yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
catenary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: engineering
geometry
mathematics
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Latin catenarius, from Latin catēna (“chain”).
Inflected forms:
form: more catenary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most catenary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: catenaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to a chain; like a chain.
pos: adj
examples: In Europe, the organizer was the hostess and her principle was catenary.
The structure of the model chosen was catenary, and only one nonlinearity was introduced, in that part of the model representing bone growth.
gloss: Relating to a catena.
pos: adj
examples: The sequence of soils of a more or less catenary nature as seen on the Martin Estate is about as follows :
gloss: The curve described by a flexible chain or a rope if it is supported at each end and is acted upon by no other forces than a uniform gravitational force due to its own weight and variations involving additional and non-uniform forces. It is described by the hyperbolic cosine function.
pos: noun
gloss: Any physical cable, rope, chain, or other weight-supporting structure taking such geometric shape, as a suspension cable for a bridge or a power-transmission line or an arch for a bridge or roof.
pos: noun
gloss: The curve of an anchor cable from the seabed to the vessel; it should be horizontal at the anchor so as to bury the flukes.
pos: noun
gloss: A cable, the segments of which between supports take a catenary geometric shape, supporting in turn an overhead conductor that provides trains, trams or trolley buses with electricity, or (metonymic) the combination of the conductor, the cable, and supports.
pos: noun
examples: The result was catenary being torn down several hundred feet at a time.
The colour-lights showed up much better than the semaphores which, in spite of their approach warning boards, are not readily visible at any distance between the supports for the catenaries.
The electric overhead was catenary, using 0000 contact wire, and the new railway employed the latest in electric block signal systems.
In addition the catenary itself is divided into 1-2 km sections (corresponding to mechanical sections or tension lengths) with motorized remotely controlled sectioning off-load isolators such that only one train is likely to be immobilized at any one time as a result of an incident associated with the catenary system.
Overhead construction was catenary rather than a single wire to allow the use of pantographs instead of trolley poles so that speeds could be higher.
Synonyms: alysoid
chainette
Related words: catenated
concatenated
Derived words: polycatenary
catenary bridge
Translations:
lang: Danish
word: køreledning
lang: Finnish
word: ajolanka
lang: French
word: caténaire
lang: German
word: Oberleitung
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: kjøreledning
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: køyreleidning
lang: Polish
word: sieć przewodów trakcyjnych
lang: Romanian
word: linie aeriană de contact
lang: Russian
word: контактная сеть
roman: kontaktnaja setʹ
lang: Spanish
word: catenaria
och
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Early Modern English och, Scottish Gaelic och, Irish och. Compare also Scots ach, Scots ouch.
Inflected forms:
form: ach
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: ock
pos: intj
tags: alternative
form: awk
pos: intj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: general interjection of confirmation, affirmation, and often disapproval.
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
Scotland
gloss: an expression of anger, frustration, surprise
pos: intj
tags: Ireland
Scotland
examples: “Och, ooh, it’s so confusing, it hurts my wee head! I’m just a woman, you know, just a pair of ovaries and some bangs! How do I have the mental capacity to pick from one of two options? Put me down for a no, and never trust me with an important decision again!”
Derived words: och aye
Translations:
pont
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: ponts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ponting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ponted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ponted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: to pose until nearly frozen in all sorts of uncomfortable positions.
pos: verb
Translations:
chayote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish chayote, from Classical Nahuatl chayohtli.
Inflected forms:
form: chayotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Sechium edule, a tropical American perennial herbaceous vine having tendrils, tuberous roots, and a green, pear-shaped fruit cooked as a vegetable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The fruit of this plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: choko
chocho
christophine
vegetable pear
pear squash
mango squash
güisquil
Derived words: Chayote mosaic virus
Translations:
peyote
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Spanish peyote, from Classical Nahuatl peyotl.
Inflected forms:
form: peyotes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small, spineless cactus (Lophophora williamsii) found from southwest United States to central Mexico that produces buttonlike tubercles that can be chewed for their psychedelic effect, primarily from the drug mescaline.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mescal button produced by the plant.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: peyote gravy
peyotism
peyotist
Translations:
arcology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: Blend of architecture + ecology, coined by Italian architect Paolo Soleri in 1969.
Compound parts: architecture
ecology
Inflected forms:
form: arcologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Urban development theory proposed by Paolo Soleri involving three-dimensional building methods and efficient use of space and resources.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: An extremely large building or complex, sufficient to maintain an internal ecology as well as an extremely high human population density.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Behind the port lay the city, factory domes dominated by the vast cubes of corporate arcologies.
Derived words: arcological
Translations:
commando
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans kommando, from Portuguese comando (“command”), from Late Latin *commandare, from Latin commendare.
Inflected forms:
form: commandos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: commandoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas.
pos: noun
examples: The most important objective was at Batna itself, where a group of three commandos each comprising ten men was to attack Deleplanque's sub-prefecture […].
gloss: A commando trooper.
pos: noun
examples: Ben Grant, 30, who spent more than five years as a commando in the Royal Marines, is part of group of seven ex-servicemen who arrived in Ukraine over the weekend to fight invading Russian forces.
gloss: An organized force of Boer troops in South Africa; a raid by such troops.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Derived words: commando cloth
commandolike
commandoman
go commando
steak commando
Translations:
commandeer
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First attested in the late 19th century. From Dutch commanderen (“to command”), partially through its descendant, Afrikaans kommandeer (“to command”). Ultimately from French commander, from Old French comander, from Latin commendare. Doublet of command.
Inflected forms:
form: commandeers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commandeering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commandeered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commandeered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To seize for military use.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To force into military service.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take arbitrarily or by force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To take or use for some purpose (not necessarily arbitrarily or by force).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: "We're stuck taking the bus to school tomorrow, aren't we?" "...Yeah. Moperville South doesn't give bus service out here, so Ellen's commandeering my car."
Related words: appropriate
call up
Derived words: commandeerer
Translations:
spoor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Early 19th century, from Afrikaans spoor, from Dutch spoor (“track”).
Akin to Old English and Old Norse spor (whence Danish spor), and German Spur, all from Proto-Germanic *spurą. Compare spurn.
Inflected forms:
form: spoors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spoors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spooring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spoored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spoored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The track, trail, droppings, or scent of an animal.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: We all stopped to examine that monstrous spoor. If it were indeed a bird - and what animal could leave such a mark? - its foot was so much larger than an ostrich's that its height upon the same scale must be enormous.
Even poor Nobs appeared dejected as we quit the compound and set out upon the well-marked spoor of the abductor.
Now he has picked up the spoor of drunken vomit and there is the doll sprawled against a wall, his pants streaked with urine.
From the spoor, skilled trackers can deduce an individual's age, sex, physical condition, speed, and fatigue level, as well as the time of day it passed by.
Which was good. If she kept her superego occupied with minor considerations, the lizard brain could keep planning routes and obscuring caches and examining half-melted human candles for the Markey equivalent of spoor without interference. She didn't want her emotional intelligence and creativity to be paying close attention when she found Michael Nass half-fused to a cave wall, drooling pink slime into the dust and talking portentous nonsense about Norte Chico burial rituals while his jellified skin sloughed off, considering whose fault it had been that he'd been at AAF-D when the sinners came marching in.
gloss: To track (an animal) by following its spoor.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
trek
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).
Inflected forms:
form: treks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: treck
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: treks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trekking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trekked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trekked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: treck
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A journey by ox wagon.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: The Boer migration of 1835–1837.
pos: noun
tags: South-Africa
gloss: A slow or difficult journey.
pos: noun
examples: We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.
Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
Young Indians looking for work opportunities have made up a sizeable portion of undocumented migrants in the US, many after making the dangerous trek through Latin America to reach the US southern border.
gloss: A long walk.
pos: noun
examples: I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.
gloss: To make a slow or arduous journey.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
gloss: To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To travel by ox wagon.
pos: verb
tags: South-Africa
gloss: To travel by walking.
pos: verb
tags: Nigeria
Related words: trigger
Derived words: Trekiverse
trekpath
Trekverse
trekkable
trekker
untrekked
Translations:
kraal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From colonial Dutch kraal, from Portuguese curral. Doublet of corral.
Inflected forms:
form: kraals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: kraals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: kraaling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: kraaled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: kraaled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: In Central and Southern Africa, a small rural community.
pos: noun
examples: Onanis is the permanent residence of a kraal of very poor Hill-Damaras, who subsist chiefly upon the few wild roots which their sterile neighborhood produces.
‘The paraffin box covered with newsprint, and the primus, and the bucket standing on the floor, and a photo of our kraal’s chief on the wall.’
gloss: In Central and Southern Africa, a rural village of huts surrounded by a stockade.
pos: noun
examples: A kraal was a homestead and usually included a simple fenced-in enclosure for animals, fields for growing crops, and one or more thatched huts.
gloss: An enclosure for livestock.
pos: noun
examples: The animal, which is now six years old, was born naturally from the mating of a female goat with a male sheep sharing the same kraal.
gloss: To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: […] he knew that one of these beasts was in the habit of harassing the goat-kids, which, for better security, he had kraaled against the wall of the house.
Related words: boma
crawl
Corral
Derived words: enkraal
kraalhead
turtle-kraal
Translations:
laager
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From South African Dutch lager (“camp”) (modern Afrikaans laer), from German Lager, from Middle High German leger, from Old High German legar, from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lager and lair.
Inflected forms:
form: laagers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lager
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: laagers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: laagering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: laagered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: laagered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lager
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A defensive encampment encircled by wagons, especially by South African Boers.
pos: noun
examples: Wagons […] can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts.
“And for how long d'you think you're going to be safe in the cities?” Louis persisted. “Just a matter of time, then our frontiers will shrink as we draw our little laager more and more tightly.”
gloss: A temporary formation of armoured vehicles for resupply.
pos: noun
gloss: To arrange in a circular formation for defence.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: At the foot of this isolated mount, whereof the aspect somehow filled me with alarm, we camped on the night of January 21, taking no precautions against attack by way of laagering the wagons.
gloss: To camp in a circular formation.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high.
Related words: circle the wagons
Translations:
sadistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English sadist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English sadistic
From sadist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more sadistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sadistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Delighting in or feeling pleasure from the pain or humiliation of others.
pos: adj
examples: Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.
gloss: Of behaviour which takes pleasure in the pain or humiliation of others.
pos: adj
gloss: Causing a high degree of pain or humiliation.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
Related words: sadism
Derived words: anal-sadistic
necrosadistic
nonsadistic
sadistically
sadisticness
sadistic personality disorder
unsadistic
unsadistically
zoosadistic
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: سادى
lang: Bulgarian
word: садистичен
roman: sadističen
lang: Catalan
word: sàdic
lang: Czech
word: sadistický
lang: Danish
word: sadistisk
lang: Dutch
word: sadistisch
lang: Esperanto
word: sadisma
lang: Finnish
word: sadistinen
lang: French
word: sadique
lang: Georgian
word: სადისტური
roman: sadisṭuri
lang: German
word: sadistisch
lang: Greek
word: σαδιστής
roman: sadistís
lang: Hindi
word: परपीड़क
roman: parpīṛak
lang: Hungarian
word: szadista
lang: Italian
word: sadico
lang: Norman
word: sadistique
lang: Piedmontese
word: sàdich
lang: Polish
word: sadystyczny
lang: Portuguese
word: sádico
lang: Romanian
word: sadic
lang: Russian
word: сади́стский
roman: sadístskij
lang: Spanish
word: sádico
lang: Spanish
word: ensañarse
lang: Ukrainian
word: сади́стський
roman: sadýstsʹkyj
lang: Ukrainian
word: садисти́чний
roman: sadystýčnyj
lang: Yiddish
word: סאַדיסטיש
roman: sadistish
widely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wijdly, equivalent to wide + -ly.
Base: wide
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: widelier
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: more widely
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: wideliest
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: most widely
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a wide manner; across a wide area.
pos: adv
examples: I'm widely travelled.
gloss: Commonly; generally; to a great degree.
pos: adv
tags: figuratively
examples: In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.
Kim Jong-il, who has died aged 69, was the general secretary of the Workers party of Korea, and head of the military in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). He was one of the most reclusive and widely condemned national leaders of the late 20th and early 21st century, leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically broken and divided from South Korea.
Demandt discusses a German example, Ferdinand Grautoff's 1906. Der Zusammenbuch der Alten Welt (1905) (cf. Es hätte auch... 195-196). Thus, a war widely predicted in fiction is only exiguously remembered in post factum allohistorical narratives.
Rail Minister Lord Hendy was quizzed by the same MPs at an earlier hearing. He maintained that the Bill gave Mayors "much enhanced power" and preserved the existing processes by which rail services can be devolved. "The intention, more widely, is to work collaboratively with all devolved leaders to meet local needs," he said. "It has to be tempered by the reality, which is that the railway network is not generally consistent with mayoral boundaries. […]".
Synonyms: extensively
far and wide
spreadly
widely
Antonyms: narrowly
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: далёка
roman: daljóka
lang: Bulgarian
word: дале́ч
roman: daléč
lang: Bulgarian
word: дале́че
roman: daléče
lang: Czech
word: daleko
lang: Finnish
word: suuresti
lang: French
word: largement
lang: French
word: grandement
lang: German
word: entfernt
lang: Italian
word: distantemente
lang: Italian
word: estesamente
lang: Macedonian
word: далеку
roman: daleku
lang: Polish
word: daleko
lang: Portuguese
word: distantemente
lang: Russian
word: далеко́
roman: dalekó
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: далеко
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: daleko
lang: Slovak
word: ďaleko
lang: Slovene
word: daleč
lang: Spanish
word: extensamente
lang: Spanish
word: ampliamente
lang: Swedish
word: vitt
lang: Ukrainian
word: дале́ко
roman: daléko
contemptible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English contemptible, from Latin contemptibilis.
Inflected forms:
form: more contemptible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contemptible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: contemptable
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Deserving contempt.
pos: adj
examples: But a Devil came in juſt in the God-ſpeed, and told them; Gentlemen Philoſophers, (ſays he) if you vvould knovv the VVretched'ſt, and moſt contemptible thing in the VVorld; It is an Alchymiſt: […]
Miss Ward's match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield […]
And they are dangerous because when worn they make their wearer look ridiculous and contemptible to those not enthralled by the same fashion; and when their moment has passed they take up precious closet space, taunting you and making you lament of money that should have been spent on something more longevous.
gloss: Carrying or having contempt; contemptuous.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: One of the above petitioners had frequently praised Edward in the presence of Robert; but it was evidently disliked by the latter, and always drew from him some contemptible remark reflecting on the humility of his origin.
But what a contemptible notion must he entertain of this House!
Don't use vulgar curses; you should not be contemptible towards the Court.
Related words: contemptuous
Derived words: contemptibility
contemptibleness
contemptibly
uncontemptible
Translations:
chalkboard
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From chalk + board.
Compound parts: chalk
board
Inflected forms:
form: chalkboards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chalkboards
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chalkboarding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chalkboarded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chalkboarded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A slate or enamel board for writing on with chalk; a predecessor to a whiteboard.
pos: noun
gloss: To write or draw on a chalkboard.
pos: verb
examples: If you live in a home where painting walls isn't permitted, chalkboarding is still an option for you.
Translations:
uncover
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English uncoveren, equivalent to un- + cover.
Base: cover
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: uncovers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: uncovering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: uncovered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: uncovered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To remove a cover from.
pos: verb
examples: The model railway was uncovered.
gloss: To reveal the identity of.
pos: verb
examples: The murderer has finally been uncovered.
gloss: To show openly; to disclose; to reveal.
pos: verb
examples: To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation.
But Levinson said in an interview that the stalemate uncovers a flaw in the US system.
New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes glued onto their backs.
gloss: To remove one's hat or cap as a mark of respect.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
examples: Alfred, surprised to meet his father, whom he thought absent from home, […] stood, holding his firelock in one hand, and his hat in the other, having uncovered himself as soon as he perceived his father.
The English soldiers were directed in general orders to salute and uncover before the Host as it passed, and here in the wilderness the old religion held firm sway.
gloss: To expose the genitalia.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
reflexive
examples: The phallus had power to subdue the attacks of demons and the Evil Eye; and the female organs were potent over elemental disturbances, thus a woman uncovering herself could quell a storm.
gloss: To expose (lines of formation of troops) successively by the wheeling to right or left of the lines in front.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Synonyms: uncloak
uncoif
unhat
Antonyms: cover up
Translations:
brava
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian brava, feminine of bravo.
Inflected forms:
form: bravas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shout of "brava!".
pos: noun
Translations:
bubo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin būbō, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).
Inflected forms:
form: bubos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: buboes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.
pos: noun
examples: If a Bubo or Carbuncle appear, set on Leeches not far from it, if it be in an ignoble part; ...
Translations:
digging
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: diggings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action performed by a person or thing that digs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A place where ore is dug, especially certain localities in California, Australia, etc. where gold is obtained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Accommodation; lodgings; digs.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: Region; locality.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
colloquial
countable
in-plural
often
uncountable
examples: This knock-down argument in favour of big mosquitoes used the Hoosier up, and the logician started on a new track, to explain how numerous bear were in his "diggins," where he represented them to be "about as plenty as blackberries, and a little plentifuler.”
Related words: digs
Derived words: digging bar
digging fork
digging stick
ditchdigging
gold-digging
gold digging
gravedigging
gumdigging
gum-digging
Translations:
lang: Spanish
word: cavío
lang: Spanish
word: cava
scope
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
birdwatching
computing
engineering
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
ornithology
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Italian scopo (“purpose”), from Latin scopus (“target”), from Ancient Greek σκοπός (skopós), from σκέπτομαι (sképtomai), from Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-. Etymologically related to skeptic and spectrum.
Inflected forms:
form: scopes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scoping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scoped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scoped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: We don't know, so let's scope the action before having another shoot out.
“Let's scope the scene.” The gang advanced, searching for humanity.
gloss: To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
examples: The surgeon will scope the football player's knee to repair damage to a ligament.
gloss: To define the scope of something.
pos: verb
examples: Before scoping the investigation and developing a work plan, it is necessary to establish reasonable goals and objectives.
The purpose of witness interviews is multi-faceted but generally includes scoping the investigation, understanding the facts and issues at play, and assessing the accountability of individuals and possible defences for the company and[…]
gloss: To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code.
pos: verb
examples: If we locally scope the user's login name, it won't be accessible from outside this function.
gloss: To examine under a microscope.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: The entomologist explained that he could not tell what species of springtail we were looking at without scoping it.
gloss: To observe a bird using a spotting scope.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: `Maybe there was another darker bird and it had flown away before we could scope it?' `Yes there must have been,' came the grim-faced reply.
Derived words: scope in
Translations:
calling
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English calling, callynge, equivalent to call + -ing.
Base: call
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: callings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strong urge (to do some particular thing with or in one's life, for example to become religious, to help the poor, or to be an entertainer).
pos: noun
gloss: A job or occupation.
pos: noun
examples: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
Synonyms: vocation
Derived words: callingly
calling over
calling party
cop-calling
hog calling
playcalling
SELCAL
SelCal
Translations:
bunting
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: Possibly from dialect bunting (“sifting flour”), from Middle English bonten (“to sift”), hence the material used for that purpose.
Possibly from Germanic bundt (“to bind or tie together”).
Inflected forms:
form: buntings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Flags considered as a group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: buntingless
Translations:
probably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English probably, probabily, equivalent to probable + -ly.
Base: probable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more probably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most probably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: probablely
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: probally
pos: adv
tags: alternative
colloquial
slang
form: probly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
colloquial
slang
form: prolly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
colloquial
slang
form: proly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Internet
Leet
form: pby
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Internet
Senses:
gloss: In all likelihood.
pos: adv
examples: She probably has arrived by now.
She has probably arrived by now.
Probably she has arrived by now.
He'll probably arrive tomorrow.
He probably will arrive tomorrow.
Probably he'll arrive tomorrow.
It is probably too late for amends.
It probably is too late for amends.
Probably it is too late for amends.
“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes[…]. And then, when you see [the senders], you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases. […]”
Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close[…]above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them. Many insects probably use this strategy, which is a close analogy to crypsis in the visible world—camouflage and other methods for blending into one’s visual background.
Translations:
smudge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
Etymology: Derived from the verb (see below). Doublet of smutch.
Inflected forms:
form: smudges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: smudges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: smudging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: smudged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: smudged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was a smudge on the paper.
gloss: Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
examples: Then "smudges" are in vogue,—heaps of damp combustibles placed on the windward side of the house and partially ignited, that their inky steams may smother the mosquitoes while we take our chance. I have had a "smudge" made in a chafing-dish at my bedside, after a serious deliberation between choking and being devoured at small mouthfuls; and I conscientiously recommend choking, or running the risk of it, at least.
We had taken about ten pounds of trout; and the first procedure, after reaching the camp, was to build a smudge or smoke-fire, to drive away these abominable gnats, who, fortunately, take flight with the first whiff of smoke.
The use of smoke (or "smudges") against the attack of the mosquito is well understood in America and elsewhere.
gloss: A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
especially
uncountable
examples: Devil's dirt or asafetida ground together with fenugreek and black cumin seed is used as a smudge against witches and […]
gloss: To obscure by blurring; to smear.
pos: verb
gloss: To soil or smear with dirt.
pos: verb
gloss: To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
pos: verb
gloss: To stifle or smother with smoke.
pos: verb
gloss: To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This is easily done using incense to smudge yourself or taking a cleansing bath. To smudge your body use an incense mixture such as sandalwood, lavender, frankincense or myrrh.
Related words: smudgily
smudginess
smudgy
Derived words: antismudge
besmudge
onion smudge
smudge attack
smudge cell
smudge pot
smudgeproof
resmudge
smudgeable
smudger
Translations:
misplace
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mey-?
Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der.
Proto-Germanic *missaz
Proto-Germanic *missa-
Proto-West Germanic *missa-
Old English mis-
Middle English mys-
English mis-
English place
English misplace
From mis- + place.
Inflected forms:
form: misplaces
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: misplacing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: misplaced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: misplaced
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To put something somewhere and then forget its location; to mislay.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I might have misplaced my umbrella; do you know where it is?
At least once a week a patient will come into Dr. Thomas Loepfe’s busy geriatric clinic in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, with a worry. She will tell him she’s been misplacing her glasses lately, or he’ll say he’s concerned about losing the car keys.
She misplaces her things regularly (for example her phone, keys or bank card).
I misplace my keys or wallet on a daily basis. Sometimes multiple times a day.
gloss: To apply one's talents inappropriately.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Bart Groothuijze, who runs the Castodian foundation promoting safer motorbiking, blames a misplaced sense of freedom and vanity.
gloss: To put something in the wrong location.
pos: verb
examples: Every word in English of more than one Syllable has a fixed accent established by the custom of the language, to misplace which is as offensive to the propriety of speech, as to missound the vowel.
Synonyms: mislay
Derived words: misplacer
Translations:
mitzva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From ancient Hebrew text and scrolls.
Inflected forms:
form: mitzvot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mitzvah
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mitzvoth
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A meritorious deed or action.
pos: noun
tags: Jewish
examples: Something that God would smile upon: a mitzvah.
gloss: An order from rabbis or a commandment from the Bible
pos: noun
tags: Jewish
examples: Helping the elderly man to cross the street was a fine mitzvah for Robert.
Related words: bar mitzvah
bat mitzvah
bas mitzvah
Translations:
audiotape
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From audio + tape.
Compound parts: audio
tape
Inflected forms:
form: audiotapes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: audio tape
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: audiotapes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: audiotaping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: audiotaped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: audiotaped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: audio tape
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A magnetic tape that stores analog sound for later playback on a tape player.
pos: noun
examples: I thought of an old ad for Memorex audiotape. It showed a crystal glass being shattered by sound vibrations. By pure harmonics.
gloss: Any of a cassette tape, eight-track tape, reel-to-reel tape, DAT, etc.
pos: noun
gloss: To record onto audiotape.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Translations:
squeal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English squelen, probably from Old Norse skvala (“to squeal, bawl”), from Proto-Germanic *skwel- (“to chatter, babble, scream”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skel-, from *kelh₁- (“to ring, resound, cry”). Compare Old Norse skval (“a squeal”, noun), Swedish skvallra (“to babble, chatter, tell on”).
Inflected forms:
form: squeals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squeals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squealing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squealed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squealed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A high-pitched sound, such as the scream of a child or a female person, or noisy worn-down brake pads.
pos: noun
gloss: The cry of a pig.
pos: noun
gloss: To scream with a shrill, prolonged sound.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The children squealed with delight while opening their Christmas presents.
gloss: To make a squealing noise. (of an object)
pos: verb
examples: The brakes squeal terribly.
We continue through suburban Newcastle along the edge of the Tyne, before squealing around the tight curves onto the magnificent High Level bridge, which affords glorious views across Newcastle and along the river before arriving at journey's end.
gloss: To give sensitive information about someone to a third party; to rat on someone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: You'd better not squeal on me to the cops.
Synonyms: grass up
snitch
Derived words: asqueal
pig squeal
squealdom
squealer
squealingly
squeal like a pig
squeal like a stuck pig
squealy
Translations:
background
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: journalism
media
Etymology: From back + ground. Compare backstory.
Compound parts: back
ground
Inflected forms:
form: back ground
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: backgrounds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: backgrounding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: backgrounded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: backgrounded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: back ground
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Less important or less noticeable in a scene or system.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: background noise
The antivirus program runs on a background thread.
gloss: To place in the background.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ha! I see Venus’ transit now;—lo! a new planet there;—and behind all, an infinite starry nebulousness, as if thy being were backgrounded by some spangled vail of mystery.
gloss: To put in a position that is not prominent.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: One aspect of the story that appears interesting is that the alleged rapist and victim are only referred to by name together in the same sentence once. In all the other sentences, one receives more focus, while the other is backgrounded.
gloss: To gather and provide background information (on).
pos: verb
gloss: To increase the weight and immunity of (a calf) by feeding with forage and grains, as an intermediate stage in cattle production, between weaning and placement in a feedlot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: conspicuous
foreground
forestanding
primary
prominent
Translations:
jazzy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English jazz
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English jazzy
From jazz + -y.
Inflected forms:
form: jazzier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jazziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the style of jazz.
pos: adj
gloss: Flashy or showy.
pos: adj
gloss: Lacking focus; jittery or jangly.
pos: adj
examples: Your mother-of-pearl teeth, hard thighs, heaving ribcage — The smooth back of your adolescent neck, Your hot testicles swimming with future generations, And that rhinoceros horn there that makes you shiver all jazzy — You are where I get my fantasies, nigra.
John was waiting in the health club's juice bar, wearing a gray pinstriped Oxford suit and a blue Hermes tie. "You look all jazzy," Tyler said as he approached his partner. "I got you a cup of coffee."
The letters seemed to go all jazzy on her and then they kept shifting, changing direction and making new patterns that she couldn't recognize.
Synonyms: showy
jangling
Derived words: jazzily
jazziness
snazzy
unjazzy
Translations:
dungarees
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From dungaree + -s, from Hindi डूंगरी (ḍūṅgrī, “coarse calico”), from the name of a village.
Base: dungaree
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: dungaree
pos: noun
tags: attributive
Senses:
gloss: Heavy denim pants or trousers, usually with bib and braces, worn especially as work clothing.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: Helen donned a pair of faded dungarees and grabbed her knapsack before rushing off to school.
Next came a domeshaped sukhpal (palanquin), its silver plated pole being borne by eight sturdy troopers wearing red flowing kurtas, silk kamarbunds, and silk dungarees.
I’d arrived at Heaven nightclub, underneath the Charing Cross railway arches, on a hot Sunday afternoon to find my friends had already gone in – you didn’t risk hanging back and missing your chance – so I joined the queue of kids dressed in the acid house uniform of Day-Glo dungarees and smiley T-shirts.
Translations:
jodhpurs
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 1913 (earlier as jodhpur breeches, 1899), from Jodhpur, former state in northwestern India. The city at the heart of the state was founded 1459 by Rao Jodha, a local ruler, and is named for him.
Inflected forms:
form: jodhpur
pos: noun
tags: attributive
Senses:
gloss: Flared riding trousers of heavy cloth, fitting tightly from knee to ankle.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
examples: "What's the big idea?" Dorothy sprang in beside him, looking very trim and boyish in jodhpurs and dark flannel shirt over which she wore a thin brown sweater.
The man in jodphurs muttered, ‘Is why black people can't get on. You see how these waiters behaving? And they black like hell too, you know.’
All the portraits that hang on the walls of the living room are, I realize, of my mother's family: miniatures of her great-aunts in Victorian bustles and elaborate feathered hats; a gilt-framed oil of her great-great-great-uncle as a boy in pastoral England, wearing a gold riding coat over white jodhpurs and sitting astride a white steed, a King Charles spaniel yapping at them from the foreground of the canvas.
Soon Bowie entered, wearing three-tone NASA jodhpurs.
Translations:
gurner
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gurn
English -er
English gurner
From gurn + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: gurners
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who performs at gurning
pos: noun
Translations:
costume
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French costume, from Italian costume, from Latin consuētūdō (“custom, habit”). Doublet of consuetude, custom, and kastom.
Verb circa 1802, perhaps modelled on French costumer.
Inflected forms:
form: costumes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: costumes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: costuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: costumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: costumed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A style of dress, including garments, accessories and hairstyle, especially as characteristic of a particular country, period or people.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the sight of thousands of people gathered to watch men walk the streets openly in female costume
The apology came after a netizen claimed Soberano was supposedly doing a black face, but the latter said, in defense, it was just a “costume.”
gloss: An outfit or a disguise worn as fancy dress etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: We wore gorilla costumes to the party.
gloss: A set of clothes appropriate for a particular occasion or season.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The bride wore a grey going-away costume.
gloss: A swimming costume.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They call their bathing suits down there "costumes."
gloss: To dress or adorn with a costume or appropriate garb.
pos: verb
examples: Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head. His dark eyes and swarthy skin and Paynim features suited the costume exactly. He looked the very model of an Eastern emir, an agent or a victim of the bowstring.
"The Chengtu revolutionaries were fantastically colourful in the Szechwanese manner—they costumed themselves as heroes of the stage and their energies were chiefly occupied in tying ropes across the main streets so that when Imperial officials rode by in their litters they would have to get down and crawl under, losing face.
Synonyms: getup
outfit
Related words: customary
custom
uniform
Derived words: academic costume
bathing costume
cossie
costumal
costume change
costume drama
costume jewellery
costume jewelry
costumeless
costume party
costumer
costumier
costumery
costumey
costumic
costumist
domino costume
my culture is not your costume
national costume
swimming costume
Translations:
compliance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English comply
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
Old French -ancebor.
Middle English -aunce
English -ance
English compliance
From comply + -ance.
Inflected forms:
form: compliances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act of complying.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: strict compliance
regulatory compliance
full compliance
gloss: The state of being compliant.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The software ensures compliance with data protection laws.
gloss: The tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: His quick compliance with the order impressed the officer.
gloss: A measure of the extension or displacement of a loaded structure; its flexibility
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The accuracy with which a patient follows an agreed treatment plan
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The department of a business that ensures all government regulations are complied with.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Synonyms: compliancy
Antonyms: non-compliance
noncompliance
violation
Related words: compliant
conformance
Derived words: buzzword compliance
checkbox compliance
compliance car
compliance company
compliance strike
discompliance
hypercompliance
incompliance
malicious compliance
overcompliance
pain compliance
recompliance
standards compliance
uncompliance
undercompliance
Translations: