Merriam-Webster

Merriam-Webster Dictionary of English Language

Realizations (92)

Shift	Language	Lexeme	Source		Target
#488	English	mouth	mouth	→	herald, spokesman
#1418	English	dear	(British) dear	—	dear, respected
#855	English	suckle	to breastfeed	→	to bring up
#3494	English	kid	young goat	→	child
#4104	English	seasoned	soaked in sauce	→	toughened by being in a challening situation for a long time, specifically a military conflict
#5764	English	conjure	to practice witchcraft	→	to make, create
#5875	English	to go out	to go out	→	to have relationships (romantic or sexual)
#5878	English	to discriminate	to differ, to make distinction	—	to discriminate, to treat improperly
#2664	Middle English	hoge, hogge	pig	→	hedgehog (Еrinaceus)
#3258	Hiri Motu	toea	a kind of shell	→	monetary subunit of the Papuan kina (1/100)
#6352	English	quail	common quail	→	buttonquail
#1879	English	mad	mad	→	angry
#203	English	jealous	jealous	—	envious
#6495	English	lame	lame person	→	bad, nasty, boring, ineffective
#6512	English	dumbledor, dumbledore	(dialectal) bumblebee	→	(dialectal) cockchafer
#2151	English	deep	deep	→	earnest, serious
#6754	English	storm	storm	→	petrel (Procellaria)
#6763	English	frog	frog	→	a person equipped (as with face mask, flippers, and air supply) for extended periods of underwater swimming especially : a person so equipped for military reconnaissance and demolition (Merriam-Webster)
#1550	English	trunk	the main stem of a tree apart from limbs and roots	—	the human or animal body apart from the head, neck, and appendages
#6828	English	drug	drug, medicine	→	something and often an illegal substance that causes addiction, habituation or a marked change in consciousness
#6858	English	Turkey	Turkey	→	turkey
#6859	English	Guinea	Guinea	→	guinea pig (Cavia porcellus)
#6876	English	needle	needle	→	needle of the coniferous tree
#6880	English	need	have to, need, should	→	need, poverty
#6981	English	dog	dog	→	dog-rose
#6982	English	respect	respect (n.)	→	relation, connection
#1679	English	roach	roach (Rutilus rutilus)	→	the butt of a marijuana cigarette
#6996	English	cup	cup	→	flower cup
#7012	English	castle	fortress	→	rook (chess)
#2411	English	bow	something bent into a simple curve or arc	→	bow (weapon)
#8214	English	regard	to see/to look at	→	to concern, be related to
#8215	English	as	as, like	→	because of
#8216	English	as	as, like	→	when
#8217	English	since	since	→	because of
#2267	English	crazy	insane	→	passionate about
#1894	English	weakness	weakness	→	inclination to smth
#8396	English	crush	to squeeze or force by pressure so as to alter or destroy structure; to reduce to particles by pounding or grinding (Merriam-Webster)	→	to experience an intense and usually passing infatuation (Merriam-Webster)
#8436	English	neck	neck	→	neck (of a musical instrument)
#8580	English	gun	very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol; a less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun	—	(military) a cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity; (military) a cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more
#3125	English	agrestic	rural	→	rustic, unpolished
#7636	English	anserine	pertaining to a goose or geese; gooselike	→	silly, foolish, stupid
#1394	English	ass	donkey	→	stupid person
#2931	English	bang	to hit hard	—	(slang, transitive, intransitive, vulgar) to engage in sexual intercourse
#886	English	bile	bitter brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow secretion produced by the liver, stored in the gall bladder, and discharged into the duodenum where it aids the process of digestion	→	biliousness, irascibility, irritability, anger
#2372	English	day	day (not night)	→	24 hours
#1232	English	run	to move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short jump off either foot	→	diarrhea
#1810	English	to come after smb.	to come after smb.	→	to prosecute at law
#9180	English	bring	to bring	→	to cause
#9181	English	to catch	to catch	→	to fall ill
#9205	English	ear	ear	→	earwig (Forficula auricularia)
#9210	English	power	strength	→	power (mathematics)
#9222	English	lichen	lichen	→	lichen (medicine)
#9232	English	saw	saw	→	sawfish (Pristis)
#9256	English	climb	to climb	→	to increase (intr.)
#9256	English	climb	to climb	→	to increase (intr.)
#9318	English	to learn	to find out	—	to learn, study
#9319	English	foal	foal	→	foalfoot (Tussilago farfara)
#9321	English	foot	foot	→	foalfoot (Tussilago farfara)
#9355	English	sun	sun	→	Ocean sunfish (Mola Mola)
#9409	English	conceive	to conceive, become pregnant	→	to make, create
#9410	English	gather	to gather, collect	→	to understand
#9496	English	odd	odd (of numbers)	→	strange
#9502	English	field	field	→	area (of knowledge/activity)
#9534	English	to beg	to ask (for)	→	beggar
#9551	English	basin	circular vessel with sloping or curving sides used typically for holding water for washing	→	basin (geographical depression )
#9573	English	bug	bug (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera; (informal) any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest	→	concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
#6315	English	to strike	to strike, hit	→	stroke, apoplexy
#9594	English	to love	to love	→	to copulate
#9621	English	nerve	nerve	→	to be nervous
#9666	English	crocodile	crocodile	→	Egyptian plover (Pluvianus aegyptius)
#4729	English	zebra	zebra	→	Danio rerio
#9907	English	flank	flank (body part)	→	flank (military)
#9922	English	direction	direction	→	chief, boss
#10004	English	cavern	cave	→	cavernous (tissue)
#10018	English	crane	crane (Grus)	→	geranium
#10106	English	virgin	virgin	→	virgin land
#10463	English	barleycorn	barleycorn	→	an old unit of length equal to a third of an inch
#10495	English	day	daytime	→	an account of daily events
#10500	English	to trigger	to trigger	→	to cause
#10505	English	to swallow	to swallow	→	to tolerate, put up with
#9157	English	to swallow	to swallow	→	to restrain (one's negative feelings)
#10507	English	to buy	to buy	→	to trust
#10508	English	to mull	to grind or mix thoroughly	→	to think, consider at length
#10535	English	to imagine	to imagine	→	to think, suppose
#10536	English	to guess	to guess	→	to think, suppose
#10535	English	to fancy	to imagine	→	to think, suppose
#10542	English	spur	spur (of bird)	→	bone spur
#10551	English	horizon	horizon	→	horizontal (vs. vertical)
#3435	English	to grind	to mill, to resucée to powder	→	to learn, study hard
#10598	English	arrest	(14th–19th c) to stop the motion of (a person, animal, or body part)	→	t seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody
#10607	English	to hear	to perceive sounds through the ear	→	the sense used to perceive sound
#10638	English	cookie	sweet baked good	→	packet of information sent by a server to a World Wide Web browser and then returned by the browser each time it accesses that server, used to maintain state between otherwise stateless HTTP transactions, for example, to identify the user