yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
staccato
Part of speech: noun
adv
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian staccato (“detached, disconnected”), past participle of staccare (“to detach, separate”), aphetic variant of distaccare (“to separate, detach”), from Middle French destacher (“to detach”), from Old French destachier (“to detach”), from des- + atachier (“to attach”), alteration of estachier (“to fasten with or to a stake, lay claim to”), from estache (“a stake”), from Low Frankish *stakkā (“stake”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz, *stakô (“stick, stake”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“stick, stake”). Akin to Old High German stecko (“post”) (German Stecken (“stick”)), Old Saxon stekko (“stake”), Old Norse stakkr (“hay stack, heap”), Old English staca (“stake”). More at stake.
Base: atachier
Affixes: des-
Inflected forms:
form: staccatos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: staccati
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more staccato
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most staccato
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more staccato
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most staccato
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: An articulation marking directing that a note or passage of notes are to be played in an abruptly disconnected manner, with each note sounding for a very short duration, and a short break lasting until the sounding of the next note; as opposed to legato. Staccato is indicated by a dot directly above or below the notehead.
pos: noun
gloss: A passage having this mark.
pos: noun
gloss: Any sound resembling a musical staccato.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: According to the syllable-timed hypothesis, Spanish syllables as staccato.
The tumultuous noise resolved itself now into the disorderly mingling of many voices, the gride of many wheels, the creaking of waggons, and the staccato of hoofs.
gloss: played in this style
pos: adv
examples: Now, play the same passage very staccato.
gloss: Describing a passage having this mark.
pos: adj
gloss: Made up of abruptly disconnected parts or sounds.
pos: adj
examples: The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
A kind of tense peace, like the centre of a cyclone, descended. Not for long, of course, for already stealing upon one's hearing would be the staccato bark and thrust of the banker bringing up the rear.
The water-level route, the whistle and the loud staccato exhaust of this great engine recalled most vividly memories of the New York Central Hudsons highballing along the Hudson River between Harmon and Albany!
Antonyms: legato
Translations:
legato
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian legato, past participle of legare (“to tie up, tie together, to bind”), learned borrowing from Latin ligō (“tie, bind”). Doublet of ligate.
Inflected forms:
form: legatos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Smoothly, in a connected manner.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Play this passage legato, not portato.
gloss: A style of performance characterized by smoothly connected notes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It is the coördination of the finger and hand as examplified in the proportionate speed of shifting according to the speed of the musical passage, which makes for evenness, continuity, smoothness, and ultimately, a fine legato.
At the end of the prelude of Caprice V, there is a chromatic ascending and descending scale of forty-eight notes to be played in one bow in legato.
Clementi, in his "Introduction to the art of playing the piano-forte" (1801) still had to advise pianists that : "the best general rule is to keep the keys of the instrument suppressed during the whole length of the note" (p.8) and "whenver the composer leaves the legato or staccato to the taste of the performer, the best rule is to use the legato in most cases and to reserve the staccato in order to give particular passages more spirit and to enhance the higher beauties of the legato."
“[…]If you’re shooting an entire scene, there’s a more legato rhythm, a crest and a fall, some gradation. But you don’t really need it for the style of performance Bong [Joon Ho] wants, and that frees you up to do these very discordant turns: If you’re just doing one line, you can do maximum intensity out of nowhere.
gloss: A passage that is played legato.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It schools the mind to watch for the legato all the time, as its absence at the organ is mor prominent than at the piano; but beyond this point it renders little assitance to the pianist.
A good pianist, however, will make his audience believe that he is as capable of performing a legato as is a singer or violinist.
Legatos are indicated in both notations by a bow between respective notes.
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: լեգատո
roman: legato
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 連奏 /连奏
roman: liánzòu
lang: Finnish
word: legato
lang: Finnish
word: legatokaari
lang: Finnish
word: sidekaari
lang: French
word: lié
lang: German
word: legato
lang: German
word: gebunden
lang: Greek
word: λεγκατούρα
roman: legkatoúra
lang: Japanese
word: レガート
roman: regāto
lang: Māori
word: rōnaki
lang: Polish
word: legato
lang: Russian
word: лега́то
roman: legáto
lang: Spanish
word: ligado
lang: Tagalog
word: banayad
arco
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian arco (“bow”). Doublet of arch and arc.
Inflected forms:
form: archi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A note in string instrument musical notation indicating that the bow is to be used in the usual way, usually following a passage that is played pizzicato.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A passage to be played in this way.
pos: noun
Translations:
cantabile
Part of speech: noun
adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian cantabile (“singable, capable being sung”), derived from cantare (“to sing”). See also Latin cantabilis (“worthy to be sung”).
Inflected forms:
form: cantabiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more cantabile
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most cantabile
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more cantabile
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most cantabile
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played in a lyrical manner
pos: noun
gloss: A passage having this mark
pos: noun
gloss: Played in this style; singingly, lyrically
pos: adv
gloss: Describing a passage having this mark; singable, lyrical
pos: adj
Translations:
crescendo
Part of speech: noun
verb
adv
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crescendo, gerund of crescere (“to grow, to increase”).
Inflected forms:
form: crescendos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crescendi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: crescendoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cres.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cresc.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: crescendoes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crescendos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crescendoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crescendoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crescendoed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cres.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cresc.
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: cres.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
form: cresc.
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An instruction to play gradually more loudly, denoted by a long, narrow angle with its apex on the left ( < ), by musicians called a hairpin.
pos: noun
gloss: A gradual increase of anything, especially to a dramatic climax.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Their fighting rose in a fearsome crescendo.
gloss: The climax of a gradual increase.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
nonstandard
examples: Their arguing rose to a fearsome crescendo.
With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.
gloss: To increase in intensity; to reach or head for a crescendo.
pos: verb
examples: The band crescendoed and then suddenly went silent.
And similarly, they are full of tricks: when the imagined stranger calls your name, the music crescendos romantically; when the video freezes on your laugh, it immediately desaturates the candid photo, making you look old-timey or famous or dead.
gloss: Gradually increasing in force or loudness.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: amplification
ascension
boost
gain
growth
increase
loudening
spike
surge
upsurge
Antonyms: decrescendo
diminuendo
climax
conclusion
decrease
fall
Translations:
diminuendo
Part of speech: noun
adv
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Etymology tree
Italian diminuendobor.
English diminuendo
Borrowed from Italian diminuendo.
Inflected forms:
form: diminuendos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more diminuendo
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most diminuendo
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: more diminuendo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most diminuendo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A dynamic mark directing that a passage is to be played gradually more softly
pos: noun
gloss: A passage having this mark
pos: noun
gloss: The gradual dying away of something.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Thus, in "Flavia and Her Artists" (1905), for example, a fiction of consonance in diminuendo, the French subtext states a set of harmonies (the young American returned from France) and cacophonies (the supercilious French art critic, Roux) shedding light on the main text with its own consonances of intergenerationsl friendship, marital loyalty, artistic pleasure, and joyful lesbianism.
Harlow gazed, like Henry, out the wide corner window, enjoying the diminuendos of the light.
Jillian haad the kind of charm that wore off. Or after enough romantic diminuendos, that's what she theorized.
gloss: played in this style
pos: adv
gloss: describing a passage having this mark
pos: adj
Antonyms: crescendo
Translations:
ostinato
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Italian ostinato (“stubborn”). Doublet of obstinate.
Inflected forms:
form: ostinatos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ostinati
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of melody, a chord progression, or a bass figure that is repeated over and over as a musical accompaniment.
pos: noun
examples: The piece moves in alluring spans of swirling figures, jagged lines and pointillistic outbursts, often prodded forward by ostinatos in the perky piano.
Translations:
umami
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Japanese 旨味, うまみ (umami), from 旨い (umai, “delicious”), which describes the quality of a pleasant, savory taste.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: One of the five basic tastes, the savory taste of foods such as seaweed, cured fish, aged cheeses and meats.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Umami is the mysterious “fifth taste”—a flavour that has never seemed to fit into the existing categories of sweet, sour, salty and bitter. South-east Asian chefs have exploited it throughout history—it's an essential part of the taste of seaweed, among other things[…]
But we are, of course, sweaty, fleshy lady-animals – all fur and umami.
A few types of molecules get sensed by receptors on the tongue. Protons coming off of acids ping receptors for "sour." Sugars get received as "sweet." Bitter, salty, and the proteinaceous flavor umami all set off their own neural cascades.
I quickly realized that I have always been obsessed with umami; I just didn't know it. It's why a sprinkle of Parm on just about anything heightens that dish's flavor; it's why grilled smoky mushrooms taste so good. Umami is a deeply satisfying taste, and luckily for us, umami is everywhere—it's in tomatoes and soy sauce, fresh and dried mushrooms, aged cheese, nutritional yeast […]
Translations:
barebacking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bareback
English -ing
English barebacking
From bareback + -ing.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The practice of engaging in sexual intercourse, most often anal sex, without using a condom.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
bareback
Part of speech: adj
adv
verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sex
sexuality
sports
Etymology: From bare + back.
Compound parts: bare
back
Inflected forms:
form: barebacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: barebacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: barebacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: barebacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: barebacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Without a saddle.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: bareback riding
gloss: Without a condom.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: bareback sex
gloss: Without a shirt; shirtless.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: ‘Bareback’ bathing for men, heretofore taboo in Atlantic City, broke down the last line of official resistance today and will be allowed this Summer.
gloss: Without a saddle.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I can ride a horse bareback.
gloss: Without a condom.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
slang
examples: We had sex bareback.
gloss: To ride without a saddle.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
gloss: To have sex (with someone) without using a condom.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
gloss: A bird, raised for meat, that lacks feathers, seen as an undesirable trait.
pos: noun
examples: Buyers discount many broiler flocks by from one to five cents a pound due to barebacks, but the loss to the industry does not end there. Barebacked broilers slow down the pickers in the dressing plants which results in a loss in labor.
Synonyms: condomless
Derived words: barebacker
barebacking
Translations:
bug-chasing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: bugchasing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of engaging in anal sex with the deliberate intention of contracting HIV.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
gloss: The practice of trying to deliberately catch sexually transmitted diseases, usually through sex but sometimes through other methods as well.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
uncountable
Related words: bug-chaser
barebacking
charge up
poz
Translations:
bug-chaser
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: LGBT
Inflected forms:
form: bug-chasers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bug chaser
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man who practises bug-chasing.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
closet
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English closet, from Old French closet, from clos (“private space”) + -et (diminutive suffix), from Latin clausum. Equivalent to close + -et, but generally applied in French solely to small open-air enclosures.
Base: clos
Affixes: -et
Inflected forms:
form: closets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: closeting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: closeted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: closeted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Private.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
gloss: Closeted, secret (especially with reference to gay people who are in the closet).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He's a closet case.
I wonder if there is another in the world that could produce, among perfectly normal people, this strangest quirk in the agenda of liquordom, the closet drinker.
gloss: Denoting anything kept a secret or private.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: To shut away for private discussion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit.
gloss: To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He was to call a new legislature, to closet its members.
He had been closeted with De Quadra.
gloss: To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: See what contempt is fallen on human kind; […] See Bedlam's closeted and handcuff'd charge / Surpass'd in frenzy by the mad at large;
[…] she had to look twice over her shoulder when the Gay Northeasters and the City Belles strolled down Seventh Avenue, they were so handsome. But this envy-streaked pleasure Alice closeted, and never let the girl see how she admired those ready-for-bed-in-the-street clothes.
Related words: out
come out
come out of the closet
Derived words: closeted
closet oneself
Translations:
closeted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From closet (“state of concealment”) + -ed.
Base: closet
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: more closeted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most closeted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Not open about one's sexual orientation, romantic orientation, or gender identity.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Sally Gearhart, an ex-christian from Illinois who in the early seventies abandoned closeted lesbianism on Midwestern church college faculties for radical feminism in San Francisco,
1992, Tony Kushner, Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995, Part Two: Perestroika, Act One, Scene 4, p. 156,
Belize: Get out your oven mitts. Guess who just checked in with the troubles? The Killer Queen Herself. New York's number one closeted queer.
gloss: Not open about some aspect of one's identity, tendency, or fondness; secret.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: […] the remaining quotations, chiefly from English poetry, interested me only slightly more. They were the elegiac favourites of a closeted Romantic.
Now he feels a connection between his own closeted, esoteric sufferings and strivings and those of the poor urban working people all around him.
Sokolsky asks if he realizes that this is a walk-in clinic for closeted reality benders, and he's a disaster-response coordinator, not a therapist.
Related words: come out of the closet
Derived words: closetedly
closetedness
semicloseted
semi-closeted
uncloseted
Translations:
bender
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Hypotheses:
* bend + -er. In sense of “heavy drinking”, originally generally “spree”, from 1846, of uncertain origin – vague contemporary sense of “something extraordinary”, connection to bend (e.g., bending elbow to drink (bend one's elbow)) or perhaps from Scottish sense of “strong drinker”.
* In Britain, for about four centuries, a sixpence was known as a bender because its silver content made it easy to bend in the hands. This was commonly done to create ‘love tokens’, many of which survive in collections to this day. The value of a sixpence was also enough to get thoroughly inebriated as taverns would often allow you to drink all day for two pence. This gave rise to the expression ‘going on a bender’.
* (interjection): From over the bender, referring to a person's arm (and sometimes accompanied by a gesture of the thumb backward over the shoulder); compare over the left shoulder.
Base: bend
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: benders
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who, or that which, bends.
pos: noun
gloss: A device to aid bending of pipes to a specific angle.
pos: noun
gloss: A bout of heavy drinking or drug use.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He's been out on a bender with his mates.
A couple of students of Williams College went over to North Adams on a bender. This would have been serious matter under the best of circumstances, but each returned with a “brick in his hat,” etc.
"Wait, is this about the other night when you two lightweights totally went on that bender?"
We can have a mad one, we can have a bender / Order what you want from the bartender / Come back to mine and all be splender / I'll give you a night to remember
I've really been on a bender and it shows
gloss: A homosexual man.
pos: noun
tags: UK
derogatory
slang
examples: “So they're easy about having a bender in the house, are they, their lordships?”
gloss: A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
pos: noun
gloss: A suspended sentence.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: 'Oh and Gary, what happened in Ahmed?' 'Not guilty, sir.' 'Oh no! And Tredwell?' 'Bender.' 'Suspended sentence? So both walked. […]
He anticipated a prison sentence though he thought there was a slight possibility of 'getting off on a bender' (suspended sentence).
gloss: A sixpence.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: What will you take to be paid out?’ said the butcher. ‘The regular chummage is two–and–six. Will you take three bob?’ ‘And a bender,’ suggested the clerical gentleman. ‘Well, I don’t mind that; it’s only twopence a piece more,’ said Mr. Martin. ‘What do you say, now? We’ll pay you out for three–and–sixpence a week. Come!’
gloss: A spree, a frolic.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
slang
gloss: Something exceptional.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
slang
Derived words: bagel bender
banana-bender
banana bender
B-bender
bumder
conduit bender
fender-bender
fender bender
gender bender
gender-bender
genre-bender
hellbender
mindbender
over the bender
pipe bender
pretzel-bender
reality bender
spaghetti bender
spoonbender
taco bender
taco-bender
tickly-bender
wirebender
Translations:
ufo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Reading of UFO as a word in its own right.
Inflected forms:
form: ufos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A UFO.
pos: noun
Translations:
bi-curious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From bi + curious. First appears c. 1984 in a personal ad in the newspaper The Orange County Register.
Base: bi
Inflected forms:
form: more bi-curious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most bi-curious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: bicurious
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Interested in having relationships with both men and women, curious about one's potential bisexuality; especially, of heterosexual people, considering a first sexual experience with a member of the same sex.
pos: adj
examples: Bi curious M/F or cpls.
"Does this make us bi-curious, or are some dudes just that girly?"
Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed.
Although Katy has admitted to being bi-curious in the past, the reason a lot of fans wanted clarity on her sexuality was to ensure she wasn't queer-baiting and benefiting from a culture she isn't actually part of.
Translations:
refold
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-bor.
Middle English re-
English re-
English fold
English refold
From re- + fold.
Inflected forms:
form: refolds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: refolding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: refolded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: refolded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To fold again.
pos: verb
examples: 'We must leave this place directly,' said Mr. Pickwick, as he refolded the note.
Translations:
otiose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin ōtiōsus (“idle”), from ōtium (“ease”).
Inflected forms:
form: more otiose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most otiose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having no effect.
pos: adj
examples: The most eminent jurists have not even yet decided on a satisfactory definition of piracy. […] One school holds that it is any felony committed on the High Seas. But that does little except render a separate term otiose. Moreover, it is not accepted by other schools of thought.
gloss: Done in a careless or perfunctory manner.
pos: adj
examples: It may seem otiose thus to have re-examined the elements of a distant controversy. I have sought only to indicate that there are several perfectly respectable reasons why British opinion should have been so utterly bewildered between 1793 and 1783. Such an examination, even if it manages not to cause offense, is bound itself to become confused and to reflect the cloudy muddle of the period. It is preferable therefore to elucidate the conflict by describing its changing effects on a single individual.
gloss: Reluctant to work or to exert oneself.
pos: adj
examples: Pemulis, w/ aid of 150mg. of time-release Tenuate Dospan, almost danced a little post-transaction jig on his way up the steps of the otiose Cambridge bus.
gloss: Of a person, possessing a bored indolence.
pos: adj
gloss: Having no reason for being (raison d’être); having no point, reason, or purpose.
pos: adj
examples: On Friday morning, I had to be at my house affairs before seven; and they kept me in Apia till past ten, disputing, and consulting about brick and stone and native and hydraulic lime, and cement and sand, and all sorts of otiose details about the chimney – just what I fled from in my father’s office twenty years ago;
Neither the fact that the debates can become otiose, nor their zeal in so often simply echoing the points made in the past, need, however, lead one to suppose that the proper cure is silence.
Related words: negotiate
negotiation
Derived words: otiosely
otioseness
otiosity
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: безполезен
roman: bezpolezen
lang: Czech
word: bezvýznamný
lang: Dutch
word: zinloos
lang: Finnish
word: hyödytön
lang: Finnish
word: tarpeeton
lang: French
word: inutile
lang: Georgian
word: ამაო
roman: amao
lang: Georgian
word: ფუჭი
roman: puč̣i
lang: German
word: fruchtlos
lang: German
word: vergeblich
lang: German
word: nichtig
lang: Hungarian
word: hiábavaló
lang: Hungarian
word: felesleges
lang: Hungarian
word: hasztalan
lang: Hungarian
word: haszontalan
lang: Italian
word: inutile
lang: Italian
word: vano
lang: Japanese
word: むだな
roman: muda na
lang: Japanese
word: 無用な
roman: muyō na
lang: Korean
word: 헛된
roman: heotdoen
lang: Polish
word: niepotrzebny
lang: Russian
word: бесполе́зный
roman: bespoléznyj
lang: Russian
word: напра́сный
roman: naprásnyj
lang: Russian
word: нену́жный
roman: nenúžnyj
lang: Russian
word: беспло́дный
roman: besplódnyj
lang: Russian
word: тще́тный
roman: tščétnyj
lang: Spanish
word: inútil
colonise
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: colonises
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: colonising
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: colonised
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: colonised
pos: verb
tags: past
form: colonize
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Non-Oxford British standard spelling of colonize.
pos: verb
examples: “I sovereign, Lidia Thorpe, do solemnly and sincerely swear that I will be faithful and I bear true allegiance to the colonising her majesty Queen Elizabeth II,” she said.
Translations:
colonize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁-e-ti
Proto-Italic *kʷelō
Latin colō
Latin colōnus
Latin colōniader.
Middle English colane
English colony
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.
Late Latin -izōder.
Middle French -iserbor.
Middle English -isen
English -ize
English colonize
From colony + -ize.
Inflected forms:
form: colonizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: colonizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: colonized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: colonized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: colonise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To settle (a place) with colonists, and hence make (a place) into a colony.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: When you are colonized by dangerous bacteria their presence in your body does no damage. You become a reservoir for those little stinkers.
gloss: To settle among and establish control over (the indigenous people of an area).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The administration finally sent a naval vessel to return the 368 survivors to the United States in 1864. This ended official efforts to colonize blacks.
gloss: To begin a colony or colonies.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To intrude into and take over (the autonomy, experience, social movement, etc, of a less powerful person or group); to commandeer or appropriate.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: What disservice would be done if issues regarding sexualities in organisations were side-lined by a heteronormative impetus to colonise queer theory?
For slavery aimed not only to colonize black women's bodies, sex, and sexuality, to undermine her, it sought to subvert and destroy any authentic relationship between black women and black men as well as among black women themselves.
[…] suggesting that organisational discourses of heteronormativity cannot fully colonise gay sexualities and genders.
The burden of judgment imposed by the politics of respectability can easily colonize black minds.
To have our grief colonized to facilitate a racist political agenda was beyond offensive.
These award-winning works of nature writing have extended and enhanced a genre that Jamie herself has criticised, describing it as “colonised by middle-class white men”.
Related words: colonial
colonialism
colonist
colony
Derived words: colonizable
colonization
colonizee
colonizer
decolonize
hypercolonize
monocolonize
neo-colonize
noncolonized
precolonized
recolonize
self-colonize
uncolonize
uncolonized
Translations:
prude
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French prude, from Old French prude, prode, feminine of prou, prod, prud (“good, excellent, brave”), from Latin prōde. Related to proud but unrelated to prudent.
Inflected forms:
form: prudes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more prude
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most prude
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
pos: noun
examples: He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.
If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.
gloss: Prudish.
pos: adj
Antonyms: libertine
rake
Translations:
medallion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
Etymology: Etymology tree
Early Medieval Latin mediālis
Early Medieval Latin medālia
Italian medagliabor.
French médaille
French -on
French médaillonbor.
English medallion
Borrowed from French médaillon.
Inflected forms:
form: medallions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: medallions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: medallioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: medallioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: medallioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A large medal, usually decorative.
pos: noun
gloss: A cut of meat resembling a large medal.
pos: noun
examples: pork medallion
gloss: A usually round or oval frame (often made of stucco) containing a decoration.
pos: noun
gloss: A circular certificate used in some places to register a vehicle, especially a taxicab.
pos: noun
gloss: A yellowish brown.
pos: noun
gloss: To mark with, or as with, a medallion or medallions.
pos: verb
tags: poetic
transitive
examples: a sunset that medallioned the eastern sky
Related words: medal
Derived words: medallionist
medallionlike
medallion man
Translations:
medal
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Early Medieval Latin medālia, feminine derived via dissimilation (/dj–lj/ > /d–lj/) from mediālia, neuter plural of Late Latin mediālis (“middle”, adjective), from Classical Latin medius.
Inflected forms:
form: medals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: medals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: medaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: medalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: medaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: medaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: medalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: medalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
pos: noun
examples: Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?
gloss: A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.
pos: noun
gloss: To win a medal.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: He medalled twice at the Olympics.
I dashed into the mall; bought a gift; raced to the card store, snapped up a two-fer gift-bag special and was back in my car in 26 minutes. I could medal in power shopping.
Vocab-wise, medalling and PB-ing are now totally part-and-parcelled, and most experts in South Korea believe podiumed, finalled and all-comered are not far off lexiconing.
I wanted to medal. I was pregnant and I wanted to medal.
In 2008, after being passed over yet again for USA Basketball’s Beijing Olympics team, San Antonio Stars all-star Becky Hammon signed a four-year, $2m contract with CSKA Moscow that included a six-figure bonus for becoming a naturalised citizen and medaling at the Games.
Rebecca Romero medaled in rowing and track cycling in 2004 and 2008, joining East German swimmer-turned-handball player Roswitha Krause and several swimmers/divers as two-sport medalists.
Though she never medalled at the Olympics, she did win a pair of golds at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador in 2002.
gloss: To award a medal to.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: medalet
medallic
medallion
medallist
medallurgy
final
podium
Derived words: bemedal
bronze medal
gold medal
medal game
medalist
medalless
medal play
medal table
putty medal
silver medal
tea and medals
what do you want, a medal
Translations:
glebe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
Etymology: From Old French glebe, from Latin glaeba (“lump of earth, clod”). Doublet of gleba.
Inflected forms:
form: glebes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Turf; soil; ground; sod.
pos: noun
examples: 1768, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,
Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke
gloss: In medieval Europe, an area of land, belonging to a parish, whose revenues contributed towards the parish expenses.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A field or meadow.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: Admiring glebes their amber ears unfold, / And Labour sleep amid the waving gold.
gloss: A piece of earth containing ore.
pos: noun
Related words: glaebule
Derived words: glebe-farm
glebe farm
glebe-house
glebe-land
glebeless
glebous
gleby
Translations:
demarcation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: First recorded c.1752, from Spanish línea de demarcación and/or Portuguese linha de demarcação, the demarcation line laid down by the Pope on May 4, 1493, dividing the New World between Spain and Portugal on a line 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands. Both derive from demarcar, from de- + marcar (“to mark”), from Italian marcare, from the same Germanic root as march.
Inflected forms:
form: demarcations
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: demarkation
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The act of marking off a boundary or setting a limit, notably by belligerents signing a treaty or ceasefire.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A limit thus fixed, in full demarcation line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: About sunset, he was leaning on the remains of an old wall, which had once probably surrounded a Roman encampment, and now served as a line of demarcation between two villages, as jealous of each other's claims as near neighbours usually are.
gloss: Any strictly defined separation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There is an alleged, in fact somewhat artificial demarcation in the type of work done by members of different trade unions.
In the sea there is no demarcation between the hunter and the hunted, as there is on the African plains.
Certainly no clear line of demarcation has as yet been drawn between species and sub-species—that is, the forms which in the opinion of some naturalists come very near to, but do not quite arrive at the rank of species; or, again, between sub-species and well-marked varieties, or between lesser varieties and individual differences. These differences blend into each other in an insensible series; and a series impresses the mind with the idea of an actual passage.
Related words: demarc
demarcation line
demarcation potential
demark
marcation
Derived words: demarcate
demarcated
demarcational
Translations:
felicity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
Etymology: From Middle English felicite (“bliss, happiness, joy; delight, pleasure; a source of happiness; good fortune; prosperity; well-being; of a planet: in an influential position”) [and other forms], borrowed from Old French felicité (modern French félicité (“bliss, happiness; felicity”)), from Latin fēlīcitātem, the accusative singular of fēlīcitās (“fertility, fruitfulness; happiness, felicity; good fortune; success”), from fēlīx (“happy; blessed, fortunate, lucky; fertile, fruitful; prosperous; auspicious, favourable”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to nurse, suckle”)) + -itās (a variant of -tās (suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being)).
Inflected forms:
form: felicities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being happy.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Whan this ſayd monument diſcouered was / Suche a ſuauite and fragrant odoure / Aſcended from the corps by ſingular grace / Paſſyng all worldly ſwetnes and ſauour / That all there present that day and hour / Suppoſed they had ben / in the felicite / Of erthely paradiſe / without ambiguite.
[T]he wiſe Man gave his Teſtimony to this, as the juſt Standard of true Felicity, when he prayed to have neither Poverty nor Riches.
[…] Mr. and Mrs. Norris began their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year.
For two reasons then it is right to be content with that which happens to thee; the one, because it was done for thee and prescribed for thee, and in a manner had reference to thee, originally from the most ancient causes spun with thy destiny; and the other, because even that which comes severally to every man is to the power which administers the universe a cause of felicity and perfection, nay even of its very continuance.
gloss: The condition of being happy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Good luck; success; (countable) An instance of unexpected good luck; a stroke of luck; also, a lucky characteristic.
pos: noun
tags: rare
uncountable
gloss: Reproduction of a sign with fidelity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The quotation was rendered with felicity.
gloss: Something that is either a source of happiness or particularly apt.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: […] to weare our ſelues & neuer reſt,
Untill we reach the ripeſt fruites of all,
That perfect bliſſe and ſole felicitie,
The ſweet fruition of an earthly crowne.
The season’s main attraction, the felicities of the sun, dimmed in the light of our competition and our growing friendliness.
gloss: Period (as opposed to lifetime) utility.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: In equation (19.24) U#95;C(#92;cdot) is the marginal felicity of consumption[.]
Related words: felicific
felicificability
felicificative
felicitate
felicitation
felicitator
Derived words: felicitous
felicitously
infelicity
unfelicity
Translations:
jailbait
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From jail + bait, from the fact that statutory rape can result, for the adult committing it, in incarceration.
Compound parts: jail
bait
Inflected forms:
form: jailbaits
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gaolbait
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jail bait
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: jail-bait
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A sexually mature person below, or appearing to be below, the legal age of consent, who is regarded, usually by an adult, as being sexually attractive and/or seductive.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
examples: "The first time she modelled for Edward Weston, in March 1934, Charis Wilson knew she didn’t look good. At 20 she was “a piece of jailbait”, a mere child, especially with the stumpy plaits into which she sometimes twisted her hair."
Translations:
deft
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English defte, daft (“gentle”), from Old English dæfte (“mild, gentle, meek”), from Proto-West Germanic *daftī (“fitting, suitable”), derived from *dabaną (“to be suitable”). Near cognates include Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌳𐍉𐍆𐍃 (gadōfs, “suitable”), West Frisian deftich (“distinguished”), Dutch deftig (“distinguished”), German deftig (“coarse”). Further cognates include Russian добро (dobro, “wealth, good”) and Latin faber (“craftsman; skillful”). Doublet of daft.
Inflected forms:
form: defter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: deftest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Quick and neat in action; skillful.
pos: adj
examples: He assembled it in one fluid, deft motion.
Alvarez then got on the scoresheet after the hosts carved open the Huddersfield defence with some intricate passing before the Argentina forward's deft finish rolled into the net.
Translations:
lo
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English lo, loo, from Old English lā (“exclamation of surprise, grief, or joy”). Conflated in Middle English with lo! (interjection), a corruption of lok!, loke! (“look!”) (as in lo we! (look we!)). Cognate with Scots lo, lu (“lo”). See also look.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: look, see, behold (in an imperative sense).
pos: intj
examples: Caliban: Lo, lo again! Bite him to death, I prithee.
Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night,
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultán's Turret in a Noose of light.
[...], Lo, these many years do I serve thee, [...].
Emperor Ling went in state to the Hall of Virtue. As he drew near the throne, a rushing whirlwind arose in the corner of the hall and, lo! from the roof beams floated down a monstrous black serpent that coiled itself up on the very seat of majesty. The Emperor fell in a swoon.
"Tambi will be here in..." He computed carefully. "... in exactly twenty seconds." And, lo, Tambi appeared at that very moment.
Synonyms: behold
ecce
hark
lo
look
lookee
lookie
lookit
looky
see
voilà
Translations:
Unix
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.
Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?
Proto-Italic *moltos
Latin multi-
Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.?
Latin -plex
Latin multiplexlbor.
English multiplexed
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Italic *en
Proto-Italic *en-
Late Latin in-
Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ)der.?
Late Latin fōrma
Late Latin fōrmō
Late Latin īnfōrmō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Late Latin -tiō
Late Latin īnfōrmātiōder.
Middle English enformacioun
English information
Latin computārelbor.
French computerbor.
English computing
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.?
Proto-Italic *serwos
Latin servus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin -itia
Latin servitiumbor.
Old French servisebor.
Old English serfis
Middle English servise
English service
English Multiplexed Information and Computing Service
English Multics
▲
English eunuchinflu.
English Unix
A pun on Multics to sound like eunuchs, as Unix was considered to be an emasculated Multics (see multi- and uni-). Likely coined by Canadian computer scientist Brian Kernighan in 1970.
Inflected forms:
form: Unixes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Unices
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Unixen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: UNIX
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: unix
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Any of the above plus Unix-like operating systems similar to Unix but not qualifying for use of the UNIX trademark.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: GNU is not Unix.
The Linux kernel operating system is one of the most popular Unixes.
Translations:
godly
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰew-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰutós?
Proto-Germanic *gudą
Proto-West Germanic *god
Old English god
Middle English god
English god
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-West Germanic *-līk
Old English -līċ
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English godly
From god + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Inflected forms:
form: godlier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more godly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: godliest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most godly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more godly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most godly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a god
pos: adj
examples: her godly powers = her superhuman powers
gloss: Devoted to a god or God; devout; holy; righteous.
pos: adj
examples: For godly sorrow worketh repentance.
If you would know what a man is, whether he be a godly man or not, you must inquire what his God is. If the true God be he whom he respects as his God, [...] he is doubtless a godly man [...] if the man have some other god, something else to which he pays a greater respect than to Jehovah, he is not a godly man ...
gloss: Gloriously good.
pos: adj
gloss: In a godly manner; piously; devoutly; righteously.
pos: adv
examples: All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. — 2. Tim. iii. 12.
Derived words: godlily
godliness
overgodly
supergodly
ungodly
Translations: