lemma
citation form
dictionary form
main entry word
sense
entry word
supine
canonical form
nested
terminative
basic form
primitive
hypercorrect
derogative
vocable
particle
one
written word
oh
aphetism
proverbially
indeclinable
etymologize
derive
etymology
logatome
infinitive
attributive adjective
syllabist
definiendum
lexic
-ial
abbreviation
phrasemongerer
metaword
catachresis
no changer
diminutivization
form
grammatical meaning
⠘⠺
run
case
nounify
onomato-
signification
-onym
affix
verbal
lectical
heterobasionym
epithet
suffixation
saxicoline
tone
variety
way
go
inhauler
deonym
pronunciation
define
tously
colloquialism
equative
postdeterminer
lexiconize
wordmongering
noun
in a way of speaking
vulgo
formative
first declension
Narten present
etymologist
derivational
denotation
of course my horse
theme
misappellation
segolate
ancestor
-metric
crude form
saccharidase
unclecide
lexicalized
stand hawk
nominant
abbreviature
lexically
lexicalised
specifier
stannel hawk
spelling
hyperurbanism
nested
lexic
verbal
lectical
saxicoline
tously
formative
derivational
lexicalized
lexicalised
proverbially
in a way of speaking
vulgo
lexically
lemma
citation form
dictionary form
main entry word
sense
entry word
supine
canonical form
terminative
basic form
primitive
derogative
vocable
particle
written word
aphetism
indeclinable
etymology
logatome
infinitive
attributive adjective
syllabist
definiendum
abbreviation
phrasemongerer
metaword
catachresis
no changer
diminutivization
grammatical meaning
case
signification
affix
heterobasionym
epithet
suffixation
tone
variety
way
inhauler
deonym
pronunciation
colloquialism
equative
postdeterminer
wordmongering
first declension
Narten present
etymologist
denotation
theme
misappellation
segolate
ancestor
verbal
crude form
saccharidase
unclecide
stand hawk
nominant
abbreviature
specifier
stannel hawk
spelling
hyperurbanism
hypercorrect
etymologize
derive
form
run
nounify
go
define
lexiconize
noun
noun
- The canonical form of an inflected word; i.e., the form usually found as the headword in a dictionary, such as the nominative singular of a noun, the bare infinitive of a verb, etc.
- The theoretical abstract conceptual form of a word, representing a specific meaning, before the creation of a specific phonological form as the sounds of a lexeme, which may find representation in a specific written form as a dictionary or lexicographic word.
- The outer shell of a fruit or similar body.
- One of the specialized bracts around the floret in grasses.
- A proposition proved or accepted for immediate use in the proof of some other proposition.
noun
- A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
- Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
- One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
- A natural appreciation or ability.
- The way that a referent is presented.
- The meaning, reason, or value of something.
- Sound practical or moral judgment.
- Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
- referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
- One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
- Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
verb
noun
- (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.
- In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.
- In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.
adj
noun
- A part of speech that has no inherent lexical definition but must be associated with another word to impart meaning, often a grammatical category: for example, the English word to in a full infinitive phrase (to eat) or O in a vocative phrase (O Canada), or as a discourse marker (mmm).
- A part of speech which cannot be inflected.
- A little bit.
- A very small piece of matter, a fragment; especially, the smallest possible part of something.
- Any of various physical objects making up the constituent parts of an atom; an elementary particle or subatomic particle.
- In the Roman Catholic church, a crumb of consecrated bread; also the smaller breads used in the communion of the laity.
particle
- A nominalizer; used to form a noun phrase without a head noun.
- Used to emphasize or explain something, with an implied antecedent.
- Used at the end of a sentence to highlight the characteristics of someone or something.
pron
- The first mentioned of two things or people, as opposed to the other.
- Functions as a relative pronoun at the end of a relative clause.
- Any person (applying to people in general).
- One thing (among a group of others); one member of a group.
- Any person, entity or thing.
- Used as a noun substituent following a possessive determiner.
noun
- One run scored by hitting the ball and running between the wickets; a single.
- A joke or amusing anecdote.
- A particularly special or compatible person or thing.
- A one-dollar bill.
- Used instead of ! to amplify an exclamation, parodying unskilled typists who forget to press the shift key while typing exclamation points, thus typing "1".
- The neutral element with respect to multiplication in a ring.
- One o'clock, either a.m. or p.m.
- The digit or figure 1.
adj
- Whole, entire.
- Being an unknown person with the specified name; see also "a certain".
- The same.
- In agreement.
- Being a preeminent example.
- Sole, only.
- Being a single, unspecified thing; a; any.
- Of a period of time, being particular.
num
- The cardinality of the smallest nonempty set.
- The first positive number in the set of natural numbers.
- The number represented by the Arabic numeral 1; the numerical value equal to that cardinal number.
- The ordinality of an element which has no predecessor, usually called first or number one.
verb
intj
- An invocation or address (similar to the vocative in languages with noun declension), often with a term of endearment.
- A word to precede an added comment or afterthought.
- A word to precede an offhand or annoyed remark.
- Expression of surprise.
- Expression of wonder, amazement, or awe.
- Expression of understanding, affirmation, recognition, or realization.
- Expression of pain. See ouch.
- Expression of mild scepticism.
- A word to mark a spoken phrase as imaginary.
- Exclamation for drama or emphasis (often poetic).
- Space filler or extra syllable, especially in (popular) music.
noun
- the letter O, o (more commonly spelled o)
- An utterance of oh; a spoken expression of surprise, acknowledgement, etc.
- the digit 0 (especially in representations of speech)
verb
verb
- To find the derivation of (a word or phrase).
- To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning.
- To originate or stem (from).
- To create (a compound) from another by means of a reaction.
- To obtain or receive (something) from something else.
- To turn the course of (water, etc.); to divert and distribute into subordinate channels.
noun
- An account of the origin and historical development of a word as presented in a dictionary or the like.
- The origin and historical development of a word; the derivation.
- The study of the historical development of languages, particularly as manifested in individual words.
- The direct origin of a name, as in who someone was named after.
noun
- A non-finite verb form considered neutral with respect to inflection; depending on language variously found used with auxiliary verbs, in subordinate clauses, or acting as a gerund, and often as the dictionary form.
- The infinitive mood or mode (a grammatical mood).
- A verbal noun formed from the infinitive of a verb.
adj
noun
- A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
- Such a misuse involving some similarity of sound between the misused word and the appropriate word.
- A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly applied metaphor or trope.
verb
- To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.
- To provide (a hare) with a form.
- To assume (a certain shape or visible structure).
- To mould or model by instruction or discipline.
- To constitute, to compose, to make up.
- To put together or bring into being; assemble.
- To treat (plates) to prepare them for introduction into a storage battery, causing one plate to be composed more or less of spongy lead, and the other of lead peroxide. This was formerly done by repeated slow alternations of the charging current, but later the plates or grids were coated or filled, one with a paste of red lead and the other with litharge, introduced into the cell, and formed by a direct charging current.
- To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person.
- To take shape.
noun
- A specific way of performing a movement.
- A quantic.
- A class or year of school pupils (often preceded by an ordinal number to specify the year, as in sixth form).
- Constitution; mode of construction, organization, etc.; system.
- Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality.
- A specimen document to be copied or imitated.
- A grouping of words which maintain grammatical context in different usages; the particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech.
- A blank document or template to be filled in by the user.
- Level of performance.
- Regularity, beauty, or elegance.
- The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.
- A window or dialogue box.
- Characteristics not involving atomic components.
- A thing that gives shape to other things as in a mold.
- Established method of expression or practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme; formula.
- The boundary line of a material object. In painting, more generally, the human body.
- A criminal record; loosely, past history (in a given area).
- The inherent nature of an object; that which the mind itself contributes as the condition of knowing; that in which the essence of a thing consists.
- An order of doing things, as in religious ritual.
- The shape or visible structure of a thing or person.
- The den or home of a hare.
- An infraspecific rank.
symbol
verb
- To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
- To carry (a football) down the field, as opposed to passing or kicking.
- Of an object, to have a liquid flowing from it.
- To print or broadcast in the media.
- To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- To be a candidate in an election.
- To fuse; to shape; to mould; to cast.
- To control or manage, be in charge of.
- To smuggle (illegal goods).
- To go at a fast pace; to move quickly.
- To extend in space or through a range (often with a measure phrase).
- To execute or carry out a plan, procedure, or program.
- To make run in a race.
- To transit a length of a river, as in whitewater rafting.
- To control or have precedence in a card game.
- To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot. (Compare walk.)
- To leak or spread in an undesirable fashion; to bleed (especially used of dye or paint).
- To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
- To exert continuous activity; to proceed.
- To sew (a seam) by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- To become different in a way mentioned (usually to become worse).
- To cause to move quickly or lightly.
- To cause to enter; to thrust.
- To speedrun.
- To juggle a pattern continuously, as opposed to starting and stopping quickly.
- To move or spread quickly.
- To sort through a large volume of produce in quality control.
- To extend in time, to last, to continue (usually with a measure phrase).
- To make a machine operate.
- To become liquid; to melt.
- To make something extend in space.
- Of a machine, including computer programs, to be operating or working normally.
- To achieve or perform by running or as if by running.
- To pass (without stopping), typically a stop signal, stop sign, or duty to yield the right of way.
- To transport someone or something, notionally at a brisk pace.
- To be presented in the media.
- Of a means of transportation: to travel (a route).
- To cost a large amount of money.
- Of stitches or stitched clothing, to unravel.
- To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- To encounter or suffer (a particular, usually bad, fate or misfortune).
- Of a liquid, to flow.
- To compete in a race.
- Of fish, to migrate for spawning.
- To make run in an election.
- To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- To have growth or development.
- To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company.
- To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine.
- To flee from a danger or towards help.
- To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation.
- To encounter or incur (a danger or risk).
- To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- To make a liquid flow; to make liquid flow from or into an object.
- To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
noun
- A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
- An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
- A small fissure which admits water into the workings.
- A box that contains or can contain a number of identical items of manufacture.
- A thin layer of harder metal on the surface of an object whose deeper metal is allowed to remain soft.
- The outer covering or framework of a piece of apparatus such as a computer.
- A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
- A legal proceeding, lawsuit.
- A piece of work, specifically defined within a profession.
- An instance or event as a topic of study.
- A box, sheath, or covering generally.
- A suitcase.
- A shallow tray divided into compartments or "boxes" for holding type, traditionally arranged in sets of two, the "upper case" (containing capitals, small capitals, accented) and "lower case" (small letters, figures, punctuation marks, quadrats, and spaces).
- An actual event, situation, or fact.
- A piece of luggage that can be used to transport an apparatus such as a sewing machine.
- An enclosing frame or casing.
- A cardboard box that holds (usually 24) beer bottles or cans.
- Four of a kind.
- A piece of furniture, constructed partially of transparent glass or plastic, within which items can be displayed.
- The nature of a piece of alphabetic type, whether a “capital” (upper case) or “small” (lower case) letter.
- A unit of liquid measure used to measure sales in the beverage industry, equivalent to 192 fluid ounces.
verb
- To survey (a building or other location) surreptitiously, as in preparation for a robbery.
- To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment.
- To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose.
adj
verb
adj
- Word for word.
- Concerned with the words, rather than the substance of a text.
- Of or relating to words.
- Capable of speech.
- Used to form a verb.
- Derived from, or having the nature of a verb.
- Consisting of words only.
- Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.
noun
- A verb form which does not function as a predicate, or a word derived from a verb. In English, infinitives, participles and gerunds are verbals.
- Talk; speech, especially banter or scolding.
- A spoken confession given to police.
verb
noun
noun
- (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages
- the quality of a person's voice
- (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound)
- the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
- a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color
- a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound
- a steady sound without overtones
- the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli
- a musical interval of two semitones
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
verb
noun
- A specific form of a language, neutral to whether that form is an accent, dialect, register, etc., and to its prestige level; an isolect or lect.
- A rank in a taxonomic classification below species and (if present) subspecies, and above form; hence, an organism of that rank.
- The total number of distinct states of a system; also, the logarithm to the base 2 of the total number of distinct states of a system.
- An animal or plant (or a group of such animals or plants) with characteristics causing it to differ from other animals or plants of the same species; a cultivar.
- In universal algebra: an equational class; the class of all algebraic structures of a given signature, satisfying a given set of identities.
- A collection or number of different things.
- The kind of entertainment given in variety performances or shows; also, the production of, or performance in, variety performances or shows.
- A deviation or difference.
- A stamp, or set of stamps, which has one or more characteristics (such as colour, paper, etc.) differing from other stamps in the same issue, especially if such differences are intentionally introduced.
- The quality of being varied; diversity.
- A specific variation of something.
noun
- a general category of things; used in the expression `in the way of'
- how something is done or how it happens
- to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end
- a line leading to a place or point
- the condition of things generally
- a course of conduct
- any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another
- a journey or passage
- space for movement
- the property of distance in general
- doing as one pleases or chooses
- a portion of something divided into shares
adv
verb
- Synonyms: become, turn, change into
- To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
- To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
- To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
- To be spent or used up.
- To belong (somewhere).
- To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
- To make the (specified) sound.
- To fit.
- To urinate or defecate.
- To tend (toward a result).
- To be lost.
- To have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
- I woke up just before the clock went.
- To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
- Let's go halves on this.
- Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way
- To continuously or habitually be in a state.
- I went at him with a knife.
- To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
- To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
- To attend.
- To be sold.
- To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
- To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
- To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
- To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
- To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
- To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
- To sound; to make a noise.
- To leave; to move away.
- To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
- To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
- To come to (a certain condition or state).
- To start; to begin (an action or process).
- To work (through or over), especially mentally.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate
- To attack.
- To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
- To date.
- Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell.
- Synonyms: function, work, operate
- To break down or decay.
- To be accepted.
- We've only gone twenty miles today.
- To be valid.
- To have a certain record.
- To take a turn, especially in a game.
- To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
- To be out.
- To resort (to).
- To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
- To yield or weigh.
- Those babies go five tons apiece.
- To be discarded or disposed of.
- To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
- To lead (to a place); to give access to.
- To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
- Anything goes around here.
- Why don’t you go with us?
- Let's go this way for a while.
- To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
- To fight or attack.
- How long can you go without water?
- To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
- To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
- To collapse or give way, to break apart.
- Expressing encouragement or approval.
- To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
- To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
- To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
- To die.
- To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
- To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
- To travel or pass along.
- To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
adj
noun
- A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
- An attempt, a try.
- An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
- Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
- The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
- An act; the working or operation.
- A period of activity.
- Synonym: green light
- A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.
- Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try
- The act of going.
noun
noun
noun
- A word in the equative form.
- A construction showing an equal quality. In English, this is normally formed using as. For example, the equative of happy is as happy as.
- A grammatical case in certain languages, including Ossetic and Sumerian, that indicates something is like something else. English equivalents include he was the same age as her and he looks like him.
adj
verb
noun
- A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.
- An object within a user interface to which a certain action or transformation (i.e., verb) is applied.
noun
- In Irish, a pattern of inflection of a group of masculine nouns that are declined (inflected) in the same way, and which end in a broad consonant in the nominative singular, and a slender consonant in the genitive singular; also a group of adjectives inflected similarly.
- In Swedish, a pattern of inflection of a group of common-gender nouns that are declined (inflected) in the same way, and which end in -a or a consonant in the nominative singular, and -or in the nominative plural.
- In Russian and Ukrainian, a pattern of inflection of a group of (mostly) feminine nouns that are declined (inflected) in the same way, and which end in -а/-я in the nominative singular.
- In Lithuanian, a pattern of inflection of a group of masculine nouns that are declined (inflected) in the same way, and which end in -as/-is/-ys/-ias in the nominative singular; also a pattern of inflection of a group of adjectives that end in -(i)as in the masculine nominative singular.
- In Latin, a pattern of inflection of a group of nouns that are declined (inflected) in the same way, and which have an -a- in their stems.
- In Latvian, a pattern of inflection of a group of masculine nouns that are declined (inflected) in the same way, and which end in -s/-š in the nominative singular, with thematic vowel -a-.
noun
- The intension and extension of a word
- The primary, surface, literal, or explicit meaning of a signifier such as a word, phrase, or symbol; that which a word denotes, as contrasted with its connotation; the aggregate or set of objects of which a word may be predicated.
- Something signified or referred to; a particular meaning of a symbol
- A first level of analysis: what the audience can visually see on a page. Denotation often refers to something literal, and avoids being a metaphor.
- The act of denoting, or something (such as a symbol) that denotes
- Any mathematical object which describes the meanings of expressions from the languages, formalized in the theory of denotational semantics
intj
noun
- The stem of a word.
- The main melody of a piece of music, especially one that is the source of variations.
- A concept with multiple instantiations.
- Topic, what is generally being talked about, as opposed to rheme.
- A regional unit of organisation in the Byzantine empire.
- thematic relation of a noun phrase to a verb.
- Theta role in generative grammar and government and binding theory.
- A subject, now especially of a talk or an artistic piece; a topic.
- A song, or a snippet of a song, that identifies a film, a TV program, a character, etc. by playing at the appropriate time.
- Any of various colors, or color palettes, in which a design is offered; (graphical user interface) any of various skins for an app, affecting the visuals and perhaps other elements such as sound effects.
verb
noun
noun
- A word or phrase which serves as the origin of a term in another language.
- One who had the same role or function in former times.
- One from whom an estate has descended;—the correlative of heir.
- One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a forefather.
- An earlier type; a progenitor
verb
noun
noun
noun
noun
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