# translation

lexentry: eng/gall_bladder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gall bladder
trans_list: vesica biliaris | fel
sense:
(anatomy) A pear-shaped organ that stores bile from the liver, until the body needs it for the digestion and absorption of fats in the duodenum.


lexentry: eng/galley__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: galley
trans_list: coquina
sense:
(nautical) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel or aircraft; sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose.


lexentry: eng/gallium_arsenide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gallium arsenide
trans_list: gallium arsenide
sense:
(inorganic compound) A binary compound of gallium and arsenic, GaAs, used as a semiconductor, especially in light-emitting diodes.


lexentry: eng/gambeson__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gambeson
trans_list: subarmalis
sense:
(historical) A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted, often worn as padding under armor.


lexentry: eng/game_show__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: game show
trans_list: ludus
sense:
(games, broadcasting) A radio or television program that involves members of the public or celebrities, whether as individuals or as part of a team, playing a game, especially one involving the answering of quiz questions, for cash or prizes.


lexentry: eng/gameboard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gameboard
trans_list: abacus
sense:
(board games) A portable surface marked for playing a game, and on which the counters or other pieces are placed and moved.


lexentry: eng/gameplay__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gameplay
trans_list: ludus
sense:
The totality of player experiences during a game, such as the gaming environment and the competitive interaction with other players; often with reference to a video game or a board game.


lexentry: eng/gamete__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gamete
trans_list: gameta
sense:
(cytology) A reproductive cell (sperm in males or eggs in females), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.


lexentry: eng/gamin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gamin
trans_list: cicarō
sense:
(dated, also, attributively) A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally) , a cheeky, street-smart boy.


lexentry: eng/gangway__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: gangway
trans_list: agea
sense:
(nautical) A passage through the side of a ship or an opening in the railing through which the ship may be boarded.


lexentry: eng/gannet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gannet
trans_list: amens
sense:
Any of three species of large seabird in the genus Morus, of the family Sulidae. They have black and white bodies and long pointed wings, and hunt for fish by plunge diving and pursuing their prey underwater.


lexentry: eng/garage__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: garage
trans_list: stabulum
sense:
A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.


lexentry: eng/garbage_can__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: garbage can
trans_list: siclus prō quisquiliās | situla prō quisquiliās
sense:
(North America) A receptacle, usually roughly cylindrical and wider at the top than at the bottom, which serves as a place to discard waste materials.


lexentry: eng/garbanzo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: garbanzo
trans_list: cicer
sense:
An edible pulse, Cicer arietinum, of the family Leguminosae or Fabaceae and subfamilies Faboideae or Papilionoideae, with white or purple-blue flowers and small feathery leaves on both sides of the stem and pods containing two to three peas.


lexentry: eng/garden__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: garden
trans_list: hortus | pōmārium | viridārium
sense:
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.


lexentry: eng/gardening__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gardening
trans_list: topiaria
sense:
The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.


lexentry: eng/garfish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: garfish
trans_list: Belona belona
sense:
(especially, UK, Ireland) Any fish of the needlefish family Belonidae, with a long narrow body and needle-shaped jaws, especially the European species Belone belone.


lexentry: eng/garganey__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: garganey
trans_list: Anas querquedula
sense:
A small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.


lexentry: eng/garland__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: garland
trans_list: serta
sense:
A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.


lexentry: eng/gas__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gas
trans_list: gasum
sense:
(uncountable) A flammable gaseous hydrocarbon or hydrocarbon mixture used as a fuel, e.g. for cooking, heating, electricity generation or as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles, especially natural gas.


lexentry: eng/gas__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gas
trans_list: gasum | gasium | gas
sense:
(uncountable, chemistry) Matter in an intermediate state between liquid and plasma that can be contained only if it is fully surrounded by a solid (or in a bubble of liquid, or held together by gravitational pull); it can condense into a liquid, or can (rarely) become a solid directly by deposition.


lexentry: eng/gas_station__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gas station
trans_list: statio bencinaria
sense:
(North America, New Zealand, Philippines) filling station / petrol station; an establishment which sells gasoline (petrol) and often also diesel


lexentry: eng/gaslight__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gaslight
trans_list: abūsō | mentiō
sense:
(chiefly, transitive) To manipulate someone such that they doubt their own memory, perceptions of reality, or sanity, typically for malevolent#Adjective reasons.


lexentry: eng/gasoline__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gasoline
trans_list: benzinium
sense:
(uncountable, North America) A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.


lexentry: eng/gateway__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: gateway
trans_list: portus
sense:
(digital communications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.


lexentry: eng/gather__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gather
trans_list: colligō | lego
sense:
(architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.


lexentry: eng/gathering__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: gathering
trans_list: arca
sense:
(bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.


lexentry: eng/gauge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gauge
trans_list: mensura
sense:
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard


lexentry: eng/gauge__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: gauge
trans_list: calibra
sense:
(mathematics, analysis) A semi-norm; a function that assigns a non-negative size to all vectors in a vector space.


lexentry: eng/gavel__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gavel
trans_list: malleus
sense:
A wooden mallet, used by a courtroom judge, or by a committee chairman, struck against a sounding block to quieten those present, or by an auctioneer to accept the highest bid at auction.


lexentry: eng/gazelle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gazelle
trans_list: dorcas | oryx
sense:
An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa) or Procapra (native to Asia), capable of running at high speeds for long periods.


lexentry: eng/gear__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: gear
trans_list: velocitas
sense:
(countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.


lexentry: eng/gear__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: gear
trans_list: celeritas
sense:
(countable, automotive) A configuration of the transmission of a motor car so as to achieve a particular ratio of engine to axle torque.


lexentry: eng/gear_wheel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gear wheel
trans_list: nucleus pineus
sense:
(mechanics) A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear.


lexentry: eng/geezer__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: geezer
trans_list: senex
sense:
(informal, chiefly, North America, sometimes, mildly, derogatory) An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.


lexentry: eng/gelatin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gelatin
trans_list: gelatinum
sense:
A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc.


lexentry: eng/gelato__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gelato
trans_list: gelatum
sense:
An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.


lexentry: eng/gender-neutral__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gender-neutral
trans_list: agenus | insexus
sense:
(grammar) In particular, in languages where words are assigned to one grammatical gender or another: lacking such an assignment.


lexentry: eng/gender__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gender
trans_list: genus
sense:
(grammar) A division of nouns and pronouns (and sometimes of other parts of speech) into masculine or feminine, and sometimes other categories like neuter or common, and animate or inanimate. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/gender__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: gender
trans_list: genus
sense:
Identification as a man, a woman, or something else, and association with a (social) role or set of behavioral and cultural traits, clothing, etc; a category to which a person belongs on this basis. (Compare gender role, gender identity.) [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/gendersex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gendersex
trans_list: gens
sense:
Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.


lexentry: eng/gene__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gene
trans_list: genum
sense:
(genetics) A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.


lexentry: eng/genealogy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: genealogy
trans_list: genealogia
sense:
(countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree.


lexentry: eng/general__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: general
trans_list: generālis
sense:
Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole etc.; as opposed to specific or particular. [from 13th c.]


lexentry: eng/general__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: general
trans_list: generālis
sense:
(sometimes, _, postpositive) Applied to a person (as a postmodifier or a normal preceding adjective) to indicate supreme rank, in civil or military titles, and later in other terms; pre-eminent. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/general__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: general
trans_list: dux | imperator
sense:
(military ranks) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/general_anesthesia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: general anesthesia
trans_list: narcosis
sense:
(American spelling, medicine) A type of anesthesia that causes loss of sensation to the whole body, usually to the point of unconsciousness.


lexentry: eng/general_anesthetic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: general anesthetic
trans_list: narcotica
sense:
(medicine) An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation to the whole body, usually to the point of unconsciousness.


lexentry: eng/general_practitioner__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: general practitioner
trans_list: medica
sense:
A physician who provides primary care; treating acute and chronic illnesses and providing preventive care and health education; a family doctor.


lexentry: eng/general_relativity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: general relativity
trans_list: relativitas generalis | theoria relativitatis generalis
sense:
(relativity) A theory extending special relativity and uniformly accounting for gravity and accelerated frames of reference, postulating that space-time curves in the presence of mass.


lexentry: eng/general_store__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: general store
trans_list: emporium
sense:
A store which sells a large variety of useful things, without specializing highly in any particular type of merchandise, and which is not departmentalized.


lexentry: eng/generation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: generation
trans_list: aetas
sense:
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/generation__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: generation
trans_list: aetas
sense:
A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or degree in genealogy, the members of a family from the same parents, considered as a single unit. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/generation__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: generation
trans_list: generatio
sense:
The average amount of time needed for children to grow up and have children of their own, generally considered to be a period of around thirty years, used as a measure of time. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/generation__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: generation
trans_list: aetas
sense:
(geometry) The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude, by the motion of a point, of a surface by a line, a sphere by a semicircle, etc.


lexentry: eng/generic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: generic
trans_list: catholicus
sense:
Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups (genera) as opposed to specific instances.


lexentry: eng/generous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: generous
trans_list: largus | mūnificus
sense:
Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/genetics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: genetics
trans_list: genetica
sense:
(biology) The branch of biology that deals with the transmission and variation of inherited characteristics, in particular chromosomes and DNA.


lexentry: eng/genie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: genie
trans_list: daemonium genius
sense:
(Islam) A jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.


lexentry: eng/genitive__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: genitive
trans_list: genetīvus
sense:
(grammar) Of or pertaining to that case (as the second case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses a quality, origin or possession. It corresponds to the possessive case in English.


lexentry: eng/genitive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: genitive
trans_list: casus possessīvus | cāsus genitīvus | genitīvus
sense:
(grammar, uncountable) An inflection pattern (of any given language) that expresses origin or ownership and possession.


lexentry: eng/genitive_absolute__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: genitive absolute
trans_list: genitivus absolutus
sense:
(grammar) an independent phrase in a sentence conveying additional circumstances in the genitive case; present in many Indo-European languages, such as:


lexentry: eng/genocide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: genocide
trans_list: genocīdium
sense:
The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people, typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.


lexentry: eng/genotype__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: genotype
trans_list: genotypus
sense:
(genetics) The part (DNA sequence) of the genetic makeup of an organism which determines a specific characteristic (phenotype) of that organism.


lexentry: eng/gens__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gens
trans_list: gēns
sense:
(Ancient Rome, historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related through a common ancestor by birth, marriage or adoption, possibly over many generations, and sharing the same nomen gentilicium.


lexentry: eng/gentian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gentian
trans_list: gentiāna
sense:
(countable) Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.


lexentry: eng/gentleman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gentleman
trans_list: eques
sense:
(chiefly, _, historical) A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; (UK, _, law) an armiferous man ranking below a knight.


lexentry: eng/genuflect__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: genuflect
trans_list: geniculatio
sense:
(intransitive) To briefly enter a position that touches one knee to the ground in a manner that is typically associated with formal homage or religious worship.


lexentry: eng/genus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: genus
trans_list: genus
sense:
(biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species.


lexentry: eng/geography__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: geography
trans_list: geographia
sense:
The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.


lexentry: eng/geologist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: geologist
trans_list: geologista | geologistus
sense:
A person whose occupation specializes in the science of geology, especially at a professional or academic level.


lexentry: eng/geology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: geology
trans_list: geologia
sense:
The science that studies the structure of the earth (or other planets), together with its origin and development, especially by examination of its rocks.


lexentry: eng/geomancy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: geomancy
trans_list: geomantia
sense:
A method of divination using earth or the ground, such as interpreting markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed.


lexentry: eng/geometry__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: geometry
trans_list: geometria
sense:
(algebraic geometry, countable) A mathematical object comprising representations of a space and of its spatial relationships.


lexentry: eng/geriatrics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: geriatrics
trans_list: geriatria
sense:
(medicine) The branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself.


lexentry: eng/germ__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: germ
trans_list: germen
sense:
(biology) The small mass of cells from which a part of an organism develops, or a macroscopic but immature form of that part; a bud.


lexentry: eng/germander__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: germander
trans_list: chamaedrys
sense:
Any plant of the genus Teucrium, some with small, pink, white, or pale purple flowers and a small upper lip.


lexentry: eng/germanium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: germanium
trans_list: germanium
sense:
A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Ge) with an atomic number of 32: a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group.


lexentry: eng/gerontology__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gerontology
trans_list: gerontologia
sense:
The branch of science that deals with the problems of aged people. It is to be distinguished from geriatrics, which is the study of the diseases of the elderly. Gerontology covers the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging.


lexentry: eng/gerund__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gerund
trans_list: gerundium
sense:
(grammar) A verbal form that functions as a verbal noun. (In English, a gerund has the same spelling as a present participle, but functions differently; however, this distinction may be ambiguous or unclear and so is no longer made in some modern texts such as A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language and The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language)


lexentry: eng/gerund__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gerund
trans_list: gerundium
sense:
(grammar) In some languages such as Dutch, Italian or Russian, a verbal form similar to a present participle, but functioning as an adverb to form adverbial phrases or continuous tense. These constructions have various names besides gerund, depending on the language, such as conjunctive participles, active participles, adverbial participles, transgressives, etc.


lexentry: eng/gerundive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gerundive
trans_list: gerundīvum | gerundivum
sense:
(in Latin, _, grammar) a verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle.


lexentry: eng/gestalt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gestalt
trans_list: forma
sense:
A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being)


lexentry: eng/get__Verb__1
sense_num: 14
written_rep: get
trans_list: sum
sense:
(intransitive, catenative) (with full infinitive) To be able, be permitted, or have the opportunity (to do something desirable or ironically implied to be desirable).


lexentry: eng/get_along__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: get along
trans_list: comprehendere
sense:
(intransitive, idiomatic, often followed by with) To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble.


lexentry: eng/get_away__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: get away
trans_list: digredi
sense:
(with 'to' when used with an object) To take a break from one's present circumstances; to journey (to), especially on holiday.


lexentry: eng/get_back__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: get back
trans_list: ulcīscor
sense:
(transitive, often, with at or against) To do something to hurt or harm (someone) who has hurt or harmed one; to take revenge.


lexentry: eng/get_off__Verb__1
sense_num: 18
written_rep: get off
trans_list: agito
sense:
(transitive, slang) To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.


lexentry: eng/get_off__Verb__1
sense_num: 19
written_rep: get off
trans_list: cavillor
sense:
(intransitive, slang) To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.


lexentry: eng/get_one's_knickers_in_a_twist__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: get one's knickers in a twist
trans_list: agito
sense:
(idiomatic, Britain, Ireland, humorous, informal, ) To become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.


lexentry: eng/geyser__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: geyser
trans_list: fons calidae atque alte exsilientis aquae
sense:
(planetology, geology, volcanology) A boiling natural spring which throws forth jets of water, mud, etc., at frequent intervals, driven upwards by the expansive power of steam.


lexentry: eng/ghosting__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: ghosting
trans_list: glacies
sense:
(computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed.


lexentry: eng/ghosting__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: ghosting
trans_list: glacies
sense:
(colloquial) A method of ending a personal relationship by stopping any contact with the other party and not providing an explanation. [from 2000s]


lexentry: eng/ghosting__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: ghosting
trans_list: larva
sense:
The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.


lexentry: eng/giant_fennel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: giant fennel
trans_list: ferula
sense:
Ferula communis, a tall herbaceous perennial (not a true fennel), of the family Apiaceae, native to the Mediterranean and eastern Africa.


lexentry: eng/gibbering__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gibbering
trans_list: locutuleius
sense:
Prone to meaningless vocalization, especially excited and confused utterances, like a beast or monster.


lexentry: eng/gibbous_moon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gibbous moon
trans_list: luna in orbem insinuata
sense:
(astronomy) A lunar phase either side of the full moon when the moon's disc as seen from the Earth is larger than a semicircle.


lexentry: eng/giddy__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: giddy
trans_list: vertiginosa
sense:
Feeling a sense of spinning in the head, causing a perception of unsteadiness and being about to fall down; dizzy.


lexentry: eng/gift_of_the_gab__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gift of the gab
trans_list: eloquentia
sense:
(idiomatic) The ability to talk readily, glibly, and convincingly, especially on trivial matters and small talk.


lexentry: eng/gill__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: gill
trans_list: branchia
sense:
(mycology) One of the radial folds on the underside of the cap of a mushroom, the surface of which bears the spore-producing organs.


lexentry: eng/gin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gin
trans_list: gin
sense:
A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.


lexentry: eng/ginger__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ginger
trans_list: zingiber
sense:
The pungent aromatic rhizome of a tropical Asian herb, Zingiber officinale, used as a spice and as a stimulant and acarminative.


lexentry: eng/giraffe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: giraffe
trans_list: camelopardalis | giraffa
sense:
A ruminant, of the genus Giraffa, of the African savannah with long legs and highly elongated neck, which make it the tallest living animal; yellow fur patterned with dark spots, often in the form of a network; and two or more short, skin-covered horns, so-called; strictly speaking the horn-like projections are ossicones.


lexentry: eng/girder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: girder
trans_list: trabs
sense:
A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.


lexentry: eng/gist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gist
trans_list: corpus
sense:
(countable) The main idea or substance, or the most essential part, of a longer or more complicated matter; the crux, the heart, the pith.


lexentry: eng/git__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: git
trans_list: idiota
sense:
(Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) A silly, incompetent, stupid, or annoying person (usually a man).


lexentry: eng/gizzard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gizzard
trans_list: gigēria | ingluviēs
sense:
A specialized organ constructed of thick muscular walls found in the digestive tract of some animals, including archosaurs (including crocodilians and birds), earthworms, some gastropods, some fish, and some crustaceans, and used for grinding up food, often aided by particles of stone or grit.


lexentry: eng/gladiator__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gladiator
trans_list: gladiātor | gladiātrīx
sense:
(in ancient Rome) A person (professional or slave) who entertained the public by engaging in mortal combat with another, or with a wild animal.


lexentry: eng/gladiolus__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gladiolus
trans_list: gladiolus
sense:
Any of several flowering plants, of the genus Gladiolus, having sword-shaped leaves and showy flowers on spikes; gladiola.


lexentry: eng/glaive__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: glaive
trans_list: gladius
sense:
(historical) A weapon consisting of a pole with a large blade fixed on the end, the edge of which is on the outside curve.


lexentry: eng/gland__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gland
trans_list: glandula
sense:
(zoology) A specialized cell, group of cells, or organ of endothelial origin in the human or animal body that synthesizes a chemical substance, such as hormones or breast milk, and releases it, often into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).


lexentry: eng/glanders__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glanders
trans_list: malleus
sense:
An infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.


lexentry: eng/glans__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glans
trans_list: glans penis
sense:
(anatomy) A structure at the extremity of the penis and of the clitoris in humans and other mammals.


lexentry: eng/glass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glass
trans_list: vitrum | hyalus
sense:
(usually, uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).


lexentry: eng/glass__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: glass
trans_list: vitrum
sense:
(countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.


lexentry: eng/glaucoma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glaucoma
trans_list: glaucoma
sense:
(pathology) An eye disease or disorder that is defined as a characteristic optic neuropathy, or disease of the optic nerve, possibly, if untreated, leading to damage of the optic disc of the eye and resultant visual field loss due to lack of communication between the retina and the brain, which can lead to blindness.


lexentry: eng/glee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glee
trans_list: gaudimonium
sense:
(uncountable) Joy; happiness; great delight, especially from one's own good fortune or from another's misfortune.


lexentry: eng/glee__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: glee
trans_list: gaudimonium
sense:
(singing, countable) An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices, not necessarily merry.


lexentry: eng/glen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glen
trans_list: anfractus
sense:
A secluded and narrow valley, especially one with a river running through it; a depression between hills; a dale.


lexentry: eng/glisten__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glisten
trans_list: fulgeō | niteō
sense:
(intransitive, of a wet or greasy surface) To reflect light with a glittering luster; to sparkle, coruscate, glint or flash.


lexentry: eng/gloaming__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gloaming
trans_list: vesperascere
sense:
(poetry, Scotland, North England) Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk.


lexentry: eng/globalisation__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: globalisation
trans_list: globalizatio
sense:
The process of the world economy becoming dominated by capitalist models, according to the World System Theory.


lexentry: eng/glomerulus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glomerulus
trans_list: corpusculum renis
sense:
(anatomy) A small intertwined group of capillaries within nephrons of the kidney that filter the blood to make urine


lexentry: eng/glory__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: glory
trans_list: glōria
sense:
Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.


lexentry: eng/glossator__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: glossator
trans_list: glossator
sense:
(historical, law) A legal scholar of the Middle Ages, (specifically) one who authored glosses on legal texts (especially the Corpus Juris of Justinian), typically distinguished from the later commentators who wrote in extended prose and adopted a more pragmatic form of jurisprudence.


lexentry: eng/glottis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glottis
trans_list: glottis
sense:
(anatomy) The opening between the true vocal cords which is located in the larynx and affects voice modulation through expansion or contraction.


lexentry: eng/glove__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glove
trans_list: chirotheca | manica | wantum | wantus
sense:
An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.


lexentry: eng/glowworm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glowworm
trans_list: lampyris
sense:
The larva or wingless grub-like female of a beetle from the families Phengodidae or Lampyridae that gives out a green light from its abdomen.


lexentry: eng/glucose__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glucose
trans_list: glucosium
sense:
(carbohydrate) A simple monosaccharide (sugar) with a molecular formula of C6H12O6; it is a principle source of energy for cellular metabolism.


lexentry: eng/glue-boiler__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glue-boiler
trans_list: glūtinārius
sense:
A specialized profession practised in the developed world up to the early twentieth century that made, from particularly cattle bones, the adhesives used in for instance paperwork, bookbinding, joinery, ivory inlay.


lexentry: eng/glue__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: glue
trans_list: glūten
sense:
A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.


lexentry: eng/gluten__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: gluten
trans_list: gluten
sense:
(cooking, biochemistry) The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/gnomon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gnomon
trans_list: stilus
sense:
An object such as a pillar or a rod that is used to tell time by the shadow it casts when the sun shines on it, especially the pointer on a sundial. [from mid 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/go__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: go
trans_list: gradior | baetō | bētō | bītō | eō | vādō
sense:
(intransitive) 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.)


lexentry: eng/go__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: go
trans_list: agō | faciō
sense:
(intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).


lexentry: eng/go__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: go
trans_list: labō
sense:
(intransitive, chiefly, of a, machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).


lexentry: eng/go_ahead__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: go ahead
trans_list: licet
sense:
(in the imperative) Used to grant permission for or to give endorsement of a suggestion or proposal.


lexentry: eng/go_bad__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: go bad
trans_list: tornare
sense:
(of foods and commodities) To spoil, rot, or otherwise become unusable due to age or storage conditions.


lexentry: eng/go_out__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: go out
trans_list: egredior | exeo
sense:
(intransitive, idiomatic) To leave one's abode to go to public places, especially for recreation or entertainment.


lexentry: eng/go_out__Verb__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: go out
trans_list: exeō | ēgredior
sense:
(intransitive, of a couple) To have a romantic relationship, one that involves going out together on dates; to be a couple.


lexentry: eng/go_through_with__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: go through with
trans_list: perpetrō
sense:
(idiomatic, transitive) To carry out (something planned or promised); to proceed with or continue with.


lexentry: eng/goalkeeper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: goalkeeper
trans_list: custos
sense:
(sports) A designated player that attempts to prevent the opposing team from scoring by protecting a goal.


lexentry: eng/goblin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: goblin
trans_list: cobalus | gobelinus
sense:
One of various hostile supernatural creatures, now especially (fantasy literature) a malevolent and grotesque diminutive humanoid, often associated with orcs or trolls.


lexentry: eng/gobshite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gobshite
trans_list: homo loquax
sense:
(Ireland, Britain, slang, offensive, vulgar) One who engages in nonsensical chatter or unwanted conversation.


lexentry: eng/goddess__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: goddess
trans_list: dea
sense:
(figuratively) A woman honored or adored as physically attractive or of superior charm and intelligence.


lexentry: eng/godfather__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: godfather
trans_list: patrinus | susceptorus
sense:
(Christianity) A man present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a male godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.


lexentry: eng/godliness__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: godliness
trans_list: pietas
sense:
The condition and quality of being godly, pious, scrupulously observant of all the teachings of one's religion, practicing virtue and avoiding sin.


lexentry: eng/godmother__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: godmother
trans_list: matrina | commater
sense:
A woman present at the christening of a baby who promises to help raise the child in a Christian manner; a female godparent who sponsors the baptism of a child.


lexentry: eng/godparent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: godparent
trans_list: compater
sense:
A person who, at a child's naming ceremony or baptism, agrees to help raise the child, originally and especially in regard to their religious development.


lexentry: eng/going_to__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: going to
trans_list: se habere
sense:
Expresses the prospective aspect relative to a given time frame: something that will happen, or is intended, at the time, to happen.


lexentry: eng/goitre__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: goitre
trans_list: struma
sense:
(pathology, UK) An enlargement of the front and sides of the neck caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland.


lexentry: eng/golden_jackal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: golden jackal
trans_list: Canis aureus
sense:
Canis aureus, a common jackal that can be found in southwest Europe, the Middle East and South Asia.


lexentry: eng/golden_ratio__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: golden ratio
trans_list: proportio divina
sense:
(geometry) The irrational number (approximately 1.618), usually denoted by the Greek letter φ (phi), which is equal to the sum of its own reciprocal and 1, or, equivalently, is the square root of the sum of itself and 1.


lexentry: eng/golf__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: golf
trans_list: pilamalleus
sense:
(sports) A ball game played by individuals competing against one another in which the object is to hit a ball into each of a series of (usually 18 or nine) holes in the minimum number of strokes.


lexentry: eng/gompa__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gompa
trans_list: monasterium
sense:
(Buddhism) A Buddhist ecclesiastical fortification of learning, lineage and sadhana in Tibet, India, Nepal, or Bhutan.


lexentry: eng/gondola__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gondola
trans_list: cymba
sense:
A small long, narrow boat with a high prow and stern, propelled with a single oar, especially in Venice.


lexentry: eng/goner__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: goner
trans_list: mortuus
sense:
(informal) Someone (or something) doomed; a hopeless case, especially someone who is bound to die soon.


lexentry: eng/gonorrhea__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gonorrhea
trans_list: gonorrhoea
sense:
(American spelling) A sexually transmitted infection caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae, a species of bacteria (the gonococcus) that affects the mucous membrane of the genital and urinary tracts.


lexentry: eng/goo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: goo
trans_list: glutinosus
sense:
(uncountable, informal) Any semi-solid or liquid substance; especially one that is sticky, gummy or slippery, unpleasant, and of vague or unknown composition, such as slime or semen.


lexentry: eng/good__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: good
trans_list: bona | bonum
sense:
(uncountable) The forces or behaviours that are the enemy of evil. Usually consists of helping others and general benevolence.


lexentry: eng/good_news__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: good news
trans_list: ēvangelium
sense:
(Christianity) The message of Jesus concerning the salvation of the faithful (as elaborated in the Gospels)


lexentry: eng/good_night__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
sense: A farewell said in the evening or before going to sleep.
written_rep: good night
trans_list:
bonam noctem | bene quiēscās | in dextram aurem dormiās | in utramvīs aurem dormiās | molliter cubēs | placidam noctem


lexentry: eng/good_to_go__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: good to go
trans_list: promptus
sense:
(informal, of a person) Ready for some specific task or ready for normal activity, especially after preparation or recovery.


lexentry: eng/goodbye__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: goodbye
trans_list: bene ambulā | bene ambulāte | valē | valēte
sense:
Farewell; a formula used to another person or persons when the speaker, writer, or person addressed is departing.


lexentry: eng/goofball__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: goofball
trans_list: campana
sense:
(informal, pharmaceutical drug) A pill or tablet containing a pharmaceutical which has hypnotic or intoxicating effects, especially a barbiturate.


lexentry: eng/googol__Numeral__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: googol
trans_list: googol
sense:
The number 10^{100}, or ten to the power of a hundred. Equivalent to ten duotrigintillion (short scale), or ten sexdecilliard (long scale). [from 1920.]


lexentry: eng/goon__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: goon
trans_list: bardus
sense:
(slang) One hired to legally kidnap a child and forcibly transport them to a boot camp, boarding school, wilderness therapy, or a similar rehabilitation facility.


lexentry: eng/goose__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: goose
trans_list: anser | avica
sense:
Any of various grazing waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which have feathers and webbed feet and are capable of flying, swimming, and walking on land, and which are bigger than ducks.


lexentry: eng/goose_bump__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: goose bump
trans_list: cutis anserina
sense:
(chiefly, in plural) Raised skin, usually caused by the involuntary erection of hairs on the neck or arms caused by cold, excitement, or fear.


lexentry: eng/gopher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gopher
trans_list: talpa
sense:
A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (true gophers).


lexentry: eng/gorge__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gorge
trans_list: gula
sense:
(archaic, literary) The inside of the throat; the esophagus, the gullet; (falconry, specifically) the crop or gizzard of a hawk.


lexentry: eng/gorge__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: gorge
trans_list: aequor
sense:
(architectural element, military, fortification) The rearward side of an outwork, a bastion, or a fort, often open, or not protected against artillery; a narrow entry passage into the outwork of an enclosed fortification.


lexentry: eng/gorge__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: gorge
trans_list: barathrum
sense:
(geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.


lexentry: eng/gorge__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gorge
trans_list: helluor
sense:
(intransitive, reflexive) To stuff the gorge or gullet with food; to eat greedily and in large quantities. [+ on (object)]


lexentry: eng/gorgon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gorgon
trans_list: Gorgō
sense:
(Greek mythology) A vicious female monster from Greek mythology with sharp fangs and hair of living, venomous snakes. One of the three sisters: Medusa, Stheno and Euryale


lexentry: eng/gorilla__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gorilla
trans_list: gorilla
sense:
The largest of the apes, belonging to the genus Gorilla, native to the forests of central Africa and known for their trait of knuckle-walking.


lexentry: eng/gormless__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gormless
trans_list: absurdus
sense:
(chiefly, UK, New Zealand, Australia , Ireland, of a person) Lacking intelligence, sense or understanding; foolish.


lexentry: eng/gospel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gospel
trans_list: evangelium
sense:
The first section of the Christian New Testament scripture, comprising the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, concerned with the birth, ministry, passion, and resurrection of Jesus.


lexentry: eng/gossip__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gossip
trans_list: lingulāca | rūmusculī
sense:
(uncountable) Idle talk about someone’s private or personal matters, especially someone not present.


lexentry: eng/gouge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gouge
trans_list: gulbia
sense:
A chisel with a curved blade for cutting or scooping channels, grooves, or holes in wood, stone, etc.


lexentry: eng/gourd__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: gourd
trans_list: cucurbita
sense:
The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.


lexentry: eng/gourd__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: gourd
trans_list: cucurbita
sense:
(obsolete) Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.


lexentry: eng/goutte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: goutte
trans_list: gutta
sense:
(heraldiccharge) A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides.


lexentry: eng/govern__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: govern
trans_list: gubernō | regō
sense:
(transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.


lexentry: eng/government__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: government
trans_list: administrātiō | gubernātiō
sense:
The body with the power to make and/or enforce laws to control a country, land area, people or organization.


lexentry: eng/gown__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: gown
trans_list: abolla
sense:
The official robe of certain professionals, clerics, and scholars, such as university students and officers, barristers, judges, etc.


lexentry: eng/graben__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: graben
trans_list: fossa
sense:
(geology) An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area.


lexentry: eng/grace__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: grace
trans_list: gratia deis | gratia
sense:
(uncountable, theology) Free and undeserved favour, especially of God; unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification, or for resisting sin.


lexentry: eng/grace_note__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grace note
trans_list: sonus tolerantiae
sense:
(music) A musical note, indicated on a score in smaller type with or without a slash through it, played to ornament the melody rather than as part of it. Its note value does not count as part of the total time value of the measure it appears in.


lexentry: eng/grade__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: grade
trans_list: omen
sense:
(chiefly, North America) Performance on a test or other evaluation(s), expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a score.


lexentry: eng/grade__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grade
trans_list: annotare
sense:
(chiefly, North America) To assign scores to the components of an academic test, or to overall academic performance.


lexentry: eng/gradient__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: gradient
trans_list: clivus
sense:
(calculus, of a function) The ratio of the rates of change of a dependent variable and an independent variable, the slope of a curve's tangent.


lexentry: eng/gradual__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gradual
trans_list: graduāle
sense:
(Christianity) An antiphon or responsory after the epistle, in the Mass, which was sung on the steps, or while the deacon ascended the steps.


lexentry: eng/graduate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: graduate
trans_list: graduata | graduatus
sense:
A person who is recognized by a university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.


lexentry: eng/graduate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: graduate
trans_list: adipisci | suscipere
sense:
(intransitive, ergative) To be recognized by a school or university as having completed the requirements of a degree studied at the institution.


lexentry: eng/graft__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: graft
trans_list: clāvula
sense:
(countable) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.


lexentry: eng/grammar__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: grammar
trans_list: grammatica | grammatice | litteratio | litteratoria
sense:
(uncountable, linguistics) The study of the internal structure of words (morphology) and the use of words in the construction of phrases and sentences (syntax).


lexentry: eng/grammar_school__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: grammar school
trans_list: gymnasium
sense:
(chiefly, _, UK) A secondary school that stresses academic over practical or vocational education, until recent times open to those pupils who had passed the 11-plus examination.


lexentry: eng/grammatical_case__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grammatical case
trans_list: cāsus
sense:
(grammar) A mode of inflection of a word dependent on its use, especially the syntactic function in a phrase.


lexentry: eng/grammatical_gender__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grammatical gender
trans_list: genus
sense:
(grammar) The grammatically prescribed gender of a noun, which does not necessarily correspond with the referent’s attributes such as biological sex.


lexentry: eng/grand__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grand
trans_list: grandis | magnus
sense:
Great in size, and fine or imposing in appearance or impression; illustrious, dignified, magnificent.


lexentry: eng/grand__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grand
trans_list: grandis
sense:
Having higher rank or more dignity, size, or importance than other persons or things of the same name.


