yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
crick
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English crike, crykke (“muscular spasm of the neck”), attested since the 1400s. Likely related to Old Norse kriki (“bend; nook”), whence also crick (“creek”) and creek.
Inflected forms:
form: cricks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cricks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cricking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cricked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cricked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A painful stiffness in some part of the body, like the neck or back, which makes it difficult to move the affected body part for some time; a cramp.
pos: noun
examples: I had a crick in my neck for a week after ordering the wrong pillow at the Graylyn Estate […]
gloss: A small jackscrew.
pos: noun
gloss: To develop a crick (cramp, spasm).
pos: verb
examples: Stomach sleeping never worked for her because her neck cricked and pained in so short a time, that she never got the chance to fall asleep that way although the rest of her body snuggled well into the bed in that position.
“He's upstairs.” As soon as she said this, a loud knocking came from the crawl space below. Katrín was so startled that her neck cricked painfully as she looked down. Adrenalin rushed through her veins and the pain in her fingers disappeared.
gloss: To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in.
pos: verb
examples: He'd fallen asleep after all (and he'd done it in such a way as to crick his neck and his back and put his right arm to sleep; hardly a good start to a busy day) and now daylight was seeping through the bald patches in the thatch, ...
gloss: To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain.
pos: verb
examples: He stopped a few feet from her, probably because he'd have to crick his neck to glare at her and that would just be embarrassing for him. “Dealing with garbage suits you.”
The throbbing pain that even now was coursing through his neck and shoulders, making him crick his neck.
Addy was tall for a woman, and he liked that because he didn't have to crick his neck ...
Now she was able to stand on her feet, so long as she kept her neck cricked.
Derived words: cricky
uncrick
Translations:
chiffon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French chiffon, from Middle French chiffe (“cloth, old rag”), from Old French chipe (“rag”), from Middle English chip, chippe (“chip, shard, fragment”), from Old English ċipp (“chip, splinter, shaving”); see chip.
Inflected forms:
form: chiffons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A lightweight, balanced plain-woven sheer fabric, or gauze, like gossamer, woven of alternate S- and Z-twist crepe (high-twist) yarns made of silk, polyester, or cotton.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Her dresses are made from these marvelous chiffons.
gloss: Any purely ornamental accessory on a woman's dress, such as a bunch of ribbon, lace, etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: chiffon cake
chiffonlike
chiffon pie
chiffony
lemon chiffon
Translations:
chesty
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chest
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English chesty
From chest + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: chestier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: chestiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having large breasts; busty.
pos: adj
examples: “I just got to figure out how to get this money out of here, and we're back on track.” “Oh, that should be easy. Just stuff it in your bra, right?” “Oh, right.” “Shirley, you're a chesty girl, but that's not gonna fit in your bra.” “No. The tail. The mermaid tail. And the tube. I'll swim it out.”
gloss: Not dry; involving the coughing of phlegm.
pos: adj
examples: a chesty cough; a chesty cold
gloss: Coming from, or associated with, the chest.
pos: adj
examples: a deep chesty voice
gloss: Conceited.
pos: adj
tags: informal
Derived words: chestily
chestiness
Translations:
butterball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From butter + ball.
Compound parts: butter
ball
Inflected forms:
form: butterballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A round lump of a coagulated fat used in cooking such as butter or margarine.
pos: noun
gloss: An overweight person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
slang
examples: What if your baby is a butterball? Does Fat-Proofing mean you should put your infant on diet?.
gloss: A small North American duck, the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola.
pos: noun
examples: The skipper had his eye on a bunch of butterballs feeding not far from the boat. In fact there were ducks all around — though he did not tell me so.
gloss: A turkey.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Translations:
burgess
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English burgeis, from Anglo-Norman burgeis, of Proto-Germanic origin; either from Late Latin burgensis (from Latin burgus), or from Frankish *burg, both from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“stronghold, city”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerǵʰ-. See also borough, bourgeois, burgish.
Inflected forms:
form: burgesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inhabitant of a borough with full rights; a citizen.
pos: noun
examples: In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. In this way all respectable burgesses, down to fifty years ago, spent their evenings.
If any burgess be appealed of a plea whereon wager of battle may issue by a villein or outdweller , let him defend himself by oath, that is to say by the 36 men, unless he is challenged in respect of a crime that the law requires him to defend by battle, in no case ought a burgess to fight against a villein if he have challenged him unless before the dispute he shall have quitted the burgage.
gloss: A town magistrate.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A representative of a borough in the Parliament.
pos: noun
tags: UK
historical
gloss: A member of the House of Burgesses, a legislative body in colonial America, established by the Virginia Company to provide civil rule in the colonies.
pos: noun
tags: US
historical
Related words: bourgeois
burgessy
burgher
right of burgess
Derived words: burgessdom
burgess-ship
comburgess
nonburgess
Translations:
brr
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: br
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: brrr
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Used to express being cold, to show shivering.
pos: intj
examples: The teeth chattered faster, stopped, and began again twice before the man could master his shiver sufficiently to say, "Ju-ju-st in ti-ti-me....Brrrr."
'Brrrrr,' said Lieutenant Dubosc, realizing to the full how cold he was.
gloss: An expression of disgust or aversion, as if shuddering.
pos: intj
examples: Brrr. Even the thought of going underground made Old Bailey shudder.
gloss: The ringing sound of a telephone or an alarm bell.
pos: intj
examples: Brr-brr, brr-brr. The phone rang insistently.
Translations:
lang: Czech
word: brr
lang: Dutch
word: brr
lang: Finnish
word: hrr
lang: French
word: brrr
lang: German
word: brr
lang: Greek
word: μπρρ
roman: brr
lang: Old Irish
word: fuit
lang: Italian
word: brr
lang: Old Norse
word: atatata
lang: Old Norse
word: hutututu
lang: Polish
word: brr
lang: Polish
word: pru
lang: Russian
word: бр-р
roman: br-r
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: foiteag
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: foiteagaidh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fuiteag
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fuiteagaidh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eiteagaidh
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: diteag
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: dudaigidh
lang: Swedish
word: brr
lang: Swedish
word: urr
lang: Walloon
word: souxh
lipped
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lip
English -ed
English lipped
From lip + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: lipt
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Having a raised lip.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: lipped pitcher
gloss: Having some specific type of lip.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: […] it seemes a holy quire
Founded to th’ name of great Apollo’s lyre,
Whose silver-roofe rings with the sprightly notes
Of sweet-lipp’d angel-imps, that swill their throats
In creame of morning Helicon […]
1814, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Book Four, p. 191,
[…] I have seen
A curious Child, who dwelt upon a tract
Of inland ground, applying to his ear
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped Shell;
And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake […]
Amory squeezed into the back seat beside a gaudy, vermilion-lipped blonde.
1933, George R. Preedy (Marjorie Bowen), Double Dallilay (U.S. title Queen’s Caprice), Part 1,
The two French girls held the gilt-lipped vases of milk and slowly poured them into the alabaster bath.
[He] furrowed his brow, opened his eyes wider and wider until they were expressionless, and attempted to set his small, plump-lipped mouth.
We met a yellow-lipped woman.
Derived words: babber-lipped
big-lipped alligator moment
black-lipped pika
blubber-lipped
blue-lipped sea krait
hare-lipped monkey
honey-lipped
lippedness
loose-lipped
redlipped
red-lipped batfish
rosy-lipped batfish
square-lipped rhinoceros
stiff-lipped
stiff-upper-lipped
tight-lipped
two-lipped
unlipped
white-lipped peccary
white-lipped snail
yellow-lipped sea krait
Translations:
literalness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English literal
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English literalness
From literal + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: literalnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The property of being literal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
literately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English literate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English literately
From literate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more literately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most literately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the way of one who is literate.
pos: adv
Translations:
publican
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Probably from public house (“(Britain) bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging, pub”) or public (“open to all members of a community”) + -an (suffix forming agent nouns), apparently originally used humorously.
Base: public
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: publicans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The landlord (manager or owner) of a public house (“a bar or tavern, often also selling food and sometimes lodging; a pub”).
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
UK
examples: I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, / The publican 'e up an 'sez, 'We serve no red-coats here.'
gloss: The manager or owner of a hotel.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
broadly
Related words: pub
Translations:
downslope
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From down + slope.
Compound parts: down
slope
Inflected forms:
form: further downslope
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther downslope
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furthest downslope
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest downslope
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: further downslope
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farther downslope
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: furthest downslope
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: farthest downslope
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: downslopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In a direction down a slope.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: Down a slope.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: A descent or declivity.
pos: noun
Translations:
upslope
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English up-
English slope
English upslope
From up- + slope.
Inflected forms:
form: upslopes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: further upslope
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: farther upslope
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: furthest upslope
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: farthest upslope
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: further upslope
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: farther upslope
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: furthest upslope
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: farthest upslope
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: an upward slope
pos: noun
gloss: in a direction up a slope
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
gloss: up a slope
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
usually
Antonyms: downslope
Translations:
interestingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: Etymology tree
English interesting
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English interestingly
From interesting + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more interestingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most interestingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an interesting way.
pos: adv
tags: adverb
examples: In The Perfumed Garden, Nefzawi digressively but interestingly discusses, in great and curious detail, the amorous activities of animals.
Shimon’s interestingly stereotypical role as a conformist, but in reality covertly resistant, dominand […] is accentuated in the second half of the story[.]
gloss: It is interesting to note that…
pos: adv
examples: Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.
Translations:
gneiss
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From German Gneis, from Middle High German gneist (“spark”), from Old High German gneisto (“spark”). More at gnast.
Inflected forms:
form: gneisses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A common and widely-distributed metamorphic rock having bands or veins, but not schistose.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The old towns along the route are as solidly built from the gneiss of the region as you might expect.
Translations:
lived-in
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Looking like someone currently lives there or has lived there, not pristine, not new
pos: adj
gloss: Looking sloppily kept.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
gloss: fully-realized, well-observed.
pos: adj
examples: 2012, January 24. Richard Brody, "A Better Nomination", The New Yorker.
"Pitt's performance is lived-in, exhuberant, hearty …"
Translations:
sloppily
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sloppy
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English sloppily
From sloppy + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more sloppily
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most sloppily
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a sloppy manner, not neatly.
pos: adv
examples: […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.
Translations:
liveried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English livery
English -ed
English liveried
From livery + -ed.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Dressed in livery, uniformed, especially of a servant or a chauffeur.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Essentially, it’s the software equivalent of one of those liveried servants who takes your visiting card when you arrive at a posh do and announces to the gathering, ‘Sir Frederick and Lady Chomeley Masterson-Smyhthe’.
Translations:
loosely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English lously; equivalent to loose + -ly.
Base: loose
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more loosely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most loosely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a loose manner.
pos: adv
examples: Then she fell back on the altar and her fingers dangled loosely on its edge, her feet uncrossed and lay beside each other.
It was an April Fool hoax, of course. 31200 had been rigged up with a single lightweight wooden [name] plate (loosely held on by Blu Tack).
gloss: Not tightly.
pos: adv
examples: Insert all the bolts loosely, then tighten them.
gloss: Approximately.
pos: adv
examples: It's red, to use the term loosely, sort of brown and sort of orange, let's call it reddish.
a comic loosely based on an Old Norse epic
It is loosely adapted by John Hodge from Irvine Welsh’s novel Porno which imagined them coming together again 10 years on; this of course is 20.
gloss: Used to indicate an imprecise use of words; short for loosely speaking
pos: adv
examples: A whale is, loosely, maybe very loosely, a fish.
Antonyms: tightly
Derived words: loosely-typed
sit loosely
Translations:
sool
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: sools
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sooling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sooled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sooled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To encourage (especially a dog) to attack.
pos: verb
tags: Australia
examples: My neighbour sooled her bull mastiff onto my chihuahua, because she was sick of its yapping and wanted it to meet its demise.
She went quickly towards her camp, calling softly, "Birree gougou," which meant "Sool 'em, sool 'em," and was the signal for the dogs to come out.
I sooled the dog on them, but they only climbed trees and laughed from there.
So he had to satisfy his lust for homicide with passing on the urges of the Propagandists and sooling the able-bodied off to war and hounding pacifists and enemies into retirement.
Translations:
gom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Irish gámbor.
English gom
Borrowed from Irish gám (“booby, dolt”).
Inflected forms:
form: goms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gaum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: gawm
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A foolish person.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
examples: “ Ye don’t how how to dhrive a mothor car ! ” shouted Miles, losing his temper completely. “ What a gom ye are ! ”
Fluther: ... You must think Fluther's a right gom.
And that's the why I made up my mind to go out to Willie Hill's. To stand my ground in front of that little minx. Because I felt, to tell the God's truth, that little Lorna Lovegrove, out in Willie Hill's, was making a right gom out of me.
He had a sinking feeling that he'd made a right gom of himself, hanging onto her until the last before she departed […]
"Yeah! She's a right gom! Sister Eleanor probably got her an old-age pensioner to keep her company for the Christmas!"
Translations:
queenside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
English queen
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English queenside
From queen + side.
Inflected forms:
form: queensides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The side of the chessboard nearest to the queen (at the opening position).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [Castling:] A move of the king towards a rook. See the article. In notation 0-0 kingside castling, 0-0-0 queenside castling.
Translations:
kingside
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *kunją
Proto-Indo-European *-n̥kʷo-der.?
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Germanic *-īnaz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
?
Proto-Germanic *-ingaz
Proto-Germanic *kuningaz
Proto-West Germanic *kuning
Old English cyning
Middle English king
English king
Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der.
Proto-Germanic *sīdaz
Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ
Old English sīde
Middle English side
English side
English kingside
From king + side.
Inflected forms:
form: kingsides
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The side of the chessboard nearest to the king (at the opening position).
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: [Castling:] A move of the king towards a rook. See the article. In notation 0-0 kingside castling, 0-0-0 queenside castling.
Translations:
teratogen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
Etymology: From terato- + -gen.
Base: terato
Inflected forms:
form: teratogens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any agent or substance which can cause malformation of an embryo or birth defects.
pos: noun
Translations:
mutagen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English muta-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Proto-Hellenic *génos
Ancient Greek γένος (génos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Ancient Greek -γενής (-genḗs)lbor.
French -gènebor.
English -gen
English mutagen
From muta- + -gen.
Inflected forms:
form: mutagens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any agent or substance that can cause genetic mutation.
pos: noun
Translations:
kitab
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb)bor.
English kitab
Borrowed from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb).
Inflected forms:
form: kitabs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An Islamic book.
pos: noun
examples: […] mystical works were virtually absent from the curriculum in the late nineteenth century, and the stress was on kitabs of Islamic law and Arabic grammar.
Translations:
breathlessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English breathless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English breathlessly
From breathless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more breathlessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most breathlessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a breathless manner, usually due to excitement, exertion, etc.
pos: adv
examples: The performers crowded breathlessly in the wings.
`Go on,' Barbie cried breathlessly.
Translations:
demonstrative
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English demonstratif, from Middle French démonstratif, from Latin dēmōnstrātīvus. Equivalent to demonstrate + -ive.
Base: demonstrate
Affixes: -ive
Inflected forms:
form: more demonstrative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most demonstrative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: demonstratives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That serves to demonstrate, show or prove.
pos: adj
examples: demonstrative evidence
an argument necessary and demonstrative
gloss: Given to open displays of emotion.
pos: adj
examples: demonstrative eloquence
He had rather a contempt for demonstrative people, arising from his medical insight into the consequences to health of uncontrolled feeling.
gloss: That specifies the thing or person referred to.
pos: adj
gloss: A demonstrative word
pos: noun
gloss: A demonstrative word
pos: noun
Related words: demonstrable
performative
Derived words: demonstrative adjective
demonstrative determiner
demonstrative legacy
demonstratively
demonstrativeness
demonstrative pronoun
nondemonstrative
undemonstrative
pronoun demonstrative
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 指示词
roman: zhǐshìcí
lang: Finnish
word: demonstratiivi
lang: Irish
word: taispeántach
lang: Japanese
word: 指示詞
roman: shijishi
lang: Japanese
word: 指示語
roman: shijigo
lang: Korean
word: 지시사
roman: jisisa
lang: Korean
word: 지시어
roman: jisieo
lang: Mongolian
word: заах үг
roman: zaax üg
lang: Mongolian
word: ᠵᠢᠭᠠᠬᠤ ᠦᠭᠡ
roman: ǰiɣaqu üge
lang: Walloon
word: mot d' mostraedje
frigging
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: friggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: friggin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: friggin
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: friggin
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Masturbation.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A minced oath of "fucking" as an intensifier.
pos: adj
tags: euphemistic
not-comparable
examples: Will you get out of the frigging bathroom? We're already running late.
gloss: Fucking, as intensifier.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: He thinks he's so frigging talented, but he's crap.
He thinks he can frigging sing.
Translations:
inerrancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English inerrant
English -cy
English inerrancy
From inerrant + -cy.
Inflected forms:
form: inerrancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Freedom from error.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Biblical inerrancy is the belief that the Bible is without error.
Antonyms: errancy
Translations:
wryly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wry
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English wryly
From wry + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more wryly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most wryly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: wrily
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In a wry or sarcastic manner; ironically.
pos: adv
examples: The sins of the father, she thought wryly. Well, they had visited Tony, all right—only he didn't know it.
‘The king is displeased with it, but he has to be patient,’ Chapuys wryly commented.
A Ukrainian presidential adviser wrote that Kyiv had nothing to do with the attacks but then wryly compared them to Russia’s past use of proxy forces to fight in Ukraine.
gloss: Of a facial expression, contortedly.
pos: adv
examples: It was Joe, who had taken the gloves when the wicket-keeper went on to bowl.
Mike grinned, wryly but gratefully.
“Only your Virginie,” she laughed.
“Virginie enough,” he smiled wryly. “No, I don’t want her either.”
Croton smiled wryly but his cold eyes showed what he really thought of the captain's pyrotechnics.
Translations:
rit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ritten (“to cut, score, slit, tear”), from Old English *rittan (“to cut, score, slit, tear,”) (compare Old High German rizzen), from Proto-West Germanic *rittjan, from Proto-Germanic *ritjaną (“to cut, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrid-néh₂-; see *hrītaną.
Cognate with Middle Low German ritten (“to scratch”), German ritzen (“to scratch”). Compare with Proto-Slavic *rězati (“to cut, carve, engrave”)). See also rat.
Inflected forms:
form: rits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ritt
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ret
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: rits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ritting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ritted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ritted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ritt
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: ret
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A scratch, a score or a groove.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
gloss: To scratch or score.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
gloss: To tear, rip, rend.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
gloss: To slit.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
Derived words: torit
Translations:
ascus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From New Latin ascus, from Ancient Greek ἀσκός (askós, “a sac”). Doublet of askos.
Inflected forms:
form: asci
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sac-shaped cell present in ascomycete fungi; it is a reproductive cell in which meiosis and an additional cell division produce eight spores.
pos: noun
examples: The one important character which distinguishes the Ascomycetes from all other fungi is the ascus (plural, asci). This is a sac-like structure in which ascospores are formed following karyogamy and meiosis.
Translations:
waterway
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English waterwey, from Old English wæterweġ (“waterway”), from Proto-West Germanic *watarweg, equivalent to water + way. Compare Saterland Frisian Woaterwai (“waterway”), West Frisian wetterwei (“waterway”), Dutch waterweg (“waterway”), German Wasserweg (“waterway”), Danish vandvej (“waterway”), Swedish vattenväg (“waterway”).
Compound parts: water
way
Inflected forms:
form: waterways
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A body of water, such as a river, channel or canal, that is navigable.
pos: noun
examples: As hundreds of volunteers and police scoured parks and waterways in an area of New Orleans Tuesday, there were many questions but few answers about the disappearance 11 days ago of a 26-year-old teacher.
Oil and liquefied natural gas tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz carry around 20% of the world’s supply. But for countries on the Persian Gulf, the waterway is more than just an energy route – it’s a lifeline for more than 100 million people.
gloss: A conduit or watercourse, such as on the deck of a ship, to drain water.
pos: noun
Related words: waterland
Translations:
dacoit
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani ڈکیت / डकैत (ḍakait), from ڈاکا (ḍākā) / डाका (ḍākā, “gang-robbery”).
Inflected forms:
form: dacoits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dacoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dakoit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dakoo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: decoit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dacoits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dacoiting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dacoited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dacoited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dacoo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dakoit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: dakoo
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: decoit
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A bandit or armed robber, especially in former parts of British India.
pos: noun
tags: India
Myanmar
Pakistan
examples: 1893, Bithia Mary Croker, "The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor" in "To Let" etc., Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1906, p. 118, https://archive.org/details/toletcroker00crok
[…] she had harangued us on the subject of fever and cholera and bad water, had warned us solemnly against dacoits, and now she was hinting at ghosts.
If any village failed in its tribute U Po Kyin took punitive measures—gangs of dacoits attacked the village, leading villagers were arrested on false charges, and so forth—and it was never long before the amount was paid up.
The history of northern India is studded with the names of notorious outlaw dacoits who roam the hills in the name of Kali, robbing the rich, comforting the poor, and in general spreading terror and rough justice.
On the way back Boyles led him down a lampless lane, and sure enough, a pair of dacoits pounced on them.
“The notorious forest brigand, bandit, murderer and dacoit, Veerappan, along with his entire gang, has been shot dead,” Jayaram Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu State, announced.
A very athletic female dacoit was arrested in North Nazimabad in Karachi after she vaulted over a nine-foot wall, following her unsuccessful attempt at armed robbery in the house of a retired banker.
gloss: To commit armed robbery.
pos: verb
tags: India
Translations:
guqin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 古琴 (gǔqín), made up of 古 (gǔ, “ancient”) and 琴 (qín, “stringed instrument”).
Inflected forms:
form: guqin
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guqins
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A plucked zither-like stringed instrument (chordophone), traditionally featuring seven unfretted strings, originating in ancient China.
pos: noun
examples: Among those who will be making the Otter valley resound to the strains of the guzheng and erhu is Wu Wenguang, who plays a piece of music 1,800 years old on the guqin, an instrument known to have existed 3,000 years ago.
The kuchin is one of China’s oldest and most revered stringed instruments; its meditative character serves as a symbol of the CD’s inspiration.
Translations:
Mycenaean
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English Mycenae
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English Mycenaean
From Mycenae + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: Mycenæan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dated
form: Mycenean
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Mycenaeans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mycenæan
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: Mycenean
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to ancient Mycenae or its inhabitants.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the early Greek civilization that spread its influence from Mycenae to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Central Europe from about 2800 to 1100 B.C.E., divided into three periods: Early Helladic (c. 2800–2000 B.C.E), Middle Helladic (c. 2000–1500 B.C.E), and Late Helladic (c. 1500–1100 B.C.E)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to the Ancient Greek dialect written in the Linear B syllabary.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Mycenae.
pos: noun
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: микенски
roman: mikenski
lang: Catalan
word: micènic
lang: Czech
word: mykénský
lang: Dutch
word: Myceens
lang: French
word: mycénien
lang: German
word: mykenisch
lang: Greek
word: μυκηναϊκός
roman: mykinaïkós
lang: Hungarian
word: mükénéi
lang: Macedonian
word: микенски
roman: mikenski
lang: Polish
word: mykeński
lang: Polish
word: miceński
lang: Portuguese
word: micénico
lang: Portuguese
word: micênico
lang: Russian
word: мике́нский
roman: mikénskij
lang: Swedish
word: mykensk
lang: Ukrainian
word: міке́нський
roman: mikénsʹkyj
lang: Welsh
word: Myseneaidd
vavasour
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vavasour, from Old French vavasour, from Medieval Latin vavassor, perhaps from vassus vassōrum (“vassal of vassals”).
Inflected forms:
form: vavasours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: valvassor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: vavassor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a subvassal; someone holding their lands from a vassal of the crown rather than from the crown directly
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: Fiddler’s Green is missing? That is passing strange, Lucien. He is, after all, vavasour of his own dominion. And always so… reliable.
Translations:
tocopherol
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τόκος (tókos, “childbirth”) + φέρειν (phérein, “to bear or carry”) + -ol.
Compound parts: τόκος
φέρειν
Inflected forms:
form: tocopherols
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several isomers of the principal component of vitamin E, each containing a chromanol ring and an isoprene side-chain.
pos: noun
Translations:
anesthesiologist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From anesthesiology + -ist.
Base: anesthesiology
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: anesthesiologists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: anaesthesiologist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: A physician who specializes in anesthesiology and administers anesthesia.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
Translations:
champaign
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French champaigne, from Late Latin campānia.
Inflected forms:
form: more champaign
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most champaign
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: champeyne
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: champaine
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: champagne
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: champain
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to open countryside; unforested, flat.
pos: adj
examples: They are ſeated alongſt the ſea-coaſt, encompaſſed toward the land with huge and ſteepie mountains, having betweene both, a hundred leagues or there abouts of open and champaine ground.
A fine champagne country, well stored with corn.
In England mobility was taken for granted, at least outside the champaign agricultural areas.
Synonyms: champian
Translations:
anodize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English anode
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English anodize
From anode + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: anodizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: anodizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: anodized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: anodized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: anodise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: to coat the surface of a metal electrolytically with an oxide, either as protection or decoration
pos: verb
Translations:
electrolytically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English electrolytic
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English electrolytically
From electrolytic + -ally.
Inflected forms:
form: more electrolytically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most electrolytically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: by means of electrolysis
pos: adv
Translations:
appetizing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Calque of French appétissant, French -ant being equivalent to -ing. See also appetite
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: more appetizing
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most appetizing
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: appetising
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: appetizings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: appetising
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: That appeals to, or stimulates the appetite.
pos: adj
examples: This food looks so appetizing.
The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing.
gloss: Appealing or enticing.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: any food traditionally eaten with a bagel, as an accompaniment, topping or filling; including dairy products and pareve but not meat
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: And of all the foods that are represented in the city, perhaps none has remained so tied to Jewish tradition and identity as appetizings.
Alina Sheffi, a slicer at Russ & Daughters, stands at her usual spot in the long, narrow space behind the glass display case full of cream cheese, sides of lox, pickled herring, white fish, schmaltz, and all other manner of appetizing.
Derived words: appetizingly
appetizingness
unappetizing
Translations:
stomacher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English stomakere, stomachere, perhaps after Anglo-Norman *estomachier. Equivalent to stomach + -er.
Base: stomach
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: stomachers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of men's waistcoat.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: An ornamental cloth, often embellished with embroidery or jewelry, worn over the chest by women beneath their bodices or by men and women as the central part of an open shirt, blouse, or jacket.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher [translating פְּתִיגִיל] a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Stomacher brooch of brilliants and fine oriental pearls.
She is a fine old lady, handsome, stately, wonderfully neat, and has such a back and such a stomacher that if her stays should turn out when she dies to have been a broad old-fashioned family fire-grate, nobody who knows her would have cause to be surprised.
Here, from the fading canvas, smiled Lady Elizabeth Devereux, in her gauze hood, pearl stomacher, and pink slashed sleeves.
From about 1850 onwards jewellery varied between these outsize sprays, stomachers and corsage montages and smaller, more delicate pieces which appeared almost understated by contrast.
The most striking accessory of all, however, was a diamond stomacher, a kind of lapidary bib that covered the princess's chest and stomach. We do not know exactly what Charlotte was thinking as she stood under the weight of silver, ermine, velvet, and jewels. But we know what many who saw her thought about her stomacher.
gloss: A similar item of mail worn over and protecting the stomach.
pos: noun
examples: Over it he placed a chain mail stomacher. Then, atop all, he strapped on an item of shaped metal he called a tace. “There,”he said at last. “She might knock the windout of you, but she won't kill you.”
Irritated to find his way barred by a brace of Englishmen, Victoire took one below the ear and the other low down, through the mail stomacher, before tramping on into the shade of a tree and sitting down with his back to the trunk.
gloss: A blow to the stomach.
pos: noun
examples: Thomas resenting such ungenerous behaviour, bestowed such a stomacher upon the officious intermeddler, as discomposed the whole œconomy of his entrails, and obliged him to discharge the interjection ah! with demonstration of great anguish and amazement.
Translations:
focusing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: focussing
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
form: focussing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Commonwealth
Senses:
gloss: Used for or pertaining to focusing.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Pertaining to the direction of attention, effort, or energy to a particular audience or purpose over time.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: The action or concentration of attention or energy on something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The act or action of bringing something into focus or attention.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Derived words: chromatofocusing
cryofocusing
electrofocusing
focusing cloth
focusing screen
immunofocusing
isoelectric focusing
isoelectrofocusing
isofocusing
nanofocusing
superfocusing
Translations:
augmented
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Inflected forms:
form: more augmented
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most augmented
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Increased in number, amount or strength.
pos: adj
gloss: Increased in number, amount or strength.
pos: adj
examples: augmented reality
augmented surgery
gloss: Increased by a semitone.
pos: adj
Synonyms: additional
augmented
enhanced
Antonyms: diminished
Related words: augmentation
Derived words: augmented amicable pair
augmented assignment
augmented Backus-Naur form
augmented chord
augmented dodecahedron
augmented feedback
augmented fifth
augmented fourth
augmented hexagonal prism
augmented interval
augmentedly
augmented matrix
augmented ninth
augmented octave
augmented pentagonal prism
augmented polyhedron
augmented reality
augmented second
augmented seventh
augmented sixth
augmented sixth chord
augmented social network
augmented sphenocorona
augmented Tchebycheff function
augmented third
augmented transition network
augmented triad
augmented triangular prism
augmented tridiminished icosahedron
augmented truncated cube
augmented truncated dodecahedron
augmented truncated tetrahedron
augmented unison
bioaugmented
French augmented sixth chord
German augmented sixth chord
Italian augmented sixth chord
nonaugmented
superaugmented
triaugmented
unaugmented
Translations:
lang: Basque
word: gehitu
lang: Catalan
word: augmentat
lang: Czech
word: zvětšený
lang: Hindi
word: संवर्धित
roman: samvardhit
lang: Hindi
word: आवर्धित
roman: āvardhit
lang: Hungarian
word: bővített
lang: Spanish
word: aumentado
lang: Spanish
word: augmentado
automotive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.?
Proto-Indo-European *sóder.?
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewder.
Ancient Greek αὖ (aû)
Ancient Greek τόν (tón)?
Ancient Greek αὐτός (autós)
Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-)lbor.
English auto-
Anglo-Norman motifder.
Middle French motifder.
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *moweō
Late Latin moveō
Late Latin mōtus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Late Latin -īvus
Late Latin mōtīvumder.
Middle English motif
English motive
English automotive
From auto- + motive.
Inflected forms:
form: automotives
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having the ability to move by itself; self-propelled or self-propelling.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of, or relating to motor vehicles.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: But electric vehicles and the batteries that made them run became ensnared in corporate scandals, fraud, and monopolistic corruption that shook the confidence of the nation and inspired automotive upstarts.
“You can look back 15, 20 years to when GM’s China operations was its life preserver. It certainly isn’t now. It’s a money pit,” said Jeff Schuster, global vice president of automotive research at research firm GlobalData. “Every international brand is suffering in China.”
gloss: A shop or company that sells motor vehicle parts.
pos: noun
gloss: The field, business, or market segment that concerns automobiles, especially their manufacture.
pos: noun
examples: His business is a machine shop that works mainly in automotive, aerospace, and medical.
Related words: automobile
locomotive
Derived words: autogas
automotive battery
automotive industry
nonautomotive
Translations:
drywall
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From dry + wall.
Compound parts: dry
wall
Inflected forms:
form: drywalls
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dry wall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: drywalls
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: drywalling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: drywalled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: drywalled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dry wall
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A building material comprising a sheet of gypsum sandwiched between two pieces of heavy paper, used mainly for interior walls and ceilings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As moldy drywall thudded to the curb in a depressing drumbeat throughout Breezy Point, Queens, Thomas Ryan’s reciprocating saw stood out like a growling declaration of impatience.
gloss: A wall made of this.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A stone wall constructed without mortar or cement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To install and finish drywall.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
Synonyms: drywall
gyprock
gypsum board
plasterboard
sheetrock
wallboard
Related words: cement board
drystone
gypsum plaster
lath
plasterboard
plaster
Derived words: drywall saw
Translations:
meaninglessness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meaningless
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English meaninglessness
From meaningless + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: meaninglessnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonyms: pointlessness, purposelessness, uselessness
gloss: Anything that is meaningless.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: all the little meaninglessnesses of human existence
Translations:
meaninglessly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English meaningless
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English meaninglessly
From meaningless + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more meaninglessly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most meaninglessly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a meaningless manner; nonsensically.
pos: adv
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