# translation

lexentry: eng/externality__Noun__1
written_rep: externality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: esternalità
sense_list:
(economics, countable) An impact, positive or negative, on any party not involved in a given economic transaction or act.


lexentry: eng/extinct__Adjective__1
written_rep: extinct
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estinto
sense_list:
(dated) Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched. | (chiefly, biology) Of an animal or plant species, a class of people, a family, etc.: having died out completely; no longer in existence.


lexentry: eng/extinct__Adjective__1
written_rep: extinct
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: esanime
sense_list:
Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.


lexentry: eng/extinct__Adjective__1
written_rep: extinct
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: morte
sense_list:
(geology) Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.


lexentry: eng/extinct__Verb__1
written_rep: extinct
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: spegnere
sense_list:
(specifically, biology) To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective sense 2.3).


lexentry: eng/extirpate__Verb__1
written_rep: extirpate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: estirpare
sense_list:
(transitive) To pull up by the roots; uproot. | (transitive) To destroy completely; to annihilate, | (transitive) To surgically remove.


lexentry: eng/extort__Verb__1
written_rep: extort
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carpire | estorcere | spillare
sense_list:
(transitive) To take or seize from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity.


lexentry: eng/extra__Adjective__1
written_rep: extra
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: extra
sense_list:
(not comparable) Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; extraneous; additional; supernumerary.


lexentry: eng/extract__Noun__1
written_rep: extract
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: estratto
sense_list:
A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation. | A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue | A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).


lexentry: eng/extract__Verb__1
written_rep: extract
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cavare
sense_list:
(transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.


lexentry: eng/extractor_hood__Noun__1
written_rep: extractor hood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cappa da cucina
sense_list:
(UK) An electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking.


lexentry: eng/extradition__Noun__1
written_rep: extradition
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estradizione
sense_list:
A formal process by which a criminal suspect held by one government or jurisdiction is handed over to another government or jurisdiction for trial or, if the suspect has already been tried and found guilty, to serve his or her sentence.


lexentry: eng/extradotal__Adjective__1
written_rep: extradotal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: extradotale | parafernale
sense_list:
(obsolete, legal) Describing the part of a wife's property that does not form part of her dowry and is administered by her husband


lexentry: eng/extragalactic__Adjective__1
written_rep: extragalactic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: extragalattico | estragalattico
sense_list:
(astronomy) Originating outside of the Milky Way galaxy. | (astronomy) Originating outside of any galaxy. | (science fiction) Originating outside of the local galaxy.


lexentry: eng/extrapolate__Verb__1
written_rep: extrapolate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estrapolare
sense_list:
(transitive) To infer by extending known information. | (transitive, mathematics) To estimate the value of a variable outside a known range from values within that range by assuming that the estimated value follows logically from the known ones


lexentry: eng/extrapolation__Noun__1
written_rep: extrapolation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estrapolazione
sense_list:
(mathematics) A calculation of an estimate of the value of some function outside the range of known values. | An inference about some hypothetical situation based on known facts.


lexentry: eng/extraterrestrial__Adjective__1
written_rep: extraterrestrial
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: extraterrestre
sense_list:
Originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; alien to Earth or its environment.


lexentry: eng/extraterrestrial__Noun__1
written_rep: extraterrestrial
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: extraterrestre
sense_list:
A being originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; an alien.


lexentry: eng/extraterritoriality__Noun__1
written_rep: extraterritoriality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: extraterritorialità
sense_list:
(legal, uncountable) Immunity from the local laws of a certain area, especially due to diplomatic negotiation.


lexentry: eng/extreme__Adjective__1
written_rep: extreme
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estremo
sense_list:
Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost. | In the greatest or highest degree; intense. | Excessive, or far beyond the norm. | Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.


lexentry: eng/extreme__Noun__1
written_rep: extreme
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estremo
sense_list:
The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition. | Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.


lexentry: eng/extreme_sport__Noun__1
written_rep: extreme sport
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sport estremo
sense_list:
Any sport taking place at potentially dangerous speeds or heights, or involving a high level of physical exertion, highly specialized gear, or spectacular stunts.


lexentry: eng/extremist__Noun__1
written_rep: extremist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estremista | oltranzista
sense_list:
(political) A person who holds extreme views, especially one who advocates such views; a radical or fanatic.


lexentry: eng/extremity__Noun__1
written_rep: extremity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estremità
sense_list:
The most extreme or furthest point of something. [from c. 1400] | A hand or foot. [from early 15th c.]


lexentry: eng/extremophile__Noun__1
written_rep: extremophile
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estremofilo
sense_list:
(ecology) An organism that lives under extreme conditions of temperature, salinity etc; commercially important as a source of enzymes that operate under similar conditions.


lexentry: eng/extroversion__Noun__1
written_rep: extroversion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estroversione
sense_list:
(informal, _, psychology) A personality orientation towards others and things outside oneself; behavior expressing such orientation. | The state or quality of being extroverted or an extrovert, particularly:


lexentry: eng/extroverted__Adjective__1
written_rep: extroverted
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estroverso
sense_list:
(informal, _, psychology) Of or characteristic of the personality of an extrovert: outgoing, sociable.


lexentry: eng/extrude__Verb__1
written_rep: extrude
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: abbracciare
sense_list:
To push or thrust out. | (transitive) To form or shape (a metal, plastic etc.) by forcing it through a die or an opening.


lexentry: eng/extrusion__Noun__1
written_rep: extrusion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estrusione
sense_list:
A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.


lexentry: eng/exuberant__Adjective__1
written_rep: exuberant
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: esuberante
sense_list:
(of people) Very cheery and peppy; extremely cheerful, energetic and enthusiastic. | (literary, of things that grow) Abundant, luxuriant.


lexentry: eng/exudate__Noun__1
written_rep: exudate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: essudato
sense_list:
A fluid that has exuded from somewhere; especially one that has exuded from a pore of an animal or plant.


lexentry: eng/exude__Verb__1
written_rep: exude
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: trasudare
sense_list:
(transitive) To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out.


lexentry: eng/exuviate__Verb__1
written_rep: exuviate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cambiare
sense_list:
(ambitransitive, rare) To shed or cast off a covering, especially a skin; to slough; to molt (moult).


lexentry: eng/eyas__Noun__1
written_rep: eyas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falconetto
sense_list:
A young hawk or falcon in the nest, or that has not yet fledged, especially one that will be trained for falconry.


lexentry: eng/eye__Noun__1
written_rep: eye
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: occhio
sense_list:
An organ through which animals see. | The ability to notice what others might miss. | A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin, rope, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone. | A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.


lexentry: eng/eye__Noun__1
written_rep: eye
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: cruna | occhio
sense_list:
A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed. | One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.


lexentry: eng/eye__Noun__1
written_rep: eye
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 10
trans_list: occhiello
sense_list:
A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.


lexentry: eng/eye_dialect__Noun__1
written_rep: eye dialect
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lingua parlata
sense_list:
(uncountable) Nonstandard spellings which, although they indicate a standard pronunciation, are deliberately substituted in place of the standard spellings, often to indicate that a speaker's regular use of language is nonstandard or dialectal.


lexentry: eng/eye_for_an_eye__Noun__1
written_rep: eye for an eye
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: occhio per occhio
sense_list:
(idiom) Compensation for injury caused by a person, in the form of inflicting an identical injury on that person.


lexentry: eng/eye_patch__Noun__1
written_rep: eye patch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: occlusore
sense_list:
An opaque patch worn so as to cover an injured or infected eye or an eye socket in order to protect or conceal it, or to treat amblyopia in children.


lexentry: eng/eye_socket__Noun__1
written_rep: eye socket
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: orbita
sense_list:
(anatomy, ophthalmology) The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit.


lexentry: eng/eyebright__Noun__1
written_rep: eyebright
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: euphrasia
sense_list:
Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/eyelet__Noun__1
written_rep: eyelet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: occhiello
sense_list:
An object that consists of a rim and small hole or perforation to receive a cord or fastener, as in garments, sails, etc. An eyelet may reinforce a hole.


lexentry: eng/eyepiece__Noun__1
written_rep: eyepiece
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: oculare
sense_list:
The lens (or the component containing a combination of lenses) at the eye end of a microscope or telescope by which the image is viewed.


lexentry: eng/eyeshade__Noun__1
written_rep: eyeshade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: paraocchio
sense_list:
(countable) A type of headgear for shielding the eyes from glaring light, usually consisting of a visor and a headband, more popular among indoor workers in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries than today. | (not countable) A cosmetic product which may be applied to the upper eyelid and to the area near the eye to change skin coloration.


lexentry: eng/f-hole__Noun__1
written_rep: f-hole
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: foro di risonanza
sense_list:
(musical instruments) A sound hole, shaped like a lowercase f, through the top surface of a string instrument.


lexentry: eng/fa__Noun__1
written_rep: fa
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fa
sense_list:
(music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the fourth diatonic (or sixth chromatic) note of a major scale.


lexentry: eng/fable__Noun__1
written_rep: fable
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fiaba | favola
sense_list:
A fictitious narrative intended to enforce some useful truth or precept, usually with animals, etc. as characters; an apologue. Prototypically, Aesop's Fables.


lexentry: eng/fabliau__Noun__1
written_rep: fabliau
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fabliau
sense_list:
A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.


lexentry: eng/fabric_softener__Noun__1
written_rep: fabric softener
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ammorbidente
sense_list:
A chemical agent used to prevent static cling and make fabric softer by coating the surface of the cloth fibers with a thin layer of chemicals; these chemicals have lubricant properties and are electrically conductive, thus making the fibers feel smoother and preventing buildup of static electricity; usually available as a liquid or as dryer sheets.


lexentry: eng/fabulous__Adjective__1
written_rep: fabulous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: favoloso
sense_list:
Of or relating to fable, myth or legend. | Characteristic of fables; marvelous, extraordinary, incredible. | (slang) Very good; outstanding, wonderful.


lexentry: eng/facade__Noun__1
written_rep: facade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: facciata
sense_list:
(figuratively) A deceptive or insincere outward appearance. | (programming) An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.


lexentry: eng/facade_pattern__Noun__1
written_rep: facade pattern
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: facciata
sense_list:
(software, object-oriented) A structural design pattern that provides an object that is a simplified interface to a larger body of code, such as a class library.


lexentry: eng/face__Noun__1
written_rep: face
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: faccia | viso | volto
sense_list:
(anatomy) The front part of the head of a human or other animal, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the surrounding area.


lexentry: eng/face__Noun__1
written_rep: face
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: faccia
sense_list:
(in expressions such as 'make a face') A distorted facial expression; an expression of displeasure, insult, etc. | (geometry) Any of the flat bounding surfaces of a polyhedron; more generally, any of the bounding pieces of a polytope of any dimension.


lexentry: eng/face__Verb__1
written_rep: face
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fronteggiare | posizionarsi | posizionarsi verso | rivolgersi | volgersi
sense_list:
(transitive, of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something).


lexentry: eng/face__Verb__1
written_rep: face
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: affrontare | confrontarsi | fronteggiare | porre mano | risolvere | sistemare
sense_list:
(transitive) To deal with (a difficult situation or person); to accept (facts, reality, etc.) even when undesirable.


lexentry: eng/face_card__Noun__1
written_rep: face card
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pittore
sense_list:
(US, cards) A playing card with a face, properly a jack, queen, or king but (inexact, sometimes, _, proscribed) sometimes also an ace or joker.


lexentry: eng/facekini__Noun__1
written_rep: facekini
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: face-kini
sense_list:
A balaclava-like swimwear face mask which completely covers the face except for holes for the eyes, nose, and mouth, worn as protection from sun and irritants.


lexentry: eng/facemask__Noun__1
written_rep: facemask
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: maschera
sense_list:
A covering used to protect or disguise the face. | A mask made of common textiles worn over the mouth and nose, such as a bandana, handkerchief, or scarf.


lexentry: eng/facemask__Noun__1
written_rep: facemask
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: cofano
sense_list:
(American football, Canadian football) The part of the helmet that directly covers the face, made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars.


lexentry: eng/facepalm__Verb__1
written_rep: facepalm
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: portare il palmo della mano al volto
sense_list:
To bring the palm of one’s hand to one’s face as an expression of mixed humor and disbelief, disgust or shame; for example, when one is caught off-guard with a particularly bad pun.


lexentry: eng/facetious__Adjective__1
written_rep: facetious
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: faceto
sense_list:
Treating serious issues with (often deliberately) inappropriate humour; flippant. | Pleasantly humorous; jocular.


lexentry: eng/facial_expression__Noun__1
written_rep: facial expression
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: espressione facciale
sense_list:
The expression or countenance that seems to an onlooker to be represented by the appearance of a person or animal's face, resulting from specific use of that person's facial muscles.


lexentry: eng/facilitator__Noun__1
written_rep: facilitator
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: mediatore
sense_list:
A person who helps a group to have an effective dialog without taking any side of the argument, especially in order to reach a consensus.


lexentry: eng/facsimile__Noun__1
written_rep: facsimile
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: fax
sense_list:
A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network. | The image sent by the machine itself.


lexentry: eng/fact__Noun__1
written_rep: fact
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fatto
sense_list:
Something which is real. | Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation. | An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of experts. | (databases) An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.


lexentry: eng/facticity__Noun__1
written_rep: facticity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fatticità
sense_list:
(uncountable) The quality or state of being a fact. | (uncountable, specifically, philosophy) In existentialism, the state of being in the world without any knowable reason for such existence, or of being in a particular state of affairs which one has no control over.


lexentry: eng/faction__Noun__1
written_rep: faction
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fazione
sense_list:
(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.


lexentry: eng/factor__Noun__1
written_rep: factor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fattore
sense_list:
(obsolete) A doer, maker; a person who does things for another person or organization. | An agent or representative. | (legal) | A business organization that lends money on accounts receivable or buys and collects accounts receivable. | A commission agent. | A person or business organization that provides money for another's new business venture; one who finances another's business. | One of the elements, circumstances, or influences which contribute to produce a result. | (mathematics) Any of various objects multiplied together to form some whole. | (causal analysis) Influence; a phenomenon that affects the nature, the magnitude, and/or the timing of a consequence. | (economics) A resource used in the production of goods or services, a factor of production. | (Scotland) A steward or bailiff of an estate.


lexentry: eng/factor__Verb__1
written_rep: factor
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fattorizzare
sense_list:
(transitive) To find all the factors of (a number or other mathematical object) (the objects that divide it evenly).


lexentry: eng/factorial__Noun__1
written_rep: factorial
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fattoriale
sense_list:
(mathematics, combinatorics) The result of multiplying a given number of consecutive integers from 1 to the given number. In equations, it is symbolized by an exclamation mark (!). For example, 5! = 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 = 120.


lexentry: eng/factoring__Noun__1
written_rep: factoring
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: factoring
sense_list:
A financial transaction whereby a business sells its accounts receivable to a third party (called a factor) at a discount.


lexentry: eng/factorize__Verb__1
written_rep: factorize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fattorizzare
sense_list:
(mathematics, transitive) To create a list of the factors of. | (mathematics, transitive) To divide an expression into a list of items that, when multiplied together, will produce the original quantity.


lexentry: eng/factory_farming__Noun__1
written_rep: factory farming
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: allevamento intensivo
sense_list:
(pejorative) A type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry, designed to maximize production while minimizing costs.


lexentry: eng/fade__Noun__1
written_rep: fade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: assolvenza
sense_list:
(music, cinematography) A gradual decrease in the brightness of a shot or the volume of sound or music (as a means of cutting to a new scene or starting a new song).


lexentry: eng/fade__Verb__1
written_rep: fade
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: sbiadire
sense_list:
(intransitive) To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant.


lexentry: eng/faff__Noun__1
written_rep: faff
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sciocchezza
sense_list:
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang) An overcomplicated task, especially one perceived as a waste of time.


lexentry: eng/fag__Noun__3
written_rep: fag
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frocio | finocchio | ricchione | rottinculo
sense_list:
(chiefly, US, Canada, vulgar, usually, _, offensive) A homosexual man, especially (usually, _, derogatory) an effeminate or unusual one.


lexentry: eng/faggotry__Noun__1
written_rep: faggotry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frociaggine
sense_list:
(offensive, pejorative, derogatory, vulgar, slang) The stereotypical behaviours of a faggot (male homosexual) or homosexuality in general.


lexentry: eng/faience__Noun__1
written_rep: faience
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: faenza
sense_list:
A type of tin-glazed earthenware ceramic, used domestically for tableware and in architecture as a decorative material.


lexentry: eng/fail__Verb__1
written_rep: fail
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fallire | cannare | fare cilecca | toppare
sense_list:
(transitive) Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.)


lexentry: eng/fail__Verb__1
written_rep: fail
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: fallire | andare in bancarotta | fare bancarotta | ignorare | mancare | negligere
sense_list:
(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.


lexentry: eng/fail__Verb__1
written_rep: fail
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: ignorare | mancare | negligere | omettere | tralasciare
sense_list:
To be wanting; to fall short; to be or become deficient in any measure or degree up to total absence. | (archaic) To be affected with want; to come short; to lack; to be deficient or unprovided; used with of.


lexentry: eng/failed_state__Noun__1
written_rep: failed state
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stato fallito
sense_list:
(politics) A state that has failed to meet the basic conditions and responsibilities of a sovereign government; one that has lost physical control of its territory, the ability to provide public services, etc.


lexentry: eng/fain__Verb__1
written_rep: fain
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: festeggiare
sense_list:
(Germanic paganism) To celebrate or worship; specifically, to offer an oblation which is not a sacrificial blót.


lexentry: eng/faint__Verb__1
written_rep: faint
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: svenire
sense_list:
(intransitive) To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). | (intransitive) To decay; to disappear; to vanish.


lexentry: eng/fair's_fair__Phrase__1
written_rep: fair's fair
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ciò che è giusto è giusto
sense_list:
An expression used when asking for fair or just treatment, or when asserting that a situation is fair.


lexentry: eng/fair-haired_boy__Noun__1
written_rep: fair-haired boy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: beniamino
sense_list:
(idiomatic, US, Australia) Someone's favorite, especially a young one; a blue-eyed boy (British), (Australian)


lexentry: eng/fair-weather_friend__Noun__1
written_rep: fair-weather friend
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: amico di comdo | amico per convenienza
sense_list:
(idiomatic) One who is friendly, helpful, or available only when it is advantageous or convenient to be so. [from early 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/fair__Adjective__1
written_rep: fair
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: biondo | chiaro
sense_list:
Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond and red hair.


lexentry: eng/fair__Adjective__1
written_rep: fair
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: sereno
sense_list:
(shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.


lexentry: eng/fair__Noun__2
written_rep: fair
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fiera
sense_list:
A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements. | An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.


lexentry: eng/fair_enough__Interjection__1
written_rep: fair enough
part_of_speech: interjection
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: d'accordo | e sia | va beh
sense_list:
(idiomatic) An expression used to concede a point; denotes that, upon consideration, something is correct or reasonable; an expression of acknowledgment or understanding. | Used to stop somebody talking or an argument.


lexentry: eng/fair_trade__Noun__1
written_rep: fair trade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: equocommercio
sense_list:
(uncountable) A system of trading promoting more equitable global trade, especially to sellers and producers in poorer areas, but also to the environment.


lexentry: eng/fairground__Noun__1
written_rep: fairground
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fiera
sense_list:
An area where a fair (an event for public entertainment) or other public event is held; a showground.


lexentry: eng/fairing__Noun__2
written_rep: fairing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carenatura
sense_list:
A structure on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag. [from 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/fairlead__Noun__1
written_rep: fairlead
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: passacavo
sense_list:
(nautical) A device to guide a line, rope or cable around an object or out of the way, or to stop it from moving laterally


lexentry: eng/fairleader__Noun__1
written_rep: fairleader
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carrucola per deviare
sense_list:
(nautical) A fitting used to guide a line, cable or sheet with minimal friction. Used for anchor lines, and for rigging on sailing ships.


lexentry: eng/fairy__Noun__1
written_rep: fairy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fata | foletta | foletto | folletta | folletto
sense_list:
(mythological creature) A mythical being of human form with magical powers, known in many sizes and descriptions, although often depicted in modern illustrations only as a small sprite with gauze-like wings, especially one that is female. Fairies are revered in some modern forms of paganism.


lexentry: eng/fairy_godmother__Noun__1
written_rep: fairy godmother
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fata madrina
sense_list:
In certain fairy tales, a fictional benevolent woman with magical powers who uses them to help the cause of the protagonist.


lexentry: eng/fairy_ring__Noun__1
written_rep: fairy ring
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cerchio delle streghe
sense_list:
(mycology, botany) A ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium.


lexentry: eng/fairywren__Noun__1
written_rep: fairywren
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scricciolo fatato
sense_list:
Any of the small passerine birds of the tribe Malurini in the family Maluridae of Australasian wrens.


lexentry: eng/faith__Noun__1
written_rep: faith
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fede | fiducia
sense_list:
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence. | A religious or spiritual belief system. | (obsolete) Credibility or truth.


lexentry: eng/faith_will_move_mountains__Proverb__1
written_rep: faith will move mountains
part_of_speech: proverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: la fede sposta le montagne
sense_list:
Belief in oneself (read sometimes as belief in God) can help one overcome any hurdle in life's path.


lexentry: eng/fajita__Noun__1
written_rep: fajita
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fajita
sense_list:
A Tex-Mex dish of strips of spicy marinated meat and/or vegetables in a soft flour tortilla, often served with salad or a savoury filling.


lexentry: eng/fake__Noun__2
written_rep: fake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: duglia
sense_list:
(nautical) One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.


lexentry: eng/fake__Verb__2
written_rep: fake
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dugliare
sense_list:
(nautical) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form, to prevent twisting when running out.


lexentry: eng/fakir__Noun__1
written_rep: fakir
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fachiro
sense_list:
(Hinduism, more, _, loosely) An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.


lexentry: eng/falafel__Noun__1
written_rep: falafel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falafel | felafel
sense_list:
(uncountable) A Middle Eastern food in the form of balls made from chickpeas or broad beans and other ingredients, often served in a pita. | (countable) A single falafel ball.


lexentry: eng/falchion__Noun__1
written_rep: falchion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falcione
sense_list:
(also, attributively) A somewhat curved, single-edged medieval sword of European origin, with the cutting edge on its convex side, whose design is reminiscent of the Persian scimitar and the Chinese dao.


lexentry: eng/falconer__Noun__1
written_rep: falconer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falconiere
sense_list:
A person who breeds or trains hawks or other birds of prey for taking birds or game. | One who follows the sport of fowling with hawks.


lexentry: eng/falconet__Noun__1
written_rep: falconet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falchetto
sense_list:
A small or young falcon. | Any of various small, tropical Asian falcons of the genus Microhierax found in Southeast Asia.


lexentry: eng/fall__Noun__1
written_rep: fall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caduta
sense_list:
The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity. | (chiefly, North America, archaic in Britain) The time of the year when the leaves typically fall from the trees; autumn; the season of the year between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/fall__Verb__1
written_rep: fall
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: deporre | rovesciare
sense_list:
(intransitive, obsolete) To issue forth into life; to be brought forth; said of the young of certain animals.


lexentry: eng/fall__Verb__1
written_rep: fall
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: cadere | divenire | diventare
sense_list:
(intransitive) To descend in character or reputation; to become degraded; to sink into vice, error, or sin.


lexentry: eng/fall_by_the_wayside__Verb__1
written_rep: fall by the wayside
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: arenarsi | cadere nel dimenticatoio | fallire
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To fail to be completed, particularly for lack of interest; to be left out, to suffer from neglect.


lexentry: eng/fall_from_grace__Verb__1
written_rep: fall from grace
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cadere in disgrazia
sense_list:
(figuratively, idiomatic) To fall from one's current social position to something lower, to lose one's prestige, status or power.


lexentry: eng/fall_in_love__Verb__1
written_rep: fall in love
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: innamorarsi
sense_list:
(intransitive, of a person, animate object following “with”) To come to have feelings of love, particularly romantic love. | (intransitive, reciprocal) To come to have feelings of love towards each other. | (intransitive, of a person, inanimate object following "with") To come to have feelings of intense liking directed at another person or a thing.


lexentry: eng/fall_off__Verb__1
written_rep: fall off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cadere
sense_list:
(transitive, and, intransitive) To become detached or to drop from. | (intransitive) To diminish in size, value, etc.


lexentry: eng/fall_over__Verb__1
written_rep: fall over
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cadere
sense_list:
(intransitive, idiomatic) To fall from an upright or standing position to a horizontal or prone position.


lexentry: eng/fallacy__Noun__1
written_rep: fallacy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fallacia
sense_list:
(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a specious argument.


lexentry: eng/fallback__Noun__1
written_rep: fallback
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: ripiego
sense_list:
A backup plan or contingency strategy; an alternative which can be used if something goes wrong with the main plan; a recourse.


lexentry: eng/fallen__Adjective__1
written_rep: fallen
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: compiacersi
sense_list:
Having dropped by the force of gravity. | Killed, especially in battle. | Having lost one's chastity.


lexentry: eng/fallout__Noun__1
written_rep: fallout
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pioggia
sense_list:
The event of small airborne particles falling to the ground in significant quantities as a result of major industrial activity, volcano eruption, sandstorm, nuclear explosion, etc.


lexentry: eng/false_alarm__Noun__1
written_rep: false alarm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: falso allarme
sense_list:
(archaic, idiomatic) A person who pretends to be more accomplished or a thing that seems to be of higher quality than is later found to be the case.


lexentry: eng/false_bottom__Noun__1
written_rep: false bottom
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: doppio fondo
sense_list:
An internal partition in a container, typically at the bottom, enabling the concealment of objects from a cursory examination of the item's contents.


lexentry: eng/false_dawn__Noun__1
written_rep: false dawn
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: luce zodiacale
sense_list:
A thin ambient light which precedes true dawn, typically by around an hour, in certain parts of the world.


lexentry: eng/false_dichotomy__Noun__1
written_rep: false dichotomy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: falsa dicotomia
sense_list:
(rhetoric) A situation in which two alternative points of view are presented as the only options, when others are available.


lexentry: eng/false_friend__Noun__1
written_rep: false friend
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falso amico
sense_list:
(linguistics, translation studies, lexicography) A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning.


lexentry: eng/false_imprisonment__Noun__1
written_rep: false imprisonment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sequestrazione
sense_list:
(legal) The intentional restriction of a person's movement within any area without legal authority, justification, or the restrained person's permission.


lexentry: eng/false_vacuum__Noun__1
written_rep: false vacuum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falso vuoto
sense_list:
(physics, quantum field theory) A (hypothetical) metastable vacuum whose energy state is at a local minimum different from the global minimum; a vacuum that is relatively stable and long-lived but which still may decay to a lower-energy state.


lexentry: eng/falsetto__Noun__1
written_rep: falsetto
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falsetto
sense_list:
(singing, uncountable) The "false" (singing) voice in any human, usually airy and lacking a purity of vowels; created by using the next highest vocal folds above those used for speech and normal range singing. It is commonly confused with the head voice register.


lexentry: eng/falsework__Noun__1
written_rep: falsework
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: centina
sense_list:
(engineering) A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to support itself.


lexentry: eng/falsifiable__Adjective__1
written_rep: falsifiable
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: falsificabile
sense_list:
Capable of being faked or forged. | (epistemology) The demarcation criterion between scientific and non-scientific statements proposed by Karl Popper. In order to be ranked as scientific, statements or systems of statements must be contradicted by an intersubjective singular existential statement, also called a basic statement, and not be contradicted by another, that is, they must also be logically possible.


lexentry: eng/falsification__Noun__1
written_rep: falsification
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: contraffare
sense_list:
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.


lexentry: eng/falsificationism__Noun__1
written_rep: falsificationism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fallibilismo
sense_list:
(epistemology) A scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific; if a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.


lexentry: eng/falsity__Noun__1
written_rep: falsity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falsità
sense_list:
(countable) Something that is false; an untrue assertion. | (uncountable) The characteristic of being untrue.


lexentry: eng/familiarity__Noun__1
written_rep: familiarity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: fiducia
sense_list:
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.


lexentry: eng/familiarity_breeds_contempt__Proverb__1
written_rep: familiarity breeds contempt
part_of_speech: proverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: confidenza toglie riverenza
sense_list:
The more acquainted one becomes with a person, the more one knows about his or her shortcomings and, hence, the easier it becomes to dislike that person.


lexentry: eng/familiarly__Adverb__1
written_rep: familiarly
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: familiarmente
sense_list:
in a casual or informal manner, as with a close acquaintance; especially when such behavior may be considered inappropriate. | in a manner expressing comprehensive or intimate knowledge | in a manner prompting recognition or recollection


lexentry: eng/family__Noun__1
written_rep: family
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: famiglia
sense_list:
(countable) A nuclear family: a mother and father who are married and cohabiting and their child or children. | (countable) A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together. | (countable, biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank. | (countable, music) A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production. | (countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.


lexentry: eng/family_tree__Noun__1
written_rep: family tree
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: albero genealogico
sense_list:
(horticulture) A grafting technique involving the joining of different varieties of plants onto a single tree or plant.


lexentry: eng/famous_for_being_famous__Adjective__1
written_rep: famous for being famous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: famoso per essere famoso
sense_list:
(pejorative) Having attained celebrity status for no distinguished reason; appearing to generate their own fame, or well-known only through association with an existing celebrity, as opposed to fame based on achievements, skill, or talent.


lexentry: eng/fan__Noun__1
written_rep: fan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ventaglio
sense_list:
A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of material, gathered together at one end, that may be opened out into the shape of a sector of a circle and waved back and forth in order to move air towards oneself and cool oneself. | Anything resembling a hand-held fan in shape, e.g., a peacock’s tail.


lexentry: eng/fan__Noun__2
written_rep: fan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tifoso | tifo
sense_list:
A person who is fond of something or someone, especially an admirer of a performer or aficionado of a sport.


lexentry: eng/fanboy__Noun__1
written_rep: fanboy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: discepolo
sense_list:
(fandom, often, derogatory) A male fan who is obsessive about a particular subject (especially, something or someone in popular entertainment media).


lexentry: eng/fancy__Verb__1
written_rep: fancy
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: piacere | agognare | anelare | bramare | desiderare | immaginare
sense_list:
To have a fancy for; to like; to be pleased with, particularly on account of external appearance or manners.


lexentry: eng/fandango__Noun__1
written_rep: fandango
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fandango
sense_list:
(music, dance) A form of lively flamenco music and dance that has many regional variations (e.g. fandango de Huelva), some of which have their own names (e.g. malagueña, granadina). [from mid 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/fanfare__Noun__1
written_rep: fanfare
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fanfara
sense_list:
(countable) A flourish of trumpets or horns as to announce; a short and lively air performed on hunting horns during the chase.


lexentry: eng/fanny_pack__Noun__1
written_rep: fanny pack
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: marsupio
sense_list:
(North America) A small fabric pouch secured with a zipper and worn at the waist by a strap around the hips.


lexentry: eng/fanslation__Noun__1
written_rep: fanslation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: informalità
sense_list:
(slang) An unofficial translation of the dialogue or text of a media product (such as a manga, television programme, or video game) from one language to another which is done by fans rather than by its producer.


lexentry: eng/fantasia__Noun__1
written_rep: fantasia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fantasia
sense_list:
(music, also, figurative) A form of instrumental composition with a free structure and improvisational characteristics; specifically, one combining a number of well-known musical pieces. [from early 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/fantasy__Noun__1
written_rep: fantasy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fantasy | fantasia
sense_list:
(literature) The literary genre generally dealing with themes of magic and the supernatural, imaginary worlds and creatures, etc.


lexentry: eng/farad__Noun__1
written_rep: farad
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: farad
sense_list:
In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electrical capacitance; the capacitance of a capacitor in which one coulomb of charge causes a potential difference of one volt across the capacitor. Symbol: F


lexentry: eng/farce__Noun__1
written_rep: farce
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: farsa
sense_list:
(countable) A motion picture or play featuring this style of humor. | (uncountable) A situation abounding with ludicrous incidents. | (uncountable) A ridiculous or empty show.


lexentry: eng/farewell__Noun__1
written_rep: farewell
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: addio
sense_list:
A wish of happiness or safety at parting, especially a permanent departure. | A departure; the act of leaving.


lexentry: eng/farina__Noun__1
written_rep: farina
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: manna
sense_list:
A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.


lexentry: eng/farm__Noun__1
written_rep: farm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fattoria | podere
sense_list:
A place where agricultural and similar activities take place, especially the growing of crops or the raising of livestock.


lexentry: eng/farmer__Noun__1
written_rep: farmer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: agricoltore | contadino | fattore | contadina | fattoressa | agricoltrice
sense_list:
A person who works the land and/or who keeps livestock; anyone engaged in agriculture on a farm#Noun.


lexentry: eng/farmhouse__Noun__1
written_rep: farmhouse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: casa colonica | casale | casolare
sense_list:
A house that was once a farmer's residence albeit today lived in by residents whose occupation is not farming.


lexentry: eng/faro__Noun__1
written_rep: faro
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: faraone
sense_list:
(card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.


lexentry: eng/farrier__Noun__1
written_rep: farrier
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: maniscalco | fabbro ferraio | magnano | maniscalca
sense_list:
A person who maintains the health and balance of horses' feet through the trimming of the hoofs and fitting of horseshoes.


lexentry: eng/farthingale__Noun__1
written_rep: farthingale
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: crinolina
sense_list:
(historical) A hooped structure in cloth worn to extend the skirt of women's dresses; a hooped petticoat.


lexentry: eng/fasces__Noun__1
written_rep: fasces
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fascio | fascio littorio
sense_list:
A Roman symbol of judicial authority consisting of a bundle of wooden sticks, with an axe blade embedded in the centre; used also as a symbol of fascism.


lexentry: eng/fascia__Noun__1
written_rep: fascia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: banda
sense_list:
(architectural element) A flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands that make up the architrave, in the Ionic order.


lexentry: eng/fasciculation__Noun__1
written_rep: fasciculation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fascicolazione
sense_list:
(anatomy, muscles) (toxicology, venoms) An involuntary muscle twitch, usually localised and temporary, but that may be intensified and prolonged fatally by particular poisons and venoms such as acetylcholinesterase inhibitors.


lexentry: eng/fascinate__Verb__1
written_rep: fascinate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: affascinare
sense_list:
To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone. | To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind. | To be irresistibly charming or attractive to.


lexentry: eng/fascine__Noun__1
written_rep: fascine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fascina
sense_list:
(specifically, military, _, fortification) A similar bundle of sticks of wood or plastic pipes used for filling in ditches for armoured fighting vehicles to drive over, and for making parapets, raising batteries, and strengthening ramparts.


lexentry: eng/fascine_knife__Noun__1
written_rep: fascine knife
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: machete
sense_list:
(historical, military) A large, heavy knife or short sword used as a sidearm and tool by 17th to 19th century infantry and artillery.


lexentry: eng/fascism__Noun__1
written_rep: fascism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fascismo
sense_list:
Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition. [1922] | (by extension, derogatory) Any system of strong autocracy or oligarchy usually to the extent of bending and breaking the law, race-baiting, and/or violence against largely unarmed populations.


lexentry: eng/fashion__Noun__1
written_rep: fashion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: moda | voga
sense_list:
(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.


lexentry: eng/fashion__Noun__1
written_rep: fashion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: tendenza | moda
sense_list:
(uncountable) Popular trends, especially in clothing; the industry that designs clothing and sometimes other related items.


lexentry: eng/fast__Adjective__1
written_rep: fast
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: resistente
sense_list:
(of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/fastener__Noun__1
written_rep: fastener
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiusura
sense_list:
Something or someone that fastens. | Mechanically, any device that fastens; especially, a collective term for items such as screws, nuts, washers, clasps, bolts and the like.


lexentry: eng/faster-than-light__Adjective__1
written_rep: faster-than-light
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: superluminale
sense_list:
(physics) Faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, the theoretical speed limit for travel within the universe.


lexentry: eng/fastidious__Adjective__1
written_rep: fastidious
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pignolo | meticoloso
sense_list:
Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.


lexentry: eng/fasting__Noun__1
written_rep: fasting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: digiuno
sense_list:
Abstinence or mortification for religious reasons, especially abstinence from food. | Abstinence from food, limiting caloric intake, for medical or health reasons, dieting.


lexentry: eng/fat__Noun__1
written_rep: fat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: grasso
sense_list:
(uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue. | (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.


lexentry: eng/fat_cat__Noun__1
written_rep: fat cat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: profittatore | sfruttatore
sense_list:
(slang, derogatory) Any affluent person who is perceived to have profited from the labor of others; and/or not to care about those of lesser means.


lexentry: eng/fatal__Adjective__1
written_rep: fatal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fatale
sense_list:
(rare, archaic) Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny. | (rare, archaic) Foreboding death or great disaster. | Causing death or destruction.


lexentry: eng/fatalism__Noun__1
written_rep: fatalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fatalismo
sense_list:
(metaphysics, philosophy) The doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable necessity, or determined in advance in such a way that human beings cannot alter them.


lexentry: eng/fatalist__Noun__1
written_rep: fatalist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fatalista
sense_list:
One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.


lexentry: eng/fatality__Noun__1
written_rep: fatality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: destino
sense_list:
The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.] | That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.] | Death.


lexentry: eng/fate__Noun__1
written_rep: fate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: destino | fato | sorte
sense_list:
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc. | (mythology) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).


lexentry: eng/father-to-be__Noun__1
written_rep: father-to-be
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: futuro
sense_list:
A male partner of a pregnant woman (mother-to-be), especially when she is pregnant for the first time.


lexentry: eng/father__Noun__1
written_rep: father
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: padre | babbo | papà
sense_list:
A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).


lexentry: eng/father_figure__Noun__1
written_rep: father figure
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: autorità
sense_list:
One who represents, behaves as, or is regarded as equivalent to a father for another person or group of people.


lexentry: eng/fathom__Noun__1
written_rep: fathom
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: braccio
sense_list:
(chiefly, nautical, historical, US) A man's armspan, generally reckoned to be six feet (about 1.8 metres). Later used to measure the depth of water, but now generally replaced by the metre outside American usage.


lexentry: eng/fathom__Verb__1
written_rep: fathom
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capire | comprendere
sense_list:
(archaic, or, obsolete) To encircle (someone or something) with outstretched arms; specifically, to measure the circumference or (rare) length of something. | (figurative) Often followed by out: to deeply understand (someone or something); to get to the bottom of.


lexentry: eng/fatigue__Noun__1
written_rep: fatigue
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: fatica | logorio | usura
sense_list:
(engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.


lexentry: eng/fatty_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: fatty acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: acido grasso
sense_list:
(organic chemistry, biochemistry) Any of a class of aliphatic carboxylic acids, of general formula CnH2n+1COOH, that occur combined with glycerol as animal or vegetable oils and fats. Only those with an even number of carbon atoms are normally found in natural fats.


lexentry: eng/fatwa__Noun__1
written_rep: fatwa
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fatwa
sense_list:
(religion, by extension) A formal decree or ruling, or statement, issued by an authority of a religion other than Islam.


lexentry: eng/faubourg__Noun__1
written_rep: faubourg
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sobborghi
sense_list:
An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris, New Orleans, Montreal, or Quebec City.


lexentry: eng/fauces__Noun__1
written_rep: fauces
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: faringe
sense_list:
(anatomy) The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue.


lexentry: eng/faun__Noun__1
written_rep: faun
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fauno | semicapro
sense_list:
(Roman mythology) A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.


lexentry: eng/fauna__Noun__1
written_rep: fauna
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fauna
sense_list:
(uncountable) Animals considered as a group; especially those of a particular country, region, time. [from late 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/fauvism__Noun__1
written_rep: fauvism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fauvismo
sense_list:
An artistic movement of the first decade of the 20th century which emphasized spontaneity and the use of extremely bright colors. [from 1905]


lexentry: eng/favor__Noun__1
written_rep: favor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: favore
sense_list:
A kind or helpful deed; an instance of voluntarily assisting (someone). | Goodwill; benevolent regard.


lexentry: eng/favourable__Adjective__1
written_rep: favourable
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: favorevole
sense_list:
Pleasing, encouraging or approving. | Useful or helpful. | Convenient or at a suitable time; opportune. | Auspicious or lucky.


lexentry: eng/favourite__Noun__1
written_rep: favourite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: favorito
sense_list:
A person or thing who enjoys special regard or favour. | A contestant or competitor thought most likely to win.


lexentry: eng/fawn__Verb__2
written_rep: fawn
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: fare le feste | scodinzolare
sense_list:
(intransitive, of a dog) To show devotion or submissiveness by wagging its tail, nuzzling, licking, etc.


lexentry: eng/fayalite__Noun__1
written_rep: fayalite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fayalite
sense_list:
(mineral) Yellow, olive green, brown or black mineral with orthorhombic crystals of the olivine group, Fe2SiO4.


lexentry: eng/faze__Verb__1
written_rep: faze
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: intimorire
sense_list:
(transitive, informal) To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. [from mid 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/fealty__Noun__1
written_rep: fealty
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fedeltà
sense_list:
Fidelity to one's lord or master; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord.


lexentry: eng/fear__Noun__1
written_rep: fear
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: paura | timore
sense_list:
(uncountable) A strong, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat. | (countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.


lexentry: eng/fear__Verb__1
written_rep: fear
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: temere | aver paura di
sense_list:
(transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.


lexentry: eng/feather__Noun__1
written_rep: feather
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: piuma | penna
sense_list:
A branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds, used for flight, swimming, protection and display.


lexentry: eng/feather__Noun__1
written_rep: feather
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: barbetta
sense_list:
Long hair on the lower legs of a dog or horse, especially a draft horse, notably the Clydesdale breed. Narrowly only the rear hair.


lexentry: eng/feather_duster__Noun__1
written_rep: feather duster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: piumino
sense_list:
An implement, traditionally consisting of a bundle of feathers (especially ostrich feathers) attached to a handle, used to remove surface dust.


lexentry: eng/feature__Noun__1
written_rep: feature
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: rubrica | servizio | speciale
sense_list:
(media) A long, prominent article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.


lexentry: eng/feature_film__Noun__1
written_rep: feature film
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lungometraggio
sense_list:
The main, full-length film in a cinema program that also included a short film and often a newsreel. As of now, it plays after the trailers. | (by extension) Any film produced to be shown in cinemas before being released for home viewing.


lexentry: eng/fecundity__Noun__1
written_rep: fecundity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fecondità
sense_list:
Ability to produce offspring. | Ability to cause growth or increase. | Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.


lexentry: eng/federal__Adjective__1
written_rep: federal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: federale
sense_list:
Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations. | Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.


lexentry: eng/federalism__Noun__1
written_rep: federalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: federalismo
sense_list:
A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.


lexentry: eng/federation__Noun__1
written_rep: federation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: federazione
sense_list:
Array of nations or states that are unified under one central authority which is elected by its members.


lexentry: eng/fee__Noun__1
written_rep: fee
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: tassa | emolumento | onorario | quota | retta | tariffa
sense_list:
An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good, especially one that is minor compared to the underlying cost.


lexentry: eng/feedback__Noun__1
written_rep: feedback
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: retroazione
sense_list:
(electronics, cybernetics, control theory, ) The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.


lexentry: eng/feedback__Noun__1
written_rep: feedback
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: ritorno
sense_list:
(amplification) The high-pitched howling noise heard when there is a loop between a microphone and a speaker.


lexentry: eng/feel__Verb__1
written_rep: feel
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sentire
sense_list:
(intransitive) To search by sense of touch. | (transitive, copulative) To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on. | (transitive) To experience an emotion or other mental state about.


lexentry: eng/feeler__Noun__1
written_rep: feeler
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: antenna
sense_list:
(anatomy) An antenna or appendage used for feeling, especially on an insect. | (Philippines) Someone who assumes or imagines that something said or done (positive or negative) was for the person despite having no concrete confirmation but gut feeling, one's affection is reciprocated, indulges in one's own wishful thinking, or flatters oneself


lexentry: eng/feisty__Adjective__1
written_rep: feisty
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: combattivo
sense_list:
Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other disadvantage.


lexentry: eng/feldspar__Noun__1
written_rep: feldspar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: feldspato
sense_list:
(mineral) Any of a large group of rock-forming minerals that, together, make up about 60% of the earth's outer crust.


lexentry: eng/felicity__Noun__1
written_rep: felicity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: felicità
sense_list:
(uncountable) An apt and pleasing style in speech, writing, etc.; (countable) an apt and pleasing choice of words.


lexentry: eng/fellate__Verb__1
written_rep: fellate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bocchinare
sense_list:
(transitive, by extension) To suck (something) in a manner suggestive of fellatio. | (transitive, figuratively) To suck up to, to flatter or be shamefully subservient to.


lexentry: eng/fellow__Noun__1
written_rep: fellow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: tipo | tizio | individuo | uomo
sense_list:
(informal) A male person; a bloke, a chap, a guy, a man; also, preceded by a modifying word, sometimes with a sense of mild reproach: used as a familiar term of address to a man.


lexentry: eng/fellow_traveller__Noun__1
written_rep: fellow traveller
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: compagno di viaggio
sense_list:
One who travels together with another. | (US) One who sympathizes with the aims or beliefs of an organization without belonging to it; especially a Communist sympathizer. [mid-20th c.]


lexentry: eng/fellowship__Noun__1
written_rep: fellowship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fratellanza
sense_list:
A company of people that share the same interest or aim. | A feeling of friendship, relatedness or connection between people.


lexentry: eng/felon__Noun__1
written_rep: felon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: criminale
sense_list:
(criminal law) A person who has committed a felony; specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime.


lexentry: eng/felony__Noun__1
written_rep: felony
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: delitto | reato
sense_list:
(law, criminology, US, historical, _, in, _) A serious criminal offense, which, under United States federal law, is punishable by a term of imprisonment of not less than one year or by the death penalty in the most serious offenses.


lexentry: eng/felt__Noun__1
written_rep: felt
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: feltro
sense_list:
A cloth or stuff made of matted fibres of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving.


lexentry: eng/felt__Verb__1
written_rep: felt
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: feltrare
sense_list:
(transitive) To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. | (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, felt.


lexentry: eng/felucca__Noun__1
written_rep: felucca
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: feluca
sense_list:
A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.


lexentry: eng/female__Adjective__1
written_rep: female
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: femminile | femmina
sense_list:
Belonging to the sex which typically produces eggs (ova), or to the gender which is typically associated with it. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/female_circumcision__Noun__1
written_rep: female circumcision
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: escissione
sense_list:
(often, proscribed) Any operation involving removal of any of various parts of the vulva including and in addition to the hood, such as the clitoris or labia. [from 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/female_ejaculation__Noun__1
written_rep: female ejaculation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: eiaculazione femminile
sense_list:
The forceful expulsion of fluids from the vagina during the female orgasm, possibly originating from the Skene's gland (paraurethral gland) and/or urethra.


lexentry: eng/femicide__Noun__1
written_rep: femicide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: femminicidio | femmicidio
sense_list:
The killing of a woman or girl because of her sex, especially when motivated by misogyny. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/feminazi__Noun__1
written_rep: feminazi
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nazifemminista
sense_list:
(derogatory, potentially, _, offensive) A radical or militant feminist who is intolerant of opposing views or who seeks female superiority over men.


lexentry: eng/feminine__Adjective__1
written_rep: feminine
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: femminile
sense_list:
Of or pertaining to the female sex; biologically female, not male. | Belonging to females; typically used by females. | Having the qualities stereotypically associated with women: nurturing, not aggressive. | (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the female grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.


lexentry: eng/feminism__Noun__1
written_rep: feminism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: femminismo
sense_list:
A social theory or political movement which argues that legal and social restrictions on women must be removed in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.


lexentry: eng/feminist__Noun__1
written_rep: feminist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: femminista
sense_list:
an advocate of feminism; a person who believes in bringing about the equality of the sexes (of women and men) in all aspects of public and private life | a member of a feminist political movement


lexentry: eng/feminization__Noun__1
written_rep: feminization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: femminilizzazione
sense_list:
The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized. | (biology) The development of female sex characteristics.


lexentry: eng/fen__Noun__1
written_rep: fen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: palude
sense_list:
A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. (Contrast bog, marsh, swamp.)


lexentry: eng/fence__Noun__1
written_rep: fence
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: ricettatore
sense_list:
(informal) Someone who hides or buys and sells stolen goods, a criminal middleman for transactions of stolen goods.


lexentry: eng/fencing__Noun__1
written_rep: fencing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scherma
sense_list:
The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing).


lexentry: eng/fend__Verb__1
written_rep: fend
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pensare
sense_list:
(intransitive) To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. | (rare, except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off).


lexentry: eng/fennec__Noun__1
written_rep: fennec
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fennec
sense_list:
A small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.


lexentry: eng/fennel__Noun__1
written_rep: fennel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: finocchio
sense_list:
A plant, Foeniculum vulgare, of the parsley family, which has a sweet, anise-like flavor. | (culinary) The bulb, leaves, or stalks of the plant, eaten as a vegetable. | (culinary) The seeds of the fennel plant used as a spice in cooking.


lexentry: eng/fentanyl__Noun__1
written_rep: fentanyl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fentanile
sense_list:
(pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic opioid narcotic analgesic C22H28N2O with pharmacological action similar to morphine that is administered transdermally as a skin patch and in the form of its citrate C22H28N2O·C6H8O7 is administered orally or parenterally (as by intravenous or epidural injection); N-phenyl-N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)piperidin-4-yl]propanamide.


lexentry: eng/feral_child__Noun__1
written_rep: feral child
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bambino selvaggio | ragazzo selvaggio
sense_list:
A child who is raised without human contact as a result of being abandoned, allegedly often raised by wild animals.


lexentry: eng/fermata__Noun__1
written_rep: fermata
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fermata
sense_list:
(music, countable) The notation ⟨◌͒⟩ of such a prolongation, usually represented as a dot with a semi-circle above or below it, written above or below the prolonged note or rest.


lexentry: eng/ferment__Verb__1
written_rep: ferment
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fermentare
sense_list:
To react, using fermentation; especially to produce alcohol by aging or by allowing yeast to act on sugars; to brew. | To stir up, agitate, cause unrest or excitement in.


lexentry: eng/fermentation__Noun__1
written_rep: fermentation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fermentazione
sense_list:
(biochemistry) Any of many anaerobic biochemical reactions in which an enzyme (or several enzymes produced by a microorganism) catalyses the conversion of one substance into another; especially the conversion (using yeast) of sugars to alcohol or acetic acid with the evolution of carbon dioxide


lexentry: eng/fermentation_lock__Noun__1
written_rep: fermentation lock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gorgogliatore
sense_list:
A device, used mainly in homebrewing, that allows carbon dioxide to escape from a fermenter without allowing air to enter


lexentry: eng/fermion__Noun__1
written_rep: fermion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fermione
sense_list:
(particle physics, Standard Model) Any elementary or composite particle that has half-integer spin and thus obeys Fermi–Dirac statistics and the Pauli exclusion principle (equivalently, a particle for which the wavefunction of any system of identical such particles changes sign whenever two are swapped); a baryon, a lepton or a quark;(slightly more loosely) any such particle or any composite particle composed of fermions.


lexentry: eng/fern__Noun__1
written_rep: fern
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: felce
sense_list:
Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.


lexentry: eng/ferret-badger__Noun__1
written_rep: ferret-badger
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tasso furetto
sense_list:
(zoology) Any of several small mustelid omnivores of the genus Melogale, of southern and eastern Asia, having a bushy tail and distinctive white or yellow markings on a black face.


lexentry: eng/ferret__Noun__1
written_rep: ferret
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: furetto
sense_list:
An often domesticated mammal (Mustela putorius furo) rather like a weasel, descended from the polecat and often trained to hunt burrowing animals.


lexentry: eng/ferritin__Noun__1
written_rep: ferritin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ferritina
sense_list:
(protein) Any of a family of iron-carrying globular protein complexes consisting of 24 protein subunits; the key protein of intracellular iron storage.


lexentry: eng/ferroconcrete__Noun__1
written_rep: ferroconcrete
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cemento armato
sense_list:
A building material made from Portland cement concrete with a matrix of steel bars or wires (rebars) to increase its tensile strength.


lexentry: eng/ferroelectric__Adjective__1
written_rep: ferroelectric
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ferroelettrico
sense_list:
(physics) of, or relating to the permanent electrical polarization of a crystalline dielectric in an electric field


lexentry: eng/ferroelectricity__Noun__1
written_rep: ferroelectricity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ferroelettricità
sense_list:
(physics) The electric polarization of a substance (spontaneous presence of a dipole moment) that is analogous to ferromagnetism


lexentry: eng/ferromagnetism__Noun__1
written_rep: ferromagnetism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ferromagnetismo
sense_list:
(physics) The phenomenon whereby certain substances can become permanent magnets when subjected to a magnetic field.


lexentry: eng/ferrotype__Noun__1
written_rep: ferrotype
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ferrotipia
sense_list:
(uncountable) An early photographic process in which the image was made on an iron plate having a sensitized surface film. | (countable) A photograph produced by this means.


lexentry: eng/ferrous__Adjective__1
written_rep: ferrous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ferroso | ferreo | ferrico
sense_list:
Of or containing iron. | (chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 2. | Of an element: iron, or in certain ways similar to iron: ferrous metals.


lexentry: eng/ferruginous_hawk__Noun__1
written_rep: ferruginous hawk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: poiana codarossa africana
sense_list:
Buteo regalis, a large bird of prey. It is not a true hawk like sparrowhawks or goshawks, but rather belongs to the broad-tailed buteo hawks, known as "buzzards" in Europe


lexentry: eng/ferrule__Noun__1
written_rep: ferrule
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ghiera
sense_list:
A band or cap (usually metal) placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting. [from early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/ferry__Noun__1
written_rep: ferry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: traghetto
sense_list:
A ship used to transport people, smaller vehicles and goods from one port to another, usually on a regular schedule. | A place where passengers are transported across water in such a ship. | The legal right or franchise that entitles a corporate body or an individual to operate such a service.


lexentry: eng/ferryboat__Noun__1
written_rep: ferryboat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nave traghetto
sense_list:
(nautical) A boat used to ferry passengers, vehicles, or goods across open water, especially one that runs to a regular schedule


lexentry: eng/fertile__Adjective__1
written_rep: fertile
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fertile
sense_list:
Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive. | (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.


lexentry: eng/fertility_rate__Noun__1
written_rep: fertility rate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tasso di fecondità
sense_list:
The average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if she followed the current average pattern of fertility among a given group of women and survived through her reproductive years; used as an indicator of strength of population growth.


lexentry: eng/fertilization__Noun__1
written_rep: fertilization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fecondazione | fertilizzazione
sense_list:
The act of fecundating or impregnating the gametes of animals, plants, etc.; including the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, an analogous process in flowerless plants, or the joining of sperm and egg in animals.


lexentry: eng/fervent__Adjective__1
written_rep: fervent
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fervoroso
sense_list:
Exhibiting particular enthusiasm, zeal, conviction, persistence, and/or belief. | Having or showing emotional warmth, fervor, and/or passion.


lexentry: eng/fescue__Noun__1
written_rep: fescue
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: festuca
sense_list:
A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.


lexentry: eng/festival__Noun__1
written_rep: festival
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: festival | sagra | mostra | rassegna
sense_list:
An event or series of special events centred on the celebration or promotion of some theme or aspect of the community, often held at regular intervals.


lexentry: eng/festivity__Noun__1
written_rep: festivity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: festività
sense_list:
(often, pluralized) A festival or similar celebration. | An experience or expression of celebratory feeling, merriment, gaiety.


lexentry: eng/fetch__Verb__1
written_rep: fetch
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: raccattare | racimolare | recuperare | rintracciare | ripescare | riportare
sense_list:
(intransitive) To bring oneself; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward.


lexentry: eng/fetish__Noun__1
written_rep: fetish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: feticcio
sense_list:
Something which is believed to possess, contain, or cause spiritual or magical powers; an amulet or a talisman. [from the early 17th c.]


lexentry: eng/fetish__Noun__1
written_rep: fetish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: feticismo
sense_list:
Sexual attraction to or arousal at something abnormally sexual or nonsexual, such as an object or a nonsexual part of the body. [from the early 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/fetishism__Noun__1
written_rep: fetishism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: feticismo
sense_list:
The belief that natural objects have supernatural powers, or that something created by people has power over people. | A form of paraphilia where the object of attraction is an inanimate object or a part of a person's body.


lexentry: eng/fetoscopy__Noun__1
written_rep: fetoscopy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fetoscopia
sense_list:
An endoscopic procedure during pregnancy to allow access to the fetus, the amniotic cavity, the umbilical cord, and the fetal side of the placenta.


lexentry: eng/feudalism__Noun__1
written_rep: feudalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: feudalesimo
sense_list:
A social system based on personal ownership of resources and personal fealty between a suzerain (lord) and a vassal (subject). Defining characteristics are direct ownership of resources, personal loyalty, and a hierarchical social structure reinforced by religion.


lexentry: eng/fever__Noun__1
written_rep: fever
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: febbre
sense_list:
(symptom) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease. | (usually, in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases. | A state of excitement or anxiety.


lexentry: eng/feverfew__Noun__1
written_rep: feverfew
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: partenio
sense_list:
A European aromatic perennial herb, Tanacetum parthenium (or Chrysanthemum parthenium or Pyrethrum parthenium), having daisy-like flowers; valued as a traditional medicine, especially for headaches.


lexentry: eng/fianchetto__Noun__1
written_rep: fianchetto
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fianchetto
sense_list:
(chess) The development of a bishop by moving it one square to a long diagonal; specifically, a set of opening moves where a bishop is developed to the second rank of the adjacent knight file.


lexentry: eng/fiat_money__Noun__1
written_rep: fiat money
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: moneta fiat
sense_list:
(banking, economics) A type of currency that is not backed by a commodity and is typically designated by the issuing government to be legal tender, and authorized by government regulation.


lexentry: eng/fibre__Noun__1
written_rep: fibre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fibra
sense_list:
(countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibres to form thread. | (uncountable) Material in the form of fibres. | Moral strength and resolve. | (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map. | (cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.


lexentry: eng/fibreglass__Noun__1
written_rep: fibreglass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fibra di vetro
sense_list:
Silica based glass extruded into fibers that possess a length at least 1000 times greater than their width.


lexentry: eng/fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva__Noun__1
written_rep: fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fibrodisplasia ossificante progressiva
sense_list:
(genetic disorder) A very rare, disabling genetic disorder of the connective tissue in which fibrous tissue (including ligaments, muscles, and tendons) ossifies when damaged.


lexentry: eng/fibromyalgia__Noun__1
written_rep: fibromyalgia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fibromialgia
sense_list:
(medicine, pathology) A condition characterised by chronic pain, stiffness, and tenderness of the muscles, tendons, and joints.


lexentry: eng/fibula__Noun__1
written_rep: fibula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fibula
sense_list:
An ancient kind of brooch used to hold clothing together, similar in function to the modern safety pin.


lexentry: eng/fiction__Noun__1
written_rep: fiction
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: finzione
sense_list:
(literature) Literary type using invented or imaginative writing, instead of real facts, usually written as prose.


lexentry: eng/fiddle__Noun__1
written_rep: fiddle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: parapetto
sense_list:
Synonym of violin, a small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin, shoulder, chest or on the upper thigh and played with a bow; the position of a violinist in a band; (usually, _, proscribed) any of various bowed stringed instruments, particularly those of the violin family when played non-classically. | (especially, nautical) Any rail or device that prevents items from sliding off a table, stove, etc. in rough water.


lexentry: eng/fideicommissum__Noun__1
written_rep: fideicommissum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fidecommesso
sense_list:
A benefit bequeathed to a beneficiary who inherits the benefit, subject to the obligation of bequeathing it to another.


lexentry: eng/fidget__Verb__1
written_rep: fidget
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: smuovere
sense_list:
(intransitive) To wiggle or twitch; to move the body, especially the fingers, around nervously or idly.


lexentry: eng/fiduciary__Adjective__1
written_rep: fiduciary
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fiduciale
sense_list:
(legal) Relating to an entity that owes to another good faith, accountability and trust, often in the context of trusts and trustees.


lexentry: eng/fief__Noun__1
written_rep: fief
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: feudo
sense_list:
(figurative) A territory, a domain, an area over which one exercises lordly control, particularly with regard to corporate or governmental bureaucracies.


lexentry: eng/field__Noun__1
written_rep: field
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: campo
sense_list:
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country. | A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier. | (geology) A region containing a particular mineral. | A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game. | A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield. | (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity. | (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls. | (heraldry) The background of the shield. | (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.


lexentry: eng/field_bindweed__Noun__1
written_rep: field bindweed
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: convolvolo
sense_list:
A common and invasive Eurasian perennial weed, Convolvulus arvensis, which has become established worldwide.


lexentry: eng/field_hospital__Noun__1
written_rep: field hospital
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ospedale da campo
sense_list:
A large mobile medical unit that temporarily takes care of casualties before they can be safely transported to more permanent hospital facilities.


lexentry: eng/field_marshal__Noun__1
written_rep: field marshal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: feldmaresciallo | maresciallo di campo
sense_list:
(military ranks) In certain nations the highest military rank, ranking below only the commander in chief; now essentially disused.


lexentry: eng/field_of_vision__Noun__1
written_rep: field of vision
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: campo visivo | campo di visibilità
sense_list:
The area that a person, an animal, etc., can see with its eyes (or each eye individually) without turning the head.


lexentry: eng/field_trip__Noun__1
written_rep: field trip
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: uscita didattica | viaggio di istruzione
sense_list:
A trip, usually in a group and especially by students, to a place of special interest for education, research or exploration; a trip into the field.


lexentry: eng/fieldwork__Noun__1
written_rep: fieldwork
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: ricerca sul campo
sense_list:
(in scientific research) The collection of raw data in the field, field research, field study, field studies.


lexentry: eng/fife__Noun__1
written_rep: fife
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: piffero | fiffaro
sense_list:
A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music


lexentry: eng/fifth__Noun__1
written_rep: fifth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: quinta
sense_list:
(music) The musical interval between one note and another five scale degrees higher (the fifth note in a scale)


lexentry: eng/fifth_column__Noun__1
written_rep: fifth column
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quinta colonna
sense_list:
A group of people which clandestinely undermines a larger group, such as a nation, to which it is expected to be loyal.


lexentry: eng/fifty-eighth__Adjective__1
written_rep: fifty-eighth
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquantottesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number fifty-eight, describing a person or thing in position number 58 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/fifty-fifth__Adjective__1
written_rep: fifty-fifth
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquantacinquesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number fifty-five, describing a person or thing in position number 55 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/fifty-first__Adjective__1
written_rep: fifty-first
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquantunesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number fifty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 51 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/fifty-fourth__Adjective__1
written_rep: fifty-fourth
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquantaquattresimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number fifty-four, describing a person or thing in position number 54 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/fifty-ninth__Adjective__1
written_rep: fifty-ninth
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquantanovesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number fifty-nine, describing a person or thing in position number 59 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/fifty-second__Adjective__1
written_rep: fifty-second
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquantaduesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number fifty-two, describing a person or thing in position number 52 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/fifty-seventh__Adjective__1
written_rep: fifty-seventh
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquantasettesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number fifty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 57 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/fifty-sixth__Adjective__1
written_rep: fifty-sixth
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquantaseiesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number fifty-six, describing a person or thing in position number 56 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/fifty-third__Adjective__1
written_rep: fifty-third
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquantatreesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number fifty-three, describing a person or thing in position number 53 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/fig__Noun__1
written_rep: fig
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fico
sense_list:
The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. [from 12th c.] | A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. [from 14th c.]


lexentry: eng/fig_leaf__Noun__1
written_rep: fig leaf
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: foglia di fico
sense_list:
A representation of leaf of a fig plant used to cover the genitals of a nude figure in a work of art (alluding to Genesis iii 7, in which Adam and Eve use fig leaves to hide their nakedness). | (figuratively) Anything used to conceal something undesirable or that one does not want to be discovered.


lexentry: eng/fight_back__Verb__1
written_rep: fight back
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: contrattaccare
sense_list:
(intransitive) to counterattack; to resist an attack. | (intransitive, in sports) to overturn a losing deficit.


lexentry: eng/fight_fire_with_fire__Verb__1
written_rep: fight fire with fire
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: combattere ad armi pari | combattere alla pari
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To respond to an attack with a similar or identical counter-attack (e.g. to respond to gunfire with reciprocal gunfire).


lexentry: eng/fighter-bomber__Noun__1
written_rep: fighter-bomber
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cacciabombardiere
sense_list:
(military, _, aviation) A military aircraft designed to operate in combined roles of attacking enemy aircraft and bombing targets; usually faster and more maneuverable than a traditional bomber.


lexentry: eng/fighter__Noun__1
written_rep: fighter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: caccia | aereo da caccia
sense_list:
A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.


lexentry: eng/fighter_plane__Noun__1
written_rep: fighter plane
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: aereo da caccia
sense_list:
(aircraft, military) A military aircraft primarily designed to attack enemy aircraft. Frequently shortened to fighter.


lexentry: eng/fighting_fish__Noun__1
written_rep: fighting fish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pesce combattente
sense_list:
A small aggressive freshwater fish originating from Thailand, popular as aquarium fish, Betta splendens.


lexentry: eng/fighting_game__Noun__1
written_rep: fighting game
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: baruffa
sense_list:
(video game genre) A video game of a type based around interpersonal combat, often in a tournament setting, in which characters fight until their HP is depleted or the round timer expires.


lexentry: eng/figurative__Adjective__1
written_rep: figurative
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: figurativo
sense_list:
Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig. | Metaphorically so called.


lexentry: eng/figure__Noun__1
written_rep: figure
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: figura
sense_list:
A drawing or diagram conveying information. | The representation of any form, as by drawing, painting, modelling, carving, embroidering, etc.; especially, a representation of the human body.


lexentry: eng/figure__Verb__1
written_rep: figure
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: calcolare | risolvere
sense_list:
(obsolete) To represent by a figure, as to form or mould; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape.


lexentry: eng/figure_of_merit__Noun__1
written_rep: figure of merit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: figura di merito
sense_list:
a numerical value used in comparing the quality or performance of different methods, systems, or devices.


lexentry: eng/figure_of_speech__Noun__1
written_rep: figure of speech
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: figura retorica
sense_list:
(rhetoric, stylistic) A word or phrase that intentionally deviates from ordinary language use to produce a rhetorical effect.


lexentry: eng/figured_bass__Noun__1
written_rep: figured bass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: basso cifrato | basso numerato
sense_list:
(music) A musical notation in which intervals, chords and harmonizations are indicated by numbers written below a given bass note.


lexentry: eng/figurehead__Noun__1
written_rep: figurehead
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fantoccio | prestanome | uomo di paglia
sense_list:
(by extension) Someone in a nominal position of leadership who has no actual power; a front or front man.


lexentry: eng/filament__Noun__1
written_rep: filament
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filamento
sense_list:
A fine thread or wire. | Such a wire, as can be heated until it glows, in an incandescent light bulb or a thermionic valve.


lexentry: eng/filaria__Noun__1
written_rep: filaria
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filaria
sense_list:
Any of the parasitic nematode worms of superfamily Filarioidea that lives in the blood of vertebrates and is transmitted by insects: the cause of filariasis.


lexentry: eng/filarial__Adjective__1
written_rep: filarial
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filariale
sense_list:
(medicine) Of or pertaining to the microscopic parasitic worms known as filaria, or an infestation thereof.


lexentry: eng/filch__Verb__1
written_rep: filch
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fregarsi | rubacchiare
sense_list:
(transitive) To illegally take possession of (something, especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal.


lexentry: eng/file__Noun__2
written_rep: file
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: colonna
sense_list:
(chess) One of the eight vertical lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a letter).


lexentry: eng/file__Noun__3
written_rep: file
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lima | limetta
sense_list:
A hand tool consisting of a handle to which a block of coarse metal is attached, and used for removing sharp edges or for cutting, especially through metal.


lexentry: eng/file_extension__Noun__1
written_rep: file extension
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estensione di nome di schedario
sense_list:
A short series of text characters at the end of a computer filename, used to indicate the type of contents and the software that will be required to operate or open it.


lexentry: eng/filibuster__Noun__1
written_rep: filibuster
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filibustiere
sense_list:
A mercenary soldier; a freebooter; specifically, a mercenary who travelled illegally in an organized group from the United States to a country in Central America or the Spanish West Indies in the mid-19th century seeking economic and political benefits through armed force.


lexentry: eng/filigree__Noun__1
written_rep: filigree
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filigrana
sense_list:
(chiefly, jewellery) A delicate and intricate ornamentation made from platinum, gold or silver (or sometimes other metal) twisted wire. | (by extension) Anything resembling such intricate ornamentation.


lexentry: eng/filing_cabinet__Noun__1
written_rep: filing cabinet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: casellario | schedario | classificatore
sense_list:
A piece of office furniture composed of drawers or shelves sized to standard file folder widths, traditionally used for storing documents in order.


lexentry: eng/fill_in__Verb__1
written_rep: fill in
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: rimpiazzare
sense_list:
(transitive, idiomatic) To inform somebody, especially to supply someone missing or missed information. | (intransitive, idiomatic) To substitute for somebody or something.


lexentry: eng/filler_cap__Noun__1
written_rep: filler cap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tappo del serbatoio
sense_list:
The cap that closes the opening of a tank, e.g. the fuel tank of a car, through which the tank can be filled.


lexentry: eng/fillet__Noun__1
written_rep: fillet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: filetto
sense_list:
A strip or compact piece of meat or fish from which any bones and skin and feathers have been removed.


lexentry: eng/fillip__Noun__1
written_rep: fillip
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schioccare | schioccare le dita | schiocco | scrocchio
sense_list:
(archaic) The action of holding the tip of a finger against the thumb and then releasing it with a snap; a flick.


lexentry: eng/fillip__Verb__1
written_rep: fillip
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schioccare
sense_list:
(transitive) To strike, project, or propel with a fillip (that is, a finger released quickly after being pressed against the thumb); to flick.


lexentry: eng/film__Noun__1
written_rep: film
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: film | pellicola
sense_list:
A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity. | (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.


lexentry: eng/film_projector__Noun__1
written_rep: film projector
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: proiettore cinematografico
sense_list:
An opto-mechanical device for displaying motion pictures by projecting them on a projection screen (Movie projector for projection of moving images from film).


lexentry: eng/filmmaking__Noun__1
written_rep: filmmaking
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinema
sense_list:
The activity of preparing edited video works, formerly principally films, whether for entertainment or other purposes.


lexentry: eng/filmography__Noun__1
written_rep: filmography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filmografia
sense_list:
A selective list of movie titles that share a similar characteristic such as the same genre, the same director, the same actor etc.


lexentry: eng/filter__Noun__1
written_rep: filter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filtro
sense_list:
A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from another. | Electronics or software that separates unwanted signals (for example noise) from wanted signals or that attenuates selected frequencies. | Any item, mechanism, device, or procedure that acts to separate or isolate. | (mathematics, order theory) A non-empty upper set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary infima (a.k.a. meets).


lexentry: eng/filter__Verb__1
written_rep: filter
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filtrare
sense_list:
(transitive) To sort, sift, or isolate. | (intransitive) To pass through a filter or to act as though passing through a filter.


lexentry: eng/filter_feeder__Noun__1
written_rep: filter feeder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filtratore
sense_list:
(biology) Any aquatic animal that obtains nourishment by filtering particles of food from the water in which it lives.


lexentry: eng/filtration__Noun__1
written_rep: filtration
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: filtraggio
sense_list:
The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.


lexentry: eng/fimbria__Noun__1
written_rep: fimbria
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fimbria
sense_list:
(anatomy, usually, in the plural) An individual thread in a fimbria, especially a fingerlike projection around the ovarian end of the Fallopian tube. | (bacteriology) A hairlike appendage found on the cell surface of many bacteria; used by the bacteria to adhere to one another, to animal cells and to some inanimate objects.


lexentry: eng/fin__Noun__1
written_rep: fin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pinna
sense_list:
(ichthyology) One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to manoeuvre/maneuver. | A similar appendage of a cetacean or other marine animal. | A device worn by divers and swimmers on their feet.


lexentry: eng/fin__Noun__1
written_rep: fin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: impennaggio
sense_list:
A thin, rigid component of an aircraft, extending from the fuselage and used to stabilise and steer the aircraft. | A hairstyle, resembling the fin of a fish, in which the hair is combed and set into a vertical ridge along the top of the head from about the crown to the forehead.


lexentry: eng/finagle__Verb__1
written_rep: finagle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: sottrarre
sense_list:
(ambitransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)


lexentry: eng/final__Noun__1
written_rep: final
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: finale
sense_list:
(US, Canada) A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.


lexentry: eng/final_examination__Noun__1
written_rep: final examination
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: esame di maturità
sense_list:
A test given at the end of a period of coursework to determine whether the student has adequately learned the material covered in that period.


lexentry: eng/final_nail_in_the_coffin__Noun__1
written_rep: final nail in the coffin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: colpo di grazia
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Something that is ultimately responsible for a previously prospective demise or failure.


lexentry: eng/final_solution__Noun__1
written_rep: final solution
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: soluzione finale
sense_list:
(historical, often, capitalized) The planned and attempted mass murder of the European Jews by the Nazis; the Holocaust.


lexentry: eng/finalist__Noun__1
written_rep: finalist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: finalista
sense_list:
A university student during the period of sitting their final examinations (whether or not in their final year of study).


lexentry: eng/finals__Noun__1
written_rep: finals
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: finale
sense_list:
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, sports) A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place/prize, 2nd place/prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).


lexentry: eng/finance__Verb__1
written_rep: finance
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: finanziare
sense_list:
(transitive) To manage financially; be financier for; provide or obtain funding for a transaction or undertaking.


lexentry: eng/financial_crisis__Noun__1
written_rep: financial crisis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: crisi finanziaria
sense_list:
An episode of sharp instability in the global or a local financial system in which financial assets lose a significant proportion of their value, often caused by the bursting of an economic bubble.


lexentry: eng/financial_independence__Noun__1
written_rep: financial independence
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: indipendenza finanziaria
sense_list:
(finance) Status of having enough income or wealth sufficient to pay one's living expenses for the rest of one's life without having to be employed or dependent on others.


lexentry: eng/find__Noun__1
written_rep: find
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scoperta | chicca | scovamento
sense_list:
Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.


lexentry: eng/fine__Adjective__1
written_rep: fine
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fine
sense_list:
Of superior quality. | Consisting of especially minute particulates; made up of particularly small pieces.


lexentry: eng/fine_arts__Noun__1
written_rep: fine arts
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: belle arti
sense_list:
The purely aesthetic arts, such as music, painting, and poetry, as opposed to industrial or functional arts such as architecture or carpentry.


lexentry: eng/fine_print__Noun__1
written_rep: fine print
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clausole scritte in piccolo
sense_list:
(idiomatic) The details, restrictions, terms, or conditions, especially of a contract, often printed in very small type.


lexentry: eng/finesse__Noun__1
written_rep: finesse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: finezza
sense_list:
(uncountable) Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation. [from c. 1520] | (uncountable) The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill. [from mid 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/finesse__Noun__1
written_rep: finesse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: impasse
sense_list:
(countable, card games) In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over. [from early 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/finesse__Verb__1
written_rep: finesse
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: abbellire
sense_list:
(ambitransitive) To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way. [from mid 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/finger__Verb__1
written_rep: finger
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: fare un ditalino | sgrillettare
sense_list:
(transitive, sex) To use the fingers to penetrate or sexually stimulate one's own or another person's vulva, vagina, or anus.


lexentry: eng/finger_bowl__Noun__1
written_rep: finger bowl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sciacquadita
sense_list:
A small bowl of warm water placed at each seat at a formal dinner for the guests to rinse their fingers with between courses.


lexentry: eng/fingerboard__Noun__1
written_rep: fingerboard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tastiera
sense_list:
(music, lutherie) A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.


lexentry: eng/fingering__Noun__1
written_rep: fingering
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: ditalino
sense_list:
(uncountable) The act of using the fingers to stimulate one's own, or another person's, vulva, vagina, or anus.


lexentry: eng/fingernail__Noun__1
written_rep: fingernail
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: unghia
sense_list:
The hard, flat translucent covering near the tip of a human finger, useful for scratching and fine manipulation.


lexentry: eng/fingerprint__Noun__1
written_rep: fingerprint
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: impronta digitale
sense_list:
The natural pattern of ridges on the tips of human fingers, unique to each individual. | The patterns left on surfaces where uncovered fingertips have touched, especially as used to identify the person who touched the surface.


lexentry: eng/finial__Noun__1
written_rep: finial
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fastigio
sense_list:
(architectural element) Especially in Gothic architecture: an ornament, often in the form of a bunch or knot of foliage, on the peak of the gable of a roof, a pediment, a pinnacle, etc.


lexentry: eng/finicky__Adjective__1
written_rep: finicky
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: puntiglioso
sense_list:
(informal, of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.


lexentry: eng/finishing_move__Noun__1
written_rep: finishing move
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: colpo di grazia
sense_list:
(video games) In media such as one-on-one fighting video games and professional wrestling, a dedicated special attack used to knock out an enemy on the brink of defeat in a flashy and spectacular manner.


lexentry: eng/finite__Adjective__1
written_rep: finite
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: finito
sense_list:
Having an end or limit; (of a quantity) constrained by bounds; (of a set) whose number of elements is a natural number.


lexentry: eng/finocchio__Noun__1
written_rep: finocchio
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: finocchio
sense_list:
A fennel cultivar with a bulb-like structure at its base, used as a vegetable; Florence fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. azoricum).


lexentry: eng/fire-eyed_diucon__Noun__1
written_rep: fire-eyed diucon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: diucon
sense_list:
A species of tyrant flycatcher, Xolmis pyrope, found in southwest South America, having bright red irides.


lexentry: eng/fire__Noun__1
written_rep: fire
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fuoco | sparo | incendio
sense_list:
(countable) An instance of this chemical reaction, especially when intentionally created and maintained in a specific location to a useful end (such as a campfire or a hearth fire).


lexentry: eng/fire__Noun__1
written_rep: fire
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: incendio | rogo | falò
sense_list:
(countable) The occurrence, often accidental, of fire in a certain place, causing damage and danger.


lexentry: eng/fire__Noun__1
written_rep: fire
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: fuoco | ardore
sense_list:
(uncountable, alchemy, philosophy) The aforementioned chemical reaction of burning, considered one of the Classical elements or basic elements of alchemy.


lexentry: eng/fire__Noun__1
written_rep: fire
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: sparo
sense_list:
(countable) A planned bombardment by artillery or similar weapons, or the capability to deliver such.


lexentry: eng/fire__Verb__1
written_rep: fire
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: licenziare | dimettere
sense_list:
(transitive, employment) To terminate the employment contract of (an employee), especially for cause (such as misconduct, incompetence, or poor performance).


lexentry: eng/fire_alarm__Noun__1
written_rep: fire alarm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: allarme antincendio
sense_list:
An electromechanical or electronic bell, klaxon, chime, horn, speaker, strobe light or other device which warns people in a building of a possible fire or other condition requiring evacuation.


lexentry: eng/fire_at_will__Phrase__1
written_rep: fire at will
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fuoco a volontà!
sense_list:
(military) Fire when ready. A command that allows troops to use weapons at their discretion and choose their own targets, allowing the individual soldier a greater freedom of timing the shot with target movement and similar.


lexentry: eng/fire_brigade__Noun__1
written_rep: fire brigade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: squadra di pompieri
sense_list:
(firefighting, US) A group of people within a corporation or industrial site, organized for the purpose of putting out fires, usually in addition to their normal job.


lexentry: eng/fire_brigade__Noun__1
written_rep: fire brigade
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: vigili del fuoco
sense_list:
(firefighting, UK, Irish) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires.


lexentry: eng/fire_department__Noun__1
written_rep: fire department
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vigili del fuoco | corpo dei pompieri | corpo dei vigili del fuoco | pompieri
sense_list:
(firefighting, US) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires. May provide other emergency services as well.


lexentry: eng/fire_drill__Noun__1
written_rep: fire drill
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: esercitazione antincendio
sense_list:
An organized practice to prepare occupants of an office, school or other public building for evacuation in the event of a fire.


lexentry: eng/fire_engine__Noun__1
written_rep: fire engine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mezzo antincendio
sense_list:
(firefighting, vehicle) A vehicle used by firefighters to pump water to fight a fire. Typically, a fire engine carries a supply of water and has the ability to connect to an external water supply.


lexentry: eng/fire_escape__Noun__1
written_rep: fire escape
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: uscita di emergenza | uscita di sicurezza
sense_list:
Any of the series of emergency doors, ladders, or stairs used to evacuate a building if a fire breaks out.


lexentry: eng/fire_extinguisher__Noun__1
written_rep: fire extinguisher
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: estintore
sense_list:
A device that can be used to put out a fire. Usually a portable cylinder filled with carbon dioxide, dry powder or water, in the latter two cases with some means of pressurising the cylinder to expel the contents.


lexentry: eng/fire_hose__Noun__1
written_rep: fire hose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: manichetta antincendio
sense_list:
A hose designed to deliver water to douse a fire, usually much stronger and wider in diameter than a garden hose.


lexentry: eng/fire_hydrant__Noun__1
written_rep: fire hydrant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: idrante
sense_list:
(firefighting) A device used by firefighters to obtain water from the main supply, consisting of a barrel, connections for hose and a valve assembly.


lexentry: eng/fire_in_the_belly__Noun__1
written_rep: fire in the belly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: entusiasmo
sense_list:
(idiomatic) The emotional stamina and vigor, passion, or inner drive to achieve something, to take action, etc.


lexentry: eng/fire_point__Noun__1
written_rep: fire point
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: punto di combustione
sense_list:
The lowest temperature at which the vapour of a fuel will continue to burn for at least five seconds after ignition by an open flame of standard dimension.


lexentry: eng/fire_salamander__Noun__1
written_rep: fire salamander
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: salamandra pezzata
sense_list:
A medium-sized black salamander with yellow spots (Salamandra salamandra), native to Europe, related to the tiger salamander.


lexentry: eng/fire_ship__Noun__1
written_rep: fire ship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brulotto
sense_list:
(historical) A wooden ship set alight and then sent floating into an enemy flotilla, with the aim of spreading the fire among them.


lexentry: eng/fire_station__Noun__1
written_rep: fire station
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caserma dei vigili del fuoco | stazione dei vigili del fuoco
sense_list:
The building where firefighters and fire trucks/fire engines are housed when not answering an alarm.


lexentry: eng/fireball__Noun__1
written_rep: fireball
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: fireball
sense_list:
(sailing) A class of sailing dinghy with a single trapeze and a symmetrical spinnaker, sailed by a crew of two.


lexentry: eng/firebug__Noun__1
written_rep: firebug
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cimice rossonera
sense_list:
Pyrrhocoris apterus, a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family Pyrrhocoridae.


lexentry: eng/firecracker__Noun__1
written_rep: firecracker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: petardo | mortaretto | castagnola
sense_list:
A small explosive device, typically containing a small amount of gunpowder in a tightly-wound roll of paper, primarily designed to produce a large bang.


lexentry: eng/firedamp__Noun__1
written_rep: firedamp
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: grisou | grisù
sense_list:
(mining) An inflammable gas (mostly methane) found in coal mines; forms an explosive mixture with air.


lexentry: eng/firefly__Noun__1
written_rep: firefly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lucciola
sense_list:
(Northern US, Western US, Florida) Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.


lexentry: eng/firelighter__Noun__1
written_rep: firelighter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: accendifuoco
sense_list:
A small block of a flammable substance, typically a combination of sawdust and wax, used to light fires.


lexentry: eng/firestriker__Noun__1
written_rep: firestriker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: acciarino
sense_list:
A piece of high-carbon steel used for striking a spark, usually kept in a tinderbox with flint and tinder.


lexentry: eng/firewall__Noun__1
written_rep: firewall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: muro spartifuoco
sense_list:
(architecture) A fireproof barrier used to prevent the spread of fire between or through buildings, structures, electrical substation transformers, or within an aircraft or vehicle.


lexentry: eng/firewall__Noun__1
written_rep: firewall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: firewall
sense_list:
(computer security) The software that monitors traffic in and out of a private network or a personal computer and allows or blocks such traffic depending on its perceived threat.


lexentry: eng/firework__Noun__1
written_rep: firework
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fuoco d'artificio | fuoco artificiale
sense_list:
A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration.


lexentry: eng/firing_pin__Noun__1
written_rep: firing pin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: percussore
sense_list:
(firearms) the part of the firing mechanism which strikes the cartridge's primer to ignite the gunpowder.


lexentry: eng/firing_squad__Noun__1
written_rep: firing squad
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: plotone d'esecuzione | plotone di esecuzione
sense_list:
A group of soldiers or paramilitaries detailed to execute someone, usually by rifle shot, or to discharge their weapons ceremonially at a funeral.


lexentry: eng/firmament__Noun__1
written_rep: firmament
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: firmamento
sense_list:
(usually, uncountable, literary, poetic, also, figuratively) The vault of the heavens, where the clouds, sun, moon, and stars can be seen; the heavens, the sky. | (countable) The field or sphere of an activity or interest.


lexentry: eng/firmware__Noun__1
written_rep: firmware
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: firmware
sense_list:
(computing) Something in between hardware and software. Like software, it is created from source code, but it is closely tied to the hardware it runs on.


lexentry: eng/firn__Noun__1
written_rep: firn
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nevato
sense_list:
A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as saturated with water as snowcone slush is; can be hard or somewhat soft depending on recent and current weather conditions.


lexentry: eng/first-degree_murder__Noun__1
written_rep: first-degree murder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: assassinio
sense_list:
(legal, chiefly, US, Canada) The criminal offence of murder in a form considered by law to be the most serious; the precise distinction may vary by jurisdiction but typically involves premeditation, or the choice of victim or other circumstances being regarded as especially blameworthy.


lexentry: eng/first-person_shooter__Noun__1
written_rep: first-person shooter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sparatutto in prima persona
sense_list:
(video games) A combat or video game in the genre characterized by a three-dimensional view from the player's perspective (POV, point of view) and the ability to fire a weapon.


lexentry: eng/first_aid__Noun__1
written_rep: first aid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: primo soccorso
sense_list:
(medicine) Basic medical care given to an injury victim, usually where the injury is slight or where better care is not available.


lexentry: eng/first_aid_kit__Noun__1
written_rep: first aid kit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: borsa di primo soccorso
sense_list:
A collection of first aid supplies for treatment of minor injuries or stabilization of major injuries.


lexentry: eng/first_class__Adjective__1
written_rep: first class
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: di prim’ordine
sense_list:
Belonging to the best or top group in a system of classification. | Of, or relating to the most luxurious and expensive class of accommodation on a train, ship, hotel, etc.


lexentry: eng/first_floor__Noun__1
written_rep: first floor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: primo piano
sense_list:
(North America, Philippines) The floor of a building at the level of the street or surrounding ground; the ground floor


lexentry: eng/first_gear__Noun__1
written_rep: first gear
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: prima | prima marcia
sense_list:
The first gear of a transmission or other gearbox, which usually is the one that provides the lowest output speed and greatest mechanical advantage, except in setups in which there is a granny gear.


lexentry: eng/first_lieutenant__Noun__1
written_rep: first lieutenant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: luogotenente
sense_list:
(military ranks) The second lowest rank of a commissioned officer in the United States Army, Air Force, or Marine Corps, ranking above a second lieutenant and below a captain. The rank of first lieutenant is equivalent to the naval rank of lieutenant junior grade.


lexentry: eng/first_love__Noun__1
written_rep: first love
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: primo amore
sense_list:
(literally) One's first experience of the feeling of romantic love. | (by extension) The first person to be the object of one's romantic affection. | (idiomatic, by extension) The thing, place, or activity of which one is fondest; one's most fundamental interest or attachment.


lexentry: eng/first_mate__Noun__1
written_rep: first mate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: seconda di bordo | secondo di bordo
sense_list:
(nautical) An officer on a merchant ship next in rank to the captain and responsible to the captain for the safety and security of the ship.


lexentry: eng/first_person__Noun__1
written_rep: first person
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: prima persona
sense_list:
A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the narrator.


lexentry: eng/fiscal__Adjective__1
written_rep: fiscal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fiscale
sense_list:
Related to the treasury of a country, company, region or city, particularly to government spending and revenue.


lexentry: eng/fish__Noun__1
written_rep: fish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: pesce
sense_list:
(archaic, or, loosely) Any animal (or any vertebrate) that lives exclusively in water. | (uncountable) The flesh of the fish used as food.


lexentry: eng/fish__Noun__1
written_rep: fish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: pesca
sense_list:
(uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank. | (countable, nautical) A makeshift overlapping longitudinal brace, originally shaped roughly like a fish, used to temporarily repair or extend a spar or mast of a ship.


lexentry: eng/fish__Verb__1
written_rep: fish
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: pescare
sense_list:
(intransitive, followed by "for" or "around for") To talk to people in an attempt to get them to say something, or seek to obtain something by artifice.


lexentry: eng/fish_and_chips__Noun__1
written_rep: fish and chips
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pesce e patatine
sense_list:
A meal of fish fried in batter and served with chips (fried potato pieces), popular throughout the Anglosphere, especially in coastal regions.


lexentry: eng/fish_bowl__Noun__1
written_rep: fish bowl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: acquario
sense_list:
A variety of discussions where participants are organized in concentric circles and take turns where they and others in the same group are allowed to speak according to a set of rules. [a. 1970]


lexentry: eng/fish_finger__Noun__1
written_rep: fish finger
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bastoncino di pesce
sense_list:
(chiefly, UK, Irish) A rectangular stick of processed fish coated in breadcrumbs that is cooked by frying or grilling.


lexentry: eng/fish_fork__Noun__1
written_rep: fish fork
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: forchetta da pesce
sense_list:
A fork intended for eating fish and other seafood, as at formal dining where different forks are provided for different courses.


lexentry: eng/fish_oil__Noun__1
written_rep: fish oil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: olio di pesce
sense_list:
Oil derived from the tissues of oily fish; especially, a dietary supplement made therefrom, manufactured and sold in liquid, capsule and tablet forms.


lexentry: eng/fish_tank__Noun__1
written_rep: fish tank
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: acquario
sense_list:
A container, usually made out of glass or acrylic, specifically designed for holding water and marine life.


lexentry: eng/fish_trap__Noun__1
written_rep: fish trap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nassa
sense_list:
A contraption made of wires, rods, fishing-net or other suitable materials with the purpose of catching fish alive.


lexentry: eng/fisher__Noun__1
written_rep: fisher
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pescatore
sense_list:
A person who catches fish, especially for a living or for sport; a person engaging in the pastime of fishing.


lexentry: eng/fisheye_lens__Noun__1
written_rep: fisheye lens
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fish-eye | fisheye
sense_list:
(photography) A wide-angle lens having an extremely wide field of view (approaching or exceeding 180 degrees) and producing images that are circular or distorted by curvature at the edges.


lexentry: eng/fishing__Noun__1
written_rep: fishing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: pesca
sense_list:
(uncountable, informal) The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish. | (uncountable) Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale.


lexentry: eng/fishing_cat__Noun__1
written_rep: fishing cat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gatto viverrino | gatto pescatore
sense_list:
A medium-sized cat whose habitat range extends through Indochina, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sumatra and Java; (Prionailurus viverrinus).


lexentry: eng/fishing_rod__Noun__1
written_rep: fishing rod
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: canna da pesca
sense_list:
A rod, often made in sections, which carries a line used for angling and is used to support both the line and the reel and to cast the line.


lexentry: eng/fishplate__Noun__1
written_rep: fishplate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ganascia
sense_list:
(rail transport) A metal bar that is bolted to the ends of two rails to join them together in a track.


lexentry: eng/fishpond__Noun__1
written_rep: fishpond
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: peschiera
sense_list:
A freshwater pond stocked with fish; especially one formerly attached to a monastery etc as a source of food.


lexentry: eng/fistula__Noun__1
written_rep: fistula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fistola
sense_list:
(medicine) An abnormal connection or passageway between organs or vessels that normally do not connect.


lexentry: eng/fitful__Adjective__1
written_rep: fitful
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: a singhiozzo | irregolare | rapsodico | sporadico
sense_list:
(by extension) Characterized by sudden bursts of activity with periods of inactivity in between; intermittent, irregular, unsteady.


lexentry: eng/fitness__Noun__1
written_rep: fitness
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capacità
sense_list:
The condition of being fit, suitable or appropriate. | The cultivation of an attractive and/or healthy physique. | (evolutionary theory) An organism's or species' degree of success in finding a mate and producing offspring. | (UK, slang) The condition of being attractive, fanciable or beautiful.


lexentry: eng/fitted_sheet__Noun__1
written_rep: fitted sheet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lenzuolo con angoli
sense_list:
A sheet tailored to form pocket for a mattress with elastic edges that is suitable for a range of mattress sizes. The edge may also contain a drawstring to secure the sheet more firmly and enable use on a wider range of mattress thicknesses.


lexentry: eng/fitting__Noun__1
written_rep: fitting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fifa
sense_list:
(engineering) A tube connector; a standardized connecting part of a piping system to attach sections of pipe together, such as a coupling


lexentry: eng/fitting__Noun__1
written_rep: fitting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: accomodamento
sense_list:
(manufacturing) The process of fitting up; especially of applying craft methods such as skilled filing to the making and assembling of machines or other products.


lexentry: eng/fitting__Noun__1
written_rep: fitting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: mobile
sense_list:
(chiefly, _, British, often plural) A removable item in a house or other building, which can be taken with one when one moves out, such as a moveable piece of furniture, a carpet, picture, etc.; US furnishing; compare fixture.


lexentry: eng/five_hundred__Numeral__1
written_rep: five hundred
part_of_speech: numeral
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinquecento
sense_list:
The cardinal number occurring after four hundred ninety-nine and before five hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 500. Ordinal: five-hundredth.


lexentry: eng/five_o'clock__Noun__1
written_rep: five o'clock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cinque
sense_list:
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the sixth hour of the day; 5:00 a.m. (05:00).


lexentry: eng/five_o'clock_shadow__Noun__1
written_rep: five o'clock shadow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: barba di tre giorni
sense_list:
(informal) A beard growth visible late in the day on the face of a man that was clean-shaven in the morning.


lexentry: eng/fix__Noun__1
written_rep: fix
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: dose
sense_list:
A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.


lexentry: eng/fix__Verb__1
written_rep: fix
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: fissare
sense_list:
(transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light.


lexentry: eng/fix__Verb__1
written_rep: fix
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 12
trans_list: riparare | aggiustare | preparare | sistemare | mettere una pezza
sense_list:
(intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.


lexentry: eng/fix_up__Verb__1
written_rep: fix up
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: badare (a)
sense_list:
(informal, ambitransitive) To provide (someone) with something; to furnish. | (informal, transitive) To prepare or provide (something).


lexentry: eng/fixation__Noun__1
written_rep: fixation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fissaggio
sense_list:
The act of fixing. | The state of being fixed or fixated. | A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.


lexentry: eng/fixed_asset__Noun__1
written_rep: fixed asset
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: immobilizzazione
sense_list:
(business, accounting) Asset or property which cannot easily be converted into cash, such as land, buildings and machinery.


lexentry: eng/fixed_cost__Noun__1
written_rep: fixed cost
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: costo fisso
sense_list:
(accounting, chiefly, in the plural) A cost of business which does not vary with output or sales; an overhead.


lexentry: eng/fixed_point__Noun__1
written_rep: fixed point
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: punto fisso
sense_list:
(mathematics) A value which is unchanged by a function or other mapping. Formally: a value x for which f(x) = x.


lexentry: eng/fixer__Noun__1
written_rep: fixer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fissatore
sense_list:
(photography) A chemical (sodium thiosulfate) used in photographic development that fixes the image in place, preventing further chemical reactions.


lexentry: eng/fixture__Noun__1
written_rep: fixture
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: installazione
sense_list:
(legal) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing.


lexentry: eng/fizgig__Noun__3
written_rep: fizgig
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: arpione
sense_list:
(fishing) A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals; a type of harpoon.


lexentry: eng/fizzle__Verb__1
written_rep: fizzle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: andar bene
sense_list:
(figuratively, informal) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.


lexentry: eng/fizzle_out__Verb__1
written_rep: fizzle out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: allentare
sense_list:
(slang, intransitive) To lose excitement, to become less exciting; to end, fail or die out in a weak or disappointing way.


lexentry: eng/flabbergast__Verb__1
written_rep: flabbergast
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sorprendere | stupire | sbalordire | colpire | impressionare
sense_list:
(transitive) To overwhelm with bewilderment; to amaze, confound, or stun, especially in a ludicrous manner. [from late 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/flabby__Adjective__1
written_rep: flabby
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flaccido | moscio
sense_list:
Yielding to the touch, and easily moved or shaken; hanging loose by its own weight; lacking firmness; flaccid.


lexentry: eng/flag__Noun__1
written_rep: flag
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: flag | bandiera
sense_list:
(computer science) A variable or memory location that stores a true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain event has occurred or requesting that a certain optional action take place.


lexentry: eng/flag__Noun__1
written_rep: flag
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 14
trans_list: bandiera
sense_list:
(internet slang, ACG) A plot or words of a character in an animation, etc., that would usually lead to a specific outcome or event, not logically or causally, but as a pattern of the animation, etc.


lexentry: eng/flag_of_convenience__Noun__1
written_rep: flag of convenience
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bandiera di comodo
sense_list:
(figuratively) Registration of a ship in a country chosen for its low taxes, permissive regulations, and so on. | (literally) The flag flown by a ship so registered (which flag then corresponds to the country of registration).


lexentry: eng/flagellum__Noun__1
written_rep: flagellum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flagello
sense_list:
(biology) In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding. | (biology) In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.


lexentry: eng/flagon__Noun__1
written_rep: flagon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: boccia | boccione | damigiana | fiasco
sense_list:
(archaic) A large bottle for drinks such as beer, cider, or wine; also, a bottle with a cap used by travellers.


lexentry: eng/flagship__Noun__1
written_rep: flagship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ammiraglia | nave ammiraglia | principale
sense_list:
(nautical, military) The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.


lexentry: eng/flail__Noun__1
written_rep: flail
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: correggiato
sense_list:
A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.


lexentry: eng/flail__Noun__1
written_rep: flail
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: mazzafrusto
sense_list:
A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.


lexentry: eng/flake__Noun__1
written_rep: flake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: tirapacchi
sense_list:
(informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.


lexentry: eng/flamberge__Noun__1
written_rep: flamberge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flamberga
sense_list:
(weaponry) A European sword, typically a greatsword, which had a wavy blade, possibly to increase the cutting surface or for aid in parrying.


lexentry: eng/flambé__Verb__1
written_rep: flambé
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fiammeggiare
sense_list:
To cook with a showy technique where an alcoholic beverage, such as brandy, is added to hot food and then the fumes are ignited.


lexentry: eng/flame__Noun__1
written_rep: flame
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fiamma
sense_list:
The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat. | A romantic partner or lover in a usually short-lived but passionate affair.


lexentry: eng/flame_war__Noun__1
written_rep: flame war
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: polemica
sense_list:
(Internet) An argument consisting entirely or largely of flames by various parties that serve only to escalate the dispute.


lexentry: eng/flamen__Noun__1
written_rep: flamen
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flamine | flamen
sense_list:
(historical, Ancient Rome) A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis.


lexentry: eng/flamethrower__Noun__1
written_rep: flamethrower
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lanciafiamme
sense_list:
A device that projects a flame for starting fires, and sometimes also additional fuel to help ignition. Used either as a weapon or a tool.


lexentry: eng/flank__Noun__1
written_rep: flank
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fianco
sense_list:
(anatomy) The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip. | (military) The extreme left or right edge of a military formation, army etc.


lexentry: eng/flank__Verb__1
written_rep: flank
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: affiancare | fiancheggiare
sense_list:
(intransitive) To be placed to the side(s) of something (usually in terms of two objects, one on each side).


lexentry: eng/flannel__Noun__1
written_rep: flannel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flanella
sense_list:
(uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.


lexentry: eng/flap__Noun__1
written_rep: flap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: ipersostentatore
sense_list:
(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.


lexentry: eng/flapper__Noun__1
written_rep: flapper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: maschietta
sense_list:
(colloquial, chiefly, historical) A young woman, especially when unconventional or without decorum or displaying daring freedom or boldness; now particularly associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/flare-up__Noun__1
written_rep: flare-up
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: germoglio
sense_list:
A sudden outbreak, outburst or eruption (originally of flame, but now used more generally of any violent activity or emotion).


lexentry: eng/flare__Verb__1
written_rep: flare
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: brillare | scintillare | sfolgorare
sense_list:
(ambitransitive, aviation) To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing. | (intransitive) To blaze brightly. | (intransitive) To shine out with a sudden and unsteady light; to emit a dazzling or painfully bright light.


lexentry: eng/flash-bang__Noun__1
written_rep: flash-bang
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flashbang | stun grenade
sense_list:
A hand grenade that produces a very bright flash and a loud explosion, but no shrapnel and minimal explosive force, to disorient the target.


lexentry: eng/flash__Verb__1
written_rep: flash
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 10
trans_list: esibirsi
sense_list:
(transitive) To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back.


lexentry: eng/flash_drive__Noun__1
written_rep: flash drive
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiave USB | chiavetta USB | penna USB | chiavetta | pen drive | pen-drive
sense_list:
(computer hardware) A small electronic device used to store digital data, more portable and robust than a hard drive.


lexentry: eng/flash_mob__Noun__1
written_rep: flash mob
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flash mob
sense_list:
A group of people who rapidly assemble, perform an unusual and seemingly pointless act, and then quickly disperse. [from 2003]


lexentry: eng/flashback__Noun__1
written_rep: flashback
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flashback
sense_list:
(authorship) A dramatic device in which an earlier event is inserted into the normal chronological flow of a narrative.


lexentry: eng/flashcard__Noun__1
written_rep: flashcard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scheda di memoria
sense_list:
A card used to aid rote memorization. One side of the card contains data of one kind, or a question, and the other side contains the associated response which one wants to memorize. For example, one side could contain an English word, and the other side the Spanish translation. | (electronics) A solid-state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.


lexentry: eng/flat-headed_cat__Noun__1
written_rep: flat-headed cat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gatto dalla testa piatta
sense_list:
Prionailurus planiceps, a small wild cat patchily distributed in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra.


lexentry: eng/flat__Adjective__1
written_rep: flat
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: sgasata
sense_list:
(of a carbonated drink) With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.


lexentry: eng/flat__Noun__1
written_rep: flat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: bemolle
sense_list:
(music) A note played one chromatic semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).


lexentry: eng/flat_cap__Noun__1
written_rep: flat cap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: berretto
sense_list:
(countable) A man's cap made from wool, tweed, or other soft material. It has a small peak and fits snugly on the head.


lexentry: eng/flat_peach__Noun__1
written_rep: flat peach
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pesca tabacchiera
sense_list:
A subspecies or variety of peach Prunus persica subsp. platycarpa, with white flesh and a flattish, round shape.


lexentry: eng/flat_tyre__Noun__1
written_rep: flat tyre
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gomma a terra
sense_list:
A tyre of a motor vehicle that is deflated, especially one deflated because of a puncture when in use.


lexentry: eng/flatback__Noun__1
written_rep: flatback
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tartaruga a dorso piatto
sense_list:
A chelonid turtle, Natator depressus, with low-domed carapace, endemic to the continental shelf of Australia.


lexentry: eng/flatfish__Noun__1
written_rep: flatfish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rombo
sense_list:
A fish of the order Pleuronectiformes, the adults of which have both eyes on one side and usually swim with the other side down, such as a flounder, a halibut, or a sole.


lexentry: eng/flatulence__Noun__1
written_rep: flatulence
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flatulenza | flato | peto | scoreggia
sense_list:
The state of having gas, often smelly, trapped (and when released, frequently with noise) in the digestive system of a human and some other animals; wind; and when released, a flatus, a fart.


lexentry: eng/flatus__Noun__1
written_rep: flatus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flato | flatulenza | peto | rutto | scoreggia
sense_list:
(uncountable) Gas generated in the digestive tract. | (countable) Expulsion of such gas through the anus.


lexentry: eng/flatworm__Noun__1
written_rep: flatworm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: platelminto
sense_list:
Any of very many parasitic or free-living worms, of the phylum Platyhelminthes, having a flattened body with no skeleton or body cavity.


lexentry: eng/flavonoid__Noun__1
written_rep: flavonoid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flavonoide
sense_list:
(organic chemistry) Any of many compounds that are plant metabolites, being formally derived from flavone; they have antioxidant properties, and sometimes contribute to flavor.


lexentry: eng/flavor__Noun__1
written_rep: flavor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sapore | gusto
sense_list:
The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.


lexentry: eng/flavor__Noun__1
written_rep: flavor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: sapore | genere | specie | tipo | varietà
sense_list:
(particle physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).


lexentry: eng/flavor_enhancer__Noun__1
written_rep: flavor enhancer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: esaltatore di sapidità
sense_list:
Any substance added to a food product to enhance its taste, especially to make it taste more savoury or to add umami


lexentry: eng/flaw__Noun__1
written_rep: flaw
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: difetto | imperfezione
sense_list:
(legal) A defect or error in a contract or other document which may make the document invalid or ineffective.


lexentry: eng/flax-leaved_daphne__Noun__1
written_rep: flax-leaved daphne
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dittinella | erba corsa | gnidio
sense_list:
Daphne gnidium, a poisonous evergreen shrub from the Mediterranean region with dense dark-green foliage and fragrant white flowers.


lexentry: eng/flax__Noun__1
written_rep: flax
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: lino
sense_list:
The fibers of Linum usitatissimum, grown to make linen and related textiles. | The flax bush, a plant of the genus Phormium, native to New Zealand, with strap-like leaves up to 3 metres long that grow in clumps.


lexentry: eng/flea__Noun__1
written_rep: flea
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pulce
sense_list:
A small, wingless, parasitic insect of the order Siphonaptera, renowned for its bloodsucking habits and jumping abilities.


lexentry: eng/flechette__Noun__1
written_rep: flechette
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: freccetta
sense_list:
A small sharp antipersonnel projectile, used as shrapnel, fired from a shotgun, or scattered from an aircraft.


lexentry: eng/fleece__Noun__1
written_rep: fleece
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: pile
sense_list:
(countable) A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen. | (countable) An insulating wooly jacket


lexentry: eng/fleet_admiral__Noun__1
written_rep: fleet admiral
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Grande Ammiraglio
sense_list:
(military, historical) The highest rank in the United States Navy, NATO grade OF-10, used only during World War II.


lexentry: eng/flesh__Noun__1
written_rep: flesh
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carne
sense_list:
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat. | Animal tissue regarded as food; meat (but sometimes excluding fish). | The human body as a physical entity. | The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.


lexentry: eng/flesh_out__Verb__1
written_rep: flesh out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: abbellire
sense_list:
(idiomatic, transitive) To complete; to create details from a basic outline, structure, or skeleton.


lexentry: eng/flesh_wound__Noun__1
written_rep: flesh wound
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ferita superficiale
sense_list:
An injury which pierces the skin and causes bleeding, but which does not injure any bones or vital organs, and does not carry a serious threat of death.


lexentry: eng/fletching__Noun__1
written_rep: fletching
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: impennaggio
sense_list:
The process of attaching fins, such as halved feathers, to a projectile in order to stabilize its flight.


lexentry: eng/fleur-de-lis__Noun__1
written_rep: fleur-de-lis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: giglio
sense_list:
(heraldiccharge) A design representing a flower whose three petals are joined together at the bottom (⚜️), often used in heraldry, where it is particularly associated with the French monarchy.


lexentry: eng/flex__Noun__1
written_rep: flex
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: flessione
sense_list:
(countable, slang) The act or an instance of flaunting something; something one considers impressive.


lexentry: eng/flexible__Adjective__1
written_rep: flexible
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: flessibile
sense_list:
Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate. | Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations. | Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.


lexentry: eng/flexitarianism__Noun__1
written_rep: flexitarianism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: semivegetarianismo
sense_list:
(US) The practice of eating mainly vegetarian food, but making occasional exceptions for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons.


lexentry: eng/flick__Noun__1
written_rep: flick
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: buffetto
sense_list:
(fencing) A cut that lands with the point, often involving a whip of the foible of the blade to strike at a concealed target.


lexentry: eng/flick_off__Verb__1
written_rep: flick off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fare una pippa
sense_list:
(vulgar, slang, ambitransitive) To masturbate by flicking the clitoris with one's finger or fingers.


lexentry: eng/flight__Noun__1
written_rep: flight
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: volo
sense_list:
A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.


lexentry: eng/flight__Noun__1
written_rep: flight
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 14
trans_list: piano
sense_list:
(US, naval) A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design. | An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.


lexentry: eng/flight_attendant__Noun__1
written_rep: flight attendant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: assistente di volo
sense_list:
A member of the crew of an airplane who is responsible for the comfort and safety of its passengers.


lexentry: eng/flight_data_recorder__Noun__1
written_rep: flight data recorder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: registratore di volo
sense_list:
(aviation) A device which records various performance parameters of an aircraft; designed to survive severe impact and fire to help in finding the causes of an accident.


lexentry: eng/flight_lieutenant__Noun__1
written_rep: flight lieutenant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caposquadriglia
sense_list:
A rank in the RAF, between that of flying officer and squadron leader, of a person in charge of a flight of aircraft, equivalent to a Royal Navy lieutenant or an Army captain


lexentry: eng/flight_number__Noun__1
written_rep: flight number
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: numero di volo
sense_list:
(aviation, travel) A callsign assigned to a commercial flight for the purposes of reservation and ticketing, typically consisting of a 2 character airline code and a 1 to 4 digit number to indicate a particular service.


lexentry: eng/flight_recorder__Noun__1
written_rep: flight recorder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: registratore di volo
sense_list:
A device which records data that would be of use in investigating the cause of an aircraft accident; usually in pairs, consisting of a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder.


lexentry: eng/flinch__Verb__1
written_rep: flinch
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sussultare
sense_list:
(intransitive) To make a sudden, involuntary movement in response to a (usually negative) stimulus; to cringe.


lexentry: eng/flint__Noun__1
written_rep: flint
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: selce
sense_list:
A hard, fine-grained quartz that fractures conchoidally and generates sparks when struck against a material such as steel, because tiny chips of the steel are heated to incandescence and burn in air.


lexentry: eng/flinty__Adjective__1
written_rep: flinty
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: minerale
sense_list:
(wine) Having a taste characteristic of certain white wines, especially Chablis, supposed to evoke the sensation of flint striking steel.


lexentry: eng/flip__Verb__1
written_rep: flip
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: rivoltare | capovolgere | rovesciare | spadellare
sense_list:
(transitive, US) To induce someone to turn state's evidence; to get someone to agree to testify against their co-conspirators in exchange for concessions.


lexentry: eng/flip_the_bird__Verb__1
written_rep: flip the bird
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fare un gestaccio
sense_list:
(colloquial, idiom) To make a rude or obscene gesture (at somebody); particularly, to extend the middle finger.


lexentry: eng/flipper__Noun__1
written_rep: flipper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pinna
sense_list:
In marine mammals such as whales (or other aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide flat, limb adapted for swimming. | A wide, flat, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.


lexentry: eng/flirt__Verb__1
written_rep: flirt
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: flirtare | fare l'amore | limonare | pomiciare | slinguare
sense_list:
(intransitive) To play at courtship; to talk with teasing affection, to insinuate sexual attraction in a playful (especially conversational) way. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/flitch__Noun__1
written_rep: flitch
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: freccia
sense_list:
The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.


lexentry: eng/float__Verb__1
written_rep: float
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galleggiare
sense_list:
(intransitive, of an object or substance) To be supported by a fluid of greater density (than the object). | To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface. | (intransitive) To be capable of floating. | (intransitive) To move in a particular direction with the liquid in which one is floating. | (transitive) To cause to drift gently through the air, to waft. | (intransitive) To move in a fluid manner. | (transitive, finance) To allow (the exchange value of a currency) to be determined by the markets.


lexentry: eng/floater__Noun__1
written_rep: floater
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: scotoma
sense_list:
(ophthalmology) A threadlike speck in the visual field which seems to move, possibly caused by degeneration of the vitreous humour of the eye.


lexentry: eng/floating-point_number__Noun__1
written_rep: floating-point number
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: flottante
sense_list:
(computing) A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10, 16 or 256 depending on the computing system.


lexentry: eng/floating_island__Noun__1
written_rep: floating island
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: isola galleggiante
sense_list:
An aggregation of driftwood and roots, or vegetation, capable of bearing soil, which floats on the surface of (bog or lake) water or is floated out from a river delta or similar.


lexentry: eng/floating_island__Noun__1
written_rep: floating island
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: isola galleggiante | île flottante
sense_list:
A French cold dessert consisting of an "island" of meringue, made of egg whites and sugar, floating in a "sea" of custard.


lexentry: eng/flocculation__Noun__1
written_rep: flocculation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flocculazione
sense_list:
(physical chemistry) A condition in which clays, polymers or other small charged particles become attached and form a fragile structure, a floc.


lexentry: eng/flock__Noun__1
written_rep: flock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stormo
sense_list:
A number of birds together in a group, such as those gathered together for the purpose of migration.


lexentry: eng/flock__Noun__1
written_rep: flock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: gregge | branco
sense_list:
A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used of sheep, but (dated) also used for goats, farmed animals, and a wide variety of animals.


lexentry: eng/flog_a_dead_horse__Verb__1
written_rep: flog a dead horse
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sprecare tempo | è fatica sprecata | è una battaglia persa
sense_list:
(British, idiomatic) To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more; to attempt to arouse fresh interest in something that is either hopeless or already settled.


lexentry: eng/flood__Noun__1
written_rep: flood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: inondazione | alluvione
sense_list:
An overflow (usually disastrous) of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall or other input of water.


lexentry: eng/flood__Noun__1
written_rep: flood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: alluvione | marea
sense_list:
(figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt with.


lexentry: eng/flood__Verb__1
written_rep: flood
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: inondare | subissare
sense_list:
(figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with.


lexentry: eng/flood__Verb__1
written_rep: flood
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: inondare | straripare | allagare
sense_list:
(Internet, ambitransitive) To paste numerous lines of text to (a chat system) in order to disrupt the conversation.


lexentry: eng/floor__Noun__1
written_rep: floor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pavimento
sense_list:
The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room. | (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.


lexentry: eng/floor_lamp__Noun__1
written_rep: floor lamp
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lampada a stelo
sense_list:
A lamp supported by a tall vertical pole in order that light comes from above those seated in the vicinity.


lexentry: eng/flop__Verb__1
written_rep: flop
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: fallire | fare fiasco | fare un buco nell'acqua | mancare il traguardo
sense_list:
(intransitive, informal) To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.).


lexentry: eng/floppy_disk__Noun__1
written_rep: floppy disk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dischetto | floppy disk | disco flessibile | disco floscio | floppy
sense_list:
(computer hardware) A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.


lexentry: eng/floppy_drive__Noun__1
written_rep: floppy drive
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lettore di dischetti
sense_list:
A computer hardware device used for reading and writing on removable floppy disks, such as 3+1⁄2″, 5+1⁄4″ or 8″ diskettes.


lexentry: eng/flor__Noun__1
written_rep: flor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fioretta
sense_list:
A film of yeast that develops on the surface of some wines during fermentation, induced deliberately during the production of sherry.


lexentry: eng/flora__Noun__1
written_rep: flora
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flora
sense_list:
Plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc. | The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body.


lexentry: eng/floribunda__Noun__1
written_rep: floribunda
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: floribunda
sense_list:
A rose cultivar, having large sprays of small flowers, made by crossing polyantha and hybrid tea rose varieties.


lexentry: eng/floriography__Noun__1
written_rep: floriography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: linguaggio dei fiori
sense_list:
Communication through the use of flowers, with different types of flowers having particular symbolic meanings.


lexentry: eng/flotation__Noun__1
written_rep: flotation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: flottazione
sense_list:
(mining, chemical engineering) A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles.


lexentry: eng/flounder__Noun__1
written_rep: flounder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: passera
sense_list:
A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).


lexentry: eng/flour__Noun__1
written_rep: flour
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: farina
sense_list:
Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.


lexentry: eng/flourish__Verb__1
written_rep: flourish
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: fiorire
sense_list:
(intransitive) To be in a period of greatest influence. | (transitive) To make bold, sweeping movements with. | (intransitive) To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion.


lexentry: eng/flow__Noun__1
written_rep: flow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: flusso | colata | riflusso | scorrimento
sense_list:
(math) A formalization of the idea of the motion of particles in a fluid, as a group action of the real numbers on a set.


lexentry: eng/flower__Noun__1
written_rep: flower
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fiore
sense_list:
(botany) A reproductive structure in angiosperms (flowering plants), often conspicuously colourful and typically including sepals, petals, and either or both stamens and/or a pistil.


lexentry: eng/flower_head__Noun__1
written_rep: flower head
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capolino | calatide
sense_list:
(botany) A compact cluster of florets having the appearance of a single [flower]] (as in the daisy family).


lexentry: eng/flowery__Adjective__1
written_rep: flowery
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fiorito
sense_list:
Decorated with or abundant in flowers. | (of a speech or piece of writing) overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance


lexentry: eng/fluconazole__Noun__1
written_rep: fluconazole
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluconazolo
sense_list:
(pharmaceutical drug) An antifungal agent C13H12F2N6O used orally to treat cryptococcal meningitis and local or systemic candida infections.


lexentry: eng/fluctuate__Verb__1
written_rep: fluctuate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluttuare
sense_list:
(intransitive) To vary irregularly; to swing. | (intransitive) To undulate. | (transitive) To cause to vary irregularly.


lexentry: eng/flue__Noun__1
written_rep: flue
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: canna fumaria | condotta | scarico | tubo di scarico
sense_list:
A pipe or duct that carries gaseous combustion products away from the point of combustion (such as a furnace).


lexentry: eng/fluency__Noun__1
written_rep: fluency
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: scioltezza
sense_list:
(linguistics) The quality of being fluent in a language; A person's command of a particular language.


lexentry: eng/flugelhorn__Noun__1
written_rep: flugelhorn
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flicorno | bombardino
sense_list:
A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.


lexentry: eng/fluid__Noun__1
written_rep: fluid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluido
sense_list:
Any substance which can flow with relative ease, tends to assume the shape of its container, and obeys Bernoulli's principle; a liquid, gas or plasma.


lexentry: eng/flunkey__Noun__1
written_rep: flunkey
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lacchè
sense_list:
(derogatory) An underling; a liveried servant or a footman; servant, retainer – a person working in the service of another (especially in the household).


lexentry: eng/fluoranthene__Noun__1
written_rep: fluoranthene
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluorantene
sense_list:
(organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion


lexentry: eng/fluorescein__Noun__1
written_rep: fluorescein
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluoresceina
sense_list:
(carboxylic acid) Any of a class of yellow xanthene dyes which are visible when highly diluted; used forensically to detect traces of blood, and in analytical chemistry as an indicator in silver nitrate titrations


lexentry: eng/fluorescence__Noun__1
written_rep: fluorescence
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluorescenza
sense_list:
(physics) The emission of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) by a material when stimulated by the absorption of radiation or of a subatomic particle.


lexentry: eng/fluorite__Noun__1
written_rep: fluorite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluorite
sense_list:
(mineral) A widely occurring mineral (calcium fluoride), of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.


lexentry: eng/fluosilicate__Noun__1
written_rep: fluosilicate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluosilicato
sense_list:
(inorganic chemistry) The anion SiF62- derived from fluosilicic acid; any salt containing this anion


lexentry: eng/fluoxetine__Noun__1
written_rep: fluoxetine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fluoxetina
sense_list:
(pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic compound which inhibits the uptake of serotonin in the brain and is taken to treat depression.


lexentry: eng/flush__Noun__2
written_rep: flush
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: sciacquone | arrossimento
sense_list:
A suffusion of the face with blood, as from fear, shame, modesty, or intensity of feeling of any kind; a blush; a glow.


lexentry: eng/flush__Verb__2
written_rep: flush
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: arrossire
sense_list:
(intransitive) To become suffused with reddish color due to embarrassment, excitement, overheating, or other systemic disturbance, to blush.


lexentry: eng/flush_toilet__Noun__1
written_rep: flush toilet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gabinetto | WC | tazza | vaso | cesso | sciacquone
sense_list:
A toilet that uses water to flush urine and feces through a pipe to another location, typically a sewer main in urban settings or a septic tank elsewhere.


lexentry: eng/flute__Noun__1
written_rep: flute
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: scanalatura
sense_list:
(architectural element, firearms) A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.


lexentry: eng/flute__Verb__1
written_rep: flute
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: pifferare | zufolare
sense_list:
(intransitive) To make a flutelike sound. | (transitive) To form flutes or channels in (as in a column, a ruffle, etc.); to cut a semicylindrical vertical groove in (as in a pillar, etc.).


lexentry: eng/fluting__Noun__1
written_rep: fluting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gola
sense_list:
(architecture, sculpture) A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface.


lexentry: eng/flutter__Verb__1
written_rep: flutter
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: sbattere le ali
sense_list:
(intransitive) Of a winged animal: to flap the wings without flying; to fly with a light flapping of the wings.


lexentry: eng/flux__Noun__1
written_rep: flux
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: flusso
sense_list:
A state of ongoing change. | (physics) The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface.


lexentry: eng/flux_capacitor__Noun__1
written_rep: flux capacitor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: flusso canalizzatore
sense_list:
(science fiction) A fictional instrument required to operate a time machine, consisting of a rectangular-shaped compartment with three flashing Geissler-style tubes arranged in a "Y" configuration.


lexentry: eng/fly-half__Noun__1
written_rep: fly-half
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mediano d'apertura
sense_list:
(rugby) A rugby player who is normally the first receiver of the ball from the scrum half after a scrum; a half-back.


lexentry: eng/fly__Noun__1
written_rep: fly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: mosca
sense_list:
(non-technical) Especially, any of the insects of the family Muscidae, such as the common housefly (other families of Diptera include mosquitoes and midges). | (fishing) A lightweight fishing lure resembling an insect.


lexentry: eng/fly__Noun__2
written_rep: fly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: brachetta | braghetta | bottega
sense_list:
(often plural) A strip of material (sometimes hiding zippers or buttons) at the front of a pair of trousers, pants, underpants, bootees, etc.


lexentry: eng/fly__Verb__1
written_rep: fly
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: volare
sense_list:
(transitive, ergative) To cause to fly (travel or float in the air): to transport via air or the like.


lexentry: eng/fly_agaric__Noun__1
written_rep: fly agaric
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ovolo malefico | ovolaccio
sense_list:
A poisonous and hallucinogenic mushroom, Amanita muscaria, with a large crimson cap, fading to yellow, scattered with white flecks.


lexentry: eng/fly_ash__Noun__1
written_rep: fly ash
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cenere volante
sense_list:
A residue generated in the combustion of powdered coal or other materials, comprising the fine particles that rise with the flue gases; when generated industrially it is usually captured and can be recycled for use in construction materials.


lexentry: eng/fly_by_the_seat_of_one's_pants__Verb__1
written_rep: fly by the seat of one's pants
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: a vista
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To pilot an aircraft without the aid of instruments and without a flight plan, using only instinct, visual observation, and practical judgment.


lexentry: eng/fly_by_the_seat_of_one's_pants__Verb__1
written_rep: fly by the seat of one's pants
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: agire
sense_list:
(idiomatic, by extension) To use one's judgment, initiative, and perceptions as events unfold in order to improvise a course of action without a predetermined plan or without the desirable data inputs to decision making.


lexentry: eng/fly_fishing__Noun__1
written_rep: fly fishing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pesca con la mosca
sense_list:
(fishing) A form of angling whereby the weight of the line is used to cast a lure visually resembling a fly.


lexentry: eng/fly_in_the_ointment__Noun__1
written_rep: fly in the ointment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: osso
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Something (especially a minor thing) which ruins or spoils everything else, or makes it less pleasant; a nuisance or problem; a disagreeable or unpleasant detail.


lexentry: eng/flycatcher__Noun__1
written_rep: flycatcher
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: muscicapide
sense_list:
Any of many kinds of birds of the family Muscicapidae, of Africa, Europe, and Asia, that catch insects in flight; an Old World flycatcher. | Any of many kinds of similar birds of various families, such as Tyrannidae (the New World flycatchers of the Americas), Tityridae, Stenostiridae, Monarchidae, Petroicidae, etc.


lexentry: eng/flying_buttress__Noun__1
written_rep: flying buttress
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: arco rampante
sense_list:
(architecture) A buttress that stands apart from the structure that it supports, and is connected to it by an arch (flyer).


lexentry: eng/flying_fish__Noun__1
written_rep: flying fish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: pesce volante
sense_list:
A tropical marine fish of the family Exocoetidae, having enlarged winglike pectoral fins enabling it to escape predators by taking short gliding flights through the air.


lexentry: eng/flying_gurnard__Noun__1
written_rep: flying gurnard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pesce civetta
sense_list:
Any tropical marine fish of the family Dactylopteridae, having immense wing-like pectoral fins used to glide through the water.


lexentry: eng/flying_kiss__Noun__1
written_rep: flying kiss
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bacio volante
sense_list:
A symbolic kiss given by kissing one's own hand, then blowing on the hand in a direction towards the recipient.


lexentry: eng/flying_machine__Noun__1
written_rep: flying machine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: aereo
sense_list:
(archaic) Early term for an aircraft; a machine for flying in (gerund); a machine that flies (participial adjective)


lexentry: eng/flying_saucer__Noun__1
written_rep: flying saucer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: disco volante
sense_list:
(informal) A disc-shaped unidentified flying object or UFO; originally in reference to sightings by aviator Kenneth Arnold in Washington in 1947.


lexentry: eng/flying_squirrel__Noun__1
written_rep: flying squirrel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: anomaluro
sense_list:
The family Anomaluridae, which are only distantly related to the squirrels. | The tribe Pteromyini within the family Sciuridae, which are true squirrels.


lexentry: eng/flyover__Noun__1
written_rep: flyover
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cavalcavia | viadotto
sense_list:
(UK, Irish, Commonwealth, Philippines) A road or railway that passes over another, allowing routes to cross without interruption.


lexentry: eng/flypaper__Noun__1
written_rep: flypaper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: acchiappamosche | carta moschicida
sense_list:
A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it


lexentry: eng/flyweight__Noun__1
written_rep: flyweight
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: peso mosca
sense_list:
(martial arts) A weight class in many combat sports; e.g. in professional boxing of a maximum of 112 pounds or 50.8 kilograms.


lexentry: eng/flywheel__Noun__1
written_rep: flywheel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: volano
sense_list:
(mechanical engineering) A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying rate, or as a form of energy storage.


lexentry: eng/foam__Noun__1
written_rep: foam
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gomma piuma
sense_list:
(firefighting) A collection of small bubbles formed by mixing an extinguishing agent with water, used to cover and extinguish fires. | A collection of small bubbles created by mixing soap with water. | A collection of small bubbles created when the surface of a body of water is moved by tides, wind, etc. | A collection of small bubbles formed from bodily fluids such as saliva or sweat. | A collection of small bubbles on the surface of a liquid that is heated, fermented or carbonated.


lexentry: eng/fob_off__Verb__1
written_rep: fob off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: disorientare
sense_list:
(informal, transitive) To use lies, excuses, or deceit to satisfy someone; to deceitfully appease someone by giving something that is spurious or inferior from what was wanted or expected.


lexentry: eng/focal_length__Noun__1
written_rep: focal length
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lunghezza focale
sense_list:
(optics) A measure of how strongly an optical system converges or diverges light, the inverse of optical power. In the simple case of a single convex lens, it is the distance along the optical axis from the principal plane of the lens to the lens's focal point (where, for instance, the film would be placed in a camera). For more complex or multi-element optical systems, focal length need not correspond to any obvious measurable physical distance.


lexentry: eng/focus__Noun__1
written_rep: focus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: fuoco
sense_list:
(uncountable) Concentration of attention. | (linguistics) The most important word or phrase in a sentence or passage, or the one that imparts information. | An object used in casting a magic spell.


lexentry: eng/focus__Verb__1
written_rep: focus
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: mettere a fuoco | focalizzare
sense_list:
(transitive, optics) To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane.


lexentry: eng/focus__Verb__1
written_rep: focus
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: concentrarsi | su
sense_list:
(intransitive, followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention on something; to have as one's central point of interest, concern, etc.


lexentry: eng/fodder__Noun__1
written_rep: fodder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: foraggio | biada
sense_list:
Food for animals; that which is fed to cattle, horses, and sheep, such as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.


lexentry: eng/foehn__Noun__1
written_rep: foehn
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: föhn
sense_list:
A warm dry wind blowing down the north sides of the Alps, especially in Switzerland. | (meteorology) A similar katabatic wind developing on the lee side of a mountain.


lexentry: eng/fog__Noun__2
written_rep: fog
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: guaime
sense_list:
A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed. | (UK, dialect) Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.


lexentry: eng/fog_lamp__Noun__1
written_rep: fog lamp
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: antinebbia | fendinebbia
sense_list:
(automotive) A bright red lamp (normally one of a pair) at the rear of a motor car that can be switched on during foggy weather so as to avoid collisions from cars approaching from behind


lexentry: eng/fogbow__Noun__1
written_rep: fogbow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: arcobaleno bianco
sense_list:
(meteorology) A white arc or circle, similar to a rainbow, which can appear in the sky in foggy conditions as sunlight passes through small airborne water droplets.


lexentry: eng/fogey__Noun__1
written_rep: fogey
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: matusa | mummia | parruccone
sense_list:
A dull person (especially an older man) who is behind the times, holding antiquated, over-conservative views.


lexentry: eng/foible__Noun__1
written_rep: foible
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mania
sense_list:
(mostly, in plural) A quirk, idiosyncrasy, frailty, or mannerism; an unusual habit that is slightly strange or silly.


lexentry: eng/foil__Noun__1
written_rep: foil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: fioretto | spalla
sense_list:
(authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist, but can also serve as the sidekick of the protagonist.


lexentry: eng/foist__Verb__1
written_rep: foist
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: sbolognare
sense_list:
(transitive) To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit; to stick. | (transitive) To pass off as genuine or worthy.


lexentry: eng/fold__Verb__1
written_rep: fold
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: piegare
sense_list:
(transitive) To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself. | (transitive) To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending.


lexentry: eng/fold__Verb__1
written_rep: fold
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: amalgamare | sciogliere
sense_list:
(transitive, cooking) To stir (semisolid ingredients) gently, with an action as if folding over a solid.


lexentry: eng/folder__Noun__1
written_rep: folder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cartella | fascicolo
sense_list:
An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.


lexentry: eng/folder__Noun__1
written_rep: folder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cartella
sense_list:
(computing) A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are usually related.


lexentry: eng/folding_chair__Noun__1
written_rep: folding chair
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sedia pieghevole
sense_list:
A light portable chair that can be stored in a stack, row or on a specially designed cart. They are produced in a variety of styles, folding mechanisms and materials.


lexentry: eng/folding_knife__Noun__1
written_rep: folding knife
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: coltellino
sense_list:
A kind of knife whose blade or blades can be folded inside the handle, owing to a joint#Noun. Such a knife is usually a pocketknife; its action may be locking#Adjective or nonlocking#Adjective.


lexentry: eng/foliate__Verb__1
written_rep: foliate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: paginare
sense_list:
To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.


lexentry: eng/folic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: folic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: acido folico
sense_list:
(vitamin, carboxylic acid) A polycyclic heterocyclic carboxylic acid, one of the vitamin B complex, essential for cell growth and reproduction


lexentry: eng/folk__Noun__1
written_rep: folk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: popolo | abitante | autoctono | gente
sense_list:
(countable, archaic) A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.


lexentry: eng/folk_etymology__Noun__1
written_rep: folk etymology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: paretimologia | falsa etimologia | pseudoetimologia
sense_list:
A misunderstanding of the etymology of a word based on an inexpert analysis; an etymology that incorrectly explains the origin of a word based on the inadequate judgement of a common speaker of the language instead of etymological expertise.


lexentry: eng/folk_medicine__Noun__1
written_rep: folk medicine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: medicina popolare
sense_list:
(uncountable) Traditional medical practices developed and used by non-physicians, typically involving customary homespun techniques and medicinal remedies derived from native plants.


lexentry: eng/folk_music__Noun__1
written_rep: folk music
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: folk
sense_list:
Any genre of music originating from the ethnic community of a specific region, often passed down through oral tradition, without recorded songwriters and possessing a clear purpose or social function. | Any contemporary music in the style of traditional folk music, especially a specific genre of originally American popular music that draws on Anglo-American musical forms.


lexentry: eng/folk_song__Noun__1
written_rep: folk song
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: canto popolare
sense_list:
(music) A song, in any folk style, originating among ordinary people, usually non-professional musicians, and handed down by oral tradition.


lexentry: eng/follicle__Noun__1
written_rep: follicle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: follicolo
sense_list:
(anatomy) A small cavity or sac, such as a hair follicle. | (botany) A type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants.


lexentry: eng/follicle_stimulating_hormone__Noun__1
written_rep: follicle stimulating hormone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ormone follicolo-stimolante
sense_list:
(biochemistry) A gonadotropic glycoprotein hormone, secreted in part of the pituitary gland, that stimulates the growth of ovarian follicles in female mammals, and induces spermatogenesis in male mammals.


lexentry: eng/follow__Verb__1
written_rep: follow
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: seguire
sense_list:
(ambitransitive) To go after; to pursue; to move behind in the same path or direction, especially with the intent of catching. | (ambitransitive) To go or come after in a sequence. | (transitive) To live one's life according to (religion, teachings, etc). | (transitive) To understand, to pay attention to. | (social media, transitive) To subscribe to see content from an account on a social media platform. | (ambitransitive) To be a logical consequence of something.


lexentry: eng/follower__Noun__1
written_rep: follower
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: follower | seguace | seguitore
sense_list:
(social media) An account holder who subscribes to see content from another account on a social media platform.


lexentry: eng/fomentation__Noun__1
written_rep: fomentation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fomentazione
sense_list:
A lotion or poultice applied to a diseased or injured part of the body. | Encouragement; excitation; instigation.


lexentry: eng/fomite__Noun__1
written_rep: fomite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fomite
sense_list:
(medicine) An inanimate object capable of carrying infectious agents (such as bacteria, viruses or prions), and thus passively enabling their transmission between hosts; common examples include towels, dishcloths, kitchenware/flatware, and laundry.


lexentry: eng/fondue__Noun__1
written_rep: fondue
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fonduta
sense_list:
A dish made of melted cheese, or chocolate etc., or of a boiling liquid into which food can be dipped.


lexentry: eng/font__Noun__2
written_rep: font
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carattere
sense_list:
In digital typesetting, a set of glyphs in a single style, representing one or more alphabets or writing systems, or the computer code representing it.


lexentry: eng/font__Noun__2
written_rep: font
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: font
sense_list:
(computing, typography) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.


lexentry: eng/fontanelle__Noun__1
written_rep: fontanelle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fontanella
sense_list:
(anatomy) A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.


lexentry: eng/food__Noun__1
written_rep: food
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cibo | alimento | vitto
sense_list:
(uncountable) Any solid substance that can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life.


lexentry: eng/food_bank__Noun__1
written_rep: food bank
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: banco alimentare
sense_list:
A charitable non-profit organization that distributes mostly donated food to a wide variety of agencies to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger.


lexentry: eng/food_poisoning__Noun__1
written_rep: food poisoning
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: intossicazione alimentare
sense_list:
(pathology, bacteria) Any food-borne disease, such as salmonella, that typically causes diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, fever and abdominal cramps.


lexentry: eng/food_stamp__Noun__1
written_rep: food stamp
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: buono pasto
sense_list:
A stamp or similar paper document (e.g. coupon) issued to be exchanged in shops or storage facilities for food, or (by extension) for other essential provisions, notably in a rationing system or as a non-financial form of welfare benefit.


lexentry: eng/food_web__Noun__1
written_rep: food web
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: rete alimentare | rete trofica
sense_list:
(ecology) A diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem, predators being higher in the web than their prey.


lexentry: eng/fool's_errand__Noun__1
written_rep: fool's errand
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: compito da pazzi | follia | impresa folle
sense_list:
(idiomatic) A foolish undertaking, especially one that is purposeless, fruitless, nonsensical, or certain to fail.


lexentry: eng/fool__Noun__1
written_rep: fool
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: buffone | giullare | buffone di corte | pagliaccio
sense_list:
(historical) A jester; a person whose role was to entertain a sovereign and the court (or lower personages).


lexentry: eng/fool_around__Verb__1
written_rep: fool around
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: andare a zonzo
sense_list:
(intransitive, idiom) To engage in frivolous behaviour; to monkey around. | (intransitive) To waste time.


lexentry: eng/foolscap__Noun__1
written_rep: foolscap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: foglio protocollo
sense_list:
(strictly) Writing paper sheets measuring 13.25 x 16.5 inches | (more usually) Such a sheet folded or cut in half, thus approximately 8 x 13.25 inches.


lexentry: eng/foot-and-mouth_disease__Noun__1
written_rep: foot-and-mouth disease
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: afta epizootica
sense_list:
(pathology) A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.


lexentry: eng/foot__Noun__1
written_rep: foot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: zampa | piede
sense_list:
A biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.


lexentry: eng/foot__Noun__1
written_rep: foot
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: piede | zampa
sense_list:
A short foot-like projection on the bottom of an object to support it. | (informal) Ellipsis of cubic foot. A unit of volume. | (informal) Ellipsis of square foot. A unit of area. | A unit of measure equal to twelve inches or one third of a yard, equal to exactly 30.48 centimetres. | (music) A unit of measure for organ pipes equal to the wavelength of two octaves above middle C, approximately 328 mm. | (phonology) The parsing of syllables into prosodic constituents, which are used to determine the placement of stress in languages along with the notions of constituent heads.


lexentry: eng/football__Noun__1
written_rep: football
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: calcio
sense_list:
(UK, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, uncountable) Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.


lexentry: eng/football_hooligan__Noun__1
written_rep: football hooligan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ultras
sense_list:
(UK) A violent and noisy football (soccer) fan who routinely fights with supporters of opposing teams, often the member of a firm.


lexentry: eng/footboard__Noun__1
written_rep: footboard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cavalletto | pedana | predellino
sense_list:
A board or small raised platform on which to support or rest the feet, such as that found in a carriage.


lexentry: eng/footer__Noun__1
written_rep: footer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: piè
sense_list:
(computing) A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)


lexentry: eng/footlight__Noun__1
written_rep: footlight
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: luci della ribalta
sense_list:
A stage light located at the front edge of the stage that illuminates the actors from foot level up.


lexentry: eng/footlocker__Noun__1
written_rep: footlocker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mensa
sense_list:
A long, rectangular trunk or similar container that lies flat on the floor, especially one used for personal belongings and kept at the foot of a bed, commonly used in barracks and dormitories.


lexentry: eng/footnote__Noun__1
written_rep: footnote
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nota in calce
sense_list:
A short piece of text, often numbered, placed at the bottom of a printed page, that adds a comment, citation, reference etc, to a designated part of the main text. | (by extension) An event of lesser importance than some larger event to which it is related.


lexentry: eng/footsie__Noun__1
written_rep: footsie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: piedino
sense_list:
A flirting game where two people touch their feet together, under a table or otherwise concealed, as a romantic prelude.


lexentry: eng/for-profit__Adjective__1
written_rep: for-profit
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: commerciale
sense_list:
(of an organization) For the purpose of making money, especially in relation to an organization that was not formerly, or is not usually, run to make money.


lexentry: eng/for__Preposition__1
written_rep: for
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: per
sense_list:
Directed at; intended to belong to. | In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of. | In order to obtain or acquire.


lexentry: eng/for__Preposition__1
written_rep: for
part_of_speech: preposition
min_sense_num: 16
trans_list: per essere
sense_list:
By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering.


lexentry: eng/for_once__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: for once
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: per una volta | una volta tanto
sense_list:
(idiomatic) For the first time, after many instances to the contrary; in a rare exception to the rule; as an exception to the usual.


lexentry: eng/for_the_time_being__Adverb__1
written_rep: for the time being
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: per il momento
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Temporarily; for now; until later; until the situation changes; in an indefinite period of time.


lexentry: eng/for_what_it's_worth__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: for what it's worth
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: valga quel che può valere | valga quel che valga | varrà quel che varrà
sense_list:
Considering what limited worth this advice, opinion, or suggestion might have for you; used to soften the presentation of unsolicited advice or information that may not be relevant.


lexentry: eng/for_your_information__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: for your information
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: per vostra informazione
sense_list:
(colloquial) Used to introduce a rebuttal to the interlocutor's previous statement, especially when the statement angered or offended the speaker.


lexentry: eng/foraminifer__Noun__1
written_rep: foraminifer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: foraminifero
sense_list:
Any of a large group of aquatic amoeboid protists of the subphylum Foraminifera, characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm that among other things is used for catching food, often with a calcareous shell with many holes through which pseudopodia protrude.


lexentry: eng/foray__Noun__1
written_rep: foray
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: incursione | irruzione | scorrazzata | scorreria
sense_list:
A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.


lexentry: eng/forbidden_fruit_is_the_sweetest__Proverb__1
written_rep: forbidden fruit is the sweetest
part_of_speech: proverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: il frutto proibito è il più saporito
sense_list:
Forbidden things seem more appealing; people desire things more if (or, in some way, because) they can't have them.


lexentry: eng/force-feed__Verb__1
written_rep: force-feed
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: alimentare forzatamente
sense_list:
To force a person or animal to ingest food, for example by stuffing food down the throat, or using a tube passed into the stomach.


lexentry: eng/force__Noun__1
written_rep: force
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: forza
sense_list:
Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect. | Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion. | (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing. | (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn) | (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain. | (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain. | (legal) Legal validity. | (humorous, or, science fiction, with the, often, capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note. [1977]


lexentry: eng/force__Verb__1
written_rep: force
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 11
trans_list: costringere | forzare
sense_list:
(archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. | (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.


lexentry: eng/force_majeure__Noun__1
written_rep: force majeure
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: forza maggiore | caso fortuito
sense_list:
(law) An unavoidable circumstance, especially one that prevents someone from fulfilling a legal (usually contractual) obligation.


lexentry: eng/force_someone's_hand__Verb__1
written_rep: force someone's hand
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: forzare la mano
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Bring about a situation which necessitates an agent to act, often causing a plan to be executed prematurely.


lexentry: eng/forced_labor__Noun__1
written_rep: forced labor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lavoro forzato
sense_list:
(American spelling) Work which one is compelled to perform against one's will, especially in a condition of involuntary servitude as a prisoner or slave.


lexentry: eng/forced_march__Noun__1
written_rep: forced march
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: marcia forzata
sense_list:
(military) A movement on foot by soldiers or prisoners of war, who must, in order to satisfy a military requirement, travel at a speed or in adverse conditions that would normally tire them excessively.


lexentry: eng/forced_perspective__Noun__1
written_rep: forced perspective
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: prospettiva forzata
sense_list:
An optical illusion in which an object appears of a different size or distance away than it actually is.


lexentry: eng/forcemeat__Noun__1
written_rep: forcemeat
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ripieno
sense_list:
(cooking) An emulsion of fat and comminuted meat (which has been subject to puréeing, grinding, sieving, chopping finely) optionally mixed with other flavour carriers and either served up alone or used as a stuffing.


lexentry: eng/forceps__Noun__1
written_rep: forceps
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: forcipe
sense_list:
An instrument used in surgery or medical procedures for grasping and holding objects, similar to tongs or pincers.


lexentry: eng/forcibly__Adverb__1
written_rep: forcibly
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: di forza
sense_list:
In a forcible manner, by force, against one's will. | In a forcible manner, with force, with powerful effect, powerfully, strongly.


lexentry: eng/ford__Noun__1
written_rep: ford
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: guado
sense_list:
A location where a stream is shallow and the bottom has good footing, making it possible to cross from one side to the other with no bridge, by walking, riding, or driving through the water; a crossing.


lexentry: eng/foreclose__Verb__1
written_rep: foreclose
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: afferrare
sense_list:
(transitive, legal) To repossess a mortgaged property whose owner has failed to make the necessary payments; used with on.


lexentry: eng/foreclose__Verb__1
written_rep: foreclose
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: chiudere
sense_list:
(transitive, legal) To cut off (a mortgager) by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises.


lexentry: eng/foreclosure__Noun__1
written_rep: foreclosure
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pignoramento
sense_list:
(legal) The proceeding, by a creditor, to regain property or other collateral following a default on mortgage payments.


lexentry: eng/foreign__Adjective__1
written_rep: foreign
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: straniero | straniera
sense_list:
Originating from, characteristic of, belonging to, or being a citizen of a country or place other than the one under discussion.


lexentry: eng/foreign_correspondent__Noun__1
written_rep: foreign correspondent
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: corrispondente dall'estero
sense_list:
(journalism) A reporter or freelance journalist who is based in a foreign country, and who provides news reports and/or commentary from that place.


lexentry: eng/foreign_currency__Noun__1
written_rep: foreign currency
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: moneta straniera
sense_list:
(banking, finance) Any currency that is in use in a foreign nation, and an authorized medium of circulation and the basis for record-keeping in that nation.


lexentry: eng/foreign_debt__Noun__1
written_rep: foreign debt
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: debito estero
sense_list:
(countable, finance) A debt that a country, an organization in a country, or a resident individual in a country owes to those in other countries.


lexentry: eng/foreign_direct_investment__Noun__1
written_rep: foreign direct investment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: investimento diretto estero
sense_list:
(finance, economics) Direct investment into production or business in a country by an individual or company of another country, either by buying a company in the target country or by expanding operations of an existing business in that country.


lexentry: eng/foreign_key__Noun__1
written_rep: foreign key
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: chiave esterna
sense_list:
(database) A column (or group of columns) in a relational table that identifies another table, so that items in the two tables can be conceptually linked.


lexentry: eng/foremast__Noun__1
written_rep: foremast
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: albero di trinchetto
sense_list:
(nautical) The mast nearest the bow, on a sailing ship with more than one mast or a non-sailing ship with any masts; the second-tallest mast on a full-rigged ship.


lexentry: eng/forensic__Adjective__1
written_rep: forensic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: medico-legale | forense
sense_list:
Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.


lexentry: eng/forensic_medicine__Noun__1
written_rep: forensic medicine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: medicina legale
sense_list:
The application of medical science to criminal investigation, especially in establishing the causes of injury or death.


lexentry: eng/forensic_science__Noun__1
written_rep: forensic science
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: criminalistica
sense_list:
Any of several fields of study involving the collection of physical evidence and its subsequent analysis.


lexentry: eng/foreplay__Noun__1
written_rep: foreplay
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: preliminari
sense_list:
(sex) The acts at the beginning of a (usually human) sexual encounter that serve to build up sexual arousal.


lexentry: eng/foresail__Noun__1
written_rep: foresail
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: trinchetto
sense_list:
(nautical, on a square-rigged ship) The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast


lexentry: eng/foreshadowing__Noun__1
written_rep: foreshadowing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: augurio
sense_list:
(literature, usually, uncountable) A literary device whereby an author drops hints or symbolic representations of plot developments to come later in the story.


lexentry: eng/foreshortening__Noun__1
written_rep: foreshortening
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scorcio
sense_list:
(arts) A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.


lexentry: eng/foreskin__Noun__1
written_rep: foreskin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: prepuzio
sense_list:
(anatomy) The nerve-dense, retractable fold of skin which covers and protects the head of the penis in humans and some other mammals.


lexentry: eng/forest__Noun__1
written_rep: forest
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: foresta
sense_list:
Any dense collection or amount. | (graph theory) A graph with no cycles; i.e., a graph made up of trees.


lexentry: eng/forest_star__Noun__1
written_rep: forest star
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: molva
sense_list:
(Zambia, Zimbabwe) Mussaenda arcuata, a shrub species of the family Rubiaceae with a star-shaped 5-lobed yellow corolla, whose centre is also star-shaped and hairy, orange to brown in colour; native range is Tropical Africa and Western Indian Ocean.


lexentry: eng/forestall__Verb__1
written_rep: forestall
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: prevenire
sense_list:
(transitive) To prevent, delay or hinder something by taking precautionary or anticipatory measures; to avert.


lexentry: eng/forestry__Noun__1
written_rep: forestry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: selvicoltura | silvicoltura
sense_list:
(uncountable) The science of planting and growing trees in forests. | (uncountable) The art and practice of planting and growing trees in forests.


lexentry: eng/foreword__Noun__1
written_rep: foreword
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: prefazione
sense_list:
An introductory section preceding the main text of a book or other document; a preface or introduction.


lexentry: eng/foreyard__Noun__2
written_rep: foreyard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: trinchetto
sense_list:
(nautical) A yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.


lexentry: eng/forgeable__Adjective__1
written_rep: forgeable
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: malleabile, duttile
sense_list:
(metallurgy) That can be forged (shaped under heat and pressure). | (of signatures, money, etc.) That can be forged (counterfeited).


lexentry: eng/forger__Noun__1
written_rep: forger
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: falsario | falsaria
sense_list:
A person who creates forgeries, falsifies documents with intent to defraud, e.g. to create a false will or illicit copies of currency; counterfeiter.


lexentry: eng/forgery__Noun__1
written_rep: forgery
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: falsificazione
sense_list:
The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; especially the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another, the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud.


lexentry: eng/forget-me-not__Noun__1
written_rep: forget-me-not
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nontiscordardimé | miosotide
sense_list:
Any of the flowering plants of the genus Myosotis, mostly with a small five-petalled blue flower; a flower from such a plant.


lexentry: eng/forget__Verb__1
written_rep: forget
part_of_speech: verb
trans_list:
dimenticare come si fa | dimenticare di fare | dimenticarsi | disapprendere | disimprimere | scordarsi


lexentry: eng/forget__Verb__1
written_rep: forget
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: dimenticare
sense_list:
(transitive) To unintentionally not do, neglect. | (transitive) To unintentionally leave something behind.


lexentry: eng/forgetfulness__Noun__1
written_rep: forgetfulness
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dimenticanza
sense_list:
The quality of being forgetful; proneness to let slip from the mind. | Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention.


lexentry: eng/forgive__Verb__1
written_rep: forgive
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: perdonare
sense_list:
(transitive) To pardon (someone); to waive any negative feeling towards or desire for punishment or retribution against. | (transitive) To pardon for (something); to waive any negative feeling over or retribution for.


lexentry: eng/fork__Noun__1
written_rep: fork
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: forchetta
sense_list:
Such a pronged tool having a long straight handle, generally for two-handed use, as used for digging, lifting, mucking, pitching, etc. | (chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).


lexentry: eng/fork__Noun__1
written_rep: fork
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: biforcazione | bivio | ramo
sense_list:
(by abstraction, from the tool shape) A point where a waterway, such as a river or other stream, splits and flows into two (or more) different directions.


lexentry: eng/fork__Noun__1
written_rep: fork
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: affluente | biforcazione | diramazione | esecuzione di una fork | immissario | ramificazione
sense_list:
(metonymically, and analogous to any prong of a pronged tool) One of the parts into which anything is furcated or divided; a prong; a branch of a stream, a road, etc.; a barbed point, as of an arrow.


lexentry: eng/fork__Noun__1
written_rep: fork
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: affluente | immissario | tributario
sense_list:
(content management) The splitting of the coverage of a topic (within a corpus of content) into two or more pieces.


lexentry: eng/fork__Noun__1
written_rep: fork
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 11
trans_list: forcella | forchetta
sense_list:
(cycling, motorcycles, by abstraction from a pronged tool's shape) In a bicycle or motorcycle, the portion of the frameset holding the front wheel, allowing the rider to steer and balance, also called front fork.


lexentry: eng/fork_hoe__Noun__1
written_rep: fork hoe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: magaglio
sense_list:
A hoe with two or more tines at right angles to the shaft, typically used to loosen the soil for planting or sowing.


lexentry: eng/forklift__Noun__1
written_rep: forklift
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: carrello elevatore | muletto
sense_list:
A small industrial vehicle with a power-operated fork-like pronged platform that can be raised and lowered for insertion under a load, often on pallets, to be lifted and moved.


lexentry: eng/form__Verb__1
written_rep: form
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: formare
sense_list:
(transitive) To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | (transitive, linguistics) To create (a word) by inflection or derivation.


lexentry: eng/form_factor__Noun__1
written_rep: form factor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fattore di forma
sense_list:
(physics) The ratio of the RMS value to the absolute mean of a sinusoidal wave (especially to that of an alternating current) | (crystallography) A function that describes the scattering power of an atom as function of the scattering angle


lexentry: eng/form_of_government__Noun__1
written_rep: form of government
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: forma di governo
sense_list:
(political science) The system by which a state or community is controlled, as for decision-making or choice of rulers.


lexentry: eng/formal__Adjective__1
written_rep: formal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: formale
sense_list:
Being in accord with established forms. | Relating to the form or structure of something. | (mathematics, philosophy) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to their meaning.


lexentry: eng/formaldehyde__Noun__1
written_rep: formaldehyde
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: formaldeide
sense_list:
(organic compound) The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin.


lexentry: eng/formalism__Noun__1
written_rep: formalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: formalismo
sense_list:
(linguistics, computing, mathematics) A formal expression of a grammar; a formal grammar; a set of rules of syntax that, without reference to semantics, determine whether a sequence of symbols is a well-formed sentence in a given formal language.


lexentry: eng/formalist__Noun__1
written_rep: formalist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: formalista
sense_list:
An overly formal person, especially one who adheres to current forms; a stickler | An advocate of formalism


lexentry: eng/formality__Noun__1
written_rep: formality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: formalità
sense_list:
(uncountable) The state of being formal. | A customary ritual without substance, real consequence, or unique meaning. | (countable) A specific requirement for obtaining a legal status, conducting a transaction, etc.


lexentry: eng/formant__Noun__1
written_rep: formant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: formante
sense_list:
(physics, phonetics) A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants.


lexentry: eng/format__Verb__1
written_rep: format
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: formattare
sense_list:
(computing) To prepare a mass storage medium for initial use, erasing any existing data in the process.


lexentry: eng/former_Yugoslav_Republic_of_Macedonia__Proper_noun__1
written_rep: former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
part_of_speech: properNoun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: Repubblica Ex Jugoslava di Macedonia
sense_list:
A provisional designation (because of a naming dispute with Greece) formerly used by many international organizations to refer to the Republic of North Macedonia, a country on the Balkan Peninsula. (Abbreviated FYROM.)


lexentry: eng/formic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: formic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: acido formico
sense_list:
(carboxylic acid) The simplest carboxylic acid, HCOOH, a colourless, corrosive liquid with a sharp odour systematically known as methanoic acid; it is present in the stings of ants, bees and nettles, and is prepared industrially by the oxidation of methanol or formaldehyde; it has some industrial uses, and its esters, the formates are used in perfumes.


lexentry: eng/formidable__Adjective__1
written_rep: formidable
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: enorme
sense_list:
Causing fear, dread, awe, or discouragement as a result of size, strength, or some other impressive feature; commanding respect; causing wonder or astonishment.


lexentry: eng/formula__Noun__1
written_rep: formula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: formula
sense_list:
(mathematics) Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically. | (chemistry) A symbolic expression of the structure of a compound.


lexentry: eng/formula__Noun__1
written_rep: formula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: formula per lattanti | latte artificiale
sense_list:
(countable, uncountable) Ellipsis of infant formula; drink given to babies to substitute for mother's milk.


lexentry: eng/formyl__Noun__1
written_rep: formyl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: formile
sense_list:
(organic chemistry) The univalent radical -CHO, derived from formaldehyde, that is characteristic of aldehydes


lexentry: eng/fornication__Noun__1
written_rep: fornication
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fornicazione
sense_list:
(religion, law) Sexual intercourse by people who are not married to each other, or which is considered illicit in another way.


lexentry: eng/fornicator__Noun__1
written_rep: fornicator
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bagascia
sense_list:
An unmarried person who engages in sexual intercourse, especially when considered to be of an illicit or illegal nature.


lexentry: eng/fortification__Noun__1
written_rep: fortification
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fortificazione
sense_list:
The act of fortifying; the art or science of fortifying places to strengthen defence against an enemy. | That which fortifies; especially, a work or works erected to defend a place against attack; a fortified place; a fortress; a fort; a castle.


lexentry: eng/fortified_wine__Noun__1
written_rep: fortified wine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vino fortificato
sense_list:
A wine to which additional ethanol (an alcohol) has been added, the most common additive being brandy (a spirit distilled from wine).


lexentry: eng/fortify__Verb__1
written_rep: fortify
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: arricchire
sense_list:
To increase the nutritional value of (food) by adding ingredients, especially minerals or vitamins. [from mid 20th c.]


lexentry: eng/fortress__Noun__1
written_rep: fortress
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fortezza | rocca
sense_list:
A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.


lexentry: eng/fortune-telling__Noun__1
written_rep: fortune-telling
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: divinazione
sense_list:
The act or practise of predicting the future (especially for money), as by using a crystal ball, reading palms, reading tea leaves in a cup, etc.; prediction of future events, especially those of a personal nature.


lexentry: eng/fortune_cookie__Noun__1
written_rep: fortune cookie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: biscotto della fortuna
sense_list:
A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese cuisine: a crisp sugary wafer containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message or random numbers usable in a lottery printed on the paper.


lexentry: eng/fortune_hunter__Noun__1
written_rep: fortune hunter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: avventuriero
sense_list:
A person who eagerly seeks wealth without working to earn it, especially in an adventurous way or in an unsavory or unscrupulous way such as through marriage.


lexentry: eng/forty-first__Adjective__1
written_rep: forty-first
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quarantunesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number forty-one, describing a person or thing in position number 41 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/forty-seventh__Adjective__1
written_rep: forty-seventh
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quarantasettesimo
sense_list:
The ordinal form of the number forty-seven, describing a person or thing in position number 47 of a sequence.


lexentry: eng/forum__Noun__1
written_rep: forum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: forum
sense_list:
A gathering for the purpose of discussion; a symposium. | A form of discussion involving a panel of presenters and often participation by members of the audience. | (Internet) An Internet message board where users can post messages regarding one or more topics of discussion.


lexentry: eng/forward__Adverb__1
written_rep: forward
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: avanti
sense_list:
(nautical) At, near, or towards the bow of a vessel (with the frame of reference within the vessel).


lexentry: eng/forward__Noun__1
written_rep: forward
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: avanti | attaccante | calciatore
sense_list:
(soccer) A player on a team in football (soccer) in the row nearest to the opposing team's goal, who are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals.


lexentry: eng/forward_roll__Noun__1
written_rep: forward roll
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: giravolta
sense_list:
(gymnastics) A movement in which one's body is rolled forward, by putting the head on the ground and swinging the legs over the head.


lexentry: eng/fossa__Noun__2
written_rep: fossa
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fosa
sense_list:
A large nocturnal reddish-brown catlike mammal (Cryptoprocta ferox) of the civet family, endemic to the rainforests of Madagascar. It is slender, long-tailed and has retractile claws and anal scent glands.


lexentry: eng/fossil__Noun__1
written_rep: fossil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fossile
sense_list:
The mineralized remains of an animal or plant. | (paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals. | (linguistics) A fossil word. | (figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.


lexentry: eng/fossil_fuel__Noun__1
written_rep: fossil fuel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: combustibile fossile
sense_list:
Any fuel derived from hydrocarbon deposits such as coal, petroleum, natural gas and, to some extent, peat; these fuels are non-renewable, and their burning moves carbon from underground into the atmosphere via the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.


lexentry: eng/fossilization__Noun__1
written_rep: fossilization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fossilizzazione
sense_list:
The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil. | (figuratively, by extension) The process of becoming fixed, unchanging, and out of date.


lexentry: eng/foster__Verb__1
written_rep: foster
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: accudire | adottare | allevare | curare | favorire | incoraggiare
sense_list:
(transitive) To nurture or bring up offspring, or to provide similar parental care to an unrelated child.


lexentry: eng/foster_care__Noun__1
written_rep: foster care
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: affido familiare
sense_list:
A formal system by which a child is cared for, in a foster family, by people other than its own parents, but without being adopted.


lexentry: eng/foul__Noun__1
written_rep: foul
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fallo
sense_list:
(sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.


lexentry: eng/foundation__Noun__1
written_rep: foundation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fondazione
sense_list:
The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect. | That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity.


lexentry: eng/foundation__Noun__1
written_rep: foundation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fondamenta
sense_list:
That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; underbuilding.


lexentry: eng/foundation__Noun__1
written_rep: foundation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: fondazione | fondamento
sense_list:
(architecture) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry.


lexentry: eng/foundation__Noun__1
written_rep: foundation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: fondotinta
sense_list:
(cosmetics) Cosmetic cream roughly skin-colored, designed to make the face appear uniform in color and texture.


lexentry: eng/foundation_stone__Noun__1
written_rep: foundation stone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: prima pietra
sense_list:
A stone laid during the construction of a (usually important) building, the laying of which is usually marked by a ceremony.


lexentry: eng/founding_member__Noun__1
written_rep: founding member
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: membro fondatore | socio fondatore
sense_list:
(US) A member of an organization that was involved in, or whose membership commenced with, the organization's foundation.


lexentry: eng/foundling_wheel__Noun__1
written_rep: foundling wheel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ruota dei trovatelli
sense_list:
a revolving crib set in the wall of a church or convent, allowing an abandoned baby to be left anonymously and safely.


lexentry: eng/foundry__Noun__1
written_rep: foundry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fonderia
sense_list:
A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.


lexentry: eng/fount__Noun__1
written_rep: fount
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fonte
sense_list:
Something from which water flows. | (figuratively) That from which something flows or proceeds; a source.


lexentry: eng/fountain__Noun__1
written_rep: fountain
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fontana
sense_list:
An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure. | The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.


lexentry: eng/fountain_of_youth__Noun__1
written_rep: fountain of youth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fonte della giovinezza
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Anything reputed to have the power to restore health and vitality or to restore a youthful appearance.


lexentry: eng/four-dimensional__Adjective__1
written_rep: four-dimensional
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quadrimensionale
sense_list:
(algebraic geometry) Having four dimensions; being measurable along four mutually perpendicular axes. | (physics) Relating to the four dimensions of space-time (three spatial dimensions with the addition of time as the fourth).


lexentry: eng/four-vector__Noun__1
written_rep: four-vector
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quadrivettore
sense_list:
(mathematics) A vector in four-dimensional vector space, especially one having three spatial dimensions and one temporal dimension.


lexentry: eng/four__Numeral__1
written_rep: four
part_of_speech: numeral
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quattro
sense_list:
A numerical value equal to 4; the number after three and before five; two plus two. This many dots (••••)


lexentry: eng/four_hundred__Numeral__1
written_rep: four hundred
part_of_speech: numeral
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quattrocento
sense_list:
The cardinal number occurring after three hundred ninety-nine and before four hundred one, represented in Arabic numerals as 400.


lexentry: eng/four_o'clock__Noun__1
written_rep: four o'clock
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: merenda
sense_list:
(In both the 12-hour clock and the 24-hour clock) The start of the fifth hour of the day; 4:00 a.m. (04:00).


lexentry: eng/foursome__Noun__1
written_rep: foursome
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quartetto
sense_list:
A group of four, a quartet or a game (such as golf) played by four players, especially by two teams of two.


lexentry: eng/fourteen__Numeral__1
written_rep: fourteen
part_of_speech: numeral
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quattordici
sense_list:
The cardinal number occurring after thirteen and before fifteen, represented in Roman numerals as XIV and in Arabic numerals as 14.


lexentry: eng/fourth_official__Noun__1
written_rep: fourth official
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: giudice
sense_list:
(soccer) The official who keeps things at the dugout in order, and displays substitutions and the amount of injury time


lexentry: eng/fowl__Noun__1
written_rep: fowl
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: pollame | volatile
sense_list:
Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes such as ducks, geese and swans, together forming the clade Galloanserae.


lexentry: eng/fox__Noun__1
written_rep: fox
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: volpe
sense_list:
A red fox, small carnivore (Vulpes vulpes), related to dogs and wolves, with red or silver fur and a bushy tail. | Any of numerous species of small wild canids resembling the red fox. In the taxonomy they form the tribe Vulpini within the family Canidae, consisting of nine genera (see the Wikipedia article on the fox). | (slang, metaphor) A cunning person.


lexentry: eng/fox_in_the_henhouse__Noun__1
written_rep: fox in the henhouse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: volpe nel pollaio
sense_list:
(idiomatic, metaphor) Someone untrustworthy placed in a position of trust in which they will be harmful, damaging or detrimental for their own personal gain.


lexentry: eng/foxglove__Noun__1
written_rep: foxglove
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: digitale
sense_list:
Digitalis, a genus of about 20 species of herbaceous biennials native to the Old World, certain of which are prized for their showy flowers. The drug digitalis or digoxin was first isolated from the plant.


lexentry: eng/fractal__Noun__1
written_rep: fractal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frattale
sense_list:
(mathematics) A mathematical set that has a non-integer and constant Hausdorff dimension, corresponding to a geometric figure or object that is self-similar at arbitrarily small scales and thus has infinite complexity. | (by extension) An object, system, or idea that exhibits a fractal-like property, such as the property of self-similarity at numerous but not infinitely many scales.


lexentry: eng/fraction__Noun__1
written_rep: fraction
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frazione
sense_list:
A part of a whole, especially a comparatively small part. | (arithmetic) A ratio of two numbers (numerator and denominator), usually written one above the other and separated by a horizontal bar called the vinculum or, alternatively, in sequence on the same line and separated by a solidus (diagonal bar).


lexentry: eng/fractional_calculus__Noun__1
written_rep: fractional calculus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calcolo frazionario
sense_list:
(analysis, uncountable) The branch of mathematics that studies generalisations of calculus to allow noninteger (i.e., real or complex) powers of the differentiation operator D and the integration operator J; (countable) any one of said generalisations of calculus.


lexentry: eng/frag__Verb__1
written_rep: frag
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: ammazzare
sense_list:
(transitive, military, and, video games, slang) To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade.


lexentry: eng/fragment__Noun__1
written_rep: fragment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frammento
sense_list:
A part broken off; a small, detached portion; an imperfect part, either physically or not | (grammar) A sentence not containing a subject or a predicate; a sentence fragment. | (computing) An incomplete portion of code.


lexentry: eng/fragmentation__Noun__1
written_rep: fragmentation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frammentazione
sense_list:
The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration. | The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter. | (computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk. | (computing) The breaking up of a data packet when larger than the transmission unit of a network.


lexentry: eng/frailty__Noun__1
written_rep: frailty
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fragilità
sense_list:
(uncountable) The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.


lexentry: eng/frame__Noun__1
written_rep: frame
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: ossatura | scheletro
sense_list:
A human body or the structure thereof; the size, shape, sturdiness etc. of a person's body as described in a certain way; one's build.


lexentry: eng/frame__Noun__1
written_rep: frame
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 09
trans_list: telaio | armatura | impalcatura | incastellatura
sense_list:
(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.


lexentry: eng/frame__Noun__1
written_rep: frame
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 14
trans_list: fotogramma
sense_list:
(electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30th or 1/60th of a second.


lexentry: eng/frame_counter__Noun__1
written_rep: frame counter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: contafotogrammi
sense_list:
(photography) An indicator, in roll film cameras, that shows the number of frames that have moved through the camera (number of exposures taken).


lexentry: eng/frame_of_reference__Noun__1
written_rep: frame of reference
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quadro di riferimento
sense_list:
A set of assumptions, ideas and standards that form a viewpoint from which philosophical, religious and other ideas may be evaluated.


lexentry: eng/frame_of_reference__Noun__1
written_rep: frame of reference
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: sistema di riferimento
sense_list:
(physics) A set of axes which enable an observer to measure the position and motion of all bodies in some system relative to the reference frame.


lexentry: eng/framer__Noun__1
written_rep: framer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: corniciaio
sense_list:
A person who makes frames for paintings. | A person who assembles the frame of a ship. | (internet) A person who embeds another person's web pages in an HTML frame, so that they misleadingly appear to be part of the framing site.


lexentry: eng/framework__Noun__1
written_rep: framework
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: inquadramento | struttura portante
sense_list:
(literally) A support structure comprising joined parts or conglomerated particles and intervening open spaces of similar or larger size.


lexentry: eng/framework__Noun__1
written_rep: framework
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: inquadramento
sense_list:
(grammar) An established and structured system of rules and principles used for analyzing and describing the structure of a language.


lexentry: eng/framework_law__Noun__1
written_rep: framework law
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: legge quadro | legge cornice
sense_list:
(law) Law that establishes general principles but leaves to governing authorities the task of enacting the further legislation and specific measures to achieve the law's objectives.


lexentry: eng/franc__Noun__1
written_rep: franc
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: franco
sense_list:
A former unit of currency of France, Belgium and Luxembourg, replaced by the euro. | Any of several units of currency, some of which are multi-national (West African CFA Franc (XOF), Central African CFA Franc (XAF), the Swiss franc (CHF)) while others are national currencies.


lexentry: eng/francium__Noun__1
written_rep: francium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: francio
sense_list:
The chemical element (symbol Fr) with an atomic number of 87. It is an intensely radioactive alkali metal that is not found in nature.


lexentry: eng/francolin__Noun__1
written_rep: francolin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: francolino
sense_list:
Any of various terrestrial partridges of several genera in family Phasianidae, principally in tribe Gallini.


lexentry: eng/frangipani__Noun__1
written_rep: frangipani
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frangipane
sense_list:
Any of several tropical American shrubs and trees of the genus Plumeria, having fragrant, showy, funnel-shaped flowers of a wide range of colours from creamy to red.


lexentry: eng/franking__Noun__1
written_rep: franking
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: affrancatrice
sense_list:
(countable) A device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced.


lexentry: eng/frankly__Adverb__1
written_rep: frankly
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: francamente
sense_list:
In a frank or candid manner, especially in a way that may seem too open, excessively honest, or slightly blunt.


lexentry: eng/frass__Noun__1
written_rep: frass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: tarlatura
sense_list:
The sawdust-like byproduct of wood-boring insects like woodworm, termites, old-house borers or powderpost beetles.


lexentry: eng/fraught__Adjective__1
written_rep: fraught
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: carico | gravido | pieno
sense_list:
Followed by with: carrying, or charged or loaded up with (usually something negative); accompanied by; entailing.


lexentry: eng/fraught__Adjective__1
written_rep: fraught
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: teso
sense_list:
(specifically) Carrying or loaded with anxiety, fear, or stress, for example, due to complexity or difficulty; distressed; also, causing distress; distressing.


lexentry: eng/fray__Noun__2
written_rep: fray
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mischia | agone | baruffa
sense_list:
(countable) A noisy commotion, especially resulting from fighting; a brawl, a fight; also, a loud quarrel.


lexentry: eng/freak__Noun__1
written_rep: freak
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: abnorme | fricchettone
sense_list:
(chiefly, derogatory) A person who is extremely abnormal in appearance, social behavior, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or business practices; an oddball, a unique person, originally in a displeasing or alienating way.


lexentry: eng/freak__Noun__1
written_rep: freak
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: bizzarria | deforme | fenomeno
sense_list:
(bodybuilding) A person whose physique has grown far beyond the normal limits of muscular development; often a bodybuilder weighing more than 260 pounds (120 kg).


lexentry: eng/freak_out__Verb__1
written_rep: freak out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dare di matto | sclerare
sense_list:
(informal, intransitive) To react with extreme anger or fear, to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally.


lexentry: eng/free-diving__Noun__1
written_rep: free-diving
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: apnea
sense_list:
Any of various aquatic disciplines in which divers attempt to stay underwater without breathing apparatus for as long as possible.


lexentry: eng/free-range__Adjective__1
written_rep: free-range
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ruspante
sense_list:
Of, pertaining to, or produced by animals that are allowed to roam freely, rather than being confined indoors.


lexentry: eng/free__Adjective__1
written_rep: free
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: libero | gratuito
sense_list:
Not imprisoned or enslaved. | Unobstructed, without blockages. | Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.


lexentry: eng/free_group__Noun__1
written_rep: free group
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gruppo libero
sense_list:
(group theory) A group that has a presentation without relators; equivalently, a free product of some number of copies of ℤ.


lexentry: eng/free_imperial_city__Noun__1
written_rep: free imperial city
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: città libera dell'Impero
sense_list:
(historical) A self-ruling city within the Holy Roman Empire that had some autonomy and was represented in the Imperial Diet.


lexentry: eng/free_kick__Noun__1
written_rep: free kick
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calcio di punizione
sense_list:
(American football, association football, Australian rules football, rugby, other ballgames) a kick in which a player may kick the ball without interference from the opposition. Such a kick may be awarded for a foul by the opposition, or earned by a player such as by taking a mark.


lexentry: eng/free_market__Noun__1
written_rep: free market
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: libero mercato
sense_list:
(economics) Any market in which trade is unregulated by government; an economic system free from government intervention.


lexentry: eng/free_radical__Noun__1
written_rep: free radical
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: radicale libero
sense_list:
(chemistry, physics) A molecule, ion or atom that has one or more unpaired electrons, and which is generally highly reactive (and therefore often occurs only as a transient species).


lexentry: eng/free_running__Noun__1
written_rep: free running
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: parkour
sense_list:
The activity of combining parkour with gymnastics to pass obstacles and demonstrate athletic talent, most often in urban environments.


lexentry: eng/free_software__Noun__1
written_rep: free software
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: software libero
sense_list:
(software) Software that can be freely copied, redistributed and modified, including source code; software that is libre.


lexentry: eng/free_verse__Noun__1
written_rep: free verse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: verso libero
sense_list:
(uncountable) A poetic form divided into lines of no particular length or meter, without a rhyme scheme.


lexentry: eng/free_will__Noun__1
written_rep: free will
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: libero arbitrio
sense_list:
(philosophy, Christianity) The ability to choose one's actions and make choices that are not predetermined by predestination, fate, etc.


lexentry: eng/free_world__Noun__1
written_rep: free world
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mondo libero
sense_list:
(politics) Collectively, all of the countries that have democratic or capitalistic governments, as opposed to dictatorships or communist states.


lexentry: eng/freebooting__Noun__1
written_rep: freebooting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pirateria
sense_list:
Piracy or plundering. | (computing) Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.


lexentry: eng/freedom__Noun__1
written_rep: freedom
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: libertà
sense_list:
(uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved. | (countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.


lexentry: eng/freedom_fighter__Noun__1
written_rep: freedom fighter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: combattente per la libertà
sense_list:
A person involved in armed conflict against an occupation, or oppressive government, etc.; a revolutionary, an insurgent, a rebel or insurrectionist.


lexentry: eng/freedom_of_panorama__Noun__1
written_rep: freedom of panorama
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: libertà di panorama
sense_list:
(copyright) A provision in copyright law that permits taking photographs or video footage, or creating other images (such as paintings), of buildings and sometimes artworks that are permanently located in a public place, and publishing such images without infringing copyright.


lexentry: eng/freedom_of_religion__Noun__1
written_rep: freedom of religion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: libertà religiosa
sense_list:
The right of people to hold any religious beliefs, or none, and to carry out any practices in accordance with those beliefs or with that absence of belief, so long as these practices do not interfere with other people's legal or civil rights, or any reasonable laws, without fear of harm or prosecution.


lexentry: eng/freedom_of_the_press__Noun__1
written_rep: freedom of the press
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: libertà di stampa
sense_list:
The right of citizens or the media to print, or otherwise disseminate, speech, ideas and opinions without fear or harm of prosecution.


lexentry: eng/freefall__Noun__1
written_rep: freefall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: caduta libera
sense_list:
(common usage) The state of falling with no interference from outside forces other than the air resistance (no open parachute, etc.) | (by extension) The state of worsening out of control.


lexentry: eng/freeloader__Noun__1
written_rep: freeloader
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scroccone | approfittatore | parassita
sense_list:
(colloquial) One who does not contribute or pay appropriately; one who gets a free ride, etc. without paying a fair share.


lexentry: eng/freestone__Noun__1
written_rep: freestone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: arenaria
sense_list:
Sedimentary rock: a type of stone that is composed of small particles and easily shaped, most commonly sandstone or limestone.


lexentry: eng/freestyle__Noun__1
written_rep: freestyle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bracciata libera
sense_list:
(swimming, by extension) The swimming stroke commonly referred to as the front crawl or the Australian crawl.


lexentry: eng/freethinker__Noun__1
written_rep: freethinker
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: libero pensatore | libero pensatrice
sense_list:
A person who has formed his or her opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion.


lexentry: eng/freewheel__Noun__1
written_rep: freewheel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ruota libera
sense_list:
A device in a transmission that disengages the driveshaft from the driven shaft when the driven shaft rotates faster than the driveshaft.


lexentry: eng/freeze-dry__Verb__1
written_rep: freeze-dry
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: liofilizzare
sense_list:
(transitive) To remove volatile liquid from (a substance) by sublimation, normally under vacuum, from the frozen state.


lexentry: eng/freeze-drying__Noun__1
written_rep: freeze-drying
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: liofilizzazione
sense_list:
The process of dehydration by sublimation for preservation or convenience; the removal of moisture from a frozen material using vacuum.


lexentry: eng/freeze__Verb__1
written_rep: freeze
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: congelare
sense_list:
(transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | (transitive) To cause someone to become motionless. | (figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize. | (transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets


lexentry: eng/freeze_up__Verb__1
written_rep: freeze up
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: congelare
sense_list:
(ambitransitive) (of machines and software) To come or bring to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).


lexentry: eng/freezer__Noun__1
written_rep: freezer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: congelatore
sense_list:
An appliance or room used to store food or other perishable items at temperatures below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit). | The section of a refrigerator used to store food or other perishable items at a temperature below 0° Celsius (32° Fahrenheit).


lexentry: eng/freezing__Noun__1
written_rep: freezing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: solidificazione
sense_list:
(uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature.


lexentry: eng/freezing_point__Noun__1
written_rep: freezing point
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: punto di congelamento
sense_list:
(physics, chemistry) The temperature at which a liquid freezes, and the solid and liquid phases are in equilibrium; normally the same as the melting point.


lexentry: eng/freight__Noun__1
written_rep: freight
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: porto
sense_list:
(uncountable) Goods or items in transport; cargo, luggage. | (countable) Payment for transportation.


lexentry: eng/freight__Verb__1
written_rep: freight
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caricare
sense_list:
To load (a vehicle or vessel) with freight (cargo); also, to hire or rent out (a vehicle or vessel) to carry cargo or passengers.


lexentry: eng/french_fries__Noun__1
written_rep: french fries
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: patatine fritte | patate fritte | patata fritta | patatina | patatina fritta
sense_list:
(chiefly, North America) Strips of deep-fried potatoes that have been frenched (cut into strips). [from 1903]


lexentry: eng/frenulum__Noun__1
written_rep: frenulum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frenulo
sense_list:
(anatomy) A small fold or ridge of tissue that supports or restrains the motion of the part to which it is attached, in particular a fold of skin beneath the tongue, or between the lip and the gum.


lexentry: eng/freon__Noun__1
written_rep: freon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: freon
sense_list:
(organic compound) Any of several non-flammable refrigerants based on halogenated hydrocarbon including R-12, R-22, and R-23. | (refrigeration, slang) A gaseous ozone-depleting refrigerant


lexentry: eng/frequency__Noun__1
written_rep: frequency
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frequenza
sense_list:
(uncountable, or, countable) The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period. | (uncountable) The property of occurring often rather than infrequently. | (countable) The quotient of the number of times n a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time t in which it occurs: f = n / t.


lexentry: eng/frequentative__Noun__1
written_rep: frequentative
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frequentativo
sense_list:
(grammar) Any of a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.


lexentry: eng/frequentative_aspect__Noun__1
written_rep: frequentative aspect
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frequentativo
sense_list:
(grammar) A subclass of imperfective verbs that denotes a continuously repeated action. An example in English would be the frequentative verb to crackle, as opposed to the nonfrequentative to crack.


lexentry: eng/frequently_asked_questions__Noun__1
written_rep: frequently asked questions
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: domande frequenti | domande poste di frequente
sense_list:
An online document containing a list of the questions most often asked about a particular subject, together with answers.


lexentry: eng/fresco__Noun__1
written_rep: fresco
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: affresco
sense_list:
(countable, painting) An artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster. | (uncountable, painting) The technique used to make such an artwork.


lexentry: eng/frescoed__Adjective__1
written_rep: frescoed
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: affrescato
sense_list:
Painted with frescos ("an artwork made by applying water-based pigment to wet or fresh lime mortar or plaster").


lexentry: eng/fresh__Adjective__1
written_rep: fresh
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: recente | nuovo
sense_list:
Newly produced or obtained; recent. | Rested; not tired or fatigued. | In a raw or untried state; uncultured; unpracticed.


lexentry: eng/freshman__Noun__1
written_rep: freshman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: matricola
sense_list:
(US, Canada, Philippines) a person (of either sex) entering the first year of an institution, especially a high school (ninth grade for US, grade 9 for Canada, grade 7 for Philippines), a university, or legislative body


lexentry: eng/fret__Noun__3
written_rep: fret
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: tasto
sense_list:
(music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.


lexentry: eng/fret__Verb__1
written_rep: fret
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: preoccuparsi
sense_list:
(transitive) To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple. | (intransitive) To be worn away; to chafe; to fray. | (intransitive) To be agitated; to rankle; to be in violent commotion.


lexentry: eng/fret__Verb__1
written_rep: fret
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: preoccupare | preoccuparsi
sense_list:
(ambitransitive) To be chafed or irritated; to be angry or vexed; to utter peevish expressions through irritation or worry.


lexentry: eng/fretsaw__Noun__1
written_rep: fretsaw
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: seghetto da traforo
sense_list:
A saw consisting of a metal frame having a fine-toothed narrow blade held under tension, used in making curved cuts.


lexentry: eng/friar__Noun__1
written_rep: friar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frate
sense_list:
A member of a mendicant Christian order such as the Augustinians, Carmelites (white friars), Franciscans (grey friars) or the Dominicans (black friars).


lexentry: eng/fricative__Noun__1
written_rep: fricative
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fricativo
sense_list:
(phonetics) Any of several speech sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.


lexentry: eng/friction__Noun__1
written_rep: friction
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: attrito | frizione
sense_list:
The rubbing of one object or surface against another. | (physics) A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.


lexentry: eng/friction__Noun__1
written_rep: friction
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: attrito | contrasto | dissenso | divergenza
sense_list:
(figuratively) Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash. | (China, historical) (Second Sino-Japanese War) Conflict, as between the Communists and non-Hanjian Kuomintang forces.


lexentry: eng/fridge_magnet__Noun__1
written_rep: fridge magnet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calamita
sense_list:
A decoration attached to a magnet, displayed on the outside of refrigerator doors, sometimes used to attach a written reminder.


lexentry: eng/fried_rice__Noun__1
written_rep: fried rice
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: riso alla cantonese
sense_list:
Any of very many forms of rice that are first cooked by boiling and then stir-fried with other ingredients


lexentry: eng/friend__Noun__1
written_rep: friend
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: amica
sense_list:
A person, typically someone other than a family member, spouse or lover, whose company one enjoys and towards whom one feels affection.


lexentry: eng/friend_zone__Noun__1
written_rep: friend zone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: friendzone | zona amici
sense_list:
(slang) The situation in which one is viewed by a potential partner as a platonic friend, which complicates the initiation of a romantic relationship.


lexentry: eng/friendly_fire__Noun__1
written_rep: friendly fire
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fuoco amico
sense_list:
Weapons fire received from allied or friendly forces, as opposed to fire coming from enemy forces or enemy fire.


lexentry: eng/friendship__Noun__1
written_rep: friendship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: amicizia
sense_list:
(uncountable) The condition of being friends. | (countable) A friendly relationship, or a relationship as friends.


lexentry: eng/friendship_with_benefits__Noun__1
written_rep: friendship with benefits
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: amici con benefici | amicizia di letto | scopamicizia | trombamicizia
sense_list:
(idiomatic, euphemistic) A platonic friendship where the partners engage in sexual activities, but do not consider themselves a couple.


lexentry: eng/frieze__Noun__2
written_rep: frieze
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fregio
sense_list:
(architecture) That part of the entablature of an order which is between the architrave and cornice. It is a flat member or face, either uniform or broken by triglyphs, and often enriched with figures and other ornaments of sculpture. | Any sculptured or richly ornamented band in a building or, by extension, in rich pieces of furniture.


lexentry: eng/frigate__Noun__1
written_rep: frigate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fregata
sense_list:
(historical) A warship combining sail and steam propulsion, typically of ironclad timber construction, supplementing and superseding sailing ships of the line at the beginning of the development of the ironclad battleship. [mid 19th–late 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/fright__Noun__1
written_rep: fright
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: spavento
sense_list:
A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.


lexentry: eng/frikadelle__Noun__1
written_rep: frikadelle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frikadeller
sense_list:
(food) An oblate-spheroid meatball of North European origin, eaten hot or cold, and typically consisting of: minced pork or beef/veal (or, commonly, a blend of these meats); chopped onions; eggs; milk or water; breadcrumbs, oatmeal, or flour; salt; and pepper.


lexentry: eng/fringe__Noun__1
written_rep: fringe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: periferia
sense_list:
(also, figurative) A marginal or peripheral part. | A group of people situated on the periphery of a larger community.


lexentry: eng/fringe__Noun__1
written_rep: fringe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: radicale
sense_list:
(also, attributive) Those members of a political party, or any social group, holding extremist or unorthodox views.


lexentry: eng/fringe_benefit__Noun__1
written_rep: fringe benefit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: beneficio accessorio | fringe benefit
sense_list:
A benefit received in addition to the normal benefits of holding a job, or, by extension, any relationship to the source of the benefit.


lexentry: eng/fritillary__Noun__1
written_rep: fritillary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scacchiera
sense_list:
Any of several bulbous perennial plants, of the genus Fritillaria, having flowers with a spotted or chequered pattern.


lexentry: eng/frittata__Noun__1
written_rep: frittata
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frittata
sense_list:
A crustless quiche: a molded omelette in which vegetables, cheese, etc., are mixed into the eggs and cooked together.


lexentry: eng/fritter__Verb__1
written_rep: fritter
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: disperdersi
sense_list:
(intransitive, often with about, around, or away) To squander or waste time, money, or other resources; e.g. occupy oneself idly or without clear purpose, to tinker with an unimportant part of a project, to dally, sometimes as a form of procrastination. | (transitive) To cut (meat etc.) into small pieces for frying. | (transitive) To break into small pieces or fragments.


lexentry: eng/frivolous__Adjective__1
written_rep: frivolous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frivolo
sense_list:
Silly, especially at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate manner; lacking a good reason for being, or for doing what one does; due to or moved by a whim or caprice.


lexentry: eng/frog__Noun__1
written_rep: frog
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: nasetto | tallone
sense_list:
(musical instrument) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.


lexentry: eng/frog__Noun__1
written_rep: frog
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: bivio
sense_list:
(rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).


lexentry: eng/frog__Noun__3
written_rep: frog
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: alamaro
sense_list:
An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button (covered with netted thread), toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.


lexentry: eng/frogmouth__Noun__1
written_rep: frogmouth
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bocca di rana
sense_list:
Any of several nocturnal, insectivorous birds, of the family Podargidae, native to Australia and southern Asia


lexentry: eng/frolic__Verb__1
written_rep: frolic
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scherzare
sense_list:
(intransitive) To make merry; to have fun; to romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly. [from 1580s]


lexentry: eng/from_the_bottom_of_one's_heart__Prepositional_phrase__1
written_rep: from the bottom of one's heart
sense_list: In earnest; sincerely; with one's full feeling.
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list:
con tutto il cuore | con tutto se stesso | dal profondo del cuore | dal profondo dell'anima | di cuore | di tutto cuore


lexentry: eng/front__Noun__1
written_rep: front
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: fronte
sense_list:
(meteorology) The interface or transition zone between two airmasses of different density, often resulting in precipitation. Since the temperature distribution is the most important regulator of atmospheric density, a front almost invariably separates airmasses of different temperature. | (military) An area where armies are engaged in conflict, especially the line of contact.


lexentry: eng/front_end__Noun__1
written_rep: front end
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frontale
sense_list:
(computing) That part of a hardware or software system that is conceptually closest to the user; the user interface.


lexentry: eng/front_vowel__Noun__1
written_rep: front vowel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: vocale anteriore
sense_list:
(phonetics) Any vowel sound produced in the front of the mouth. Examples: "a" in “man” and "e" in “gel”


lexentry: eng/front_yard__Noun__1
written_rep: front yard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: atrio
sense_list:
(UK) An enclosed and often primarily utilitarian area to the front of a house or similar residence, typically having a hard surface or paving.


lexentry: eng/frontal_bone__Noun__1
written_rep: frontal bone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: osso frontale
sense_list:
(skeleton) The bone which forms the front part of the skull and the upper part of the eye sockets and nasal cavity.


lexentry: eng/frontal_lobe__Noun__1
written_rep: frontal lobe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lobo frontale
sense_list:
(anatomy) One of the four major divisions of the cerebrum of the brain, located behind the forehead.


lexentry: eng/frontflip__Noun__1
written_rep: frontflip
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capriola
sense_list:
(gymnastics) A floor movement, consisting of rotating one's body in the air 360 degrees in the forward direction.


lexentry: eng/frontispiece__Noun__1
written_rep: frontispiece
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frontespizio
sense_list:
(publishing) An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.


lexentry: eng/frosh__Noun__2
written_rep: frosh
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: azzurro
sense_list:
(colloquial) A first-year student, at certain universities, and a first-or-second-year student at other universities.


lexentry: eng/frost__Noun__1
written_rep: frost
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: brina | gelo | gelata
sense_list:
A cover of minute ice crystals on objects that are exposed to the air. Frost is formed by the same process as dew, except that the temperature of the frosted object is below freezing.


lexentry: eng/frostbite__Noun__1
written_rep: frostbite
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gelone
sense_list:
An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.


lexentry: eng/frottola__Noun__1
written_rep: frottola
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frottola
sense_list:
(music) The predominant type of Italian popular secular song of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, and the most important and widespread predecessor to the madrigal.


lexentry: eng/froward__Adjective__1
written_rep: froward
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caparbio
sense_list:
(archaic, literary) Disobedient, contrary, unmanageable; difficult to deal with; with an evil disposition.


lexentry: eng/frown__Noun__1
written_rep: frown
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: accigliamento | accigliato | corrucciamento | corruccio
sense_list:
A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.


lexentry: eng/frugal__Adjective__1
written_rep: frugal
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frugale
sense_list:
Avoiding unnecessary expenditure either of money or of anything else which is to be used or consumed; avoiding waste.


lexentry: eng/fruit__Noun__1
written_rep: fruit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frutta | frutto
sense_list:
The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs. | Any sweet or sour, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit (see former sense) even if it does not develop from a floral ovary. | (archaic) Offspring from a sexual union. | (informal) A crazy person.


lexentry: eng/fruit__Noun__1
written_rep: fruit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frutto | frutta
sense_list:
The seed-bearing part of a plant; often edible, colourful, fragrant, and sweet or sour; produced from a floral ovary after fertilization. | (botany) A product of fertilization in a plant, specifically: | A sweet or sweetish vegetable, such as the petioles of rhubarb, that resembles a true fruit or is used in cookery as if it was a fruit. | An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result. | (attributive) Of, belonging to, related to, or having fruit or its characteristics; (of living things) producing or consuming fruit.


lexentry: eng/fruit__Noun__1
written_rep: fruit
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: frutta | frutto | finocchio | frocio
sense_list:
(dated, colloquial, derogatory) A homosexual man; (derogatory, figurative) an effeminate man. [from 1900]


lexentry: eng/fruit_fly__Noun__1
written_rep: fruit fly
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: moscerino della frutta
sense_list:
Any insect of the Drosophilidae family, whose larvae feed on ripening fruit, especially the species Drosophila melanogaster that is used in genetic research.


lexentry: eng/fruit_salad__Noun__1
written_rep: fruit salad
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: macedonia
sense_list:
A mixture of freshly cut fruit, sometimes with the addition of alcohol or yogurt, often served as a dessert.


lexentry: eng/fruitarian__Noun__1
written_rep: fruitarian
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fruttarista
sense_list:
A variant of vegetarian who intends to be limited to eating only such parts of plants whose consumption does not kill the plant (such as fruits, vegetables that can be compared to fruit, nuts and grain, but not for example tubers). The purest fruitarians do not want to destroy even the seeds.


lexentry: eng/frumentation__Noun__1
written_rep: frumentation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: frumentazione
sense_list:
(historical) The distribution of corn to the people (especially to appease them during agitation for social or political change)


lexentry: eng/frustrated__Adjective__1
written_rep: frustrated
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: frustrato
sense_list:
Suffering from frustration; dissatisfied, agitated, and/or discontent because one is unable to perform an action or fulfill a desire.


lexentry: eng/fry__Verb__1
written_rep: fry
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: friggere
sense_list:
(transitive) To cook (something) in hot fat. | (intransitive) To cook in hot fat. | (chiefly, US, ambitransitive, slang) To execute, or be executed, by the electric chair. | (intransitive, colloquial) To suffer because of too much heat.


lexentry: eng/fuchsia__Noun__1
written_rep: fuchsia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fucsia
sense_list:
A popular garden plant, of the genus Fuchsia, of the Onagraceae family, shrubs with red, pink or purple flowers. | A purplish-red colour, the color of fuchsin, an aniline dye.


lexentry: eng/fuck__Verb__1
written_rep: fuck
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: fottere | scopare | trombare | chiavare | bombare | cavalcare
sense_list:
(vulgar, colloquial, transitive, or, intransitive) To have penetrative sex, as opposed to oral sex or other sexual activities.


lexentry: eng/fuck__Verb__1
written_rep: fuck
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: scopare | fottere
sense_list:
(vulgar, colloquial, transitive) To insert one's penis, a dildo, or other object, into a person or a specified orifice or cleft sexually; to penetrate.


lexentry: eng/fuck_around__Verb__1
written_rep: fuck around
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cazzeggiare
sense_list:
(slang, vulgar) To fritter aimlessly or distractedly, to procrastinate, to waste time. | (slang, vulgar) To fool around. | (slang, vulgar) To horseplay, joke around, behave immaturely or irresponsibly


lexentry: eng/fuck_buddy__Noun__1
written_rep: fuck buddy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scopamico | scopamica | trombamica | trombamico
sense_list:
(vulgar, slang) A sex partner with whom one has sex, usually repeatedly, but without any romantic attachments.


lexentry: eng/fuck_it_up__Verb__1
written_rep: fuck it up
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mandare a puttana
sense_list:
(vulgar, derogatory) To screw up greatly; to make a mistake, usually inviting rude/worried comments from others.


lexentry: eng/fuck_me__Interjection__1
written_rep: fuck me
part_of_speech: interjection
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bagascia
sense_list:
(vulgar, slang) An interjection expressing that someone is surprised, impressed, annoyed, or dismayed.


lexentry: eng/fuckability__Noun__1
written_rep: fuckability
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: limonabilità | scopabilità | trombabilità
sense_list:
(vulgar) The abstract quality of being desirable as a lover, especially by virtue of physical beauty.


lexentry: eng/fucked_up__Adverb__1
written_rep: fucked up
part_of_speech: adverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fottuto
sense_list:
In a screwed up or messed up manner; (by extension) under the influence of alcohol or drugs. | (slang) All wrong; mistaken; taken the wrong way


lexentry: eng/fucking__Adjective__1
written_rep: fucking
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fottuto | cazzo di
sense_list:
(vulgar) An intensifier, often applying more to the whole utterance than to the specific word it grammatically modifies.


lexentry: eng/fuckup__Noun__1
written_rep: fuckup
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: palla al piede
sense_list:
(vulgar, pejorative) One who continually makes mistakes. | (vulgar, pejorative) An ineffective person; a person who fucks up a lot.


lexentry: eng/fucose__Noun__1
written_rep: fucose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fucosio
sense_list:
(carbohydrate) The aldohexose (3S,4R,5R,6S)-6-methyloxane-2,3,4,5-tetrol present in several glycans and mucopolysaccharides


lexentry: eng/fudge__Noun__1
written_rep: fudge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caramello
sense_list:
(chiefly, _, uncountable) A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.


lexentry: eng/fudge__Noun__1
written_rep: fudge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: lavoro mal fatto
sense_list:
(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.


lexentry: eng/fudge__Verb__1
written_rep: fudge
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: maneggiare
sense_list:
(transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.


lexentry: eng/fuel_cell__Noun__1
written_rep: fuel cell
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pila a combustibile
sense_list:
(energy) An electrochemical device in which the intrinsic chemical free energy of fuel and oxidant is catalytically converted to direct current energy.


lexentry: eng/fugacity__Noun__1
written_rep: fugacity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fugacità
sense_list:
A measure of the tendency of a fluid to expand or escape. | (physics) A measure of the relative stability of different phases of a substance under the same conditions.


lexentry: eng/fugitive__Noun__1
written_rep: fugitive
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: latitante
sense_list:
A person who flees or escapes and travels secretly from place to place, and sometimes using disguises and aliases to conceal their identity, as to avoid law authorities in order to avoid an arrest or prosecution, or to avoid some other unwanted situation.


lexentry: eng/fugue__Noun__1
written_rep: fugue
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fuga
sense_list:
(music) A contrapuntal piece of music wherein a particular melody is played in a number of voices, each voice introduced in turn by playing the melody.


lexentry: eng/fulfill__Verb__1
written_rep: fulfill
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: soddisfare
sense_list:
(transitive) To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. | (transitive) To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).


lexentry: eng/fulfilment__Noun__1
written_rep: fulfilment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: soddisfazione | adempimento | compimento
sense_list:
The act of fulfilling or the state or quality of being fulfilled; consummation; completion; realization.


lexentry: eng/fuliginous__Adjective__1
written_rep: fuliginous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fuliginosa | fuliginoso
sense_list:
Pertaining to or resembling soot in such features as colour, texture or taste; sooty, dusky. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/full-throated__Adjective__1
written_rep: full-throated
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: clamoroso
sense_list:
(also, figuratively, _, of noises by objects) Using all the power of one's voice; communicated loudly or vociferously.


lexentry: eng/full_dress_uniform__Noun__1
written_rep: full dress uniform
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: alta uniforme
sense_list:
The most formal military uniform worn by a member of the military for a formal occasion, corresponding to the civilian white tie dress code.


lexentry: eng/full_of_oneself__Adjective__1
written_rep: full of oneself
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: egoista
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Egotistical, believing oneself to be superior to others; preoccupied with one's own work, interests, point of view, etc.


lexentry: eng/full_score__Noun__1
written_rep: full score
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: partitura
sense_list:
(music) a large book showing all the notes of a composition with many simultaneous parts (instruments or voices), with all the parts shown in lines underneath each other in a fixed order. Commonly used by conductors.


lexentry: eng/full_screen__Adjective__1
written_rep: full screen
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: schermo intero
sense_list:
(computing, graphical user interface) Of a window occupying all the available display surface of a screen.


lexentry: eng/full_stop__Noun__1
written_rep: full stop
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: punto
sense_list:
(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The punctuation mark "." (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).


lexentry: eng/full_throttle__Noun__1
written_rep: full throttle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: a manetta
sense_list:
(literal, or, near-literal) A maximum setting on an engine or motor control: especially, the totally open position of a valve for air intake, but also any corresponding maximum setting.


lexentry: eng/fuller__Noun__2
written_rep: fuller
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sgusciatura
sense_list:
A convex, rounded or grooved tool, used by blacksmiths for shaping metal. | A groove made by such a tool (in the blade of a sword etc.).


lexentry: eng/fullerene__Noun__1
written_rep: fullerene
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fullerene
sense_list:
(inorganic chemistry) Any of a class of allotropes of carbon having hollow molecules whose atoms lie at the vertices of a polyhedron having 12 pentagonal and 2 or more hexagonal faces.


lexentry: eng/fullwidth__Adjective__1
written_rep: fullwidth
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: a larghezza intera
sense_list:
(computing, typography) Of a text character, occupying the space of two alphanumeric characters in a monospace font, or two "normal" text columns.


lexentry: eng/fulmar__Noun__1
written_rep: fulmar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fulmaro | ossifraga
sense_list:
Either of two species of pelagic seabird in the genus Fulmarus, Fulmarus glacialis and F. glacialoides, which breed on cliffs.


lexentry: eng/fumage__Noun__1
written_rep: fumage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: affumicatura
sense_list:
(art) A surrealist art technique, devised by Wolfgang Paalen, in which impressions are made by the smoke of a candle or kerosene lamp on a piece of paper or canvas.


lexentry: eng/fume_hood__Noun__1
written_rep: fume hood
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cappa
sense_list:
(chemistry) A ventilated compartment in which chemical procedures may be undertaken without the escape of noxious fumes into the local environment.


lexentry: eng/fumitory__Noun__1
written_rep: fumitory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fumaria
sense_list:
Any plant of the taxonomic genus Fumaria of annual herbaceous flowering plants in the family Papaveraceae, native to temperate Europe and Asia.


lexentry: eng/function__Noun__1
written_rep: function
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funzione
sense_list:
What something does or is used for. | A professional or official position. | A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance. | (mathematics) A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain. | (computing) A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result. | (biology) The physiological activity of an organ or body part. | (chemistry) The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.


lexentry: eng/function_word__Noun__1
written_rep: function word
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: parola vuota
sense_list:
(linguistics) A word that has little meaning when standing alone, but instead serves to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker, including conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, certain frequent adverbs.


lexentry: eng/functional__Adjective__1
written_rep: functional
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funzionante | funzionale
sense_list:
In good working order. | (medicine) Of a disease, such that its symptoms cannot be referred to any appreciable lesion or change of structure; opposed to organic disease, in which the organ itself is affected.


lexentry: eng/functional__Adjective__1
written_rep: functional
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: funzionale
sense_list:
Useful; serving a purpose, fulfilling a function. | (computing theory) Having semantics defined purely in terms of mathematical functions, without side-effects.


lexentry: eng/functional__Noun__1
written_rep: functional
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funzionale
sense_list:
(mathematics) A function that takes a function as its argument; more precisely, a function whose argument varies in a space of (real or complex valued) functions and whose value belongs to a monodimensional space.


lexentry: eng/functional_analysis__Noun__1
written_rep: functional analysis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: analisi funzionale
sense_list:
(mathematics) The branch of mathematics dealing with infinite-dimensional vector spaces, whose elements are actually functions, as well as generalizations such as Banach spaces and Hilbert spaces.


lexentry: eng/functional_dependency__Noun__1
written_rep: functional dependency
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dipendenza funzionale
sense_list:
(database normalization) Given a relation R and two sets of attributes X,Y \subseteq R, a constraint X \rightarrow Y where each X value in R is associated with precisely one Y value in R.


lexentry: eng/functional_group__Noun__1
written_rep: functional group
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gruppo funzionale
sense_list:
(organic chemistry) A specific grouping of elements that is characteristic of a class of compounds, and determines some properties and reactions of that class.


lexentry: eng/functionalism__Noun__1
written_rep: functionalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funzionalismo
sense_list:
(architecture) A doctrine, in several fields, that the function of something should be reflected in its design and the materials used in its construction. | (philosophy) The definition of mental states in terms of their causes and effects. | (social science) The idea that social and cultural cohesion are a function of the interdependence and interactions of the institutions of a society. | (psychology) A general school of thought that considers psychological phenomena in terms of their role in adaptation to the person's environment.


lexentry: eng/functionality__Noun__1
written_rep: functionality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funzionalità
sense_list:
(uncountable) The ability to do a task, performance, or execution; a set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.


lexentry: eng/functionary__Noun__1
written_rep: functionary
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funzionario
sense_list:
A person employed as an official in a bureaucracy (usually corporate or governmental) who holds limited authority and primarily serves to carry out a simple function for which discretion is not required.


lexentry: eng/functor__Noun__1
written_rep: functor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: funtore
sense_list:
(category theory) A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows (either covariantly or contravariantly), in such a way as to preserve morphism composition and identities.


lexentry: eng/fundamental__Noun__1
written_rep: fundamental
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fondamento
sense_list:
(usually, in the plural) A main or major principle, rule, law, etc. which serves as the foundation or basis of a system; an essential part


lexentry: eng/fundamental_group__Noun__1
written_rep: fundamental group
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gruppo fondamentale
sense_list:
(topology) For a specified topological space, the group whose elements are homotopy classes of loops (images of some arbitrary closed interval whose endpoints are both mapped to a designated point) and whose group operation is concatenation.


lexentry: eng/fundamental_interaction__Noun__1
written_rep: fundamental interaction
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: interazione fondamentale
sense_list:
(physics) any of the fundamental forces that act between elementary particles; each one is associated with an exchanged particle


lexentry: eng/fundamental_theorem__Noun__1
written_rep: fundamental theorem
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: teorema fondamentale
sense_list:
(chiefly, mathematics) A theorem (or, in non-mathematical fields, a commonly accepted hypothesis) considered to be of central importance to a specified field.


lexentry: eng/fundamentalism__Noun__1
written_rep: fundamentalism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fondamentalismo | integralismo
sense_list:
(religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.


lexentry: eng/funeral__Noun__1
written_rep: funeral
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funerale
sense_list:
A ceremony to honor and remember a deceased person, often distinguished from a memorial service by the presence of the body of the deceased.


lexentry: eng/funeral_home__Noun__1
written_rep: funeral home
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: camera ardente
sense_list:
A mortuary where the friends and relatives of the deceased may attend a wake, or pay their last respects.


lexentry: eng/fungus__Noun__1
written_rep: fungus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fungo
sense_list:
(mycology) Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.


lexentry: eng/funicular__Noun__1
written_rep: funicular
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funicolare
sense_list:
A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.


lexentry: eng/funicular_railway__Noun__1
written_rep: funicular railway
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funicolare
sense_list:
A cable railway on an incline; especially one which operates on two tracks (or with a passing loop), with a pair of vehicles counterbalancing each other.


lexentry: eng/funiculus__Noun__1
written_rep: funiculus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funicolo
sense_list:
(anatomy) Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres (white matter) in the spinal cord. The white matter of the spinal cord is made of (posterior, anterior & lateral) columns/funiculi. The grey columns are also called horns but not funiculi. | (botany) A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta


lexentry: eng/funk__Noun__1
written_rep: funk
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: funk
sense_list:
(uncountable, music genre) A style of music derived from 1960s soul music, with elements of rock and other styles, characterized by a prominent bass guitar, dance-friendly sound, a strong emphasis on the downbeat, and much syncopation.


lexentry: eng/funnel__Noun__1
written_rep: funnel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: imbuto
sense_list:
A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.


lexentry: eng/funnel_cake__Noun__1
written_rep: funnel cake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: strauben
sense_list:
(US) A specialty food made from deep-fried batter and originally associated with the Pennsylvania Dutch region of the United States.


lexentry: eng/funnel_cloud__Noun__1
written_rep: funnel cloud
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nube ad imbuto
sense_list:
(meteorology) A tapering, rapidly rotating cloud descending from a larger storm cloud, indicating the presence of an intense vortex. A tornado is a funnel cloud which reaches the ground.


lexentry: eng/funny_bone__Noun__1
written_rep: funny bone
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: epicondilo
sense_list:
(idiomatic) The ulnar nerve in the elbow, which, when hit, causes a tingly sensation. [from the 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/fur_seal__Noun__1
written_rep: fur seal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: otaria orsina
sense_list:
A marine mammal of either of the genera Arctocephalus or Callorhinus of the eared seal family Otariidae, differing from the sea lions in having dense underfur.


lexentry: eng/furan__Noun__1
written_rep: furan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: furano
sense_list:
(organic compound) Any of a class of aromatic heterocyclic compounds containing a ring of four carbon atoms, two double bonds and an oxygen atom; especially the simplest one, C4H4O.


lexentry: eng/furbelow__Noun__1
written_rep: furbelow
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: balza, gala
sense_list:
A frill, flounce, or ruffle, as on clothing; a decorative piece of fabric, especially one gathered or pleated as into a ruffle, etc.


lexentry: eng/furcula__Noun__1
written_rep: furcula
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: lunotto
sense_list:
(ornithology) The forked bone formed by the fusion of the clavicles in birds, the wishbone or merrythought.


lexentry: eng/furfural__Noun__1
written_rep: furfural
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: furfurale
sense_list:
(organic compound) A heterocyclic aldehyde derivative of furan, obtained commercially from bran, with several industrial uses.


lexentry: eng/furlong__Noun__1
written_rep: furlong
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stadio
sense_list:
A unit of distance equal to one-eighth of a mile (220 yards, or 201.168 metres), now mainly used in measuring distances in farmland and horse racing.


lexentry: eng/furnish__Verb__1
written_rep: furnish
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: fornire
sense_list:
(transitive, figuratively) To supply or give (something). | (transitive, figuratively) To supply (somebody) with something.


lexentry: eng/furniture__Noun__1
written_rep: furniture
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mobilio | mobile
sense_list:
(now usually, _, uncountable) Large movable item(s), usually in a room, which enhance(s) the room's characteristics, functionally or decoratively.


lexentry: eng/furry__Noun__1
written_rep: furry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: furry
sense_list:
An animal character with human-like characteristics; most commonly refers to such characters created by members of the furry subculture.


lexentry: eng/fuse__Noun__1
written_rep: fuse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: miccia | detonatore | innesco
sense_list:
(manufacturing, mining, military) The mechanism that ignites the charge in an explosive device; a detonator.


lexentry: eng/fuse__Noun__2
written_rep: fuse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fusibile
sense_list:
(electrical engineering) A device to prevent excessive overcurrent from overload or short circuit in an electrical circuit, containing a component that melts and interrupts the current when too high a load is passed through it.


lexentry: eng/fusebox__Noun__1
written_rep: fusebox
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: portafusibili
sense_list:
A small distribution board containing the fuses or circuit breakers for a domestic electricity power supply.


lexentry: eng/fuselage__Noun__1
written_rep: fuselage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fusoliera
sense_list:
(aeronautical) The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are attached, and which accommodates crew and cargo.


lexentry: eng/fusiform__Adjective__1
written_rep: fusiform
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: affusato
sense_list:
(chiefly, _, botany, zoology) Shaped like a spindle with yarn spun on it; having round or roundish cross-section and tapering at each end.


lexentry: eng/fusil__Noun__1
written_rep: fusil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fuso
sense_list:
(heraldiccharge) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure, originally representing a spindle in shape, longer than a heraldic lozenge.


lexentry: eng/fusion__Noun__1
written_rep: fusion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fusione
sense_list:
(fiction) The act of two characters merging into one, typically more powerful, being; or the merged being itself. | (physics) A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the concomitant release of energy. | The act of melting or liquefying something by heating it. | (cytology) The process by which two distinct lipid bilayers merge their hydrophobic core, resulting in one interconnected structure. | (genetics) The result of the hybridation of two genes which originally coded for separate proteins.


lexentry: eng/fussbudget__Noun__1
written_rep: fussbudget
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ansioso
sense_list:
(colloquial, derogatory, North America) One who complains or fusses a great deal, especially about unimportant matters; a fusspot.


lexentry: eng/fustanella__Noun__1
written_rep: fustanella
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fustanella
sense_list:
A form of skirt or kilt traditionally worn by men in Albania, Greece and other parts of the Balkans.


lexentry: eng/fustian__Noun__1
written_rep: fustian
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fustagno
sense_list:
Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.


lexentry: eng/futon__Noun__1
written_rep: futon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: futon | materasso giapponese
sense_list:
A thin mattress of tufted cotton or similar material, placed on a floor or on a raised, foldable frame as a bed.


lexentry: eng/futon__Noun__1
written_rep: futon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: futon
sense_list:
A round cushion used for Zen meditation, traditionally made of woven bulrush leaves. | A specific kind of sofa-bed, with a fixed cushion that forms a mattress when folded down and a sofa when folded up.


lexentry: eng/futtock_plate__Noun__1
written_rep: futtock plate
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: riggia
sense_list:
(nautical) A plate (usually metal) attached horizontally near the top of the lower mast of a square rigged ship in order to secure the topmast. Rigging runs both upwards (topmast rigging) and downwards (futtock shrouds) to maintain stability.


lexentry: eng/future__Noun__1
written_rep: future
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: futuro | avvenire
sense_list:
The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced. | Something that will happen in moments yet to come.


lexentry: eng/future_bass__Noun__1
written_rep: future bass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: future bass
sense_list:
A genre of electronic dance music which mixes elements of dubstep and trap with less abrasive rhythms.


lexentry: eng/future_participle__Noun__1
written_rep: future participle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: participio futuro
sense_list:
A part of speech present in some languages (e.g. Latin, Hungarian and Georgian) but not in English that gives a sense of something about to happen.


lexentry: eng/future_perfect__Noun__1
written_rep: future perfect
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: futuro anteriore
sense_list:
(grammar) A tense that expresses action completed at some time in the future; in English it is formed by use of will have (or shall have) and a past participle


lexentry: eng/future_tense__Noun__1
written_rep: future tense
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: futuro | futuro anteriore | futuro semplice
sense_list:
(grammar) The tense or time form of a verb used to refer to an event or occurrence that has not yet happened or is expected to happen in the future.


lexentry: eng/futures_contract__Noun__1
written_rep: futures contract
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: futuro
sense_list:
(finance) A standardized contract, traded on a futures exchange, to buy or sell a standardized quantity of a specified commodity (or financial instrument) of standardized quality at a certain date in the future, at a stated price (the futures price).


lexentry: eng/futurism__Noun__1
written_rep: futurism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: futurismo
sense_list:
(art) An early 20th century avant-garde art movement focused on speed, the mechanical, and the modern, which took a deeply antagonistic attitude to traditional artistic conventions.


lexentry: eng/fuzzy_logic__Noun__1
written_rep: fuzzy logic
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: logica sfocata | logica sfumata
sense_list:
(mathematics) A form of reasoning, derived from fuzzy set theory, whereby a truth value need not be exactly zero (false) or one (true), but rather can be zero, one, or any value in between.


lexentry: eng/fynbos__Noun__1
written_rep: fynbos
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fynbos
sense_list:
(botany) Vegetation unique to the Cape Floral Kingdom, made up chiefly of Proteaceae, restios, and Ericaceae.


lexentry: eng/gabbro__Noun__1
written_rep: gabbro
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gabbro
sense_list:
(rock) Originally, a kind of serpentine; now generally a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene and labradorite.


lexentry: eng/gable__Noun__1
written_rep: gable
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pignone
sense_list:
(architectural element) The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).


lexentry: eng/gac__Noun__1
written_rep: gac
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: collo d'oca
sense_list:
The Southeast Asian fruit Momordica cochinchinensis, a reddish spiny gourd with high lycopene content.


lexentry: eng/gadabout__Noun__1
written_rep: gadabout
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: saltafossi
sense_list:
A person who restlessly moves from place to place, seeking amusement or the companionship of others.


lexentry: eng/gadget__Noun__1
written_rep: gadget
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: aggeggio
sense_list:
Any device or machine, especially one whose name cannot be recalled, often either clever or complicated.


lexentry: eng/gadwall__Noun__1
written_rep: gadwall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: canapiglia
sense_list:
A common, widespread dabbling duck which breeds in the northern hemisphere (Mareca strepera, syn. Anas strepera).


lexentry: eng/gaff__Noun__1
written_rep: gaff
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: crocco | fiocina | uncino
sense_list:
A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat.


lexentry: eng/gag__Noun__1
written_rep: gag
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bavaglio
sense_list:
A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap.


lexentry: eng/gag__Verb__1
written_rep: gag
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: imbavagliare
sense_list:
(transitive) To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth. | (transitive, figuratively) To restrain someone's speech without using physical means. | (transitive, LGBT slang) To astonish (someone); to leave speechless.


lexentry: eng/gag_order__Noun__1
written_rep: gag order
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: museruola
sense_list:
(informal) Any directive from a person in authority prohibiting another person from speaking about a certain thing.


lexentry: eng/gait__Noun__1
written_rep: gait
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: andatura
sense_list:
(horses) One of the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of training.


lexentry: eng/gaiter__Noun__1
written_rep: gaiter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: ghette | ghetta
sense_list:
A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.


lexentry: eng/gaiwan__Noun__1
written_rep: gaiwan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gaiwan
sense_list:
A Chinese lidded cup or bowl, used to steep tea, sometimes including a saucer, developed during the Ming dynasty as an improvement upon the (lidless) chawan.


lexentry: eng/galactomannan__Noun__1
written_rep: galactomannan
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galattomannano
sense_list:
(carbohydrate) Any of a class of polysaccharides, found in many gums, having a backbone composed of mannose with galactose sidechains.


lexentry: eng/galactose__Noun__1
written_rep: galactose
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galattosio
sense_list:
(carbohydrate) A monosaccharide found, along with lactose, in dairy products, and is synthesized by the body where it is found associated with glycolipids and glycoproteins.


lexentry: eng/galactosemia__Noun__1
written_rep: galactosemia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galattosemia
sense_list:
(medicine) A genetic metabolic disorder characterized by an inability to metabolize galactose properly


lexentry: eng/galacturonic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: galacturonic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: acido galatturonico
sense_list:
(sugar acid) a carboxylic acid derived from galactose by oxidation of the terminal CH2OH to a COOH; it polymerizes to form pectic acid


lexentry: eng/galangal__Noun__1
written_rep: galangal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galanga
sense_list:
Any of several east Asian plants of genera Alpinia and Kaempferia in the ginger family, used as a spice, but principally Alpinia galanga.


lexentry: eng/galantine__Noun__1
written_rep: galantine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: galantina
sense_list:
A dish of boned, often stuffed meat (or fish) that has been boiled, and is served cold with its jelly. [from 18th c.]


lexentry: eng/galaxy__Noun__1
written_rep: galaxy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: galassia
sense_list:
(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions or billions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe. [from 19th c.]


lexentry: eng/galbanum__Noun__1
written_rep: galbanum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galbano
sense_list:
A bitter, aromatic resin or gum, extracted from plants of the genus Ferula, that resembles assafoetida and has been used in incense and in aromatherapy


lexentry: eng/gale__Noun__1
written_rep: gale
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: burrasca | brezza | folata | fortunale | ventata | vento forte
sense_list:
(meteorology) A very strong wind, more than a breeze, less than a storm; number 7 through to 9 winds on the 12-step Beaufort scale.


lexentry: eng/gall__Noun__3
written_rep: gall
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galla
sense_list:
(plant disease) A blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by various pathogens, especially the burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, such as that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii).


lexentry: eng/gall_bladder__Noun__1
written_rep: gall bladder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cistifellea | colecisti
sense_list:
(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/galleass__Noun__1
written_rep: galleass
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galeazza
sense_list:
(nautical, historical) A type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normally equipped with sails.


lexentry: eng/gallery__Noun__1
written_rep: gallery
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galleria
sense_list:
An institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art. | An establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art.


lexentry: eng/gallery__Noun__1
written_rep: gallery
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: galleria | balconata | loggia | palchetto
sense_list:
The uppermost seating area projecting from the rear or side walls of a theater, concert hall, or auditorium.


lexentry: eng/gallery__Noun__1
written_rep: gallery
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: galleria | porticato | portico
sense_list:
A roofed promenade, especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported by arches or columns on the outer side.


lexentry: eng/galley__Noun__1
written_rep: galley
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galera | galea
sense_list:
(nautical, historical) A long, slender ship propelled primarily by oars, whether having masts and sails or not; usually a rowed warship used in the Mediterranean from the 16th century until the modern era.


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


lexentry: eng/gallic_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: gallic acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: acido gallico
sense_list:
(carboxylic acid) a phenolic carboxylic acid, 3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid, found in galls, tea, the bark of some trees etc; a constituent of tannin


lexentry: eng/gallium_arsenide__Noun__1
written_rep: gallium arsenide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: arseniuro di gallio
sense_list:
(inorganic compound) A binary compound of gallium and arsenic, GaAs, used as a semiconductor, especially in light-emitting diodes.


lexentry: eng/gallize__Verb__1
written_rep: gallize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: adulterare
sense_list:
(transitive, winemaking, dated) To add sugar and water to (unfermented grape juice) so as to increase the quantity of wine produced.


lexentry: eng/galloon__Noun__1
written_rep: galloon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gallone
sense_list:
A braided trimming with bullion thread, used on men's coats in the eighteenth century, on women's apparel in the nineteenth, and on such furnishings as draperies or cushions.


lexentry: eng/gallop__Noun__1
written_rep: gallop
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galoppo
sense_list:
The fastest gait of a horse, a two-beat stride during which all four legs are off the ground simultaneously.


lexentry: eng/gallows_humor__Noun__1
written_rep: gallows humor
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: humor patibolare | risata verde
sense_list:
(American spelling, idiomatic) Comedy that still manages to be funny in the face of, and in response to, a tragic or hopeless situation.


lexentry: eng/galvanism__Noun__1
written_rep: galvanism
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galvanismo
sense_list:
The chemical generation of electricity. | The (therapeutic) use of electricity directly applied to the body.


lexentry: eng/galvanize__Verb__1
written_rep: galvanize
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galvanizzare
sense_list:
(chemistry) To coat with a thin layer of metal by electrochemical means. | To coat with rust-resistant zinc.


lexentry: eng/galvanometer__Noun__1
written_rep: galvanometer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galvanometro
sense_list:
(physics) A device used to indicate the presence and direction of a small electric current, especially used to detect a null or balanced condition in a bridge circuit.


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


lexentry: eng/gamble__Verb__1
written_rep: gamble
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: scommettere
sense_list:
To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome. | To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain.


lexentry: eng/gambling__Noun__1
written_rep: gambling
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gioco d'azzardo | giochi d'azzardo
sense_list:
An activity characterised by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill and chance, usually with money wagered on the outcome.


lexentry: eng/gamboge__Noun__1
written_rep: gamboge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: gommagutta
sense_list:
The resin of the gamboge tree; a preparation of the resin used as a pigment or for medicinal purposes. [from early 18th c.] | A deep yellow colour.


lexentry: eng/game__Noun__1
written_rep: game
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gioco
sense_list:
A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime. | (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.


lexentry: eng/game_controller__Noun__1
written_rep: game controller
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: manetta
sense_list:
(video games) Any of various hardware devices designed to allow the user to provide input to video games.


lexentry: eng/game_of_chance__Noun__1
written_rep: game of chance
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gioco d'azzardo | gioco di sorte
sense_list:
(games, probability) A game in which the outcome is at least partly determined by random variables (chance and luck) rather than strictly by strategy.


lexentry: eng/game_over__Phrase__1
written_rep: game over
part_of_speech: phraseologicalUnit
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gioco terminato
sense_list:
(video games) A message signaling that the game has ended, usually because the player failed (for example by losing all of their lives) but sometimes following successful completion of the game.


lexentry: eng/game_show__Noun__1
written_rep: game show
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gioco a premi
sense_list:
(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/game_theory__Noun__1
written_rep: game theory
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: teoria dei giochi
sense_list:
(mathematics, economics) A branch of applied mathematics that studies strategic situations in which individuals or organisations choose various actions in an attempt to maximize their returns.


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


lexentry: eng/gamekeeper__Noun__1
written_rep: gamekeeper
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: guardacaccia | guardiacaccia
sense_list:
A person employed to maintain the game for hunting and all associated materials and effects. Often shortened to keeper.


lexentry: eng/gameplay__Noun__1
written_rep: gameplay
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: giocabilità
sense_list:
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/gametangium__Noun__1
written_rep: gametangium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gametangio
sense_list:
(botany, mycology) A gamete-producing organ or cell found in many multicellular protists, algae and fungi, and in the gametophytes of plants.


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


lexentry: eng/gametophyte__Noun__1
written_rep: gametophyte
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gametofito
sense_list:
(botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.


lexentry: eng/gamification__Noun__1
written_rep: gamification
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ludicizzazione
sense_list:
The use of gameplay mechanics for non-game applications (as for example making work less onerous, incentivization, or pedagogy).


lexentry: eng/gamin__Noun__1
written_rep: gamin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: derelitto | disadattato | ragazzo di strada | senzatetto | vagabondo
sense_list:
(dated, also, attributively) A homeless boy; a male street urchin; also (more generally) , a cheeky, street-smart boy.


lexentry: eng/gamma-aminobutyric_acid__Noun__1
written_rep: gamma-aminobutyric acid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: GABA
sense_list:
(amino acid, neurotransmitter) An amino acid found in the nervous systems of vertebrates and acting as an inhibitory neurotransmitter. Abbreviated as GABA.


lexentry: eng/gamma-ray_burst__Noun__1
written_rep: gamma-ray burst
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: lampo gamma
sense_list:
(astronomy) A flash of gamma rays that seem to originate from a random point in the sky; their most likely sources are believed to be supernova explosions of a very massive stars and mergers of neutron stars.


lexentry: eng/gamma__Noun__1
written_rep: gamma
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gamma
sense_list:
The third letter of the Greek alphabet (Γ, γ), preceded by beta (Β, β) and followed by delta, (Δ, δ).


lexentry: eng/gamma_function__Noun__1
written_rep: gamma function
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funzione Gamma | funzione Gamma di Eulero
sense_list:
(analysis) A meromorphic function which generalizes the notion of factorial to complex numbers and has singularities at the nonpositive integers; any of certain generalizations or analogues of said function, such as extend the factorial to domains other than the complex numbers.


lexentry: eng/gamopetalous__Adjective__1
written_rep: gamopetalous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gamopetalo
sense_list:
(botany) Having petals wholly or partially fused in such a way that the corolla takes the form of a tube, trumpet, channel, or similarly nearly-rigid structure.


lexentry: eng/gang__Noun__1
written_rep: gang
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: banda | masnada
sense_list:
A criminal group with a common cultural background and identifying features, often associated with a particular section of a city.


lexentry: eng/gangbang__Noun__1
written_rep: gangbang
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sesso di gruppo
sense_list:
(vulgar) An act of two or more people having sex with one person who is the focus of the sexual activity.


lexentry: eng/gangboard__Noun__1
written_rep: gangboard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: archetto
sense_list:
(nautical) A board or plank used as a temporary footbridge between a ship and a dockside or any gap such as scaffolding.


lexentry: eng/ganglion__Noun__1
written_rep: ganglion
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ganglio
sense_list:
An encapsulated collection of nerve cell bodies, typically linked by synapses, and often forming a swelling on a nerve fiber.


lexentry: eng/gangway__Noun__1
written_rep: gangway
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: barcarizzo
sense_list:
(nautical) A passage along either side of a ship's upper deck. | (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
written_rep: gannet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sula
sense_list:
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/gap_year__Noun__1
written_rep: gap year
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: anno di pausa
sense_list:
A yearlong break from study taken by some students on leaving school before starting university, often spent gaining work experience or travelling.


lexentry: eng/gape__Verb__1
written_rep: gape
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: spalancare
sense_list:
(intransitive, of a cat) To open the passage to the vomeronasal organ, analogous to the flehming in other animals.


lexentry: eng/garage__Noun__1
written_rep: garage
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: garage | autorimessa
sense_list:
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
written_rep: garbage can
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cestino dei rifiuti | bidone per immondizie
sense_list:
(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/garbage_collection__Noun__1
written_rep: garbage collection
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nettezza urbana
sense_list:
(North America) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.


lexentry: eng/garbage_disposal__Noun__1
written_rep: garbage disposal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tritarifiuti
sense_list:
An electric device in a kitchen drain that gets rid of food waste by shredding it to tiny bits that can be washed away.


lexentry: eng/garbanzo__Noun__1
written_rep: garbanzo
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cece
sense_list:
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/garble__Verb__1
written_rep: garble
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: confondere
sense_list:
To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose not intended by the original author; to mutilate; to pervert.


lexentry: eng/garden__Noun__1
written_rep: garden
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: giardino
sense_list:
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes. | (Britain, Ireland, Appalachia) The grounds at the front or back of a house.


lexentry: eng/garden_dormouse__Noun__1
written_rep: garden dormouse
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: quercino
sense_list:
A rodent in the Gliridae (dormouse) family, Eliomys quercinus, native to parts of Europe, especially southern Europe.


lexentry: eng/garden_warbler__Noun__1
written_rep: garden warbler
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: beccafico
sense_list:
Sylvia borin, a plain, but common warbler, Sylvia borin, that breeds in Europe and western Asia, wintering in sub-Saharan Africa.


lexentry: eng/gardenia__Noun__1
written_rep: gardenia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gardenia
sense_list:
Any of various tropical evergreen small trees or shrubs, of the genus Gardenia, having glossy leaves and white flowers.


lexentry: eng/gardening__Noun__1
written_rep: gardening
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: giardinaggio
sense_list:
The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.


lexentry: eng/garderobe__Noun__1
written_rep: garderobe
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: guardaroba
sense_list:
(historical) A lavatory, especially in a castle and built into the outer wall, with vent directly over the moat or midden.


lexentry: eng/garfish__Noun__1
written_rep: garfish
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: agughia
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: garganey
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: marzaiola | ridenna
sense_list:
A small dabbling duck, Anas querquedula, that breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, and winters in Africa.


lexentry: eng/gargle__Verb__1
written_rep: gargle
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fare i gargarismi
sense_list:
(intransitive) to clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs | (intransitive) to make a sound like the one made while gargling


lexentry: eng/garland__Noun__1
written_rep: garland
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ghirlanda
sense_list:
A circular or linear decoration, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.


lexentry: eng/garlic_mustard__Noun__1
written_rep: garlic mustard
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: alliaria
sense_list:
A woodland herb (Alliaria petiolata) that has a garlic-like aroma, considered highly invasive in New World.


lexentry: eng/garnishment__Noun__1
written_rep: garnishment
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pignoramento
sense_list:
(legal) A judgment that a third party should pay money owing to a defendant directly to a plaintiff.


lexentry: eng/garrigue__Noun__1
written_rep: garrigue
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gariga
sense_list:
A type of low scrubland found on limestone soils in southern France and other parts of the Mediterranean Basin.


lexentry: eng/garter_snake__Noun__1
written_rep: garter snake
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: serpente giarrettiera
sense_list:
Any of various species of nonvenomous snakes of the genus Thamnophis, native to America, with longitudinal stripes.


lexentry: eng/gas__Noun__1
written_rep: gas
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gas
sense_list:
(uncountable, physical 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. | (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. | (countable, physical chemistry) A chemical element or compound in such a state.


lexentry: eng/gas_cylinder__Noun__1
written_rep: gas cylinder
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: bombola
sense_list:
A cylindrical vessel capable of containing a compressed gas at high pressure. Sometimes used as the fuel tank for an autogas vehicle.


lexentry: eng/gas_giant__Noun__1
written_rep: gas giant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gigante gassoso
sense_list:
(astronomy) A large planet composed mostly of gaseous hydrogen and helium, along with methane and ammonia; possibly with a solid core.


lexentry: eng/gas_meter__Noun__1
written_rep: gas meter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: contatore del gas | misuratore del gas
sense_list:
A meter which measures the amount of gas supplied to a property via a gas main. In rented properties, it may be coin-operated.


lexentry: eng/gas_plant__Noun__1
written_rep: gas plant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: dittamo | frassinella | limonella
sense_list:
A fragrant perennial in the rue family, Dictamnus albus, that gives off so much volatile essential oil that it sometimes can be lit and will burn briefly without harming the plant.


lexentry: eng/gas_station__Noun__1
written_rep: gas station
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: distributore | stazione di servizio
sense_list:
(North America, New Zealand, Philippines) filling station / petrol station; an establishment which sells gasoline (petrol) and often also diesel


lexentry: eng/gas_turbine__Noun__1
written_rep: gas turbine
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: turbina a gas
sense_list:
An internal combustion engine consisting of a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine, where the turbine mechanically powers the compressor.


lexentry: eng/gasket__Noun__1
written_rep: gasket
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: guarnizione
sense_list:
(mechanics) Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under compression.


lexentry: eng/gaslight__Verb__1
written_rep: gaslight
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: manipolare
sense_list:
(chiefly, transitive) To manipulate someone such that they doubt their own memory, perceptions of reality, or sanity, typically for malevolent#Adjective reasons.


lexentry: eng/gasman__Noun__1
written_rep: gasman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gassiera
sense_list:
(colloquial) A worker for a company that supplies gas (in the sense of the gaseous fuel), especially one who visits premises to read the meter, test appliances etc.


lexentry: eng/gasoline__Noun__1
written_rep: gasoline
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: benzina
sense_list:
(uncountable, North America, Philippines) A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.


lexentry: eng/gasp__Verb__1
written_rep: gasp
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
sense_list:
(intransitive) To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion; to respire with heaving of the breast; to pant.

trans_list:
ansimare | boccheggiare | rantolare | restare a bocca aperta | restare senza fiato | trattenere il fiato


lexentry: eng/gastritis__Noun__1
written_rep: gastritis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gastrite
sense_list:
(pathology, symptom) Inflammation of the lining of the stomach, characterised by nausea, loss of appetite, and upper abdominal discomfort or pain.


lexentry: eng/gastroenteritis__Noun__1
written_rep: gastroenteritis
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gastroenterite
sense_list:
(medicine) Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the stomach and intestine; often caused by an infection.


lexentry: eng/gastroenterology__Noun__1
written_rep: gastroenterology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gastroenterologia
sense_list:
(medicine) The study of the digestive system, from the mouth to the anus; may also include the study of accessory organs: pancreas, liver, gallbladder and bile ducts.


lexentry: eng/gastroesophageal_reflux__Noun__1
written_rep: gastroesophageal reflux
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: riflusso
sense_list:
(pathology) Ellipsis of gastroesophageal reflux disease.: chronic symptoms or mucosal damage produced by the abnormal reflux in the esophagus.


lexentry: eng/gastrulation__Noun__1
written_rep: gastrulation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gastrulazione
sense_list:
(embryology, biology) The stage of embryo development at which a gastrula is formed from the blastula by the inward migration of cells.


lexentry: eng/gatecrasher__Noun__1
written_rep: gatecrasher
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: faloppa
sense_list:
(slang) A person who enters some event without a ticket or invitation, either by stealth or by deception.


lexentry: eng/gateway__Noun__1
written_rep: gateway
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: porta | entrata | terminal | varco
sense_list:
A point at which freight moving from one territory to another is interchanged between transportation lines.


lexentry: eng/gateway__Noun__1
written_rep: gateway
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: gateway
sense_list:
(computing, networking, telecommunications) 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
written_rep: gather
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: cogliere | collezionare | radunarsi
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: gathering
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: quaderno
sense_list:
(bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.


lexentry: eng/gauge__Noun__1
written_rep: gauge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calibro | strumento di misura | unità di misura
sense_list:
A measure; a standard of measure; an instrument to determine dimensions, distance, or capacity; a standard


lexentry: eng/gauge__Noun__1
written_rep: gauge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 08
trans_list: seminorma
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: gavel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: mazzuolo
sense_list:
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/gay__Adjective__1
written_rep: gay
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: effemminato
sense_list:
(loosely, of a person, especially a man) Exhibiting appearance or behavior that accords with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men. | (slang, humorous, with for) Infatuated with something, aligning with homosexual stereotypes.


lexentry: eng/gay__Adjective__1
written_rep: gay
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gay | finocchio
sense_list:
(loosely, of appearance or behavior) Being in accordance with stereotypes of gay people, especially gay men.


lexentry: eng/gaydar__Noun__1
written_rep: gaydar
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gaydar
sense_list:
(LGBTQ slang) The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay by observing that person's appearance, mannerisms, etc. [from early 1980s]


lexentry: eng/gazebo__Noun__1
written_rep: gazebo
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gazebo
sense_list:
A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.


lexentry: eng/gazelle__Noun__1
written_rep: gazelle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gazzella
sense_list:
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/gazpacho__Noun__1
written_rep: gazpacho
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gazpacho
sense_list:
A cold soup of Spanish origin, made with olive oil, vinegar, bread and raw vegetables such as tomatoes, garlic, onion, cucumber and sweet peppers.


lexentry: eng/gear__Noun__1
written_rep: gear
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: marcia | ingranaggio
sense_list:
(countable, automotive, cycling) A particular combination or choice of interlocking gears, such that a particular gear ratio is achieved.


lexentry: eng/gear__Noun__1
written_rep: gear
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: cambio
sense_list:
(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__Verb__1
written_rep: gear
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ingranare
sense_list:
(engineering, transitive) To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.


lexentry: eng/gear_down__Verb__1
written_rep: gear down
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: demoltiplicare
sense_list:
To arrange a system of gear wheels or pulleys etc such that the driven part rotates or moves slower than the driving part.


lexentry: eng/gear_lever__Noun__1
written_rep: gear lever
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: leva del cambio
sense_list:
(especially, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) The lever used to change gears in a motor vehicle. | The lever used to change gears on other types of machines, such as a machine tool.


lexentry: eng/gear_shift__Noun__1
written_rep: gear shift
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: leva del cambio
sense_list:
(automotive) That part of a gearbox involved in changing gear, including the lever and the forks attached to it.


lexentry: eng/gear_wheel__Noun__1
written_rep: gear wheel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ruota dentata | ingranaggio
sense_list:
(mechanics) A wheel with a toothed rim, intended to engage with others, or similar equipment, to form a gear.


lexentry: eng/gearbox__Noun__1
written_rep: gearbox
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: scatola del cambio | cambio
sense_list:
That part of a car's transmission containing the train of gears, and to which the gear lever is connected.


lexentry: eng/gecko__Noun__1
written_rep: gecko
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geco
sense_list:
Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.


lexentry: eng/geek__Noun__1
written_rep: geek
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: maniaco
sense_list:
(colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun.


lexentry: eng/geek__Noun__1
written_rep: geek
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: geek | hacker | smanettone
sense_list:
(colloquial, by extension) An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.


lexentry: eng/geezer__Noun__1
written_rep: geezer
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: capo | vecchiaccio | vecchio rincoglionito
sense_list:
(informal, chiefly, North America, sometimes, mildly, derogatory) An old person, usually a male, typically a cranky old man.


lexentry: eng/geisha__Noun__1
written_rep: geisha
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geisha
sense_list:
A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.


lexentry: eng/gel__Noun__1
written_rep: gel
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gel
sense_list:
A semi-solid to almost solid colloid of a solid and a liquid, such as jelly, cheese or opal. | Any gel intended for a particular cosmetic use, such as for styling the hair.


lexentry: eng/gelada__Noun__1
written_rep: gelada
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: babbuino gelada
sense_list:
Any of species Theropithecus gelada of Old World monkeys, distinguished from baboons by the bright patch of skin on their chests.


lexentry: eng/gelatin__Noun__1
written_rep: gelatin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gelatina
sense_list:
A protein derived through partial hydrolysis of the collagen extracted from animal skin, bones, cartilage, ligaments, etc. | An edible jelly made from this material. | A thin, translucent membrane used as a filter for photography or for theatrical lighting effects.


lexentry: eng/gelato__Noun__1
written_rep: gelato
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gelato | gelato all'italiana | gelato italiano
sense_list:
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/gellan_gum__Noun__1
written_rep: gellan gum
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: goma di gellano
sense_list:
a polysaccharide gum produced by the bacterium Sphingomonas elodea, used as an alternative to agar, and as a food additive


lexentry: eng/gemination__Noun__1
written_rep: gemination
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: geminazione | geminazione consonantica | raddoppiamento
sense_list:
(phonetics) The phenomenon of a consonant being pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is normal; an instance of such lengthened pronunciation.


lexentry: eng/gender__Noun__1
written_rep: gender
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genere
sense_list:
(obsolete) Class; kind. [14th–19th c.] | 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/gender__Noun__1
written_rep: gender
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: genere | sesso
sense_list:
(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_dysphoria__Noun__1
written_rep: gender dysphoria
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: incongruenza di genere
sense_list:
A profound and persistent unhappiness caused by having characteristics (body parts, clothing, etc) of, or being perceived as, a gender different from one's gender identity, experienced especially by transgender people.


lexentry: eng/gender_identity__Noun__1
written_rep: gender identity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: identità di genere
sense_list:
(psychology) An individual's internal sense of self as belonging to a particular gender or genders, or to no gender.


lexentry: eng/gender_ideology__Noun__1
written_rep: gender ideology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ideologia di genere
sense_list:
The set of roles and assumptions in a particular culture that are associated with gender and pertain to non-sexual activities, such as occupation, appropriate expressions of emotion, etc.


lexentry: eng/gender_studies__Noun__1
written_rep: gender studies
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: studi di genere
sense_list:
An academic discipline which analyses constructions of gender and sexuality in society (with reference to other sociological characteristics like class, education, ethnicity, nationality, religion, etc.).


lexentry: eng/gender_transition__Noun__1
written_rep: gender transition
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: transizione di genere
sense_list:
(transgender) Process or act of changing one's gender role or physical characteristics, by social, medical, or legal methods, to conform to their identified gender, rather than the sex assigned at birth.


lexentry: eng/gendersex__Noun__1
written_rep: gendersex
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: famiglia
sense_list:
Sex or gender. A division of organisms into masculine, feminine and possibly others, by sexual or social characteristics.


lexentry: eng/gene__Noun__1
written_rep: gene
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gene
sense_list:
(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/gene_expression__Noun__1
written_rep: gene expression
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: espressione genica
sense_list:
(genetics) The transcription and translation of a gene into messenger RNA and thus into a protein; it may be lesser or greater depending on many epigenetic factors.


lexentry: eng/gene_therapy__Noun__1
written_rep: gene therapy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: terapia genica
sense_list:
Any of several therapies involving the insertion of genes into a patient's cells in order to replace defective ones.


lexentry: eng/genealogy__Noun__1
written_rep: genealogy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genealogia
sense_list:
(countable) The descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or ancestors; lineage or pedigree. | (countable) A record or table of such descent; a family tree. | (uncountable) The study, and formal recording of such descents.


lexentry: eng/general__Adjective__1
written_rep: general
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: generale
sense_list:
Including or involving every part or member of a given or implied entity, whole, etc.; common to all, universal. [from 13th c.] | (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.] | Prevalent or widespread among a given class or area; common, usual. [from 14th c.] | Not of a specific class; miscellaneous. [from 16th c.]


lexentry: eng/general__Noun__1
written_rep: general
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: generale
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: general anesthesia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: anestesia generale | narcosi
sense_list:
(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_classification__Noun__1
written_rep: general classification
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: classifica generale
sense_list:
The overall standings in a bicycle stage race, based on a rider's total elapsed time in all stages of the race with the lowest time being the leader.


lexentry: eng/general_election__Noun__1
written_rep: general election
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: elezioni generali
sense_list:
An election, usually held at regular intervals, in which candidates are elected in all or most constituencies or electoral districts of a nation.


lexentry: eng/general_knowledge__Noun__1
written_rep: general knowledge
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: cultura generale
sense_list:
The wide body of information that a person acquires from education and from life, much of which may be trivial.


lexentry: eng/general_manager__Noun__1
written_rep: general manager
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: amministratore
sense_list:
(management) A manager with overall responsibility for an organisation or a distinct unit of an organisation.


lexentry: eng/general_practitioner__Noun__1
written_rep: general practitioner
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: medico di famiglia | medico di medicina generale
sense_list:
A physician who provides primary care; treating acute and chronic illnesses and providing preventive care and health education; a family doctor.


lexentry: eng/general_public__Noun__1
written_rep: general public
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pubblico generale
sense_list:
Those members of the public who have no special role in a particular area, such as an airport, hospital or railway station; there will typically be restrictions on their access.


lexentry: eng/general_relativity__Noun__1
written_rep: general relativity
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: relatività generale
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: general store
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: emporio
sense_list:
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/general_strike__Noun__1
written_rep: general strike
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sciopero generale
sense_list:
A coordinated work stoppage by a substantial proportion of the workers of a particular city, region or state, normally to achieve economic or political goals.


lexentry: eng/generalissimo__Noun__1
written_rep: generalissimo
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: generalissimo
sense_list:
(military) A supreme commander of the armed forces of a country, especially one who is also a political leader.


lexentry: eng/generalist__Noun__1
written_rep: generalist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: generalista
sense_list:
A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.


lexentry: eng/generalization__Noun__1
written_rep: generalization
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: generalizzazione
sense_list:
The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties. | Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles


lexentry: eng/generating_function__Noun__1
written_rep: generating function
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: funzione generatrice
sense_list:
(mathematics) A formal power series with one indeterminate, whose coefficients encode a sequence that can be studied by algebraic manipulation of the series; any one of several generalizations, such as to encode more than one sequence or use more than one indeterminate.


lexentry: eng/generation__Noun__1
written_rep: generation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: generazione
sense_list:
The act of creating something or bringing something into being; production, creation. [from 14th c.] | 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.] | 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.] | (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/generation_gap__Noun__1
written_rep: generation gap
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gap generazionale
sense_list:
A disconnect between members of one generation and members of the next based on the later generation developing habits, attitudes, and preferences inconsistent with the experience of the former.


lexentry: eng/generic__Adjective__1
written_rep: generic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: generico
sense_list:
(of a product or drug) not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.


lexentry: eng/generic_name__Noun__1
written_rep: generic name
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: nome comune
sense_list:
(pharmacology, pharmacy) A nonproprietary name given to a drug that is used to identify it irrespective of trademark.


lexentry: eng/generous__Adjective__1
written_rep: generous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: generoso
sense_list:
Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed. [from 17th c.] | (obsolete) Of noble birth. [16th–19th c.]


lexentry: eng/genet__Noun__1
written_rep: genet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genetta
sense_list:
Any of several Old World nocturnal, carnivorous mammals, of the genus Genetta in the family Viverridae, most of which have a spotted coat and a long, ringed tail.


lexentry: eng/genet__Noun__2
written_rep: genet
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genet
sense_list:
(biology) A group of genetically identical individuals (plants, fungi, bacteria etc.) that have grown in a given location, all originating from asexual reproduction of a single ancestor; a group of ramets.


lexentry: eng/genetic_code__Noun__1
written_rep: genetic code
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: codice genetico
sense_list:
(genetics) The set of rules by which the sequence of bases in DNA are translated into the amino acid sequence of proteins.


lexentry: eng/genetic_drift__Noun__1
written_rep: genetic drift
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: deriva genetica
sense_list:
(genetics, evolutionary theory) An overall shift of allele distribution in an isolated population, due to random fluctuations in the frequencies of individual alleles of the genes.


lexentry: eng/genetic_programming__Noun__1
written_rep: genetic programming
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: programmazione genetica
sense_list:
(computing) A search heuristic that explores the space of computer programs and is based on biological evolution.


lexentry: eng/genetics__Noun__1
written_rep: genetics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genetica
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: genie
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: genio
sense_list:
(mythological creature) A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal possessing its container.


lexentry: eng/genital_wart__Noun__1
written_rep: genital wart
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: condiloma
sense_list:
A wart associated with a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection, caused by some types of human papillomavirus.


lexentry: eng/genitalia__Noun__1
written_rep: genitalia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: genitali | organi di riproduzione | parti intime
sense_list:
(by extension) Any sex organs, whether external or internal; body parts used in sexual reproduction or sexual stimulation.


lexentry: eng/genitality__Noun__1
written_rep: genitality
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: genitalità
sense_list:
In Reichian psychoanalysis, the integrated function of the entire sexual apparatus; as opposed to pregenitality, neurosis. Note that in this use, sexuality oriented on the genitalia may not by itself constitute genitality, i.e. phallicism would be considered a pregenitally functioning sexuality.


lexentry: eng/genitive__Adjective__1
written_rep: genitive
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: genitivo
sense_list:
Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.


lexentry: eng/genitive_case__Noun__1
written_rep: genitive case
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: caso genitivo
sense_list:
(grammar) The grammatical case, chiefly applicable to nouns, used to express a relationship of origin or possession. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition of and the suffix -'s.


lexentry: eng/genitofemoral__Adjective__1
written_rep: genitofemoral
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genitofemorale
sense_list:
(anatomy) Pertaining to the genital organs and the thigh; applied especially to one of the lumbar nerves.


lexentry: eng/genitourinary__Adjective__1
written_rep: genitourinary
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genitourinario
sense_list:
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the genital and urinary systems of the body, together with their function, disease, etc.


lexentry: eng/genius__Noun__1
written_rep: genius
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genio
sense_list:
(countable) Someone possessing extraordinary intelligence or skill; especially somebody who has demonstrated this by a creative or original work in science, music, art etc.


lexentry: eng/genizah__Noun__1
written_rep: genizah
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ghenizah
sense_list:
(Jewish law) A depository where sacred Hebrew books or other sacred items that by Jewish law cannot be disposed of are kept before they can be properly buried in a cemetery.


lexentry: eng/genocide__Noun__1
written_rep: genocide
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genocidio
sense_list:
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/genome__Noun__1
written_rep: genome
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genoma
sense_list:
(genetics) The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism. [from 1930]


lexentry: eng/genotype__Noun__1
written_rep: genotype
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genotipo
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: gens
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gens
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: gentian
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genziana
sense_list:
(countable) Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers. | (uncountable) Dried roots and rhizome of European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic.


lexentry: eng/gentility__Noun__1
written_rep: gentility
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gentilezza
sense_list:
(uncountable) The state of being elegant, genteel, having good breeding, or being socially superior.


lexentry: eng/gentleman__Noun__1
written_rep: gentleman
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gentiluomo | galantuomo | signor | signori
sense_list:
(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/gentoo_penguin__Noun__1
written_rep: gentoo penguin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pinguino papua
sense_list:
A species of penguin, Pygoscelis papua, with a distinctive wide white stripe extending like a bonnet across the top of its head.


lexentry: eng/gentrification__Noun__1
written_rep: gentrification
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gentrificazione
sense_list:
(urban studies) The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.


lexentry: eng/gentrify__Verb__1
written_rep: gentrify
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gentrificare
sense_list:
(transitive) To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).


lexentry: eng/genuflect__Verb__1
written_rep: genuflect
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genuflettere
sense_list:
(intransitive, archaic) To bend the knee, as in servitude. | (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
written_rep: genus
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: genere
sense_list:
(biology, taxonomy) A category in the classification of organisms, ranking below family (Lat. familia) and above species. | A taxon at this rank. | (topology, graph theory, algebraic geometry) A natural number representing any of several related measures of the complexity of a given manifold or graph.


lexentry: eng/geobiology__Noun__1
written_rep: geobiology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geobiologia
sense_list:
(geology, biology) The interdisciplinary study of the interactions between the Earth's biosphere and the lithosphere, which incorporates both geology and biology.


lexentry: eng/geocaching__Noun__1
written_rep: geocaching
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geocaching
sense_list:
A pastime in which participants use a GPS receiver to find a hidden container at a specific latitude and longitude, or to hide a container to be found in this manner.


lexentry: eng/geochemistry__Noun__1
written_rep: geochemistry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geochimica
sense_list:
(chemistry) The branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, and with the chemical processes that occur in the formation of rocks and minerals etc.


lexentry: eng/geode__Noun__1
written_rep: geode
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geode | drusa
sense_list:
(geology) A nodule of stone having a cavity lined with mineral or crystal matter on the inside wall.


lexentry: eng/geodesy__Noun__1
written_rep: geodesy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geodesia
sense_list:
(sciences, geography) The discipline which deals with the measurement and representation of Earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, Earth tides, and crustal motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space


lexentry: eng/geodetics__Noun__1
written_rep: geodetics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geodesia
sense_list:
The scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, earth tides, and tectonic motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.


lexentry: eng/geodynamics__Noun__1
written_rep: geodynamics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geodinamica
sense_list:
the branch of geophysics that studies the deformation processes of planetary mantle and crust, and the resulting earthquakes and volcanism


lexentry: eng/geoglyph__Noun__1
written_rep: geoglyph
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geoglifo
sense_list:
(chiefly, archaeology) A large-scale drawing or image made on the ground by arranging lines of stones, scratching the earth, etc., and often only fully visible from a distance or the air.


lexentry: eng/geographic__Adjective__1
written_rep: geographic
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geografico
sense_list:
Pertaining to geography (or to geographics) | Determined by geography, as opposed to magnetic (i.e. North)


lexentry: eng/geography__Noun__1
written_rep: geography
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geografia
sense_list:
The study of the physical properties of the earth, including how humans affect and are affected by them.


lexentry: eng/geoid__Noun__1
written_rep: geoid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geoide
sense_list:
(geography, geodesy) The shape, extending through landmasses (continents, etc.), that the surface of the oceans of the Earth would take under the influence of the Earth's gravity and rotation alone, disregarding other factors such as winds and tides; that is, a surface of constant gravitational potential at zero elevation.


lexentry: eng/geolithological__Adjective__1
written_rep: geolithological
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geolitologico
sense_list:
(geology) Describing the branch of geology that studies the distribution of different forms of stone


lexentry: eng/geologic_joint__Noun__1
written_rep: geologic joint
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: diaclasi
sense_list:
(geology) A fracture in rock in which (unlike a fault) the strata do not move relative to each other.


lexentry: eng/geological_matrix__Noun__1
written_rep: geological matrix
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: matrice
sense_list:
(geology) The fine-grained background material in which crystals, pebbles or fossils are embedded in a sedimentary rock


lexentry: eng/geologist__Noun__1
written_rep: geologist
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geologo | geologa
sense_list:
A person whose occupation specializes in the science of geology, especially at a professional or academic level.


lexentry: eng/geology__Noun__1
written_rep: geology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geologia
sense_list:
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
written_rep: geomancy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geomanzia
sense_list:
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/geomarketing__Noun__1
written_rep: geomarketing
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geomarketing
sense_list:
(marketing) The integration of geographical parameters into various aspects of marketing, including sales and distribution.


lexentry: eng/geometric_progression__Noun__1
written_rep: geometric progression
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: progressione geometrica
sense_list:
(analysis) A sequence in which each term except the first is obtained from the previous by multiplying it by a constant value, known as the common ratio of the geometric progression.


lexentry: eng/geometric_series__Noun__1
written_rep: geometric series
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: serie geometrica
sense_list:
(analysis) Any infinite series whose terms are in geometric progression; any series of the form \textstyle a+ a r+ a r^2+ a r^3 \cdots = a \sum_{i=0}^\infty r^i.


lexentry: eng/geometry__Noun__1
written_rep: geometry
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geometria
sense_list:
(mathematics, uncountable) The branch of mathematics dealing with spatial relationships. | (countable) The observed or specified spatial attributes of an object, etc. | (algebraic geometry, countable) A mathematical object comprising representations of a space and of its spatial relationships.


lexentry: eng/geometry_of_numbers__Noun__1
written_rep: geometry of numbers
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: teoria dei numeri geometrica
sense_list:
(number theory) The subbranch of number theory which applies techniques from geometry to the study of algebraic numbers.


lexentry: eng/geophysics__Noun__1
written_rep: geophysics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geofisica
sense_list:
A branch of earth science dealing with the physical processes and phenomena occurring in the earth and in its vicinity.


lexentry: eng/geostationary__Adjective__1
written_rep: geostationary
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geostazionario
sense_list:
At a fixed distance in three dimensions relative to a particular point on the Earth's surface; generally only possible with orbital satellites.


lexentry: eng/geosynchronous__Adjective__1
written_rep: geosynchronous
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geosincrono
sense_list:
Refers to the orbit of a satellite whose rate of revolution is matched to the rotation period of the Earth. A special case is the geostationary orbit which is circular and equatorial, so that the satellite appears to be fixed over a particular point on Earth's sky.


lexentry: eng/geothermal_energy__Noun__1
written_rep: geothermal energy
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geotermia
sense_list:
Heat under the ground used to heat water and make steam to turn generator turbines and make electricity.


lexentry: eng/gerbil__Noun__1
written_rep: gerbil
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gerbillo | ratto delle sabbie
sense_list:
A member of one of several species of small, jumping, murine rodents, of the genus Gerbillus and certain other genera in subfamily Gerbillinae, with leaping powers resembling those of the jerboa, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.


lexentry: eng/geriatrics__Noun__1
written_rep: geriatrics
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geriatria
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: germ
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: germe
sense_list:
(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. | The embryo of a seed, especially of a seed used as a cereal or grain. See Wikipedia article on cereal germ. | (figurative) The origin or earliest version of an idea or project.


lexentry: eng/german__Adjective__1
written_rep: german
part_of_speech: adjective
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: germano
sense_list:
(obsolete, _, except in set terms) Having the same mother and father; a full (brother or sister). | (obsolete, _, except in set terms) Being born to one’s blood aunt or uncle, a first (cousin).


lexentry: eng/germander__Noun__1
written_rep: germander
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: camedrio
sense_list:
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
written_rep: germanium
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: germanio
sense_list:
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/germinate__Verb__1
written_rep: germinate
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: germinare
sense_list:
(intransitive, botany, horticulture) Of a seed, to begin to grow, to sprout roots and leaves. | (transitive) To cause to grow; to produce.


lexentry: eng/germplasm__Noun__1
written_rep: germplasm
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: germoplasma
sense_list:
Seeds or tissues maintained for the purpose of animal or plant breeding, preservation or other research uses.


lexentry: eng/gerontology__Noun__1
written_rep: gerontology
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: gerontologia
sense_list:
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/gerontophobia__Noun__1
written_rep: gerontophobia
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gerontofobia
sense_list:
An abnormal and persistent fear of aging or growing old. | An abnormal and persistent fear of elderly individuals or people.


lexentry: eng/gerund__Noun__1
written_rep: gerund
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gerundio
sense_list:
(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) | (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
written_rep: gerundive
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gerundivo
sense_list:
(in Latin, _, grammar) a verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle.


lexentry: eng/gestalt__Noun__1
written_rep: gestalt
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: sagoma
sense_list:
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/gestation__Noun__1
written_rep: gestation
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gestazione
sense_list:
The period of time during which an animal or human offspring physically develops inside the mother's body until it is born.


lexentry: eng/gesture__Noun__1
written_rep: gesture
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: gesto
sense_list:
An act or a remark that serves as a formality or as a sign of attitude. | (obsolete) The manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.


lexentry: eng/get__Verb__1
written_rep: get
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 14
trans_list: essere
sense_list:
(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__Verb__1
written_rep: get
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 23
trans_list: ricevere | mettere | trasportare
sense_list:
(transitive, informal) To bring to reckoning; to catch (usually as a criminal); to effect retribution.


lexentry: eng/get_a_grip__Verb__1
written_rep: get a grip
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: darsi una calmata | riprendersi
sense_list:
(idiomatic, mostly, imperative) To come to one's senses and become more rational after having experienced a strong emotion.


lexentry: eng/get_a_word_in_edgewise__Verb__1
written_rep: get a word in edgewise
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: controbattere | infilare una parola | profferire parola
sense_list:
(US, usually, pejorative) To break into or participate in a conversation, especially where there is much interruption by other speakers.


lexentry: eng/get_across__Verb__1
written_rep: get across
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: attraversare
sense_list:
(transitive, intransitive) To cross; to move from one side (of something) to the other, literally or figuratively.


lexentry: eng/get_ahead_of_oneself__Verb__1
written_rep: get ahead of oneself
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: essere precipitoso | farsi prendere la mano
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To focus excessively on one's plans or on prospective future events without paying adequate attention to the present.


lexentry: eng/get_along__Verb__1
written_rep: get along
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: andare [[d']]accordo | ingranare | trovarcisi
sense_list:
(intransitive, idiomatic, often followed by with) To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble.


lexentry: eng/get_away__Verb__1
written_rep: get away
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: allontanarsi
sense_list:
(literally) To move away (from). | (with 'from' when used with an object) To avoid capture; to escape; to flee (from).


lexentry: eng/get_away__Verb__1
written_rep: get away
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: allontanarsi | andarsene | staccare
sense_list:
(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
written_rep: get back
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: vendicare
sense_list:
(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_by_the_balls__Verb__1
written_rep: get by the balls
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tenere per le palle
sense_list:
(slang, vulgar) To have complete control over someone, especially of a woman abusing a man's infatuation with her.


lexentry: eng/get_down_to_brass_tacks__Verb__1
written_rep: get down to brass tacks
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: darsi da fare | darsi una mossa | entrare nei dettagli | rimboccarsi le maniche | venire al sodo
sense_list:
(idiomatic, chiefly, _, US) To start to discuss or consider the most important details or facts about something.


lexentry: eng/get_even__Verb__1
written_rep: get even
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: pareggiare i conti
sense_list:
(idiomatic, informal) To inflict trouble or harm on another in return, typically the same as that inflicted on oneself.


lexentry: eng/get_in__Verb__1
written_rep: get in
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: salire
sense_list:
(intransitive) To enter a place; to gain access. | (intransitive, idiomatic) To be elected to some office.


lexentry: eng/get_off__Verb__1
written_rep: get off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 03
trans_list: smettere
sense_list:
(intransitive) To stop touching or physically interfering with something or someone. | (transitive) To cause (something) to stop touching or interfering with (something else).


lexentry: eng/get_off__Verb__1
written_rep: get off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 06
trans_list: scendere
sense_list:
(transitive, intransitive) To disembark, especially from mass transportation such as a bus or train; to depart from (a path, highway, etc).


lexentry: eng/get_off__Verb__1
written_rep: get off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 13
trans_list: cavarsela
sense_list:
(transitive) To help someone to escape serious or severe consequences and receive only mild or no punishment.


lexentry: eng/get_off__Verb__1
written_rep: get off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 18
trans_list: arrapare | eccitare
sense_list:
(transitive, slang) To excite or arouse, especially in a sexual manner, as to cause to experience orgasm.


lexentry: eng/get_off__Verb__1
written_rep: get off
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 19
trans_list: fare sesso | scopare
sense_list:
(intransitive, slang) To experience great pleasure, especially sexual pleasure; in particular, to experience an orgasm.


lexentry: eng/get_on_someone's_nerves__Verb__1
written_rep: get on someone's nerves
part_of_speech: verb
sense_list: (idiomatic) To annoy or irritate someone; to bother someone.
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list:
dare sui nervi | fare venire il latte alle ginocchia | fare venire la mosca al naso | stare sui nervi


lexentry: eng/get_one's_knickers_in_a_twist__Verb__1
written_rep: get one's knickers in a twist
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: indispettire | innervosire | irritare | scombussolare | scontentare | turbare
sense_list:
(idiomatic, Britain, Ireland, humorous, informal, ) To become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.


lexentry: eng/get_one's_wires_crossed__Verb__1
written_rep: get one's wires crossed
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: capire
sense_list:
(intransitive, idiomatic) To get confused or mixed up about another person's intentions; to misunderstand one another.


lexentry: eng/get_out__Verb__1
written_rep: get out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: uscire
sense_list:
(intransitive) To leave or escape. | (intransitive) To be released, especially from hospital or prison.


lexentry: eng/get_out__Verb__1
written_rep: get out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: escire
sense_list:
(transitive) To help (someone) leave. | (transitive) To take (something) from its container or storage place, so as to use or display it.


lexentry: eng/get_out__Verb__1
written_rep: get out
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: venire fuori
sense_list:
(intransitive) To leave a vehicle such as a car. (Note: for public transport, get off is more common.) | (intransitive) To spend free time out of the house.


lexentry: eng/get_out_of_here__Interjection__1
written_rep: get out of here
part_of_speech: interjection
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fenoui
sense_list:
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get,‎ out of,‎ here. | (idiomatic, informal) An exclamation of disbelief.


lexentry: eng/get_over__Verb__1
written_rep: get over
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 04
trans_list: superare | vincere
sense_list:
(slang, transitive) To manipulate (someone); to get around (someone); to improve one's own standing at another's expense. | (slang, intransitive) To impress someone; to achieve a goal; to be successful.


lexentry: eng/get_up__Verb__1
written_rep: get up
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: alzarsi
sense_list:
(literally) To move in an upward direction; to ascend or climb. | To rise from one's bed, usually upon waking up in order to begin one's day.


lexentry: eng/get_up__Verb__1
written_rep: get up
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 15
trans_list: radunare | raggruppare | riunire
sense_list:
(slang, AAVE) To be excited about something; to act regarding something; to become cognizant of something.


lexentry: eng/get_up_on_the_wrong_side_of_the_bed__Verb__1
written_rep: get up on the wrong side of the bed
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: alzarsi con il piede sbagliato
sense_list:
(idiomatic) To feel irritable; to be in a bad mood; to have a bad day from the start, for no particular reason.


lexentry: eng/get_wet__Verb__1
written_rep: get wet
part_of_speech: verb
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: annaffiare
sense_list:
(idiomatic) Of a woman, to become sexually aroused, as indicated by the occurrence of the natural lubrication of the vagina.


lexentry: eng/get_woke,_go_broke__Proverb__1
written_rep: get woke, go broke
part_of_speech: proverb
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: fai il risvegliato e sei rovinato
sense_list:
(informal, neologism, politics) Businesses that focus on social activism to align themselves with social justice are liable to lose customers.


lexentry: eng/geta__Noun__1
written_rep: geta
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: rete
sense_list:
(game of go) A technique for capturing stones by enclosing them in a “net” preventing them from escaping in any direction.


lexentry: eng/getup__Noun__1
written_rep: getup
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: tenuta
sense_list:
(chiefly, US, informal) Clothes, costume or outfit, especially one that is ostentatious or otherwise unusual.


lexentry: eng/geyser__Noun__1
written_rep: geyser
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: geyser
sense_list:
(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/ghetto__Noun__1
written_rep: ghetto
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ghetto
sense_list:
An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.) | An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.


lexentry: eng/ghost_employee__Noun__1
written_rep: ghost employee
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: maharaja
sense_list:
A registered employee, especially a public officer, recorded in the payroll system without actually working.


lexentry: eng/ghost_goal__Noun__1
written_rep: ghost goal
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gol fantasma
sense_list:
(ball games) An apparent goal in which it is not clear whether or not the ball crossed the goal line.


lexentry: eng/ghost_ship__Noun__1
written_rep: ghost ship
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: nave fantasma
sense_list:
(nautical) An abandoned ship, or (science fiction, by extension) spaceship, that is haunted and possibly adrift.


lexentry: eng/ghost_town__Noun__1
written_rep: ghost town
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: città fantasma
sense_list:
A town which has become deserted, usually due to failing economic activity, especially one that still has substantial visible remains.


lexentry: eng/ghost_train__Noun__1
written_rep: ghost train
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: galleria degli orrori
sense_list:
A fairground attraction in which participants ride through a haunted house in a railcar. | An unmanned train rolling on the train line.


lexentry: eng/ghosting__Noun__1
written_rep: ghosting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 05
trans_list: ghiaccio
sense_list:
(computing) A problem with a keyboard where certain simultaneous keypresses trigger the action of a further key that was not in fact pressed. | (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
written_rep: ghosting
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 07
trans_list: fantasma
sense_list:
The phenomenon of the writing on one side of a page in a notebook being partly visible on the other side.


lexentry: eng/ghostwriter__Noun__1
written_rep: ghostwriter
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: ghostwriter | scrittore ombra | negro letterario | scrittore fantasma
sense_list:
A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.


lexentry: eng/ghrelin__Noun__1
written_rep: ghrelin
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: grelina
sense_list:
(biochemistry) A peptide hormone, secreted in the stomach when empty, that increases appetite and secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland. [from 1999]


lexentry: eng/giant__Noun__1
written_rep: giant
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 02
trans_list: gigante
sense_list:
Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. | (astronomy) A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant).


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


lexentry: eng/giant_kettle__Noun__1
written_rep: giant kettle
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: marmitta dei giganti
sense_list:
A pothole of very large dimensions, as found in glaciers in Norway (pit formed in the bed of a turbulent stream).


lexentry: eng/giant_squid__Noun__1
written_rep: giant squid
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: calamaro gigante
sense_list:
Any of the very large squid, of the genus Architeuthis (family Architeuthidae), that live at great depths, and of which little is known.


lexentry: eng/giant_star__Noun__1
written_rep: giant star
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: stella gigante
sense_list:
(star) A star that has stopped fusing hydrogen in its core and as a result has grown much larger and brighter.


lexentry: eng/giaour__Noun__1
written_rep: giaour
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: giaurro
sense_list:
(religious slur) A non-Muslim, especially a Christian, an infidel; especially as used by Turkish people with particular reference to Christians such as Greeks, Armenians, Bulgarians, Serbs and Assyrians.


lexentry: eng/gibbon__Noun__1
written_rep: gibbon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gibbone
sense_list:
A small ape of the family Hylobatidae with long limbs, which it uses to travel through rainforests by swinging from branch to branch.


lexentry: eng/gibbous_moon__Noun__1
written_rep: gibbous moon
part_of_speech: noun
min_sense_num: 01
trans_list: gibbosa calante | gibbosa crescente
sense_list:
(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.