lexentry: eng/grand_piano__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grand piano
trans_list: ala
sense:
(musical instruments) A large piano in which the strings are strung horizontally in a heavy frame shaped like a harp


lexentry: eng/grande_dame__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: grande dame
trans_list: regina
sense:
(figurative) A very highly regarded and well-known institution or structure, or large conveyance such as a ship.


lexentry: eng/grandiloquent__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grandiloquent
trans_list: grandiloquus
sense:
(of a person, their language or writing) Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive number of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid.


lexentry: eng/grandnephew__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grandnephew
trans_list: nepos fratris | nepos sororis
sense:
A grandson of one's sibling; a son of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's grandson: fraternal grandnephew. Sister's grandson: sororal grandnephew.)


lexentry: eng/grandniece__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grandniece
trans_list: pronepos
sense:
A granddaughter of one's sibling; a daughter of one's nephew or niece. (Brother's granddaughter: fraternal grandniece. Sister's granddaughter: sororal grandniece.)


lexentry: eng/granite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: granite
trans_list: granitum
sense:
(rock) A group of igneous and plutonic rocks composed primarily of feldspar and quartz. Usually contains one or more dark minerals, which may be mica, pyroxene, or amphibole. Granite is quarried for building stone, road gravel, decorative stone, and tombstones. Common colors are gray, white, pink, and yellow-brown.


lexentry: eng/grape__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grape
trans_list: uva
sense:
(countable) A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on vines of genus Vitis.


lexentry: eng/grape__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: grape
trans_list: uva
sense:
(countable) Any of various fruits or plants with varying resemblances to those of genus Vitis but belonging to other genera; their edibility varies.


lexentry: eng/graph__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: graph
trans_list: comes
sense:
(graph theory) A set of vertices (or nodes) connected together by edges; (formally) an ordered pair of sets (V,E), where the elements of V are called vertices or nodes and E is a set of pairs (called edges) of elements of V. See also w:Graph (discrete mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia


lexentry: eng/graphical_user_interface__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: graphical user interface
trans_list: graphica usoris interfacies
sense:
(computing) A type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and widgets in addition to text.


lexentry: eng/graphite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: graphite
trans_list: plumbāgō | plumbago
sense:
An allotrope of carbon, consisting of planes of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal arrays with the planes stacked loosely, that is used as a dry lubricant, in "lead" pencils, and as a moderator in some nuclear reactors.


lexentry: eng/grappling_hook__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grappling hook
trans_list: harpago
sense:
A type of hook attached to a line and designed to be thrown at a target (e.g. rigging of an enemy ship) for the purpose of catching hold of it.


lexentry: eng/grass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grass
trans_list: herba | grāmen
sense:
(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.


lexentry: eng/grass_roots__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grass roots
trans_list: basis
sense:
(politics) People and society at the local (most basic) level rather than at the national centre of political activity.


lexentry: eng/grasshopper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grasshopper
trans_list: locusta
sense:
A mostly herbivorous insect of the order Orthoptera, noted for its ability to jump long distances and for the habit of some species communicating by stridulation; they are related to but distinct from crickets.


lexentry: eng/grasshopper_warbler__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grasshopper warbler
trans_list: Locustella naevia
sense:
Any of a number of species of small songbirds in the genera Locustella and Helopsaltes, especially Locustella naevia.


lexentry: eng/grate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grate
trans_list: cancellī | clāthrī
sense:
A horizontal metal grill through which liquid, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.


lexentry: eng/grater__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grater
trans_list: rādula
sense:
a tool with which one grates, especially foods such as cheese, to facilitate getting small particles or shreds off a solid lump


lexentry: eng/grave_accent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grave accent
trans_list: accentus gravis
sense:
(countable) A diacritic mark ( ` ) used in many languages to distinguish the pronunciations of vowels.


lexentry: eng/gravel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gravel
trans_list: glārea
sense:
(uncountable) Small fragments of rock, used for laying on the beds of roads and railways, and as ballast.


lexentry: eng/gravitation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gravitation
trans_list: gravitas
sense:
(physics) The fundamental force of attraction that exists between all matter in the universe, caused by the curvature of spacetime caused by matter. It is the weakest of the four fundamental interaction, and possesses a gauge boson known as the graviton.


lexentry: eng/gravitational_force__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gravitational force
trans_list: gravitas
sense:
(physics) A very long-range, but relatively weak fundamental force of attraction that acts between all particles that have mass; believed to be mediated by gravitons.


lexentry: eng/graviton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: graviton
trans_list: graviton
sense:
(particle) A hypothetical gauge boson that regulates the gravitational force. It would have a spin of 2 and zero rest mass.


lexentry: eng/gravity__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: gravity
trans_list: gravitās
sense:
(physics) The force at the Earth's surface, of the attraction by the Earth's masses, and the centrifugal pseudo-force caused by the Earth's rotation, resulting from gravitation.


lexentry: eng/gravity__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: gravity
trans_list: gravitās
sense:
(loosely, see usage notes) Gravitation, the universal force exercised by two bodies onto each other.


lexentry: eng/grayling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grayling
trans_list: umbra
sense:
Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin.


lexentry: eng/greasy_spoon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: greasy spoon
trans_list: gānea | gāneum
sense:
(idiomatic, informal) An inexpensive diner or other informal restaurant, especially one specializing in frying or grilling.


lexentry: eng/great__Adjective__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: great
trans_list: magnus
sense:
(applied to actions, thoughts and feelings) Arising from or possessing idealism; admirable; commanding; illustrious; eminent.


lexentry: eng/great_circle__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: great circle
trans_list: circulus maior
sense:
A segment of such circle representing the shortest distance between two points on the surface of a sphere.


lexentry: eng/great_northern_diver__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: great northern diver
trans_list: Gavia immer
sense:
(UK, Ireland) A large member of the diver family, Gavia immer, commonly breeding in North America, where it is known as the as common loon.


lexentry: eng/great_white_shark__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: great white shark
trans_list: Carcharodon carcharias
sense:
A large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of coastal surface waters in all major oceans that feeds on fish and marine mammals.


lexentry: eng/greave__Noun__3
sense_num: 01
written_rep: greave
trans_list: ocrea
sense:
A piece of armour that protects the leg, especially the shin, and occasionally the tops of the feet.


lexentry: eng/grebe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grebe
trans_list: mergus
sense:
Any of several waterbirds in the cosmopolitan family Podicipedidae. They have strong, sharp bills, and lobate toes.


lexentry: eng/greed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: greed
trans_list: avaritia
sense:
A selfish or excessive desire for more than is needed or deserved, especially of money, wealth, food, or other possessions.


lexentry: eng/green__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: green
trans_list: viridis
sense:
The colour of grass and leaves; a primary additive colour midway between yellow and cyan which is evoked by light between roughly roughly 495–570 nm.


lexentry: eng/green_tea__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: green tea
trans_list: thea viridis
sense:
Leaves of the tea plant which are treated with steam or roasted to denature the enzymes that cause the leaves to darken and change taste. (Without this step they would become oolong tea or black tea).


lexentry: eng/greenfinch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: greenfinch
trans_list: Carduelis chloris
sense:
the European greenfinch, a common Old World finch, Carduelis chloris, now Chloris chloris, that is mainly green with yellow in the wings and tail.


lexentry: eng/greengrocer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: greengrocer
trans_list: holitor
sense:
(chiefly, British, AU, NZ, Irish) A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit, normally from a relatively small shop.


lexentry: eng/greenhouse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: greenhouse
trans_list: caldarium | hibernaculum
sense:
A building used to grow plants, particularly one with large glass windows or plastic sheeting to trap heat from sunlight even in intemperate seasons or climates.


lexentry: eng/greeting__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: greeting
trans_list: salūtātiō
sense:
A conventional phrase used to start a letter or conversation or otherwise to acknowledge a person's arrival or presence.


lexentry: eng/greige__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: greige
trans_list: crudus
sense:
(textiles) Of clothing, textiles, etc.: neither bleached nor dyed, nor otherwise fully processed; unfinished.


lexentry: eng/grenade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grenade
trans_list: granata
sense:
A small explosive device, designed to be thrown by hand or launched using a rifle, grenade launcher, or rocket.


lexentry: eng/grenadier__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: grenadier
trans_list: episcopus
sense:
(ornithology) Any of various African weaverbirds or waxbills, especially the common grenadier or the red bishop.


lexentry: eng/grey_wolf__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grey wolf
trans_list: Canis lupus | lupus
sense:
A large canid, Canis lupus, once found throughout forested areas of northern Europe, Asia and America; it shares a common ancestry with the domestic dog.


lexentry: eng/grid__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: grid
trans_list: aranea
sense:
A system for delivery of electricity, consisting of various substations, transformers and generators, connected by wire.


lexentry: eng/grid__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: grid
trans_list: indago
sense:
(computing) A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific or technical problems or to process data at high speeds (as in clusters).


lexentry: eng/gridlock__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: gridlock
trans_list: fundula
sense:
(figuratively, by extension) any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.


lexentry: eng/grief__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: grief
trans_list: dolor | aegritudo | tristitudo
sense:
Emotional pain, generally arising from misfortune, significant personal loss, bereavement, misconduct of oneself or others, etc.; sorrow; sadness. [from early 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/grit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grit
trans_list: arena
sense:
A collection of hard small materials, such as dirt, ground stone, debris from sandblasting or other such grinding, or swarf from metalworking.


lexentry: eng/groin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: groin
trans_list: inguen
sense:
The crease or depression of the human body at the junction of the trunk and the thigh, together with the surrounding region.


lexentry: eng/grok__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grok
trans_list: comprehendere
sense:
(transitive, slang) To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.


lexentry: eng/grok__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: grok
trans_list: comprehendere
sense:
(transitive, slang) To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.


lexentry: eng/groove__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: groove
trans_list: canālis | stria
sense:
A long, narrow channel or depression; e.g., such a slot cut into a hard material to provide a location for an engineering component, a tyre groove, or a geological channel or depression.


lexentry: eng/groovy__Adjective__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: groovy
trans_list: ficus
sense:
(dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable. [popular in the 1940s and again in the 1960s–1970s]


lexentry: eng/gross_domestic_product__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gross domestic product
trans_list: proventus domesticus grossus
sense:
(economics) A measure of the economic production of a particular territory in financial capital terms over a specific time period.


lexentry: eng/grotto__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: grotto
trans_list: caverna
sense:
A local organization of cavers that typically organizes trips to caves and provides information and training for caving; a caving club.


lexentry: eng/ground_rent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ground rent
trans_list: canon
sense:
(legal, real estate) Rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.


lexentry: eng/ground_zero__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ground zero
trans_list: solum nihil | terra nihil
sense:
Originally, the point on the land or water surface below which a nuclear bomb detonates in the air; now also the point on such a surface at or above the detonation.


lexentry: eng/group__Noun__1
sense_num: 14
written_rep: group
trans_list: circulus | grex | turma | globus | grupus
sense:
(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.


lexentry: eng/group_theory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: group theory
trans_list: theoria catervarum
sense:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see group,‎ theory; a theory about (particular kinds of) groups.


lexentry: eng/grouper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grouper
trans_list: acernia
sense:
Any of various large food and game fishes of the subfamily Epinephelinae, especially the genera Epinephelus and Mycteroperca, which inhabit warm seas.


lexentry: eng/grouse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grouse
trans_list: Lyrurus tetrix
sense:
(countable) Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles. [from 1530s]


lexentry: eng/growl__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: growl
trans_list: ganniō
sense:
(intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.


lexentry: eng/groyne__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: groyne
trans_list: arista
sense:
An often wooden structure that projects from a coastline to prevent erosion, longshore drift etc.; a breakwater.


lexentry: eng/grudge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grudge
trans_list: rancor
sense:
(countable) Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity or ill will about something or someone, especially due to perceived mistreatment.


lexentry: eng/grumble__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: grumble
trans_list: ganniō
sense:
(intransitive) To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.


lexentry: eng/grunt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: grunt
trans_list: grunnītus
sense:
A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.


lexentry: eng/guacamole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guacamole
trans_list: guacamole
sense:
An avocado-based greenish dip with onions, tomato, and spices, common to Mexican cuisine and often served with tortilla chips.


lexentry: eng/guard__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guard
trans_list: tutor | custodio | defendo | teneo | tueor
sense:
(transitive) To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend.


lexentry: eng/guard__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: guard
trans_list: custodio
sense:
(transitive) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like.


lexentry: eng/gudgeon__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gudgeon
trans_list: cnōdāx
sense:
(also, attributively) A circular or cylindrical fitting, often made of metal, into which a pin or pintle fits to create a hinge or pivoting joint.


lexentry: eng/guerrilla_warfare__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guerrilla warfare
trans_list: bellum tectum
sense:
Combat using groups of irregular, light, mobile troops within areas occupied by an enemy force, usually through hit-and-run tactics.


lexentry: eng/guide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guide
trans_list: dux
sense:
Someone who guides, especially someone hired to show people around a place or an institution and offer information and explanation, or to lead them through dangerous terrain.


lexentry: eng/guide__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guide
trans_list: dērigō
sense:
to serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path.


lexentry: eng/guide_book__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guide book
trans_list: ductor
sense:
A book that provides guidance, but especially one designed for travellers which provides local tourist information about a particular country or area.


lexentry: eng/guild__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guild
trans_list: collēgium | confrāternitās | ghilda | gilda
sense:
A group or association mainly of tradespeople made up of merchants, craftspeople, or artisans for mutual aid, particularly in the Middle Ages.


lexentry: eng/guilder__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: guilder
trans_list: florenus
sense:
The current currency unit in the islands in the former Netherlands Antilles, divided into 100 cents.


lexentry: eng/guillotine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guillotine
trans_list: securis cadens
sense:
(historical, also, figuratively) A machine used for the application of capital punishment by decapitation, consisting of a tall upright frame from which is suspended a heavy diagonal-edged blade which is dropped onto the neck of the person to be executed; also, execution using this machine.


lexentry: eng/guitar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guitar
trans_list: cithara | fides
sense:
(musical instrument) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).


lexentry: eng/gules__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gules
trans_list: rubeus
sense:
(tincture) Red, e.g. on a coat of arms, typically represented in engraving by vertical parallel lines.


lexentry: eng/gun__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gun
trans_list: sclopetum
sense:
A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.


lexentry: eng/gun__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gun
trans_list: sclopetum
sense:
A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.


lexentry: eng/gun__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: gun
trans_list: sclopetum
sense:
(surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).


lexentry: eng/gunfire__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gunfire
trans_list: ignis
sense:
(chiefly, military) The use of gunpowder-type weapons, mainly cannon, as opposed to swords or bayonets.


lexentry: eng/guppy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: guppy
trans_list: Poecilia reticulata
sense:
A tiny freshwater fish, Poecilia reticulata, popular in home aquariums, that usually has a plain body and black or dark blue tail for the females and a more colorful tail for the males.


lexentry: eng/gusset__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gusset
trans_list: cuneus
sense:
A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.


lexentry: eng/gusset__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: gusset
trans_list: cuneus
sense:
(machinery) A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.


lexentry: eng/gut_feeling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gut feeling
trans_list: praesensio
sense:
(idiomatic) An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.


lexentry: eng/gutta__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gutta
trans_list: gutta
sense:
(architectural element) A small water-repelling, cone-shaped projection used in the architrave of the Doric order in classical architecture.


lexentry: eng/gutter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gutter
trans_list: dēlicia
sense:
A prepared channel in a surface, especially at the side of a road adjacent to a curb, intended for the drainage of water.


lexentry: eng/gymnasium__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gymnasium
trans_list: gymnasium
sense:
A type of secondary school in some European countries which typically prepares students for university.


lexentry: eng/gynaeceum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gynaeceum
trans_list: gynaecēum
sense:
(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome) The women's quarters in a household; (hence, loosely) any building or area for women.


lexentry: eng/gynecomastia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gynecomastia
trans_list: gynecomastia
sense:
(American spelling, diseases) Excessive development of breasts in males, resembling the breast development in women.


lexentry: eng/gypsy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gypsy
trans_list: gitana
sense:
(colloquial) An itinerant person or any person, not necessarily Romani; a tinker, a traveller or a carny.


lexentry: eng/gyration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gyration
trans_list: gȳrātiō
sense:
(also, figuratively) The act of turning or whirling, especially around a fixed axis or centre; a circular or spiral motion; rotation.


lexentry: eng/gyrfalcon__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: gyrfalcon
trans_list: Falco rusticolus
sense:
Falco rusticolus, a large bird of prey that breeds on Arctic coasts and islands of North America, Europe and Asia.


lexentry: eng/gyroscope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: gyroscope
trans_list: gyroscopium
sense:
An apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of the frame in any direction or position. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer, used to help keep aircraft and ships steady.


lexentry: eng/habilitation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: habilitation
trans_list: habilitatio
sense:
An academic qualification, prerequiring a PhD, required in order to gain tenure as a professor in some European universities; a thesis or dissertation presented to achieve the qualification.


lexentry: eng/habitual__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: habitual
trans_list: solitus
sense:
Of or relating to a habit; established as a habit; performed over and over again; recurrent, recurring.


lexentry: eng/hack__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: hack
trans_list: fomentum
sense:
(computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.


lexentry: eng/hack__Verb__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: hack
trans_list: caedere
sense:
(transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.


lexentry: eng/hack__Verb__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: hack
trans_list: caedere
sense:
(transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).


lexentry: eng/hacker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hacker
trans_list: effractarius electronicus
sense:
(computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.


lexentry: eng/hadith__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hadith
trans_list: hadit
sense:
(countable, religion, Islam) An eyewitness account of a saying or action of Muhammad or sometimes one of his companions not otherwise found in the Quran.


lexentry: eng/hafnium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hafnium
trans_list: hafnium
sense:
A chemical element (symbol Hf) with an atomic number of 72: a lustrous, silvery-grey tetravalent transition metal.


lexentry: eng/hail__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hail
trans_list: ave | avete
sense:
(archaic, or, poetic) An exclamation of respectful or reverent salutation, or, occasionally, of familiar greeting.


lexentry: eng/hail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hail
trans_list: grandō | grando
sense:
(meteorology, uncountable) Balls or pieces of ice falling as precipitation, often in connection with a thunderstorm.


lexentry: eng/hair__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hair
trans_list: capillus | pilus
sense:
(countable) A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals.


lexentry: eng/hair__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hair
trans_list: capillus | pilus | coma | crīnis
sense:
(uncountable) The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body.


lexentry: eng/hair_conditioner__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hair conditioner
trans_list: balsamum
sense:
(cosmetics) A type of shampoo product that aims to improve the condition of the hair, especially after washing.


lexentry: eng/halberd__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: halberd
trans_list: hallebarda | hellebarda
sense:
A two-handed pole weapon, consisting of a long pole with an axe-like blade mounted on it (at a right angle like an axe, not on the tip like a spear), and (opposite the blade) typically a spike or hook.


lexentry: eng/half-breed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: half-breed
trans_list: hibrida | mixtīcius
sense:
(derogatory) A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage (metis, métis, Metis, Métis; mestizo).


lexentry: eng/half-moon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: half-moon
trans_list: luna dimidiata
sense:
The moon in its first or last quarter when only half the visible face is illuminated; a quarter moon.


lexentry: eng/half__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: half
trans_list: dīmidium | sēmis
sense:
Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.


lexentry: eng/half__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: half
trans_list: dīmidium | dimidium
sense:
One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided.


lexentry: eng/half__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: half
trans_list: semis
sense:
Half of a standard measure, chiefly: (British) half a pint of beer or cider. (Refusing a pint) Just a half, thank you. (Offering to top up a pint glass) Do you want a half in that? (Minimizing the amount of drink taken) A swift half at the Pear Tree.


lexentry: eng/half_brother__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: half brother
trans_list: semifrater | agnatus | frater agnatus | frater consanguineus | frater uterinus | semigermanus
sense:
A male sibling sharing a single parent, as distinguished from a full brother or brother-german, from a step-brother, or from a brother-like figure such as a blood brother.


lexentry: eng/half_nephew__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
sense: son of one's half brother or half sister
written_rep: half nephew
trans_list:
filius fratris consanguinei | filius fratris uterini | filius sororis consanguineae | filius sororis uterinae


lexentry: eng/half_sibling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: half sibling
trans_list: semifrater | semifratrem | semigermane | semisoror
sense:
A sibling sharing a single parent, as distinguished from a full sibling or sibling-german, from a step-sibling, or from a sibling-like figure such as a blood sibling.


lexentry: eng/hallucinate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hallucinate
trans_list: hallūcinor
sense:
(ambitransitive) To seem to perceive things (with one or more of one's senses) which are not really present; to have visions; to experience a hallucination.


lexentry: eng/hallucination__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hallucination
trans_list: hallucinatio
sense:
A sensory perception of something that does not exist, often arising from disorder of the nervous system, as in delirium tremens.


lexentry: eng/halo__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: halo
trans_list: corona aureola
sense:
(religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.


lexentry: eng/halogen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: halogen
trans_list: halogenus
sense:
(chemistry) Any element of group 17, i.e. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, astatine and tennessine.


lexentry: eng/halter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: halter
trans_list: capistrum
sense:
A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.


lexentry: eng/hamadryad__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hamadryad
trans_list: Hamadryas | Ādryas
sense:
(Greek mythology) A wood-nymph who was physically a part of her tree; she would die if her tree were felled.


lexentry: eng/hammer_throw__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hammer throw
trans_list: marcus
sense:
An athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is a heavy steel ball attached with wire (maximum length 4 ft (1.22 m)) to a handle.


lexentry: eng/hammock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hammock
trans_list: lectulus pensilis
sense:
A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.


lexentry: eng/hand__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hand
trans_list: manus
sense:
The part of the forelimb below the forearm or wrist in a human, and the corresponding part in many other animals.


lexentry: eng/hand_fan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hand fan
trans_list: flābellum
sense:
A hand-held device designed to be waved back and forth in order to induce airflow for the purpose of cooling the user.


lexentry: eng/hand_truck__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hand truck
trans_list: antitheus
sense:
(North America) An L-shaped box-moving handcart with handles at one end, wheels at the base, with a small ledge to set objects on, flat against the floor when the hand-truck is upright. It makes otherwise bulky and heavy objects easier to move.


lexentry: eng/handbag__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: handbag
trans_list: theca
sense:
(now, rare) A small bag carried in the hand, used either when travelling or to carry tools for a specific job. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/handball__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: handball
trans_list: globus
sense:
(uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.


lexentry: eng/handball__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: handball
trans_list: globus
sense:
(uncountable, US, Ireland) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.


lexentry: eng/handball__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: handball
trans_list: bracchium
sense:
(countable, Australian Rules Football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.


lexentry: eng/handcuffs__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: handcuffs
trans_list: manicae
sense:
A fastening consisting of two metal rings, designed to go around a person's wrists, and connected by a chain or hinge.


lexentry: eng/handicap__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: handicap
trans_list: impedimentum
sense:
(sports) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race (or other contest of skill) to the competitor possessing disadvantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success.


lexentry: eng/handicap__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: handicap
trans_list: impedimentum
sense:
(sometimes considered offensive) The disadvantage itself, in particular physical or mental disadvantages of people.


lexentry: eng/handkerchief__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: handkerchief
trans_list: sūdārium
sense:
A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands.


lexentry: eng/handler__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: handler
trans_list: auspex
sense:
(in combination) A controller, trainer, someone who handles a specified thing, animal or person (especially a prizefighter).


lexentry: eng/handling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: handling
trans_list: tractātiō
sense:
A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands.


lexentry: eng/handover__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: handover
trans_list: traditio
sense:
The transference of authority, control, power or knowledge from one agency to another, or from one state to another.


lexentry: eng/handrail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: handrail
trans_list: rostrum
sense:
A rail which can be held, such as on the side of a staircase, ramp or other walkway, and serving as a support or guard.


lexentry: eng/handstand__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: handstand
trans_list: directus
sense:
A movement or position in which a person is upside down, supported by their arms with their hands on the ground.


lexentry: eng/hanging__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hanging
trans_list: suspendium
sense:
(countable, uncountable) The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide).


lexentry: eng/hangnail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hangnail
trans_list: reduvia
sense:
A loose, narrow strip of nail tissue protruding from the side edge and anchored near the base of a fingernail or toenail.


lexentry: eng/hangover__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hangover
trans_list: crāpula | crapula
sense:
Negative effects, such as headache or nausea, caused by previous drunkenness due to (excessive) consumption of alcohol.


lexentry: eng/happy_New_Year__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: happy New Year
trans_list: fēlīx sit Annus Novus | fēlīx sit annus novus
sense:
A wish said around the start of a new year to wish someone well for the New Year (holiday) or for the (entire) new year.


lexentry: eng/happy__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: happy
trans_list: laetus | beatus
sense:
Having a feeling arising from a consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, such as comfort, peace, or tranquillity; blissful, contented, joyous.


lexentry: eng/happy__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: happy
trans_list: felix
sense:
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; favored by fortune or luck; fortunate, lucky, propitious.


lexentry: eng/happy_birthday__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: happy birthday
trans_list: felicem natalem | felix dies natalis | felix sit dies natalis | fortuna dies natalis
sense:
Said or written to a person who is celebrating their birthday in order to convey the good wishes of the speaker or writer (literally, "may you have a happy birthday")


lexentry: eng/happy_holidays__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: happy holidays
trans_list: Lorem Nativitatis
sense:
(US, Canada) A greeting used during the Christmas and winter holiday season to recognize the celebration of many holidays, sometimes starting with Thanksgiving and including Hanukkah, the winter solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Day.


lexentry: eng/harbor__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: harbor
trans_list: portus
sense:
(countable, nautical) A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.


lexentry: eng/hard_hat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hard hat
trans_list: galea
sense:
A helmet, usually made from rigid plastic, used on construction sites to protect the head from falling objects.


lexentry: eng/hard_work__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hard work
trans_list: industria
sense:
Something requiring lots of effort to do, either physical, mentally or emotionally; labor; toil. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/hardcore__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hardcore
trans_list: durus
sense:
(colloquial) Particularly intense; thrillingly dangerous or erratic; desirably violent in appearance; pleasing or "cool" due to intensity or danger.


lexentry: eng/hardtack__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hardtack
trans_list: bucellatum
sense:
(nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.


lexentry: eng/hardware__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hardware
trans_list: apparatus computatralis
sense:
(computing) The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc. Compare software.


lexentry: eng/harlot__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: harlot
trans_list: meretrix | scortum
sense:
(obsolete) A churl; a common man; a person, male or female, of low birth, especially one given to low conduct.


lexentry: eng/harmonium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: harmonium
trans_list: harmonium
sense:
(music) A small keyboard instrument that consists of a series of reed pipes, which sound when one of the keys is pressed to open a valve that allows air to pass through.


lexentry: eng/harness__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: harness
trans_list: capistrum
sense:
(countable) A restraint or support, especially one consisting of a loop or network of rope or straps, and especially one worn by a working animal such as a horse pulling a carriage or farm implement.


lexentry: eng/harp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: harp
trans_list: harpa | psalterium | sambuca
sense:
(musical instrument) A musical instrument consisting of a body and a curved neck, strung with strings of varying length that are stroked or plucked with the fingers and are vertical to the soundboard when viewed from the end of the body


lexentry: eng/harp_on__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: harp on
trans_list: redico
sense:
(transitive) To nag about; to complain incessantly or persistently request; to continue to bring up as a point of contention.


lexentry: eng/harpsichord__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: harpsichord
trans_list: harpicordium
sense:
(musical instruments) A musical instrument with a keyboard that produces sound through a mechanical process. When the performer presses a key, a corresponding plectrum plucks a tuned string. The harpsichord originated in late medieval Europe and is one of the most important instruments used to perform Baroque music.


lexentry: eng/harpy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: harpy
trans_list: harpyia
sense:
(mythological creature) A mythological creature generally depicted as a bird-of-prey with the head of maiden, a face pale with hunger and long claws on her hands personifying the destructive power of storm winds.


lexentry: eng/harrier__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: harrier
trans_list: circus
sense:
Any of several birds of prey in the genus Circus of the subfamily Circinae which fly low over meadows and marshes and hunt small mammals or birds.


lexentry: eng/harrow__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: harrow
trans_list: hirpex | occa
sense:
A device consisting of a heavy framework having several disks or teeth in a row, which is dragged across ploughed land to smooth or break up the soil, to remove weeds or cover seeds; a harrow plow.


lexentry: eng/haruspex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: haruspex
trans_list: extispex | haruspex
sense:
A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced haruspicy, divination by inspecting entrails.


lexentry: eng/hastate__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hastate
trans_list: hastatus
sense:
(botany, of leaves) Shaped similarly to a halberd, with pointed lobes pointed outward from the base.


lexentry: eng/hat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hat
trans_list: petasus | pileus | capellus | causia | mitella
sense:
A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.


lexentry: eng/hat__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: hat
trans_list: petasus | pileus | capellus | causia | mitella
sense:
(Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).


lexentry: eng/hatch__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hatch
trans_list: fenestra
sense:
An opening in a wall at window height for the purpose of serving food or other items. A pass through.


lexentry: eng/hatch__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: hatch
trans_list: fenestra
sense:
A small door in large mechanical structures and vehicles such as aircraft and spacecraft often provided for access for maintenance.


lexentry: eng/hatchway__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hatchway
trans_list: fenestra
sense:
A means of passing through a wall or floor, having a hatch (especially on a ship); a doorway with a hatch rather than a door.


lexentry: eng/hate_speech__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hate speech
trans_list: sermo odiosus
sense:
Speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.


lexentry: eng/hauberk__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hauberk
trans_list: lorica serta
sense:
A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless.


lexentry: eng/haul__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: haul
trans_list: spolium
sense:
An amount of something that has been taken, especially of fish, illegal loot, or items purchased on a shopping trip.


lexentry: eng/haulm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: haulm
trans_list: stramentum
sense:
(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.


lexentry: eng/haunch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: haunch
trans_list: femur
sense:
(anatomy) The area encompassing the upper thigh, hip and buttocks on one side of a human, primate, or quadruped animal, especially one that can sit on its hindquarters.


lexentry: eng/have_mercy__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: have mercy
trans_list: miseror
sense:
(usually, _, in, _, the, _, imperative) To show mercy or compassion; to stop inflicting punishment or a barrage.


lexentry: eng/hawk__Verb__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hawk
trans_list: circito
sense:
(transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.


lexentry: eng/hawk__Verb__3
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hawk
trans_list: cōnscreor
sense:
(transitive, intransitive) To try to cough up something from one's throat; to clear the throat loudly.


lexentry: eng/hawkbit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hawkbit
trans_list: dens leonis
sense:
Any dandelion-like flower of the genera Leontodon, Scorzoneroides, and others in subtribe Hypochaeridinae, in the family Asteraceae.


lexentry: eng/hawthorn__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hawthorn
trans_list: Crataegus
sense:
Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches


lexentry: eng/he__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: he
trans_list: is | hic | ille
sense:
(personal, sometimes, _, proscribed, see usage notes) They; he or she (a person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant).


lexentry: eng/he_who_digs_a_pit_for_others_falls_in_himself__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: he who digs a pit for others falls in himself
trans_list: incidit in foveam qui primus fecerat illam
sense:
Someone that plans harm or misfortune for others may also inadvertently be the recipient of that same misfortune.


lexentry: eng/head__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: head
trans_list: caput
sense:
(countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.


lexentry: eng/head__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: head
trans_list: caput
sense:
The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.


lexentry: eng/head_of_state__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: head of state
trans_list: princeps
sense:
The chief public representative of a nation having duties, privileges and responsibilities varying greatly depending on the constitutional rules; a monarch in a monarchy, and often styled president in a republic, but variations such as collegiality exist.


lexentry: eng/headbutt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: headbutt
trans_list: arietatio
sense:
A sharp blow delivered by driving the head into an opponent or object, generally by lowering the head and charging forward or by rapidly tilting the head backward and then forward.


lexentry: eng/headlight__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: headlight
trans_list: pharus
sense:
A bright light, with a lens and reflector, on the front of a motor vehicle (or originally a ship or train), designed to illuminate the road when driving at night; normally one of a pair.


lexentry: eng/headquarters__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: headquarters
trans_list: praetōrium
sense:
The military installation from which troops are commanded and orders are issued; the military unit consisting of a commander and his support staff.


lexentry: eng/heads-up__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heads-up
trans_list: admonitio
sense:
(chiefly, US, idiomatic) A warning or call to pay attention; an advisory notice; a notice of what is to happen; a holler.


lexentry: eng/heads_or_tails__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heads or tails
trans_list: capita aut navia
sense:
(idiomatic) The practice of flipping a coin in the air, to choose between two alternatives based on which side lands face up.


lexentry: eng/headset__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: headset
trans_list: galea
sense:
A pair of headphones or earphones, or a singular headphone or earphone, typically with an attached microphone.


lexentry: eng/headstock__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: headstock
trans_list: caput
sense:
The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.


lexentry: eng/headway__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: headway
trans_list: interiectus
sense:
(countable, transport) The interval of time or distance between the fronts of two vehicles (e.g. buses) moving in succession in the same direction, especially along the same pre-determined route.


lexentry: eng/health__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: health
trans_list: sanitas | salūs | salus
sense:
The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness. [from 11th c.]


lexentry: eng/heap__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: heap
trans_list: acervus | cumulus | struēs
sense:
A pile or mass; a collection of things laid in a body, or thrown together so as to form an elevation.


lexentry: eng/hear,_hear__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hear, hear
trans_list: bona
sense:
(often after a toast) Let us hear and applaud the previous speaker; I endorse the previous statement; expression of support, agreement, or enthusiasm for what has just been said.


lexentry: eng/hear__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hear
trans_list: audio | audire
sense:
(transitive, stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/hear_of__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hear of
trans_list: audire
sense:
To become aware of (a subject, person) through second-hand knowledge, or not through personal experience.


lexentry: eng/hearken__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hearken
trans_list: audire
sense:
(intransitive) To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.


lexentry: eng/heart__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heart
trans_list: cor
sense:
(anatomy) A muscular organ that pumps blood through the body, traditionally thought to be the seat of emotion.


lexentry: eng/heart__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: heart
trans_list: cor
sense:
The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, etc.; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; usually in a good sense; personality.


lexentry: eng/heart_attack__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heart attack
trans_list: infarctus myocardii | infarctus cordis | infarctus cordis acutus | infarctus myocardii acutus
sense:
(cardiology) An acute myocardial infarction, sometimes fatal, caused by the sudden occurrence of coronary thrombosis, which obstructs the blood supply to the heart and leads to necrosis of heart muscle tissue.


lexentry: eng/heart_failure__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heart failure
trans_list: insufficientia cordis
sense:
(cardiology, pathology) The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.


lexentry: eng/heart_valve__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heart valve
trans_list: valvula cordis
sense:
(anatomy, cardiology) Any of the valves in the heart which prevent blood from moving in the wrong direction.


lexentry: eng/heartland__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: heartland
trans_list: cor
sense:
The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.


lexentry: eng/hearts__Noun__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hearts
trans_list: cordia
sense:
(card games, uncountable) A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.


lexentry: eng/heat__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: heat
trans_list: oestrus
sense:
(uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate; oestrus.


lexentry: eng/heat__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heat
trans_list: calefacio | calesco | foveō
sense:
(transitive) To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up").


lexentry: eng/heat_stroke__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heat stroke
trans_list: thermoplegia
sense:
(medicine, countable, or, uncountable) An illness caused by overheating a person or animal beyond its body's capacity to regulate internal temperature.


lexentry: eng/heaven__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: heaven
trans_list: caelum
sense:
(religion, by extension, often capitalized) The afterlife of the blessed dead in other religions and traditions, such as the Pure Land or Elysium.


lexentry: eng/heavenly__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: heavenly
trans_list: caelestis
sense:
Synonym of celestial: of or pertaining to the heavens, the sky regarded as the realm of the sun, moon, planets, and stars.


lexentry: eng/heavenly_body__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heavenly body
trans_list: corpus caeleste
sense:
A natural celestial object, visible in the sky, such as a star, planet, natural satellite, asteroid, comet, the Moon or the Sun. Objects flying or moving in the atmosphere are not usually considered as heavenly bodies.


lexentry: eng/heavy_metal__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: heavy metal
trans_list: metallum
sense:
(music genre, uncountable) A genre descended from rock music, characterized by massive sound, highly amplified distortion, and overall loudness, often with extended guitar solos, and lyrics that involve aggressive or fantastic imagery.


lexentry: eng/hebdomadary__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hebdomadary
trans_list: hebdomadārius
sense:
A member of a Roman Catholic chapter or convent whose week it is to officiate in the choir and perform other services, which, on extraordinary occasions, are performed by the superiors.


lexentry: eng/hecatomb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hecatomb
trans_list: hecatombē | hecatombe
sense:
(Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, historical) A great public sacrifice to the gods, originally of a hundred oxen; also, a great number of animals reserved for such a sacrifice.


lexentry: eng/hectare__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hectare
trans_list: hectarium
sense:
A unit of surface area (symbol ha) equal to 100 ares (that is, 10,000 square metres, one hundredth of a square kilometre, or approximately 2.5 acres), used for measuring the areas of geographical features such as land and bodies of water.


lexentry: eng/hedge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hedge
trans_list: saepēs
sense:
A thicket of bushes or other shrubbery, especially one planted as a fence between two portions of land, or to separate the parts of a garden.


lexentry: eng/hedgehog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hedgehog
trans_list: ēricius | ērinaceus | ericius
sense:
A small mammal, of the family Erinaceidae or subfamily Erinaceinae (spiny hedgehogs, the latter characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked.)


lexentry: eng/hedonism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hedonism
trans_list: hēdonismus
sense:
(ethics, uncountable) The belief that pleasure or happiness is the highest good in life. Some hedonists, such as the Epicureans, have insisted that pleasure of the entire mind, not just pleasure of the senses, is the highest good.


lexentry: eng/hefty__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hefty
trans_list: fortis
sense:
(of a person) Possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; powerfully or heavily built.


lexentry: eng/hegemony__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hegemony
trans_list: imperium
sense:
(formal) Domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by one political group over a society or by one nation over others.


lexentry: eng/height__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: height
trans_list: statūra
sense:
The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).


lexentry: eng/helepolis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: helepolis
trans_list: helepolis
sense:
an ancient Greek siege engine consisting of a wheeled tower containing machines for throwing stones and spears


lexentry: eng/helicopter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: helicopter
trans_list: helicopterum
sense:
(aviation) An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail to stabilize the aircraft.


lexentry: eng/heliotrope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heliotrope
trans_list: hēliotropium
sense:
(countable, botany, also, figuratively) A plant with flowers which turn to face and follow the sun, such as (archaic) marigolds and sunflowers.


lexentry: eng/heliotrope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heliotrope
trans_list: solago
sense:
(specifically) A plant of the genus Heliotropium, especially the common heliotrope (Heliotropium arborescens) which has clusters of purple flowers with a strong fragrance.


lexentry: eng/heliotrope__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: heliotrope
trans_list: hēliotropium
sense:
(countable, uncountable, mineral) Synonym of bloodstone (“a green chalcedony that is sprinkled with red spots or veins of hematite”)


lexentry: eng/helium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: helium
trans_list: helium
sense:
(uncountable) The second lightest chemical element (symbol He) with an atomic number of 2 and atomic weight of 4.002602, a colorless, odorless and inert noble gas.


lexentry: eng/hell__Proper_noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hell
trans_list: gehenna | infernum | Tartarus
sense:
(in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners and evil spirits are believed to go after death.


lexentry: eng/hellebore__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hellebore
trans_list: helleborus
sense:
Any of the common garden flowering plants of the genus Helleborus, in family Ranunculaceae, having supposed medicinal properties.


lexentry: eng/helm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: helm
trans_list: gubernāculum
sense:
(nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to control the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel.


lexentry: eng/help__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: help
trans_list: auxilium
sense:
(usually, uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.


lexentry: eng/hem__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hem
trans_list: ultimum
sense:
(sewing) The border of an article of clothing doubled back and stitched together to finish the edge and prevent it from fraying.


lexentry: eng/hemisphere__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hemisphere
trans_list: hēmisphaerium
sense:
(geography) Half of the Earth, such as the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere or Eastern Hemisphere, Land Hemisphere, Water Hemisphere etc. [1550s].


lexentry: eng/hemodialysis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hemodialysis
trans_list: haemodialysis
sense:
(medicine) A dialysis utilizing extracorporeal removal of waste products from the blood in the case of kidney failure.


lexentry: eng/hemoglobin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hemoglobin
trans_list: haemoglobinum
sense:
(American spelling) The iron-containing substance in red blood cells that transports oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body; it consists of a protein (globulin), and haem (a porphyrin ring with an atom of iron at its centre).


lexentry: eng/hemolysis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hemolysis
trans_list: haemolysis
sense:
(medicine) The destruction of red blood cells, and subsequent release of hemoglobin, at the normal end of the cell's life.


lexentry: eng/hemorrhoid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hemorrhoid
trans_list: haemor
sense:
(pathology, often, in the plural) An engorged, dilated and easily broken varicosity in the perianal area, often accompanied by intense itching and throbbing pain: piles.


lexentry: eng/henbane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: henbane
trans_list: alterculum | baccīna | hyoscyamus
sense:
A poisonous plant, Hyoscyamus niger, used sometimes as a drug that causes at least hallucinations, dilated pupils, restlessness, and flushed skin.


lexentry: eng/henna__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: henna
trans_list: cyprus
sense:
(countable, uncountable) A reddish plant substance, prepared from the dried leaves of this plant, used for temporary tattoos and hair coloring. Hair colorings range from bright red to earth brown to near black.


lexentry: eng/henpecked__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: henpecked
trans_list: uxorius
sense:
(particularly of husbands or boyfriends) Intimidated or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing matriarch, wife, or girlfriend.


lexentry: eng/heparin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heparin
trans_list: heparinum
sense:
(carbohydrate, pharmaceutical drug) A compound occurring in the liver and other tissues which inhibits blood coagulation. A sulfur-containing polysaccharide, it is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis.


lexentry: eng/her__Determiner__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: her
trans_list: eius | suus | huius | illius
sense:
Belonging to her (belonging to that female, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).


lexentry: eng/her__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: her
trans_list: ei | eam | ea | hac | hanc | huic
sense:
The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc.


lexentry: eng/herbage__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: herbage
trans_list: herbagium | herbaticum
sense:
(legal) The natural pasture of a land, considered as distinct from the land itself; hence, right of pasture (on another man's land).


lexentry: eng/herbal_tea__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: herbal tea
trans_list: thea herbarica
sense:
A beverage made by infusing the leaves of various herbs, generally not including true tea (Camellia sinensis).


lexentry: eng/herd__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: herd
trans_list: grex | agmen
sense:
A number of domestic animals assembled together under the watch or ownership of a keeper. [from 11th c.]


lexentry: eng/herdsman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: herdsman
trans_list: bubulcus | armentārius
sense:
A person who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep; especially, the foreman among a group of such farmworkers, usually with more knowledge and experience.


lexentry: eng/here_be_dragons__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: here be dragons
trans_list: hic sunt dracones
sense:
A fanciful notation, commonly attributed to historical maps, held to indicate either the belief that unknown dangers exist in a certain location on the map, or that actual dragons can be found there.


lexentry: eng/here_you_are__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: here you are
trans_list: ecce
sense:
(idiomatic) Said when handing something over to someone or doing a favour to them, usually to draw the recipient's attention to the exchange; equivalent to “thank you” when receiving something.


lexentry: eng/heredity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heredity
trans_list: heredĭtas
sense:
Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.


lexentry: eng/heresiarch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heresiarch
trans_list: haeresiarcha
sense:
(religion) The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy. [from mid 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/heresy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: heresy
trans_list: haeresis
sense:
(by extension) A controversial or unorthodox opinion held by a member of a group, as in politics, philosophy or science.


lexentry: eng/heritage__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: heritage
trans_list: patrimonium
sense:
A tradition; a practice or set of values that is passed down from preceding generations through families or through institutional memory.


lexentry: eng/hermaphrodite__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: hermaphrodite
trans_list: androgynus
sense:
(WWI, _, military, historical) An armoured fighting vehicle having features of both male tanks and female tanks.


lexentry: eng/hermeneutical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hermeneutical
trans_list: hermeneuticus
sense:
Of or pertaining to hermeneutics, the study or theory of the methodical interpretation of text, especially holy texts.


lexentry: eng/hermit_crab__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hermit crab
trans_list: pīnotērēs
sense:
A decapod crustacean (not a true crab) from the superfamily Paguroidea, which salvages empty seashells or other portable objects to permanently shelter and protect its soft abdomen.


lexentry: eng/hernia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hernia
trans_list: hernia | rāmex
sense:
(diseases) A disorder in which a part of the body protrudes abnormally through a tear or opening in an adjacent part, especially of the abdomen.


lexentry: eng/heroin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heroin
trans_list: heroinum
sense:
A powerful and addictive drug derived from opium producing intense euphoria. Classed as an illegal narcotic in most of the world. [from late 19th century]


lexentry: eng/herpes__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: herpes
trans_list: herpes
sense:
(medicine) A viral infection, caused by Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, marked by painful, watery blisters in the skin or mucous membranes or on the genitals.


lexentry: eng/herpes_simplex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: herpes simplex
trans_list: herpes
sense:
(pathology) A viral disease caused by Human herpesvirus 1 or Human herpesvirus 2 in genus Simplexvirus.


lexentry: eng/hers__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hers
trans_list: eius | huius | illius | suus
sense:
That which belongs to her; the possessive case of she, used without a following noun. [from 12th c.]


lexentry: eng/herself__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: herself
trans_list: sibi | suī | sē | sēsē
sense:
(reflexive pronoun) Her; the female object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject.


lexentry: eng/herself__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: herself
trans_list: ipsa
sense:
(emphatic) She; an intensive repetition of the female subject, often used to indicate the exclusiveness of that person as the only satisfier of the predicate.


lexentry: eng/hesitate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hesitate
trans_list: dubito | haesitō
sense:
(intransitive) To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.


lexentry: eng/heterodox__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: heterodox
trans_list: haereticus
sense:
Of or pertaining to creeds, beliefs, or teachings, especially religious ones, that are different from what a religion (or sect) believes to be orthodox, but adhering to that religion's established beliefs, and therefore not heretical.


lexentry: eng/hexahedron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hexahedron
trans_list: hexahedron
sense:
(geometry) A polyhedron with six faces. The regular hexahedron is the cube, and is one of the Platonic solids.


lexentry: eng/hiatus__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: hiatus
trans_list: hiatus
sense:
(linguistics, uncountable) A syllable break between two vowels, without an intervening consonant. (Compare diphthong.)


lexentry: eng/hibiscus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hibiscus
trans_list: hibiscus | hibiscum
sense:
A flowering plant of the genus Hibiscus, especially Hibiscus syriacus, found in tropical to temperate regions, of some species used for making infusions/tea.


lexentry: eng/hierarch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hierarch
trans_list: hierarcha
sense:
(religion) One who has high and controlling authority in sacred things; the chief of a sacred order.


lexentry: eng/hierarch__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hierarch
trans_list: hierarcha
sense:
(Eastern Orthodoxy) A title of bishops in their role as ordinaries (arbiters of canon law) over their respective dioceses.


lexentry: eng/hieratic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hieratic
trans_list: celebratus
sense:
(art) Extremely stylized, restrained or formal; adhering to fixed types or methods; severe in emotional import.


lexentry: eng/hieroglyphic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hieroglyphic
trans_list: hieroglyphicus
sense:
(chiefly, in the plural) A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus


lexentry: eng/high__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: high
trans_list: altus | arduus | celsus
sense:
Relatively elevated; rising or raised above the average or normal level from which elevation is measured.


lexentry: eng/high_seas__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: high seas
trans_list: salum
sense:
(nautical) Regions of the ocean that are far from shore, especially those regions that do not belong to any country.


lexentry: eng/hightail__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hightail
trans_list: fugere
sense:
(informal, chiefly, North America, usually, transitive) To move at full speed, especially in retreat.


lexentry: eng/hilt__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hilt
trans_list: manūbrium
sense:
The handle of a sword, consisting of grip, guard, and pommel, designed to facilitate use of the blade and afford protection to the hand.


lexentry: eng/hilum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hilum
trans_list: oculus
sense:
(botany) The eye of a bean or other seed; the mark or scar at the point of attachment of an ovule or seed to its base or support.


lexentry: eng/him__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: him
trans_list: eum | eī | eō | huic | hunc | hōc
sense:
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/himself__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: himself
trans_list: ipse
sense:
(emphatic) He; used as an intensifier, often to emphasize that the referent is the exclusive participant in the predicate


lexentry: eng/hind_limb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hind limb
trans_list: membrum pelvinum
sense:
A posterior limb on an animal. When referring to quadrupeds, the term hind leg is often instead used.


lexentry: eng/hindbrain__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hindbrain
trans_list: rhombencephalon
sense:
(neuroanatomy) The posterior part of the brain, comprising the cerebellum, pons and medulla, the rhombencephalon


lexentry: eng/hint__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hint
trans_list: subsōnō
sense:
(transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.


lexentry: eng/hip_bone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hip bone
trans_list: os coxae
sense:
(anatomy) One of two roughly symmetrical skeleton parts, each composed of the fused iliac, ischial and pubic bones, that together form the sides of the pelvis.


lexentry: eng/hippocampus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hippocampus
trans_list: equus marinus
sense:
(mythological creature) A mythological creature with the front head and forelimbs of a horse and the rear of a dolphin.


lexentry: eng/hippocampus__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hippocampus
trans_list: Hippocampus
sense:
(neuroanatomy, anatomy) A part of the brain located inside the temporal lobe, consisting mainly of grey matter. It is a component of the limbic system and plays a role in memory and emotion.


lexentry: eng/hippopotamus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hippopotamus
trans_list: hippopotamus
sense:
A large, semi-aquatic, herbivorous (plant-eating) African mammal (Hippopotamus amphibius; common hippopotamus).


lexentry: eng/hire__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hire
trans_list: conduco
sense:
(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.


lexentry: eng/histology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: histology
trans_list: histologia
sense:
(biology) The study of the microscopic structure, chemical composition and function of the tissue or tissue systems of plants and animals.


lexentry: eng/historical_present__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: historical present
trans_list: praesēns histŏrĭcum
sense:
(grammar) The present tense as used when referring to real past events, to add immediacy to what is being said or written.


lexentry: eng/historiography__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: historiography
trans_list: historiographia
sense:
(uncountable) The study of the discipline and practice of history and the writings of past historians.


lexentry: eng/history__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: history
trans_list: historia
sense:
(countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.


lexentry: eng/histrionics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: histrionics
trans_list: affectatio
sense:
Exaggerated, overemotional behaviour, especially when calculated to elicit a response; melodramatics.


lexentry: eng/hit_on__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hit on
trans_list: ligare
sense:
(transitive, slang) To flirt with; to approach and speak to (someone), seeking romance, love, sex, etc.


lexentry: eng/hoar_frost__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hoar frost
trans_list: pruīna
sense:
(specifically, meteorology) Water vapour which has undergone deposition or desublimation when the air is cold and moist to form a white deposit on exposed surfaces.


lexentry: eng/hoarding__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hoarding
trans_list: patibulum
sense:
(architecture, historical) A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.


lexentry: eng/hoax__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hoax
trans_list: decipere
sense:
(transitive) To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated.


lexentry: eng/hobble__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hobble
trans_list: pedica
sense:
(mostly, in the plural) One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off.


lexentry: eng/hobnob__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hobnob
trans_list: bibere
sense:
(intransitive, often, _, derogatory) To associate with in a friendly manner, often with those of a higher class or status; to fraternize.


lexentry: eng/hobo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hobo
trans_list: errō | planus
sense:
(North America) A wandering homeless person, especially (historical) one illegally travelling by rail or (pejorative) a penniless, unemployed bum.


lexentry: eng/hockey__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hockey
trans_list: alsulegia glacialis
sense:
(North America) Ice hockey, a game on ice in which two teams of six players skate and try to score by shooting a puck into the opposing team's net, using their sticks.


lexentry: eng/hockey_puck__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hockey puck
trans_list: discus
sense:
(ice hockey) A small black flat roundel of hardened rubber used as a playing piece in ice hockey to score points by moving the puck into the opponent's goal net.


lexentry: eng/hocus-pocus__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hocus-pocus
trans_list: abracadābra
sense:
A phrase used (by a stage magician, etc.) as a magical incantation to bring about some change: abracadabra, hey presto.


lexentry: eng/hodiernal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hodiernal
trans_list: hodiernus
sense:
(archaic, or, literary, rare, outside, grammar) Of or pertaining to the present day or today; hodiern.


lexentry: eng/hoe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hoe
trans_list: sarculum | marra
sense:
An agricultural tool consisting of a long handle with a flat blade fixed perpendicular to it at the end, used for digging rows.


lexentry: eng/hog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hog
trans_list: sūs
sense:
Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar.


lexentry: eng/hoist__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hoist
trans_list: aedifico
sense:
(transitive) To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight).


lexentry: eng/hold__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hold
trans_list: teneo | habeo | possideo | sedeo
sense:
(transitive) To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.


lexentry: eng/hold__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: hold
trans_list: teneo
sense:
To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.


lexentry: eng/hold_one's_liquor__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hold one's liquor
trans_list: agguantare
sense:
(idiomatic) To be resistant to intoxication or to show few signs of intoxication, even after consuming a significant amount of alcohol.


lexentry: eng/hold_sway__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hold sway
trans_list: eminere
sense:
(idiomatic) To have the greatest influence (over someone or something); to be pre-eminent; to dominate.


lexentry: eng/hole-in-the-wall__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hole-in-the-wall
trans_list: gurgustium
sense:
A restaurant, shop or other establishment catering to customers that is particularly inconspicuous and easily overlooked.


lexentry: eng/hole__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hole
trans_list: cavum | forāmen | fovea | lacūna
sense:
(stud poker) A card (also called a hole card) dealt face down thus unknown to all but its holder; the status in which such a card is.


lexentry: eng/holiday__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: holiday
trans_list: cessātiō | fēriae
sense:
(chiefly, UK, Australia) A period of one or more days taken off work for leisure and often travel; often plural.


lexentry: eng/holiday__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: holiday
trans_list: cessātiō | fēriae
sense:
(chiefly, UK, Australia) A period during which pupils do not attend their school; often plural; rarely used for students at university (usually: vacation).


lexentry: eng/holly__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: holly
trans_list: acrifolium
sense:
Any of various shrubs or (mostly) small trees, of the genus Ilex, either evergreen or deciduous, used as decoration especially at Christmas.


lexentry: eng/holmium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: holmium
trans_list: holmium
sense:
A chemical element (symbol Ho) with atomic number 67: a soft and malleable silvery-white metal, too reactive to be found uncombined in nature.


lexentry: eng/holography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: holography
trans_list: holographia
sense:
(physics) a technique for recording, and then reconstructing, the amplitude and phase distributions of a coherent wave disturbance; used to produce three-dimensional images or holograms


lexentry: eng/holotype__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: holotype
trans_list: holotypus
sense:
(taxonomy) The single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used to formally describe the species (or lower-order taxon), subsequently to be kept as a reference.


lexentry: eng/holy_shit__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: holy shit
trans_list: hostia
sense:
(idiomatic, vulgar, slang) Expression of terror, awe, surprise, astonishment, etc., often at something seen for the first time or remembered immediately before using this term.


lexentry: eng/holy_water__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: holy water
trans_list: aqua lustralis | aqua sancta
sense:
(Christianity) In certain Christian churches, water that has been sanctified by a priest or bishop for the purpose of baptism or for the blessing of persons, places, or things.


lexentry: eng/home__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: home
trans_list: domus | domicilium
sense:
One’s own dwelling place; the house or structure in which one lives; especially the house in which one lives with one's family; the habitual abode of one’s family.


lexentry: eng/home__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: home
trans_list: domus | focus | penates
sense:
The place (residence, settlement, country, etc.), where a person was born and/or raised; childhood or parental home; home of one’s parents or guardian.


lexentry: eng/home__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: home
trans_list: domus | focus | patria | penates
sense:
One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.


lexentry: eng/home__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: home
trans_list: domus | focus | penates
sense:
The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.


lexentry: eng/home_country__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: home country
trans_list: domus
sense:
The country in which a person was born and usually raised, regardless of the present country of residence and citizenship.


lexentry: eng/home_plate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: home plate
trans_list: catillus
sense:
(baseball) A flat, pentagonal, rubber object placed at the center of the batter's box, which is used as a basis for judging pitched strikes and balls, and the touching of which by a runner advancing from or past third base scores a run.


lexentry: eng/homemaker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: homemaker
trans_list: domesticus
sense:
(US) A person who maintains the administration and upkeep of his or her residence, especially one who is not employed outside the home; one who runs the household.


lexentry: eng/homeopathy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: homeopathy
trans_list: homeopathia
sense:
A system of treating diseases with small amounts of substances which, in larger amounts, would produce the observed symptoms.


lexentry: eng/homesickness__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: homesickness
trans_list: solitate
sense:
The characteristic of being homesick; a strong, sad feeling of missing one's home (and often left-behind loved ones, such as family and friends) when physically away.


lexentry: eng/homestead__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: homestead
trans_list: vicus
sense:
A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these.


lexentry: eng/homicide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: homicide
trans_list: homicīdium
sense:
(countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.


lexentry: eng/homie__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: homie
trans_list: carnatus
sense:
(African American Vernacular English) A boyfriend or partner of a closeted man, used along with "Lil," to mean a bottom and "Big," to mean a top.


lexentry: eng/homo_Aristophaneus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: homo Aristophaneus
trans_list: homō Aristophanēus
sense:
(linguistics, _, (philology), rare) A person with the characteristics and nature depicted in the comedies of the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes (c. 446 – c. 386 B.C.E.) as a literary figure, rather than a historically accurate Athenian person; an Aristophanic man.


lexentry: eng/homonym__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: homonym
trans_list: homonymum
sense:
(loosely) A word that sounds or is spelled the same as another word (but not necessarily both), technically called a homophone (same sound, different spelling) or a homograph (same spelling, different sound), or if both are the same, a homonym.


lexentry: eng/homosexual__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: homosexual
trans_list: homosexualis | cinaedicus | cinaedus | draucus
sense:
(of a person or animal, formal, distancing, or, dated) Sexually and/or romantically attracted to members of the same sex, such as a man who is attracted to men or a woman who is attracted to women; gay. (Typically used in the sense of sole/exclusive attraction.)


lexentry: eng/homosexual__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: homosexual
trans_list: homosexualis | cinaedus | draucus
sense:
(typically, formal, distancing, or, dated) A person who is sexually attracted solely or primarily to others of the same sex.


lexentry: eng/homosexuality__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: homosexuality
trans_list: homosexualitas
sense:
Sexual activity with a person of the same sex, sometimes (potentially, _, offensive) restricted to same-sex sex between males. [1897]


lexentry: eng/hone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hone
trans_list: cōs
sense:
A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.


lexentry: eng/honest__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: honest
trans_list: honestus
sense:
(of a person or institution) Scrupulous with regard to telling the truth; not given to swindling, lying, or fraud; upright.


lexentry: eng/honey__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: honey
trans_list: mel
sense:
(uncountable) A viscous, gold-coloured sweet fluid produced from plant nectar by bees, and often consumed by humans.


lexentry: eng/honey__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: honey
trans_list: mel
sense:
A spectrum of pale yellow to brownish-yellow colour, like that of most types of (the sweet substance) honey.


lexentry: eng/honey_badger__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: honey badger
trans_list: Mellivora capensis
sense:
Mellivora capensis, a badger-like mustelid native to Africa, the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.


lexentry: eng/honey_bee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: honey bee
trans_list: apis
sense:
Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.


lexentry: eng/honey_locust__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: honey locust
trans_list: gleditsia
sense:
A North American deciduous tree (Gleditsia triacanthos) having fragrant flowers, hard red wood, and conspicuous thorns.


lexentry: eng/honeycomb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: honeycomb
trans_list: favus
sense:
(uncountable) A substance made by bees (clade Anthophila) primarily from beeswax which has hexagonal cells to hold their larvae, and for storing pollen and honey to feed the larvae and themselves when other food is scarce; it is also eaten by humans as part of comb-honey; (countable) a single sheet made up of two layers of this substance.


lexentry: eng/honor__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: honor
trans_list: excolo | honōrō
sense:
(transitive) To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of.


lexentry: eng/honour_killing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: honour killing
trans_list: homicīdium honōrābile
sense:
(euphemistic, UK, Canada) A typically Middle Eastern and South Asian cultural practice whereby a family member, usually female, is murdered by other family members, the act being justified as retribution for a (usually sexual) slight upon the family's honour.


lexentry: eng/hood_rat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hood rat
trans_list: lupa
sense:
(slang, African-American Vernacular English, pejorative) A person from an urban neighbourhood who overtly exhibits attributes associated with inner city life, especially in both behaviour and appearance.


lexentry: eng/hoof__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hoof
trans_list: ungula | calx
sense:
The tip of a toe of an ungulate such as a horse, ox or deer, strengthened by a thick keratin covering.


lexentry: eng/hook__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hook
trans_list: uncus | hāmus
sense:
A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment.


lexentry: eng/hoopoe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hoopoe
trans_list: upupa
sense:
Any Old World bird of genus Upupa, especially Upupa epops (Eurasian hoopoe), known for its distinctive plumage, fanlike crest, and slender bill.


lexentry: eng/hope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hope
trans_list: spēs | spes
sense:
(countable, _, or, _, uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.


lexentry: eng/hopscotch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hopscotch
trans_list: aes
sense:
(playground games) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.


lexentry: eng/horde__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horde
trans_list: caterva
sense:
A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people (originally Tatars) migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude.


lexentry: eng/horehound__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: horehound
trans_list: marrubium
sense:
A herb (Marrubium vulgare), of the mint family, traditionally used as a cough remedy and to make a type of hard candy.


lexentry: eng/horizon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horizon
trans_list: fīniens | horizōn
sense:
The visible horizontal line (in all directions) where the sky appears to meet the earth in the distance.


lexentry: eng/hormone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hormone
trans_list: hormon
sense:
(physiology) Any substance produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to effect physiological activity.


lexentry: eng/horn__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: horn
trans_list: cornū | cornu
sense:
Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.


lexentry: eng/horn__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: horn
trans_list: cornu
sense:
(uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.


lexentry: eng/hornbeam__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hornbeam
trans_list: carpinus
sense:
A tree of the genus Carpinus, having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard, common along the banks of streams in the United States.


lexentry: eng/horned_grebe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horned grebe
trans_list: Podiceps auritus
sense:
A type of grebe native to the Northern Hemisphere, Podiceps auritus, that has tufts of feathers during the breeding season positioned like horns on the sides of the head.


lexentry: eng/horned_owl__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horned owl
trans_list: asio
sense:
An owl of the genus Bubo native to the Americas, among the largest types of owl, having two horn-like tufts of feathers on its head.


lexentry: eng/hornet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hornet
trans_list: crābrō | crabro
sense:
A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.


lexentry: eng/horology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horology
trans_list: horologia
sense:
The art, science, and technology of making and maintaining timekeeping devices such as clocks, watches and sundials.


lexentry: eng/horoscope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horoscope
trans_list: horoscopium
sense:
The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.


lexentry: eng/horse__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horse
trans_list: equus | caballus
sense:
Any member of the species Equus ferus, including the Przewalski's horse and the extinct Equus ferus ferus.


lexentry: eng/horse_chestnut__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horse chestnut
trans_list: castanea | castanea equina
sense:
Any of several tree species of genus Aesculus, especially Aesculus hippocastanum, common in temperate northern hemisphere.


lexentry: eng/horsefly__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horsefly
trans_list: tabānus
sense:
Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).


lexentry: eng/horseshoe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: horseshoe
trans_list: ferrum equōrum | solea ferrea
sense:
The U-shaped shoe of a horse, now typically made of metal; by extension, a representation of this used to play the game horseshoes, hung as a luck charm, etc.


lexentry: eng/horsetail__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: horsetail
trans_list: equisētum
sense:
(botany) Any of various simple vascular plants, of the order Equisetales, that have hollow stems and produce spores.


lexentry: eng/hosanna__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hosanna
trans_list: hosanna
sense:
A cry of praise or adoration to God in liturgical use among the Jews, and said to have been shouted in recognition of the Messiahship of Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem; hence since used in the Christian Church.


lexentry: eng/hospital__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hospital
trans_list: infirmaria | nosocomīum | valētūdinārium
sense:
A large medical facility, usually in a building with multiple floors, where seriously ill or injured patients are given extensive medical and/or surgical treatment.


lexentry: eng/hospitality__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hospitality
trans_list: hospitium | hospitālitās
sense:
The act or service of welcoming, receiving, hosting, or entertaining guests; an appropriate attitude of openness, respect, and generosity toward guests.


lexentry: eng/hospitalization__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hospitalization
trans_list: hospitatio
sense:
The hospitalizing of a patient, the condition of being hospitalized, or the period a patient stays in hospital.


lexentry: eng/hostage__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hostage
trans_list: obses
sense:
A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or similar agreement, such as to ensure the status of a vassal.


lexentry: eng/hostel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hostel
trans_list: caca
sense:
A commercial overnight lodging place, with dormitory accommodation and shared facilities, especially a youth hostel.


lexentry: eng/hostile__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hostile
trans_list: alienus | hostilis
sense:
Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure.


lexentry: eng/hot-air_balloon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hot-air balloon
trans_list: globus
sense:
A balloon-shaped aircraft whose bag is inflated with hot air, carrying passengers and crew in a gondola slung underneath.


lexentry: eng/hot_dog__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hot dog
trans_list: canis
sense:
A sandwich consisting of a frankfurter or wiener, in a bread roll, usually topped with ketchup, mustard, relish, etc.


lexentry: eng/hotbed__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hotbed
trans_list: nidus
sense:
(by extension) An environment that is ideal for the growth or development of something, especially of something undesirable.


lexentry: eng/hotel__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hotel
trans_list: deversorium
sense:
An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/hour__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: hour
trans_list: hora
sense:
(Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.


lexentry: eng/house__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: house
trans_list: domus
sense:
A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/house__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: house
trans_list: domus | casa
sense:
A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/house__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: house
trans_list: domus
sense:
A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/house__Noun__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: house
trans_list: domus
sense:
(politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/house__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: house
trans_list: domus
sense:
A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]


lexentry: eng/house_arrest__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: house arrest
trans_list: custodia libera
sense:
(legal) Confinement of a person to his or her residence, sometimes with a limited travel allowance, ordered by a judge or other authority as a more lenient alternative to imprisonment.


lexentry: eng/house_music__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: house music
trans_list: domestica | musica domestica
sense:
(music genre) A particular type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum.


lexentry: eng/house_sparrow__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: house sparrow
trans_list: passer
sense:
A bird of the species Passer domesticus, native to much of Eurasia, introduced in many other temperate environments.


lexentry: eng/housebreaker__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: housebreaker
trans_list: effractor | perfossor
sense:
A criminal who breaks into and enters another's house or premises with the intent of committing a crime.


lexentry: eng/household_deity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: household deity
trans_list: lar | penates
sense:
(mythology, religion) A minor tutelary deity watching over a household, usually conceived as a protective ancestral spirit or genius loci.


lexentry: eng/housewife__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: housewife
trans_list: domiseda
sense:
(plural "housewives") The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household.


lexentry: eng/how__Adverb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: how
trans_list: quam
sense:
(exclamative) Used as a modifier to indicate surprise, delight, or other strong feelings in an exclamation.


lexentry: eng/how_are_you__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: how are you
trans_list: quid agis
sense:
(idiomatic) An informal greeting, not requiring a literal response. In form a question, and thus followed by a question mark. Typical responses include:


lexentry: eng/how_do_you_do__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: how do you do
trans_list: quid agis? | quid agitis?
sense:
(formal) A greeting used upon being introduced to someone. Alternatives are how are you, pleased to meet you, and nice to meet you. (Sometimes used as a rhetorical question among familiar parties, depending on the region).


lexentry: eng/hug__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hug
trans_list: complexus
sense:
A close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug").


lexentry: eng/huh__Interjection__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: huh
trans_list: -que
sense:
(slang, with falling pitch) Used either to belittle the issuer of a statement/question, or sarcastically to indicate utter agreement, and that the statement being responded to is an extreme understatement. The intonation is changed to distinguish between the two meanings - implied dullness for belittlement, and feigned surprise for utter agreement.


lexentry: eng/hum__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hum
trans_list: murmurare
sense:
(intransitive) To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed.


lexentry: eng/human_being__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: human being
trans_list: homo
sense:
A person; a large sapient, bipedal primate, with notably less hair than others of that order, of the species Homo sapiens.


lexentry: eng/humane__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: humane
trans_list: humanus
sense:
Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.


lexentry: eng/humanism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: humanism
trans_list: humanismus
sense:
(historical, often capitalized) Specifically, a cultural and intellectual movement in 14th-16th century Europe characterised by attention to classical culture and a promotion of vernacular texts, notably during the Renaissance. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/humanism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: humanism
trans_list: humanismus
sense:
An ethical system that centers on humans and their values, needs, interests, abilities, dignity and freedom; especially used for a secular one which rejects theistic religion and superstition. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/humid__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: humid
trans_list: ūvidus
sense:
Containing perceptible moisture (usually describing air or atmosphere); damp; moist; somewhat wet or watery.


lexentry: eng/hummus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hummus
trans_list: humus
sense:
A Levantine Arab dip made of chickpea paste with various additions, such as olive oil, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and tahini, often eaten with pitta bread, or as a meze.


lexentry: eng/humus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: humus
trans_list: humus
sense:
A large group of natural organic compounds, found in the soil, formed from the chemical and biological decomposition of plant and animal residues and from the synthetic activity of microorganisms.


lexentry: eng/hundredweight__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hundredweight
trans_list: cohors
sense:
(historical) Various units of ancient measurement systems consisting of 100 units usually translated as "pounds".


lexentry: eng/hung__Adjective__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: hung
trans_list: lenis
sense:
(computing, colloquial) Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often corrected by rebooting the computer.


lexentry: eng/hunting__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hunting
trans_list: vēnātiō
sense:
The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.


lexentry: eng/hurdle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hurdle
trans_list: difficultas
sense:
(athletics, horses) An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which athletes or horses jump in a race.


lexentry: eng/hurricane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hurricane
trans_list: huracanum
sense:
A severe tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, or in the eastern North Pacific off the west coast of Mexico, with winds of 119 km/h (74 miles per hour) or greater accompanied by rain, lightning, and thunder that sometimes moves into temperate latitudes.


lexentry: eng/hurtle__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hurtle
trans_list: iaculor | jaculor
sense:
To cause (someone or something) to collide with or hit another person or thing; or (two people or things) to collide with or hit each other.


lexentry: eng/husbandry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: husbandry
trans_list: agricultura
sense:
The occupation or work of a husbandman or farmer; the cultivation of crops and the raising of livestock; agriculture.


lexentry: eng/husk__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: husk
trans_list: glūma
sense:
The dry, leafy or stringy exterior of certain vegetables or fruits, which must be removed before eating the meat inside.


lexentry: eng/hut__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hut
trans_list: tugurium | attegia | gurgustium
sense:
A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.


lexentry: eng/hyaluronic_acid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyaluronic acid
trans_list: acidum hyaluronicum
sense:
(organic compound, biochemistry) A mucopolysaccharide (a kind of polymer) that forms a gel-like substance within animal connective tissue.


lexentry: eng/hybrid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hybrid
trans_list: hybrida | hybridus
sense:
(biology) Offspring resulting from cross-breeding different entities, e.g. two different species or two purebred parent strains.


lexentry: eng/hybrid__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hybrid
trans_list: autocinetum materiae propulsoriae miscellae
sense:
A hybrid vehicle (especially a car), one that runs on both fuel (gasoline/diesel) and electricity (battery or energy from the sun).


lexentry: eng/hybrid__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hybrid
trans_list: hybrida | hybridus
sense:
Something of mixed origin or composition; often, a tool or technology that combines the benefits of formerly separate tools or technologies.


lexentry: eng/hydra__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hydra
trans_list: hydra
sense:
Any of several small freshwater polyps of the genus Hydra and related genera, having a naked cylindrical body and an oral opening surrounded by tentacles.


lexentry: eng/hydrochloric_acid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hydrochloric acid
trans_list: acidum hydrochloricum | acidum muriaticum | acidum salis
sense:
(inorganic compound) A strong acid made by dissolving the gas hydrogen chloride in water. It reacts with alkalis, bases and many metals to form chlorides; it has many industrial applications.


lexentry: eng/hydrology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hydrology
trans_list: hydrologia
sense:
The science of the properties, distribution, and effects of water on a planet's surface, in the soil and underlying rocks, and in the atmosphere


lexentry: eng/hydrotherapy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hydrotherapy
trans_list: hydrotherapia
sense:
(alternative medicine) Any of various techniques that use water, either externally or internally, for the treatment of disease and for the soothing of pain.


lexentry: eng/hyena__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyena
trans_list: hyaena
sense:
Any of the medium-sized to large feliform carnivores of the subfamily Hyaenidae, native to Africa and Asia and noted for the sound similar to laughter which they can make if excited.


lexentry: eng/hyena__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hyena
trans_list: hyaena
sense:
(Sub-Saharan Africa) A man that performs ritualized sex acts with recently widowed women and menarchal girls.


lexentry: eng/hygrometer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hygrometer
trans_list: hygrometrum
sense:
(meteorology) An instrument that measures the humidity of the air or other gases, especially the relative humidity.


lexentry: eng/hyperbaton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyperbaton
trans_list: hyperbaton
sense:
(grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.


lexentry: eng/hyperbola__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyperbola
trans_list: hyperbola
sense:
(geometry) A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base of the cone and is not tangent to the cone. The function y(x) = 1/x draws a hyperbola.


lexentry: eng/hyperbole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyperbole
trans_list: hyperbole | nimietas | superlatio
sense:
(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.


lexentry: eng/hyperkinetic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyperkinetic
trans_list: hyperkineticus
sense:
(neurology, pathology, psychiatry, psychology) Of, relating to, or affected with hyperkinesis or hyperactivity.


lexentry: eng/hyperkinetic_disorder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyperkinetic disorder
sense:
(neurology, pathology, psychiatry, psychology) A developmental disorder in which a person has a persistent and pervasive pattern of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.

trans_list:
disordo hyperkineticus | perturbatio hyperkinetica | reactio puerorum sive adolescentium hyperkinetica


lexentry: eng/hyperlink__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyperlink
trans_list: nexus
sense:
Some text or a graphic in an electronic document that can be activated to display another document or trigger an action.


lexentry: eng/hyperspace__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hyperspace
trans_list: hypercosmos
sense:
(science fiction) A notional space orthogonal to the usual dimensions of space-time often used for faster-than-light travel.


lexentry: eng/hypertext__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hypertext
trans_list: hypertextus
sense:
(uncountable) Digital text in which the reader may navigate related information through embedded hyperlinks.


lexentry: eng/hypertrophy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hypertrophy
trans_list: hypertrophia
sense:
(countable, medicine) An increase in the size of an organ or tissue due to the enlargement of its individual cells.


lexentry: eng/hyphen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyphen
trans_list: virgula
sense:
The symbol "‐", typically used to join two or more words to form a compound term, or to indicate that a word has been split at the end of a line.


lexentry: eng/hypnosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hypnosis
trans_list: hypnosis
sense:
A trancelike state, artificially induced, in which a person has a heightened suggestibility, and in which suppressed memories may be experienced.


lexentry: eng/hypocaust__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hypocaust
trans_list: hypocaustum | hypocauston
sense:
An underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath.


lexentry: eng/hypochondria__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hypochondria
trans_list: hypochondria
sense:
(medicine) A psychological disorder characterized by excessive preoccupation or worry about having a serious illness.


lexentry: eng/hypochondriasis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hypochondriasis
trans_list: hypochondria
sense:
(medicine) A mental disorder characterized by excessive fear of or preoccupation with a serious illness, despite medical testing and reassurance to the contrary.


lexentry: eng/hypocrisy__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hypocrisy
trans_list: dissimulatio
sense:
The practice of engaging in the same behaviour or activity for which one criticises another; moral self-contradiction whereby the behavior of one or more people belies their own claimed or implied possession of certain beliefs, standards or virtues.


lexentry: eng/hypocrite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hypocrite
trans_list: falsus
sense:
Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs. [from early 13th c.]


lexentry: eng/hypodermis__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: hypodermis
trans_list: tela subcutanea
sense:
(anatomy) A subcutaneous layer of loose connective tissue containing fat cells, lying beneath the dermis.


lexentry: eng/hypodiastole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hypodiastole
trans_list: diastolē
sense:
A mark ⟨⸒⟩ in late Classical and Byzantine Greek used as a form of interpunct to show two words should be read separately in situations where they might otherwise be confused with an identically spelled single word.


lexentry: eng/hypostasis__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: hypostasis
trans_list: hypostasis
sense:
(theology) The essential person, specifically the single person of Christ (as distinguished from his two ‘natures’, human and divine), or of the three ‘persons’ of the Trinity (sharing a single ‘essence’). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/hypothesis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hypothesis
trans_list: hypothesis
sense:
(sciences) Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.


lexentry: eng/hyrax__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyrax
trans_list: hyrax
sense:
Any of several small, paenungulate herbivorous mammals of the order Hyracoidea, with a bulky frame and fang-like incisors, native to Africa and the Middle East.


lexentry: eng/hyssop__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hyssop
trans_list: hysopum
sense:
Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally.


lexentry: eng/hysteria__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: hysteria
trans_list: hysteria
sense:
Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotions, in a wide range from joy to panic but usually including anxiety or fear.


lexentry: eng/iamb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iamb
trans_list: iambus
sense:
(prosody) A metrical foot in verse consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.


lexentry: eng/iambic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iambic
trans_list: iambicus
sense:
(prosody) Consisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed-stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/iatrogenic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iatrogenic
trans_list: iatrogenus
sense:
(medicine, of a disease, injury, or other adverse outcome) Induced by the words or actions of the physician or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedure.


lexentry: eng/ibid.__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ibid.
trans_list: ibid.
sense:
(bibliography, abbreviation) ibidem, in the same place. Indicates a reference to the same source as the previous one.


lexentry: eng/ibis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ibis
trans_list: ībis
sense:
Any of various long-legged wading birds in the family Threskiornithidae, having long downcurved bills used to probe the mud for prey such as crustaceans.


lexentry: eng/iceberg__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: iceberg
trans_list: mons glacialis
sense:
A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/ichor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ichor
trans_list: ichor
sense:
(Greek mythology) The liquid said to flow in place of blood in the veins of the gods. [from late 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/ichthyosaur__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ichthyosaur
trans_list: ichthyosaurus
sense:
Any of several fishlike marine reptiles of the extinct order †Ichthyosauria of the early Triassic to the late Cretaceous period, that had a body somewhat like a porpoise. [from c. 1830]


lexentry: eng/icon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: icon
trans_list: icon | icuncula
sense:
An image, symbol, picture, portrait, or other representation usually as an object of religious devotion.


lexentry: eng/icon__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: icon
trans_list: icon
sense:
(religion, especially, Eastern Christianity) A type of religious painting portraying a saint or scene from Scripture, often done on wooden panels.


lexentry: eng/iconoclasm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iconoclasm
trans_list: iconoclasmus
sense:
The belief in, participation in, or sanction of destroying religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually with religious or political motives.


lexentry: eng/iconography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iconography
trans_list: iconographia
sense:
A set of specified or traditional symbolic forms associated with the subject or theme of a stylized genre of art.


lexentry: eng/idealism__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: idealism
trans_list: idealismus
sense:
(philosophy) An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.


lexentry: eng/identical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: identical
trans_list: identitās
sense:
(not comparable) Bearing full likeness by having precisely the same set of characteristics; indistinguishable.


lexentry: eng/identity_theft__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: identity theft
trans_list: furti identitatium | furtum identitatis
sense:
(law, criminology) The deliberate assumption of another person's identity, usually to gain access to that person's finances or to frame a person for a crime.


lexentry: eng/ideological__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: ideological
trans_list: ideologicus
sense:
Based on an ideology or misleading studies or statistics, especially based on the media or propaganda. Not based on scientific evidence or reality.


lexentry: eng/ides__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ides
trans_list: Īdūs | idus
sense:
(historical, often, _, capitalized) The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months.


lexentry: eng/idiocy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: idiocy
trans_list: stupiditas
sense:
(dated, psychology, now, , pejorative) The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation; intellectual disability.


lexentry: eng/idiom__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: idiom
trans_list: sermo
sense:
A manner of speaking, a mode of expression peculiar to a language, language family, or group of people.


lexentry: eng/idiom__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: idiom
trans_list: dialectus
sense:
A language or language variety; specifically, a restricted dialect used in a given historical period, context etc.


lexentry: eng/idiom__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: idiom
trans_list: sermo
sense:
An established phrasal expression whose meaning may not be deducible from the literal meanings of its component words.


lexentry: eng/idiotic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: idiotic
trans_list: bardus
sense:
(of a person or animal) Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; characterised with behaviour resembling idiocy.


lexentry: eng/idioticon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: idioticon
trans_list: glossarium
sense:
A dictionary of a specific dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.


lexentry: eng/idol__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: idol
trans_list: īdōlum
sense:
A graven image or representation of anything that is revered, or believed to convey spiritual power.


lexentry: eng/igneous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: igneous
trans_list: volcanius
sense:
(geology) Resulting from, or produced by, great heat. With rocks, it could also mean formed from lava or magma.


lexentry: eng/iguana__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: iguana
trans_list: iguana
sense:
Colloquially, in Africa, any large member of the genus Varanus, especially the aquatic Nile monitor (see leguan).


lexentry: eng/ileus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ileus
trans_list: ileus
sense:
(medicine, modern usage) Disruption of the normal propulsive ability of the gastrointestinal tract, due to failure of peristalsis.


lexentry: eng/ilk__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ilk
trans_list: gens
sense:
A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.


lexentry: eng/ill-advised__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ill-advised
trans_list: inconsultus
sense:
Carried out without the benefit of wise counsel or careful deliberation, or carried out with unwise counsel.


lexentry: eng/illustrate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: illustrate
trans_list: descrībĕre
sense:
To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.


lexentry: eng/illustration__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: illustration
trans_list: argumentātio
sense:
Something which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible, or to remove obscurity.


lexentry: eng/imaginary_number__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imaginary number
trans_list: numerus imaginarius | quantitas imaginaria
sense:
(complex analysis, strict sense) A number of the form bi, where b is any real number and i denotes the imaginary unit.


lexentry: eng/imaginary_unit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imaginary unit
trans_list: unitas imaginaria
sense:
(number theory, complex analysis, quaternion theory) An imaginary number (in the case of complex numbers, usually denoted i) that is defined as a solution to the equation x^2 = -1.


lexentry: eng/imagination__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imagination
trans_list: opinio
sense:
The image-making power of the mind; the act of mentally creating or reproducing an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.


lexentry: eng/immigration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: immigration
trans_list: immigratio
sense:
The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country of which one is not native born for the purpose of permanent residence.


lexentry: eng/immoral__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: immoral
trans_list: improbus
sense:
Breaching principles of natural law, rectitude, or justice, and so inconsistent with the demands of virtue, purity, or "good morals"; not right, not moral. (Compare unethical, illegal.)


lexentry: eng/imp__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imp
trans_list: diabolullus
sense:
(chiefly, fiction, and, mythology) A small, mischievous sprite or a malevolent supernatural creature, somewhat comparable to a demon but smaller and less powerful, formerly regarded as the child of the devil or a demon (see sense 3.2). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/imparisyllabic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imparisyllabic
trans_list: perittosyllabus
sense:
Not having the same number of syllables in all its inflections (especially of Greek or Latin nouns); for example, the Latin word pars, which has the genitive form partis.


lexentry: eng/impatience__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: impatience
trans_list: impatientia | aviditās
sense:
The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.


lexentry: eng/impeachment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: impeachment
trans_list: amotio
sense:
(countable, law, chiefly, US) The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.


lexentry: eng/imperative_mood__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imperative mood
trans_list: (modus) imperativus
sense:
(grammar) The grammatical mood generally expressing a command, though also used to express a request or permission.


lexentry: eng/imperfect__Adjective__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: imperfect
trans_list: imperfectus
sense:
(grammar) belonging to a tense of verbs used in describing a past action that is incomplete or continuous


lexentry: eng/imperfection__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imperfection
trans_list: imperfectio
sense:
(uncountable) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect.


lexentry: eng/imperfective_aspect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imperfective aspect
trans_list: imperfectum
sense:
(grammar) A feature of a verb which denotes that its action or condition does not have a fixed temporal boundary, but is habitual, unfinished, continuous, repetitive or in progress.


lexentry: eng/imperialism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imperialism
trans_list: imperialismus
sense:
The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.


lexentry: eng/impersonal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: impersonal
trans_list: impersonalis
sense:
(grammar, of a verb or other word) Not having a subject, or having a third person pronoun without an antecedent.


lexentry: eng/impetigo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: impetigo
trans_list: impetīgō | inpetīgō
sense:
(pathology) A contagious bacterial skin disease forming pustules and yellow crusty sores, chiefly on the face and hands. It is common in children and infection is often through cuts or insect bites.


lexentry: eng/impluvium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: impluvium
trans_list: impluvium
sense:
(architecture) A low basin in the center of a household atrium, into which rainwater flowed down from the roof through the compluvium.


lexentry: eng/imply__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: imply
trans_list: subaudio
sense:
(transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement


lexentry: eng/imposition__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: imposition
trans_list: appellatio
sense:
(religion) A practice of laying hands on a person in a religious ceremony; used e.g. in confirmation and ordination.


lexentry: eng/impostor_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: impostor syndrome
trans_list: syndroma impostoris
sense:
(psychology) A psychological phenomenon in which a person is unable to internalize his or her accomplishments, remaining convinced that he or she does not deserve any accompanying success.


lexentry: eng/imprecation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imprecation
trans_list: exsecrātiō | imprecātiō
sense:
The act of imprecating, or invoking evil upon someone; a prayer that a curse or calamity may befall someone.


lexentry: eng/impregnable__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: impregnable
trans_list: adamantinus | inexpugnābilis
sense:
(military) Of a fortress or other fortified place: able to withstand all attacks; impenetrable, inconquerable, unvanquishable.


lexentry: eng/impressionistic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: impressionistic
trans_list: incompletus
sense:
Based on impression rather than reason or fact; based on trying to impress somebody rather than trying for accuracy.


lexentry: eng/improvement__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: improvement
trans_list: melioratio
sense:
The act of making profitable use or application of anything, or the state of being profitably employed; practical application, for example of a doctrine, principle, or theory, stated in a discourse.


lexentry: eng/improvise__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: improvise
trans_list: ad libitum
sense:
To make something up or invent it as one goes on; to proceed guided only by imagination, intuition, and guesswork rather than by a careful plan.


lexentry: eng/imprudence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imprudence
trans_list: imprudentia
sense:
(uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; lack of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection.


lexentry: eng/imprudent__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: imprudent
trans_list: imprūdens
sense:
Not prudent; lacking prudence or discretion; indiscreet; injudicious; not paying attention to the consequences of one's actions.


lexentry: eng/impugn__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: impugn
trans_list: adoriri
sense:
(transitive) To verbally assault, especially to argue against an opinion, motive, or action; to question the truth or validity of.


lexentry: eng/impunity__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: impunity
trans_list: impūnitās
sense:
(uncountable) Freedom from punishment or retribution; security from any reprisal or injurious consequences of an action, behaviour etc.


lexentry: eng/impurity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: impurity
trans_list: impūritās
sense:
The condition of being impure; because of contamination, pollution, adulteration or insufficient purification.


lexentry: eng/imputation__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: imputation
trans_list: imputatione
sense:
(theology) A setting of something to the account of; the attribution of personal guilt or personal righteousness of another.


lexentry: eng/in_a_word__Prepositional_phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: in a word
trans_list: in nuce
sense:
(abbreviative action or effect): In summarization: briefly, concisely, summarily, in short; to sum up


lexentry: eng/in_articulo_mortis__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: in articulo mortis
trans_list: in articulo mortis
sense:
At the moment of death. (In law, especially canon, or church, law, this expression can mean that someone has been given special permission by a competent authority to enter an organization or to receive some sort of exemption or permission at some point not long before they die, such as receiving diaconal or presbyteral ordination or entering religious profession.)


lexentry: eng/in_other_words__Prepositional_phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: in other words
trans_list: id est
sense:
(conjunctive, idiomatic) Stated or interpreted another way; Used to introduce an explanation, simplification, or clarification.


lexentry: eng/in_the_land_of_the_blind,_the_one-eyed_man_is_king__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
trans_list: in regione caecorum rex est luscus
sense:
Even someone with limited abilities or opportunities is dominant over, and considered special by, those who have even fewer abilities and opportunities; the value of any ability depends on its prevalence.


lexentry: eng/inanition__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: inanition
trans_list: fames
sense:
(medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.


lexentry: eng/inanity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inanity
trans_list: inanitas
sense:
(uncountable) The property of being inane, of lacking material of interest or satisfaction, emptiness.


lexentry: eng/inauguration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inauguration
trans_list: inauguratio
sense:
The act of inaugurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.


lexentry: eng/incantation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: incantation
trans_list: carmen | incantātiō
sense:
The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.


lexentry: eng/incest__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: incest
trans_list: incestum
sense:
Sexual relations between close relatives, especially immediate family members and sometimes first cousins, usually considered taboo; in many jurisdictions, close relatives are not allowed to marry, and incest is a crime.


lexentry: eng/incident__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: incident
trans_list: prolapsus
sense:
An event that causes or may cause an interruption or a crisis, such as a workplace illness or a software error.


lexentry: eng/incisor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: incisor
trans_list: incisivus
sense:
(anatomy, zootomy) A narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth of mammals, between the canines and adapted for cutting; in humans there are four in each jaw.


lexentry: eng/incompatible__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: incompatible
trans_list: dissociābilis
sense:
Of two things: that cannot coexist; not congruous because of differences; unable to function together due to dissimilarities.


lexentry: eng/inconsolable__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inconsolable
trans_list: inconsolabilis
sense:
Not consolable; unable to be consoled or comforted, usually due to grief, disappointment, or other distress.


lexentry: eng/incontinence__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: incontinence
trans_list: incontinentia
sense:
(urology) The inability of any of the physical organs to restrain discharges of their contents; involuntary discharge or evacuation (of urine or feces).


lexentry: eng/incorporate__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: incorporate
trans_list: commisceo
sense:
(US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).


lexentry: eng/incredulity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: incredulity
trans_list: incredulitas
sense:
Unwillingness or inability to believe; doubt about the truth or verisimilitude of something; disbelief.


lexentry: eng/incubus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: incubus
trans_list: incubus | incubo
sense:
(medieval folklore) An evil spirit supposed to oppress people while asleep, especially to have sex with women as they sleep.


lexentry: eng/incumbent__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: incumbent
trans_list: alligans
sense:
Followed by on or upon: imposed on one as an obligation, especially due to one's office or position.


lexentry: eng/indentation__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: indentation
trans_list: introitus
sense:
(typography) The act of beginning a line or series of lines at a little distance within the flush line of the column or page, as in the common way of beginning the first line of a paragraph.


lexentry: eng/indenture__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: indenture
trans_list: contractus
sense:
(legal) A contract which binds a person to work for another, under specified conditions, for a specified time (often as an apprentice).


lexentry: eng/independence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: independence
trans_list: lībertās | libertas
sense:
The quality or state of being independent; lack of dependence; the state of not being reliant on, or controlled by, others.


lexentry: eng/indicator__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: indicator
trans_list: sagitta
sense:
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland , automotive ) A turn signal; each of the flashing lights on each side of a vehicle which indicate a turn is being made to left or right, or a lane change etc.


lexentry: eng/indict__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: indict
trans_list: crīminō
sense:
(legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.


lexentry: eng/indigenous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: indigenous
trans_list: indigenus
sense:
In particular, of or relating to a people (or their language or culture) that inhabited a region prior to the arrival of people of other cultures which became dominant (e.g., through colonialism), and which maintains a distinct culture.


lexentry: eng/indigestion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: indigestion
trans_list: cruditas | cruditatem | cruditates
sense:
A condition of heartburn, nausea, or other stomach-related pain, sometimes caused by eating too quickly.


lexentry: eng/indirect_object__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: indirect object
trans_list: res obliqua
sense:
(grammar) A grammatical role of a ditransitive verb that manifests a secondary or passive participant in an action, often a recipient or goal.


lexentry: eng/indispensable__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: indispensable
trans_list: necessarius
sense:
(ecclesiastical, obsolete) Not admitting ecclesiastical dispensation; not subject to release or exemption; that cannot be allowed by bending the canonical rules. [16th–17th c.]


lexentry: eng/indistinguishable__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: indistinguishable
trans_list: indiscriminabilis
sense:
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct


lexentry: eng/individual__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: individual
trans_list: specialis
sense:
(legal) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.


lexentry: eng/induction__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: induction
trans_list: inductio
sense:
(embryology) Given a group of cells that emits or displays a substance, the influence of this substance on the fate of a second group of cells


lexentry: eng/inductive_reasoning__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inductive reasoning
trans_list: inductio
sense:
The process of making inferences based upon observed patterns, or simple repetition. Often used in reference to predictions about what will happen or does happen, based upon what has happened.


lexentry: eng/indulgence__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: indulgence
trans_list: indulgentia
sense:
(Roman Catholicism) A pardon or release from the expectation of punishment in purgatory, after the sinner has been granted absolution.


lexentry: eng/indulgent__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: indulgent
trans_list: indulgens
sense:
Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing;


lexentry: eng/inebriate__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: inebriate
trans_list: ebrium facere
sense:
(transitive, figurative) To disorder the senses of; to exhilarate, elate or stupefy as if by spirituous drink.


lexentry: eng/infamous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: infamous
trans_list: infāmis | propudianus | propudiosus
sense:
(UK, historical) Subject to a judicial punishment that deprived the infamous person of certain rights; this included a prohibition against holding public office, exercising the franchise, receiving a public pension, serving on a jury, or giving testimony in a court of law.


lexentry: eng/infant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: infant
trans_list: infans
sense:
A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age after birth, needing almost constant care and attention.


lexentry: eng/infantry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: infantry
trans_list: peditātus
sense:
Soldiers who fight on foot (on land), as opposed to cavalry and other mounted units, regardless of external transport (e.g. airborne).


lexentry: eng/infantry__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: infantry
trans_list: peditātus
sense:
(uncountable) The part of an army consisting of infantry soldiers, especially opposed to mounted and technical troops.


lexentry: eng/infectious__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: infectious
trans_list: infectiosus
sense:
(pathology, of an illness) Caused by an agent that enters the host's body (such as a bacterium, virus, parasite, or prion); often, also, transmitted among hosts via any of various routes (for example, contact, droplet-borne, airborne, waterborne, foodborne, fomite-borne, or bloodborne).


lexentry: eng/infer__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: infer
trans_list: coniecto
sense:
(transitive) To introduce (something) as a reasoned conclusion; to conclude by reasoning or deduction, as from premises or evidence. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/inferable__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inferable
trans_list: īnferibilis
sense:
That may be inferred or drawn as a conclusion; deducible; that may be put together from previous knowledge and current evidence.


lexentry: eng/infidelity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: infidelity
trans_list: adulterium
sense:
Unfaithfulness in a marriage or an intimate (sexual or romantic) relationship: practice or instance of having a sexual or romantic affair with someone other than one's spouse, without the consent of the spouse.


lexentry: eng/infinitive__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: infinitive
trans_list: aparemphatum | infinitivus
sense:
(grammar) 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.


lexentry: eng/inflammation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: inflammation
trans_list: inflammatio
sense:
(pathology) A condition of any part of the body, consisting of congestion of the blood vessels, with obstruction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.


lexentry: eng/inflection__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inflection
trans_list: flexio | flexura
sense:
(grammar, uncountable) Change in the form of a word (morphologic change) to express different grammatical categories.


lexentry: eng/inflexibility__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inflexibility
trans_list: rigor
sense:
The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness


lexentry: eng/inflexibly__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inflexibly
trans_list: inflexibiliter
sense:
With a firmness that resists all importunity or persuasion; in an inflexible, unyielding or immovable manner; relentlessly.


lexentry: eng/inflorescence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inflorescence
trans_list: inflorescentia
sense:
(botany) Flower cluster; a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.


lexentry: eng/influence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: influence
trans_list: auctōritās
sense:
The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.


lexentry: eng/influence__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: influence
trans_list: afficio
sense:
(transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.


lexentry: eng/influenza__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: influenza
trans_list: auctoritas
sense:
(disease) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.


lexentry: eng/inform__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: inform
trans_list: doceo
sense:
(transitive) To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).


lexentry: eng/informatics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: informatics
trans_list: informatica
sense:
(computing) A branch of information science and of computer science that focuses on the study of information processing, particularly with respect to systems integration and human interactions with machine and data.


lexentry: eng/information__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: information
trans_list: doctrina | scientia | indicium | nuntii | nūntius
sense:
Things that are or can be known about a given topic; communicable knowledge of something. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/infrastructure__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: infrastructure
trans_list: infrastuctura
sense:
(systems theory) An underlying base or foundation especially for an organization or system. [from 1887]


lexentry: eng/infuse__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: infuse
trans_list: urinor
sense:
(transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).


lexentry: eng/infusion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: infusion
trans_list: decoctum
sense:
A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.


lexentry: eng/ingot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ingot
trans_list: ovis
sense:
A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.


lexentry: eng/ingress__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: ingress
trans_list: prooemium
sense:
(astronomy) The entrance of the Moon into the shadow of the Earth in eclipses, or the Sun's entrance into a sign, etc.


lexentry: eng/inherit__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: inherit
trans_list: heredito
sense:
(transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.


lexentry: eng/inhuman__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inhuman
trans_list: inhumanis | inhumanum
sense:
Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.


lexentry: eng/initial__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: initial
trans_list: initiālis | principiālis
sense:
Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.


lexentry: eng/initialism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: initialism
trans_list: acronimus
sense:
(linguistics) A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.


lexentry: eng/initiate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: initiate
trans_list: initiō
sense:
(transitive) To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.


lexentry: eng/initiative__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: initiative
trans_list: initiatus
sense:
(politics) An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.


lexentry: eng/inkwell__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inkwell
trans_list: atramentale
sense:
A container for ink, designed and usually positioned so that a person may conveniently dip a pen into it whenever a refill is needed.


lexentry: eng/inmate__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: inmate
trans_list: habitator
sense:
A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.


lexentry: eng/inner__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inner
trans_list: penitus
sense:
Being or occurring (farther) inside, situated farther in, located (situated) or happening on the inside of something, situated within or farther within contained within something.


lexentry: eng/inner_ear__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inner ear
trans_list: auris interna
sense:
(anatomy) The portion of the ear located within the temporal bone which includes the semicircular canals, vestibule, and cochlea and is responsible for hearing and balance.


lexentry: eng/inoculate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inoculate
trans_list: vaccinare
sense:
(transitive, immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into something (e.g. the body) or someone, such as to produce immunity to a specific disease. [from c. 1722]


lexentry: eng/inoculation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inoculation
trans_list: vaccinatio
sense:
(immunology) The introduction of an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.


lexentry: eng/inquiry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inquiry
trans_list: quaestiō
sense:
The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.


lexentry: eng/inroad__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inroad
trans_list: dēcursiō | ingressus
sense:
(military, also, figuratively) An advance into enemy territory, an attempted invasion; an encroachment, an incursion.


lexentry: eng/insect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: insect
trans_list: īnsectum | insectum
sense:
An arthropod (in the Insecta class) characterized by six legs, up to four wings, and a chitinous exoskeleton.


lexentry: eng/insemination__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: insemination
trans_list: praegnatio
sense:
The introduction of sperm into a female’s reproductive system for the purpose of impregnating (making pregnant).


lexentry: eng/inshallah__Interjection__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inshallah
trans_list: Deo volente
sense:
(chiefly, Islam) Expressing the speaker’s wish for a given future event to occur, and also generally their emphasis on its contingency upon the divine will.


lexentry: eng/inside__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inside
trans_list: intus | intrā
sense:
Within or towards the interior of something; within the scope or limits of something (a place), especially a building.


lexentry: eng/inspect__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inspect
trans_list: aspiciō | inspiciō
sense:
To examine critically or carefully; especially, to search out problems or determine condition; to scrutinize.


lexentry: eng/inspiration__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inspiration
trans_list: inspiratio
sense:
(physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm, as part of the act of respiration.


lexentry: eng/inspiration__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: inspiration
trans_list: afflaus
sense:
A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies people to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated.


lexentry: eng/inspiration__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: inspiration
trans_list: afflaus
sense:
A person, object, or situation which quickens or stimulates an influence upon the intellect, emotions or creativity.


lexentry: eng/inspire__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inspire
trans_list: afflō | iniciō | īnspīrō
sense:
(transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.


lexentry: eng/inspire__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: inspire
trans_list: afflō | iniciō | īnspīrō
sense:
(transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.


lexentry: eng/installment__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: installment
trans_list: pensiō
sense:
(banking, finance) One member of a series of portions of a debt or sum of money, which portions may or may not be equated (depending in part on whether the interest rate is fixed or variable), payment of which portions are serially exacted at regularly scheduled intervals toward satisfaction of the total. Payments of installments are generally mensual, quarterly, triannual, biannual, or annual.


lexentry: eng/instantaneous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: instantaneous
trans_list: nunc
sense:
Occurring, arising, or functioning without any delay; happening within an imperceptibly brief period of time. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/instar__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: instar
trans_list: stadium
sense:
Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.


lexentry: eng/instigator__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: instigator
trans_list: impulsor
sense:
A person who intentionally instigates, incites, or starts something, especially one that creates trouble.


lexentry: eng/institution__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: institution
trans_list: institutio
sense:
A long established and respected organization, particularly one involved with education, public service, or charity work.


lexentry: eng/instrumental__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: instrumental
trans_list: instrumentalis
sense:
(music) Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for an instrument, especially a musical instrument (rather than the human voice).


lexentry: eng/instrumental_case__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: instrumental case
trans_list: casus instrumentalis
sense:
(grammar) A noun case used to express means or agency—and is generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective. Languages that use the instrumental case include Armenian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Dyirbal, Georgian, Latvian, Slovene, Polish, Ukrainian, Quechua, Russian, Assamese, Turkish and Sanskrit. Extinct languages that used the instrumental case include Old English, Old Saxon and Old High German.


lexentry: eng/insular__Adjective__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: insular
trans_list: insularis
sense:
(linguistics, anthropology) (often with a capital letter) Relating to the varieties of a language or languages spoken chiefly on islands. Insular Latin, Latin as it was spoken in Britain and Ireland. Insular Celtic, the Celtic languages of Britain, Ireland and also Brittany, as opposed to those spoken in mainland Europe other than Brittany. Insular Scandinavian, relating to the Icelandic and Faroese languages as opposed to the ones spoken in Sweden, Denmark and Norway.


lexentry: eng/insulate__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: insulate
trans_list: insulanus
sense:
To separate a body or material from others, e.g. by non-conductors to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, etc.


lexentry: eng/insulation__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: insulation
trans_list: solitudo
sense:
(engineering) The act of separating a body from others by nonconductors, so as to prevent the transfer of electricity, heat, or sound


lexentry: eng/insult__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: insult
trans_list: maledictum | convicium | contumelia
sense:
(uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.


lexentry: eng/insult__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: insult
trans_list: insultō
sense:
(transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone). [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/insure__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: insure
trans_list: polliceri
sense:
(transitive) To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event.


lexentry: eng/insurgent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: insurgent
trans_list: rebellis
sense:
One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.


lexentry: eng/insurrection__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: insurrection
trans_list: insurrectiō | sēditiō
sense:
(uncountable) The action of part or all of a national population violently rising up against the government or other authority; (countable) an instance of this; a revolt, an uprising; specifically, one that is at an initial stage or limited in nature.


lexentry: eng/integer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: integer
trans_list: numerus integer
sense:
(arithmetic) A number that is not a fraction; an element of the infinite and numerable set {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.


lexentry: eng/integral__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: integral
trans_list: integrale
sense:
(mathematics) One of the two fundamental operations of calculus (the other being differentiation), whereby a function's displacement, area, volume, or other qualities arising from the study of infinitesimal change are quantified, usually defined as a limiting process on a sequence of partial sums. Denoted using a long s: ∫, or a variant thereof.


lexentry: eng/integral_calculus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: integral calculus
trans_list: calculus integralis
sense:
(calculus) The calculus that generalizes summation to find areas, masses, volumes, sums, and totals of quantities described by continuously varying functions.


lexentry: eng/integrate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: integrate
trans_list: integrare
sense:
To indicate the whole of; to give the sum or total of; as, an integrating anemometer, one that indicates or registers the entire action of the wind in a given time.


lexentry: eng/intellect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: intellect
trans_list: intellectus
sense:
(uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.


lexentry: eng/intelligence__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: intelligence
trans_list: intelligentia | ingenium
sense:
(mostly, uncountable) The quality of making use or having made use of such capacities: depth of understanding, mental quickness.


lexentry: eng/intelligence__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: intelligence
trans_list: nūntius
sense:
(countable) A political or military department, agency or unit designed to gather information, usually secret, about the enemy or about hostile activities.


lexentry: eng/intend__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: intend
trans_list: habeo in animo | volo
sense:
(ambitransitive, usually followed by particle "to" + verb, or "on"/"upon" + noun) To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon


lexentry: eng/intendment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: intendment
trans_list: legifer
sense:
(legal) the sense in which the legal system interprets something, especially the intention of legislation


lexentry: eng/intentionality__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: intentionality
trans_list: intentionalitas
sense:
(philosophy) The characteristic of a mental state whereby it is about something, which relates to mental states in an analogous way as meaning relates to a word.


lexentry: eng/interaction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interaction
trans_list: interaction
sense:
The situation or occurrence in which two or more objects or events act upon one another to produce a new effect; the effect resulting from such a situation or occurrence.


lexentry: eng/intercalary__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: intercalary
trans_list: intercalaris
sense:
(botany) of a meristem: situated between zones of permanent tissue, thus a shoot growing at the base of a leaf, in comparison with apical growth at the tip of a root or plant.


lexentry: eng/intercession__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: intercession
trans_list: intercessio
sense:
A prayer to God on behalf of another person; especially, such a prayer offered by a heavenly saint on behalf of a mere mortal who has prayed to the saint for such help.


lexentry: eng/interchange__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: interchange
trans_list: nexus viarum autocineticarum
sense:
(countable) A junction in which traffic may merge to enter or diverge to exit a limited-access highway to access a surface street, without crossing traffic on the main highway.


lexentry: eng/interchange__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: interchange
trans_list: nexus viarum autocineticarum
sense:
(rail transport, countable) A connection between two or more lines, services or modes of transport; a station at which such a connection can be made.


lexentry: eng/interdict__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interdict
trans_list: impermissus
sense:
A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.


lexentry: eng/interest__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interest
trans_list: faenus | usura
sense:
(uncountable, finance) The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. [from earlier 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/interfix__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interfix
trans_list: adjectio
sense:
(linguistic morphology) A morph inserted between two morphemes in the process of word formation, such as the empty morphs English -i- and -o-.


lexentry: eng/interjection__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interjection
trans_list: interiectiō | interiectio
sense:
(grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.


lexentry: eng/intermission__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: intermission
trans_list: dīlūdium | intercapedō | intermissiō
sense:
A break, especially between two performances or sessions, such as at a concert, play, seminar, or religious assembly.


lexentry: eng/international_law__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: international law
trans_list: ius gentium | ius internationale
sense:
Set of rules generally regarded and accepted as binding in relations between states and between nations, serving as a framework for the practice of stable and organized international relations.


lexentry: eng/interpellation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interpellation
trans_list: interrogātio
sense:
(politics) The act of interpellating (questioning); the period in which government officials are questioned about and explain an act, a policy or a point raised during a debate.


lexentry: eng/interpolate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interpolate
trans_list: interpolō
sense:
(transitive, intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert (possibly spurious) words into a text.


lexentry: eng/interpret__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: interpret
trans_list: interpretor
sense:
To explain or tell the meaning of; to translate orally into intelligible or familiar language or terms. applied especially to language, but also to dreams, signs, conduct, mysteries, etc.


lexentry: eng/interpreter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interpreter
trans_list: interpres | interprex
sense:
A person who converts spoken or signed language into a different language for the benefit of one or more others who do not understand the first language being used (especially if in real time or shortly after that person has finished communicating). (Contrasted with translator.)


lexentry: eng/interpreter__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: interpreter
trans_list: interpres
sense:
(computing) A program that executes another program written in a high-level language by reading the instructions in real time rather than by compiling it in advance.


lexentry: eng/interregnum__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: interregnum
trans_list: pausa
sense:
(by extension) An intermission in any order of succession; any breach of continuity in action or influence.


lexentry: eng/interrex__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interrex
trans_list: interrex
sense:
(history) An official in Ancient Rome who acted as single head of state during the interregnum between two consulates.


lexentry: eng/interrogative_pronoun__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interrogative pronoun
trans_list: pronomen interrogativum
sense:
(grammar) A pronoun used in a question. In English, the five interrogative pronouns are what, which, who, whom, and whose (also used as relative pronouns). These require no antecedent.


lexentry: eng/interrupt__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: interrupt
trans_list: scalpere
sense:
(ambitransitive) To disturb or halt (an ongoing process or action, or the person performing it) by interfering suddenly, especially by speaking.


lexentry: eng/interview__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: interview
trans_list: colloquium
sense:
A conversation in person (or, by extension, over the telephone, Internet etc.) between a journalist and someone whose opinion or statements he or she wishes to record for publication, broadcast etc. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/intestine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: intestine
trans_list: lactes | intestinum
sense:
(anatomy, often pluralized) The alimentary canal of an animal through which food passes after having passed all stomachs.


lexentry: eng/intestine__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: intestine
trans_list: intestinum
sense:
One of certain subdivisions of this part of the alimentary canal, such as the small or large intestine in human beings.


lexentry: eng/intravenous__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: intravenous
trans_list: infusio
sense:
(medicine) A dose of medicine administered from a drip, down through a hollow needle inserted into a patient's vein.


lexentry: eng/intrigue__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: intrigue
trans_list: calumnia
sense:
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.


lexentry: eng/intrinsic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: intrinsic
trans_list: interior
sense:
(anatomy, of a body part) Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member.


lexentry: eng/introit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: introit
trans_list: introitus
sense:
(Roman Catholicism, music) A prayer, typically part of a psalm or other portion of the Bible, read or sung at the start of Mass while or immediately after the priest ascends to the altar.


lexentry: eng/introjection__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: introjection
trans_list: introiectio
sense:
(psychology) The process whereby the ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.


lexentry: eng/introspection__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: introspection
trans_list: sui recognitio
sense:
(psychology) A looking inward; specifically, the act or process of self-examination, or inspection of one's own thoughts and feelings; the cognition which the mind has of its own acts and states


lexentry: eng/intrude__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: intrude
trans_list: interveniō
sense:
(intransitive) To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.


lexentry: eng/inure__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inure
trans_list: obdurare
sense:
(transitive) To cause someone to become accustomed to something that requires prolonged or repeated tolerance of one or more unpleasantries. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/invalid__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: invalid
trans_list: aeger
sense:
(dated, sometimes, offensive) A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves.


lexentry: eng/invasion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: invasion
trans_list: incursiō | invasiō
sense:
A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.


lexentry: eng/inveigh__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inveigh
trans_list: iactare
sense:
(intransitive, with against or occasionally about, formerly also with on, at, upon) To complain loudly, to give voice to one's censure or criticism [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/inverse_function__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inverse function
trans_list: fūnctiō inversa
sense:
(mathematics) For a given function f, another function, denoted f−1, that reverses the mapping action of f; (formally) given a function f: X\rightarrow Y, a function g: Y\rightarrow X such that, \forall x\in X,\ f(x) = y \implies g(y)=x.


lexentry: eng/invert__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: invert
trans_list: invertō
sense:
(transitive) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.


lexentry: eng/inverted__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: inverted
trans_list: inversus
sense:
Having the order or direction changed; for example turned upside down, reversed or in any other way opposite or contrary.


lexentry: eng/investigation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: investigation
trans_list: indagatio | investigatio | quaestiō
sense:
The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination


lexentry: eng/investiture__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: investiture
trans_list: dominion
sense:
The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.


lexentry: eng/investment__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: investment
trans_list: collocātiō
sense:
(finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.


lexentry: eng/invocation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: invocation
trans_list: invocātiō
sense:
The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.


lexentry: eng/involution__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: involution
trans_list: involutio
sense:
(mathematics) An endofunction whose square is equal to the identity function; a function equal to its inverse.


lexentry: eng/involve__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: involve
trans_list: misceo
sense:
To cause or engage (someone or something) to become connected or implicated, or to participate, in some activity or situation.


lexentry: eng/involve__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: involve
trans_list: advolvĕre
sense:
To form (something) into a coil or spiral, or into folds; to entwine, to fold up, to roll, to wind round.


lexentry: eng/involve__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: involve
trans_list: allevo
sense:
(mathematics) To multiply (a number) by itself a given number of times; to raise to any assigned power.


lexentry: eng/ion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ion
trans_list: ion
sense:
An atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge, such as the sodium and chlorine atoms in a salt solution.


lexentry: eng/iota_subscript__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iota subscript
trans_list: iōta subscrīptum
sense:
(Greek orthography) A small iota written below an alpha, eta or omega – e.g. in ᾠδή – representing a vocalic offglide that was pronounced in early Ancient Greek, but later became silent; invented in the Middle Ages in order to mark those vowels which would originally have had such an offglide.


lexentry: eng/iridium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iridium
trans_list: iridium
sense:
(uncountable) A chemical element (symbol Ir) with an atomic number of 77: a very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group.


lexentry: eng/iris__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iris
trans_list: iris
sense:
(botany) A plant of the genus Iris, common in the northern hemisphere, and generally having attractive blooms (See w:Iris (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).


lexentry: eng/irksome__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: irksome
trans_list: molestus | onerōsus
sense:
Marked by irritation or annoyance; disagreeable; troublesome by reason of long continuance or repetition


lexentry: eng/iron(II)_sulfate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iron(II) sulfate
trans_list: chalcanthon
sense:
(inorganic compound) The green, crystalline salt of divalent iron and sulfuric acid, FeSO4, used as a pigment, and in water treatment.


lexentry: eng/iron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iron
trans_list: ferrum | ferri
sense:
(uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.


lexentry: eng/iron__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iron
trans_list: ferro levigare
sense:
(transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.


lexentry: eng/irony__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: irony
trans_list: ironia
sense:
(rhetoric) The quality of a statement that, when taken in context, may actually mean something different from, or the opposite of, what is written literally; the use of words expressing something other than their literal intention, often in a humorous context.


lexentry: eng/irony__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: irony
trans_list: ironia
sense:
(informal) Contradiction between circumstances and expectations; condition contrary to what might be expected. [from the 1640s]


lexentry: eng/irrational__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: irrational
trans_list: inclaudibilis
sense:
(mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.


lexentry: eng/irregular__Adjective__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: irregular
trans_list: anomalus
sense:
(grammar, of a word) not following the regular or expected patterns of inflection in a given language


lexentry: eng/irregularity__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: irregularity
trans_list: irregularitas
sense:
(uncountable) The state or condition of being irregular, or the extent to which something is irregular.


lexentry: eng/irrelevant__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: irrelevant
trans_list: levis
sense:
Not usefully related: not associated in any way that is important or useful to the context being discussed: not materially applicable; having connections not applicable in the present situation.


lexentry: eng/irreverence__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: irreverence
trans_list: irriverentia
sense:
The state or quality of being irreverent; want of proper reverence; disregard of the authority and character of a superior.


lexentry: eng/irreverent__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: irreverent
trans_list: impius
sense:
Lacking respect; not having or not showing respect for or seriousness towards something that is usually treated with respect; going against conventional precepts.


lexentry: eng/irrigation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: irrigation
trans_list: irrigātiō
sense:
The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.


lexentry: eng/irritable_bowel_syndrome__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: irritable bowel syndrome
trans_list: intestinum irritabile
sense:
(pathology) A functional disorder causing the nerves and muscles of the large intestine to be oversensitive, leading to symptoms such as cramp, bloating, flatulence, diarrhoea and constipation.


lexentry: eng/irritation__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: irritation
trans_list: molestia
sense:
A condition of morbid excitability or oversensitiveness of an organ or part of the body; a state in which the application of ordinary stimuli produces pain or excessive or vitiated action.


lexentry: eng/ischemia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ischemia
trans_list: ischaemia
sense:
(cardiology, pathology) Local disturbance in blood circulation due to mechanical obstruction of the blood supply (for example, embolism, thrombosis, or vasoconstriction).


lexentry: eng/isinglass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: isinglass
trans_list: ichthyocolla
sense:
A form of gelatine obtained from the air bladder of the sturgeon and certain other fish, used as an adhesive and as a clarifying agent for wine and beer.


lexentry: eng/island__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: island
trans_list: īnsula | insula
sense:
(by extension, in place names) A contiguous area of land, smaller than a continent, partially surrounded by water; A peninsula; A half-island.


lexentry: eng/isolation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: isolation
trans_list: solitudo
sense:
(chiefly, uncountable) The state of being isolated, detached, or separated; the state of being away from other people.


lexentry: eng/isolation__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: isolation
trans_list: solitudo
sense:
(diplomacy, of a country) The state of not having diplomatic relations with other countries (either with most or all other countries, or with specified other countries).


lexentry: eng/isometry__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: isometry
trans_list: isometria
sense:
(mathematics) A function between metric spaces (or on a single metric space) having the property that the distance between two images is equal to the distance between their preimages.


lexentry: eng/isotope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: isotope
trans_list: isotopus
sense:
(nuclear physics) Any of two or more forms of an element where the atoms have the same number of protons, but a different number of neutrons within their nuclei. Thus, isotopes have the same atomic number but a different mass number.


lexentry: eng/isotype__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: isotype
trans_list: isotypus
sense:
(immunology) A marker corresponding to an antigen found in all members of a subclass of a specific class of immunoglobulins


lexentry: eng/issue__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: issue
trans_list: prognatus
sense:
The entire set of some item printed and disseminated during a certain period, particularly (publishing) a single printing of a particular edition of a work when contrasted with other print runs.


lexentry: eng/issue__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: issue
trans_list: difficultas
sense:
(US, originally, _, psychology, usually, in the plural) A psychological or emotional difficulty, (now, _, informal, figurative, _, and, _) any problem or concern considered as a vague and intractable difficulty.


lexentry: eng/issue__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: issue
trans_list: problema
sense:
(law) A point of law or fact in dispute or question in a legal action presented for resolution by the court.


lexentry: eng/it__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: it
trans_list: id
sense:
The third-person singular personal pronoun used to refer to an inanimate object, abstract entity, or non-human living thing.


lexentry: eng/it__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: it
trans_list: id | hoc | illud
sense:
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent as the subject of an impersonal verb or statement (known as the dummy pronoun, dummy it or weather it).


lexentry: eng/it__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: it
trans_list: id | hoc | illud
sense:
The impersonal pronoun, used without referent, or with unstated but contextually implied referent, in various short idioms or expressions.


lexentry: eng/it__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: it
trans_list: id | hoc | illud
sense:
The impersonal pronoun, used as a placeholder for a delayed subject, or less commonly, object; known as the dummy pronoun (according to some definitions), anticipatory it or, more formally in linguistics, a syntactic expletive. The delayed subject is commonly a to-infinitive, a gerund, or a noun clause introduced by a subordinating conjunction.


lexentry: eng/it_never_rains_but_it_pours__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
sense: Unfortunate events occur in quantity.
written_rep: it never rains but it pours
trans_list:
Fortūna obesse nūllī contenta est semel | aliud ex aliō malum | aliō relinquente flūctū alius excēpit | dolor dolōrem trūdit et metus metum | nūlla calamitās sōla


lexentry: eng/itch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: itch
trans_list: prūrīgō
sense:
A sensation felt on an area of the skin that causes a person or animal to want to scratch said area.


lexentry: eng/itch__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: itch
trans_list: prūriō
sense:
(intransitive) To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something.


lexentry: eng/iterative__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iterative
trans_list: iterativus
sense:
Of a procedure that involves repetition of steps (iteration) to achieve the desired outcome; in computing this may involve a mechanism such as a loop.


lexentry: eng/iterative_aspect__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: iterative aspect
trans_list: frequentativum
sense:
(grammar) A subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a continuously repeated action. An example in English would be the iterative verb sniffle, as opposed to the noniterative sniff.


lexentry: eng/ithyphallic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: ithyphallic
trans_list: ithyphallicus | ithyphallica | ithyphallicum
sense:
Of or pertaining to an upward pointing, erect penis; (specifically) of an artistic depiction of a deity or other figure: possessing an erect penis.


lexentry: eng/itself__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: itself
trans_list: sibi | suī | sē | sēsē
sense:
(reflexive pronoun) it; A thing as the object of a verb or preposition that also appears as the subject


lexentry: eng/itself__Pronoun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: itself
trans_list: ipsum | sibi | suī | sē | sēsē
sense:
(emphatic) it; used to intensify the subject, especially to emphasize that it is the only participant in the predicate


lexentry: eng/ivory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ivory
trans_list: ebur
sense:
(uncountable) The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.


lexentry: eng/ivory_tower__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ivory tower
trans_list: turris eburnea
sense:
(idiomatic) A sheltered, overly-academic existence or perspective, implying a disconnection or lack of awareness of reality or practical considerations.


lexentry: eng/jack__Noun__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: jack
trans_list: capsella contactus
sense:
(electronics) A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/jack__Noun__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: jack
trans_list: Gryllus
sense:
A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/jack__Noun__2
sense_num: 03
written_rep: jack
trans_list: porcella
sense:
(bowls) A small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls; a jack-ball. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/jack__Noun__2
sense_num: 03
written_rep: jack
trans_list: vexillum
sense:
(nautical) A small ship's flag used as a signal or identifying device; a small flag flown at the bow of the vessel. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_none__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jack of all trades, master of none
trans_list: Johannes factotum
sense:
(idiomatic) A person who has a competent grasp of many skills but who is not outstanding in any one.


lexentry: eng/jackal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jackal
trans_list: canis aureus | ciacalis | thōs
sense:
Any of certain wild canids of the genera Lupulella and Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.


lexentry: eng/jacket__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jacket
trans_list: amiculum
sense:
A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.


lexentry: eng/jade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jade
trans_list: jadeītēs
sense:
A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often used for carving figurines.


lexentry: eng/jail__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jail
trans_list: carcer | ferriterium
sense:
A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.


lexentry: eng/jam__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jam
trans_list: condītus
sense:
(less common in the, _, US) A sweet mixture of fruit boiled with sugar and allowed to congeal. Often spread on bread or toast or used in jam tarts.


lexentry: eng/jam_session__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jam session
trans_list: bos
sense:
(music) An informal gathering of musicians to play music, especially improvised jazz or a similar genre.


lexentry: eng/janissary__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: janissary
trans_list: ianizarus
sense:
(historical) An infantry soldier, often of European Christian background from the Balkans as well as Eastern Europe and forcibly converted to Islam, in a former elite Turkish (Ottoman) guard (disbanded in 1826); (by extension) any Turkish soldier, particularly one escorting a traveller.


lexentry: eng/jar__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: jar
trans_list: urceolus | ōlla
sense:
A small, approximately cylindrical container, normally made of clay or glass, for holding fruit, preserves, etc., or for ornamental purposes.


lexentry: eng/jasmine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jasmine
trans_list: jasminum
sense:
Any of several plants, of the genus Jasminum, mostly native to Asia, having fragrant white or yellow flowers.


lexentry: eng/jasper__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: jasper
trans_list: iaspis
sense:
An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.


lexentry: eng/jaundice__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jaundice
trans_list: aurūgō
sense:
(pathology) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine. [from early 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/javelin_throw__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: javelin throw
trans_list: hasta
sense:
(athletics) An athletic throwing event where the object to be thrown is the javelin, a spear-like object made of metal, fiberglass and, in some cases, kyshashrek.


lexentry: eng/jazz__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jazz
trans_list: iazium
sense:
(music genre) A musical art form rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in the African American blues tradition, with diverse influences over time, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.


lexentry: eng/jeer__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jeer
trans_list: cavillor
sense:
(intransitive, with at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language.


lexentry: eng/jejunum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jejunum
trans_list: abstinentia
sense:
(anatomy) The central of the three divisions of the small intestine which lies between the duodenum and the ileum


lexentry: eng/jelly__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: jelly
trans_list: condītus
sense:
(North America, Britain (certain specific usages)) A clear or translucent fruit preserve, made from fruit juice and set using either naturally occurring, or added, pectin. Normally known as "jam" in Commonwealth English but see redcurrant jelly and jeely.


lexentry: eng/jellyfish__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jellyfish
trans_list: halipleumon | pulmo
sense:
An almost transparent aquatic animal; any one of the acalephs, especially one of the larger species, having a jellylike appearance.


lexentry: eng/jerk__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: jerk
trans_list: ampulla
sense:
(originally, North America, slang, pejorative) A person with unlikable or obnoxious qualities and behavior, typically mean, self-centered, or disagreeable; an arsehole.


lexentry: eng/jerkin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jerkin
trans_list: jacca
sense:
(historical) A type of men's garment popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a close-fitting collarless jacket, with or without sleeves.


lexentry: eng/jet_bridge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jet bridge
trans_list: digitus
sense:
(aviation) An elevated corridor connecting an airport to a plane, usually enclosed and used for disembarking and embarking passengers and crew.


lexentry: eng/jetty__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jetty
trans_list: pila
sense:
A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.


lexentry: eng/jewellery__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jewellery
trans_list: ōrnāmentum
sense:
Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.


lexentry: eng/jib__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: jib
trans_list: fioccus
sense:
(nautical, usually with a modifier) Any of a variety of specialty triangular staysails set forward of the foremast.


lexentry: eng/jigger__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jigger
trans_list: digitus
sense:
(US) A double-ended vessel, generally of stainless steel or other metal, one end of which typically measures 1½ fluid ounces (approx. 44 ml), the other typically 1 fluid ounce (approx. 30 ml).


lexentry: eng/jigsaw_puzzle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jigsaw puzzle
trans_list: aenigma
sense:
A type of puzzle in which the aim is to reconstruct a picture that has been cut (originally, with a jigsaw) into many small interlocking pieces.


lexentry: eng/jimsonweed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jimsonweed
trans_list: Datura stramonium
sense:
(US) A poisonous plant of the Datura stramonium species, part of the nightshade (Solanaceae) family, occasionally ingested as a hallucinogen.


lexentry: eng/jingle__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: jingle
trans_list: crepitaculum
sense:
(music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.


lexentry: eng/jinn__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jinn
trans_list: genius
sense:
(Arabic culture) A human-like spiritual or immaterial being, as opposed to al-ins (people), often invisible but able to manifest in form and also inhabit people or animals; origin of the genie of Western literature, film etc.


lexentry: eng/jive__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: jive
trans_list: saltare
sense:
(intransitive, colloquial) To dance, originally to jive or swing music; later, to jazz, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, disco, etc.


lexentry: eng/job__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: job
trans_list: pensum
sense:
(computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).


lexentry: eng/joint__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: joint
trans_list: artus | articulus
sense:
(anatomy) Any part of the body where two bones join, in most cases allowing that part of the body to be bent or straightened.


lexentry: eng/joint_lock__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: joint lock
trans_list: clavis
sense:
(combat sports) Any lock designed to hyperextend one of the joints of the body, leading to pain and/or injury.


lexentry: eng/joist__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: joist
trans_list: gistura
sense:
A piece of timber or steel laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed.


lexentry: eng/jordan__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jordan
trans_list: jurdanus
sense:
(obsolete) A vessel resembling a retort bulb or Florence flask with a truncated neck and flared mouth, used by medieval doctors and alchemists.


lexentry: eng/joule__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: joule
trans_list: joulium
sense:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of energy, work and heat; the work required to exert a force of one newton for a distance of one metre. Equivalent to one watt of power for a duration of one second. Symbol: J


lexentry: eng/journal__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: journal
trans_list: ephemeris
sense:
(computing) A chronological record of changes made to a database or other system; along with a backup or image copy that allows recovery after a failure or reinstatement to a previous time; a log.


lexentry: eng/jowl__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jowl
trans_list: maxilla
sense:
A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).


lexentry: eng/joy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: joy
trans_list: gaudium | laetitia | gaudimonium
sense:
A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good.


lexentry: eng/jubilee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jubilee
trans_list: iobelēus
sense:
(countable, Jewish, _, history) A special year of emancipation supposed to be observed every fifty years, when farming was temporarily stopped, certain houses and land which had been sold could be redeemed by the original owners or their relatives, and Hebrew slaves set free. [from late 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/jubilee__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: jubilee
trans_list: iobeleus
sense:
A major anniversary of an event, particularly the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of a coronation or marriage. [from late 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/judge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: judge
trans_list: iūdex | iudex
sense:
A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.


lexentry: eng/judgment__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: judgment
trans_list: crīmen
sense:
The power or faculty of performing such operations; especially, when unqualified, the faculty of judging or deciding rightly, justly, or wisely


lexentry: eng/judgment__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: judgment
trans_list: iūdicāmentum
sense:
(legal) The act of determining, as in courts of law, what is conformable to law and justice; also, the determination, decision, or sentence of a court, or of a judge.


lexentry: eng/judicial_branch__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: judicial branch
trans_list: iudicatus
sense:
The branch of government which is concerned with the administration of justice through the interpretation of the law.


lexentry: eng/jug__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jug
trans_list: hirnea
sense:
A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top.


lexentry: eng/juggle__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: juggle
trans_list: aerusco
sense:
To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well.


lexentry: eng/juggling__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: juggling
trans_list: praestīgiae
sense:
The art of moving objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner.


lexentry: eng/jugular_vein__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jugular vein
trans_list: venae iugulares
sense:
(anatomy) Any of several veins on each side of the neck, which drain the brain, face and neck of deoxygenated blood.


lexentry: eng/jump__Noun__1
sense_num: 14
written_rep: jump
trans_list: saltus
sense:
(mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.


lexentry: eng/jump__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jump
trans_list: saliō | saltō
sense:
(intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.


lexentry: eng/jungle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jungle
trans_list: silva tropica
sense:
A large, undeveloped, humid forest, especially in a tropical region, that is home to many wild plants and animals; a tropical rainforest.


lexentry: eng/juniper__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: juniper
trans_list: iūniperus | iuniperus
sense:
Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.


lexentry: eng/juridical__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: juridical
trans_list: iuridicus
sense:
Pertaining to the law or rule of law, legal; judicial, related to the administration of justice (as to jurisprudence, or to the function of a judge or court).


lexentry: eng/jussive__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: jussive
trans_list: modus jussivus
sense:
(grammar, uncountable, and, countable) The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.


lexentry: eng/justification__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: justification
trans_list: apologia
sense:
(countable) A reason, explanation, or excuse which someone believes provides convincing, morally acceptable support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence.


lexentry: eng/justification__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: justification
trans_list: apologia
sense:
(typography, uncountable) The alignment of text to the left margin (left justification), the right margin (right justification), or both margins (full justification).


lexentry: eng/justify__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: justify
trans_list: iustifico
sense:
(transitive, typography) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all lines within paragraphs are aligned.


lexentry: eng/kabuki__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kabuki
trans_list: cabuci
sense:
(often, capitalized) A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.


lexentry: eng/kale__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kale
trans_list: crambe
sense:
An edible plant, similar to cabbage, with curled leaves that do not form a dense head (Brassica oleracea var. acephala)


lexentry: eng/kaleidoscope__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kaleidoscope
trans_list: calidoscopium
sense:
An instrument consisting of a tube containing mirrors and loose, colourful beads or other objects; when the tube is looked into and rotated, a succession of symmetrical designs can be seen. [from 1817]


lexentry: eng/kana__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kana
trans_list: gallina
sense:
The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.


lexentry: eng/kangaroo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kangaroo
trans_list: halmaturus | macropus
sense:
A member of the Macropodidae family of large marsupials with strong hind legs for hopping, native to Australia. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/kantele__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kantele
trans_list: cithara Finnica
sense:
(musical instrument) A plucked string instrument (a zither) of the Baltic psaltery family, traditionally with five strings but now more widely varying, originating in the folk music of Finland, where it is seen as a national symbol.


lexentry: eng/karate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: karate
trans_list: carate
sense:
An Okinawan martial art involving primarily punching and kicking, but additionally, advanced throws, arm bars, grappling and all means of fighting.


lexentry: eng/kebab__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kebab
trans_list: alchiebābat
sense:
(British) A dish of pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables roasted on a skewer or spit, especially a doner kebab.


lexentry: eng/keen__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: keen
trans_list: acer
sense:
(chiefly, Commonwealth) Often with a prepositional phrase, or with to and an infinitive: showing a quick and ardent responsiveness or willingness; eager, enthusiastic, interested.


lexentry: eng/keeper__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: keeper
trans_list: iānitor | iānitrīx
sense:
A person charged with guarding or caring for, storing, or maintaining something; a custodian, a guard; sometimes a gamekeeper.


lexentry: eng/keepsake__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: keepsake
trans_list: memoria
sense:
Some object given by a person and retained in memory of something or someone; something kept for sentimental or nostalgic reasons.


lexentry: eng/kelvin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kelvin
trans_list: kelvin
sense:
In the International System of Units, the base unit of thermodynamic temperature; 1⁄273.16 of the thermodynamic temperature of the triple point of water. Shown as "K".


lexentry: eng/kerb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kerb
trans_list: crepīdō
sense:
(British, AU, NZ) The raised edge between the pavement and the roadway, typically made of concrete though originally consisting of a line of kerbstones.


lexentry: eng/kerfuffle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kerfuffle
trans_list: theatrum
sense:
(chiefly, Commonwealth, informal) A disorderly outburst, disturbance, commotion, or tumult. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/kernel__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: kernel
trans_list: amygdalum
sense:
(botany) The central (usually edible) part of a nut, especially once the hard shell has been removed.


lexentry: eng/kernel__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: kernel
trans_list: granum
sense:
(computing) The central part of many computer operating systems which manages the system's resources and the communication between hardware and software components.


lexentry: eng/kernel__Noun__1
sense_num: 11
written_rep: kernel
trans_list: granum
sense:
(mathematics, linear algebra, group theory, functional analysis) For a given function (especially a linear transformation between vector spaces or homomorphism between groups), the set of elements in the domain which are mapped to zero; (formally) given f : X → Y, the set {x ∈ X : f(x) = 0}.


lexentry: eng/ketchup__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ketchup
trans_list: kečups
sense:
(uncountable, chiefly, US, Canada, UK) Ellipsis of tomato ketchup. A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes containing spices, onion or garlic, and (especially in the US) sweeteners.


lexentry: eng/ketone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ketone
trans_list: ketonum
sense:
(organic compound) A homologous series of organic molecules whose functional group is an oxygen atom joined to a carbon atom—by a double bond—in a carbon-hydrogen based molecule.


lexentry: eng/kettledrum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kettledrum
trans_list: cortina
sense:
(musical instruments) A large percussion instrument with a drumhead that is stretched over a hemispherical metal bowl.


lexentry: eng/key__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: key
trans_list: clavis
sense:
In instruments with a keyboard such as an organ or piano, one of the levers, or especially the exposed front end of it, which are depressed to cause a particular sound or note to be produced.


lexentry: eng/key__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: key
trans_list: clavis
sense:
In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.


lexentry: eng/key__Noun__1
sense_num: 12
written_rep: key
trans_list: clavis
sense:
(historical) A manual electrical switching device primarily used for the transmission of Morse code.


lexentry: eng/key__Noun__1
sense_num: 13
written_rep: key
trans_list: clavis
sense:
(cryptography) A piece of information (e.g., a password or passphrase) used to encode or decode a message or messages.


lexentry: eng/key__Noun__1
sense_num: 15
written_rep: key
trans_list: clavis
sense:
(databases) In a relational database, a field used as an index into another table (not necessarily unique).


lexentry: eng/key__Noun__1
sense_num: 18
written_rep: key
trans_list: clavis
sense:
(biology) A series of logically organized groups of discriminating information which aims to allow the user to correctly identify a taxon.


lexentry: eng/keyboard__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: keyboard
trans_list: clāviatūra
sense:
(music) A component of many instruments including the piano, organ, and harpsichord consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck.


lexentry: eng/keycard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: keycard
trans_list: chartula ad accessum
sense:
A usually plastic card which stores a digital signature that is used to operate an electronic access control lock.


lexentry: eng/keyhole__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: keyhole
trans_list: claustellum
sense:
Any small opening resembling the hole for a key in shape or function; especially, one that gives a vista of, or access to, a space beyond.


lexentry: eng/keynote__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: keynote
trans_list: argumentum
sense:
A speech that sets the main theme of a conference or other gathering; a keynote speech or keynote address.


lexentry: eng/khorovod__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: khorovod
trans_list: circulus
sense:
a Slavic art form, a combination of a circle dance and chorus singing, similar to chorea of ancient Greece, also in Romania (horă)


lexentry: eng/kick-off__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: kick-off
trans_list: abitio
sense:
(music) The opening sequence of notes in a song, usually played by the song's main instrument, to indicate the beginning of the song.


lexentry: eng/kick_wheel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kick wheel
trans_list: turnus figlinus
sense:
(ceramics) A wheel or disc used to throw pots, turned by kicking or pushing a heavy stone or concrete base with the foot.


lexentry: eng/kickback__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: kickback
trans_list: repercussus
sense:
(countable, informal) A covert, often illegal, payment in return for a favor consisting of providing an opportunity of chargeable transaction; a kind of bribe.


lexentry: eng/kicker__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: kicker
trans_list: calcitrō
sense:
(American football) A placekicker: a player who kicks the football during free kicks, kick offs, field goals, and extra point tries.


lexentry: eng/kickstand__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kickstand
trans_list: crus
sense:
A levered bar that can be folded down from the frame of a bicycle or motorcycle to prop it upright when not being ridden.


lexentry: eng/kiln__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kiln
trans_list: fornāx
sense:
An oven or furnace or a heated chamber, for the purpose of hardening, burning, calcining or drying anything; for example, firing ceramics, curing or preserving tobacco, or drying grain.


lexentry: eng/kilo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kilo
trans_list: chiliogramma
sense:
(international standards) Alternative letter-case form of Kilo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.


lexentry: eng/kilogram__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kilogram
trans_list: chiliogramma | kilogramma
sense:
In the International System of Units, the base unit of mass; conceived of as the mass of one litre of water, but now defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10-34 when expressed in units of kg⋅m2⋅s−1. Symbol: kg


lexentry: eng/kilter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kilter
trans_list: ordo
sense:
(chiefly in the negative) Chiefly in out of kilter: (good) condition, form, or order; fettle. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/kindergarten__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kindergarten
trans_list: hortus
sense:
(North America, Australia) An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school. [from 1852]


lexentry: eng/kinesthesia__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: kinesthesia
trans_list: cinaesthesia
sense:
Proprioception or static position sense; the perception of the position and posture of the body; also, more broadly, including the motion of the body as well. See usage notes below.


lexentry: eng/king__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: king
trans_list: rex | rēx
sense:
A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it is an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation.


lexentry: eng/king__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: king
trans_list: rex
sense:
(card games) A playing card with the letter "K" and the image of a king on it, the thirteenth card in a given suit.


lexentry: eng/king__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: king
trans_list: rex
sense:
(chess) The principal chess piece, that players seek to threaten with unavoidable capture to result in a victory by checkmate. It is often the tallest piece, with a symbolic crown with a cross at the top.


lexentry: eng/kingdom__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: kingdom
trans_list: rēgnum | regnum
sense:
(taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below domain and above phylum; a taxon at that rank (e.g. the plant kingdom, the animal kingdom).


lexentry: eng/kingfisher__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kingfisher
trans_list: alcēdō | alcedo
sense:
Any of various birds of the suborder Alcedines (or the family Alcedinidae sensu lato), having a large head, short tail and brilliant colouration; they feed mostly on fish.


lexentry: eng/kingpin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kingpin
trans_list: axis
sense:
(transportation) The axis around which steered wheels pivot; a bolt that holds the axis in place—a kingbolt.


lexentry: eng/kingpin__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: kingpin
trans_list: axis
sense:
(transportation) The pivot or connector between a tractor and trailer in the fifth-wheel coupling of semi-trailer truck.


lexentry: eng/kingpin__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: kingpin
trans_list: axis
sense:
(ten-pin, _, bowling) The pin at the centre of the triangle of bowling pins (originally the tallest pin in kayles). Sometimes also the headpin at the apex.


lexentry: eng/kip__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kip
trans_list: abnoctare
sense:
(informal, chiefly, UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity.


lexentry: eng/kiss__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kiss
trans_list: basiō | suavior | sāvior | ōsculor
sense:
(transitive) To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting.


lexentry: eng/kiss__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: kiss
trans_list: basiari | basiare
sense:
(intransitive) Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion.


lexentry: eng/kiss_me__Phrase__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kiss me
trans_list: basia me | osculare me
sense:
I informally request that you kiss me—that you touch my lips with your lips or press the lips against, as an expression of love or affection.


lexentry: eng/kiss_of_peace__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kiss of peace
trans_list: osculum pacis
sense:
(Christianity) An early Christian greeting consisting of a kiss, originally on the mouth but later on the cheek, still used in some traditional churches.


lexentry: eng/kit__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: kit
trans_list: ludus
sense:
Any collection of items needed for a specific purpose, especially for use by a workman, or personal effects packed for travelling.


lexentry: eng/klepht__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: klepht
trans_list: fur
sense:
(historical) An anti-Ottoman insurgent living in the mountains when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire.


lexentry: eng/kleptomania__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kleptomania
trans_list: cleptomania
sense:
(psychology) A psychological disorder that causes an uncontrollable obsession with stealing without economic or material need.


lexentry: eng/knead__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knead
trans_list: depsō | fingō
sense:
(transitive) To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc.


lexentry: eng/knee__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knee
trans_list: genu | geniculum
sense:
In humans, the joint or the region of the joint in the middle part of the leg between the thigh and the shank.


lexentry: eng/kneel_before__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kneel before
trans_list: aggeniculor
sense:
(transitive) to kneel in front of someone or something, especially in order to worship or supplicate


lexentry: eng/knife__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knife
trans_list: culter
sense:
A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.


lexentry: eng/knife__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: knife
trans_list: culter
sense:
A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing and/or stabbing and too short to be called a sword. A dagger.


lexentry: eng/knight__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: knight
trans_list: eques
sense:
(chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.


lexentry: eng/knit__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knit
trans_list: fio
sense:
(ambitransitive) To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine.


lexentry: eng/knobhead__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: knobhead
trans_list: baceolus
sense:
(Britain, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, vulgar, slang) A fool; an idiot; a contemptible person.


lexentry: eng/knock_down__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knock down
trans_list: prosternō
sense:
(transitive) To hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls.


lexentry: eng/knock_it_off__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knock it off
trans_list: finio
sense:
(colloquial, mostly, imperative, idiom) To cease doing something, particulary annoying or unpleasant; to desist.


lexentry: eng/knock_up__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: knock up
trans_list: gravidare
sense:
(dated, intransitive) To become exhausted or worn out; to fail of strength; to become wearied, as with labor; to give out. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/knock_up__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: knock up
trans_list: gravidare
sense:
(slang, principally American) To impregnate, especially out of wedlock. See knocked up. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/knockoff__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knockoff
trans_list: cercops
sense:
An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually lower in quality and price than the original.


lexentry: eng/knot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knot
trans_list: nōdus
sense:
A looping of a piece of string or of any other long, flexible material that cannot be untangled without passing one or both ends of the material through its loops.


lexentry: eng/knout__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knout
trans_list: flagellum
sense:
A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.


lexentry: eng/know-it-all__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: know-it-all
trans_list: magister
sense:
(chiefly, US, pejorative) Someone who claims to be knowledgeable or an expert in something, obnoxiously dismissing the opinions, advice, suggestions, etc. of others.


lexentry: eng/know__Verb__1
sense_num: 13
written_rep: know
trans_list: scio | capio | intellego | teneo
sense:
(transitive, philosophy) To maintain (a belief, a position) subject to a given philosophical definition of knowledge; to hold a justified true belief.


lexentry: eng/knowledge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knowledge
trans_list: cognitio | notitia | agnitio | intelligentia | notio
sense:
The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/knowledge__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: knowledge
trans_list: cognitio | notitia | agnitio | intelligentia | notio
sense:
Awareness of a particular fact or situation; a state of having been informed or made aware of something. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/knowledge_is_power__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: knowledge is power
trans_list: scientia potentia est
sense:
Scientia potentia est; with knowledge and/or education, one's potential or ability to succeed in the pursuit of one's objectives will certainly increase.


lexentry: eng/komboskini__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: komboskini
trans_list: rosarium
sense:
(Christianity) A rope of usually 33, 50 or 100 knots, used in meditative prayer in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic tradition, to count one's recitations of the Jesus Prayer.


lexentry: eng/kompromat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kompromat
trans_list: subscus
sense:
Compromising material, blackmail material, (real or fabricated) evidence that a person does not want revealed, dirt.


lexentry: eng/kore__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kore
trans_list: cortex
sense:
(arts, sculpture) An Ancient Greek statue of a woman, portrayed standing, usually clothed, painted in bright colours and having an elaborate hairstyle.


lexentry: eng/kreplach__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kreplach
trans_list: auricula
sense:
(plurale tantum) Small dumplings of Eastern European origin, filled with meat or cheese and served usually in soup.


lexentry: eng/krone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: krone
trans_list: pars reversa
sense:
The currency of Iceland, Denmark (including Greenland and the Faroe Islands) and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 aurar.


lexentry: eng/krypton__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: krypton
trans_list: krypton | crypton
sense:
The chemical element (symbol Kr) with an atomic number of 36. It is a colourless, odourless noble gas that only reacts with fluorine. It is one of the rarest gases in the Earth's atmosphere.


lexentry: eng/kulak__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kulak
trans_list: auris
sense:
(historical) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.


lexentry: eng/kumari__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kumari
trans_list: dea
sense:
(Hinduism, chiefly, _, Nepal) A living goddess; a prepubescent girl worshipped as a manifestation of divine female energy.


lexentry: eng/kyrie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: kyrie
trans_list: Kyrie eleison
sense:
(Christianity) A short prayer or petition including the phrase kyrie eleison, meaning “Lord, have mercy”.


lexentry: eng/label__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: label
trans_list: pittacium
sense:
A small ticket or sign giving information about something to which it is attached or intended to be attached.


lexentry: eng/labium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: labium
trans_list: labium pudendum
sense:
(anatomy, usually, in the plural) A liplike structure; especially one of the two pairs of folds of skin on either side of the vulva.


lexentry: eng/labour__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: labour
trans_list: labor
sense:
(uncountable) Workers in general; the working class, the workforce; sometimes specifically the labour movement, organised labour.


lexentry: eng/lace__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lace
trans_list: fimbria
sense:
(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread. Wp


lexentry: eng/lace__Verb__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: lace
trans_list: addere
sense:
(transitive) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).


lexentry: eng/lackluster__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: lackluster
trans_list: achromaticus
sense:
(figurative) Not exceptional; not worthy of special merit, attention, or interest; having no vitality.


lexentry: eng/lactase__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lactase
trans_list: lactasa
sense:
(enzyme, organic compound) A β-galactosidase enzyme that is involved in the hydrolysis of the disaccharide lactose into constituent galactose and glucose monomers.


lexentry: eng/lactic_acid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lactic acid
trans_list: acidum lacticum
sense:
(carboxylic acid) 2-hydroxy-propanoic acid (CH3.CHOH.CO2H), a syrupy liquid, soluble in water; found in milk, wine and many fruits; used as a food additive and in many industrial applications.


lexentry: eng/lactose__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lactose
trans_list: lactosum
sense:
(carbohydrate) The disaccharide sugar of milk and dairy products, C12H22O11, a product of glucose and galactose used as a food and in medicinal compounds.


lexentry: eng/lacuna__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lacuna
trans_list: lacūna
sense:
An absent part, especially in a book or other piece of writing, often referring to an ancient manuscript or similar.


lexentry: eng/ladder__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ladder
trans_list: scāla
sense:
A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or rounds acting as steps).


lexentry: eng/ladder__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: ladder
trans_list: scāla
sense:
In the game of go, a sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.


lexentry: eng/lady__Noun__1
sense_num: 11
written_rep: lady
trans_list: domina
sense:
A woman to whom the particular homage of a knight was paid; a woman to whom one is devoted or bound.


lexentry: eng/ladybird__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ladybird
trans_list: coccinella
sense:
Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra.


lexentry: eng/lair__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: lair
trans_list: lustrum
sense:
(figuratively) A place inhabited by a criminal or criminals, a superhero or a supervillain; a refuge, retreat, haven or hideaway.


lexentry: eng/lambdacism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lambdacism
trans_list: labdacismus
sense:
(phonology) A pronunciation shift whereby /l/ or other closely related phonemes are substituted for other sounds (typically /r/), as Sally for Sarah or Molly for Mary.


lexentry: eng/lambskin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lambskin
trans_list: agnellus
sense:
The skin of a very young sheep, especially prepared with the fleece still attached. A very fine form of leather.


lexentry: eng/lamed__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lamed
trans_list: lameth
sense:
The twelfth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).


lexentry: eng/lamia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lamia
trans_list: lamia
sense:
(Greek mythology) A monster preying upon human beings, who sucked the blood of children, often described as having the head and breasts of a woman and the lower half of a serpent.


lexentry: eng/lampblack__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lampblack
trans_list: fūlīgō
sense:
An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks.


lexentry: eng/lampoon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lampoon
trans_list: libellus
sense:
A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.


lexentry: eng/lamprey__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lamprey
trans_list: lampetra
sense:
Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the order Petromyzontiformes, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.


lexentry: eng/lampshade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lampshade
trans_list: lampas umbraculo instructa
sense:
A cover over a lamp to either diffuse the light or to block it in certain directions to avoid glare in the eyes.


lexentry: eng/lance__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lance
trans_list: lancea
sense:
A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen.


lexentry: eng/lanceolate__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lanceolate
trans_list: lanceolatus
sense:
(botany, mycology) Having the general shape of a lance; much longer than wide, with the widest part lower than the middle and a pointed apex.


lexentry: eng/landgrave__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: landgrave
trans_list: comes prīncipālis
sense:
County nobleman in the British, privately held North American colony Carolina, ranking just below the proprietary (chartered equivalent of a royal vassal).


lexentry: eng/landslide__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: landslide
trans_list: lābīna
sense:
A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.


lexentry: eng/language__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: language
trans_list: lingua
sense:
(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.


lexentry: eng/language__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: language
trans_list: lingua
sense:
(uncountable) A sublanguage: the slang of a particular community or jargon of a particular specialist field.


lexentry: eng/language__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: language
trans_list: lingua
sense:
(countable, uncountable, figurative) The expression of thought (the communication of meaning) in a specified way; that which communicates something, as language does.


lexentry: eng/languid__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: languid
trans_list: languidus
sense:
Of a person or their actions, character, etc.: lacking drive, emotion, or enthusiasm; apathetic, listless, spiritless, unenthusiastic.


lexentry: eng/languish__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: languish
trans_list: marcesco
sense:
(intransitive) To lose strength and become weak; to be in a state of weakness or sickness. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/lanolin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lanolin
trans_list: adeps lānae | lānolīnum | oesypum
sense:
A greasy yellow substance chemically akin to wax that is secreted from wooly animals, with a variety of uses from rust prevention, lubrication and waterproofing to cosmetics and skin ointments.


lexentry: eng/lansquenet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lansquenet
trans_list: Landsknectus
sense:
(countable, historical) Any of a class of German mercenaries of the 15th and 16th centuries, most of whom were pikemen and foot soldiers.


lexentry: eng/lantern__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lantern
trans_list: lanterna | lampas
sense:
A case of translucent or transparent material made to protect a flame, or light, used to illuminate its surroundings.


lexentry: eng/lantern_wheel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lantern wheel
trans_list: lanterna
sense:
A pinion with cylindrical staves, instead of teeth, inserted at their ends in two parallel disks or plates.


lexentry: eng/lanthanum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lanthanum
trans_list: lanthanum
sense:
(uncountable) A chemical element (symbol La) with an atomic number of 57: a soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes slowly when exposed to air.


lexentry: eng/lanyard__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lanyard
trans_list: dracaena
sense:
(by extension) A cord worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist which is attached to a small object to be carried such as an identity card or security pass, key, knife, or whistle.


lexentry: eng/lap__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: lap
trans_list: gremium
sense:
The part of the clothing that lies on the knees or thighs when one sits down; that part of the person thus covered.


lexentry: eng/lap__Verb__2
sense_num: 08
written_rep: lap
trans_list: alluo
sense:
(transitive, sports, motor racing) To overtake a straggler in a race by completing one more whole lap than the straggler.


lexentry: eng/laparoscopy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: laparoscopy
trans_list: abdominoscopia
sense:
(medicine) Examination of the loins or abdomen, now specifically examination or surgery on the peritoneal cavity using a laparoscope.


lexentry: eng/lar_gibbon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lar gibbon
trans_list: lar
sense:
A primate in the Hylobatidae family, Hylobates lar, with black or brown fur and white hands and feet.


lexentry: eng/larceny__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: larceny
trans_list: furtum
sense:
(legal, uncountable) The unlawful taking of personal property as an attempt to deprive the legal owner of it permanently. [from mid-15th c.]


lexentry: eng/largehearted__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: largehearted
trans_list: sacrificalis
sense:
Possessing the properties associated with the heart as the seat of love; compassionate, generous, benevolent, forgiving, etc.


lexentry: eng/largesse__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: largesse
trans_list: largītiō
sense:
(also, figuratively) A specific gift of money, etc., given in this way, specifically (historical) at harvest time; a donation, a gratuity.


lexentry: eng/larva__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: larva
trans_list: larva
sense:
(figurative) A preliminary stage of someone or something, before it has fully matured, especially a time of growth rather than one of performance.


lexentry: eng/larynx__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: larynx
trans_list: larynx
sense:
(anatomy, zootomy) A hollow muscular organ of the neck of mammals situated just below where the tract of the pharynx splits into the trachea and the oesophagus. It is involved in breath control and protection of the trachea, and, because it houses the vocal cords, sound production.


lexentry: eng/last_but_not_least__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: last but not least
trans_list: sane
sense:
An expression to start the last item of a list, emphasising that while it is listed last, it is just as important as the rest of the items.


lexentry: eng/last_night__Adverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: last night
trans_list: heri vesperi
sense:
during the previous day’s nighttime; during the night before today (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/last_night__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: last night
trans_list: heri vesperi
sense:
(often, used adverbially) The evening or night immediately before the present. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/late__Adjective__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: late
trans_list: abortus
sense:
(not comparable, euphemistic) Deceased, dead: used particularly when speaking of the dead person's actions while alive. (Generally must be preceded by a possessive or an article, commonly "the"; see usage notes. Can itself only precede the person's name, never follow it.)


lexentry: eng/lateral__Adjective__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: lateral
trans_list: lateralis
sense:
(phonetics, phonology) (of a consonant, especially the English clear l) Pertaining to speech sounds generated by partially blocking the egress of the airstream with the tongue, leaving space on one or both sides of the occlusion for air passage.


lexentry: eng/lathe__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lathe
trans_list: tornus
sense:
(tools, metalworking, woodworking) A machine tool used to shape a piece of material, or workpiece, by rotating the workpiece against a cutting tool.


lexentry: eng/latitude__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: latitude
trans_list: lātitūdō | latitudo
sense:
(geography, astronomy, countable) The angular distance north or south from a planet's equator, measured along the meridian of that particular point.


lexentry: eng/latitude__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: latitude
trans_list: lātitūdō
sense:
(geography) An imaginary line (in fact a circumference) around a planet running parallel to the planet's equator.


lexentry: eng/latrine__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: latrine
trans_list: forica | latrīna
sense:
(India, otherwise, _, military) Any facility or device used for urination or defecation, whether toilet, lavatory, or outhouse.


lexentry: eng/latte__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: latte
trans_list: cafea lactea
sense:
A similar drink, where the espresso is replaced with some other flavoring ingredient such as chai, maté or matcha (green tea).


lexentry: eng/lattice__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lattice
trans_list: cancellī | clāthrī
sense:
A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis.


lexentry: eng/laudanum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: laudanum
trans_list: laudanum
sense:
(pharmacology) A tincture of opium, once widely used for various medical purposes and as a recreational drug.


lexentry: eng/laugh__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: laugh
trans_list: rīdeō | ridere
sense:
(intransitive) To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.


lexentry: eng/laugh__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: laugh
trans_list: ridere
sense:
(intransitive, figuratively, obsolete) To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.


lexentry: eng/laugh__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: laugh
trans_list: rideo | ridere
sense:
(intransitive, followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock.


lexentry: eng/laughing_dove__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: laughing dove
trans_list: Streptopelia senegalensis
sense:
A small pigeon (Spilopelia senegalensis) native to the tropics in Africa south of the Sahara; the Middle East; and southern Asia east to India.


lexentry: eng/laughing_kookaburra__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: laughing kookaburra
trans_list: Dacelo novaeguineae
sense:
A kookaburra of species Dacelo novaeguineae, native to eastern Australia and famed for its loud laugh-like call.


lexentry: eng/laughter__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: laughter
trans_list: cachinnus | rīsus
sense:
A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.


lexentry: eng/launch__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: launch
trans_list: dēdūcō
sense:
(transitive) To cause (a vessel) to move or slide from the land or a larger vessel into the water; to set afloat.


lexentry: eng/laundry__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: laundry
trans_list: lavandaria
sense:
A place or room where laundering is done - including, by extension, other forms of laundering than clothes washing.


lexentry: eng/laundry_basket__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: laundry basket
trans_list: cophinus
sense:
A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.


lexentry: eng/laura__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: laura
trans_list: laura
sense:
(historical, Eastern Orthodox Church) A cluster of cells or caves for hermits, with a church and sometimes a refectory at the centre.


lexentry: eng/laurel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: laurel
trans_list: laurus | laurea
sense:
Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.


lexentry: eng/laurestine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: laurestine
trans_list: laurestina | tinus
sense:
The Viburnum tinus, an evergreen shrub or tree of the south of Europe, which flowers during the winter months.


lexentry: eng/law__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: law
trans_list: lex | iura | iūris | iūs | lēgis
sense:
(usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.


lexentry: eng/law__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: law
trans_list: lex
sense:
(cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.


lexentry: eng/law__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: law
trans_list: lex
sense:
(mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.


lexentry: eng/law__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: law
trans_list: lex
sense:
A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)


lexentry: eng/law__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: law
trans_list: lex
sense:
Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)


lexentry: eng/law_of_excluded_middle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: law of excluded middle
trans_list: principium tertii exclusi | tertium non datur
sense:
(logic) A logical principle which states all statements must be either true or false, i.e. in symbols: P \vee \neg P .


lexentry: eng/lawsuit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lawsuit
trans_list: dica | līs
sense:
(legal) In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution.


lexentry: eng/lawyer__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lawyer
trans_list: causidicus | cognitor | lēgisperītus
sense:
A professional person qualified (as by a law degree or bar exam) and authorized to practice law as an attorney-at-law, solicitor, advocate, barrister or equivalent, i.e. represent parties in lawsuits or trials and give legal advice.


lexentry: eng/lay_down__Verb__1
sense_num: 08
written_rep: lay down
trans_list: occido
sense:
(intransitive, nonstandard, proscribed) To lie down; to place oneself in a reclined or horizontal position, on a bed or similar, for the purpose of resting.


lexentry: eng/lay_judge__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lay judge
trans_list: scabinus
sense:
A lay person who acts as (or is) a judge, or who assists a (professional) judge, in a court proceeding (especially in jurisdictions which do not use juries).


lexentry: eng/lay_off__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lay off
trans_list: dimitto
sense:
(transitive, chiefly, US, idiom) (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.


lexentry: eng/layer__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: layer
trans_list: planities
sense:
(computer graphics, by analogy to a stack of transparencies) one in a stack of (initially transparent) drawing surfaces that comprise an image; used to keep elements of an image separate so that they can be modified independently from one another.


lexentry: eng/lead__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lead
trans_list: plumbum
sense:
(uncountable) A heavy, pliable, inelastic metal element, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished; both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic number 82, symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum).


lexentry: eng/lead__Noun__2
sense_num: 05
written_rep: lead
trans_list: dūcō
sense:
(uncountable, card games, dominoes) The act or right of playing first in a game or round; the card suit, or piece, so played


lexentry: eng/lead__Noun__2
sense_num: 13
written_rep: lead
trans_list: dūcō
sense:
In a steam engine, the width of port opening which is uncovered by the valve, for the admission or release of steam, at the instant when the piston is at end of its stroke.


lexentry: eng/lead__Noun__2
sense_num: 15
written_rep: lead
trans_list: duco | dūcō
sense:
(horology) The action of a tooth, such as a tooth of a wheel, in impelling another tooth or a pallet.


lexentry: eng/lead__Noun__2
sense_num: 17
written_rep: lead
trans_list: duco | dūcō
sense:
Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.


lexentry: eng/lead__Noun__2
sense_num: 26
written_rep: lead
trans_list: dūcō
sense:
(music) A mark or a short passage in one voice part, as of a canon, serving as a cue for the entrance of others.


lexentry: eng/lead__Verb__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lead
trans_list: dūcō
sense:
To conduct or direct with authority; to have direction or charge of; to command, especially a military or business unit.


lexentry: eng/lead__Verb__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lead
trans_list: dūcō
sense:
To guide or conduct in a certain course, or to a certain place or end, by making the way known; to show the way, especially by going with or going in advance of, to lead a pupil; to guide somebody somewhere or to bring somebody somewhere by means of instructions.


lexentry: eng/lead__Verb__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lead
trans_list: dūcō
sense:
To guide or conduct oneself in, through, or along (a certain course); hence, to proceed in the way of; to follow the path or course of; to pass; to spend. Also, to cause (one) to proceed or follow in (a certain course).


lexentry: eng/leaf__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: leaf
trans_list: folium | frons | pagina | scheda
sense:
(publishing, bookbinding, advertising) A sheet of a book, magazine, etc (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).


lexentry: eng/leaf_node__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leaf node
trans_list: folium
sense:
(botany) One of the spots upon a stem where buds and intercalary meristems occur, usually marking the end of a season's growth.


lexentry: eng/leap_day__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leap day
trans_list: dies intercalarius
sense:
An extra day intercalated into a year, especially the day intercalated into the Julian calendar every fourth year and into the Gregorian calendar every fourth year excepting centuries not divisible by 400, usually reckoned as February 29th.


lexentry: eng/leap_year__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leap year
trans_list: annus bissextus
sense:
A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar with an intercalary day added to February (in the Gregorian calendar, February 29), used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.


lexentry: eng/lease__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lease
trans_list: locātum
sense:
(formal, law) An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold.


lexentry: eng/least_weasel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: least weasel
trans_list: mustel
sense:
The common weasel, little weasel, or simply weasel (Mustela nivalis), the smallest member of the weasel genus Mustela, native to Eurasia, North America, and North Africa.


lexentry: eng/leather__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leather
trans_list: corium | cutis | alūta
sense:
A tough material produced from the skin of animals, by tanning or similar process, used e.g. for clothing.


lexentry: eng/leave__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leave
trans_list: desero
sense:
(transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.


lexentry: eng/lectern__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lectern
trans_list: pulpitum
sense:
A stand with a slanted top used to support a bible from which passages are read during a church service.


lexentry: eng/lectionary__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lectionary
trans_list: lēctiōnārium | lēctiōnārius
sense:
(Christianity, Judaism) A book or listing that contains a collection of scripture readings appointed for Christian or Jewish worship on a given day or occasion.


lexentry: eng/leek__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leek
trans_list: porrum | ulpicum
sense:
The vegetable Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum, having edible leaves and an onion-like bulb but with a milder flavour than the onion.


lexentry: eng/lees__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lees
trans_list: floces
sense:
The sediment that settles during fermentation of beverages, consisting of dead yeast and precipitated parts of the fruit.


lexentry: eng/left__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: left
trans_list: sinister | laevus | scaevus
sense:
Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←


lexentry: eng/legal_person__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: legal person
trans_list: persona iuridica | persona moralis
sense:
(legal) An aggregate of people, legal entity, or body corporate who have (some of) the legal rights and responsibilities of a natural person under the law.


lexentry: eng/legion__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: legion
trans_list: legiō | legio
sense:
(military, Ancient Rome) The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.


lexentry: eng/legionary__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: legionary
trans_list: legionarius
sense:
A member of a legion, such as the American Legion, or of any organization containing the term legion in its title (e.g. the French Foreign Legion).


lexentry: eng/legitimate__Adjective__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: legitimate
trans_list: legitimus | lēgitimus
sense:
Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple (or otherwise legitimated subsequently). [from mid-14th c.]


lexentry: eng/lemma__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: lemma
trans_list: lēmma
sense:
(psycholinguistics) 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.


lexentry: eng/lemming__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lemming
trans_list: mus lemmus
sense:
(figuratively) Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff.


lexentry: eng/lemon_verbena__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lemon verbena
trans_list: Lippia citriodora
sense:
A deciduous perennial shrub native to South America, used for its lemon-like fragrance and flavor, Aloysia citrodora.


lexentry: eng/lemonade__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lemonade
trans_list: limonāta
sense:
(US, Canada) A flavoured beverage consisting of water, lemon, and sweetener, sometimes ice, served mainly as a refreshment.


lexentry: eng/lend__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lend
trans_list: commodō
sense:
(transitive) To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned.


lexentry: eng/lender__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lender
trans_list: crēditor
sense:
One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.


lexentry: eng/lens__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: lens
trans_list: ervum
sense:
(geometry) A convex shape bounded by two circular arcs, joined at their endpoints, the corresponding concave shape being a lune.


lexentry: eng/lentil__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lentil
trans_list: lens
sense:
Any of several plants of the genus Lens, especially Lens culinaris, from southwest Asia, that have edible, lens-shaped seeds within flattened pods.


lexentry: eng/leopard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leopard
trans_list: leopardus | pardus
sense:
Panthera pardus, a large wild cat with a spotted coat native to Africa and Asia, especially the male of the species (in contrast to leopardess) .


lexentry: eng/leper_colony__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leper colony
trans_list: leprosaria | leprosarium
sense:
An isolated community used to house lepers, usually in permanent quarantine from the rest of society.


lexentry: eng/leprosy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leprosy
trans_list: lepra
sense:
(medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae, gradually producing nerve damage and patches of skin necrosis and historically handled by permanently quarantining its sufferers.


lexentry: eng/leprosy__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: leprosy
trans_list: lepra
sense:
Ellipsis of murine leprosy. and feline leprosy, diseases caused in rodents and cats by Mycobacterium lepraemurium.


lexentry: eng/lepton__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lepton
trans_list: lepton
sense:
(particle physics) An elementary particle that has a spin of 1/2 (i.e., is a fermion) and does not interact via the strong nuclear force; examples include the electron, the muon, the neutrino and the tauon.


lexentry: eng/lese_majesty__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lese majesty
trans_list: laesae maiestatis
sense:
The crime of violating majesty, an offense against the dignity of a reigning sovereign or against a state.


lexentry: eng/lesion__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lesion
trans_list: vulnus
sense:
(medicine) An infected or otherwise injured or diseased organ or part, especially such on a patch of skin.


lexentry: eng/lesion__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: lesion
trans_list: laesio
sense:
(law) Injury or an unfair imbalance in a commutative contract wherein the consideration is less than half of the market value, which then serves as a basis for the injured party to sue to rescind the agreement.


lexentry: eng/lesser_celandine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lesser celandine
trans_list: Ficaria verna
sense:
A European perennial herb (Ficaria verna, formerly Ranunculus ficaria), having heart-shaped leaves and solitary yellow flowers


lexentry: eng/lest__Conjunction__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lest
trans_list: nē
sense:
(after certain expressions denoting fear or apprehension) that (without the negative particle; introduces the reason for an emotion.)


lexentry: eng/let's__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: let's
trans_list: do
sense:
Used to form the cohortative of verbs, equivalent of the first-person plural imperative in some other languages.


lexentry: eng/let_alone__Conjunction__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: let alone
trans_list: nedum
sense:
(idiomatic, negative polarity item) Much less; to say nothing of; used after one negative clause to introduce another, usually broader and more important clause, whose negation is implied by the negation of the first. However either of these instances mentioned can be applied with the use of let alone.


lexentry: eng/let_go__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: let go
trans_list: mitto
sense:
(intransitive, with of, and, transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.


lexentry: eng/lethality__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lethality
trans_list: letalitas
sense:
The degree of lethal (mortal) danger that something (usually a disease or a weapon) presents; the magnitude of its power to kill organisms exposed to it; this property is indirectly measured by any of various proxy rates, including mortality rate, case fatality rate, or infection fatality rate (for diseases) or kill rate (for weapons, pesticides, or parasites).


lexentry: eng/lethargy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lethargy
trans_list: torpedo | veternus
sense:
A state of extreme torpor or apathy, especially with lack of emotion, energy or enthusiasm; (loosely) sluggishness, laziness. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/letter_carrier__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: letter carrier
trans_list: tabellārius
sense:
An employee of the post office who delivers mail (post) to, and collects it from, a residence or business, or from public mailboxes.


lexentry: eng/letter_of_recommendation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: letter of recommendation
trans_list: diploma | probatoria
sense:
A letter written by one person who is familiar with another, usually a teacher, employer, or person of similar authority, evaluating and often extolling the fitness of the other person for a position.


lexentry: eng/letters_close__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: letters close
trans_list: litterae clausae
sense:
(legal, plurale tantum) A sealed legal document, once issued by a monarch or government, granting a right, title etc to a person or corporation.


lexentry: eng/letters_patent__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: letters patent
trans_list: litterae patentēs
sense:
(law) A type of legal document in the form of an open letter issued by an authority to direct that some action be taken; to grant a monopoly, right, status, or title to a person or organization; or to record a contract.


lexentry: eng/lettuce__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lettuce
trans_list: lactūca | lactuca
sense:
An edible plant, Lactuca sativa and its close relatives, having a head of green and/or purple leaves.


lexentry: eng/lettuce__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lettuce
trans_list: lactūca | lactuca
sense:
(uncountable) The leaves of the lettuce plant, eaten as a vegetable; as a dish often mixed with other ingredients, dressing etc.


lexentry: eng/leukocyte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leukocyte
trans_list: leucocytus
sense:
(hematology, cytology, immunology) Any of a class of blood cells that play various roles in cell-mediated immunity.


lexentry: eng/leverage__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: leverage
trans_list: vectis
sense:
(business) The ability to earn very high returns when operating at high-capacity utilization of a facility.


lexentry: eng/leverage__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: leverage
trans_list: emendo
sense:
(transitive, chiefly, US, slang, business) To use; to exploit; to manipulate in order to take full advantage (of something).


lexentry: eng/levitation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: levitation
trans_list: levatio
sense:
The raising of something, such as a body, without apparent physical cause, allegedly using the power of the mind


lexentry: eng/levity__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: levity
trans_list: levitās
sense:
Lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; lack of appropriate seriousness; inclination to make a joke of serious matters.


lexentry: eng/lexical_category__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lexical category
trans_list: natura
sense:
(linguistics) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as noun or verb.


lexentry: eng/lexicography__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lexicography
trans_list: lexica condere
sense:
(uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.


lexentry: eng/liability__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: liability
trans_list: damnum
sense:
A handicap that holds something back, a drawback, someone or something that is a burden to whoever is required to take care of them; an individual or action that exposes others to greater risk.


lexentry: eng/libation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: libation
trans_list: libatio
sense:
The act of pouring a liquid, most often wine, in sacrifice on the ground, on a ritual object, or on a victim, in honor of some deity.


lexentry: eng/libel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: libel
trans_list: calumnia
sense:
(countable) A written or pictorial false statement which unjustly seeks to damage someone's reputation.


lexentry: eng/liberalism__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: liberalism
trans_list: līberālismus
sense:
(politics) Any political movement founded on the autonomy and personal freedom of the individual, progress and reform, and government by law with the consent of the governed.


lexentry: eng/libertine__Noun__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: libertine
trans_list: protervus
sense:
Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.


lexentry: eng/libido__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: libido
trans_list: libīdō
sense:
(psychology) Drives or mental energies related to or based on sexual instincts but not necessarily sexual in and of themselves.


lexentry: eng/library__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: library
trans_list: bibliothēca | librārium | bibliotheca
sense:
An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.


lexentry: eng/libre__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: libre
trans_list: liber
sense:
(software) With very few limitations on distribution or the right to access the source code to create improved versions, but not necessarily free of charge. [from late 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/license__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: license
trans_list: licentia
sense:
Freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behaviour or speech).


lexentry: eng/license_plate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: license plate
trans_list: nota autocineti
sense:
An identifying tag, usually of metal, bearing a sequence of letters, numbers, or both identifying the vehicle, and placed at the back and, often, also at the front of a motor vehicle.


lexentry: eng/licentious__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: licentious
trans_list: intemperans | lascivus | libidinosus | licens
sense:
Lacking restraint, or ignoring societal standards, particularly in sexual conduct; sexually unprincipled.


lexentry: eng/lichen__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lichen
trans_list: līchēn | lichen
sense:
Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.


lexentry: eng/licorice__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: licorice
trans_list: liquiritia
sense:
(countable) The plant Glycyrrhiza glabra, or sometimes in North America, the related American Licorice plant Glycyrrhiza lepidota.


lexentry: eng/licorice__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: licorice
trans_list: liquiritia
sense:
(uncountable, chemistry) A flavouring agent made from dried root portions of the aforementioned plant.


lexentry: eng/lictor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lictor
trans_list: līctor
sense:
An officer in ancient Rome, attendant on a consul or magistrate, who bore the fasces and was responsible for punishing criminals.


lexentry: eng/life__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: life
trans_list: vita | anima | lux | vīta
sense:
(uncountable) The state of organisms preceding their death, characterized by biological processes such as metabolism and reproduction and distinguishing them from inanimate objects; the state of being alive and living.


lexentry: eng/life__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: life
trans_list: vita
sense:
The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant; a civilization, species; a star; etc) is alive.


lexentry: eng/life__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: life
trans_list: vita
sense:
(video games) One of the player's chances to play, lost when the player's character dies or when certain mistakes are made.


lexentry: eng/lifeguard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lifeguard
trans_list: balneator
sense:
A lifesaver: a rescuer, usually an expert swimmer, employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning at a body of water.


lexentry: eng/lift__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: lift
trans_list: anabathrum | pēgma
sense:
(UK, Australia, New Zealand) Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.


lexentry: eng/liftoff__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: liftoff
trans_list: abitio
sense:
(aerospace) The point in the launch of a rocket or an aircraft where it leaves contact with the ground.


lexentry: eng/light-fingered__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: light-fingered
trans_list: fūrax | tagax
sense:
(figuratively) Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting.


lexentry: eng/light__Adjective__2
sense_num: 04
written_rep: light
trans_list: levis
sense:
(nautical, of a ship) Riding high because of no cargo; by extension, pertaining to a ship which is light.


lexentry: eng/light__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: light
trans_list: lūmen | lūx | lux | lumen
sense:
(physics, uncountable) Electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range visible to the human eye (about 400–750 nanometers); visible light.


lexentry: eng/light__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: light
trans_list: accendō | incendeō
sense:
(transitive, pinball) To make (a bonus) available to be collected by hitting a target, and thus light up the feature light corresponding to that bonus to indicate its availability.


lexentry: eng/light_bulb__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: light bulb
trans_list: ampulla electrica | globulus electricus | globus ignifer
sense:
An evacuated glass bulb containing a metal filament which is heated by electrical resistance to produce light.


lexentry: eng/light_year__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: light year
trans_list: spatium lucis annuae
sense:
(astronomy) A unit of length (abbreviation ly; equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (1016 metres)) equal to the distance light travels in one Julian year; used to measure extremely large distances.


lexentry: eng/lighter__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lighter
trans_list: ignitabulum
sense:
A device used to light things, especially a reusable handheld device for creating fire to light cigarettes.


lexentry: eng/lightning__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lightning
trans_list: fulgur | fulmen
sense:
A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.


lexentry: eng/lightning_rod__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lightning rod
trans_list: fulmen
sense:
(figuratively) A person or thing that is a target for negative reactions and distracts criticism from another target.


lexentry: eng/lightning_strike__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lightning strike
trans_list: fulmen
sense:
A lightning bolt, stroke of lightning, one of the events during an electrical storm when lightning strikes (an object on) the ground or an aircraft in flight.


lexentry: eng/likelihood__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: likelihood
trans_list: probabilitas
sense:
The probability of a specified outcome; the chance of something happening; probability; the state or degree of being probable.


lexentry: eng/liken__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: liken
trans_list: aeqiparo
sense:
Followed by to or (archaic) unto: to regard or state that (someone or something) is like another person or thing; to compare.


lexentry: eng/lily__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lily
trans_list: līlium | lilium
sense:
Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.


lexentry: eng/limbo__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: limbo
trans_list: vacuum
sense:
(countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by in: any in-between place, or condition or state, of neglect or oblivion which results in deadlock, delay, or some other unresolved status. [from mid 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/lime__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lime
trans_list: calx
sense:
(chemistry) Any inorganic material containing calcium, usually calcium oxide (quicklime) or calcium hydroxide (slaked lime).


lexentry: eng/limescale__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: limescale
trans_list: calco
sense:
A white, chalky deposit of calcium carbonate found in kettles, washing machines etc., especially in a hard water area.


lexentry: eng/limestone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: limestone
trans_list: calx
sense:
An abundant rock of marine and fresh-water sediments; primarily composed of calcite (CaCO3); it occurs in a variety of forms, both crystalline and amorphous.


lexentry: eng/limpet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: limpet
trans_list: mītulus
sense:
A small mollusc, of the family Patellidae with a conical shell found clinging to rocks in the intertidal zones of rocky shores.


lexentry: eng/linchpin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: linchpin
trans_list: talus
sense:
A pin inserted through holes at the end of an axle or shaft, so as to secure a wheel or shaft-mounted device.


lexentry: eng/line__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: line
trans_list: euthīa | līnea | līnea rēcta
sense:
(geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.


lexentry: eng/line_of_business__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: line of business
trans_list: ramus
sense:
A product or a set of related products that serve a particular customer transaction or business need.


lexentry: eng/lineage__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lineage
trans_list: stirps | prōsāpia
sense:
Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.


lexentry: eng/linearly_independent__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: linearly independent
trans_list: liber
sense:
(linear algebra) (Of a set of vectors or ring elements) whose nontrivial linear combinations are nonzero


lexentry: eng/linger__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: linger
trans_list: cunctor | moror | sedeo
sense:
(intransitive) To stay or remain in a place or situation, especially as if unwilling to depart or not easily able to do so.


lexentry: eng/lingua_franca__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lingua franca
trans_list: lingua franca
sense:
A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one not the first language of any of its speakers.


lexentry: eng/liniment__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: liniment
trans_list: linimentum
sense:
A topical medical preparation intended to be rubbed into the skin with friction, as for example to relieve symptoms of arthritis.


lexentry: eng/link__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: link
trans_list: anulus
sense:
(kinematics) Any one of the several elementary pieces of a mechanism, such as the fixed frame, or a rod, wheel, mass of confined liquid, etc., by which relative motion of other parts is produced and constrained.


lexentry: eng/link__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: link
trans_list: colligatio
sense:
(engineering) Any intermediate rod or piece for transmitting force or motion, especially a short connecting rod with a bearing at each end; specifically (in steam engines) the slotted bar, or connecting piece, to the opposite ends of which the eccentric rods are jointed, and by means of which the movement of the valve is varied, in a link motion.


lexentry: eng/link__Noun__1
sense_num: 12
written_rep: link
trans_list: anulus
sense:
(chemistry) A bond of affinity, or a unit of valence between atoms; applied to a unit of chemical force or attraction.


lexentry: eng/linkage__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: linkage
trans_list: commissura
sense:
(US, politics, historical) A United States foreign policy, during the 1970s détente in the Cold War, of persuading the Soviet Union to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for nuclear and economic concessions.


lexentry: eng/linking_element__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: linking element
trans_list: adjectio
sense:
(linguistics) An element of morphological analysis, usually carrying no meaning, used to connect words or stems to form compounds.


lexentry: eng/linnet__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: linnet
trans_list: linaria
sense:
A small passerine bird, the common linnet (Linaria cannabina, syn. Carduelis cannabina), in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.


lexentry: eng/lintel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lintel
trans_list: hyperthyrum
sense:
(architectural element) A horizontal structural beam spanning an opening, such as between the uprights of a door or a window, and which supports the wall above.


lexentry: eng/lion's_leaf__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lion's leaf
trans_list: leontopetalon
sense:
Leontice leontopetalum, a flowering plant of the Eastern Mediterranean containing saponins in all its parts


lexentry: eng/lip__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: lip
trans_list: lābrum | labium
sense:
(by extension, countable) The projecting rim of an open container or a bell, etc.; a short open spout.


lexentry: eng/lipid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lipid
trans_list: lipidum
sense:
(organic compound) Any of a group of organic compounds including the fats, oils, waxes, sterols, and triglycerides. Lipids are characterized by being insoluble in water, and account for most of the fat present in the human body.


lexentry: eng/liposuction__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: liposuction
trans_list: liposuctio
sense:
(medicine) A cosmetic surgery procedure in which excess fat is removed from a specific area by suction.


lexentry: eng/liquid__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: liquid
trans_list: liquidus
sense:
Flowing freely like water; fluid; not solid and not gaseous; composed of particles that move freely among each other on the slightest pressure.


lexentry: eng/liquid__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: liquid
trans_list: latex | liquidus
sense:
A substance that is flowing, and keeping no shape, such as water; a substance of which the molecules, while not tending to separate from one another like those of a gas, readily change their relative position, and which therefore retains no definite shape, except that determined by the containing receptacle; an inelastic fluid.


lexentry: eng/liquid_crystal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: liquid crystal
trans_list: crystallum liquidum
sense:
(chemistry, physics) A phase of matter similar to a liquid, in which the molecules are arranged regularly in one or two dimensions.


lexentry: eng/liquidity__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: liquidity
trans_list: liquiditas
sense:
(economics, countable) An asset's property of being able to be sold without affecting its value; the degree to which it can be easily converted into cash.


lexentry: eng/liquor__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: liquor
trans_list: ebriamen | tēmētum
sense:
(chiefly, US, Canada, Australia) Strong alcoholic drink derived from fermentation and distillation; more broadly, any alcoholic drink.


lexentry: eng/list__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: list
trans_list: index | repertorium
sense:
A register or roll of paper consisting of a compilation or enumeration of a set of possible items; the compilation or enumeration itself. [from 1600]


lexentry: eng/listen__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: listen
trans_list: audio | ausculto | exaudio | audiō | auscultō | exaudiō
sense:
To use one's sense of hearing in an intentional way; to make deliberate use of one's ears; to pay attention to or wait for a specific sound.


lexentry: eng/litany__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: litany
trans_list: litania
sense:
A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation.


lexentry: eng/literal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: literal
trans_list: verbatim
sense:
Exactly as stated; read or understood without additional interpretation; according to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical, and etymonic rather than idiomatic.


lexentry: eng/literature__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: literature
trans_list: litterae
sense:
(usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.


lexentry: eng/lithiasis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lithiasis
trans_list: lithiasis
sense:
(medicine) The process of forming stone-like deposits or calculi formed in an internal organ, such as a gallstone in the gall bladder.


lexentry: eng/lithium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lithium
trans_list: lithium
sense:
(uncountable) The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3. It is a soft, silvery metal.


lexentry: eng/lithosphere__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lithosphere
trans_list: lithosphaera
sense:
(geology) The rigid, mechanically strong, outer layer of the Earth; divided into twelve major plates.


lexentry: eng/litigant__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: litigant
trans_list: lītigātor
sense:
(legal) A party suing or being sued in a lawsuit, or otherwise calling upon the judicial process to determine the outcome of a suit.


lexentry: eng/litmus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: litmus
trans_list: lacmus
sense:
(uncountable) A dyestuff extracted from certain lichens, that changes color when exposed to pH levels greater than or less than certain critical levels.


lexentry: eng/litter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: litter
trans_list: feretrum | lectica
sense:
(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.


lexentry: eng/little_boy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: little boy
trans_list: improcerus
sense:
(AU, NZ) A small saveloy often consumed with tomato sauce at parties, also known as a cocktail sausage or a cheerio.


lexentry: eng/little_bustard__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: little bustard
trans_list: Tetrax tetrax
sense:
Tetrax tetrax, a migratory bird of the family Otididae (bustards) found in parts of Europe and Central Asia


lexentry: eng/livelihood__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: livelihood
trans_list: victus
sense:
A means of providing the necessities of life for oneself (for example, a job or income). [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/liver__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: liver
trans_list: iecur | hēpar | hepar
sense:
(anatomy) A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.


lexentry: eng/livery__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: livery
trans_list: cultus
sense:
Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.


lexentry: eng/loan__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: loan
trans_list: crēditum | mūtuum
sense:
(law, banking, finance) A sum of money or other property that a natural or legal person borrows from another with the condition that it be returned or repaid over time or at a later date (sometimes with interest).


lexentry: eng/lobe__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lobe
trans_list: lingua
sense:
Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]


lexentry: eng/lobster__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lobster
trans_list: cammarus | astacus
sense:
A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.


lexentry: eng/lobster__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lobster
trans_list: cammarus | astacus
sense:
A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.


lexentry: eng/local__Adjective__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: local
trans_list: locālis
sense:
(group theory, of a property of a finite group) Detectable from the behavior of the normalizers of the nontrivial p-subgroups.


lexentry: eng/location_arithmetic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: location arithmetic
trans_list: arithmeticæ localis
sense:
(arithmetic) A device and technique described in Napier's treatise Rabdologiæ for performing multiplication, division and extraction of square roots by using counters to represent numbers in binary.


lexentry: eng/locative_case__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: locative case
trans_list: locativus | casus locativus | casus localis
sense:
(linguistics, grammar) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein; corresponding roughly to the English prepositions "in", "on", "at", and "by".


lexentry: eng/lock__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: lock
trans_list: cataracta
sense:
A segment of a canal or other waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels.


lexentry: eng/lock__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: lock
trans_list: claustra | clausūra
sense:
A fastening together or interlacing; a closing of one thing upon another; a state of being fixed or immovable.


lexentry: eng/lock_down__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lock down
trans_list: attingo
sense:
(transitive) To secure (something); to blockade and lock (a building or campus) so as to prevent ingress or egress; to make (people) stay locked indoors for their safety.


lexentry: eng/lockjaw__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lockjaw
trans_list: trismus
sense:
(pathology) A spasmodic, nervous system disease brought on by the tetanus bacteria. It causes muscles to seize up and may cause death by suffocation.


lexentry: eng/locust__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: locust
trans_list: locusta
sense:
Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/log_in__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: log in
trans_list: intrare
sense:
(computing, transitive, intransitive) To gain access to a computer system, usually by providing a previously registered username and password.


lexentry: eng/logarithm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: logarithm
trans_list: logarithmus
sense:
(mathematics) For a number x, the power to which a given base number must be raised in order to obtain x. Written \log_b x. For example, \log_{10} 1000 = 3 because 10^3 = 1000 and \log_2 16 = 4 because 2^4 = 16.


lexentry: eng/logic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: logic
trans_list: dialectica | logica
sense:
(uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.


lexentry: eng/logic__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: logic
trans_list: logica
sense:
(uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.


lexentry: eng/logic__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: logic
trans_list: logica
sense:
(countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.


lexentry: eng/logic__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: logic
trans_list: logica
sense:
(uncountable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.


lexentry: eng/logic__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: logic
trans_list: logica
sense:
(countable, sociology) A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.


lexentry: eng/logical_fallacy__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: logical fallacy
trans_list: sophisma
sense:
A fallacy; a clearly defined error in reasoning used to support or refute an argument, excluding simple unintended mistakes.


lexentry: eng/logo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: logo
trans_list: logotypus
sense:
A visual symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of a company or organization.


lexentry: eng/loin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: loin
trans_list: lumbus
sense:
The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips


lexentry: eng/long-eared_owl__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: long-eared owl
trans_list: axio
sense:
Asio otus, a species of owl which breeds in Europe, Asia, and North America. Long eared owls are partially migratory, moving south in winter from the northern parts of their range.


lexentry: eng/long-suffering__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: long-suffering
trans_list: longanimis
sense:
Having endured mental or physical discomfort for a protracted period of time patiently or without complaint.


lexentry: eng/long-tailed_tit__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: long-tailed tit
trans_list: carpo
sense:
Any of many subspecies of small passerine birds with long tails, Aegithalos caudatus, found throughout Europe and Asia


lexentry: eng/long__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: long
trans_list: longus
sense:
Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).


lexentry: eng/long_johns__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: long johns
trans_list: lumbare
sense:
(US) A full-length undergarment, worn on the bottom half of the body, or two-piece, to keep the wearer warm in cold weather.


lexentry: eng/long_jump__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: long jump
trans_list: saltus in longitudinem
sense:
An athletics field event where competitors attempt to jump as far as possible, after taking a run-up; a jump such as one performed in such an event.


lexentry: eng/long_weekend__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: long weekend
trans_list: pons
sense:
A weekend extended by one or more days off falling on a day or days immediately preceding or following it.


lexentry: eng/longbow__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: longbow
trans_list: cepa
sense:
A large bow that has a strong tension, and is usually more than 3 feet tall. The most famous longbows in history were the English longbows, which were crafted of yew.


lexentry: eng/look_forward_to__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: look forward to
trans_list: spero
sense:
(transitive, idiomatic) To anticipate, expect, or wait for, especially with a feeling of approval or pleasure. To be excited or eager to.


lexentry: eng/loom__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: loom
trans_list: iugum
sense:
A frame or machine of wood or other material, in which a weaver forms cloth out of thread; a machine for interweaving yarn or threads into a fabric, as in knitting or lace making.


lexentry: eng/loophole__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: loophole
trans_list: homicida
sense:
(historical) A slit in a castle wall; today, any similar window for shooting a ranged weapon or letting in light. Also written loop hole.


lexentry: eng/loophole__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: loophole
trans_list: exilitas
sense:
(figurative) A method of escape, especially an ambiguity or exception in a rule or law that can be exploited in order to avoid its effect.


lexentry: eng/loot__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: loot
trans_list: praedor
sense:
(transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.


lexentry: eng/lop__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lop
trans_list: putō
sense:
(transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.


lexentry: eng/lop_off__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lop off
trans_list: praecīdō
sense:
(transitive) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.


lexentry: eng/loquat__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: loquat
trans_list: Eriobotrya Japonica
sense:
The fruit of this tree. It is as large as a small plum, but grows in clusters, and contains four or five large seeds.


lexentry: eng/lord__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lord
trans_list: dominus
sense:
One possessing similar mastery over others; (historical) any feudal superior generally; any nobleman or aristocrat; any chief, prince, or sovereign ruler; in Scotland, a male member of the lowest rank of nobility (the equivalent rank in England is baron)


lexentry: eng/lord_it_over__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lord it over
trans_list: dominari
sense:
(idiomatic, transitive) To behave as if one is in control of; to make a display of having an advantage over or superiority to.


lexentry: eng/lordship__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lordship
trans_list: Dominus
sense:
(hence, with "his" or "your", often capitalised) Title applied to a lord, bishop, judge, or another man with a title.


lexentry: eng/lore__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lore
trans_list: addoceo
sense:
All the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.


lexentry: eng/lose__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lose
trans_list: amitto | perdo
sense:
(transitive) To experience the death of (someone to whom one has an attachment, such as a relative or friend).


lexentry: eng/loss__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: loss
trans_list: amissio
sense:
(countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.


lexentry: eng/lot__Noun__1
sense_num: 07
written_rep: lot
trans_list: sors
sense:
Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.


lexentry: eng/lottery__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lottery
trans_list: sortītiō | sortītus
sense:
A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.


lexentry: eng/loudmouth__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: loudmouth
trans_list: clāmātor
sense:
(derogatory) One who talks too much or too loudly, especially in a boastful or self-important manner.


lexentry: eng/love__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: love
trans_list: amo | amare
sense:
(usually, transitive, sometimes, _, intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something).


lexentry: eng/love__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: love
trans_list: diligo | amo
sense:
(usually, transitive, sometimes, _, intransitive) To seek the good or honor of (someone), care deeply about, to be dedicated to (someone or something).


lexentry: eng/love_child__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: love child
trans_list: illegitimus
sense:
(euphemistic) A child born as a result of a romantic liaison between parents not married to one another; an illegitimate child.


lexentry: eng/lovebird__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lovebird
trans_list: indivulsus
sense:
Any small parrot from one of the nine species within the genus Agapornis. Sometimes they are kept as cage birds and are noted for their affection towards each other.


lexentry: eng/loved_one__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: loved one
trans_list: amica
sense:
A very close friend or family member for whom a person has feelings of endearment, one of someone's close ones; sometimes: next of kin (for example on hospital admission form).


lexentry: eng/lover__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lover
trans_list: amāns | amātor | amātrix
sense:
One who loves and cares for another person in a romantic way; a sweetheart, love, soulmate, boyfriend, girlfriend, or spouse.


lexentry: eng/lovingkindness__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lovingkindness
trans_list: misericordia
sense:
(archaic, uncountable) Kindness or mercy which is based on, or arises from, love; (countable) an act of such kindness or mercy.


lexentry: eng/low-fat__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: low-fat
trans_list: petilus
sense:
Not having a high number of calories from fat or great amount of fats. Especially an alternate variety of food designed to have lower calories, dietetic.


lexentry: eng/low-grade_fever__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: low-grade fever
trans_list: febricula
sense:
(medicine) A slight fever, typically defined as never exceeding 38.5 degrees Celsius (about 101 degrees Fahrenheit).


lexentry: eng/low__Adjective__1
sense_num: 16
written_rep: low
trans_list: humilis | bassus
sense:
(phonetics) Made with a relatively large opening between the tongue and the palate; made with (part of) the tongue positioned low in the mouth, relative to the palate.


lexentry: eng/lower__Verb__1
sense_num: 12
written_rep: lower
trans_list: subsum
sense:
(computing, transitive) To reduce operations to single machine instructions, as part of compilation of a program.


lexentry: eng/lower_back__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lower back
trans_list: crux
sense:
The region of the back above the waist, also known as the lumbar region; the area surrounding the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis.


lexentry: eng/lower_class__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lower class
trans_list: subclassis
sense:
A class of people in a society characterized by low incomes, low level of education, high unemployment and, as a result of these, a low social status.


lexentry: eng/lowlife__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lowlife
trans_list: faeculentia
sense:
(derogatory) An untrustworthy, despicable, or disreputable person, especially one suspected of being a criminal.


lexentry: eng/lucky_dip__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lucky dip
trans_list: persica
sense:
(UK) A game in which prizes are covered up and mixed together in a container, so that contestants can dip their hand into the container and randomly pull out a prize.


lexentry: eng/ludicrous__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: ludicrous
trans_list: absurdus
sense:
Idiotic or unthinkable, often to the point of being funny; amusing by being plainly incongruous or absurd.


lexentry: eng/lumbago__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lumbago
trans_list: lumbago
sense:
(uncountable) Backache of the lumbar region or lower back, which can be caused by muscle strain or a slipped disc.


lexentry: eng/lumbar__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lumbar
trans_list: lumbus
sense:
Related to the lower back or loin, specifically the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis.


lexentry: eng/lumber__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lumber
trans_list: tignum
sense:
(North America) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/luminary__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: luminary
trans_list: lux
sense:
One who is an inspiration to others; one who has achieved success in one's chosen field; a leading light.


lexentry: eng/lump__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lump
trans_list: glaeba | massa | mōlēs
sense:
Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.


lexentry: eng/lump_sum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lump sum
trans_list: gustatio
sense:
A relatively large single payment of money often paid and received instead of, or in addition to, a sequence of smaller payments.


lexentry: eng/lunar__Adjective__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: lunar
trans_list: lūnāris
sense:
(astronomy) Of or pertaining to travel through space between the Earth and the Moon, or exploration and scientific investigation of the Moon.


lexentry: eng/lunar_phase__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lunar phase
trans_list: phasis lūnae | vicis lūnae
sense:
(astronomy) Any of the near-monthly cyclically occurring aspects or appearances presented by a moon#Noun as seen from its planet (unless otherwise specified, the Moon as seen from Earth).


lexentry: eng/lupus__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lupus
trans_list: hirpus
sense:
(pathology) Any of a number of autoimmune diseases, the most common of which is systemic lupus erythematosus.


lexentry: eng/lure__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lure
trans_list: illecebra
sense:
(also, figurative) Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.


lexentry: eng/lustrum__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lustrum
trans_list: lūstrum
sense:
(historical) A lustration: a ceremonial purification of the people of Rome performed every five years after the census. [from late 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/lute__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lute
trans_list: lyra
sense:
A fretted stringed instrument, similar to the guitar, having a bowl-shaped body or soundbox; any of a wide variety of chordophones with a pear-shaped body and a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.


lexentry: eng/lutetium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lutetium
trans_list: lutetium
sense:
A chemical element (symbol Lu) with an atomic number of 71, a silvery-white metal which resists corrosion in dry air.


lexentry: eng/lymph__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lymph
trans_list: lympha
sense:
(physiology) A colourless, watery, coagulable bodily fluid which bathes the tissues and is carried by the lymphatic system into the bloodstream; it resembles blood plasma in containing white blood cells and especially lymphocytes but normally few red blood cells and no platelets.


lexentry: eng/lymphocyte__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lymphocyte
trans_list: lymphocytus
sense:
(cytology, immunology) Any of several types of white blood cell with a spherical nucleus occurring in the lymphatic system, including B cells, T cells and natural killer cells.


lexentry: eng/lyre__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: lyre
trans_list: lyra
sense:
An ancient stringed musical instrument (a yoke lute chordophone) of Greek origin, consisting of two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.


lexentry: eng/lyre__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: lyre
trans_list: lyra
sense:
A lyre-shaped sheet music holder that attaches to a wind instrument when a music stand is impractical.


lexentry: eng/macaroni__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: macaroni
trans_list: collȳra
sense:
(uncountable) A type of pasta in the form of short tubes; sometimes loosely, pasta in general. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/macaw__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: macaw
trans_list: Ara
sense:
Any of various parrots of the genera Ara, Anodorhynchus, Cyanopsitta, Orthopsittaca, Primolius and Diopsittaca of Central and South America, including the largest parrots and characterized by long sabre-shaped tails, curved powerful bills, and usually brilliant plumage.


lexentry: eng/macchia__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: macchia
trans_list: contaminatio
sense:
A shrubland biota in Mediterranean countries, typically consisting of densely-growing evergreen shrubs.


lexentry: eng/machete__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: machete
trans_list: pala
sense:
A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or as a weapon. The blade is usually 50 to 65 centimeters long, and up to three millimeters thick.


lexentry: eng/machine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: machine
trans_list: māchina | machina
sense:
A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.


lexentry: eng/machine__Noun__1
sense_num: 10
written_rep: machine
trans_list: machina
sense:
(historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.


lexentry: eng/machine_gun__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: machine gun
trans_list: arma machinae
sense:
A type of fully automatic firearm that fires bullets in rapid succession by a single action of the trigger and is capable of sustained fire.


lexentry: eng/mackerel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mackerel
trans_list: scomber
sense:
Certain smaller edible fish, principally true mackerel and Spanish mackerel in family Scombridae, often speckled,


lexentry: eng/macrocosm__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: macrocosm
trans_list: macrocosmus
sense:
(philosophy) A complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.


lexentry: eng/macroeconomics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: macroeconomics
trans_list: macrooeconomia
sense:
The study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices.


lexentry: eng/macron__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: macron
trans_list: signum productionis
sense:
(orthography) A short, straight, horizontal diacritical mark (◌̄) placed over a letter, usually to indicate that the pronunciation of a vowel is long. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/madam__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: madam
trans_list: lēna
sense:
(slang) A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.


lexentry: eng/magazine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: magazine
trans_list: commentarium
sense:
A non-academic periodical publication, generally consisting of sheets of paper folded in half and stapled at the fold.


lexentry: eng/maggot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maggot
trans_list: vermiculus
sense:
A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/magic__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: magic
trans_list: magia | magice | artes magae | artes magicae | veneficium | carmen
sense:
The application of rituals or actions, especially those based on occult knowledge, to subdue or manipulate natural or supernatural beings and forces in order to have some benefit from them. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/magic__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: magic
trans_list: magia | magice | carmen | veneficium
sense:
A specific ritual or procedure associated with such magic; a spell; a magical ability. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/magic__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: magic
trans_list: praestīgiae
sense:
A conjuring trick or illusion performed to give the appearance of supernatural phenomena or powers. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/magic_lantern__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: magic lantern
trans_list: lanterna magica
sense:
(historical) An early light projector and precursor to the slide projector that could achieve simple animation by moving and merging images.


lexentry: eng/magic_trick__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: magic trick
trans_list: praestīgiae
sense:
A remarkable act carried out purportedly by magical means but in reality performed by trickery or illusion, generally as a form of entertainment.


lexentry: eng/magistrate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: magistrate
trans_list: magistratus
sense:
(legal) A judicial officer with limited authority to administer and enforce the law. A magistrate's court may have jurisdiction in civil or criminal cases, or both.


lexentry: eng/magma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: magma
trans_list: magma
sense:
(geology) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.


lexentry: eng/magnesium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: magnesium
trans_list: magnesium
sense:
The chemical element (symbol Mg) with an atomic number of 12. It is a light, easily flammable, silvery-white alkaline earth metal.


lexentry: eng/magnetic_field__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: magnetic field
trans_list: campus magneticus
sense:
(physics) A condition in the space around a magnet or electric current in which there is a detectable magnetic force and two magnetic poles are present.


lexentry: eng/maidenhair__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: maidenhair
trans_list: adiantum | capillus Veneris
sense:
Either of two species of genus Adiantum of fern with delicate, hair-like stalks, especially Adiantum capillus-veneris.


lexentry: eng/mailman__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mailman
trans_list: tabellārius
sense:
(North America) someone who delivers mail to, and/or collects mail from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes


lexentry: eng/mainmast__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mainmast
trans_list: magnus
sense:
(nautical) The tallest mast of a sailing ship that has more than one mast; particularly a full-rigged ship.


lexentry: eng/majestic_plural__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: majestic plural
trans_list: pluralis maiestatis
sense:
The first-person plural pronoun as traditionally used by a sovereign in formal speech to refer to themselves in their role as the monarch.


lexentry: eng/major__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: major
trans_list: maior | major
sense:
(military ranks) A rank of officer in the army and the US air force, between captain and lieutenant colonel.


lexentry: eng/majordomo__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: majordomo
trans_list: major domus
sense:
The head servant or official in a royal Spanish or Italian household; later, any head servant in a wealthy household in a foreign country; a leading servant or butler.


lexentry: eng/make__Verb__1
sense_num: 30
written_rep: make
trans_list: facio | ago | cogo | compello | creo | distingo
sense:
(obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.


lexentry: eng/make_a_mountain_out_of_a_molehill__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: make a mountain out of a molehill
trans_list: nodum in scirpo quero
sense:
(transitive, idiomatic) To treat a problem as greater than it is; to blow something out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of something trivial.


lexentry: eng/make_amends__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: make amends
trans_list: expiō
sense:
(idiomatic) To repair a relationship; to resolve an argument or fight; to make reparations or redress.


lexentry: eng/make_do__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: make do
trans_list: superesse
sense:
(intransitive, idiomatic, informal) To survive, get by (with), or use whatever is available (due to lack of resources).


lexentry: eng/make_it__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: make it
trans_list: ădĭpiscĕre
sense:
To succeed in doing something, for example in reaching a place, going somewhere, attending an event, arriving in time for something, adding to one's schedule or itinerary, or in getting where one wants to be in one's life or career, which sometimes means becoming or wanting to become successful (succeed in a big way) or famous.


lexentry: eng/make_out__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: make out
trans_list: scribo
sense:
(transitive) To draw up (a document etc.), to designate (a cheque) to a given recipient, payee. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/make_out__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: make out
trans_list: accidere
sense:
(now, chiefly, US, regional, intransitive) To manage, get along; to do (well, badly etc.). [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/make_over__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: make over
trans_list: renovare
sense:
(idiomatic) To renovate or to convert to a different use, particularly houses, offices, or rooms within them.


lexentry: eng/make_sure__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: make sure
trans_list: polliceri
sense:
To make oneself certain (of something, or that something is the case); to verify, to ascertain. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/make_whole__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: make whole
trans_list: integrō
sense:
(transitive, set phrase) To restore (someone) to a sound, healthy, or otherwise favorable condition.


lexentry: eng/makeup__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: makeup
trans_list: offūcia
sense:
(countable, uncountable) Cosmetics; colorants and other substances applied to the skin to alter its appearance.


lexentry: eng/malachite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: malachite
trans_list: molochītis | molochītēs
sense:
(mineral) A bright green mineral, a basic copper carbonate, Cu2CO3(OH)2; one of the principal ores of copper.


lexentry: eng/male__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: male
trans_list: masculus | mās
sense:
Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/male__Adjective__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: male
trans_list: masculus
sense:
(of bacteria) Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female).


lexentry: eng/male_circumcision__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: male circumcision
trans_list: circumcisio
sense:
An operation involving the surgical removal of all or most of the foreskin (prepuce) and frenulum of the male genitalia.


lexentry: eng/malice__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: malice
trans_list: malitia
sense:
Intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. Desire to take pleasure in another's misfortune.


lexentry: eng/malleate__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: malleate
trans_list: malleātus
sense:
(malacology, of a shell) Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.


lexentry: eng/mallow__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mallow
trans_list: malva
sense:
Any of a group of flowering plants in several genera of the taxonomic family Malvaceae, especially of the genus Malva. Several species are edible by humans.


lexentry: eng/maltose__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maltose
trans_list: maltosium
sense:
(carbohydrate) A disaccharide, C12H22O11 formed from the digestion of starch by amylase; is converted to glucose by maltase; it is an isomer of trehalose


lexentry: eng/mamma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mamma
trans_list: mamma
sense:
(anatomy, plural mammae) The milk-secreting organ of female humans and other mammals which includes the mammary gland and the nipple or teat; a breast; an udder.


lexentry: eng/mammal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mammal
trans_list: mammalia | mammalis
sense:
An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and producing milk with which to feed its young.


lexentry: eng/mammography__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mammography
trans_list: mammographia
sense:
(medicine) X-ray examination of the breasts for diagnosing and locating abnormalities, especially tumours.


lexentry: eng/mammy__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mammy
trans_list: mater
sense:
(US, historical, often pejorative) In the southern United States, a black nanny employed to look after white children; or in the antebellum South, a female slave who was close to the household and looked after the children.


lexentry: eng/mamzer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mamzer
trans_list: manzer
sense:
(Judaism) A child born to Jewish parents whose relationship is incestuous or otherwise forbidden by Jewish law (e.g. an unmarried man and a married woman), or the descendant of such a person.


lexentry: eng/man__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: man
trans_list: vir | mās
sense:
A male person, usually an adult; a (generally adult male) sentient being, whether human, supernatural, elf, alien, etc.


lexentry: eng/manacle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manacle
trans_list: manicae
sense:
A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement.


lexentry: eng/management__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: management
trans_list: procuratio | tractātiō
sense:
(uncountable) Administration; the use of limited resources combined with forecasting, planning, leadership and execution skills to achieve predetermined specific goals.


lexentry: eng/manager__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manager
trans_list: procurator | prōmus
sense:
(management) A person whose job is to manage something, such as a business, a restaurant, or a sports team.


lexentry: eng/mandarin_orange__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mandarin orange
trans_list: citrum nobile
sense:
A small citrus tree (Citrus reticulata) with oblate fruits smaller than the (so-named) sweet oranges.


lexentry: eng/mandarin_orange__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mandarin orange
trans_list: citrum nobile
sense:
The fruit of this tree; in loose, informal usage, the term may include other similar citrus fruits such as Citrus unshiu (satsuma or mikan).


lexentry: eng/mandate__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mandate
trans_list: mandātum
sense:
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.


lexentry: eng/mandrake__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mandrake
trans_list: mandragoras
sense:
Any plant of the genus Mandragora, certain of which are said to have medicinal or aphrodisiac properties; the root of these plants often resembles the shape of a small person, hence occasioning various mythic, magical, or occult uses.


lexentry: eng/mandrake__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: mandrake
trans_list: mandragoras
sense:
A root of a mandrake plant that resembled human form, especially one kept or used for magic or occult purposes.


lexentry: eng/mandrel__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mandrel
trans_list: acantha
sense:
A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.


lexentry: eng/mandrel__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mandrel
trans_list: acantha
sense:
A tool or component of a tool that guides, grips or clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved.


lexentry: eng/manes__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manes
trans_list: manes
sense:
The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives.


lexentry: eng/maneuver__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maneuver
trans_list: dēcursiō
sense:
(military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/manga__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: manga
trans_list: manga
sense:
(uncountable) An artistic style heavily used in, and associated with, Japanese comics, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of comics from other countries.


lexentry: eng/manganese__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manganese
trans_list: manganum
sense:
(uncountable) A metallic chemical element (symbol Mn) with an atomic number of 25, not a free element in nature but often found in minerals in combination with iron, and useful in industrial alloy production.


lexentry: eng/mange__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mange
trans_list: sarna
sense:
(veterinary medicine) A skin disease of nonhuman mammals caused by parasitic mites (Sarcoptes spp., Demodecidae spp.).


lexentry: eng/manhood__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: manhood
trans_list: maritus
sense:
All of the men of a given place, area, or any human subgroup (ethnicity, nation, race, religion, family, work crew or ship's crew, etc.) regarded collectively.


lexentry: eng/manhood__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: manhood
trans_list: virilitas
sense:
The idealized nature of a man: all of the characteristics traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness regarded collectively.


lexentry: eng/manhood__Noun__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: manhood
trans_list: maritus
sense:
The self-concept of a man being with respect to his possession of the various qualities traditionally and ideally ascribed to manliness; a man's sense or view of himself as being more or less manly.


lexentry: eng/manifest__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: manifest
trans_list: manifestus
sense:
Obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.


lexentry: eng/manioc__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manioc
trans_list: mandioca
sense:
(countable, uncountable) The tropical plant Manihot esculenta, from which cassava and tapioca are prepared.


lexentry: eng/maniple__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maniple
trans_list: manipulus
sense:
(Ancient Rome, military) A division of the Roman army numbering 120 (or sometimes 60) soldiers exclusive of officers; (generally, obsolete) any small body of soldiers.


lexentry: eng/maniple__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: maniple
trans_list: manipulus
sense:
(Christianity, chiefly, historical) In Western Christianity, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, and sometimes the Church of England.


lexentry: eng/manipulate__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: manipulate
trans_list: manipularis
sense:
(transitive, medicine) To handle and move a body part, either as an examination or for a therapeutic purpose


lexentry: eng/manliness__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manliness
trans_list: virtus | animus virilis
sense:
The quality of being manly; the set of qualities, traits and abilities considered appropriate to men (as opposed to women or children); similarity to a man.


lexentry: eng/manna__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: manna
trans_list: manna
sense:
The sugary sap of the manna gum tree which oozes out from holes drilled by insects and falls to the ground around the tree.[1]


lexentry: eng/manometer__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manometer
trans_list: manometrum
sense:
An instrument to measure pressure in a fluid, especially a double-legged liquid column gauge used to measure the difference in the pressures of two fluids.


lexentry: eng/manticore__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manticore
trans_list: mantichōra | mantichōras
sense:
(Greek mythology) A beast with the body of a lion (usually red), the tail of a scorpion, and the head/face of a man with a mouth filled with multiple rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), said to be able to shoot spikes from its tail or mane to paralyse prey. It may be horned, winged, or both; its voice is described as a mixture of pipes and trumpets.


lexentry: eng/mantis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mantis
trans_list: mantis
sense:
Any of various large insects of the order Mantodea that catch insects or other small animals with their powerful forelegs.


lexentry: eng/mantle__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mantle
trans_list: amictus | lacerna
sense:
A piece of clothing somewhat like an open robe or cloak, especially that worn by Orthodox bishops. [from 9th c.]


lexentry: eng/mantle_plume__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mantle plume
trans_list: agmen
sense:
(geology) An upwelling of abnormally hot molten material from the Earth's mantle which spreads sideways when it reaches the lithosphere.


lexentry: eng/manual_labor__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manual labor
trans_list: manuopera
sense:
(American spelling) Work done by hand or using basic tools rather than by machines; usually physically demanding but (sometimes, _, pejorative) unskilled labor.


lexentry: eng/manumission__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manumission
trans_list: #Latina
sense:
Release from slavery or other legally sanctioned servitude; the giving of freedom; the act of manumitting.


lexentry: eng/manure__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manure
trans_list: fimum | fimus | stercus
sense:
Animal excrement, especially that of common domestic farm animals and when used as fertilizer. Generally speaking, from cows, horses, sheep, pigs and chickens.


lexentry: eng/manuscript__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: manuscript
trans_list: manuscriptum
sense:
A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.


lexentry: eng/manuscript__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: manuscript
trans_list: manuscriptum
sense:
A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.


lexentry: eng/many_a__Determiner__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: many a
trans_list: aliquantus
sense:
Being one of a large number, each one of many; belonging to an aggregate or category, considered singly as one of a kind.


lexentry: eng/many_a_mickle_makes_a_muckle__Proverb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: many a mickle makes a muckle
trans_list: gutta cavat lapidem
sense:
(chiefly, Northern England, Scotland) A lot of small amounts, put together, become a large amount. [from 1793]


lexentry: eng/map__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: map
trans_list: charta | tabula | itinerārium
sense:
A visual representation of an area, whether real or imaginary, showing the relative positions of places and other features.


lexentry: eng/mara__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mara
trans_list: incubus
sense:
(European folklore) A nightmare; a spectre or wraith-like creature in Germanic and particularly Scandinavian folklore; a female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.


lexentry: eng/marcasite__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: marcasite
trans_list: marchasita
sense:
(mineral) The orthorhombic form of iron disulfide, FeS2, occurring as yellow crystals. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/march__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: march
trans_list: margo
sense:
(now, _, archaic, historical) A border region, especially one originally set up to defend a boundary.


lexentry: eng/marginal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: marginal
trans_list: mediocris
sense:
(politics, chiefly, UK, Australia, NZ, of a constituency) Subject to a change in sitting member with only a small change in voting behaviour, this usually being inferred from the small winning margin of the previous election.


lexentry: eng/marginal__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: marginal
trans_list: mediocris
sense:
Of a value, or having a characteristic that is of a value, that is close to being unacceptable or leading to exclusion from a group or category.


lexentry: eng/marine__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: marine
trans_list: maritimus | marīnus
sense:
Belonging to or characteristic of the sea; existing or found in the sea; formed or produced by the sea.


lexentry: eng/mark__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mark
trans_list: omen
sense:
A score for finding the correct answer, or other academic achievement; the sum of such points gained as out of a possible total. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/mark__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mark
trans_list: contaminatio
sense:
A visible impression or sign; a blemish, scratch, or stain, whether accidental or intentional. [from 9th c.]


lexentry: eng/mark__Noun__2
sense_num: 03
written_rep: mark
trans_list: cella
sense:
(historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.


lexentry: eng/mark__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mark
trans_list: exsignare
sense:
To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something).


lexentry: eng/mark__Verb__1
sense_num: 21
written_rep: mark
trans_list: inscribere
sense:
(sports) To follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily.


lexentry: eng/market__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: market
trans_list: forum | mercātus
sense:
City square or other fairly spacious site where traders set up stalls and buyers browse the merchandise.


lexentry: eng/markka__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: markka
trans_list: marchia
sense:
A (Finnish) mark, the currency used in Finland before the introduction of the euro, consisting of 100 penni. Abbreviation FIM.


lexentry: eng/marl__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: marl
trans_list: marga
sense:
A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and possibly sand, in very variable proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy.


lexentry: eng/marlin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: marlin
trans_list: acus
sense:
Any species of game fish belonging to either of the genera Tetrapturus or Makaira, with a crested dorsal fin and a pointed, spear-like projection of the upper jaw.


lexentry: eng/marmot__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: marmot
trans_list: marmota
sense:
Any of several large ground-dwelling rodents of the genera Marmota and Cynomys in the squirrel family.


lexentry: eng/marque__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: marque
trans_list: signum
sense:
A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model).


lexentry: eng/marry__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: marry
trans_list: nubo | marito
sense:
(intransitive) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/marry__Verb__1
sense_num: 05
written_rep: marry
trans_list: nubere | dūcor virō | dūcō uxōrem | marito | maritor
sense:
(transitive) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining spouses; to bring about a marital union according to the laws or customs of a place. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/marsh_mallow__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: marsh mallow
trans_list: malva
sense:
A European species of plant in the mallow family, Althaea officinalis, historically used medicinally and the source of what became the modern marshmallow confection (which no longer contains the plant).


lexentry: eng/marshal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: marshal
trans_list: marescalcus
sense:
(historical) A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general.


lexentry: eng/marshal__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: marshal
trans_list: marescalcus
sense:
A military officer of the highest rank in several countries, including France and the former Soviet Union; equivalent to a general of the army in the United States. See also field marshal.


lexentry: eng/marshmallow__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: marshmallow
trans_list: pasta hibisci
sense:
A type of confectionery, originally (since Ancient Egyptian times) made from this plant, but now generally made of sugar or corn syrup, gelatin that has been presoftened in water, gum arabic, flavorings, and sometimes beaten egg whites, all whipped to a spongy consistency. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/marsupial__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: marsupial
trans_list: marsupial
sense:
Any member of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia, including those where the female has a pouch in which it rears its young through early infancy, such as kangaroos, koalas, wombats and opossums, as well as the pouchless shrew opossums.


lexentry: eng/martial_law__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: martial law
trans_list: lēx mīlitāris
sense:
Rule by military authorities, especially when imposed on a civilian population in time of war or other crisis, or in an occupied territory.


lexentry: eng/martin__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: martin
trans_list: hirundo
sense:
Any of various passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, which also includes swallows, that catch insects whilst flying.


lexentry: eng/martyr__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: martyr
trans_list: martyr
sense:
One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.


lexentry: eng/martyr__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: martyr
trans_list: martyr
sense:
(by extension) One who sacrifices their life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.


lexentry: eng/martyrdom__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: martyrdom
trans_list: martyria
sense:
The condition of a martyr; the death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.


lexentry: eng/martyrology__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: martyrology
trans_list: martyrologium
sense:
(Roman Catholicism, often, _, capitalized) A liturgical calendar of days for the commemoration of formally recognized saints, usually including some biographical notes.


lexentry: eng/mash__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mash
trans_list: intrita
sense:
(uncountable) A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state.


lexentry: eng/mash__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mash
trans_list: farrago
sense:
(brewing) Ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort.


lexentry: eng/mass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mass
trans_list: massa
sense:
(physics) A measure of the inertia of a mass of matter, one of four fundamental properties of matter. SI unit of mass: kilogram.


lexentry: eng/mass__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mass
trans_list: mōlēs | massa
sense:
A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size.


lexentry: eng/mass_media__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mass media
trans_list: media publica
sense:
Collectively, the communications media, especially television, radio, and newspapers, that reach the mass of the people.


lexentry: eng/massacre__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: massacre
trans_list: strāgēs | trucīdātiō
sense:
The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.


lexentry: eng/massacre__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: massacre
trans_list: trucīdō
sense:
(transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms. (Often limited to the killing of human beings.)


lexentry: eng/massage__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: massage
trans_list: frictio
sense:
The action of rubbing, kneading or hitting someone's body, to help the person relax, prepare for muscular action (as in contact sports) or to relieve aches.


lexentry: eng/massage__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: massage
trans_list: frīcō
sense:
(transitive) To rub and knead (someone's body or a part of a body), to perform a massage on (somebody).


lexentry: eng/masseter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: masseter
trans_list: masseter
sense:
(muscle) The large muscle which runs through the rear part of the cheek from the temporal bone to the lower jaw on each side, raises the lower jaw, and assists in mastication.


lexentry: eng/mast__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mast
trans_list: mālus | malus
sense:
(nautical, communications, aviation) A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter). [from 9th c.]


lexentry: eng/master's_degree__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: master's degree
trans_list: magistralis
sense:
A postgraduate degree which aims to assist students in developing a mastery for a particular academic field or profession.


lexentry: eng/master__Noun__1
sense_num: 15
written_rep: master
trans_list: dominulus
sense:
(legal) A parajudicial officer (such as a referee, an auditor, an examiner, or an assessor) specially appointed to help a court with its proceedings.


lexentry: eng/masterpiece__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: masterpiece
trans_list: magnum opus | palmārium
sense:
A piece of work that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career.


lexentry: eng/mastiff__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mastiff
trans_list: canis Anglicus | canis villaticus
sense:
One of an old breed of powerful, deep-chested, and smooth-coated dogs, used chiefly as watchdogs and guard dogs.


lexentry: eng/masturbate__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: masturbate
trans_list: masturbor | glubo
sense:
(intransitive) To stimulate oneself sexually, especially by use of one’s hand or a sex toy made for this purpose, often to the point of ejaculation or orgasm.


lexentry: eng/masturbation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: masturbation
trans_list: masturbātiō | masturbatio
sense:
Manual erotic stimulation of the genitals or other erotic regions, often to orgasm, either by oneself or by a partner.


lexentry: eng/mat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mat
trans_list: storea | teges
sense:
A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.


lexentry: eng/match_fixing__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: match fixing
trans_list: crustŭlum
sense:
(sports) The act of losing, or playing to a pre-determined result, in sports matches after betting against oneself.


lexentry: eng/materialism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: materialism
trans_list: materialismus
sense:
Constant concern over material possessions and wealth; a great or excessive regard for worldly concerns.


lexentry: eng/maternal_grandfather__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maternal grandfather
trans_list: avus maternus
sense:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal,‎ grandfather. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/maternal_grandmother__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maternal grandmother
trans_list: avia maternis
sense:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see maternal,‎ grandmother. (This entry is a translation hub.)


lexentry: eng/mathematics__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mathematics
trans_list: mathēmatica | mathematica
sense:
An abstract representational system studying numbers, shapes, structures, quantitative change and relationships between them.


lexentry: eng/mathematics__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mathematics
trans_list: mathēmatica | mathematica
sense:
A person's ability to count, calculate, and use different systems of mathematics at differing levels.


lexentry: eng/matins__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: matins
trans_list: mātūtīnum | vigiliae
sense:
Together with lauds, the earliest of the canonical hours; traditionally prayed at sunrise or earlier.


lexentry: eng/matrix__Noun__1
sense_num: 09
written_rep: matrix
trans_list: mater
sense:
(mathematics) A rectangular arrangement of numbers or terms having various uses such as transforming coordinates in geometry, solving systems of linear equations in linear algebra and representing graphs in graph theory.


lexentry: eng/matter__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: matter
trans_list: fabula | rēs
sense:
(philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.


lexentry: eng/matter__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: matter
trans_list: fabula | rēs
sense:
An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.


lexentry: eng/matter__Verb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: matter
trans_list: intersum | pertineo | pertineo ad
sense:
(transitive, in negative constructions, now, England, _, regional, Caribbean) To care about, to mind; to find important. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/mattress__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mattress
trans_list: culcita
sense:
A pad on which a person can recline and sleep, usually having an inner section of coiled springs covered with foam or other cushioning material then enclosed with cloth fabric.


lexentry: eng/matura__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: matura
trans_list: examen maturitatis
sense:
A final exam that young adults (aged 18 or 19) take at the end of their secondary education in certain European countries.


lexentry: eng/maudlin__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maudlin
trans_list: lacrimosus
sense:
Affectionate or sentimental in an effusive, tearful, or foolish manner, especially because of drunkenness. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/maven__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maven
trans_list: cognitor
sense:
(chiefly, US) An expert in a given field; also, a person who is interested in and knowledgeable about a particular activity or thing; an aficionado.


lexentry: eng/maw__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: maw
trans_list: fauces
sense:
The upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.


lexentry: eng/maxilla__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maxilla
trans_list: maxilla
sense:
(skeleton) Either of the two bones that lie with one on each side of the upper jaw lateral to the premaxilla and that in higher vertebrates bear most of the teeth.


lexentry: eng/may__Verb__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: may
trans_list: possum | licet | mihi licet | sim
sense:
(modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests. [from 9th c.]


lexentry: eng/may__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: may
trans_list: sim
sense:
(subjunctive present, defective) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect). [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/maybe__Adverb__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: maybe
trans_list: fortasse | forsitan | forsan | forsit | fortassis | fors
sense:
(as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).


lexentry: eng/mayor_of_the_palace__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mayor of the palace
trans_list: maior palatii
sense:
(historical) In the Merovingian kingdoms, the king’s steward and, by the 7th century, de facto regent.


lexentry: eng/maze__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: maze
trans_list: labyrinthus
sense:
A labyrinth; a puzzle consisting of a complicated network of paths or passages, the aim of which is to find one's way through.


lexentry: eng/meadow__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meadow
trans_list: prātum | pratum
sense:
A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.


lexentry: eng/meal__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meal
trans_list: cibus
sense:
(countable) Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack).


lexentry: eng/meal__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meal
trans_list: farina
sense:
The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour.


lexentry: eng/meal_ticket__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: meal ticket
trans_list: columba
sense:
(idiomatic) Someone or something that provides income or livelihood, especially as an exploited source.


lexentry: eng/meander__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: meander
trans_list: Maeander
sense:
(geography) One of a series of regular sinuous curves, bends, loops, turns, or windings in the channel of a river, stream, or other watercourse


lexentry: eng/means_of_grace__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: means of grace
trans_list: mēdium grātiae
sense:
(Christianity, theology) a means by which God gives grace, usually considered to include both word and sacrament, and often other ways as well


lexentry: eng/measles__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: measles
trans_list: boa
sense:
(medicine) An acute and highly contagious disease which often afflicts children caused by the virus Measles morbillivirus and causing red rashes, fever, runny nose, coughing, and red eyes.


lexentry: eng/measure__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: measure
trans_list: mēnsūra
sense:
The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.) [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/measure__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: measure
trans_list: mētior
sense:
To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.


lexentry: eng/meat_hook__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meat hook
trans_list: carnārium
sense:
A two-sided hook normally used in butcheries to hang up meat or the carcasses of animals such as pigs.


lexentry: eng/mechanic__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mechanic
trans_list: mechanicus
sense:
Someone who builds or repairs machinery, a technician; now specifically, someone who works with and repairs the mechanical parts of a motor vehicle, aircraft or similar. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/mechanism__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mechanism
trans_list: māchina
sense:
(within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.


lexentry: eng/meddlesome__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meddlesome
trans_list: molestus
sense:
Characterised or marked by meddling; inclined or having a tendency to meddle or interfere in other people's business.


lexentry: eng/media_studies__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: media studies
trans_list: scientia mediorum
sense:
Academic discipline that deals with the content, history, meaning and effects of various media, in particular mass media.


lexentry: eng/medial__Adjective__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: medial
trans_list: medialis
sense:
(anatomy, zootomy) Pertaining to the inside; closer to the median plane of the body or the midline of an organ.


lexentry: eng/medicine__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: medicine
trans_list: medicīna
sense:
(uncountable, countable) A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way; a pharmaceutical drug.


lexentry: eng/medick__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: medick
trans_list: cytisum
sense:
Any of various European and North African herbs, of the genus Medicago, several of which are grown for fodder etc.


lexentry: eng/mediocre__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mediocre
trans_list: mediocris
sense:
Having no peculiar or outstanding features; not extraordinary, special, exceptional, or great; of medium quality, almost always with a negative connotation.


lexentry: eng/mediocrity__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: mediocrity
trans_list: mediocritas
sense:
(uncountable) The condition of being mediocre; having only an average degree of quality, skills etc.; no better than standard.


lexentry: eng/mediterranean_sea__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mediterranean sea
trans_list: Mare Mediterraneum
sense:
(oceanography) A mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans, and where the water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds.


lexentry: eng/medlar__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: medlar
trans_list: mespilum
sense:
Any tree of the genus Mespilus, now Crataegus sect. Mespilus, including many species now in other genera.


lexentry: eng/meerkat__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meerkat
trans_list: suricata
sense:
Suricata suricatta, a small carnivorous mammal of the mongoose family, from the Kalahari Desert, known for its habit of standing on its hind legs.


lexentry: eng/meet__Verb__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: meet
trans_list: coeō | nanciscor | occurrō | satisfacio
sense:
To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.


lexentry: eng/megaphone__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: megaphone
trans_list: megaphonium | megaphonum
sense:
A portable, usually hand-held, funnel-shaped device that is used to amplify a person’s natural voice toward a targeted direction.


lexentry: eng/megrim__Noun__2
sense_num: 01
written_rep: megrim
trans_list: gallus
sense:
A type of flatfish of the genus Lepidorhombus native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean; specifically, the Cornish sole, sail-fluke, or whiff (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis).


lexentry: eng/meiosis__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: meiosis
trans_list: meiosis
sense:
(usually, uncountable, cytology) Cell division of a diploid cell into four haploid cells, which develop to produce gametes.


lexentry: eng/melancholic__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: melancholic
trans_list: melancholicus | maestus
sense:
Filled with or affected by melancholy—great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.


lexentry: eng/melanoma__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: melanoma
trans_list: melanoma
sense:
(oncology, disease) A dark-pigmented, usually malignant tumor arising from a melanocyte and occurring most commonly in the skin.


lexentry: eng/melt__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: melt
trans_list: liquefaciō | liquescō | liquō
sense:
(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.


lexentry: eng/melt__Verb__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: melt
trans_list: liquescō
sense:
(transitive, figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.


lexentry: eng/melting_point__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: melting point
trans_list: punctum liquefactionis
sense:
(chemistry, physics) The temperature at which the solid and liquid phases of a substance are in equilibrium; it is relatively insensitive to changes in pressure.


lexentry: eng/melting_pot__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: melting pot
trans_list: ahenum
sense:
(idiomatic) A place where many divergent things (often races or cultures, but also talents) come together and are homogenized.


lexentry: eng/membrane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: membrane
trans_list: membrāna | membrana
sense:
(anatomy, zootomy) A flexible enclosing or separating tissue forming a plane or film and separating two environments.


lexentry: eng/membrane__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: membrane
trans_list: membrana
sense:
A mechanical, thin, flat flexible part that can deform or vibrate when excited by an external force.


lexentry: eng/meme__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meme
trans_list: mīmēma
sense:
(originally) Any unit of (originally cultural) information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of genes.


lexentry: eng/meme__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: meme
trans_list: mīmēma
sense:
(Internet) Media, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, such as basic pictures, video templates, etc. [from 1993]


lexentry: eng/memoir__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: memoir
trans_list: memoria
sense:
A biography; a book describing the experiences of a subject from personal knowledge of the subject or from sources with personal knowledge of the subject.


lexentry: eng/memorial__Noun__1
sense_num: 06
written_rep: memorial
trans_list: monumentum
sense:
(legal) A statement of facts set out in the form of a petition to a person in authority, a court or tribunal, a government, etc. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/memory__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: memory
trans_list: memoria
sense:
(uncountable) The ability of the brain to record information or impressions with the facility of recalling them later at will.


lexentry: eng/memory__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: memory
trans_list: memoria
sense:
(computing) The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).


lexentry: eng/menagerie__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: menagerie
trans_list: vīvārium
sense:
A collection of live wild animals as an exhibition historically associated with the aristocracy and considered a precursor of modern zoos.


lexentry: eng/meningitis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meningitis
trans_list: meningitis
sense:
(pathology) Inflammation of the meninges, characterized by headache, neck stiffness and photophobia and also fever, chills, vomiting and myalgia.


lexentry: eng/meninx__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meninx
trans_list: meninx
sense:
(anatomy, usually, in the plural) A membrane, especially one of the three membranes lining the skull and vertebral canal and enclosing the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates.


lexentry: eng/meniscus__Noun__1
sense_num: 03
written_rep: meniscus
trans_list: meniscus
sense:
The curved surface of liquids in tubes, whether concave or convex, caused by the surface tension of the liquid. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/meniscus__Noun__1
sense_num: 04
written_rep: meniscus
trans_list: meniscus
sense:
(anatomy) Either of two parts of the human knee that provide structural integrity to the knee when it undergoes tension and torsion. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/menologium__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: menologium
trans_list: menologium | menologio
sense:
A calendar of the days of the month or of all the days of the year divided by month, particularly as a table of information divided in this way and


lexentry: eng/mens_rea__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mens rea
trans_list: dolus
sense:
(legal) A guilty mind, the conscious knowing of a perpetrator while committing an act that the act is illicit.


lexentry: eng/menses__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: menses
trans_list: menstruum
sense:
The discharge of blood mixed with pieces of cellular tissue from the uterus out through the vagina, which occurs roughly every month in uninseminated women; menstrual flow.


lexentry: eng/menstruation__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: menstruation
trans_list: menstrua
sense:
The periodic discharging of the menses, the flow of blood and cells from the lining of the uterus in unfertilized females of humans and other primates.


lexentry: eng/mental__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mental
trans_list: inasnum
sense:
(relational) Of or relating to the mind or specifically the total emotional and intellectual response of an individual to external reality.


lexentry: eng/mentalis__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mentalis
trans_list: musculus mentalis
sense:
(muscle) A paired central muscle of the lower lip, situated at the tip of the chin; it originates in the incisive fossa of the mandible, inserts in the skin of the chin, and raises the chin and pushes up the lower lip.


lexentry: eng/menthol__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: menthol
trans_list: mentholum
sense:
(chemistry) A cyclic monoterpene alcohol; the major component of the essential oil of peppermint; used in pharmaceutical preparations as an antitussive and antipruritic agent, as a nasal decongestant, and in menthol cigarettes.


lexentry: eng/mention__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mention
trans_list: mentiō
sense:
A speaking or notice of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase make mention of.


lexentry: eng/menu__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: menu
trans_list: charta
sense:
A list containing the food and beverages served at a restaurant, café, or bar. Menus may be printed on paper sheets provided to customers, put on a large poster or display board inside the establishment, displayed outside the restaurant, or digital.


lexentry: eng/mercenary__Noun__1
sense_num: 02
written_rep: mercenary
trans_list: mercēnārius
sense:
A person employed to fight in an armed conflict who is not a member of the state or military group for which they are fighting and whose primary motivation is private gain.


lexentry: eng/mercurial__Adjective__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mercurial
trans_list: fluxus
sense:
(comparable) Having a lively or volatile character; animated, changeable, quick-witted. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/mercury__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mercury
trans_list: hydrargyrum | argentum vivum
sense:
(science, historical) One of the elemental principles formerly thought to be present in all metals. [from 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/meridian__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meridian
trans_list: meridianus
sense:
(also, geography) In full terrestrial meridian: a great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles (the terrestrial North Pole and South Pole); also, half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/merlon__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: merlon
trans_list: dens
sense:
(architectural element, military, historical) Any of the upright projections between the embrasures of a battlement, originally for archers to shield behind while shooting arrows over the embrasures, or through loopholes in the merlons.


lexentry: eng/mescaline__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mescaline
trans_list: mescalinum
sense:
(biochemistry) A hallucinogenic and intoxicating compound present in the peyote cactus (Lophophora williamsii), the San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi), and the Peruvian torch (Echinopsis peruviana).


lexentry: eng/mesentery__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mesentery
trans_list: mesenterium
sense:
(anatomy) The membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen, maintaining their position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics.


lexentry: eng/mesh__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mesh
trans_list: aranea
sense:
A structure made of connected strands of metal, fiber, or other flexible/ductile material, with evenly spaced openings between them.


lexentry: eng/mesmerize__Verb__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mesmerize
trans_list: alligare
sense:
To exercise mesmerism on; to affect another person, such as to heal or soothe, through the use of animal magnetism.


lexentry: eng/meso-region__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: meso-region
trans_list: mesorregionis
sense:
An administrative system that is equivalent to a prefecture or a department. It is used in Brazil as a third-level administration between state and micro-region.


lexentry: eng/meson__Noun__2
sense_num: 02
written_rep: meson
trans_list: meson
sense:
(now specifically, particle) An elementary particle that is composed of a quark and an antiquark, such as a kaon or pion. (Mesons composed of rarer quarks are much heavier.)


lexentry: eng/mess__Noun__1
sense_num: 01
written_rep: mess
trans_list: chaos
sense:
A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding.


