yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
achieve
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English achieven, acheven, from Anglo-Norman achever, Old French achever, achiever et al., apparently from Late Latin *accapāre, from ad (“to”) + caput (“head”) + -ō (verbal suffix), or alternatively a construction based on Old French chief (“head”). Compare Catalan, Occitan, Portuguese and Spanish acabar, French achever.
Inflected forms:
form: achieves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: achieving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: achieved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: achieved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: atchieve
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: acheive
pos: verb
tags: alternative
misspelling
Senses:
gloss: To succeed in something, now especially in academic performance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To carry out successfully; to accomplish.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: achieve goals
achieve objectives
You can achieve anything if you put your mind to it.
Hannah achieved her lifelong dream of winning a medal at the Olympics.
Supposing faculties and powers to be the same, far more may be achieved in any line by the aid of a capital, invigorating motive than without it.
gloss: To conclude, finish, especially successfully.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Full many Countreyes they did overronne,
 From the uprising to the setting Sunne,
 And many hard adventures did atchieve […]
gloss: To obtain, or gain (a desired result, objective etc.), as the result of exertion; to succeed in gaining; to win.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I was about to say that I had known the Celebrity from the time he wore kilts. But I see I will have to amend that, because he was not a celebrity then, nor, indeed, did he achieve fame until some time after I left New York for the West.
Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
Thou hast achieved our liberty.
gloss: To conclude, to turn out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To obtain (a material thing).
pos: verb
tags: literary
transitive
examples: He hath achieved a maid
 That paragons description.
[U]s hitherto this Corner and ſecret receſſe hath defended, novv the Vttermoſt point of our Land is laid open: and things the leſſe they haue beene vvithin knovvledge, the greater the glorie is to atchieue them.
Show all the spoils by valiant kings achieved.
Synonyms: conclude
end
finalize
complete
acquire
catch
earn
gain
get
land
reach
score
succeed
win
Antonyms: lose
miss
Derived words: achievability
achievable
achievance
achievement
achiever
outachieve
overachieve
reachieve
superachieving
underachieve
Translations:
acidic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From acid + -ic. Doublet of acidy.
Base: acid
Affixes: -ic
Inflected forms:
form: more acidic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most acidic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to acid; having the character of an acid.
pos: adj
examples: an acidic solution
gloss: Having a pH less than 7, or being sour, or having the strength to neutralize alkalis, or turning a litmus paper red.
pos: adj
tags: physical
examples: The swampland is an extensive pegasse swamp, which is rich in organic matter and intensely acidic.
Local workers hike up the side of the mountain and down into the crater at the top to harvest its sulfur—a byproduct of the gas that escapes from the volcano’s vents and collects near the shores of an acidic lake at the crater’s center. The chemical is used in industry worldwide, from making matchsticks to vulcanizing rubber, but Ijen’s sulfur goes mostly to local factories, which use it to bleach sugar.
gloss: Containing a high percentage of silica-bearing minerals.
pos: adj
Derived words: acidically
aminoacidic
anacidic
diacidic
glial fibrillary acidic protein
hyperacidic
hypoacidic
monoacidic
nonacidic
overacidic
peracidic
polyacidic
subacidic
thermoacidic
triacidic
unacidic
Translations:
acidification
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French acidification, equivalent to acid + -ification.
Base: acid
Affixes: -ification
Inflected forms:
form: acidifications
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of making something sour (acidifying), or changing into an acid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Coral reefs, for instance, are suffering from the higher temperatures and the effects of acidification whilst also being weakened by bad fishing practices, pollution, siltation and toxic algal blooms.
Translations:
acidify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From acid + -ify, from Latin acidus (“sour, acid”); compare French acidifier.
Base: acid
Affixes: -ify
Inflected forms:
form: acidifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: acidifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: acidified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: acidified
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make something (more) acidic or sour; to convert into an acid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To neutralize alkalis.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to acidify sugar
gloss: To sour; to embitter.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: [H]is thin existence all acidified into rage
Antonyms: alkalify
basify
Related words: acidification
Derived words: acidifiable
acidific
disacidify
nonacidified
reacidify
unacidified
Translations:
acidosis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱéh₁yeti
Proto-Italic *akēō
Latin aceō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin acidusbor.
French acidebor.
English acid
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Ancient Greek -τις (-tis)
Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)
Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis)bor.
New Latin -ōsislbor.
English -osis
English acidosis
From acid + -osis.
Inflected forms:
form: acidoses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An abnormally increased acidity of the blood.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: alkalosis
Translations:
IPO
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: IPOs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: IPOing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: IPOed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: IPOed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: IPO'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: IPO'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: IPO-ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: IPO-ed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To launch an initial public offering, to go public.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: OnX recently IPO'ed at $7.50 per share, quickly rose to $10.50 per share and then drifted down to about $5 per share.
@大学生讲坛 tweets, “A stock market investor asks Hades, ‘What level of hell is this?’ Hades replies, ‘The 18th.’ The investor tears up out of happiness, ‘Finally I've managed to buy at the bottom!’ Hades looks at him with a smile, ‘Don't you know that hell has IPOed and expanded to 36 levels?’”
The extra scrutiny was a sign of the times, but having never IPO-ed a company before, most of the executive team took it as par for the course.
Translations:
accomplishable
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English accomplish
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English accomplishable
From accomplish + -able.
Inflected forms:
form: more accomplishable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accomplishable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being accomplished; practicable.
pos: adj
examples: With proper planning, even the most difficult task can be accomplishable.
The project seemed barely accomplishable within the given deadline.
They set accomplishable goals to keep the team motivated and focused.
Climbing the mountain was only accomplishable with expert guidance.
Breaking the work into smaller steps made it more accomplishable.
Translations:
quotation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: The obsolete sense of “quota”, from Medieval Latin quotātiō, from Latin quotāre, is attested from the 15th century. The sense “fragment of verbal expression”, attested from the 17th century, may come from this source, or else from the verb quote + -ation.
Base: quote
Affixes: -ation
Inflected forms:
form: quotations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A fragment of a human expression that is repeated by somebody else, for example from literature or a famous speech.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: "Where they burn books, they will also burn people" is a famous quotation from Heinrich Heine.
gloss: The act of quoting someone or something.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: One of these preachers was a blacksmith, whose iron constitution had entirely given way, and the little strength that remained he exhausted in endless quotation of texts from the Bible.
Mr. [Augustine] Birrell has, as usual, quoted very liberally, and to excellent effect. Quotation is an art the difficulty of which may easily be underrated by paragraph-writers or by persons who do not write at all. You may say no end of wise things about a writer, and yet fail to convey a sense of the peculiar flavor for which you really value him. To insinuate a phrase or verse of our author into the midst of our own readable (because ephemeral) discourse, is all most of us may do, without giving our readers an unpalatable suspicion that they are being seduced into the perusal of a real author. Mr. Birrell quotes by the page, and we gratefully read every line because we are sure Mr. Birrell, at least, is incapable of asking us to read anything inconsequent or dull.
In his mature works, [Chinary] Ung pays regular homage to Cambodian music by evoking its ambience without resorting to quotation of specific Cambodian melodies.
gloss: A price that has been quoted for buying or selling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Let's get a quotation for repairing the roof before we decide whether it's worth doing.
gloss: The act of setting a price.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A quota, a share.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
Synonyms: quote
Derived words: disquotation
indirect quotation
logical quotation
misquotation
overquotation
quasiquotation
quotational
quotationally
quotation dash
quotationist
quotationless
quotation mark
request for quotation
requotation
RFQ
underquotation
Translations:
choir
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: angelology
architecture
entertainment
lifestyle
music
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English quer, quere, from Old French quer, from Latin chorus, from Ancient Greek χορός (khorós, “company of dancers or singers”). Modern spelling influenced by chorus and French chœur. Doublet of quire, chorus, and hora.
Inflected forms:
form: choirs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: choirs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: choiring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: choired
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: choired
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
pos: noun
examples: The church choir practices Thursday nights.
Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
Army choirs and troupes perform at some of North Korea's biggest state events.
Public health officials studying the Covid-19 outbreak among members of a Washington choir found numerous ways the virus could have spread, according to a report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
gloss: One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church, generally used by the choir; often near the apse.
pos: noun
examples: Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
gloss: One of the nine ranks or orders of angels.
pos: noun
tags: Christian
examples: Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones are three of the choirs of angels.
gloss: Set of strings (one per note) for a harpsichord.
pos: noun
gloss: To sing in concert.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The great aim of this book is to secure congregational singing, which the churches must come to, at last, after a long interval of choiring.
Related words: choral
chorus
quire
Derived words: antechoir
antichoir
brass choir
choir boy
choirboy
choirchild
choirgirl
choirleader
choirless
choirlike
choirman
choirmaster
choirmate
choirmistress
choir organ
choir school
choir screen
choirstall
choir stall
choirwise
chorister
dawn choir
join the choir invisible
Nikon choir
polychoir
preach to the choir
retrochoir
Translations:
ad
Part of speech: prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad (“to, on”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: to, toward
pos: prep
Translations:
Afghan
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Classical Persian افغان (afġān, “Afghan”), from Bactrian αβαγανο (abagano), first attested in the fourth century CE, most likely a compound of *apāka- (“distant, faraway”), from Proto-Iranian *Hápa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hápa (“away”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó + *-āna (“ethnic group”), from Proto-Indo-European *-nós, thus: "people from a distant land". Various scholars have proposed Sanskrit etymologies since the nineteenth century (especially prior to the 2007 publication of earlier Bactrian attestations for the word), but linguist Johnny Cheung notes that these are "extremely difficult to reconcile" with recent evidence pointing to a Bactrian source.
Inflected forms:
form: Affghan
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Of, from or relating to Afghanistan, its people, or its culture.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: After the biggest military evacuation in history, the Biden administration will now resettle more than 60,000 Afghan refugees inside the US over the next several weeks.
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Derived words: Afghanise
Afghanize
Afghan bread
Afghanese
Afghan fox
Afghan hound
Afghan Hound
Afghania
afghanite
Afghanness
Afghano-
Translations:
Albanian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Albania + -n. Doublet of Albanese.
Compare Middle French Albanien and old Albanian endonym arbën, arbër (“Albanian”).
Base: Albania
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: Alb.
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: Albanians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Alb.
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Albania, the Albanian ethnic group or the Albanian language.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Dozens of NATO peacekeepers were injured after they were attacked by ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo, during protests over the installation of ethnically Albanian mayors.
gloss: A person of an ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe, comprising the ethnic majorities of Albania and Kosovo.
pos: noun
examples: Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, following the 1998-99 war in which Kosovar Albanians attempted to break from what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, made up of today’s Serbia and Montenegro.
Translations:
Algerian
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Algerian politician and revolutionary and first president of Algeria, Ben Balla.
Etymology tree
Arabic جَزَائِر بَنِي مَزْغَنَّى (jazāʔir banī mazḡannā)ellip.
Arabic الْجَزَائِر (al-jazāʔir)bor.
French Algerbor.
English Alger
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -iader.
English -ia
▲
French Algérieinflu.
English Algeria
Middle English -n
English -n
English Algerian
From Algeria + -n.
Base: Algeria
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: Algerians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more Algerian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Algerian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Algeria; a person of Algerian citizenship, nationality, or ancestry.
pos: noun
examples: It was a view that would not necessarily be shared by Algerians subjected to the gégène or having had their bellies pumped full of water during the Battle of Algiers.
gloss: Wine produced in Algeria.
pos: noun
gloss: Of, from, or pertaining to Algeria, its people, or its culture.
pos: adj
examples: (Yasmina Khadra is a female pseudonym for a former Algerian army officer, Mohammed Moulessehoul, who lives in France and whose work has once again been overheatedly translated by John Cullen.)
Translations:
retrovirus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
Etymology: From retro- + virus, from its reverse direction of replication.
Base: virus
Affixes: retro-
Inflected forms:
form: retroviruses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of a group of viruses which insert a copy of their RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell, thus changing the genome of that cell.
pos: noun
examples: Montagnier soon deduced that this was an RNA virus that could convert its genes into DNA and lodge into the human genome—a retrovirus.
gloss: A computer virus that seeks to attack antivirus programs in an attempt to avoid detection.
pos: noun
Related words: retroviral
retrovirological
retrovirologist
retrovirology
Derived words: antiretrovirus
endogenous retrovirus
gammaretrovirus
oncoretrovirus
orthoretrovirus
pararetrovirus
spumaretrovirus
Translations:
genome
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From earlier genom, from German Genom, coined by German botanist Hans Winkler in 1920 as a blend of Gen (“gene”) + Chromosom (“chromosome”). By surface analysis, gen(e) + -ome, or a blend of gen(e) + (chromos)ome. Spelling altered to reflect the surface analysis.
Inflected forms:
form: genomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: genom
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.
pos: noun
examples: Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered, just as having the human genome has made it possible to ask new questions about cellular and molecular systems.
Because of her significant testing, Avery had had DNA sequencing of her “exome,” the part of her genome that makes proteins in the body, said Dr. Michael Wangler, a researcher at the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Translations:
capsid
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French capside.
Inflected forms:
form: capsids
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The outer protein shell of a virus.
pos: noun
Translations:
Jupiter
Part of speech: intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin Iūpiter (“father Jove”), from Proto-Italic *djous patēr (literally “sky father”) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ζεῦ πάτερ (Zeû páter, “father Zeus”)), from *djous (“day, sky”) + *patēr (“father”), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws (literally “the bright one”), from *dyew- (“to be bright, day sky”), and *ph₂tḗr (“father”). Doublet of Dyaus Pita.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of by Jupiter.
pos: intj
examples: "Jupiter!" murmured Crediton. It is unusual for the senior hand to leave even one of the five cards to which he is entitled. It indicated an unusually strong hand.
Translations:
stylized
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more stylized
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stylized
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: stylised
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Made to conform to some style.
pos: adj
gloss: Represented according to some convention, omitting dispensable detail, rather than in a realistic or literal manner.
pos: adj
examples: The symbol for the planet Mars is a stylized representation of the shield and spear of the god Mars.
Snoop Dogg’s logo for his line of marijuana products features the brand name superimposed on a stylized leaf, similar to Toronto Maple Leafs’ logo.
Derived words: nonstylized
overstylized
stylized fact
Translations:
reminiscent
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin reminīscēns, present participle of reminīscor (“remember”), from re- (“again”) + min-, base of me-min-isse (“to remember, think over”), akin to mens (“mind”); see mental, mind, etc.
Inflected forms:
form: more reminiscent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most reminiscent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: reminiscents
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to reminiscence.
pos: adj
gloss: Suggestive of an earlier event or times.
pos: adj
examples: It was reminiscent of the rallies held by Adolph Hitler during the 1930s-1940s before adoring crowds in Nazi Germany. At many of these Nazi rallies, the German participants swore personal allegiance to their nation’s leader-Adolph Hitler over and above their own Nation-Germany.
gloss: Tending to bring some memory etc. to mind (followed by of)
pos: adj
examples: That painting is very reminiscent of Picasso's later work.
The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.
gloss: Remembering; undergoing reminiscence.
pos: adj
examples: Some other state of existence, of which we have been previously conscious, and are now reminiscent.
gloss: One who is addicted to indulging, narrating, or recording reminiscences.
pos: noun
Synonyms: evocative
redolent
remindful
resonant
Related words: reminiscence
Derived words: reminiscently
unreminiscent
Translations:
Congo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of Congregationalist + -o.
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: Congos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Kongo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Congregationalist
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
Myanmar
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed, initially into British English, from Burmese မြန်မာ (mranma), the formal Burmese name of the main ethnic group in Myanmar; ဗမာ (ba.ma), from which Burma is derived, is the informal name. Both Burmese terms are also adjectives meaning "Burmese" (related to Myanmar/Burma, its, people, language, etc). Like in the word Burma, the r was not originally pronounced (and is not present in the Burmese term), it is a vowel-lengthening device used by non-rhotic (British) dialects; compare gorm.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Myanmar, Burmese.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Myanmar harp
Translations:
Samoa
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Samoan Sāmoa. See there for more.
Inflected forms:
form: Samoas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A kind of cookie with coconut flavoring, often sold by Girl Scouts.
pos: noun
tags: US
Translations:
Bermuda
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Named after Spanish navigator Juan de Bermúdez (1450–c. 1520). See more at Bermúdez.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A pale, slightly blue shade of green
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
skirmish
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English skirmish (as a verb), from Old French escarmouche (“skirmish”), from Italian scaramuccia, earlier schermugio. Doublet of escarmouche, Scaramouche, and Scaramucci.
Inflected forms:
form: skirmishes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scirmish
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: skirmishes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: skirmishing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: skirmished
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: skirmished
pos: verb
tags: past
form: scirmish
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A brief battle between small groups, usually part of a longer or larger battle or war.
pos: noun
examples: On 2 March, Chinese border guards with the help of regular PLA forces skillfully ambushed Strelnikov's unit on the ice near Chen Pao, killing him and 30 Soviets in the subsequent skirmish.
The walls are slitted with embrasures through which bowmen could fire, indicating that the belfry also served as a stronghold during border skirmishes.
gloss: Any minor dispute.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
figuratively
examples: Three people were arrested after a skirmish in a bar.
Fires which have heretofore been one‐alarm skirmishes are now multialarm small wars.
gloss: A type of outdoor military style game using paintball or similar weapons.
pos: noun
gloss: To engage in a minor battle or dispute.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The deer and the pig and the nilghai were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius, while the Eaters of Flesh skirmished round its edge.
Other historians might also remark that […] they have persisted all this time, constantly wrestling and skirmishing and yet never destroying themselves.
Related words: screen
Derived words: squirmish
Translations:
scrimmage
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: American-football
athletics
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: A corruption of skirmish.
Inflected forms:
form: scrimmages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scrimmages
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scrimmaging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scrimmaged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scrimmaged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A rough fight.
pos: noun
examples: get caught up in a scrimmage
There was an instant of complete silence, but when Tough Bill threw himself on Strickland the lust of battle seized them all, and in a moment there was a confused scrimmage. Tables were overturned, glasses crashed to the ground.
gloss: In some team sports, especially soccer, a practice game which does not count on a team's record.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: Merchandise sales surged. The spring scrimmage, usually a yawn of an afterthought at Colorado, was packed.
gloss: In American football or Canadian football, a play that begins with a snap from the center while opposing teams are on either side of a line of scrimmage.
pos: noun
gloss: To have, or be involved in, a scrimmage.
pos: verb
examples: We scrimmaged a few times and then settled into boring drills.
Elwood caught sight of a football field where some boys scrimmaged and yelped.
Derived words: defensive line of scrimmage
offensive line of scrimmage
Translations:
bunk
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
Etymology: Sense of sleeping berth possibly from Scottish English bunker (“seat, bench”), origin is uncertain but possibly Scandinavian
Compare Old Swedish bunke (“boards used to protect the cargo of a ship”).
See also boarding, flooring and compare bunch.
Inflected forms:
form: bunks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bunks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bunking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: bunked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: bunked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
pos: noun
examples: Jane sleeps in the top bunk, and her little sister Lauren takes the bottom bunk.
The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
gloss: A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
pos: noun
gloss: A cot.
pos: noun
gloss: A bed in a prison, worksite or similar location.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
pos: noun
tags: US
dialectal
gloss: A dormitory or bunkroom where soldiers sleep.
pos: noun
tags: Singapore
broadly
examples: Don’t leave your bunk unlocked.
gloss: To occupy a bunk.
pos: verb
examples: Due to bed shortages, Jeff and Paul had to bunk together.
gloss: To provide a bunk.
pos: verb
gloss: Defective, broken, not functioning properly.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
slang
Derived words: bunk bed
bunkbed
bunkhouse
bunkie
bunk lizard
bunkload
bunkmate
bunkroom
bunkshooter
bunkside
bunkspace
bunk-up
do a bunk
feed bunk
hotbunk
I'll be in my bunk
petrol bunk
bunk down
bunk in
bunk into
bunk together
bunk up
hot bunk
Translations:
yeti
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Tibetan གཡའ་དྲེད (g.ya' dred, “wildman, yeti”), compound of གཡའ (g.ya', “dirt, rust, slate”) and དྲེད (dred, “bear”). Attested since 1937.
Inflected forms:
form: yeti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: yetis
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An unidentified humanoid animal said to live in the Himalayas.
pos: noun
examples: The Sherpas had no hesitation in pronouncing them to be those of a Snowman or "Yeti" (not "mirka" as Mr.Smythe's Tibetans had it), and they thought he was the smaller man-eating variety and not his larger yak-eating brother.[…]They may even have been our friend ursus arctoc pruinosus, but they were no more like the tracks of our "Yeti" than those of a two-toed anteater or an armadillo.
There is no doubt that the Sherpas accept the fact that the Yeti really exists. But then they believe just as confidently that their gods live in comfort on the summit of Mount Everest. We found it quite impossible to divorce the Yeti from the supernatural.
Translations:
Bigfoot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: arts
biology
cryptozoology
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
sciences
zoology
Etymology: August/September 1958, originally Big Foot, big + foot, relating to the large size of its supposed footprints relative to human footprints.
Compound parts: big
foot
Inflected forms:
form: Bigfoot
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bigfeet
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Bigfoots
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Big Foot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: bigfoot
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An individual creature of this type.
pos: noun
examples: My answer to those who believe that all Bigfoot are just huge cuddly Ewoks is to remind them that there is plenty of evidence that every member of the great apes family […] has exhibited hostility […].
The striking news on the appearance of a Bigfoot on Taibai Mountain in Xi'an, Shaanxi Provnice^([sic – meaning Province]) recently spread among local residents of Mei County located near the foot of Taibai Mountain. Is Taibai Mountain really home to a Bigfoot?
Who encountered the Bigfoot on Taibai Mountain?
Reporters interviewed many residents of Mei County, and their accounts varied.
Translations:
sasquatch
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Halkomelem sásq’ets (“hairy man”).
Inflected forms:
form: sasquatches
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Sasquatch
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A large hairy humanoid creature of western North America.
pos: noun
examples: [Riley] Keough plays one of the family of four sasquatches (the mythical creature also known as bigfoot) that the film follows over the course of a year as the primitive, grunting ape-like creatures lumber through the forests of the Pacific north-west of America. […] At first, there’s something almost disconcertingly crude about the sasquatch skins.
Translations:
touring
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: tourings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Working for a short time in different places.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a touring company
gloss: Intended for a journey through a country or a region, related to tourism.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: If you are not using a touring-specific bike and you have large feet, you could have problems with your heels striking your rear panniers. This is one of the very reasons why a touring bike has long chainstays (435mm minimum).
gloss: A touring car.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Finally, there was the 40-hp machine from the previous year, on the 120-inch wheelbase and listed in four body styles, tourings and roadsters.
Synonyms: itinerant
moving
road
traveling
Derived words: bicycle touring
grand touring car
nontouring
touring bicycle
touring car
touring company
touring member
touring motorcycle
touring side
touring squad
Translations:
Icelandic
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
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Old Norse Íslandcalq.
Middle English Iseland
English Iceland
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English Icelandic
From Iceland + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: Icelandics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Icelandick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: more Icelandic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Icelandic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Icelandick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A native or inhabitant of Iceland; an Icelander.
pos: noun
gloss: An Icelandic horse.
pos: noun
gloss: Of or relating to the North Germanic language spoken in Iceland.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Iceland.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, relating to, or originating from Iceland.
pos: adj
examples: Despite of the absence of Shaun Derry and Adel Taarabt because of illness and injury respectively, the home side began superbly. Helguson twice threatened early on with shots from the right-hand corner of the box before Anton Ferdinand spurned a great chance at the back post following the Icelandic striker's header back across goal.
Synonyms: Icelandish
Related words: Wiktionary’s coverage of Icelandic terms
Derived words: Icelandic cyprine
Icelandic horse
Icelandicness
Translations:
Yiddish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Yiddish ייִדיש (yidish), from Middle High German jüdisch (in reference to the language, more fully jüdischdiutsch (literally “Jewish-German”)). By surface analysis, Yid + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more Yiddish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Yiddish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Yiddish language.
pos: adj
examples: As a Yiddish proverb has it: Badarf men hunik ven tsuker iz zis? Who needs honey when sugar is sweet?
“Many goyim are confused by the large number of Yiddish terms beginning with ‘schl’ or ‘schm’ (schlemiel, schlemazzle, schmeggegge, schlub, schlock, schlep, schmutz, schnook), and use them incorrectly or interchangeably,” he wrote.
gloss: Jewish; relating to Yiddishkeit.
pos: adj
tags: informal
examples: Yiddish cooking; Yiddish music
Translations:
ID
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: IDs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: ID's
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: IDing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: ID'ing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: IDed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: IDed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ID'ed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ID'ed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: ID'd
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: ID'd
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To identify (an object, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Police have been unable to ID the body found in the river.
I know you’ve already ID’d us as cops, so that’s DC Daniels and I’m Henry Christie.
gloss: To request to see a person’s identification for proof of identity or age.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The bartender will have to ID you before serving you a drink.
Anyway, Margiotti found the guard and showed him the picture. He ID'ed it. Sort of. It was dark.
gloss: To identify (as something)
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I have one black grandfather, but I don't ID as mixed race
Translations:
QED
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From q(uantum) e(lectro)d(ynamics).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: (Partial) initialism of quantum electrodynamics.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: QCD is a theory of quark interactions much analogous to QED: the interaction is carried by "gluons" (analogous to photons) which couple to the "color" (analogous to charge) of the quarks.
By the way, these days QED is considered a relatively simple example of a quantum field theory.
QED is the theory that explains how electrically charged particles, like electrons, interact with each other and with particles of light (photons). […] Pretty much everything else – certainly everything you see and feel around you – is explained at the deepest known level by QED. Matter, light, electricity and magnetism – it is all QED.
Finally, there is still plenty of room to employ and apply QED theory for predictive purposes, by proposing new phenomena, especially within the realm of photonics, thereby ensuring QED remains relevant to current and future generations of researchers working in chemical physics.
The aim of this work is essentially twofold: to establish the conception and thus model of a 'unitary universal cohesive field' from 'first principles' within which existing theories, primarily QED and the foundation of its approach, may be understood both in principle and therefore from any abstruse mathematical perspective extrapolated from it; […]
Although his own early work on QED helped bring photons and electrons into a consistent framework, Dr. Dyson doubted that superstrings, or anything else, would lead to a Theory of Everything, unifying all of physics with a succinct formulation inscribable on a T-shirt.
Translations:
debt-laden
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more debt-laden
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most debt-laden
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: having a burden of debt
pos: adj
Translations:
presidente
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish presidente (“president”).
Inflected forms:
form: presidentes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: El Presidente
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A Cuban cocktail made from rum, curaçao, dry vermouth, and grenadine that is stirred or shaken with cracked ice.
pos: noun
Translations:
DNA
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: The noun is an initialism of deoxyribonucleic acid. The verb is derived from the noun.
Inflected forms:
form: DNAs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: DNAing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: DNAed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: DNAed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To examine a sample of (someone's) deoxyribonucleic acid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The only way we're gonna know is if we DNA him against the spunk in Karen.
The barrister went on to say that his client 'remains persecuted and victimised. He has been DNAed; his hair, his blood and his clothes. Nothing. No charges have ever been brought.'
Maybe nothing to do with the break-in, but worth fingerprinting the wrapper and DNAing the gum.
Translations:
picosecond
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: metrology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Celtic *bekkos
Gaulish *bekkosbor.?
Latin beccus
Old Spanish bico
Spanish picobor.
English pico-
English second
English picosecond
From pico- (“metric prefix”) + second.
Inflected forms:
form: picoseconds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An SI unit of time equal to 10⁻¹² seconds. Symbol: ps
pos: noun
examples: Holonyms: nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond < hour < day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond
Hxh son all day any week and any hour any minute any second, any millisecond, any microsecond, any nanosecond any picosecond any femtosecond, any attosecond, any zeptosecond, any yoctosecond, any rontosecond, any quectosecond
sprunker: "ok ill delay the update by 67 years, 67 months, 67 days, 67 hours, 67 seconds, 67 deciseconds, 67 centiseconds, 67 milliseconds, 67 microseconds, 67 nanoseconds, 67 picoseconds, 67 femtoseconds, 67 attoseconds, 67 zeptoseconds, 67 yoctoseconds, 67 rontoseconds, 67 quectoseconds, and 67... plank ^([sic]) time????".
Translations:
Indian
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: board-games
chess
games
Etymology: From Middle English Indien, from Anglo-Norman indien, Middle French indien, corresponding to Ind + -ian or India + -an. Applied to inhabitants of the Americas due to an early misconception that the Americas were the eastern end of Asia / the Indies (hence also the designation of Caribbean islands as the West Indies).
Base: Ind
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Indian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Indian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to India or its people; or (formerly) of the East Indies.
pos: adj
examples: An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.”
gloss: Eastern; Oriental.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: The morrow next apprear'd with purple hayre / Yet dropping fresh out of the Indian fount, / And bringing light into the heavens fayre […].
gloss: Of or relating to the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
pos: adj
tags: proscribed
examples: The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns.
gloss: Made with Indian corn or maize.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
proscribed
examples: Indian bread
Indian meal
gloss: Designating any of various chess openings now characterised by black's attempt to control the board through knights and fianchettoed bishops rather than with a central pawn advance.
pos: adj
Translations:
mither
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late 17th century, of unknown origin;
* Possibly related to Middle English bemothered (“confused, perplexed”), itself probably related to Old English mēþe (“exhausting, troublesome”), Old Norse móðr (“angry, frustrated”), Middle Dutch moeden (“to tire, exhaust, disturb, trouble”).
* Possibly allied to Welsh moedro (“to worry or bother”), though according to the GPC, the latter is borrowed from English.
* Alternatively, possibly tied to Welsh meidda (“to beg for whey”), from maidd (“whey”).
* Perhaps from Welsh meiddio (“to dare or venture”), a variant of beiddio (“to dare”).
The "dd" in Welsh corresponds in sound to the "th" in mither, and English also has moider and moither.
Inflected forms:
form: mithers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mithering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mithered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mithered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: mithers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make an unnecessary fuss, moan, bother.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
intransitive
examples: The European Commission is pondering how to compel phone companies to come up with a universal plug for their chargers. Apple, which uses its own design for its charger cables, is mithering about the change.
gloss: To pester or irritate someone.
pos: verb
tags: Northern-England
transitive
examples: "Every night after work I'd mither [pester] my dad to take me out into the field and practise. There were definitely times when he didn't want to do it, but he never said no.
gloss: mother
pos: noun
tags: Northern-England
Scotland
Translations:
maskin
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A molecule that binds to CPE (cytoplasmic polyadenylation element) and thus affects the translation of mRNA in dictyate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
outdoors
Part of speech: adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From out + doors (plural of door), probably as a shortening of out of doors. Alternatively, from outdoor (adjective) + -s (adverbial genitive suffix).
Base: outdoor#Adjective
Affixes: -s
Inflected forms:
form: out of doors
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: Not inside a house or under covered structure; unprotected; in the open air.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: They went outdoors to light up their cigarettes.
gloss: The environment outside of enclosed structures.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He won't leave his house: he's afraid of the outdoors.
gloss: The natural environment in the open air, countryside away from cities and buildings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She loves the outdoors, for its freedom and fresh air.
Derived words: great outdoors
outdoorsiness
outdoorsman
outdoorsmanship
outdoorsness
outdoorsperson
outdoors voice
outdoorswoman
outdoorswomanship
outdoorsy
Translations:
dilettante
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Italian dilettante, present participle of dilettare (“to delight”), from Latin dēlectāre (“to delight”).
Inflected forms:
form: dilettanti
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dilettantes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dilettant
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more dilettante
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dilettante
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: dilettant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
pos: noun
gloss: A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
sometimes
examples: A comment like "The author is a self-important dilettante." is really nothing more than a pretentious version of "u r a fag."
“Call me Zack Ransom.” “And I'm Gilbert Manhandle, literary dilettante with a gambling addiction.” “Nobody's going to remember that. You can be Zandy Billups.” “Fine. But I'm still a gambling addict.”
gloss: Pertaining to or like a dilettante.
pos: adj
Related words: delectable
delight
dildo
amateur
Derived words: dilettantely
dilettanteship
dilettantish
dilettanteish
dilettantism
dilettanteism
Translations: