yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
Charlotte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French Charlotte in the 17th century, a female diminutive form of Charles, from Middle High German Karl, which came from the Germanic *karlaz. The civil parish is named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1744-1818). Coined by British-Dutch surveyor Samuel Holland.
Inflected forms:
form: Charlottes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A type of women's bonnet popular in the 18th and 19th centuries.
pos: noun
tags: attributive
historical
often
examples: The Charlotte bonnet, form'd to please, / And Strelitz coif she wore with ease.
the Charlotte bonnet, from the Sorrows of Werther, was the most becoming and elegantly retired bonnet ever yet sported for walking.
Women now resembled well-rounded cabbages from which protruded a tiny head crushed beneath a Charlotte hat covered with plumes and gew-gaws.
Translations:
Navajo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish navajo, from Tewa navahúuˀu (“field adjoining an arroyo”).
Inflected forms:
form: Navajo
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Navajos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Navajoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Navaho
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.
pos: noun
examples: As a code talker, Newman was one of a group of Navajos who learned a secret, unbreakable language that was used to send information on tactics, troop movements and orders over the radio and telephone during WWII.
Derived words: Navajo Nation
Translations:
tug
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
mining
nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”).
Cognate with Middle Low German togen (“to draw”), Middle High German zogen (“to pull, tear off”), Icelandic toga (“to pull, draw”). Related to tow.
Inflected forms:
form: tugs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tugging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tugged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tugged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tugs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To pull or drag with great effort.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
gloss: To pull hard repeatedly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
gloss: To tow by tugboat.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To masturbate.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
gloss: A sudden powerful pull.
pos: noun
examples: At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
Even though the authors note that they have not "exhausted the subject of San Francisco's queer history," the hope is that enough of "us" outside the Bay Area will find something of ourselves represented in the book and will feel that tug of connection to and solidarity with the gay capital's community.
But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.
gloss: A tugboat.
pos: noun
examples: Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
gloss: A type of tractor used for moving trailers.
pos: noun
examples: Trailers are delivered by road to Poole, Portsmouth, or Rosslare in Ireland. They are then loaded onto ferries by dockyard tractors called "tugs". After crossing the Channel, the driverless loads are disembarked by tug and taken to the specially constructed freight terminal in Cherbourg port. Each rail wagon holds two lorry trailers and features a new 'pivoting pocket' which moves through 45° to allow the tug to push the trailer onto the wagon from alongside.
gloss: A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Cattiwi came down the steep lane with his five-horse timber-tug
gloss: A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
pos: noun
gloss: A dog toy consisting of a rope, often with a knot in it.
pos: noun
gloss: An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
pos: noun
gloss: An act of male masturbation.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.
Derived words: heart-tugging
tug down
tuggable
tugger
tuggie
tuggingly
tuggy
tug off
tug one's forelock
tug up
untugged
countertug
rub and tug
toggle
tugboat
tugless
tuglike
tugman
tug of love
tug of war
Translations:
repeatedly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English repeated
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English repeatedly
From repeated + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more repeatedly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most repeatedly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Done several times or in repetition.
pos: adv
examples: He repeatedly violated the court order, and shall now be punished.
Scotland had the territory and the momentum, forcing England into almost twice as many tackles and rattling them repeatedly at set-pieces.
Since 2017, the DfT has "repeatedly altered the scope of the TRU [TransPennine Route Upgrade] to meet differing ministerial priorities and budget constraints", says the NAO [National Audit Office].
Translations:
ware
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, keep guard”), whence also ward.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Were (“an item for exchange, barter, or sale; ware”), Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use; ware”), German Ware (“ware”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vare (“ware”), Faroese vøra (“ware”), Icelandic and Swedish vara (“ware”).
Inflected forms:
form: wares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more ware
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most ware
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
pos: noun
tags: in-compounds
uncountable
usually
examples: Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders.
On Sunday, a Mr. Stephen Muturi Kamau, aged 20 years, was shot dead at Dandora while he was selling his ware. This is a well known hawker. He has been hawking his ware in Dandora.
What in the world am I going to do with tarnished silver ware? The deeper I dig, I pull out more silver with carved handles.
Artisans sell their ware in the historic district at the lower level of the Soldier's Barracks.
gloss: See wares.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
uncountable
usually
gloss: Pottery or metal goods.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: damascene ware, tole ware
gloss: A style or genre of artifact.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
gloss: Crockery.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
uncountable
usually
gloss: Aware.
pos: adj
tags: poetic
examples: And in like wise as she said so they departed, that neither the king nor none of his council were ware of their departing.
But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking.
Derived words: Abruzzi ware
Belleek ware
Biddery ware
biscuit ware
Bizen ware
Böttger ware
cameo ware
Chien ware
Jian ware
Cizhou ware
Corded Ware culture
crouch ware
Della Robbia ware
Gombroon ware
Hafner ware
Haymarket ware
Iga ware
iridescent ware
Iznik ware
Jackfield ware
jasperware
Ju ware
Karatsu ware
Kubachi ware
lacquer-ware
lava ware
Limoges ware
Minyan ware
Nabeshima ware
Oribe ware
Orvieto ware
Palissy ware
Quimper ware
rustic ware
Ru ware
Samian ware
sanitary ware
Satsuma ware
Sèvres ware
Shino ware
Torquay ware
-ware
Yixing ware
Translations:
greenery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *grōniz
Proto-West Germanic *grōnī
Old English grēne
Middle English grene
English green
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -ārius
Old French -ier
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Old French -ie
Old French -eriebor.
Middle English -erie
English -ery
English greenery
From green + -ery.
Inflected forms:
form: greeneries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Green foliage or verdure.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Foliage used as decoration.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: Marijuana.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
Related words: vegetation
Derived words: evergreenery
greenery-yallery
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: зе́лень
roman: zjéljenʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: зеляні́на
roman: zjeljanína
lang: Belarusian
word: раслі́ннасць
roman: raslínnascʹ
lang: Bulgarian
word: зеленина́
roman: zeleniná
lang: Bulgarian
word: расти́телност
roman: rastítelnost
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 草木
roman: cǎomù
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 植被
roman: zhíbèi
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 綠色植物 /绿色植物
roman: lǜsè zhíwù
lang: Czech
word: zeleň
lang: Finnish
word: viherkasvi
lang: French
word: feuillage
lang: French
word: verdure
lang: Italian
word: verdura
lang: Manchu
word: ᠣᡵᡥᠣ ᠮᠣᠣ
roman: orho moo
lang: Marathi
word: वनराई
roman: vanrāī
lang: Polish
word: roślinność
lang: Polish
word: zieleń
lang: Portuguese
word: verdura
lang: Russian
word: зе́лень
roman: zélenʹ
lang: Russian
word: расти́тельность
roman: rastítelʹnostʹ
lang: Spanish
word: frondosidad
lang: Spanish
word: plantaje
lang: Swedish
word: grönska
lang: Turkish
word: yeşillik
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: یشیللك
roman: yeşillik
lang: Ukrainian
word: зе́лень
roman: zélenʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: зеле́нощі
roman: zelénošči
lang: Ukrainian
word: росли́нність
roman: roslýnnistʹ
lang: Ukrainian
word: зелени́на
roman: zelenýna
lang: Yiddish
word: גרינס
roman: grins
foliage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From earlier foilage, from Late Middle English ffoylage, from Middle French feuillage. The more recent form is influenced by Latin folium (“leaf”).
Inflected forms:
form: foliages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foilage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
dialectal
nonstandard
form: feuillage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: The leaves of plants.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
gloss: Fall foliage.
pos: noun
tags: abbreviation
alt-of
countable
uncountable
gloss: An architectural ornament representing foliage.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: foliaged
foliage-gleaner
foliage leaf
foliagelike
foliageous
foliologist
snowliage
Translations:
whitefly
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From white + fly.
Compound parts: white
fly
Inflected forms:
form: whiteflies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various small insects of the family Aleyrodidae that have long wings, and a white body; often a garden pest
pos: noun
Translations:
wilding
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wilding, wylding, wyldyng (“grass, straw, or the stems of wild plants”), equivalent to wild + -ing.
Base: wild
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: wildings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wild apple or apple tree.
pos: noun
examples: These were ‘wildings’, wild crab apples (Malus sylvestris), a miniature of today's, native to the British Isles.
gloss: Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Oft from the forrest wildings he did bring, / Whose sides empurpled were with smiling red […]
Ten ruddy wildings in the wood I found.
The fruit of the tree […] is small, of little juice, and bad quality. I presume it to be a wilding.
gloss: Not cultivated or tame; wild.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
poetic
examples: The wilding bee hums merrily by.
And here had fall'n a great part of a tower, / Whole, like a crag that tumbles from the cliff, / And like a crag was gay with wilding flowers: […]
Translations:
wintry
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From winter + -y; compare Old English wintriġ (a parallel formation).
Base: winter
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: wintrier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: wintriest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wintery
pos: adj
tags: alternative
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: Suggestive or characteristic of winter; cold, stormy.
pos: adj
examples: wintry weather
A faded, and an ancient dragon he was; and many a wintry storm of rain, snow, sleet, and hail, had changed his colour from a gaudy blue to a faint lack-lustre shade of gray.
In one village in Bachu County, more than 1,000 buildings and houses collapsed, according to the state-run New China News Agency. Tens of thousands of people were left homeless and were preparing to spend the night outside in the wintry chill, witnesses said.
The UK could face a spell of wintry weather in March, with lower-than-average temperatures and even the chance of snow, the Met Office has warned.
gloss: Containing sleet or snow.
pos: adj
examples: It will be cloudy overnight, with outbreaks of heavy rain at times. The rain may turn wintry over higher ground.
gloss: Aged, white-haired.
pos: adj
gloss: Chilling, cheerless.
pos: adj
examples: a wintry remark
He reached the old ruins at last, dim masses of moss-grown masonry in the glimmer of the wintry starlight.
Derived words: unwintry
wintrily
wintriness
wintry mix
wintry shower
Translations:
wired
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
card-games
natural-sciences
poker
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wire
English -ed
English wired
From wire + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more wired
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most wired
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Equipped with wires, so as to connect to a power source or to other electric or electronic equipment; connected by wires.
pos: adj
gloss: Equipped with hidden electronic eavesdropping devices.
pos: adj
gloss: Reinforced, supported, tied or bound with wire.
pos: adj
gloss: Very excited, overstimulated; high-strung.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: After three cups of coffee she was too wired to sleep.
I drank a jar of coffee / And then I took some of these / And I'm totally wired
I'm walking through streets that are dead / Walking, walking with you in my head / My feet are so tired, my brain is so wired
Too wired to die, too under fire to think
gloss: Having wiry feathers.
pos: adj
gloss: All worked out; completely understood.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: You find out where the rocks are, how the waves are breaking over the rocks or reef. Find out if there's any funny little fish who might be mad - things like that. What we call "getting a place wired." After you get it wired, it's just like... riding waves back in the U.S.A., except you aren't. You're in Africa.
gloss: Being a pair in seven-card stud with one face up and one face down.
pos: adj
tags: slang
gloss: Being three of a kind as the first three cards in seven card stud.
pos: adj
tags: slang
examples: I was dealt three of a kind, wired.
gloss: Connected to the Internet; online.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: In typical Singaporean style, however, once the decision to get wired was made, the various agencies moved to ensure the Internet diffused very quickly.
Coffee drinkers now have yet another way to get wired. Laptop and Tablet PC users can have their double grande mocha lattes and surf the Web simultaneously at STARBUCKS[…]
Synonyms: corded
Antonyms: wireless
Derived words: autowired
hardwired
hot-wired
non-wired
razor-wired
unwired
Translations:
wiring
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English wire
English -ing
English wiring
From wire + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: wirings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A set of electric wires.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They had to replace most of the wiring after the fire.
gloss: The act or process of installing such a set of wires.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The plumbing is done, and the wiring comes next.
The wiring of the American farm put power for countless tasks available at the flip of a switch.
Related words: rewiring
cording
Derived words: cross-wiring
electrical wiring
structured wiring
wiring diagram
wiring harness
wiring loom
Translations:
viceroyalty
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From vice- + royalty, modeled on French vice-royauté.
Base: royalty
Affixes: vice-
Inflected forms:
form: viceroyalties
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The office or term of service of a viceroy; viceroydom.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The place governed by a viceroy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: India became a viceroyalty when the British government directly annexed it in the 1850s.
Translations:
variance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
computing
engineering
law
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
programming
sciences
statistics
Etymology: From Middle English variance, variaunce, equivalent to vary + -ance, from Old French variance or directly from Anglo-Latin variaunce, veriaunce, wariaunce; all from Latin variantia.
Base: vary
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: variances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: variaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: var
pos: noun
tags: alternative
abbreviation
Senses:
gloss: The act of varying or the state of being variable.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A difference between what is expected and what is observed; deviation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Certain other factors were considered to explain the variance from expected figures. All seven aviators smoked. Each considered himself to be in good physical condition, though none found the time to exercise regularly. No aviator was obese.
This remains an important tool and relies on simple subtraction to evaluate the difference ( variance ) between a planned result and an actual measurement.
Whenever a patient is recorded as having a variance (V), it is important to return soon afterwards to see if the care intervention has helped.
The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.
gloss: The state of differing or being in conflict.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: But here, again, is the old variance between nature and fortune: each seems to delight in marring the work of the other.
gloss: An official permit to do something that is ordinarily forbidden by regulations.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A discrepancy between two legal documents.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A departure from a cause of action originally in a complaint.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The second central moment in probability; the square of the standard deviation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The number of degrees of freedom in a system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Covariance and contravariance generally.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Depending on the variance of the type constructor, the subtyping relation of the simple types may be either preserved, reversed, or ignored for the respective complex types.
Derived words: analysis of variance
at variance
covariance
equivariance
multivariance
product variance
semivariance
subvariance
variance drain
Translations:
unforeseen
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
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 foreseen
English unforeseen
From un- + foreseen.
Inflected forms:
form: unforeseens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Not foreseen.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: unforeseen catastrophe
unforeseen consequences
unforeseen failure
In this connection it will not be overstressed that, so far as the vision accorded the prophets of the Old Testament is concerned, there was in the program for Israel, as predicted, no separation between the two advents. But for the Church intercalation—which was wholly unforeseen and is wholly unrelated to any divine purpose which precedes it or which follows it—Israel would be expected to pass directly from the crucifixion to her kingdom; for it was not the death of Christ and His resurrection which demanded the postponement, but rather an unforeseen age.
gloss: Not expected.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: An event, incident, cost, etc. that was not foreseen.
pos: noun
examples: Unfortunately, many of the unforeseens are created by the client.
Translations:
unproven
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
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 proven
English unproven
From un- + proven.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Not proved.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Near-synonyms: unconfirmed; see also Thesaurus:baseless
Furthermore, the system is not entirely unproven.
Translations:
manifesto
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Since the mid 17th century, from Italian manifesto, from manifestare + -o, from Latin manifestō (“to make public”), from Latin manus + an uncertain second element. Doublet of manifest.
Base: manifestare
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: manifestos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manifestoes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manifesti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: manifestos
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: manifestoing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: manifestoed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: manifestoed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A public declaration of principles, policies, or intentions, especially that of a political party.
pos: noun
examples: the Communist Manifesto
A creed is a manifesto of religious or spiritual beliefs.
During the worst days of Bolshevík tyranny, when book publishing had become impossible, the imaginists were a living reminder of undying freedom; they were the only independent group that were not afraid to make themselves noticed by the authorities, and they were wonderfully skilled in getting their slender little collections and manifestoes printed by fair means or foul.
As a piece of writing, the rambling and often contradictory manifesto has the pathos of the Unabomber manifesto but lacks the ideological coherency.
Beginning in summer 2022, such posters shared manifestos of an “e/acc” ideology squarely opposed to A.I. fearmongerers like the effective altruists and their fellow “decels” (aka “decelerationists”).
gloss: To issue a manifesto.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Translations:
legged
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English legged, leggyd, equivalent to leg (“noun”) + -ed.
Base: leg
Affixes: -ed
Inflected forms:
form: leggeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Having legs of a certain specified type or number.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
not-comparable
examples: Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged.
Giraffes are the longest-legged animals.
The maltster, after having lain down in his clothes for a few hours, was now sitting beside a three-legged table, breakfasting off bread and bacon.
gloss: Having legs; provided with legs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: A robot which runs at a speed of over 29mph has set a new land-speed record for legged robots.
Farther west in the Carabobo-Aragua region Kidder has been able to establish some culture succession and he reports several legged vessels.
DARPA is supporting several legged vehicle programs at Carnegie-Mellon and Ohio State Universities
Beginning with his hopping robots at the MIT Leg Lab (Raibert, 1986), Marc Raibert has advanced the state of the art in legged robot control for practical application.
gloss: Wounded in the leg, especially as part of a hunt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Spring guns and man traps have been set for me, and I am legged!
gloss: Someone or something having a certain number or type of legs
pos: noun
examples: Humans are not the only two-leggeds in the world.
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: jalallinen
lang: Finnish
word: -jalkainen
lang: Finnish
word: -säärinen
lang: Finnish
word: -lahkeinen
lang: Swedish
word: -bent
trivet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *tréyes
From Middle English trevet, from Old English trefet, borrowed from Latin tripēs, tripedis (“tripod”).
Inflected forms:
form: trivets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trevet
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A stand with three short legs, especially for cooking over a fire.
pos: noun
examples: They collected wood and built back the fire and they fetched rocks to make a trivet and there they set the bucket to boil.
gloss: A stand, sometimes with short, stumpy feet, or a mat used to support hot dishes and protect a table; a coaster.
pos: noun
gloss: A weaver's knife used to cut out the wire that was used to form a pile.
pos: noun
Related words: right as a trivet
coaster
Derived words: trivet table
Translations:
tablet
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
rail-transport
railways
religion
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English tablet, from Old French tablete (Modern French tablette), diminutive of table (“table”).
Inflected forms:
form: tablets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tablets
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tableting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tabletting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
uncommon
form: tableted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tableted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tabletted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
uncommon
form: tabletted
pos: verb
tags: past
uncommon
Senses:
gloss: A slab of clay, stone or wood used for inscription.
pos: noun
examples: Also mentioned is the Rev. T. Stock, who has a tablet in St John's church [Gloucester] and "who with Raikes established the four original Sunday schools in this parish ... in 1780. From this small beginning sprung that gratuitous system of Christian instruction which has covered the face of England and Wales with schools."
gloss: A short scripture written by the founders of the Baháʼí Faith.
pos: noun
gloss: A pill; a small, easily swallowed portion of a substance in solid form.
pos: noun
examples: Many people take vitamin tablets as a food supplement.
gloss: A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
pos: noun
examples: Take a full-size writing tablet and follow these steps.
gloss: A graphics tablet.
pos: noun
gloss: A tablet computer, a type of portable computer.
pos: noun
gloss: A confection made from sugar, condensed milk and butter, produced in flat slabs, with a grainer texture than fudge.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
gloss: A type of round token giving authority for a train to proceed over a single-track line.
pos: noun
examples: The latter's loss of time between Manakau and Levin was due to the mishap of dropping the tablet at Ohau, which entailed an out-of-course stop of 3 min. to recover it.
gloss: To form (a drug, etc.) into tablets.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: caplet
capsule
Derived words: carbon tablet
clay tablet
curse tablet
disclosing tablet
effervescent tablet
laplet
minitablet
orally disintegrating tablet
phablet
sleeping tablet
spirit tablet
supertablet
tab
tabletary
tabletless
tabletlike
tablet PC
tabsule
wax tablet
Translations:
dormer-window
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: See dormer.
Inflected forms:
form: dormer-windows
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dormer window
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An upright window built from a sloping roof.
pos: noun
examples: He walked slowly past the gate and peered through a narrow gap in the cedar hedge. The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.
Translations:
gradually
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English gradual
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English gradually
From gradual + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more gradually
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most gradually
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
pos: adv
examples: The most likely conclusion, the researchers say, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently.
The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.
gloss: by degrees
pos: adv
tags: obsolete
examples: Horns, upon the due accession of Moisture, doth gradually become Soft.
Synonyms: sluggishly
step by step
bit by bit
by degrees
by inches
continually
footmeal
inch by inch
gradatim
gradually
little by little
momentarily
momently
one by one
one step at a time
progressively
stepmeal
unsuddenly
Antonyms: abruptly
suddenly
suddently
Related words: consecutively
sequentially
seriatim
slow
Derived words: gradually typed
Translations:
gradual
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Medieval Latin graduālis, from Latin gradus (“step”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰradʰ-, *gʰredʰ- (“to walk, go”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐍂𐌹𐌸𐍃 (griþs, “step, grade”), Bavarian Gritt (“step, stride”).
Inflected forms:
form: more gradual
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gradual
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: graduall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: graduals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: graduall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Proceeding or advancing by small, slow, regular steps or degrees
pos: adj
examples: a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline
Creatures animate with gradual life / Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man.
gloss: An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.
pos: noun
gloss: A service book containing the musical portions of the Mass.
pos: noun
Antonyms: sudden
abrupt
Translations:
devoted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English devote
English -ed
English devoted
From devote + -ed.
Inflected forms:
form: more devoted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most devoted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Vowed; dedicated; consecrated.
pos: adj
examples: He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
gloss: Strongly emotionally attached; very fond of someone or something.
pos: adj
examples: Bob and Sara are devoted to their children.
gloss: Zealous; characterized by devotion.
pos: adj
gloss: Cursed; doomed.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction […]
The feelings of the crew now burst forth in the most extravagant transports. They had recently considered themselves devoted men, hurrying forwards to destruction; they now looked upon themselves as favorites of fortune, and gave themselves up to the most unbounded joy.
Derived words: devotedly
devotedness
overdevoted
self-devoted
undevoted
Translations:
forming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: formings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act by which something is formed; formation.
pos: noun
examples: […] a creative person, whose specific formings of behavior are not easily predictable […]
Translations:
losing
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: losings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: That loses or has lost.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Being on the losing team is disappointing.
gloss: The process by which something is lost; a loss.
pos: noun
examples: We conceive that an alternation of such losings and regainings will continue to be presented in England, until the whole business is set on a new and more stable basis by a revolution which shall not be moral only.
Translations:
historian
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English historian, historien, from Old French historien, from Latin historia (“story, history”), equivalent to histor(y) + -ian. More at history.
Base: history
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: historians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hist.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A writer of history.
pos: noun
gloss: One who studies or researches history.
pos: noun
examples: If this is what real people and societies are like, then it may be appropriate for historians to represent their subjects' lives in storylike form.
history does not consult the convenience of historians, though some of them are not always aware of it.
gloss: One who recounts their own medical history.
pos: noun
examples: The patient is unconscious when the syncopal event takes place and therefore is a poor historian.
Derived words: alternate historian
alternative historian
art historian
ecohistorian
ethnohistorian
family historian
geohistorian
herstorian
historianess
macrohistorian
media historian
microhistorian
natural historian
nonhistorian
protohistorian
pseudohistorian
psychohistorian
public historian
social historian
sociohistorian
twistorian
Translations:
annalist
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French annaliste, equivalent to annal + -ist.
Base: annal
Affixes: -ist
Inflected forms:
form: annalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A writer of annals; a chronicler; a historian.
pos: noun
examples: The monks […] were the only annalists during those ages.
Translations:
marron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Variant form of maroon (“chestnut”), later reinforced by French marron.
Inflected forms:
form: marrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A sweet chestnut.
pos: noun
examples: ‘I mean, shit, even if I had've come down here of a weekend and taken back a sack full of marron, I would have killed the pig up there.’
Translations:
expiate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin expiātus, past participle of expiō (“atone for”).
Inflected forms:
form: expiates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expiating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expiated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expiated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To atone or make reparation for.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
At laſt, he diſtinctly pronounced theſe three words, LET THIS EXPIATE! And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; […]
Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation, […]
I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.
The first change of regime came with the release of my more difficult mathematical, empirical, and scholarly work in a dozen articles in a variety of journals in an attempt to expiate my crime of having sold too many books.
gloss: To make amends or pay the penalty for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
And when it was required of him by the rigid laws of a haphazard justice, which in retrospect seems like every night of the week, he pressed his limp forelock into a filthy washbasin, clutched a tap in each throbbing hand, and expiated a string of crimes he didn't know he had committed until they were thoughtfully explained to him between each stroke by Mr. Willow or his representatives.
gloss: To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: […] and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
gloss: To purify with sacred rites.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Neither let there be found in thee any that shal expiate his ſonne, or daughter, making them to paſſe through the fyre: or that demandeth of ſouthſayers, and obſerueth dreames and diuinations, neither let there be a ſorcerer,
gloss: To wind up, bring to an end.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But when in thee times forrwes I behould, / Then look I death my daies ſhould expiate.
Related words: expiation
expiator
expiatory
Derived words: inexpiate
unexpiated
Translations:
extirpate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1538, the adjective in 1541; borrowed from Latin exstirpātus perfect passive participle of exstirpō (“to uproot”), from ex- (“out of”) + stirps (“the lower part of the trunk of a tree, including the roots; the stem, stalk”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)). Doublet of extirp. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Base: stirps
Affixes: ex-
-ō
Inflected forms:
form: extirpates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: extirpating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: extirpated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: extirpated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To clear an area of roots and stumps.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To pull up by the roots; uproot.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To destroy completely; to annihilate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But you are not Hercules; nor able to extirpate the Evils of others: nor even Theſeus, to extirpate the Evils of Attica. Extirpate your own then.
The simple object was to expel the natives, and to extirpate the Catholic religion.
They [steam trains] are everything modern life tries to extirpate in favour of silence, smoothness and cleanness.
gloss: To cause a population to go extinct in a particular region, but not across the entire range of the species or subspecies.
pos: verb
examples: The cougar was extirpated across nearly all of its eastern North American range in the two centuries after European colonization.
gloss: To surgically remove.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: extirp
extirpation
extirpative
extirpator
Translations:
factious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin factiosus (“divisive; inclined to separate”); derivative of factio.
Inflected forms:
form: more factious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most factious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of, pertaining to, or caused by factions.
pos: adj
gloss: Given to or characterized by discordance or insubordination.
pos: adj
examples: I heard that she left off powder, patches, and rouge, for a month when his third consort died, and he grew religious—whether out of grief or gratitude, I never heard; then she grew factious, for the sake of your own King, and thought to strew the way to the altar with straws instead of flowers. I applaud her spirit in fighting for a crown.
Related words: factitious
Derived words: factiously
factiousness
nonfactious
unfactious
Translations:
varicose
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From varix, via Middle English [Term?] from Latin varix, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wers-. By surface analysis, varic- + -ose. See also Old Church Slavonic врьхъ (vrĭxŭ, “top, peak”), Ancient Greek ἕρμα (hérma, “reef, rock, hill”), Lithuanian viršus (“top”).
Inflected forms:
form: more varicose
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most varicose
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Abnormally swollen, dilated or knotty.
pos: adj
tags: usually
Translations:
vasectomy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
Etymology: From vas- (“vas deferens”) + -ectomy (“surgery involving the excision or removal of a body part”).
Affixes: vas-
-ectomy
Inflected forms:
form: vasectomies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.
pos: noun
examples: The experimental vasectomy operation was performed under sodium pentobarbital (50 mg/kg body weight, i.p) anesthesia via a lower midabdominal incision as described elsewhere.
In fact, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., so many men sign up for vasectomies during March Madness that appointments reach “max capacity,” said Dr. Tobias S. Kohler, a urologist and men’s health expert at the medical center who has observed this phenomenon ever since he was an attending physician a decade ago.
Middle-aged, married fathers make up the bulk of those who have gotten vasectomies, with less than two percent of unmarried men relying on vasectomy for contraception, according to one analysis of data between 2002 and 2015 by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Translations:
petrolatum
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: petrolatums
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Petroleum jelly.
pos: noun
Translations:
vastness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English vast
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English vastness
From vast + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: vastnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being vast.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
gloss: Something vast.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He had a feeling that he was lost in the vastness of a huge forest.
Synonyms: enormity
immensity
Translations:
Vatican
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Vātī̆cānus (“Vatican Hill”), further etymology unknown. The connection to vāticinārī (“to prophesy, oracle”) is folk-etymological.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the Vatican City state.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Unlike most other countries in the world, citizenship in Vatican City isn’t solely provided to people that are born in the country. As there are no hospitals in the Vatican State, virtually no one is born in there. Instead, Vatican citizenship is provided on a ‘jus officii’ basis.
Translations:
vaulting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: vaultings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more vaulting
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vaulting
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Spreading over the high vaultings and walls, the traditional scenes from the life of Christ are depicted on an immense scale.
gloss: The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Leaning upward or over.
pos: adj
gloss: Exaggerated or overreaching.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Vaulting ambition.
On Long Bets […] there is an open bet between the British astrophysicist Martin Rees, a noted worrier over apocalyptic possibilities, and Harvard University’s Steven Pinker, famous for his vaulting optimism.
gloss: Performing.
pos: adj
Derived words: cross-vaulting
pole-vaulting
vaulting box
vaulting school
vaulting-school
vaulting table
fan vaulting
vaulting horse
equestrian vaulting
Translations:
vehemence
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English vehemens, vemance, from Old French vëemence, vehemence, from Latin vehementia (“eagerness, strength”), from vehemens (“eager”).
Inflected forms:
form: vehemences
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An intense concentration, force or power.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The bear attacked with vengeance and vehemence.
gloss: A wild or turbulent ferocity or fury.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: His response was bursting with hatred and vehemence.
This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.
gloss: Eagerness, fervor, excessive strong feeling.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: I could not wonder at the vehemence of her care, her very soul was tenderness […]
Related words: vehemency
vehement
Translations:
veined
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more veined
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most veined
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having veins or veinlike markings.
pos: adj
tags: in-compounds
sometimes
examples: veined cheese, veined marble
These blue-vein’d violets whereon we lean
Never can blab, nor know not what we mean.
A queenly creature with her quiet grace,
And dazzling white hand veined cerulean:
For a moment he silently scrutinised the attentive group out of his filmy blue eyes overhung by old veined lids […]
Translations:
veining
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: veinings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An arrangement of veins or veinlike markings.
pos: noun
examples: 1890, Ambrose Bierce, “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”, in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, New York: Lovell, Corvell & Co., 1891, p. 32,
He looked at the forest on the bank of the stream, saw the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf—saw the very insects upon them, the locusts, the brilliant-bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig.
His downcast eyes followed the silent veining of the oaken slab. Beauty: it curves: curves are beauty.
Surrounding, a system of marble paneling applies to the walls, as we know wood. Sheets of stone, cut and cut again so that the veining of each piece may form symmetrical pattern with its neighbor, alternate with bands of other marbles set in delicately notched beveling.
Translations:
velveteen
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From velvet + -een. Compare veloutine, from French.
Base: velvet
Affixes: -een
Inflected forms:
form: velveteens
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: velvetine
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A cotton fabric with a short pile, resembling velvet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] I'm trying to build a story that not only unlocks the velveteen secrets of her teenager's heart, but also contains action, development, along with—God help me—some imitation of meaning.
Translations: