yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
flexible
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
engineering
manufacturing
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From Middle French flexible, from Latin flexibilis, from flectō (“to bend, curve”). Morphologically flex + -ible.
Base: flex
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
form: more flexible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most flexible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: flexibles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Capable of being flexed or bent without breaking; able to be turned or twisted without breaking.
pos: adj
examples: When the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks.
gloss: Willing or prone to give way to the influence of others; not invincibly rigid or obstinate.
pos: adj
examples: Phocion the Athenian (a man of great severity, and no ways flexible to the will of the people[…]
Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible.
gloss: Capable of adapting or changing to suit new or modified conditions or situations.
pos: adj
examples: You can't always get what you want: you need to learn to be flexible.
gloss: Capable or being adapted or molded in some way.
pos: adj
examples: a flexible language
This they foresaw was a Principle more flexible to their Purpose
gloss: Something that is flexible.
pos: noun
examples: Alcan is mostly flexibles -- and so it boosts Amcor's flexible packaging business to a globally significant $7 billion one.
Synonyms: bendsome
bendy
ductile
inconstant
limp
manageable
obsequious
pliable
pliant
supple
tractable
wavering
bain
bendable
flexible
flexile
limber
lithe
Antonyms: firm
inelastic
inflexible
rigid
stiff
unbendable
Related words: flexibility
inflexible
foldable
pliable
pliant
supple
withy
moldable
obstinate
soft
Derived words: flexatone
flexbone
flexecutive
flexibilization
flexibilize
flexibleness
flexible sigmoidoscopy
flexible time
flexibly
flexihours
flexisexual
flexisexuality
flexitank
flexitarian
flexivore
heteroflexible
homoflexible
hyperflexible
make flexible
nonflexible
rectiflexible
semiflexible
ultraflexible
unflexible
Translations:
pleasant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. By surface analysis, please + -ant. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome.
Inflected forms:
form: more pleasant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: pleasanter
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most pleasant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: pleasantest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner.
pos: adj
examples: We had a pleasant walk around the town.
It wasn't so hot outside, but pleasant enough to have lunch in the garden.
Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
“I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places. The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is not it, Mr. Bingley?”
“I was only going to say,” said Scrooge’s nephew, “that the consequence of his taking a dislike to us, and not making merry with us, is, as I think, that he loses some pleasant moments, which could do him no harm. I am sure he loses pleasanter companions than he can find in his own thoughts, either in his mouldy old office, or his dusty chambers.
“O Oysters, come and walk with us!” / The Walrus did beseech. / “A pleasant walk, a pleasant talk, / Along the briny beach:
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant.
“[…] If you pray to St. Anne before twelve o’clock on a Wednesday, you’ll get a pleasant surprise before the end of the week.”
gloss: Facetious, joking.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: [T]ell the pleasant prince this mock of his / Hath turn’d his balls to gun-stones […]
[…] I present you here with a merrie conceited Comedie, called the Shoomakers Holyday, acted by my Lorde Admiralls Players this present Christmasse, before the Queenes most excellent Maiestie. For the mirth and pleasant matter, by her Highnesse graciously accepted; being indeede no way offensiue.
Synonyms: agreeable
appropriate
nice
pleasurable
felicitous
gorgeous
acceptable
amiable
charming
comely
pleasant
pleasing
welcome
Antonyms: disagreeable
nasty
repulsive
unpleasant
annoying
Related words: pleasure
Derived words: Lake Pleasant
Mount Pleasant
Pleasant Grove
Pleasant Hills
pleasantish
pleasantly
Pleasant Mound
pleasantness
Pleasant Prairie
pleasantry
Pleasant Valley
Point Pleasant
Translations:
polite
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin polītus (“polished”), past participle of poliō (“to polish, smooth”); see polish.
Inflected forms:
form: politer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more polite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: politest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most polite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Well-mannered, civilized.
pos: adj
examples: It's not polite to use a mobile phone in a restaurant.
Try and be polite to Auntie Maria for once.
He marries, bows at court, and grows polite.
I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
gloss: Smooth, polished, burnished.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: rays of light […]falling on […]a polite surface
Synonyms: civil
civilized
complaisant
correct
courteous
cultivated
fair-mannered
genteel
mannerly
polished
polite
politic
reasonable
refined
urbane
well-behaved
well-mannered
well-bred
Antonyms: impolite
rude
bad-mannered
ill-mannered
Related words: polish
friendly
kindly
Derived words: nonpolite
overpolite
over-polite
polite fiction
politeful
polite literature
politely
politeness
polite notice
polite society
politesome
superpolite
unpolite
Translations:
famous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English famous, from Anglo-Norman famous, from Latin fāmōsus, equivalent to fame + -ous. Displaced native Old English hlīsful.
Base: fame
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
form: more famous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most famous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Well known.
pos: adj
examples: By this my ſword that conquer’d Perſea,
Thy fall ſhall make me famous through the world:
gloss: In the public eye.
pos: adj
examples: Some people are only famous within their city.
gloss: Excellent.
pos: adj
examples: Pagett is a famous Job's comforter.
Synonyms: bait
fabled
famed
famous
famoused
iconic
irrecondite
known
legendary
mere
notable
noted
noteworthy
proverbial
recognizable
renowned
storied
well-known
Antonyms: normal
unfamous
unknown
Related words: fame
famed
glory
praise
big cheese
big-name
celebrity
megastar
personage
public figure
star
VIP
cause célèbre
famous last words
fame-ish
who's who
Derived words: cosfamous
e-famous
famous for being famous
famousish
famous last words
famously
famousness
gaymous
horse famous
infamous
infamously
infamousness
instafamous
Instafamous
Internet famous
megafamous
microfamous
nonfamousness
nonfamous
non-famous
overfamous
prefamous
pre-famous
pseudofamous
pseudo-famous
semifamous
semi-famous
superfamous
super-famous
uberfamous
uber-famous
ultrafamous
ultra-famous
unfamous
world-famous
Translations:
income
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
commerce
Etymology: From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme (“an in-coming, entrance”), equivalent to in- + come. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Íenkúumen (“income”), West Frisian ynkommen (“income”), Dutch inkomen, inkomst (“income, earnings, gainings”), German Low German Inkumst (“income”), German Einkommen, Einkunft (“income, earnings, competence”), Danish indkomst (“income”), Swedish inkomst (“income”), Icelandic innkváma (“income”).
Base: come
Affixes: in-
Inflected forms:
form: incomes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.
In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent.
It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
gloss: Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: more abundant incomes of light and strength from God
Pain payes the income of ech precious thing,
gloss: A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
archaic
countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: An entrance-fee.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods.
gloss: A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
pos: noun
tags: Scotland
UK
countable
dialectal
uncountable
gloss: That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Antonyms: outgo
Derived words: adjusted gross income
basic income
discretionary income
disposable income
fixed income
gross income
gross national income
high-income
household income
income bracket
incomed
income-elastic
income elasticity of demand
income group
incomeless
income-poor
income poverty
income statement
income suite
income support
income tax
income tax return
low-income
middle-income trap
middle income trap
national income
negative income tax
net income
net operating income
nowhere income
operating income
permanent income hypothesis
retained income
SSI income
stated income
stated income loan
taxable income
unearned income
universal basic income
upside-down income statement
Translations:
cornflower
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From corn + flower. Piecewise doublet of cornflour.
Compound parts: corn
flower
Inflected forms:
form: cornflowers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields).
pos: noun
gloss: A plant of the species Cichorium intybus.
pos: noun
gloss: A color, cornflower blue.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of cornflower blue, a shade of blue similar to that of the usual cornflower.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
lang: Belarusian
word: вало́шкавы
roman: valóškavy
lang: Belarusian
word: васілько́вы
roman: vasilʹkóvy
lang: Dutch
word: korenbloemblauw
lang: Ido
word: acianeakoloro
lang: Polish
word: kolor bławatkowy
lang: Polish
word: kolor chabrowy
lang: Swedish
word: kornblå
aster
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin astēr, from Ancient Greek ἀστήρ (astḗr). Doublet of star; related to estoile, étoile, stella, and stelo.
Inflected forms:
form: asters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several plants of the genus Aster; one of its flowers.
pos: noun
examples: On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.
gloss: A star-shaped structure formed during the mitosis of a cell.
pos: noun
gloss: A star.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: by the changes and enter-caprings of which, the revolutions, motions, cadences, and carrols of the asters [translating astres] and planets are caused and transported.
Related words: astro-
Derived words: alpine aster
aromatic aster
aster yellows
asterwort
devilweed aster
asterless
asteroid
azure aster
beach aster
big-leaf aster
blue aster
bog aster
bushy aster
button aster
calico aster
China aster
climbing aster
cornflower aster
East Indies aster
Fall aster
frostweed aster
glaucous aster
golden aster
goldilocks aster
heartleaf aster
Italian aster
large-leaved aster
Mojave-aster
monaster
mountain aster
New England aster
New York aster
panicled aster
prairie aster
purple-stemmed aster
red-stalked aster
rough-leaved aster
rush aster
sandaster
Schreber's aster
sea aster
Short's aster
silver aster
slender aster
smooth aster
southern aster
sperm aster
starved aster
sticky aster
stiff aster
Stokes' aster
swamp aster
tansyaster
tansy-leaf aster
Tartarian aster
tatarian aster
Tatarinow's aster
Tradescant's aster
tree aster
wavy-leaved aster
yellow aster
Translations:
Cossack
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French cosaque, from Middle Polish Kozak, from Middle Ukrainian коза́къ (kozák), from Kipchak *qazaq (whence Armeno-Kipchak խազախ (xazax)), from Old Turkic 𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰸 (*qazǧaq, “profiteer”), from 𐰴𐰔𐰍𐰣𐰢𐰴 (qazǧanmaq, “to acquire”), from 𐰴𐰔𐰢𐰴 (qazmaq, “to dig out”), from Proto-Turkic *kaŕ-. Doublet of Kazakh. First appears c. 1587 in the writings of George Turberville.
Inflected forms:
form: Cossacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cossack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: kozak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: Kozak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A member or descendant of an originally (semi-)nomadic population of Eastern Europe and the adjacent parts of Asia, formed in part of runaways from neighbouring countries, that eventually settled in parts of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian tsarist Empire and constituted a military caste, particularly in areas now comprising southern Russia and Ukraine.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a military unit (typically cavalry, originally recruited exclusively from the above).
pos: noun
gloss: A Ukrainian.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A mercenary, a violent thug: a regular or irregular soldier, police officer or security guard employed to persecute or oppress disfavoured groups, such as Jews or (striking) workers.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: 1865 The Coal and Iron Police are authorized by the Pennsylvania General Assembly to maintain order in the coal fields. The miners referred to these private policemen as "Cossacks" and "Yellow Dogs."
Southern and eastern European miners and other workers popularly referred to these hated troops as "Cossacks" because they acted like the similarly repressive troops used by the czar against workers in Russia during the Revolution of 1905 and on other occasions. "
... Pinkertons, Cossacks, militia, spies, etc., speaks well for the men who represent us? If they were not true to their men, would all these forces be arrayed against us? Sure not! Let the weak rail and the malicious slur; the[…]
Capitalists want soldiers, marines, militia, cossacks, Pinkertons, "coal-and-iron police," and so forth - chiefly for THREE general purposes : FIRST : TO HOLD DOWN the wage-earners and force them to consent to produce a[…]
It would be a physical impossibility to give in this article anything near a comprehensive account of the ramifications of this band of legalized ruffians[…] the Cossacks. […] The Pinkertons, with their gum-shoe methods, the Coal and Iron Police, the State Militia and State Constabulary, played an important part in these many industrial conflicts.
Translations:
ziggurat
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒅆𒂍𒉪 (ziqqurratum).
Inflected forms:
form: ziggurats
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: ziggarat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zigurat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ziqqurat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: ziqqurrat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zikkurat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: zikurat
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories
pos: noun
examples: It would be uplifting to think that the ziggurat was the first expression of Near Eastern civilization, for then one could speak about humanity's fascination with the heavens, of the human quest for communion with the infinite.
gloss: Any building with similar style or shape.
pos: noun
examples: He works in an old ziggurat of an office building.
Derived words: ziggurat algorithm
zigguratic
zigguratical
Translations:
zapper
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English zap
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 zapper
From zap + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: zappers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A remote control for a television.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: The news is starting on the other channel; hand me the zapper.
gloss: A device that electrifies or electrocutes.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: Miranda is not the sort of person to carry a zapper but she has an oar that would cause a dog a lot more grief if it caught it full on.
gloss: Anything that exterminates.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
colloquial
figuratively
examples: If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important. Casual alien-zappers can get by with the cheapest generic Taiwanese clone-stick […]
You are going to go from being a toxic-thought overreactor to a toxic-thought zapper.
gloss: A microwave oven.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: I hate to spoil your microwave testimonial, but they were actually cooked in the regular oven this morning and just re-heated in the zapper.
Derived words: like a bug to a zapper
Translations:
wraith
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 in a translation of the Aeneid.
The word has no certain etymology; it may be a transferred use of Middle Scots wraith, wrath (nominally "anger, rage", adjectivally "angry, wrathful"), thus connecting it to writhe and making it a doublet of wrath and wroth.
The old Century Dictionary compares Old Norse vǫrðr (“guardian”).
Inflected forms:
form: wraiths
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
pos: noun
examples: We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing.
Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces.
Translations:
slender
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English slendre, sclendre, from Old French esclendre (“thin, slender”), from Middle Dutch slinder (“thin, lank”), from Proto-Germanic *slindraz (“sliding, slippery”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“to slip”). Cognate with Bavarian Schlenderling (“that which dangles”), German schlendern (“to saunter, stroll”), Dutch slidderen, slinderen (“to wriggle, creep like a serpent”), Low German slindern (“to slide on ice”). More at slide, slither.
Inflected forms:
form: slenderer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more slender
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: slenderest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most slender
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: slenders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: slendering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: slendered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: slendered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Thin; slim.
pos: adj
examples: A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.
She is very slender.
Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.
Smooth and slender and naked, Mary Rittersdorf faced her husband.
gloss: Meagre; deficient.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
The grounds for the conjecture are somewhat slender.
The slender service between Ellesmere Port and Helsby has been added, too.
gloss: Palatalized.
pos: adj
gloss: To attenuate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rolled-up sleeves bared her strong forearms, which slendered down when they came to the wrists and hands.
Synonyms: svelte
willowy
scarce
sparse
gaunt
gracile
lank
lean
leansome
lithesome
lissome
rangy
sleek
slender
slight
slim
slinky
swack
sylphlike
Antonyms: broad
heavy
large
obese
overweight
strapping
Related words: cadaverous
scrawny
thin person
Derived words: red slender loris
slender-billed curlew
slender-billed greenfinch
slender-billed gull
slender-bodied
slender cypress pine
slender-horned gazelle
slenderish
slenderization
slenderize
slender loris
slenderly
Slender Man
slender moa
slenderness
slender poison
slender reed
slender seahorse
slender sea lettuce
slender sedge
slender shrew
slender skimmer
slender suckerfish
Slender West Lake
unslender
Translations:
mamba
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Bantu *mbámbà
Zulu ímâmbader.
English mamba
Derived from Zulu ímâmba, from Proto-Bantu *mbámbà.
Inflected forms:
form: mambas
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of various venomous snakes of the genus Dendroaspis, native to Africa, that live in trees.
pos: noun
Translations:
dashiki
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Yoruba dàńṣíkíbor.
English dashiki
Borrowed from Yoruba dàńṣíkí.
Inflected forms:
form: dashikis
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: danshiki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: dasheki
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A loose and brightly-colored African shirt.
pos: noun
examples: Royce: African colors. Subtle... You want me to start wearing dashikis? Go all Marion Barry an' shit?
Translations:
parapet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle French parapet, from Italian parapetto.
Inflected forms:
form: parapets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A low protective wall.
pos: noun
examples: Engineers will be closely checking the bridge for damage beyond the obvious smashed parapets.
gloss: Part of a perimeter that extends above the roof.
pos: noun
examples: Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them. Appleby could see it dimly, a blur of shadowy buildings with the ridge of roof parapet alone cutting hard and sharp against the clearing sky.
gloss: A fortification consisting of a wall.
pos: noun
examples: Obviously if you have only a few days in which to train a soldier, you must teach him the things he will most need; how to take cover, how to advance across open ground, how to mount guards and build a parapet – above all, how to use his weapons.
Derived words: keep one's head below the parapet
parapeted
parapetless
parapetlike
parapetted
put one's head above the parapet
Translations:
epigenetic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
chemistry
genetics
geography
geology
medicine
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ep-der.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁épsder.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi
Proto-Hellenic *epí
Ancient Greek ἐπί (epí)
Ancient Greek ἐπῐ- (epĭ-)der.
English epi-
English genetic
English epigenetic
From epi- + genetic.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to epigenesis.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Of or relating to epigenetics.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The old and optimistic “one gene — one character” concept has long been invalidated by phenomena such as pleiotropy and polygeny, and for a generation now we have thought of genomic activity as a system of complex epigenetic interactions — an epigenetic landscape.
Every cell in the body contains the same DNA but epigenetic settings on cells in the bone and blood, for example, mean the tissues do very different jobs. The epigenetic consequences of a huge range of environmental factors are under investigation, from exposure to drugs, chemicals and hormones, to the impact of poor maternal care in infancy, and the likelihood that they are as hereditable as DNA.
It is now possible to define whole epigenomes, representing the totality of epigenetic marks in a given cell type. Epigenetic processes are essential for packaging and interpreting the genome, are fundamental to normal development and are increasingly recognized as being involved in human disease.
As one celebrated example, if you're a baby rat growing up with an atypically inattentive mother, epigenetic changes in the regulation of one gene in your hippocampus will make it harder for you to recover from stress as an adult.
Related words: epigenome
Derived words: epigenetically
epigenetic clock
epigeneticist
metaboloepigenetic
neuroepigenetic
optoepigenetic
pharmacoepigenetic
polyepigenetic
Translations:
perk
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Clipping of perquisite.
Inflected forms:
form: perks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: perq
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: perks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: perking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: perked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: perked
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Perquisite.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Free coffee is one of the perks of the job.
gloss: A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
pos: noun
gloss: To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: I’ll perk some coffee.
gloss: Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: The coffee is perking.
While the coffee perked, she flipped idly through a gardening magazine and scanned an article on the war against aphids.
Derived words: perkish
reperk
unperked
Translations:
delivery
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
biology
cricket
curling
games
genetics
hobbies
lifestyle
medicine
natural-sciences
obstetrics
sciences
soccer
sports
Etymology: From Middle English deliveri et al., from Anglo-Norman, from Old French delivrer.
Inflected forms:
form: deliveries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of conveying something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The delivery was completed by four.
delivery of a nuclear missile to its target
gloss: The item which has been conveyed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Your delivery is on the table.
gloss: The act or process of a mother giving birth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonyms: childbirth, parturition
The delivery was painful.
During pregnancy, the Queen had been more than twice as wide as she was tall, and the act of delivery took three months and six days after it had begun.
gloss: A pitching motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: His delivery has a catch in it.
gloss: A thrown pitch.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Here is the delivery; ... strike three!
gloss: The manner of speaking or singing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The actor's delivery was flawless.
I shall not tell what Dr. Coutras related to me in his words, but in my own, for I cannot hope to give at second hand any impression of his vivacious delivery.
Half of the comedy in West’s self-deprecating appearance on “Mr. Plow” comes from the veteran actor’s purring, self-satisfied delivery as he tells a deeply unnerved Bart and Lisa of the newfangled, less groovy cinematic Batman
gloss: The administration of a drug.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: drug delivery system
gloss: A ball bowled.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process of throwing a stone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Process of introducing foreign DNA into host cells.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A cross or pass
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The win was secured with another moment of significance four minutes from time when captain Harry Kane, who had once again struggled to influence the game, headed in from substitute Jack Grealish's perfect delivery for his first goal of Euro 2020.
Derived words: advice of delivery
breech delivery
cash on delivery
codelivery
continuous delivery pipeline
delivery boy
delivery confirmation
deliveryman
delivery note
delivery order
deliveryperson
delivery receipt
delivery room
delivery time
delivery van
deliverywoman
estimated date of delivery
general delivery
good delivery
home delivery
ice delivery door
interdelivery
milk delivery door
nanodelivery
nondelivery
outcome delivery
postdelivery
predelivery
proof of delivery
recorded delivery
red bag delivery
redelivery
take delivery
time of delivery
underdelivery
Translations:
dinky-di
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Fanciful diminutive form of dinkum.
Inflected forms:
form: dinky-die
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Genuine, true.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
slang
examples: ‘Is that dinky-die?’ he asked. ‘You came on to Australia because of me?’
Since Miss McKendry is a dinky-die Aussie with an accent thick as a kangaroo′s tail, she was hexed from the start.
‘I was nearly a doctor,’ she said.
‘Fair dinkum?’
‘Dinky-di.’
For real value for money there are a couple of dinky-die Australian eating places you should certainly try, though.
gloss: Authentically Australian.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
broadly
not-comparable
slang
examples: “Wonderful! By the time we′re old I'll be able to speak like an Australian.”
“No way. You′ll never be dinky die. Your English is much too cultured. Just like you.”
‘Come and meet Sandor and Eva, and here is their son Miklos, all right, Michael he insists on being now, he is dinky-die as they say, a proper Australian, he even forgets how to speak Hungarian, he has just left school like you—[…].’
gloss: Honest, on the level.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
slang
examples: And if you want my dinky-die advice, you′ll let me take you to the cops.
gloss: True blue, steadfastly loyal.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
slang
examples: These men to whom I am referring are “dinky-die” diggers and patriots.
Synonyms: dinkum
Translations:
guarantee
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French guarantie (perhaps via a later Spanish garante), from the verb guarantir (“to protect, assure, vouch for”), ultimately from Old Frankish *warjand, *warand (“a warrant”), or from guaranty. Doublet of guaranty and warranty.
Inflected forms:
form: guarantees
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: guarantees
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: guaranteeing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: guaranteed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: guaranteed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Anything that assures a certain outcome.
pos: noun
examples: Can you give me a guarantee that he will be fit for the match?
After his actions were challenged by foreign governments and Parliament initially tried to put a stop to his action, Denman returned home and argued his case with enough force that, by 1848, the Royal Navy was handed active permission and encouragement to raze every last slave factory they could find to the ground, and full authority to stop any ship, of any flag, that was thought to be a slaver, with a guarantee with^([sic]) no censure from the government.
gloss: A legal assurance of something, e.g. a security for the fulfillment of an obligation.
pos: noun
gloss: A written declaration that a certain product will be fit for a purpose and work correctly; a warranty.
pos: noun
tags: specifically
examples: The cooker comes with a five-year guarantee.
gloss: The person to whom a guarantee is made.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who gives such a guarantee; a guarantor.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
examples: But God who is the great Guarantee for the Peace , Order , and good behaviour of Mankind
gloss: To give an assurance that something will be done right.
pos: verb
gloss: To assume or take responsibility for a debt or other obligation.
pos: verb
gloss: To make something certain.
pos: verb
examples: The long sunny days guarantee a good crop.
Synonyms: warranty
assure
warrant
vouch
Related words: guaranty
guarantor
Derived words: guarantee association
guarantee letter
interest rate guarantee
letter of guarantee
nonguarantee
reguarantee
guaranteeable
guaranteer
overguarantee
Translations:
ultra-high
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ultra-
Proto-Indo-European *kewk-
Proto-Indo-European *kówk-o-s
Proto-Germanic *hauhaz
Proto-West Germanic *hauh
Old English hēah
Middle English heigh
English high
English ultra-high
From ultra- + high.
Inflected forms:
form: ultrahigh
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Very, extremely, or exceedingly high.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: ultra-high frequency
ultra-high definition video
2003, We could have ultra-high-resolution space telescopes capable of detecting Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. — The New Yorker, 17 & 24 Feb 2003
Translations:
ointment
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: A later form (as if oint + -ment) of Middle English oinement, borrowed from Old French oignement (“an anointing”), from oigner, oindre, ongier (“to anoint”), from Latin ung(u)ō (“I anoint”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷ- (“to smear, anoint”). Partly displaced native Old English sealf, whence modern salve.
Base: oint
Affixes: -ment
Inflected forms:
form: ointments
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oyntment
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The doctor prescribed an antibiotic ointment for the wound.
She applied a soothing herbal ointment to her dry skin.
gloss: A substance used to anoint, as in religious rituals.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: salve
unguent
pomatum
pomade
pomate
Related words: cream
inunction
liniment
unction
unctuous
unguent
Derived words: blue ointment
citrine ointment
flying ointment
fly in the ointment
ointmentlike
saracenic ointment
Whitfield's ointment
Translations:
number-theoretical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more number-theoretical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most number-theoretical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to number theory.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
usually
examples: The simple question of which numbers are divisible by others leads directly into many deep number-theoretical questions.
Translations:
relatively
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English relative
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English relatively
From relative + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: relative
pos: adv
tags: alternative
US
Senses:
gloss: In a relative manner; with reference to environment or competition; contextually or comparatively.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the present position of Europe, it is obvious, that France domineers. She has gained positively, by adding territory to her dominions [...]; she has gained relatively, by removing Austria to a distance, and by weakening that ancient rival to such a degree, as to secure her inaction for an age.
[T]he Sundanese [...] have better preserved their primitive usages than the other inhabitants of the island. They are as a rule taller, more robust, and healthier; but they are regarded as relatively barbarous, and in the company of Malays or Javanese, they are themselves ashamed of their dialect, which is looked on as a sort of rude patois.
Hence, another way to describe this level of reading is to say that its aim is to get the most out of a book within a given time—usually a relatively short time, and always (by definition) too short a time to get out of the book everything that can be gotten.
Some organs may grow faster than the rest of the body so that their size increases not only in absolute terms, but also relatively to the rest of the body, which is positive allometry; […]
gloss: Somewhat; fairly.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
proscribed
sometimes
examples: Additionally, the F never lets you forget it's one big and very heavy motorcycle. The wide bars give you the leverage to bend it into a corner relatively quickly, but you feel its mass resisting. […] On the freeway, the seat–relatively thin to keep ride height down–offers a pleasant site for your rear through a tank of gas.
There are at least 1,000 DOE staff working in relatively new offices in the department created after Biden’s infrastructure and climate laws passed a few years ago, including the Grid Deployment Office – which works on modernizing and securing the nation’s electrical grid.
Derived words: relatively prime
Translations:
hardworking
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English hard
English working
English hardworking
From hard + working.
Inflected forms:
form: more hardworking
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most hardworking
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: hard-working
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly.
pos: adj
examples: “My team and manager are exceptional; they are hardworking, talented, and supportive,” noted one respondent. “The company as a whole really focuses on their employees and that is very important to me.”
It exacerbates homelessness, slows family formation, prevents workers from moving to opportunity and puts an enormous strain on the budgets of hardworking people.
Translations:
cultivate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cultivātus, perfect passive participle of cultivō (“till, cultivate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more), from cultīvus (“tilled”), from Latin cultus, perfect passive participle of colō (“till, cultivate”), which comes from earlier *quelō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- (“to move; to turn (around)”). Cognates include Ancient Greek πέλω (pélō) and Sanskrit चरति (cárati). The same Proto-Indo-European root also gave Latin in-quil-īnus (“inhabitant”) and anculus (“servant”).
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: cultivates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: cultivating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: cultivated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: cultivated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To grow plants, notably crops.
pos: verb
examples: Most farmers in this region cultivate maize.
So unhealthy is this valley, which is the home of large game, that whole kraals full of people who have tried to cultivate the rich land, have died in it of fever, or fled away leaving their crops unreaped.
My hobby is gathering the spores of some of the most delicious of the wild varieties of mushrooms, such as morels, giant puffballs and woods oysters, then cultivating them.
In Ch'iung-hai Hsien of the same island, this year "Chen-chu-ai" has been cultivated over vast areas, yielding large increases and as 2,730 tons of the breed already harvested in June have been sent to Chekiang province, it is expected that it will be cultivated widely in Chekiang in 1966.
gloss: To nurture; to foster; to tend.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: They tried to cultivate an interest in learning among their students.
Left also to himself by guardians[…] he cultivated more his imagination than his judgment
The mix of ballet vocabulary, modern techniques and African steps is familiar, but the extent to which Mr. Rhoden packs — and overpacks — phrases, cultivates warp-speed delivery and hyperextends every possible hip jut and arabesque is, thank goodness, something special to Complexions.
[…] after four years in which President Donald J. Trump had cultivated Mr. Johnson and expressed sympathy for Britain in its bitter divorce with the European Union.
gloss: To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting or as a method of weed control between growing crop plants.
pos: verb
Derived words: cocultivate
cultivable
cultivar
cultivatable
cultivated
cultivation
cultivator
miscultivate
overcultivate
recultivate
subcultivate
uncultivate
uncultivated
Translations:
export
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Latin exportare.
Inflected forms:
form: exports
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exported
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to exportation or exports.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Something that is exported.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Oil is the main export of Saudi Arabia.
gloss: The act of exporting.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The export of fish is forbidden in this country.
gloss: To carry away.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [They] export honour from a man, and make him a return in envy.
gloss: To sell (goods) to a foreign country.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Japan exports electronic goods throughout the world.
Jim is a nurseryman, specialising in clematis, and he has built up a business exporting 150 varieties to countries all over the world.
gloss: To cause to spread in another part of the world.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To send (data) from one program to another.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To put up (a child) for international adoption.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Antonyms: import
importation
Derived words: antiexport
export subsidy
invisible export
nonexport
co-export
coexport
reexport
antiexporting
exportability
exportable
exportation
exporter
exportin
exportome
nonexported
nonexporting
re-export
unexport
unexported
Translations:
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ѝзвозница
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ìzvoznica
effectivity
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Italic *eks
Latin ex
Latin ef-
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
Proto-Italic *θakjō
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin faciō
Latin efficiō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Latin effectivusbor.
French effectifder.
English effective
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ts
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts
Latin -itāsder.
Old French -itebor.
Middle English -ite
English -ity
English effectivity
From effective + -ity.
Inflected forms:
form: effectivities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The ability or power to be effective.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A measure of the effectiveness of something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
gloss: [Technical documentation] An indication of the product, procedure, or timescale for which an item of information is applicable or effective.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Related words: effect
effective
effectiveness
effector
effectual
effectuate
efficacious
efficacity
efficacy
efficiency
efficient
effectively
Translations:
qualified
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more qualified
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most qualified
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Meeting the standards, requirements, and training for a position.
pos: adj
examples: The classification is for graduates of a class A teleman school with no significant experience and for other personnel who are not qualified for a specialized classification.
gloss: Restricted or limited by conditions.
pos: adj
examples: Assuming that I have all the information, my qualified opinion is that your plan will work.
Gatwick has been given a qualified green light to operate a second runway after the government “set out a path to expansion” for London’s second biggest airport.
Antonyms: disqualified
non-qualified
unqualified
Related words: disqualified
qualifier
requalified
unqualified
Derived words: fully qualified domain name
fully qualified hostname
hyperqualified
ill-qualified
non-qualified
nonqualified
overqualified
post-qualified
qualified fee
qualified immunity
qualifiedly
qualified majority
qualifiedness
qualified property
self-qualified
underqualified
well-qualified
Translations:
clientele
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French clientèle, ultimately from Latin cliēns (English client).
Inflected forms:
form: clienteles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clientèle
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits; a group of specific clients collectively.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Helen's clientele encompasses a broad range of different ages, races and social statuses.
The bars’ clientèle called Foucault “Herr Doktor”.
Due to its mixed clientele over the years, the Record Rack has a varied product array.
Most of his clientele (95 percent are women, he estimates) were familiar with cupcakes from living or studying abroad.
Translations:
shortcoming
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From short + coming.
Compound parts: short
coming
Inflected forms:
form: shortcomings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A deficiency or falling short; failure to attain a goal or ideal.
pos: noun
tags: plural
usually
examples: They were behind twice, first to James Morrison's 11th-minute strike and then Kenny Miller's effort early in the second half. England responded with goals of their own from Theo Walcott and Daniel Welbeck and, on the balance of play, probably deserved the victory. On the flip-side, they could conceivably have lost because of their various shortcomings in defence. They also have a goalkeeper, Joe Hart, who is a danger to his own team on nights like these.
In truth, I suspect it will take more than the first term of a Labour government to address the shortcomings of the railway system in the North.
Translations: