yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
haberdasher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English, 13th century. Uncertain but may derive from Anglo-Norman habertas (“small goods”).
Inflected forms:
form: haberdashers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A dealer in ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods.
pos: noun
gloss: A men's outfitter.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers, a livery company.
pos: noun
tags: UK
Related words: haberdash
haberdashed
hatmaker
mercer
milliner
Derived words: haberdasheress
haberdasher of pronouns
haberdasherware
haberdashery
Translations:
rashguard
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From rash + guard.
Compound parts: rash
guard
Inflected forms:
form: rashguards
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rash guard
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of rash vest (“a close-fitting garment often worn while surfing or during other water sports under a wetsuit to prevent chafing and provide UV protection or extra warmth”).
pos: noun
Translations:
workaround
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From work + around.
Compound parts: work
around
Inflected forms:
form: workarounds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: work-around
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially an obstacle consisting of constraints, or laws or regulations.
pos: noun
examples: More significantly, rigid deference to [Justin] Bieber’s still-young core fan base keeps things resolutely PG, with any acknowledgement of sex either couched in vague “touch your body” workarounds or downgraded to desirous hand-holding and eye-gazing.
gloss: A procedure or a temporary fix that bypasses a problem and allows a user to continue working until a better solution can be provided.
pos: noun
gloss: An impromptu and temporary response to an unforeseen problem or risk.
pos: noun
Synonyms: band-aid
band-aid solution
bodge
cludge
fiddle
hack
hack job
jugaad
kludge
kluge
lash-up
make-do
makeshift
patch
patch-up
put-together
quick-and-dirty
quick fix
stopgap
workaround
Translations:
lang: Dutch
word: tijdelijke oplossing
lang: Finnish
word: viritys
lang: Finnish
word: temppu
lang: French
word: solution
lang: French
word: bidouillage
lang: French
word: magouillage
lang: French
word: trucage
lang: Italian
word: espediente
lang: Italian
word: trucco
lang: Italian
word: stratagemma
lang: Italian
word: marchingegno
lang: Polish
word: obejście
lang: Portuguese
word: contornar
lang: Portuguese
word: ajuste
lang: Russian
word: обходное решение
roman: obxodnoje rešenije
lang: Russian
word: трюк
roman: trjuk
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: rješenje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: alternativno rješenje
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zaobilazno rješenje
lang: Spanish
word: elusión
lang: Spanish
word: solución alternativa
lang: Spanish
word: ajuste
lang: Spanish
word: arreglo
lang: Spanish
word: paliativo
lang: Spanish
word: método alterno
lang: Spanish
word: circunvalación
lang: Spanish
word: baipás
lang: Spanish
word: puenteo
lang: Spanish
word: acomodación
lang: Spanish
word: burla
lang: Spanish
word: circunvenimiento
lang: Spanish
word: rebusque
lang: Spanish
word: contorneo
lang: Spanish
word: solución temporánea
lang: Spanish
word: solución temporaria
dizzy
Part of speech: adj
verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: From Middle English dysy, desy, dusi, from Old English dysiġ (“stupid, foolish”), from Proto-West Germanic *dusīg (“stunned; dazed”).
Akin to West Frisian dize (“fog”), Dutch deusig, duizig (“dizzy”), duizelig (“dizzy”), German dösig (“sleepy; stupid”).
Inflected forms:
form: dizzier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: dizziest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dizzie
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dizzies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: dizzying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: dizzied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: dizzied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: dizzies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Experiencing a sensation of whirling and of being giddy, unbalanced, or lightheaded.
pos: adj
examples: I stood up too fast and felt dizzy.
Alas! his brain was dizzy.
gloss: Producing giddiness.
pos: adj
examples: We climbed to a dizzy height.
To climb from the brink of Fleet Ditch by a dizzy ladder.
...faintly from the valley far below came an unmistakable sound which brought me to my feet, trembling with excitement, to peer eagerly downward from my dizzy ledge.
gloss: Empty-headed, scatterbrained or frivolous; ditzy.
pos: adj
examples: My new secretary is a dizzy blonde.
the dizzy multitude
gloss: simple, half-witted.
pos: adj
tags: UK
Yorkshire
dialectal
examples: Them as diz ’at is dizzy.
gloss: To make (someone or something) dizzy; to bewilder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let me have this violence and compulsion removed, there is nothing that, in my seeming, doth more bastardise and dizzie a wel-borne and gentle nature […]
If the jangling of thy bells had not dizzied thy understanding.
So ramshackle was the locals' attempt at defence that, with energetic wingers pouring into the space behind panicked full-backs and centre-halves dizzied by England's movement, it was cruel to behold at times. The contest did not extend beyond the half-hour mark.
gloss: A distributor (device in internal combustion engine).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: A service exchange distributor usually needs to be ordered by a motor factor and cost £150-200! I would suggest you use the SD1 dizzy body/cap etc but change the trigger mechanism to a modern electronic/breakerless unit such as the Newtronic unit.
Related words: dizz
Derived words: dizzard
dizzies
dizzily
dizziness
dizzy bat
dizzying
dizzyingly
dizzyish
dizzy izzy
dizzy limit
spindizzy
Translations:
cordovan
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Spanish Córdobabor.
English Cordova
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Italic *-nos
Latin -nus
Latin -ānus
Old French -ainder.
Middle English -an
English -an
English cordovan
From Cordova (“Córdoba, a city in Spain”) + -an.
Inflected forms:
form: cordovans
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Originating in or pertaining to Córdoba.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A kind of leather from Córdoba, originally of tanned goatskin, later of horsehide.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A shoe made from such leather.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
compression
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: astronomy
automotive
computing
engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
mathematics
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French compression, from Latin compressiō, equivalent to compress + -ion.
Base: compress
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: compressions
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The cycle of an internal combustion engine during which the fuel and air mixture is compressed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process by which data is compressed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Due to the presence of long-range correlations in language [21], [22] it is not possible to compute accurate measures of the entropy by estimating block probabilities directly. More efficient nonparametric methods that work even in the presence of long-range correlations are based on the property that the entropy of a sequence is a lower bound to any lossless compressed version of it [15]. Thus, in principle, it is possible to estimate the entropy of a sequence by finding its length after being compressed by an optimal algorithm. In our analysis, we used an efficient entropy estimator derived from the Lempel-Ziv compression algorithm that converges to the entropy [19], [23], [24], and shows a robust performance when applied to correlated sequences [25] (see Materials and Methods).
gloss: The electronic process by which any sound's gain is automatically controlled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The deviation of a heavenly body from a spherical form.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: decompression
rarefaction
Derived words: age compression
aortocaval compression syndrome
companding
compansion
compressional
compression fracture
compressionless
compression pump
compression ratio
compression release
compression set
compression shorts
compression sock
compression wave
compression wood
cryocompression
data compression
effective compression
electrocompression
globe of compression
microcompression
New York compression
noncompression
overcompression
parallel compression
precompression
recompression
selective compression
supercompression
thermocompression
time compression
time-space compression
uncompression
vasocompression
wavelet compression
Translations:
pube
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Back-formation from pubes.
Inflected forms:
form: pubes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A single pubic hair.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He was a man would could step back from a problem and look at it logically and find the sense in most given situations. Sure, questions such as ,“ Why are we here?” “Is there a God?“ and “Why is there a pube in the butter?” have stumped Jack in the past; however, in knowing that this is the case, Jack has been quite happy to move on and find answers to questions that are far more relevant to day-to-day existence.
Translations:
internets
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: In the humorous sense, inspired by George W. Bush who pluralized internet in a debate with John Kerry in 2004.
Inflected forms:
form: Internets
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The Internet.
pos: noun
tags: humorous
examples: I can't find this word in my print dictionary; let me go look it up on the internets.
I hear there's rumors on the internets that we're going to have a draft.
Indeed, coming on the heels of a party leader who speaks of "the Internets" and "the Google," it's a disturbing trend that GOP leaders seem so disconnected from the technologies that are changing the way most Americans live]
However, the phrasing of the internets meme is now largely outdated.
Related words: interweb
interwebs
interwebz
Translations:
tinnitus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin tinnītus (“a jingling, ringing”).
Inflected forms:
form: tinnituses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tinniti
pos: noun
tags: hypercorrect
plural
rare
Senses:
gloss: The experience of auditory sensations, such as a ringing or pulsating sound, occurring in the absence of any external stimulus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
skype
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Skype.
Inflected forms:
form: skypes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skyping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skypeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skyped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skyped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: Skype
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To make (a telephone call) using Skype software.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To send (a message or file) with Skype.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To contact (a person) via Skype.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I'll skype you tomorrow. We can skype for a couple of hours.
While spatial mobility does cause discontinuity in social relationships and result in losing the support system from their home country (Rangaswamy 2000), yet the social ties of our participants have not dissolved as they have been able to maintain supportive networks in India through physical visits, e-mails, ‘skypeing’ to contacts in foreign places.
‘Where’s 007? He invited too?’ ‘He’s skypeing his mum. He’ll meet us down there.’
And so Andy went home, still on a caffeine high, feeling excited about life as a graduate student, and instead of skypeing with Anja or going for a beer, he went online and read up on some of the relevant particle physics.
Translations:
higashi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Japanese 東 (higashi, “east”), from the way the eastern or right side of the sumo ranking list is considered more prestigious, by analogy with the rising sun as opposed to the setting sun.
Inflected forms:
form: higashi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The (more prestigious) right-hand side of the banzuke.
pos: noun
gloss: A rikishi listed on the right side of the banzuke.
pos: noun
gloss: The eastern side of the ring.
pos: noun
Related words: nishi
Translations:
nishi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Japanese 西 (nishi, “west”), from the way the western or left side of the sumo ranking list is considered less prestigious, by analogy with the setting sun as opposed to the rising sun.
Inflected forms:
form: nishi
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: the left-hand (less prestigious) side of the banzuke (番付, “ranking list”)
pos: noun
gloss: a rikishi (力士, “sumo wrestler”) listed on the left side of the banzuke
pos: noun
gloss: the western side of the ring
pos: noun
Related words: higashi
Translations:
inspired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
religion
Inflected forms:
form: more inspired
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most inspired
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having excellence through inspiration.
pos: adj
examples: The actor's inspired performance of Hamlet's soliloquy left the audience dumbfounded.
New Zealand were crowned world champions for the first time in 24 years after squeezing past an inspired France team by a single point.
gloss: Filled with inspiration or motivated.
pos: adj
examples: The artist was inspired to paint a true masterpiece.
He was inspired to learn to fly.
gloss: Infused with power or knowledge granted from a supernatural entity; possessing inspiration from the divine.
pos: adj
examples: Korean shamans are thought to be capable of inspired speech, in which they convey the words of the gods.
The point which I wish to establish is this, that the whole prediction of the future establishment of the religion of the Gospel was an inspired prediction, a prediction answerable to the highest test of a supernatural prescience.
gloss: Drawn into the lungs; inhaled.
pos: adj
gloss: Inflated.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
Derived words: bio-inspired
bioinspired
inspiredly
inspiredness
underinspired
uninspired
Translations:
make-koshi
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Japanese 負け越し (makekoshi).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a majority of losses in a honbasho; reflects negatively on the rikishi's ranking
pos: noun
Antonyms: kachi-koshi
Translations:
koen-kai
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Japanese 後援会 (kōenkai).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: a sumo fan club, either for a heya or for a particular rikishi; a useful source of money
pos: noun
Translations:
matta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Japanese 待った (まった, matta).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The false start of a bout due to mutual misunderstanding.
pos: noun
Translations:
mono-ii
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
Etymology: From Japanese 物言い (mono-ii, literally “talk of things”).
Inflected forms:
form: mono-ii
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: a conference among the shimpan to reconsider a referee's decision
pos: noun
Translations:
farrow
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English *farow, *fargh (found only in the plural faren), from Old English fearh (“piglet”), from Proto-West Germanic *farh, from Proto-Germanic *farhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”).
See also Old High German farah, Middle Irish orc (“piglet”), Latin porcus, Proto-Slavic *porsę (“pig, piglet”), Lithuanian par̃šas, Avestan: 𐬞𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬯𐬀 (pər^əsa). Doublet of pork.
Inflected forms:
form: farrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: farrows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: farrowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: farrowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: farrowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A litter of piglets.
pos: noun
examples: Aha! I know you, gammer! Hamlet, revenge! The old sow that eats her farrow!
At full speed he ran into a pigsty, where a sow was lying on her side with a farrow of eleven tugging at her.
She is the womb and the tomb: the sow that eats her farrow.
gloss: To give birth to (a litter of piglets).
pos: verb
gloss: Not pregnant; not producing young (not calving) in a given season or year; barren.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
intracranial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁énterosder.
Latin *interus
Latin intrābor.
English intra-
English cranial
English intracranial
From intra- + cranial.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the brain or inside of the head; within the cranium.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
The doctors attributed the intracranial haemorrhage to a domestic accident to a fall Lula had in October while taking a shower in the Alvorada Palace, the official presidential residence in Brasília.
Translations:
mustang
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish mestengo, from Old Spanish mesteño (“feral animal”) or mestengo (“feral animal”).
Inflected forms:
form: mustangs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mustangs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mustanging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mustanged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mustanged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west.
pos: noun
examples: The mustang pony, the invariable companion of the inhabitant of the prairie, whether he is rich or poor, is a little creature, apparently narrow-chested, and small across the loins.
Having ridden a distance of two or three miles, Garey slackened his pace, and put the mustang to a slow walk.
gloss: A merchant marine who joined the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer during the American Civil War.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: He is a product of the merchant marine and is one of the officers called "Mustangs" who entered the navy during the Civil War.
He was the son of a famous artist, and was what we termed a "mustang" officer, who had come into the navy from the merchant service during the Civil War.
gloss: A commissioned officer who started military service as an enlisted person.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: […] and the chief engineer is a "mustang" — that is, an officer who has risen from the ranks of enlisted men.
Mustang— Officer who came up through the ranks. None better.
gloss: To hunt mustangs (wild horses), either for military use or for slaughter as pet food.
pos: verb
tags: US
Derived words: mustang court
mustanger
Translations:
untamed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English untamed, untemed, equivalent to un- + tamed and/or untame + -ed. Compare Dutch ongetemd (“untamed”), German ungezähmt (“untamed”), Danish utæmmet (“untamed”), Swedish otämd (“untamed”), Icelandic ótamin (“untamed”).
Base: tamed
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: more untamed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most untamed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
pos: adj
examples: The mustang is an untamed horse that roams where it wants, with little interest in humans.
Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.
John Wesley Powell ... the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon.
Translations:
fourchette
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
card-games
games
medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Etymology tree
French fourche
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Late Latin -ittus
Old French -et
Middle French -et
French -etder.
French -ette
French fourchettebor.
English fourchette
Borrowed from French fourchette.
Inflected forms:
form: fourchettes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fork-shaped structure, specifically the fold of skin where the labia minora meet above the perineum (the frenulum labiorum pudendi).
pos: noun
gloss: A fork-shaped instrument or device, specifically the forked structure between two fingers of a glove.
pos: noun
gloss: An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the frenulum.
pos: noun
gloss: The wishbone or furculum of birds
pos: noun
gloss: The frog of the hoof of the horse and allied animals.
pos: noun
gloss: The combination of the card immediately above and the one immediately below a given card.
pos: noun
Translations:
greenback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
Etymology: From green + back.
Compound parts: green
back
Inflected forms:
form: greenbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any bill that is legal tender in the US (originally printed with green and black ink) issued by the Federal Reserve.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: The United States dollar.
pos: noun
gloss: A unit of American currency issued during the Civil War by the Treasury Department.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A wave that has not yet begun to break.
pos: noun
examples: When the surfer has passed the point where the waves are breaking, and is among the waves which are known as “greenbacks”, he may either dive through them or float over them, […]
Derived words: green-backed
Greenbacker
greenbackism
Greenback Party
greenmail
greenmailing
Translations:
Claytons
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From a non-alcoholic drink called Claytons named after the Clayton brothers and promoted in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s as “the drink you have when you′re not having a drink”. The drink itself did not impress consumers and is now all but forgotten.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Inferior substitute, unsatisfactory compromise, or ersatz.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
not-comparable
examples: Cheer up bro, it was a Claytons test anyway.
AFL Game Day's Hamish McLaughlin summed up the summer perfectly last Sunday: "There's been new coaches, new presidents, new captains, good trades, ugly trades, suspended CEOs, suspended football managers and coaches, player managers fined, drug allegations, ASADA, WADA, the ACC, capped rotations, Clayton's tanking, the tanking you're having when you're not really having tanking.
Translations:
touchback
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Presumably: touchdown + back
Inflected forms:
form: touchbacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The result of a play (usually a kickoff or punt) in which the ball passes out the back of the end zone or a team otherwise gains possession of the ball in their own end zone.
pos: noun
examples: The ball sailed into the end zone for a touchback and the Eagles had possession on the 20-yard line. https://web.archive.org/web/20060111202354/http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/gameday/postGameArchive.jsp?id=16746
Translations:
greaseball
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Vulgar Latin crassus~grassus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Vulgar Latin -ius
Vulgar Latin -ia
Vulgar Latin *crassia
Anglo-Norman grecebor.
Middle English grece
English grease
English -ball
English greaseball
From grease + -ball.; possibly derived from the fact that Italians and Italian-Americans are stereotyped as having greasy or greased-up hair.
Inflected forms:
form: greaseballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person of Italian descent.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
ethnic
slang
slur
examples: (Italian)
gloss: Any person of Mediterranean (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek) or Hispanic (Latin American) descent.
pos: noun
tags: US
derogatory
ethnic
slang
slur
examples: Do you think I wanted to walk across that stage and get my diploma and look down and see that fat greaseball sitting there? […] I got into a fraternity, too. It wasn’t one of the good ones, not with a name like Pinzetti, but a fraternity all the same.
gloss: A mechanic.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A biker, a tough.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A rocker or metalhead, especially one who listens to 1950s rock and roll or 1980s thrash metal.
pos: noun
tags: slang
Translations:
wop
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”). Contrary to popular belief, the term is not an acronym of without passport or working off passage, which are backronyms derived from the term. First attested in New York City around 1906, eventually also spreading to Canada, Australia, and Britain.
Inflected forms:
form: wops
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An person of Italian descent.
pos: noun
tags: ethnic
slur
examples: Detective J.J. McVea of the Charles street station, who arrested the boys, says that the robbery of the safe was a remarkable one and showed no trace of amateurism. It was committed by four boys. Besides Lyons and Murphy, he says, there were in it Albert Moquin, 14 years old, of 68 West Third street, and one whom Lyons calls “Oscar the Wop,” or “Oscar the Dago.”
There was a time, not very long ago, when you couldn't find a Wop -- that means an Italian in the latest downtown dialect -- in Danny's resort even by using a microscope. But to-day it's different. The members of the Five Points gang, all dark skinned sons of Sicily, grew tired of flitting from place to place, with no set rendezvous for their nightly gatherings. A number of the Pointers used to frequent the place, and it wasn't long before the entire gang became regulars.
The northern Jews have historical proof of their valor and finesse in the ring, but in recent years the Jews from southeastern Europe, who are popularly supposed to settle their personal differences by pulling each other's hair and weeping, have produced many clever boxers. But who would expect Italy to take a hand in this great Northern game? I have been there twenty times and I never once saw a blow struck with the fist. Yet, there are some very competent Italian fighters. It is hardly possible to go to an entertainment at the 'club' without seeing a wop as he is called by the votaries of the game, matched against a bruiser from the native land of John L. Sullivan.
Translations:
foreword
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Morphologically fore- + word. Calque of German Vorwort, itself a calque of Latin praefatio (“preface”). Cognate with German Low German Vörwoord (“foreword”), Dutch voorwoord (“foreword”), West Frisian foarwurd (“foreword”), Danish forord (“preface; proviso”), Swedish förord (“foreword”). Compare also Old English forword, foreword (“proviso; condition”).
Base: word
Affixes: fore-
Inflected forms:
form: forewords
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; especially, one written by another person (not the author of the work thus introduced).
pos: noun
examples: He closes the foreword by acknowledging that his proposals would have far-reaching impacts on railway staff, communities and industry - and passes the buck onto government to ensure that these consequences are managed appropriately.
Antonyms: afterword
back matter
epilogue
endsay
conclusion
last word
postamble
Translations:
carrageenan
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From carrageen + -an, an alternative form of -in.
Base: carrageen
Affixes: -an
Inflected forms:
form: carrageenans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: carrageenin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A food additive made from a purified extract of red seaweed, commonly used as a thickening agent.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Translations:
purified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more purified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most purified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Made or rendered pure or more pure.
pos: adj
examples: He will only drink purified water.
Translations:
labourer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English labour
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English labourer
From labour + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: labourers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: UK standard spelling of laborer.
pos: noun
examples: This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything. In a moment she had dropped to the level of a casual labourer.
By the mid-19th century, the typical village was sharply divided between the landowning class and the landless, voteless and largely illiterate labourers.
Translations:
interment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English enterement, interment, from Old French enterrement. By surface analysis, inter + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: interments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of burying a dead body; burial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In a chamber tomb at Milatos, Mr. Evans discovered in 1899 a painted larnax or sarcophagus, on which there is figured a great Mycenæan body shield, although not of the usual figure-of-eight shape. A false neck vase, however, that belongs almost certainly to the same interment is, in shape and design, similar to one found at Muliana in company with two late bronze broadswords, and bronze brooches like those found at Thunder Hill.
She was to be given a state funeral, followed by interment at Arlington National Cemetery.
The jaw indicates the beginning of a long tradition of the interment of dogs with people, which reveals a deep attachment between some people and canids.
Antonyms: disinterment
exhumation
unearthing
Translations:
bissextile
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin bisextilis/bissextilis (annus) (“bissextile year”), from bisextus + -ilis, from bis- (“two; twice; doubled”) + sextus (“sixth”) + dies (“day”), from the Julian calendar's original reckoning of its quadrennial intercalary day as a 48-hour February 24, subsequently distinguished as the two separate days of the sixth day before the March calends (ante diem sextum Kalendas Martias) and the "doubled sixth day". (February 24 is now normally understood as five days before the first of March, but was called the sixth by the Romans owing to their inclusive counting of dates. See Roman calendar on Wikipedia.)
Inflected forms:
form: bissextiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having an intercalary day, particularly the quadrennial leap day of the Julian and Gregorian calendars traditionally placed as a "second sixth" day before March 1st.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The additional day which occurred every fourth year [after the Julian Reform] was given to February, as being the shortest month, and was inserted in the calendar between the 24th and 25th day. February having then twenty-nine days, the 25th was the 6th of the calends of March, sexto calendas; the preceding, which was the additional or intercalary day, was called bis-sexto calendas,—hence the term bissextile, which is still employed to distinguish the year of 366 days. The English denomination of leap-year would have been more appropriate if that year had differed from common years in defect, and contained only 364 days. In the ecclesiastical calendar the intercalary day is still placed between the 24th and 25th of February; in the civil calendar it is the 29th.
gloss: Synonym of leap year: a year with an intercalary day.
pos: noun
Translations:
intercalary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
entomology
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin intercalārius, from intercalāris, from intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).
Inflected forms:
form: intercalaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Describing a time period inserted between others; leap, (as in leap day, leap month, or leap year)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Inserted between other things
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: Breaks caused by chromosome aberrations in regions with repeats may not result in a sharp decline of viability, so that break points of chromosome rearrangements in intercalary heterochromatin may be more frequent than in other regions.
In this new model, the anterior and posterior blastemas were formed as signaling centers to direct intercalary reorganization of body regionality or positional information.
gloss: Inserted between other things
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
gloss: Inserted between other things
pos: adj
tags: broadly
not-comparable
examples: ...two radial cells, second longer than first; intercalary fork fairly distinct; crossvein r-m vertical...
gloss: Such a time period
pos: noun
Related words: intercalate
intercalation
Derived words: intercalarily
intercalary meristem
Translations:
blacklist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From black + list.
Compound parts: black
list
Inflected forms:
form: blacklists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: blacklists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: blacklisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: blacklisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: blacklisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.
pos: noun
examples: The software included a lengthy blacklist of disreputable websites to block.
gloss: To place on a blacklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be shunned or banned.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: You can blacklist known spammers with that button.
As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.
Translations:
whitelist
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From white + list.
Compound parts: white
list
Inflected forms:
form: whitelists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: whitelists
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whitelisting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: whitelisted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: whitelisted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A list or collection of people or entities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted.
pos: noun
gloss: To place on a whitelist; to mark or note a person or entity as trustworthy or acceptable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The email program allows you to whitelist email from known sources.
Antonyms: blacklist
denylist
Translations:
meristem
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From German Meristem, from Ancient Greek μεριστός (meristós, “divided”), from μερίζω (merízō), from μέρος (méros) + στέμμα (stémma, “wreath, garland”). First used in 1858 by Swiss botanist Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli (1817–1891).
Base: μέρος
Inflected forms:
form: meristems
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The plant tissue composed of totipotent cells that allows plant growth.
pos: noun
examples: By looking back at a past populated by beings of grotesque difference, humans could place themselves at the apical meristem—the growing tip—of the future.
Translations:
down-to-earth
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: down to earth
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Practical; realistic; pragmatic.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: He had a down-to-earth attitude that translated into a straightforward, but effective strategy.
gloss: Ordinary; normal; run-of-the-mill.
pos: adj
tags: idiomatic
examples: "I'm sorry, but I'm not going to devote any of tonight's news to evil monkey shenanigans unless you can find something more down to earth to focus your report on."
Relatable is to TikTok what aspirational was to Instagram—its most salient, sought-after quality. It signals a down-to-earth, democratic appeal.
Antonyms: have one's head in the clouds
out of touch
Derived words: down-to-earther
down-to-earthness
Translations:
apical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: From apic- + -al.
Base: apic
Inflected forms:
form: apicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or connected with the apex.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a meristem, situated at the growing tip of the plant or its roots, in comparison with intercalary growth situated between zones of permanent tissue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of a sound, produced with the tip of the tongue.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A sound produced by obstructing the air passage with the tip of the tongue.
pos: noun
Derived words: abapical
adapical
anteroapical
apical ancestor
apical annulus
apical ballooning cardiomyopathy
apical dendrite
apical ectodermal ridge
apical germ pore
apicalization
apically
apicalmost
apicalwards
basiapical
basoapical
biapical
cervicoapical
circumapical
dorsoapical
endoapical
juxtaapical
medioapical
nonapical
periapical
posteroapical
preapical
proapical
subapical
transapical
transient apical ballooning syndrome
uniapical
ventroapical
Translations:
intercalation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Latin intercalō, from inter (“among”) + calō (“call out, proclaim”).
Inflected forms:
form: intercalations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A period inserted into a calendar as in a leap year.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The reversible insertion of a molecule between two others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
physical
uncountable
gloss: A layer introduced into a pre-existing sequence.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their exact relationship to the host-rock is obscure but from their texture and observed metamorphic relationship they are thought to be intrusive dykes rather than intercalations of more basic lava.
Related words: intercalant
intercalary
intercalate
intercalated
bissextile
bissextile month
bissextile year
leap year
leap day
Derived words: bisintercalation
cointercalation
deintercalation
intercalation compound
monointercalation
Translations:
untried
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: law
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English tried
English untried
From un- + tried.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not yet tried or tested; unknown.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The new guy was inexperienced and untried.
With financial losses emerging in 1957, the BTC abandoned the diesel pilot scheme in favour of wholesale orders for untried designs.
gloss: Not put on trial; not taken before a legal court.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
liana
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French liane (see that entry for more), influenced by lien (“link, bond”).
Inflected forms:
form: lianas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A climbing woody vine, usually tropical.
pos: noun
examples: Many of the older trees presented a very curious appearance from the tresses of a liana hanging from their boughs, and resembling bundles of hay.
1884, Achilles Daunt, Frank Redcliffe: A story of travel and adventure in the forests of Venezuela (A Book for Boys), London: T. Nelson & Sons, Chapter 5, p. 99,
Flowering lianas hung in long streaming lines from the outstretched boughs and dipped their pendulous bouquets in the water of the igarape, which reflected the cloudless blue of the sky.
Allow friendly natives to walk in front of you on the track. They have sharp eyes for pitfalls, snakes, hornets, and stinging plants. They will cut the lianas and thorny trailers. They like to do it.
They left the drive and stood among the wild tannia under the saman tree. Mrs Tulsi held a liana and offered it to Mr Biswas. While he felt it, she held a thinner liana and pulled it down. ‘As strong as rope,’ she said. ‘The children could skip with this.’
Translations:
quarta
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Portuguese quarta, from Latin quartus (“fourth”), q.v., in reference to the units making up one-fourth of the alqueire (“Portuguese bushel”) or arrantel (“Portuguese pound”). Doublet of quart, quater, and cuaderon.
Inflected forms:
form: quartas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A traditional Portuguese unit of dry measure, equal to 3.2–4.8 L in different 19th-century contexts.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, usually equivalent to 115 g.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: Portuguese quart
quart
Translations:
laterite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Latin later (“brick”) + -ite.
Affixes: -ite
Inflected forms:
form: laterites
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A red hard or gravel-like soil or subsoil formed in the tropics that has been leached of soluble minerals leaving insoluble iron and aluminium oxides and hydroxides; used to make bricks and roads.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Although the track is ballasted, it does not prevent clouds of reddish dust from the laterite soil blowing about when the train is in motion; after a journey with the windows open a bath is a necessity!
Constant tropical rain makes a mush of hard old lavas. The end product is a brick red soil called laterite.
Translations:
mesquite
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mezquite, mizquite, from Nahuatl mizquitl (“the mesquite tree”).
Inflected forms:
form: mesquites
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mezquit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mezquite
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: mesquit
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Any of several deciduous trees of the genus Prosopis found in America, and used as forage, which have long, beige seed and bean pods which may be dried and ground into a sweet, nutty flour.
pos: noun
examples: Between these canyons the river has a low but rather narrow flood plain, with cottonwood groves scattered here and there, and a chaparral of mesquite bearing beans and thorns.
[…] and no botanist could for a moment fail to recognize this fact, especially as just beyond its banks there is growing on every hand the mesquite, the everywhere-present species of the Lower Sonoran zone.
gloss: The wood of these trees, used for smoking food, or charcoal made from this wood.
pos: noun
gloss: Country or land dominated by mesquite trees.
pos: noun
examples: Tucson is situated in beautiful mesquite riverbed country, overlooked by the snowy Catalina range.
Southward and in the very center of the plain is La Mesa, hidden in the mesquite and with splendid, typically dug, wells.
Derived words: curly mesquite
false mesquite
giant mesquite bug
honey mesquite
mesquite bean
mesquite bush
mesquite flour
mesquite gall midge
mesquite grass
mesquite gum
mesquite lizard
mesquite looper moth
mesquite mistletoe
mesquite mouse
mesquite stinger moth
mesquite webworm moth
mock mesquite
screwbean mesquite
screw-pod mesquite
screw pod mesquite
vine mesquite
western honey mesquite
Translations:
butte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *bʰudʰmḗn
Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.
Inflected forms:
form: buttes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
Translations:
bestowment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English bestow
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English bestowment
From bestow + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: bestowments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of bestowing or conferring something, especially an honour; bestowal
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something, such as an honour, that is bestowed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations: