence.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
Related words: heaven
Derived words: bitch goddess
demigoddess
domestic goddess
goddesship
goddesshood
goddessless
goddesslike
goddessling
goddessly
goddess-queen
goddess-ship
goddessship
goddessy
goddex
Green Goddess
green goddess
moon goddess
mother goddess
personal goddess
porcelain goddess
regal sea goddess
sea goddess
sex goddess
solar goddess
sun goddess
triple goddess
worship the porcelain goddess
Translations:
pawn
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English paun, pawyn, pawnd, from Old French pan, pant (“pledge for a payment”), from a Germanic language, perhaps Frankish *pand (“deposit, security, pledge”), further origin uncertain. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pound (“deposit, pledge, pawn”), West Frisian pân (“pawn”), Dutch pand (“pledge, pawn”), German Low German Pand (“deposit, pledge, pawn”), German Pfand (“deposit, pledge, pawn”), Swedish pant (“pledge, pawn”), Faroese pantur (“security, lien”), Icelandic pantur (“pledge, security, pawn”).
Inflected forms:
form: pawns
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pawns
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pawning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pawned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pawned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: All our jewellery was in pawn by this stage.
gloss: An instance of pawning something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Redeem from broking pawn the blemish'd crown.
As therefore the morning devv, is a pavvne of the evenings fatneſſe, ſo, O Lord, let this daies comfort be the earneſt of to morrowes, […]
gloss: An item given as security on a loan, or as a pledge.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
Brokers, takers of pawns, biting userers, I will not admit; yet […] I will tolerate some kind of usery.
As for mortgaging or pawning,[…]men will not take pawns without use [i.e. interest].
gloss: A pawnshop; pawnbroker.
pos: noun
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
gloss: To pledge; to stake or wager.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A certain, and probably an appreciable, proportion of his so-called money at call and short notice would consist of fortnightly advances made to members of the Stock Exchange against pawned stocks and shares.
But you'd better take your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.
Synonyms: pawn
Related words: en passant
promotion
underpromotion
pawn race
pawn storm
push
centipawn
open file
half-open file
closed file
hole
Appendix:Chess pieces
pawn off
Derived words: impawn
pawnbroker
pawnee
pawner
pawning
pawnshop
pawnticket
pawnable
pawnage
pawn off as
repawn
unpawn
unpawned
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: зало́г
roman: zalóg
lang: Danish
word: pant
lang: Dutch
word: pand
lang: Finnish
word: pantti
lang: French
word: gage
lang: German
word: Pfand
lang: German
word: Versatzstück
lang: Greek
word: ενέχυρο
roman: enéchyro
lang: Hebrew
word: עבוט
roman: avót
lang: Norwegian
word: pant
lang: Swedish
word: pant
dialogue
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English dialog, from Old French dialoge (French dialogue), from Late Latin dialogus, from Ancient Greek διάλογος (diálogos, “conversation, discourse”), from διά (diá, “through, inter”) + λόγος (lógos, “speech, oration, discourse”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to converse”), from διά (diá) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”), equivalent to dia- (“between”) + -logue. Also analyzable as di- (“two”) + -alogue.
Affixes: dia-
-logue
Inflected forms:
form: dialogues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dialoguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dialogued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dialogued
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dialog
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: To discuss or negotiate so that all parties can reach an understanding.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Pearson wanted to dialogue with his overseas counterparts about the new reporting requirements.
gloss: To put into dialogue form.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take part in a dialogue; to dialogize.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Dost [thou] dialogue with thy shadow?
Translations:
checkmate
Part of speech: intj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From Middle English chekmat, from Old French eschec mat, from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Classical Persian شاه مات (šāh māt, “the king [is] amazed”).
Inflected forms:
form: check and mate
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: checkmates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: checkmates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: checkmating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: checkmated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: checkmated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.
pos: intj
gloss: Said when one has placed a person in a losing situation with no escape.
pos: intj
tags: broadly
gloss: The conclusive victory in a game of chess that occurs when an opponent's king is threatened with unavoidable capture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This immediately ends the game, provided that the move producing the checkmate position was in accordance with Article 3 and Articles 4.2 – 4.7.
gloss: Any losing situation with no escape; utter defeat.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
gloss: To put the king of an opponent into checkmate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: My opponent checkmated me in four moves!
The game is won by the player who has checkmated his/her opponent’s king.
gloss: To place in a losing situation that has no escape.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: Where is it? What does SCP-3125 look like? Its motivation, its origins, its modus operandi— how much of that can be known? Does it have to be known, to solve the problem? Does it matter how intelligent the intelligence is, once it's inside the box, once it's checkmated?
Synonyms: mate
Related words: stalemate
Derived words: checkmater
Translations:
expletive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin explētīvus (“serving to fill out”), from Latin explētus, the perfect passive participle of expleō (“fill out”), itself from ex (“out, completely”) + *pleō (“fill”).
Inflected forms:
form: more expletive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most expletive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: expletives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
pos: adj
examples: No one entered more fully than Shakespeare into the character of this species of poetry, which admits of no expletive imagery, no merely ornamental line.
deprecating being taken for ſerious, or to be underſtood that he meaneth any thing by them; but only that he uſeth them as expletive phraſes ... to plump his ſpeech, and fill up ſentences.
gloss: Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
pos: adj
gloss: A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
pos: noun
examples: If we don't take advantage of any [expletive] in any way, then it's our loss.
gloss: A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
pos: noun
gloss: A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning (such as fuckin in "there's no fuckin way he's gonna get away with it").
pos: noun
gloss: An obscene or otherwise offensive interjection (such as shit, fuck, or damn it).
pos: noun
Related words: explicative
Derived words: expletive infixation
expletively
expletiveness
sexpletive
expletive deleted
syntactic expletive
Translations:
else
Part of speech: adj
adv
conj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ells, elles, from Old English elles (“other, otherwise, different”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas, from Proto-Germanic *aljas (“of another, of something else”), genitive of *aljaz (“other”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élyos, from *h₂el- (“other”).
Cognate with Old Frisian elles (“other”), Old High German elles, ellies (“other”), Danish eller (“or”), Danish ellers (“otherwise”), Swedish eljes, eljest (“or else, otherwise”), Norwegian elles (“else, otherwise”), Gothic 𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌹𐍃 (aljis, “other”), Latin alius (“other, another”), Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos), Arcadocypriot αἶλος (aîlos), modern Greek αλλιώς (alliós, “otherwise, else”), Proto-Slavic *olni.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Other; in addition to previously mentioned items.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
postpositional
examples: The instructor is busy. Can anyone else help me?
Whatever else she may be, she is not a surgeon.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
Prospero:
Thou hast done well, fine Ariel. Follow me;
Hark what thou else shalt do me.
As with most else in society, early Americans believed that health and healing were in God's hand.
gloss: Otherwise, if not.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: How else (= in what other way) can it be done?
I'm busy Friday; when else (= what other time) works for you?
The crust of ice on the else rippling brook was so transparent, and so thin in texture, that the lively water might of its own free will have stopped—in Tom’s glad mind it had—to look upon the lovely morning.
gloss: For otherwise; or else.
pos: conj
examples: Then the Wronskian of f and g must be nonzero, else they could not be linearly independent.
He had never seen dogs fight as these wolfish creatures fought, and his first experience taught him an unforgetable lesson. It is true, it was a vicarious experience, else he would not have lived to profit by it.
Translations:
jewel
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
horology
lifestyle
Etymology: From Middle English juel, jewel, juwel, jeuel, jowel, from Anglo-Norman juel, from Old French jouel, joel, joïel, hence French joyau, of uncertain origin. Perhaps based ultimately on Latin gaudium (“joy”), or on Latin iocus (“joke; jest”), or according to Pihan, from Arabic جَوْهَر (jawhar). Compare Medieval Latin jocale. Displaced native Old English māþm.
Inflected forms:
form: jewels
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: jewels
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: jeweling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: jewelling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: jeweled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: jeweled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: jewelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: jewelled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A precious or semi-precious stone; gem, gemstone.
pos: noun
gloss: A valuable object used for personal ornamentation, especially one made of precious metals and stones; a piece of jewellery.
pos: noun
examples: Iachimo: 'Tis plate of rare device, and jewels / Of rich and exquisite form, their values great.
gloss: Anything precious or valuable.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Galveston was the jewel of Texas prior to the hurricane.
Wel, wel (Meander) thou art deepely read:
And hauing thee, I haue a iewell ſure:
Go on my Lord, and giue your charge I ſay,
Thy wit wil make vs Conquerors to day.
Had our prince,—
Jewel of children,—seen this hour, he had pair'd
Well with this lord: there was not full a month
Between their births.
gloss: A bearing for a pivot in a watch, formed of a crystal or precious stone.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Hypochrysops.
pos: noun
gloss: The clitoris.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The area between her eyebrows wrinkled with the increasing circular motions her two fingers made on her jewel.
gloss: A jewel box (optical disc container).
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: As a collector, I prefer jewels to digipaks.
gloss: To bejewel; to decorate or bedeck with jewels or gems.
pos: verb
Derived words: bejewel
crown jewel
ditch jewel
eight-jewel
enjewel
jewel anemone
jewel-babbler
jewel bearing
jewel beetle
jewel block
jewel box
jewel bug
jewel case
jewel cichlid
jewelcrafting
jewel crafting
jeweler
jeweller
jewelfish
jewelfront
jewelhouse
jewel in the crown
jewel in the Liberal crown
jewelled
jewellery
jewelry
jewelless
jewellike
jewelly
jewel-neck
jewel salad
jewel scarab
jewelsmith
jewel tone
jewelweed
jewel-weed
jewel yam
jewie
unjewel
Translations:
narrow
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
computing
engineering
knitting
manufacturing
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
textiles
Etymology: From Middle English narow, narowe, narewe, narwe, naru, from Old English nearu (“narrow, strait, confined, constricted, not spacious, limited, petty; limited, poor, restricted; oppressive, causing anxiety (of that which restricts free action of body or mind), causing or accompanied by difficulty, hardship, oppressive; oppressed, not having free action; strict, severe”), from Proto-West Germanic *naru, from Proto-Germanic *narwaz (“constricted, narrow”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner- (“to turn, bend, twist, constrict”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian naar, noar, noor, nåår (“narrow”), Saterland Frisian noar (“narrow”), Dutch naar (“nasty, scary; sickening, unpleasant”), Danish and Swedish nor (“narrow strait”); also Sanskrit नृत् (nṛt, “to dance; act on stage, represent”).
Inflected forms:
form: narrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: narrowe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: narrows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: narrowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: narrowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: narrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: narrowe
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: the narrows of New York harbor
Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow.
gloss: To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We need to narrow the search.
gloss: To get narrower.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The road narrows.
gloss: To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
pos: verb
examples: He stepped in front of me, narrowing his eyes to slits.
She wagged her finger in his face, and her eyes narrowed.
gloss: To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
pos: verb
gloss: To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to narrow an int variable to a short variable
Synonyms: taper
Derived words: narrowable
narrow down
narrow up
renarrow
Translations:
condense
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French condenser, from Latin condēnsō.
Inflected forms:
form: condenses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: condensing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: condensed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: condensed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: An abridged dictionary can be further condensed to pocket size.
Boiling off water condenses a thin sauce into a soupier mixture.
In what shape they choose,
 Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure.
The secret course pursued both at Brussels and at Madrid may be condensed into the usual formula, dissimulation, procrastination, and again dissimulation.
gloss: To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be transformed from a gaseous state into a liquid state.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Water condenses on the window on cold days because of the warm air inside.
Related words: condensate
condensation
condenser
Derived words: condensability
condensable
condensate
condenseness
condensery
condensible
condensin
condensing locomotive
decondense
polycondense
recondense
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: втечнявам
roman: vtečnjavam
lang: Catalan
word: condensar
lang: Dutch
word: condenseren
lang: Dutch
word: neerslaan
lang: Finnish
word: tiivistää
lang: Finnish
word: kondensoida
lang: French
word: condenser
lang: Galician
word: condensar
lang: German
word: kondensieren
lang: Interlingua
word: condensar
lang: Irish
word: comhdhlúthaigh
lang: Italian
word: condensare
lang: Japanese
word: 液化する
roman: ekika suru
lang: Portuguese
word: condensar
lang: Romanian
word: condensa
lang: Russian
word: конденси́ровать
roman: kondensírovatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: condensar
lang: Swedish
word: kondensera
lang: Tagalog
word: kintayin
lang: Tagalog
word: kumintay
lang: Thai
word: ควบแน่น
roman: kûuap-nɛ̂n
lang: Ukrainian
word: конденсува́ти
roman: kondensuváty
evaporate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1545, borrowed from Latin ēvapōrātus, the perfect passive participle of ēvapōrō (“to evaporate”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also Middle English evaporaten (“to draw off humors or "spirits" as "vapor"”) and evaporen (“to draw off bodily fluid, an excess or toxic matter by converting it into "vapor"; to treat (a part of the body) by drawing off toxic matter converted into "vapor"”). Participial usage up until Early Modern English.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: evaporates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: evaporating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: evaporated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: evaporated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To transition from a liquid state into a gaseous state.
pos: verb
tags: ergative
examples: When an ultrasonic beam is fired at the microcannons, the emulsion evaporates, expanding rapidly into gas. This creates enough force to push the nanobullets out at velocities reaching several metres per second.
McCoy’s team, including 66 researchers across four continents, found the salt and minerals left behind as water on Bennu, or its larger parent asteroid, evaporated. The minerals include sodium phosphates, carbonates, sulfates, chlorides and fluorides, some of which are necessary to the formation of life.
gloss: To expel moisture from (usually by means of artificial heat), leaving the solid portion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to evaporate apples
gloss: To give vent to; to dissipate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: [M]y lord of Eſſex choſe to evaporate his thoughts in a Sonnet (being his common vvay) to be ſung before the Queen, […]
gloss: To disappear; to escape or pass off without effect.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Near-synonym: go up in smoke
To give moderate liberty for griefs to evaporate […] is a safe way.
The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality.
gloss: To cause to disappear or to escape or pass off without effect.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Gay people have belabored on this issue far too long and far too hard to allow the efforts of years to be evaporated through this obscene ruling. Our fights will continue, if not in the courts, then in the legislatures.
Related words: evaporation
evaporator
vapour
Derived words: coevaporate
evaporative
nonevaporated
nonevaporating
photoevaporate
reevaporate
unevaporated
Translations:
loss
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
engineering
finance
financial
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle English los, from Old English los (“damage, destruction, loss”), from Proto-West Germanic *los, from Proto-Germanic *lusą (“dissolution, break-up, loss”), from Proto-Indo-European *lews- (“to cut, sunder, separate, loose, lose”).
Cognate with Icelandic los (“dissolution, looseness, break-up”), Old English lor, forlor (“loss, ruin”), Middle High German verlor (“loss, ruin”). More at lose.
Inflected forms:
form: losses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: loss of limb; weight loss; loss of cognitive functions; loss of appetite.
People are less willing to take a risk to make a gain than to to avoid a loss.
In other areas, glacier loss creates serious risk of a dry period across the Third Pole, Wang said.
gloss: The destruction or ruin of an object.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Something that has been destroyed or ruined.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It was a terrible crash; both cars were total losses.
gloss: Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The match ended in their first loss of the season.
gloss: The death of a person or animal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We mourn his loss.
The battle was won, but losses were great.
gloss: The condition of grief caused by losing someone or something, especially someone who has died.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Her daughter's sense of loss eventually led to depression.
gloss: The sum an entity loses on balance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The sum of expenditures and taxes minus total income is a loss, when this difference is positive.
gloss: Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The inefficiency of many old-fashioned power plants exceeds 60% loss before the subsequent losses during transport over the grid.
Synonyms: deperdition
forlesing
loss
Antonyms: acquisition
win
Related words: lose
losings
Derived words: at a loss
at a loss for words
blood loss
bloodloss
bone loss
capital loss
core loss
dead loss
deadweight loss
drip loss
ego loss
for a loss
for the loss
generation loss
habitat loss
hair loss
head loss
headloss
hearing loss
hull loss
instant loss
instant loss 2koma
lossage
loss and damage
loss and gain are brothers twain
loss condition
lossful
loss function
loss leader
lossless
lossmaker
loss-maker
loss-making
loss of consortium
loss of face
loss of life
loss of supply
loss prevention
lossproof
loss ratio
lossy
net loss
net operating loss
one man's loss is another man's gain
operating loss
packet loss
path loss
pregnancy loss
profit and loss
profit and loss statement
sightloss
stop-loss
stop loss
stop-loss order
stop loss order
tackle for loss
total loss
vision loss
wake loss
weight loss
without loss of generality
Translations:
important
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English important, from Medieval Latin important-, importāns. By surface analysis, import (“to be important”) + -ant.
Displaced native Old English heah and hefig.
Inflected forms:
form: more important
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: importanter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
nonstandard
uncommon
form: most important
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: importantest
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
superlative
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: Having relevant and crucial value; having import.
pos: adj
examples: We thought it important for there to be a fire escape at the back of every building.
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between. His clerks, however, understood him very well.
The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.
For this was the most important thing, that when a person felt strongly about an issue in life, it mustn’t be ignored by others; for if it was, everything subsequent to it would turn out badly, even though there should seem to be no direct connection.
In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.
gloss: Pompous; self-important.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: "[…] It is a match that must give universal satisfaction. In short, it is a kind of thing that"—lowering his voice to an important whisper—"will be exceedingly welcome to all parties." Recollecting himself, however, he added, "That is, I mean to say—your friends are all truly anxious to see you well settled; Fanny particularly […]"
Synonyms: significant
weighty
key
big
central
consequential
critical
crucial
epochful
essential
extraordinary
fateful
fatefraught
fatesome
heavy
pivotal
high on the totem pole
historic
innegligible
life-or-death
meaningful
necessary
noted
noticeable
observable
outstanding
paramount
pertinent
relevant
remarkable
salient
unignorable
valuable
vital
Antonyms: negligible
ignorable
petty
slight
unimportant
inconsequential
insignificant
minor
trivial
unremarkable
Related words: import
importance
strange
Derived words: all-important
important bird area
importantly
importantness
more important fish to fry
nonimportant
overimportant
superimportant
unimportant
very important person
VIP
Translations:
hospital
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *hostipotjālis
Late Latin hospitālisbor.
Old French hospitalbor.
Middle English hospital
English hospital
From Middle English hospital, hospitall, from Old French hospital (Modern French hôpital), from Late Latin hospitālis, hospitāle (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from noun use of Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”), from hospes (“host, guest”). Doublet of hotel and hostel. Displaced native Middle English lechehous, from Old English lǣċehūs (literally “doctor house”).
Inflected forms:
form: hospitals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hospitale
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical or surgical treatment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to hospital.
Luckily an ambulance arrived quickly and he was rushed to the hospital.
This section of the Act gives the court powers to assess whether treatment is going to be beneficial and hence whether hospital is a suitable disposal option.
gloss: A building founded for the long-term care of its residents, such as an almshouse.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The foundling hospital took in abandoned children and educated them.
gloss: A place of lodging.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: […] they spide a goodly castle, plast / Foreby a riuer in a pleasaunt dale, / Which choosing for that euenings hospitale, / They thither marcht […]
Synonyms: sickhouse
Related words: hospice
hospitable
hospitality
hospitaller
host
Derived words: antihospital
base hospital
children's hospital
cottage hospital
field hospital
general hospital
hospicentric
hospital bag
hospital bed
hospital corner
hospital corpsman
hospital fever
hospital gangrene
hospital gown
hospitalise
hospitalism
hospitalist
hospitalization
hospitalize
hospitalman
hospital order
hospital pass
hospital pharmacy
Hospital Row
hospital ship
hospital soap
hospital sock
in hospital
in-hospital
interhospital
in the hospital
intrahospital
lock hospital
maternity hospital
mental hospital
military hospital
multihospital
nonhospital
posthospital
prehospital
psych hospital
psychiatric hospital
put someone in hospital
superhospital
teaching hospital
veterinary hospital
Translations: