yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
compile
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
computing
engineering
games
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
snooker
sports
Etymology: From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).
Inflected forms:
form: compiles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: compiling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: compiled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: compiled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: compiles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To make by gathering pieces from various sources.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Samuel Johnson compiled one of the most influential dictionaries of the English language.
So what is it that makes SBB (Swiss national railways) tick? In my humble opinion, two things. Firstly, a comprehensive and set-in-stone integrated timetable (incorporating trains, ferries, cable cars and buses, including the world-famous yellow 'post-autos'), compiled four years in advance and which gets tested twice before it becomes operational.
gloss: To construct; to build.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: Before that Merlin dyde, he did intend / A brasen wall in compas to compyle / About Cairmardin […]
gloss: To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Steve Davis compiled a 147.
gloss: To use a compiler to process source code and produce executable code.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: After I compile this program I’ll run it and see if it works.
gloss: To be successfully processed by a compiler into executable code.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: There must be an error in my source code because it won’t compile.
gloss: To contain or comprise.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: After ſo long a race as I haue run / Through Faery land, vvhich thoſe ſix books cõpile [compile] / giue leaue to reſt me being halfe fordonne, / and gather to my ſelfe nevv breath avvhile.
gloss: To write; to compose.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: They are at their leisure much given to poetry; in which they compile the praises of virtuous men and actions , satires against vice
gloss: An act of compiling code.
pos: noun
examples: […] programming team managers assumed the "improved programs" produced through structured programming would not require as many compiles during development.
Any file with an error or warning on it will be added to this smart group until the next compile.
Derived words: autocompile
compilability
compilable
compiland
compilation
compilement
compiler
compilator
decompile
miscompile
noncompiled
noncompiling
precompile
recompile
uncompile
uncompiled
Translations:
compiler
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
Etymology: From Middle English compilour, from Anglo-Norman compilour, from Old French compileur, from Latin compīlātōrem, equivalent to compile + -er.
Base: compile
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: compilers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who compiles.
pos: noun
examples: a compiler of poetry anthologies
my favourite crossword compiler
Had I travelled the same route by train (the Trans-Siberian Express, say), it would have taken me a week to get there - enough time to notice that the clocks at all the stations along the way (as well as at all other stations in the totalitarian USSR) stubbornly stuck to Moscow Time. […] That bizarre arrangement, convenient for the compilers of train timetables but highly confusing for everyone else, was in force until the early 2000s, when railway stations across Russia finally adopted local times, like everywhere else in the world.
gloss: A computer program that transforms source code into object code.
pos: noun
examples: As a result, many compilers automatically allocate blocks of memory and then parcel chunks out to programs with a suballocator when needed. That is, the compiler allocates a chunk of some 4,000 bytes and then parcels this memory out to you in bits and pieces when you need it.
The recommended Apple Objective-C compiler, Clang/LLVM (versions 4.2 and above) provides support for autosynthesis of declared properties. This means that the compiler will automatically synthesize declared properties […]
Translations:
Scot
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old English Scottas (“people from Ireland, Irishmen”), from Late Latin Scotti (see Scōtī for more).
See Scoti.
Inflected forms:
form: Scots
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person born in or native to Scotland.
pos: noun
Translations:
complain
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English complaynen, from Old French complaindre, from Medieval Latin complangere (“to bewail, complain”), from Latin com- (“together”) + plangere (“to strike, beat, as the breast in extreme grief, bewail”); see plain, plaint.
Inflected forms:
form: complains
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: complaining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: complained
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: complained
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Joe was always complaining about the noise made by his neighbours.
O loſs of ſight, of thee I moſt complain!
gloss: To state the presence of something negative; to indicate that one is suffering from something; to report (e.g.) a symptom.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The patient complained of headache, nausea, and joint pain.
gloss: To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They've complained about me to the police again.
Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me to the king?
If you get cheated by the Better Business Bureau, who do you complain to?
gloss: To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.
pos: verb
examples: the complaining bed-springs
Synonyms: beef
bellyache
bemoan
bitch
bleat
whimper
carp
chunter
complain
crab
croak
dump on
frine
girn
give out
grumble
grotch
grouse
grouch
grump
gruntle
gripe
harp
inveigh
kvetch
latrate
make a stink
murmur
mutter
moan
nag
nark
nudzh
pinch
piss and moan
rail
rail out
repine
ride
snivel
whine
whinge
Related words: complainer
fastidious
peevish
utter
Derived words: can't complain
complainable
complainant
complainee
complainer
complainingly
complainingness
complain king
complain queen
complainy
noncomplaining
uncomplained
uncomplaining
you'd complain if you were hung with a new rope
Translations:
contrary
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English contrarie, compare French contraire, from Old French contraire, from Latin contrārius (“opposite, opposed, contrary”), from contrā (“against”).
Inflected forms:
form: more contrary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most contrary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more contrary
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most contrary
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: contraries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse.
pos: adj
examples: contrary winds
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me[…]
We have lost our labour; they are gone a contrary way.
gloss: Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent.
pos: adj
examples: Galileo [Galilei]'s zeal for his opinions soon led him again to bring the question under the notice of the Pope, and the result was a declaration of the Inquisition that the doctrine of the earth's motion appeared to be contrary to the sacred scripture.
gloss: Given to opposition; perverse; wayward.
pos: adj
examples: a contrary disposition; a contrary child
gloss: Contrarily
pos: adv
examples: I never act contrary to my principles.
gloss: The opposite.
pos: noun
examples: No contraries hold more antipathy
Than I and such a knave.
gloss: One of a pair of propositions that cannot both be simultaneously true, though they may both be false.
pos: noun
examples: If two universals differ in quality, they are contraries; as, every vine is a tree; no vine is a tree. These can never be both true together; but they may be both false.
gloss: A type of loaded die.
pos: noun
tags: historical
Synonyms: against the grain
at cross purposes
contradictory
contrariant
contrarious
contrary
counter
cross
disagreeable
opposed
opposing
refractory
witherward
Antonyms: cooperative
synergistic
unopposed
Related words: obstinate
subcontrary
contrarian
Derived words: canon by contrary motion
contrarian
contrarily
contrariness
contrarious
contrariwise
contrary to
by contraries
on the contrary
quite the contrary
to the contrary
Translations:
contend
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English contenden, borrowed from Old French contendre, from Latin contendere (“to stretch out, extend, strive after, contend”), from com- (“together”) + tendere (“to stretch”); see tend, and compare attend, extend, intend, subtend.
Inflected forms:
form: contends
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: contending
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: contended
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: contended
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be in opposition; to contest; to dispute; to vie; to quarrel; to fight.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle.
For never two such kingdoms did contend without much fall of blood.
2011, Osaiah "Ike" Wilson III, James J.F. Forrest, Handbook of Defence Politics
the armies of Syria and Lebanon lack the capability to contend with the Israeli army, as demonstrated during the course of the First Lebanon War.
gloss: To struggle or exert oneself to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 17th century, John Dryden, Epistle III to the Lady Castlemain
You sit above, and see vain men below / Contend for what you only can bestow.
God has entrusted something to the church, and it is the church's job to contend for it, even unto death
gloss: To be in debate; to engage in discussion; to dispute; to argue.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: these simple ideas are far from those innate principles which some contend for
many of those things he so fiercely contended about , were either falle or trivial
gloss: To believe (something is reasonable) and argue (for it); to advocate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: In this paper the author contends that no useful results can be obtained if this method is used.
Some panellists contended that the costs of research and care justified the establishment of a permanent national commission
His critics contend the eight years [term limit] expired Tuesday, the day before the anniversary of Prayuth officially becoming prime minister in the military government installed after the coup.
A group of Colorado voters contends that Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits former President Donald J. Trump, who seeks the Presidential nomination of the Republican Party in this year’s election, from becoming President again.
gloss: To try to cope with a difficulty or problem.
pos: verb
examples: However, the challenges for the railway world are much greater than for automotive as we generally have more occupants, higher speeds, greater masses, higher energies, and an absence of seatbelts or airbags to contend with.
Related words: contender
contention
contentious
Derived words: contendingly
contend with
noncontending
uncontended
uncontending
Translations:
constancy
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin cōnstantiabor.
English constancy
Borrowed from Latin cōnstantia.
Inflected forms:
form: constancies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: A little Water cleares vs of this deed.
How eaſie is it then? your Conſtancie
Hath left you vnattended.
Punctuality is a species of Constancy, a very unfashionable quality in a Lady.
And, I do not know that I should be fond of preaching often; now and then, perhaps, once or twice in the spring, after being anxiously expected for half a dozen Sundays together; but not for a constancy; it would not do for a constancy.
Constancy of character is what is chiefly valued and sought for by naturalists.
The overall retention rate of 68 per cent indicates a robust constancy of the linguistic features investigated.
gloss: An unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: […] yonger ſpirits, […]
whoſe conſtancies
Expire before their faſhions: […]
Related words: constant
constantly
Derived words: color constancy
inconstancy
nonconstancy
Translations:
resplendent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Etymology: From the obsolete sense of the English verb splendish (“to shine”), from Latin splendere (“to shine”), or from resplend + -ent, from Latin resplendere (“to shine back, glitter”).
Base: resplend
Affixes: -ent
Inflected forms:
form: more resplendent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most resplendent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: resplendant
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Shining brilliantly; gleaming; radiant.
pos: adj
examples: The resplendent sun rose over the horizon.
The resplendent sun / Shone forth in all his glory.
gloss: Shiny and colorful, and thus pleasing to the eye; splendid in appearance.
pos: adj
examples: The peacock displayed its resplendent plumage.
Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.
gloss: Magnificent; glorious; splendid; marked by extraordinary excellence or beauty.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: The queen appeared in resplendent majesty.
They celebrated their resplendent victory.
His career was resplendent with achievements.
The resplendent achievements of the English navy.
gloss: Exhibiting the property of resplendency in Peano arithmetic.
pos: adj
Related words: refulgent
resplend
splendid
splendor
splendorous
resplendid
Derived words: resplendence
resplendency
resplendently
resplendent quetzal
unresplendent
Translations:
extol
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin extollō (“elevate, raise high”).
Inflected forms:
form: extols
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: extolling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: extolled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: extolled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To praise; to make high.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
It not only congratulates the Pope, but panegyrizes his Holiness, extols the college of cardinals and the bishops of Italy, calls upon the ashes of the martyrs to rejoice, apostrophizes Peter and Paul, and pays many fine compliments to happy Britain, although dissentient from the Romish faith;—it then reverts, in conclusion, to the Pope, and ends with intreating his blessing and assuring him of the prayers of his Irish congratulators.
Men like Stuart who had no desire to extol Coleridge's virtues, and other witnesses quite as hostile, to whom a moral dereliction could hardly be a mortal offence, were loud in praise of the purity of his walk in life.
Extol thee—could I—then I will / By saying nothing new, / But just the tritest truth / That thou art heavenly.
Maimonides, the 12th century scholar, rabbi and physician also extolled the health benefits of wine in moderation.
In the meantime, I have an opportunity of extolling the virtues of his Liverpool & Manchester Railway Atlas, which appeared last year and has already had its second print-run.
Instead, we retreat into our gender-segregated media spaces where the manosphere extols stoicism and the womanosphere celebrates emotional vulnerability.
Translations:
boorish
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English boor
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -ish
English -ish
English boorish
From boor + -ish.
Inflected forms:
form: more boorish
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most boorish
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Behaving as a boor; rough in manners.
pos: adj
examples: May Week. . . . As in every year, that infamous week was dragging its boorish heels with remarkable infestivity.
I don't suppose it's remotely possible that you are boorish and dickly, is it?
The only real-world effect is that it makes these figures appear boorish and unprofessional to anyone outside the online slopulist echo chamber.
Translations:
redden
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ós
Proto-Indo-European *h₁rowdʰós
Proto-Germanic *raudaz
Proto-West Germanic *raud
Old English rēad
Middle English red
English red
English -en
English redden
From red + -en.
Inflected forms:
form: reddens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reddening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reddened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reddened
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: redden
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: redden
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: reddened
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: redden
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: reddened
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: reddens
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reddened
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: redden
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: reddened
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: redden
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: reddened
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: redden
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: reddening
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reddened
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To become red or redder.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: But I will make you blush; nay, I will make you redden all over.
Ere this had redden'd with my odious blood.
1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, Faber & Faber, "Phaethon," lines 227-9, p. 32,
When the sun-god saw that, and the reddening sky
And the waning moon seeming to thaw
He called the Hours to yoke the horses.
gloss: To make red or redder.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: God redden your pale blood!
[…] If the cloud that hangs
Upon the heart and round the mind
Cleared from the north and in that height
The sun appeared and reddened great
Belshazzar's brow, O, ruler, rude
With rubies then, attend me now.
Then listen Thebes, nurse of Semele,
Crown your hair with ivy
Turn your fingers green with bryony
Redden your walls with berries.
Related words: red
Derived words: deredden
outredden
reddener
reddeningly
unredden
Translations:
chopper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: archaeology
ball-games
baseball
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
games
history
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
motorcycling
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
English chop
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English chopper
From chop + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: choppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: choppers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: choppering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: choppered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: choppered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
pos: noun
gloss: A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.
pos: noun
gloss: A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
pos: noun
gloss: A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker or bikie gangs.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Meronym: apehangers
gloss: Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
pos: noun
gloss: A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
pos: noun
gloss: A high-bouncing batted ball.
pos: noun
gloss: The penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: An assault rifle or carbine, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: My chopper sing like Sia, make a bitch sick diarrhea.
gloss: The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: A rapper who raps in a fast-paced rhyming style.
pos: noun
gloss: A kitchen appliance used for chopping various foods, akin to a small food processor.
pos: noun
gloss: To travel or transport by helicopter.
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: They lifted Catholics. Civil Rights guys, mostly. Low-level nationalists. Choppered them off to some interrogation centre outside Belfast.
Derived words: chopper coupling
Choppergate
copper chopper
footchopper
foot chopper
headchopper
helichopper
logic chopper
logic-chopper
meat-chopper
photochopper
woodchopper
wood chopper
Translations:
embarrassment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Akkadian 𒆟 (rakāsum)
Akkadian 𒄙 (markasu)bor.
Classical Syriac ܡܰܪܫܳܐ (maršā)bor.
Arabic مَرَسَة (marasa)der.
Old Galician-Portuguese baraço
Old Galician-Portuguese embaraçarbor.
Old Spanish embaraçar
Spanish embarazarbor.
French embarrasserbor.
English embarrass
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom
Proto-Italic *-mentom
Latin -mentum
Old French -mentbor.
Middle English -ment
English -ment
English embarrassment
From embarrass + -ment.
Inflected forms:
form: embarrassments
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The desired effect [of affectionate teasing] is a look of pleasurable embarrassment, as if you administered a compliment. Anyone who doesn't stop teasing immediately upon producing real embarrassment, anger or tears is not really teasing.
gloss: A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Jack, you are an embarrassment to this family.
Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.
The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.
gloss: A large collection of good or valuable things, especially one that exceeds requirements or causes some sort of hindrance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There are over 5,000 Americans now in Paris, many artists, singers, musicians, writers, and actors, so many, indeed, the committee could hardly pick a program from an embarrassment of volunteers.
The landscape presented an embarrassment of riches for the industrial archaeologist, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century remains were still visible in abundance
At one time, I reflected, we'd had an embarrassment of good, qualified squad leader—ready men in the platoon.
gloss: A state of confusion; hesitation; uncertainty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […]and render them more intelligible than all the commentaries which have been written on them, for they generally render the authour more obscure, and lead the reader into greater embarrassments, by what they explain, than by what they leave untouched.
gloss: Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Difficulty in financial matters; poverty.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: A group of pandas (ie. red panda, giant panda)
pos: noun
tags: collective
countable
uncountable
Derived words: criterion of embarrassment
disembarrassment
e-barrassment
embarrassment of riches
empathic embarrassment
how embarrassment
inductive embarrassment
secondhand embarrassment
unembarrassment
vicarious embarrassment
Translations:
Liverpudlian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
Etymology: Blend of Liverpool + puddle (as a pun on a puddle being a small pool) + -ian.
Affixes: -ian
Inflected forms:
form: more Liverpudlian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Liverpudlian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Liverpudlians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to Liverpool in England.
pos: adj
gloss: A native or resident of Liverpool in England.
pos: noun
gloss: someone connected with Liverpool Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
pos: noun
Synonyms: Liverpolitan
Scouser
Dickey Sam
Translations:
pensive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English pensif, pensyfe, pencyve, from Old French pensif (“thoughtful”), from penser (“to think”) (from Latin pēnsō) + -if (English -ive).
Inflected forms:
form: more pensive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pensive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought.
pos: adj
examples: He sat in pensive silence, weighing his options carefully.
gloss: Having the appearance of deep, often melancholic, thinking.
pos: adj
examples: The author’s tone grows pensive in the final chapters.
gloss: Looking thoughtful, especially from sadness.
pos: adj
examples: Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce
Through the deep grass the faces of the three children glowed like pensive moons.
Synonyms: contemplative
meditative
reflective
thoughtful
wistful
Antonyms: carefree
thoughtless
unreflective
Related words: poise
pansy
peso
Derived words: overpensive
pensively
pensiveness
Translations:
sally
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English saly, from Old English saliġ, sealh (“willow”). More at sallow.
Inflected forms:
form: sallies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: salley
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: sallies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sallying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sallied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sallied
pos: verb
tags: past
form: salley
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A willow.
pos: noun
gloss: Any tree that resembles a willow.
pos: noun
gloss: An object made from the wood of a willow.
pos: noun
gloss: To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The troops sallied in desperation.
A feeding strategy of some birds is to sally out from a perch to snatch an insect and then returning to the same or a different perch.
gloss: To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth").
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: So I tucked my violin under my arm, and sallied out after the old budgy ragman, determined to ease him of his load at the very first lonesome corner I could track him to.
Adverse comment begins with uncomplimentary observations on the somewhat harder seats, then reaches a crescendo when it is discovered that the perverse and unhurried train is actually going to wait for another connection which is running late, instead of sallying forth at once for the benefit of those already on board and leaving latecomers stranded.
Along the Manchurian frontier was a 160km strip of land the US pilots dubbed 'MiG Alley'. Beyond it lay the North Korean, Chinese and Russian squadrons. From those airbases, MiGs sallied forth to attack the bombers striking North Korea.
gloss: To venture off the beaten path.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: sally-picker
sally rod
outsally
sallier
sally forth
Translations:
femina
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin fēmina (“woman”), perhaps via Italian femmina. Doublet of feme, femme, and hembra.
Inflected forms:
form: femina
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: feminas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A wing feather from a female ostrich.
pos: noun
examples: The numbers are given here to show all the whites together, and then the feminas, &c.; but in sending them to market it is better to arrange the numbers so that a lot of whites are followed by a lot of feminas, then a lot of whites again, then a lot of fancy colours, then whites again, and so on right through.
Feathers. — The auctions will comprise 3168 cases, containing 58,000lbs., against 53,800lb. in last sales. There was a good demand, and white and white and light Femina best quality were firm, seconds and inferior 10s. to 15s. per lb. higher.
A noticeable feature of the sales was the quantity of fine goods, principally of white and feminas. The best white qualities and good broken brought 10 per cent. to 15 per cent. advance, while other qualities sold firmly. White and light femina were also 10 to 15 per cent. dearer, principally for the best lines. Dark femina and byocks were 10 per cent. higher.
3.—Wing-Quills or Remiges; Whites and Feminas.—The wing-quills are the largest feathers in the wing, and are arranged in a single row. They include the “Whites” in the cock, and the “Feminas” in the hen, as well as the “Byocks” or “Fancies” in the cock.
The usual kinds of ostrich feathers known to the trade come into the Tripoli market. These are whites, blacks, feminas, byocks, spadonas, boos, drabs and floss.
The feminas brought from $97.35 to $109.50, while spadones were sacrificed at from $34 to $47.45.
It is somewhat larger than the Southern bird and the plumage of young birds and also the feminas are darker.
RAW OSTRICH FEATHERS / Primes, Wings, White Feminas, Spads, Etc.
This parcel included 286 lbs. of feathers known as whites, and 211 lbs. of feathers known as feminas. The whites are described as lot 12, and the feminas as lot 13.
Translations:
complicated
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more complicated
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most complicated
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Difficult or convoluted.
pos: adj
examples: It seems this complicated situation will not blow over soon.
But there always is in my mind something at once ludicrous and mournful in a crowd congregated for the purpose of amusement. What discontent, what vanity, move the complicated wheels of the social machine!
Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
gloss: Folded longitudinally (as in the wings of certain insects).
pos: adj
Antonyms: simple
Derived words: complicated fracture
complicatedly
complicatedness
noncomplicated
overcomplicated
semicomplicated
supercomplicated
Translations:
complicate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: First attested in the early 17ᵗʰ century; borrowed from Latin complicātus, perfect passive participle of complicō (“to fold together”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + plicō (“to fold, weave, knit”); see plaid, and compare complex. See also Middle English complicate (“involved”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: complicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: complicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: complicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: complicated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To make complex; to modify so as to make something intricate or difficult.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Let us, however, put aside for the moment the mendacities and forgeries which complicate the question of Lucifer, and let us approach Palladism from an altogether different side.
gloss: To involve in a convoluted matter.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Don't complicate yourself in issues that are beyond the scope of your understanding.
John has been complicated in the affair by new tapes that surfaced.
The DA has made every effort to complicate me in the scandal.
gloss: To coexist with (another disease) creating a complication.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Masked or larvate malaria, like pernicious malaria, needs complete overhauling. Nearly every disease in the category has been confounded with malaria and classed as larvate. This heterogeneous group has been expanded to embrace diseases unrelated to malaria, diseases complicating malaria, and symptoms and sequelæ of malaria.
Synonyms: complex
complexify
complicate
complify
confuscate
desimplify
elaborate
jazz
make a meal of
perplex
Antonyms: decomplexify
simplify
uncomplicate
Related words: complication
explicate
implicate
complex
entangle
entrap
twist
complexity
Derived words: complicative
complicator
decomplicate
overcomplicate
recomplicate
simplicate
uncomplicate
Translations:
tripartite
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin tripartītus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: In three parts.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Done by three parties (as an agreement).
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: triatomic
trinary
Derived words: tripartism
tripartitely
tripartiteness
tripartite soul
tripartite system
tripartitism
Translations:
callous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin callōsus (“hard-skinned”), from callum (“hardened skin”) + -ōsus.
Inflected forms:
form: more callous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most callous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig.
Re-watching some of the audition rounds of these shows now, you're struck by how callous the judges' comments often were, and how they presented a cruel spectacle in which the audience were set up to laugh at the "deluded" members of the public who believed they could sing.
gloss: Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
pos: adj
tags: literally
Related words: callously
callousness
callus
Derived words: uncallous
Translations:
orotund
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: PIE word
 *h₁óh₃s
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin ōre rotundō (“with a round mouth; hence, clear; loud”) (whence English ore rotundo), possibly influenced by rotund (“having a curved, round, or spherical shape; (figurative) of sound: full and rich”). Ōre rotundō is composed of ōre (the ablative singular of ōs (“mouth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + rotundō (the ablative singular of rotundus (“circular, round”) (possibly from rota (“wheel”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run”)) + -undus (suffix forming adjectives)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Inflected forms:
form: more orotund
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most orotund
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound; hence, of a person: having a clear, full, and strong voice, appropriate for public speaking, reading aloud, etc.
pos: adj
gloss: Of writing, etc.: clear, effective, powerful.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
gloss: Of speech or writing: bombastic, pompous.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
derogatory
examples: A series of U.N. and government officials spoke. And spoke. And spoke. Their words were grand, their sentences endless. In orotund turns of phrase—indeed, in spiraling helices of phrase; in snarled fishing lines of phrase; in endless small intestines of phrase—the speakers ingeniously explored and invented connections between qwerty, alphabetical filing, and socioeconomic advance.
He would also, you can't help thinking, have approved [Alan] Hollinghurst's discriminating eye and perhaps even enjoyed the half-facetious, half-adoring tributes Nick pays to his famously orotund late style, the "plums of periphrasis" Nick likes to slip into his conversation.
When Groucho Marx was once asked a long and orotund question, he replied, "Whom knows?" […] The popularity of "whom" humour tells us two things about the distinction between "who" and "whom". First, "whom" has long been perceived as formal verging on pompous. Second, the rules for its proper use are obscure to many speakers, tempting them to drop "whom" into their speech whenever they want to sound posh.
Related words: oral
ore rotundo
rotund
Derived words: ororotundity
orotundity
orotundly
Translations:
doofus
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of earlier goofus (first attested in the 1920s), due to influence from Scots doof (“simpleton”). Scots doof is derived from Low German doof (“deaf", with a secondary sense of "idiotic, stupid”). The Low German word is cognate with English deaf.
Some have proposed that perhaps dupe played some kind of role in the development of doofus as well.
Inflected forms:
form: doofuses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: doofi
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: dufus
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person with poor judgment and taste; a foolish or silly person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
humorous
slang
examples: Stocks Genius or Dot-Com Doofus? – Wired News
Danny is such a doofus!
Nichols had called Bonilla a doofus who was too damn stupid to realize that he was being taken by a hooker with a convincing sob story.
Even if Steve was a doofus, Nichols and Rand were quite willing to work for him as long as he had money.
They weren't excited about acquiring new information; they were relieved to find out they aren't the only doofuses (or maybe the word is "doofi") in the world of rusty machinery.
2005 October 17, Kevin Amorin, Mewsday, quoted in 2007, Troth Wells, T-Shirt, page 14,
Being too young to attend a show on Bowie's 1983 Serious Moonlight tour, I did what any underage doofus would do. I bought a concert T-shirt – three-quarter-length blue sleeves, image of Major Tom himself on the front.
"I never seen so many doofuses in one place!"
"That's doofi, Krakauer. Sorry to correct you."
"No problem. You get a bimbo babe who's engaged to a doofus who will fall for the virgin birth line and still marry her.[…]However, I don't think a doofus fiancé will be hard to find; there's no shortage of doofuses on the earth."
Translations:
seasonal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
French a-
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.
Proto-Italic *serō
Latin serō
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin satiōnem
Old French saison
French saison
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -er
French assaisonnerbor.
English season
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English seasonal
From season + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more seasonal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most seasonal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: seasonals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, related to, or reliant on a season or period of the year, especially with regard to weather characteristics.
pos: adj
examples: It is a seasonal swimming pool.
The cult of the holiday camp has brought seasonal expresses to fresh destinations such as Penychain, in North Wales; over 250,000 people go by train annually to Butlin's holiday camps alone.
Skilled foreign farm workers are the backbone of US agriculture and are traditionally in the US on H-2A seasonal visas, which saw its highest ever utilization rate this year, according to the Farm Bureau.
gloss: Appropriate to the season.
pos: adj
examples: Q: How's the weather there? A: The wind is pretty stiff, but it's seasonal, so no complaints.
Q: Eyewitness News now turns to Steve for a weather update. Steve, what does the coming week have in store for us? A: Well, Stacy, get ready for the return of seasonal temperatures, because our little break from the cold will be coming to an end.
gloss: Anything that is seasonal, such as a financial trend, a product for sale, or an employee.
pos: noun
Synonyms: seasonal
Related words: equinoctial
solstitial
Derived words: aseasonal
contraseasonal
coseasonal
hyperseasonal
interseasonal
intraseasonal
multiseasonal
nonseasonal
periseasonal
postseasonal
preseasonal
pseudoseasonal
seasonal affective disorder
seasonal constellation
seasonal depression
seasonal hour
seasonality
seasonalization
seasonalize
seasonal lake
seasonally
seasonal mood disorder
seasonal unemployment
seasonal worker
semiseasonal
subseasonal
transseasonal
uniseasonal
unseasonal
Translations:
reimburse
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 1591, re- (“back”) + imburse (“pay”, literally “put in a purse”) (perhaps after Middle French rembourser or Italian rimborsàre), from Middle French embourser, from Old French en- (“in”) + borser (“to get money”), from borse (“purse”), from Medieval Latin bursa (English purse).
Base: imburse
Affixes: re-
Inflected forms:
form: reimburses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: reimbursing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: reimbursed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: reimbursed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To compensate (someone) with payment; especially, to repay money spent on someone's behalf.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The company will reimburse you for your expenses for the business trip.
You can tell this funny monkey story, but please keep and mind and tell people that the man who lost all his fruit to the monkeys was entirely reimbursed.
gloss: To recoup (funds spent).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He has spent many years on the automaton, and it must have cost thousands of pounds in experiment and construction. He makes no secret of hoping to reimburse his outlay.
Synonyms: compensate
guerdon
imburse
recompense
reimburse
reprise
Antonyms: default
Related words: bursa
bursar
bursary
purse
Derived words: reimbursability
reimbursable
reimbursal
reimbursee
reimbursement
reimburser
reimbursor
unreimbursed
Translations:
arvo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Clipping of afternoon + -o (“colloquialising suffix”).
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
form: arvos
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: arvy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Afternoon.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
informal
examples: “Rope and tomahawk,” explained Col. “We put them here this arvo when I came down and whistled first time.”
The usual reaction of a footsoldier observing such incidents is well summed up by the comments of Private Derrick in the Salient at Tobruk: ‘Seen a human side of the war yesterday arvo Red Cross partys [sic] burying dead & treating wounded one of our partys were fired on by enemy & I will always remember it’.⁵⁰
‘We'll fly you out at seven this arvo—but bring them down a little early, just in case we need to think of something else.’
“Yeah, he only works on a Saturday arvo,” Kelly told her. “I think the place is packed on that day, because girls come from everywhere just to get a glimpse of him. He's hot as.”
Translations:
Salvos
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Salv(ation Army) + -o (“diminutive suffix”), analysed as a plural.
Affixes: -o
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The Salvation Army.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
plural
plural-only
examples: Thank God for the Salvos. — marketing tagline
2006, Amanda Lohrey, Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia, Quarterly Essay, Issue 22, page 25,
At the Salvos, the writer claimed, she found emotional support and got her electricity bill paid. But the Salvos are often dealing with the desperate – “losers” – and their emergency needs for food and shelter, while the focus of the megachurches is unapologetically middle class […] .
At the bottom lay Betty Laurie, Mavis′s favourite battered doll. She was not going to the Salvos, she deserved better than that.
Some years before DW Griffith premiered the art of the feature film, the Salvation Army in Melbourne was inadvertently playing a truly unheralded pioneer role in the incipient Australian film industry. The Salvos were intent to spread their blend of Christianity to the Australian public and thus made Soldiers of the Cross, a series of Biblical re-enactments on film.
Translations:
niece-in-law
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English niece
English -in-law
English niece-in-law
From niece + -in-law.
Inflected forms:
form: nieces-in-law
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone's nephew's wife.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone's niece's wife (where same-sex marriage is recognised).
pos: noun
gloss: Someone's spouse's niece.
pos: noun
tags: rare
gloss: Someone's spouse's niece.
pos: noun
tags: rare
Related words: aunt-in-law
nephew-in-law
uncle-in-law
Translations:
phaeton
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
Etymology: Etymology tree
French phaétonbor.
English phaeton
Borrowed from French phaéton.
Inflected forms:
form: phaetons
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: phæton
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: a light four-wheeled open carriage drawn by four horses
pos: noun
examples: It had been settled that Lorraine was to drive Emily in his phaeton. It is true the sun was full in her eyes, the wind high, and the dust, which is just mud in high spirits, flew round them in clouds; but Emily found her ride delightful.
...I saw the girls of Nob Hill on their way to school, kicking pebbles at each other and laughing; I saw young ladies coming home past curfew in their beaus' phaetons...
gloss: a large open touring motorcar with a folding top
pos: noun
Derived words: phaetoneer
spider phaeton
Translations:
suss
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Clipping of suspicious and/or suspect (adjective). Compare sus.
Inflected forms:
form: more suss
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most suss
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sus
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Suspicious; suspect.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
UK
US
colloquial
examples: 2001, Mo Hayder, The Treatment, 2008, Bantam, UK, page 244,
‘Yes – OK, OK. Try not to struggle, Tracey. It just makes you look even more suss.’
2009, Barbara Ward Smith, Dead Centre: Murder Mystery, AuthorHouse, UK, page 191,
I think it was Amber Johnson dressed up said Marc, but its proving it, we don′t have much to go on according to her said Jan her friend has been driving her car, yes very convenient said Marc and it′s even more suss that this friend has gone on holiday, did she ever give us the name of this mystical friend? Asked Jan.
Translations: