yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
kith
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English kitthe (“kinsmen, relations”), from Old English cȳþþ, cȳþþu (“kinship, kinsfolk, relations”), from Proto-Germanic *kunþiþō (“knowledge, acquaintance”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Old High German kundida (“kith”), kundī (“knowledge”), Gothic 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌸𐌹 (kunþi, “knowledge”). More at couth, -th.
Inflected forms:
form: kiths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Friends and acquaintances.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: Alack, would that Edward listened more to me and less to the queen’s kith! These Woodvilles!
The demography-crossing thing that undergirds this election year, I think, is a strong, broad desire to punish Clinton and his kith with a denial of further power.
gloss: An acquaintance or a friend.
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
countable
usually
gloss: A person who is not related to a child but has social connections to the child's family, especially when considered as a caregiver or possible caregiver for the child.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
usually
examples: The Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (the society) seeks an order finding the child in need of protection and placing him in the care and custody of a kith, H.O., for a period of six months, subject to terms of supervision by the society. [Footnote:] ‘[K]ith’ refers to a community member such as a family friend or neighbour who agrees to provide care to a child until the child can safely return home.
Synonyms: friend
acquaintance
Related words: kin
kinfolk
Derived words: kith and kin
kithfolk
kithless
Translations:
yonder
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.
Cognate with Scots ȝondir (“yonder”), Saterland Frisian tjunder (“over there, yonder”), Dutch ginder (“over there; yonder”), Middle Low German ginder, gender (“over there”), German jenseits (“on the other side, beyond”), Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌳𐍂𐌴 (jaindrē, “thither”).
Inflected forms:
form: younder
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: yonders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: younder
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: At or in a distant but indicated place.
pos: adv
tags: Southern-US
not-comparable
examples: See who yonder is.
"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there."
Whose doublewide is that over yonder?
gloss: Synonym of thither: to a distant but indicated place.
pos: adv
tags: archaic
dialectal
not-comparable
examples: As for me and the childe, we wyl go yonder.
They headed on over yonder.
gloss: The vast distance, particularly the sky or trackless forest.
pos: noun
tags: literary
examples: She set off into the blue yonder.
Off we go in to the wild blue yonder,
Climbing high into the sun...
Synonyms: there
over there
away there
Derived words: absence makes the heart go yonder
here and yonder
hither and yonder
wild blue yonder
Translations:
henry
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after American scientist Joseph Henry (1797–1878).
Inflected forms:
form: henries
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: henrys
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical inductance; the inductance induced in a circuit by a rate of change of current of one ampere per second and a resulting electromotive force of one volt. Symbol: H
pos: noun
Translations:
hanja
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 한자(漢字) (hanja), from Middle Chinese 漢字 (MC xanH dziH, “Chinese character”, literally “Han Chinese + character”).
Compare Cantonese 漢字 /汉字 (hon³ zi⁶), Japanese 漢字 (kanji), Mandarin 漢字 /汉字 (hànzì), Vietnamese Hán tự. Doublet of kanji and Hanzi.
Inflected forms:
form: hanja
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Hanja
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Han character script used to write Korean, particularly in classical literature.
pos: noun
gloss: Any individual Han character as used in the Korean language.
pos: noun
Related words: hanjaeo
hanmun
hanzi
kanji
Hán tự
Translations:
Manchu
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Manchu ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ (manju), most likely from a native Proto-Tungusic word used to mean "a large river, Amur River" which is reconstructed as *Maŋgu by Benzing and *Mamgo by Hölzl. Alternatively might be from Sanskrit मञ्जुश्री (mañjuśrī, “Manjushri”).
Inflected forms:
form: Manchus
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Mandchou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: Mandchou
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A person belonging to or descended from the indigenous people of Manchuria.
pos: noun
gloss: A person belonging to the Qing Dynasty (Manchu Dynasty) of China.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Manchurian, referring to the Manchu(rian) people.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Manchurian, referring to the Manchu language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
eloquence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English eloquence, from Old French eloquence, from Latin ēloquentia. Doublet of eloquency, directly from Latin.
Inflected forms:
form: eloquences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of artistry and persuasiveness in speech or writing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: speak with eloquence
express oneself with eloquence
Thy paleneſſe [var. plainness] moues me more then eloquence,
And heere chooſe I, ioy be the conſequence!
gloss: An eloquent utterance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: eloquently
ineloquence
Translations:
thermometer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French thermomètre; equivalent to thermo- + -meter.
Affixes: thermo-
-meter
Inflected forms:
form: thermometers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thermometre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: An apparatus used to measure temperature.
pos: noun
examples: Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]
Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.
The brothers had thrust the thermometer between two circuit boards in order to look for hot spots inside m zero. The thermometer’s dial was marked “Beef Rare—Ham—Beef Med—Pork.” “You want to keep the machine below ‘Pork,’” Gregory remarked.
There are, of course, smart speakers (which roughly a quarter of American homes have) and smart thermostats, as well as smart thermometers, smart mattress covers, smart coffee makers, smart doorbells, and even, yes, smart toasters.
Translations:
civilization
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French civilisation, equivalent to civilize + -ation or civil + -ization.
Base: civilize
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: civilizations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: civilisation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: An organized culture encompassing many communities, often on the scale of a nation or a people; a stage or system of social, political, or technical development.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the Aztec civilization
Western civilization
Modern civilization is a product of industrialization and globalization.
But civilizations, like the penis, rise and fall, and when the towers and battlements crumble into the earth, they return to the embrace of the Great Mother.
gloss: Human society, particularly civil society.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: A hermit doesn't much care for civilization.
I'm glad to be back in civilization after a day with that rowdy family.
Civilisation has imbued man's minds with false ideas of the evil of sex and its fulfilment.
gloss: The act or process of civilizing or becoming civilized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The teacher's civilization of the child was no easy task.
gloss: The state or quality of being civilized.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He was a man of great civilization.
gloss: The act of rendering a criminal process civil.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
Synonyms: sphere
Related words: civilize
Derived words: anticivilization
civilizational
civilizationally
civilizationism
civilizationist
civilization-state
cradle of civilization
cybercivilization
Harappan Civilization
hypercivilization
incivilization
Indus Civilization
Indus Valley Civilization
intercivilization
microcivilization
multicivilization
overcivilization
postcivilization
precivilization
psychocivilization
subcivilization
supercivilization
uncivilization
Translations:
civilisation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French civilisation, equivalent to civilise + -ation or civil + -isation.
Base: civilise
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: civilisations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Hong Kong, and Commonwealth spelling of civilization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: From Keighley onwards we had obviously returned to civilisation, for the surrounding country was now studded with the sodium street lights of suburbia and a thickening industrial haze was blotting out the moon.
It is also there in Miller’s worldview, which has long promoted racist fears of demographic replacement of white people and civilisation decline.
Translations:
civilize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French civiliser, corresponding to civil + -ize.
Base: civil
Affixes: -ize
Inflected forms:
form: civilizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: civilizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: civilized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: civilized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: civilise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: American and Oxford British standard spelling of civilise.
pos: verb
Translations:
eidolon
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *weyd-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *wéydos
Proto-Hellenic *wéidos
Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos)
Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon)der.
English eidolon
From Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “figure, representation”), from εἶδος (eîdos, “sight”), from εἴδω (eídō, “I see”). Doublet of aidoru, idol, and idolum and related to idea.
Inflected forms:
form: eidola
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eidolons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: eidôlon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: idolon
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
pos: noun
examples: As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.
[…]Kit was sitting up staring into the dark at this eidolon, inelegantly turned out contrary to a whole raft of public-decency statutes, which had come monitory and breathing in to violate Kit's insomnia.
In all my years of adventuring among the primitives and wild men of the world, I have never set eyes on a man who looked so savage, so elemental, so full of primal rage as the being that now climbed from the coffin; naked, sword in hand, its long black hair flowing behind it, its body covered head to toe in tattooes of eldritch imagery and ancient languages that resembled no script written by man. Sherman, the American general, is said to have told his enemies, begging for mercy, that they may as well appeal against the thunderstorm. What I beheld before me, I thought, was the very eidolon of the storm.
gloss: A phantom; a ghost or an elusive entity.
pos: noun
examples: Was Philippe d'Orleans seen, this day, 'in the Bois de Boulogne, in grey surtout;' waiting under the wet sere foliage, what the day might bring forth? Alas, yes, the Eidolon of him was,—in Weber's and other such brains.
gloss: An unsubstantial image; a spectre; a phantom.
pos: noun
Derived words: eidolic
Translations:
band
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *bandiz
Old English bend
Middle English band
English band
Inherited from Middle English band (also bond), from Old English beand, bænd, bend (“bond, chain, fetter, band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown”), from Proto-Germanic *bandą, *bandiz (“band, fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ- (“to tie, bind”). Middle English band reinforced by Old French bande.
Cognate with Dutch band, German Band, Danish bånd, Swedish band, Icelandic band (“band”). Related to bond, bind, bend.
Inflected forms:
form: bands
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: banding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: banded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: banded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fasten with a band.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: As he spake, his eyes rested on the graves below. "Yes," muttered the youth, "they are sufficient answer; they are indeed the end of all human hope."
Mechanically he turned from one to another. Some were recently banded down with osiers, and the grass was varied with primrose roots; on some the foxglove grew luxuriantly, while others had a tombstone, carved with a name and a brief epitaph.
"Come, come, 'Orace," said the inspector, leisurely elastic-banding his book and putting it away, "you aren't supposed to be fishing down that hole, you know. Is it O.K. there?"
gloss: To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: bander
reband
Translations:
spoony
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From spoon + -y. See notes at spoonie.
Base: spoon
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: spoonier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: spooniest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spooney
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: spoonie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Enamored in a silly or sentimental way; having a crush (on someone).
pos: adj
examples: "She—silly child—is spoony, I think, on that cousin of her's, Dalrymple—he, I believe, is spoony on her."
‘They all laugh at you, you know. They say you're spoony on me.’
Even if they were absolutely spoony for each other it was difficult to imagine either of them taking that first scary step toward romance.
gloss: Feebly sentimental; gushy.
pos: adj
examples: That is why we decline to publish any of the letters and verses which Mr. Pen wrote at this period of his life, out of mere regard for the young fellow’s character. They are too spooney and wild.
gloss: Similar to a spoon.
pos: adj
examples: That's a very spoony fork.
Derived words: spoonily
spooniness
spoonyism
spoony man
Translations:
boyfriend
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: fashion
lifestyle
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰā-
Proto-Germanic *bō-
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
Proto-Indo-European *preyH-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *priHós
Proto-Germanic *frijōną
Proto-Germanic *frijōndz
Proto-West Germanic *friund
Old English frēond
Middle English frend
English friend
English boyfriend
From boy + friend.
Inflected forms:
form: boyfriends
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: boy friend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: boy-friend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: boifriend
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Internet
Senses:
gloss: A male partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.
pos: noun
examples: I was playing the drums and my boyfriend was playing the electric guitar.
If I was your boyfriend, I’d never let you go / I can take you places you ain’t never been before.
Referring to someone as your boyfriend or girlfriend suggests several things about your relationship, said Leah Carey, a sex and relationship coach and podcast host of “Good Girls Talk About Sex.”
Whether he’s interested in the latest tech, takes pride in his personal style or loves spending his free time in the gym, these meaningful gifts for boyfriends are sure to win his heart all over again.
gloss: A male friend.
pos: noun
gloss: A style of women's clothing that draws heavily from corresponding men's garments.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
often
Derived words: boyfriendable
boyfriend dick
boyfriend experience
boyfriendhood
boyfriendish
boyfriend-ish
boyfriend jeans
boyfriendless
boyfriend loophole
boyfriendship
boyfriendy
do you have a boyfriend
e-boyfriend
ex-boyfriend
friendboy
friend-boy
friend boy
Golden Retriever boyfriend
trophy boyfriend
unboyfriend
Translations:
Hindi
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi हिंदी (hindī), from Classical Persian هِنْدِی (hindī). By surface analysis, Hind + -i. Distant doublet of Sindhi.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In or relating to the Hindi language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Indian
pos: adj
tags: historical
not-comparable
Translations:
transsexual
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-t
Proto-Indo-European *térh₂t
Proto-Indo-European *-ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂ónts
Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂n̥ts
Proto-Italic *trāns
Proto-Italic *trāns-
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *sek-der.
Proto-Indo-European *séks-u-sder.
Proto-Italic *seksus
Latin sexus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
English transsexual
From trans- + sexual. Introduced to English along with transsexualism by David Oliver Cauldwell in 1949, based on the German word Transsexualismus coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1923. Popularized in the mid 1960s, around the same time that transgender was coined; transgender had become an umbrella term and largely but not entirely displaced transsexual by the 1990s.
Base: sexual
Affixes: trans-
Inflected forms:
form: transsexuals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: transexual
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: A transsexual person.
pos: noun
examples: Lesbians for Justice therefore appeals to the organizers of the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival to nullify its "womyn-born-womyn only" policy, and to allow the attendance of post-operative male-to-female transsexuals at all future festivals.
When a man is a woman trapped in a man's body, and has a little operation, he is a transsexual.
He claimed that they had this wonderful and loving relationship in which the transsexual-to-be had felt that his suitor truly loved him the way he was and didn’t want him to have the surgery, […]
Hundreds of women every year are taken completely by surprise when their husbands announce they want to undergo sex-change surgery — and the news is even more shocking when comes, as it often does, from a burly he-man who’d given no clue to his inner girl. ¶ But the signs are definitely there if your husband is dreaming of becoming a transsexual, says a new study by a top sexologist.
He was wearing women’s clothes before he had the surgery; then, he actually became a transsexual, and they (amazingly) stayed together.
Being a transsexual is not something that can be ignored or suppressed forever. Unlike the fascinations of the cross dresser or the partially altered transgenderist, the absolute compulsion of classical transsexualism is a matter of life and death.
Translations:
neutron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From neutral + -on; by surface analysis, neutr(o)- + -on. Coined by Scottish-Australian physicist William Sutherland in 1899 in a paper in the Philosophical Magazine. Subsequent usage was sporadic and theoretical, sometimes referring to neutrinos rather than neutrons, and the modern sense was reintroduced alongside proton by Ernest Rutherford in 1920.
Base: neutral
Affixes: -on
Inflected forms:
form: neutrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A subatomic particle forming part of the nucleus of an atom and having no charge; it is a combination of an up quark and two down quarks.
pos: noun
tags: particle
Translations:
neutronium
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From neutron + -ium. Coined by scientist Andreas von Antropoff in 1926 (before the discovery of the neutron in 1931; neutrons had been predicted to exist in 1920).
Base: neutron
Affixes: -ium
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A material composed entirely of neutrons.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A hypothetical gravitationally bound system of a neutron and an antineutron (the onium of a neutron), not predicted to exist under normal circumstances.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: element 0
element zero
neutrite
neutrium
neutron-degenerate matter
neutron matter
nilium
neutron-antineutron system
true neutronium
Antonyms: antielement 0
antielement zero
antineutrium
antineutronium
antinilium
Related words: neutron-star matter
Derived words: computronium
Translations:
weer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: wee + -er
Base: wee
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: weers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who wees, someone who urinates.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
Translations:
pub
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of public house.
Inflected forms:
form: pubs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pubs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: pubbing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pubbed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pubbed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A public house where beverages, primarily alcoholic, may be bought and consumed, also providing food and sometimes entertainment such as live music or television.
pos: noun
tags: Commonwealth
Ireland
UK
examples: Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
gloss: To go to one or more public houses.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
Synonyms: alehouse
boozer
boozing ken
bousing ken
drinker
drinkery
gargle-factory
gin joint
groggery
local
nineteenth hole
pot-house
pub
public house
rummery
saloon
tavern
watering hole
Related words: call time
closing time
drinking-up time
happy hour
last call
last orders
lock-in
prop up the bar
pub crawl
café
lodging place
liquor store
restaurant
Translations:
moron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Coined by American psychologist Henry H. Goddard in 1910, from Ancient Greek μωρόν (mōrón), the neuter form of μωρός (mōrós, “foolish, dull”).
Inflected forms:
form: morons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A stupid person; an idiot; a fool.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
informal
examples: Mr. Borelli, Mr. Borelli, with all due respect, you're such a fantastic moron it's terrifying.
gloss: A person of mild mental subnormality in the former classification of mental retardation, having an intelligence quotient of 50–70.
pos: noun
tags: dated
Related words: moronicity
moronicness
oxymoron
sophomore
Derived words: Baltimoron
hypermoron
maroon
momo
moronic
moron in a hurry
moronism
moronity
moronization
moronocracy
submoron
touron
Translations:
delegate
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English delegat, from Old French delegat, from Latin dēlēgātus substantivized from the nominative masculine singular of dēlēgātus, the perfect passive participle of dēlēgō (“to send, assign, delegate”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix). See also legate.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: delegates
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: delegates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: delegating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: delegated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: delegated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy.
pos: noun
gloss: A representative at a conference, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: An appointed representative in some legislative bodies.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A type of variable storing a reference to a method with a particular signature, analogous to a function pointer.
pos: noun
examples: Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.
gloss: A member of a governmental legislature who lacks voting power.
pos: noun
examples: The house of delegates in apartheid-era South Africa lacked any real voting power.
gloss: To commit tasks and responsibilities to others, especially subordinates.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was perceived to delegate effectively. Wayne Mapp, a minister under Key observed he had 'a different style than the traditional style of New Zealand political management. He delegates in the manner of a chief executive, and lets ministers get on with their jobs' (Mapp 2014).
gloss: To commit (a task or responsibility) to someone, especially a subordinate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The war on Covid-19 was delegated to the health secretary, Matt Hancock, a paralysed NHS and scientists publicly feuding over dud data.
gloss: (of a subdomain) To give away authority over a subdomain; to allow someone else to create sub-subdomains of a subdomain of one's own.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
Related words: function pointer
Derived words: delegatable
delegatee
delegator
delegee
nondelegate
nondelegated
redelegate
subdelegate
super-delegate
superdelegate
undelegated
Translations:
harem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem) (whence Turkish harem), from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram, “something prohibited; sanctuary, women”); and later also from حَرِيم (ḥarīm) with same meaning, both from حَرُمَ (ḥaruma, “be forbidden or unlawful”). Doublet of haram and herem.
Inflected forms:
form: harems
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hareem
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: harim
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: The private section of a Muslim household forbidden to male strangers.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "In the room next to her own, lived the harem of a merchant who had just arrived from Constantinople with merchandise. It consisted of his wife, children, and two female slaves, who being well off in their circumstances, enjoyed the comforts and conveniences of life, and eat and drank unsparingly every day."
gloss: A group of someone's girlfriends, wives and/or concubines in a polygamous household.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A group of female animals (cows) herded and controlled by a male animal (bull) of that species for breeding purposes. Such behaviour is exhibited by bovids including cattle and buffalo as well as moose, elephants, seals (including elephant seals), sea lions, and baboons.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I nodded my head and proceeded to make a flank attack on the nearest harem. All went well until I aimed a blow at an outlying cow's head and fell short. She snorted and tried to scramble away. I ran in close and struck another blow, hitting the shoulder instead of the head.
2006 Maestripieri, Dario; Mayhew, Jessica; Carlson, Cindy L.; Hoffman, Christy L.; and Radtke, Jennifer M. "One-Male Harems and Female Social Dynamics in Guinea Baboons", published in Folia Primatol 2007; 78:56–68, doi 10.1159/000095686
gloss: A group of female birds mated to or associated with a breeding male.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In the meantime we were hidden in a close juniper thicket on the little knoll, and expected the capercailzie cock every moment; but our old friend tarried a long time in his harem.
gloss: Any significant number of women together as a group; a bevy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Related words: concubine
polygamy
polygyny
seraglio
zenana
Derived words: harem ending
haremesque
haremic
haremism
haremlike
harem pants
harem slipper
harem trousers
reverse harem
Translations:
dissertation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin dissertātiō, from dissertō.
Inflected forms:
form: dissertations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: diss
pos: noun
tags: alternative
clipping
Senses:
gloss: A formal exposition of a subject, especially a research paper that students write in order to complete the requirements for a doctoral degree in the US and a non-doctoral degree in the UK; a thesis.
pos: noun
examples: write a dissertation
write up a dissertation
hand in a dissertation
complete a dissertation
She spent three years writing her doctoral dissertation.
The student defended his dissertation successfully.
Her dissertation focused on medieval literature.
gloss: A lengthy lecture on a subject; a treatise; a discourse; a sermon.
pos: noun
Derived words: all but dissertation
dissertational
dissertationist
dissertator
doctoral dissertation
predissertation
Translations:
Sabbath
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English sabat, sabbat, sabath, from Old English sabat and Old French sabbat, both from Latin sabbatum, from Ancient Greek σάββατον (sábbaton, “Sabbath”), from Hebrew שַׁבָּת (shabát, “Sabbath”), with the spelling ending in -th, probably influenced by the traditional transliteration of the Hebrew as shabbāth, being attested since the 14th century and widespread since the 16th. Doublet of Shabbat. Possibly from the Sumerian sa-bat ("mid-rest").
Inflected forms:
form: Sabbaths
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sabbath
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Friday, observed in Islam as a day of rest and worship.
pos: noun
gloss: Saturday, observed in Judaism as a day of rest and worship.
pos: noun
gloss: Sunday, observed in Christianity as a day of rest and worship.
pos: noun
examples: Jerusalem is a city of three Sabbaths–Friday (Muslim), Saturday (Jewish), and Sunday (Christian).
gloss: A meeting of witches. (Also called a witches' Sabbath, Shabbat, sabbat, or black Sabbath.)
pos: noun
examples: Witches always anointed themselves with ointments before departing up the chimney to their Sabbaths. One such ointment was composed of Aconite, Belladonna, Water Parsley, Cinquefoil and Babies' Fat.
Around this conception was built up the notion of ritual devil-worship, involving the sabbath or nocturnal meeting at which the witches gathered to worship their master and to copulate with him.
gloss: Among the ancient Jews and Hebrews, the seventh year, when the land was left fallow.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: Synonym of uposatha, a regular day of fasting, devotion, or other religious observance.
pos: noun
tags: Myanmar
Translations:
blooming
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: arts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
natural-sciences
photography
physical-sciences
Etymology: By surface analysis, bloom + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more blooming
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most blooming
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more blooming
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most blooming
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: bloomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Opening in blossoms; flowering.
pos: adj
gloss: Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor, vigour; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.
pos: adj
gloss: A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
Ireland
UK
examples: “How'd you like to be shoved in a blooming log?'
gloss: A euphemism for the intensifier bloody.
pos: adv
tags: Australia
UK
often
examples: My train's late again. Blooming typical.
“Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
It had been his intention to go to Wimbledon, but as he himself said: “Why be blooming well frizzled when you can hear all the results over the wireless. And results are all that concern me. […]”
gloss: The act by which something blooms.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Such bloomings, Dr. McLaren continued, would require a critical audience, “so that they can be subject to scientific and ethical review, freely available for research and one day, perhaps, for treating diseases.”
gloss: The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A phenomenon where excessive light causes bright patches in a picture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: antiblooming
bloomery
Derived words: bloomingly
bloomingness
everblooming
nonblooming
preblooming
unblooming
blooming heck
blooming hell
blooming onion
late-blooming
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: блуминг
roman: bluming
lang: Finnish
word: kukkiminen
lang: French
word: fleurissement
lang: Polish
word: kwitnięcie
lang: Polish
word: rozkwit
lang: Russian
word: обжи́мный стан
roman: obžímnyj stan
lang: Russian
word: блю́минг
roman: bljúming
lang: Spanish
word: plancheado
lang: Tamil
word: மலர்ச்சி
roman: malarcci
lang: Tamil
word: அலர்த்தி
roman: alartti
obsolete
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin obsolētus (“worn out, gone out of use”), past participle of obsolēscere (“to wear out, fall into disuse, grow old, decay”); see obsolesce.
Inflected forms:
form: more obsolete
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obsolete
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: absolete
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: obsoletes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: obsoleting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: obsoleted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: obsoleted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: absolete
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: obsoletes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: absolete
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: No longer in use or no longer useful; now disused or neglected (often in favour of something newer, better, or more fashionable); outmoded.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Speedy, worldwide, accessible delivery of news through the Web has made newspapers obsolete.
Horses became obsolete means of transportation in cities in the first half of the twentieth century.
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
gloss: Imperfectly developed; not very distinct.
pos: adj
examples: These two birds somewhat closely resemble each other, but the Sedge Warbler is russet-brown above, the feathers with dark centres, the pale buff eyestripe is very clearly defined, and the underparts are buffish white; the Reed Warbler is more olive on the upper parts, the feathers having no dark centres, the underparts are more inclined to buff, and the eyestripe is nearly obsolete.
gloss: To cause to become obsolete.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This software component has been obsoleted.
We are in the process of obsoleting this product.
Should we develop nonhuman minds that might eventually outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace us?
gloss: An obsolete thing or person.
pos: noun
Synonyms: anachronistic
antediluvial
antediluvian
antiquated
antique
archaic
backward
backwards
behind the times
cobwebbed
cobwebby
dated
defunct
desuete
discontinued
disused
dootsie
elderly
extinct
expired
fossilized
Havishamesque
hoary
idle
Miss Havishamesque
mouldy
obsolete
old
oldfangled
old-fashioned
old school
outdated
outmoded
out of date
out of fashion
outworn
parachronistic
passé
primitive
superannuated
superseded
unemployed
unoccupied
venerable
workless
Antonyms: active
current
employed
fashionable
future proof
in use
nascent
new
newfangled
novel
recent
up-to-date
Related words: obsolescence
Derived words: nonobsolete
obsoletely
obsoleteness
obsoleter
obsoletism
obsoletor
semiobsolete
subobsolete
unobsolete
Translations:
zoology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζῷον (zōîon, “animal”) + λόγος (lógos, “knowledge”). By surface analysis, zoo- + -logy. Piecewise doublet of biology.
Inflected forms:
form: zoologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: zoölogy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: zo-ology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: The part of biology relating to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Meronym: ethology
gloss: A treatise on this science.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: anthrozoology
archaeozoology
archeozoology
bryozoology
cartozoology
cryptozoology
epizoology
ethnozoology
malacozoology
mastozoology
paleozoology
protozoology
xenozoology
zoologer
zoologic
zoological
zoologically
zoologist
zoologize
Translations:
tangled
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more tangled
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tangled
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Mixed up, interlaced.
pos: adj
examples: tangled knot
Troubled, 'wilder'd, and forlorn, / Dark, benighted, travel-worn, / Over many a tangled spray, / All heart-broke I heard her say
That like a mighty river onward streams / In multitudinous channels ruthlessly, / Past tangled isles and barriers of sand
Lost inside a world I never belonged / Thinking that I knew my right from my wrong / Tangled in confusion feeling my way / Living in a shadow all shades of gray
gloss: Intricate.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
Derived words: nontangled
tangledly
tangledness
tangled nest spider
tangled web
what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive
what tangled webs we weave when first we practice to deceive
Translations:
gourmet
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French gourmet, from Middle French gourmet, from Old French groumet (“wine broker, valet in charge of wines, servant”) from groume, grommes (“wine-taster, manservant”), apparently from Middle English grom, grome (“boy, valet, servant”), from Old English *grōm (“male child, boy, youth”), akin to Old English grōwan (“to grow”). Cognate of Spanish grumete and Catalan grumet. More at groom.
Inflected forms:
form: gourmets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Fine; of superior quality.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We need to go to the gourmet grocery store to get the exotic ingredients for this recipe.
The restaurant offered gourmet coffee and cigars after the meal.
[On the coffee] Mmm! God damn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet shit!
gloss: A connoisseur in eating and drinking; someone who takes their food seriously.
pos: noun
examples: The vulvae of the sow were popular as a gourmet's dish. Credited with erotic effects.
Translations:
grooming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Inflected forms:
form: groomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Care for one's personal appearance, hygiene, and clothing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I believe in good grooming.
gloss: The practice of primates picking through the hair of others, looking for insects etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The act of teaching someone, often for advancement at work.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Caring for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The act of gaining the trust of a child or vulnerable person in order to take advantage of or exploit them, especially sexually.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: allogrooming
autogrooming
cybergrooming
hypergrooming
nongrooming
snow grooming
Translations:
ripen
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English *ripenen, extended form of ripen, from Old English rīpian. In the modern form, equivalent to ripe + -en (inchoative and factitive suffix). As in several other verbs, the alteration seems to have occurred during the time when the infinitive and plural ending -en was in the process of being lost (and was thus open to reinterpretation). The earliest attestation is deverbal Middle English ripening (“causing ripeness, ripening”).
Base: ripe
Affixes: -en
Inflected forms:
form: ripens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ripening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ripened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ripened
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Grapes ripen in the sun.
[…] the desert soil of the Great Basin is as rich in the elements that in rainy regions rise and ripen into food as that of any other State in the Union.
gloss: To approach or come to perfection.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The acquaintance soon ripened into a warm attachment.
gloss: To cause (something) to mature; to make ripe
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The warm sun ripened the corn.
gloss: To mature; to fit or prepare; to bring to perfection
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: ripen the judgment
When Faith and Love which parted from thee never
 Had ripen'd thy just soul to dwell with God
But the decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatneſs. Proſperity ripened the principle of decay; the cauſes of deſtruction multiplied with the extent of conqueſt; and as ſoon as time or accident had removed the artificial ſupports, the ſtupendous fabric yielded to the preſſure of its own weight. The ſtory of its ruin is ſimple and obvious; and instead of enquiring why the Roman empire was deſtroyed, we ſhould rather be ſurprised that it had ſubſiſted ſo long.
Related words: ripeness
Derived words: antiripening
enripen
overripen
postripening
ripener
ripening
ripeningly
ripen up
underripened
unripened
unripening
Translations:
slimy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English slymy, slimi, either derived from the Old English noun slīm or an unattested *slīmiġ, replacing Old English slipiġ (“slippy, slimy”). Equivalent to slime + -y. Cognate with Dutch slijmig, slijmerig (“slimy”), German schleimig (“slimy; smarmy”), Swedish slemmig (“slimy”).
Base: slime
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: slimier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slimiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slimey
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: slimies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: slimey
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to slime.
pos: adj
gloss: Resembling, of the nature of, covered or daubed with, or abounding in slime.
pos: adj
examples: The frog's body was all slimy.
Slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
gloss: Friendly in a false, calculating way; underhanded; two-faced; sneaky; slick; smarmy.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: "I looked at this moon-faced, smooth skinned, slimy fraud, with his patronising smile."
gloss: Filthy; disgusting; unclean.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
slang
examples: Act two: A social scientist has the student watch either a neutral film, nonviolent porn, or some slimy concoction that shows a woman being raped violently (and apparently enjoying it).
gloss: A ponyfish.
pos: noun
Derived words: northern slimy salamander
slimily
sliminess
slimy sculpin
slithy
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: слизест
roman: slizest
lang: Czech
word: slizovitý
lang: Czech
word: slizký
lang: Czech
word: mazlavý
lang: Dutch
word: slijmerig
lang: Esperanto
word: mucida
lang: French
word: visqueux
lang: French
word: visqueuse
lang: French
word: gluant
lang: French
word: gluante
lang: German
word: schleimig
lang: Italian
word: viscido
lang: Latin
word: lūbricus
lang: Latin
word: vīrōsus
lang: Māori
word: wareware
lang: Māori
word: hāwareware
lang: Māori
word: hāwaniwani
lang: Māori
word: pūrikoriko
lang: Māori
word: hahohaho
lang: Middle English
word: slymy
lang: Middle English
word: slimi
lang: Norman
word: lîncreux
lang: Norman
word: vâseux
lang: Norman
word: v'lînmeux
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: slimet
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: slimete
lang: Rarotongan
word: varevare
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ljigav
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: sluzav
lang: Slovak
word: slizký
lang: Spanish
word: viscoso
lang: Spanish
word: baboso
lang: Spanish
word: pegajoso
lang: Spanish
word: gelatinoso
lang: Spanish
word: empalagoso
lang: Swedish
word: slemmig
lang: Tahitian
word: hāvarevare
awakened
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more awakened
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most awakened
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having been woken up.
pos: adj
examples: The awakened baby began to cry.
gloss: Aroused; alerted; activated; enlightened.
pos: adj
examples: an awakened interest in ballet
Lined against them are more progressive and populist leaning opposition parties campaigning for democratic reforms that have a history of attracting […] a new generation of politically awakened young people.
Derived words: awakenedness
unawakened
Translations:
mildew
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English myldew, from Old English meledēaw, mildēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *milidauw, from *mili (“honey”) + *dauw (“dew”). Compare West Frisian moaldau, Dutch meeldauw, German Mehltau. More at dew.
Inflected forms:
form: mildews
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mildews
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mildewing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mildewed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mildewed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To taint with mildew.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Hee giues the Web and the Pin, ſquints the eye, and makes the Hare‐lippe; Mildewes the white Wheate, and hurts the poore Creature of earth.
gloss: To become tainted with mildew.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.
Related words: mould
mold
Translations: