yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
powerless
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English pouerles, powerles, equivalent to power + -less.
Base: power
Affixes: -less
Inflected forms:
form: more powerless
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most powerless
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: powerlesse
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Lacking sufficient power or strength.
pos: adj
examples: In Sweden, as we saw, the mistletoe which is gathered on Midsummer Eve is attached to the ceiling of the house, the horse's stall or the cow's crib, in the belief that this renders the Troll powerless to injure man and beast.
“Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.”
It is said that his right arm had grown powerless from having been raised so often over the heads of those whom he baptized.
One thing is clear: after the first accident had occurred, the enginemen on the down express were powerless to avoid the second collision.
Tilling my own grave to keep me level
Jam another dragon down the hole
Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren
One that pushes me along and leaves me so
Desperate and ravenous
I'm so weak and powerless
Over you
Frank desperately wanted to help. To do something. Anything. But he was powerless to stop what was about to happen.
gloss: Lacking legal authority.
pos: adj
examples: The traffic warden was powerless to stop me driving away.
gloss: Without electricity or electrical power.
pos: adj
examples: During the storm, the entire neighborhood was left powerless for several hours
Synonyms: mightless
strengthless
weak
vulnerable
impotent
Antonyms: powerful
strong
Derived words: powerlessly
powerlessness
superpowerless
Translations:
lapse
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: climatology
law
lifestyle
meteorology
natural-sciences
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle French laps, from Latin lāpsus, from lābī (“to slip”). Doublet of lapsus.
Inflected forms:
form: lapses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lapses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lapsing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lapsed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lapsed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A temporary failure; a slip.
pos: noun
examples: memory lapse
lapse of judgment
lapse in security
lapse in concentration
Now, tho’ this Scripture may be usefully understood and apply’d by us as a Caution to guard against those Lapses and Failings to which our Infirmities daily expose us
gloss: A decline or fall in standards.
pos: noun
examples: The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible, because it is only a mere cessation of activity
gloss: A pause in continuity.
pos: noun
gloss: An interval of time between events.
pos: noun
examples: Still onward winds the dreary way;
⁠I with it; for I long to prove
⁠No lapse of moons can canker Love,
Whatever fickle tongues may say.
Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame
gloss: A termination of a right etc., through disuse or neglect.
pos: noun
gloss: A marked decrease in air temperature with increasing altitude because the ground is warmer than the surrounding air.
pos: noun
gloss: A common-law rule that if the person to whom property is willed were to die before the testator, then the gift would be ineffective.
pos: noun
gloss: A fall or apostasy.
pos: noun
gloss: To fall away gradually; to subside.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This perpetual disposition to shorten our words by retrenching the vowels, is nothing else but a tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended
Homer, however, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, in his story of Mars and Venus, in his behaviour of Irus and in other passages has been observed to have lapsed into the Burlesque character, and to have departed from that serious Air which seems essential to the magnificence of an Epic Poem.
gloss: To fall into error or heresy.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: To lapſe in Fullneſſe / Is ſorer, than to lye for Neede: and Falſhood / Is worſe in Kings, than Beggers.
gloss: To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid.
pos: verb
gloss: To become void.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The connections at Lewisham were never built, and the powers of the Act lapsed; but the spur at Nunhead was partly constructed.
gloss: To fall or pass from one proprietor to another, or from the original destination, by the omission, negligence, or failure of somebody, such as a patron or legatee.
pos: verb
examples: ...and if the archbishop shall not fill it up within six Months ensuing, it lapses to the King, but according to the Canon Law to the Pope.
Related words: lapsarian
Derived words: anti-lapse
jitter lapse
lapser
lapse rate
time-lapse
hyperlapse
interlapse
lapsation
lapsible
lapsingly
unlapsing
Translations:
poetical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English poetical, possibly equivalent to poet + -ical.
Base: poet
Affixes: -ical
Inflected forms:
form: more poetical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most poetical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Synonym of poetic.
pos: adj
examples: That our work, therefore, might be in no danger of being likened to the labours of these historians, we have taken every occasion of interspersing through the whole sundry similes, descriptions, and other kind of poetical embellishments.
Translations:
stillness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English stilnesse, from Old English stilnes (“stillness, quiet; absence of noise or disturbance, release, relaxation; silence, abstention from speech; absence of disturbance or molestation, tranquility, peace, security; that which appeases”), equivalent to still + -ness.
Base: still
Affixes: -ness
Inflected forms:
form: stillnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stillnesse
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: The quality or state of being still.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The teru-tero (Vanellus cayanensis), is another bird, which often disturbs the stillness of the night.
It resembled them in the sense that it was not ended, when it was past, but continued to unfold, in Watt's head, from beginning to end, over and over again, the complex connexions of its lights and shadows, the passing from silence to sound and from sound to silence, the stillness before the movement and the stillness after, the quickenings and retardings, the approaches and the separations, all the shifting detail of its march and ordinance, according to the irrevocable caprice of its taking place.
gloss: Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The grauitie, and ſtillneſſe of your youth / The world hath noted.
Like a heartbeat drives you mad / In the stillness of remembering what you had / And what you lost
Translations:
vexillology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1959. From Latin vexillum (“flag”) + -logy, equivalent to vexillo- + -logy.
Base: vexillum
Affixes: -logy
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The study of flags.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Vexillology can help us to delve into national and global history.
Sheldon: Over the next few 52 weeks, you and I are going to explore the dynamic world of vexillology.
Translations:
stereotypical
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stereotype
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ic
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
Middle English -ical
English -ical
English stereotypical
From stereotype + -ical.
Inflected forms:
form: more stereotypical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most stereotypical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to a stereotype; conventional.
pos: adj
examples: There were a lot of young girls, in their early-twenties she guessed, many of them either Gothed up in thick black mascara and black lip stick, others looking like stereotypical Beat Girls in black rollnecks and jeans.
A drag queen may not comfortably fit the stereotypical homesteader mold. In the 19th century, homesteaders were Western pioneers who built new lives from necessity; on TikTok, the most popular homesteaders are often parents with young families or those with a lifelong connection to the practice, which often include so-called “tradwives,” or women who play a stereotypically gendered role in their family.
gloss: Banal, commonplace, and clichéd because of overuse.
pos: adj
examples: I was disappointed by the stereotypical the-butler-did-it ending.
gloss: Relating to stereotypy.
pos: adj
examples: Tics are brief, stereotypical behaviors that are initiated by an unconscious urge that can be temporarily suppressed.
Related words: stereotype
stereotyper
stereotypic
prototypical
Derived words: counterstereotypical
nonstereotypical
stereotypically
unstereotypical
Translations:
jaggy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: jaggier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: jaggiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: jagged, toothed or serrated
pos: adj
Translations:
cruciferous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Late Latin crucifer (“cross-bearing”) + -ous. By surface analysis, crucifer + -ous.
Affixes: -ous
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to the crucifer plants or products from these plants; of the family Cruciferae, the cabbage family, including cabbage and mustard.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And cruciferous vegetables—broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, cabbage—are loaded with sulforaphane.
gloss: Bearing a cross.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Related words: crucifer
Cruciferae
Derived words: noncruciferous
Translations:
crucifer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Latin crucifer (“cross-bearer”), from crux (“cross”) + ferō (“to carry, bear”).
Inflected forms:
form: crucifers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person who carries a cross in a religious procession, a cross bearer.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the family Cruciferae (Brassicaceae), the cabbage family, including cabbage and mustard.
pos: noun
Derived words: cruciferin
cruciferous
Translations:
gangster
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From gang + -ster. First attested in 1884.
Base: gang
Affixes: -ster
Inflected forms:
form: gangsters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: gangsta
pos: noun
tags: alternative
slang
form: gangsters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gangstering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gangstered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gangstered
pos: verb
tags: past
form: gangsta
pos: verb
tags: alternative
slang
form: more gangster
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gangster
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gangsta
pos: adj
tags: alternative
slang
Senses:
gloss: A member of a criminal or street gang.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of a professional criminal organization (in organized crime): a racketeer.
pos: noun
gloss: To act like a gangster; to commit street crime or run a racket.
pos: verb
gloss: Characteristic of a gangster; (especially) admirable and audacious.
pos: adj
tags: error-unknown-tag
slang
examples: I looked at my team and thought, "Damn, now that was the most gangster move I have ever seen in my life. I think we just strong-armed a government official in Sierra Leone!"
Sampling is the most gangsta shit ever. Im finna steal yo life's work and make it into trap music
gloss: On friendly terms; cool.
pos: adj
tags: Internet
error-unknown-tag
slang
examples: We put an end to our beef. We're all gangster now.
"Oh, soft ass pretty boy, trying to act all hard for his little girlfriend. Don't he know that we gangsta over here. We don't beef over females. Share and share alike," Corey said, laughing.
everyone gangsta until NATO starts shipping Burger Kings onto the scene
Derived words: antigangster
bankster
black gangster
cybergangster
gangsta
gangsterdom
gangsteress
gangsterette
gangsterful
gangsterhood
gangsterical
gangsterish
gangsterism
gangsterize
gangsterland
gangster lean
gangsterless
gangsterlike
gangsterly
gangsterness
gangster rap
gangster ride
gangstership
gangsterwise
OG
wankster
YG
Translations:
racketeer
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From racket + -eer.
Base: racket
Affixes: -eer
Inflected forms:
form: racketeers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: racketeers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: racketeering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: racketeered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: racketeered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loan sharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business.
pos: noun
gloss: One who instigates or has involvement with a racket.
pos: noun
gloss: to carry out illegal business activities or criminal schemes.
pos: verb
gloss: to commit crimes systematically as part of a criminal organization.
pos: verb
Related words: privateer
profiteer
gangster
mobster
organized crime
Derived words: stockateer
Translations:
questing
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: questings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of going in quest of something.
pos: noun
examples: By this move, Devereux gave new importance to fieldwork as a method of social enquiry. Psychoanalysis taught him that anxiety was not something to be avoided but is the driving force which propels our intellectual questings.
Translations:
caudal
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin caudālis (“having a tail”).
Inflected forms:
form: caudals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to the tail or posterior or hind part of a body.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes, […]
Dassoud […] stepped forward with a lash composed of the caudal appendages of half a dozen wildebeests.
gloss: Toward the tail end (hind end) of the body; in bipeds such as humans, this direction corresponds to inferior.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A caudal vertebra.
pos: noun
Related words: queue
Derived words: acaudal
anterocaudal
bicaudal
caudal artery
caudal fin
caudality
caudalization
caudal keel
caudally
caudalmost
caudal peduncle
caudalward
cephalocaudal
craniocaudal
distocaudal
dorsocaudal
femorocaudal
frontocaudal
laterocaudal
lumbocaudal
mediocaudal
midcaudal
pericaudal
postcaudal
posterocaudal
precaudal
proximocaudal
rostrocaudal
sacrocaudal
subcaudal
supracaudal
tricaudal
ventrocaudal
Translations:
fugu
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 河豚(ふぐ) (fugu, “blowfish”).
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Blowfish: a delicacy popular in Japan served raw as sushi that may, if improperly prepared, contain deadly levels of neurotoxins.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Twenty minutes later, the chef has successfully prepared a whole fugu—or puffer fish—a Japanese delicacy whose capacity to maim and kill is dividing the country’s culinary world.
A sluggish swimmer, fugu has stunted fins and often flat-lying spikes instead of scales, and when confronted by predators it compensates for its lack of speed by swallowing enough water to swell up until its spikes stand on end, so it looks like an angry armored balloon.
Translations:
lampblack
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English lamp
Proto-Germanic *blakaz
Proto-West Germanic *blak
Old English blæc
Middle English blak
English black
English lampblack
From lamp + black.
Inflected forms:
form: lampblacks
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lamp-black
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: lampblacks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lampblacking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lampblacked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lampblacked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: lamp-black
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: An amorphous form of carbon made from soot (incompletely burned organic matter); used to make pigments and inks.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This Messrs. Greener and Straite allege they have effected by taking a quantity of lampblack or powdered charcoal, or of powdered coke, and which has been purified, by the action of electricity from sulphur and any other mixtures, and digesting the same in diluted nitro-muriatic acid.
A smudge of lampblack is made on his forehead to disfigure him and thus avert the evil eye.
gloss: To blacken (something) using this form of carbon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Gadsbodkins, you puny Upſtart in the Law, to uſe me ſo, you Green Bag Carrier, you Murderer of unfortunate Cauſes, the Clerks Ink is ſcarce off of your fingers, you that newly come from Lamblacking the Judges ſhooes, and are not fit to wipe mine; […]
Translations:
methylene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
French méthylène
English methylene
French méthylène, from Ancient Greek μέθυ (méthu, “wine”) + ὕλη (húlē, “wood”). By surface analysis, meth- + -ylene.
Inflected forms:
form: methylenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The divalent group –CH₂– in which the free valencies are part of single bonds.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The same group, present as a repeating unit, in aliphatic compounds with names such as hexamethylenediamine.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The unstable carbene :CH₂
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: methene
Related words: methylenomycin
methylidene
Derived words: chloromethylene
decamethonium
demecarium
dimethylene
exomethylene
hexamethonium
medronic acid
methenamine
methoctramine
methylenation
methylene-bis-ortho-chloroaniline
methylene blue
methylene chloride
methylenecyclopentadiene
methylenecyclopropane
methylene dichloride
methylenedioxy
methylenedioxyamphetamine
methylenediphosphonate
methylene diphosphonate
methylenetetrahydrofolate
methylenic
new methylene
octamethylene
oxymethylene
pentamethylene
pentamethylenediamine
polymeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate
polymethylene
polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride
polyoxymethylene
suxamethonium
tetramethylene
trimethylene
trioxymethylene
Translations:
mystic
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek μῡ́ω (mū́ō)
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *-eyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-esyéti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
Ancient Greek -έω (-éō)
Ancient Greek μῠέω (mŭéō)
Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.
Ancient Greek -της (-tēs)
Ancient Greek μῠ́στης (mŭ́stēs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós)
Ancient Greek μῠστῐκός (mŭstĭkós)der.
Latin mysticus
Old French mistiqueder.
English mystic
From Old French mistique, from Latin mysticus, from Ancient Greek μυστικός (mustikós, “secret, mystic”), from μύστης (mústēs, “one who has been initiated”). Doublet of mystique.
Inflected forms:
form: more mystic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most mystic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: mystick
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: mystical
pos: adj
tags: alternative
adjective
form: mystics
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mystick
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: mystical
pos: noun
tags: alternative
adjective
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to mystics, mysticism or occult mysteries; mystical.
pos: adj
examples: a mystic dance
gloss: Mysterious and strange; arcane, obscure or enigmatic.
pos: adj
examples: Taught he not thee—the man of eld, / Whose eyes within his eyes beheld / Heaven's numerous hierarchy span / The mystic gulf from God to man?
Tho’ truths in manhood darkly join,
⁠Deep-seated in our mystic frame,
⁠We yield all blessing to the name
Of Him that made them current coin; […]
gloss: Someone who practices mysticism.
pos: noun
Derived words: metamystic
mysticall
mysticise
mysticist
mysticity
mysticize
mysticly
mysticness
Mystic Park
nonmystic
religiomystic
semimystic
unmystic
Translations:
muss
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Related to mess (“disorder”).
Inflected forms:
form: musses
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mussing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mussed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mussed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: musses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The old man affectionately mussed his grandson's hair.
gloss: A mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; disorder).
pos: noun
gloss: A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!' like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth, and cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am Antony yet.
Gods so! a muss, a muss, a muss, a muss.
Translations:
oceanfront
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From ocean + front.
Compound parts: ocean
front
Inflected forms:
form: ocean front
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: oceanfronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of property or real estate: adjacent to the ocean.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A property that is adjacent to the ocean.
pos: noun
gloss: The side of a property that faces the ocean.
pos: noun
Translations:
beachfront
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der.
Proto-Germanic *bakiz
Proto-West Germanic *baki
Old English bæċ
Middle English bache
English beach
English front
English beachfront
From beach + front.
Inflected forms:
form: beachfronts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of property (real estate): located on a beach.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: As Fire Island’s reputation grew, so did the fame of its residents. In 1977, after divorcing his first wife, Calvin Klein bought one of Gifford’s beachfront homes.
gloss: The portion of land or property that runs alongside and facing a beach.
pos: noun
Translations:
appropriation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
Etymology: From Middle English appropriacion, appropriacioun, from Medieval Latin appropriātiō. By surface analysis, appropriate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: appropriations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An act or instance of appropriating.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Their ties to the area may be based on traditional rather than written claims – but Bir Tawil is not any more a “no man’s land” than the territory once known as British East Africa, where terra nullius was repeatedly invoked in the early 20th century by both chartered companies and the British government that supported them to justify the appropriation of territory from indigenous people.
gloss: That which is appropriated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Public funds set aside for a specific purpose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Bush said that GRNL had lost touch with the grassroots, and as a result was unable to push legislation and lobby for higher appropriations for AIDS.
gloss: The use of borrowed elements in the creation of a new work.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The assimilation of concepts into a governing framework.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: In church law, the making over of a benefice to an owner who receives the tithes, but is bound to appoint a vicar for the spiritual service of the parish.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The principle that supplies granted by a legislature are only to be expended in the manner specified by that legislature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: appropriationist
disappropriation
malappropriation
misappropriation
nonappropriation
reappropriation
Translations:
overpower
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *-er
Proto-Indo-European *upér
Proto-Germanic *uber
Old English ofer-
Middle English over-
English over-
Proto-Indo-European *pótis
Proto-Italic *potis
Proto-Indo-European *h₁es-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti
Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-
Proto-Indo-European *bʰúHt
Proto-Italic *som
Proto-Italic *possom
Latin posseder.
Vulgar Latin potēre
Old French pooir
Anglo-Norman poerbor.
Middle English power
English power
English overpower
From over- + power.
Inflected forms:
form: overpowers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overpowering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overpowered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overpowered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To subdue someone by superior force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We overpowered the opposing army within a couple of hours.
Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have^([sic]) overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide.
gloss: To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Bright light overpowers the eyes.
But the shrill wild cry of the heron overpowered the cries of all the other birds, whom it seemed to terrify; they were silent the moment they heard it, and a silence followed which made the interruption doubly unpleasant.
gloss: To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity, etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The dish was OK, but the garlic slightly overpowered the herbs.
Although surprisingly moist, thanks to the stock (indeed, the contrast between the crisp exterior and the squidgy middle is horribly moreish), the combination of parsley, garlic and breadcrumbs reminds me of a very fancy loaf of garlic bread – and all but overpowers the sweet flavour of the cashews.
gloss: To make excessively powerful.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Rather than overpowering the characters or giving them some kind of slow-mo adrenalin abilities, Bloody Days does the most unexpected thing: it introduces a genuinely smart tactical system.
Derived words: overpowerable
overpowered
overpowerer
overpowering
Translations:
overshadow
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English overschadwen, overschadewe, from Old English ofersċeadwian (“to overshadow”), equivalent to over- + shadow. Compare with West Frisian oerskaduwe (“to overshadow”), Dutch overschaduwen (“to overshadow”), German überschatten (“to overshadow”), Gothic 𐌿𐍆𐌰𐍂𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌳𐍅𐌾𐌰𐌽 (ufarskadwjan, “to overshadow”), and more distantly, Old Norse yfirskyggja (“to overshadow”), Danish overskygge (“to overshadow”), Swedish överskugga (“to overshadow”), Old English ofersċūwan (“to overshadow”).
Base: shadow
Affixes: over-
Inflected forms:
form: overshadows
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: overshadowing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: overshadowed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: overshadowed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To obscure something by casting a shadow.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude.
gloss: To dominate something and make it seem insignificant.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A branch of rail transport that seems to been rather neglected by historians is that concerned with cliff railways, of which a fair number exist in Great Britain. This is probably because these lines are overshadowed by the more spectacular funicular railways in Switzerland and other mountainous regions; perhaps, too, because of the general habit of referring to them as "cliff lifts," which tends to associate them with the vertical indoor type.
This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
Only a handful of rock musicians have become genuine icons - larger-than-life symbolic figures whose personal triumphs and vicissitudes seem to mirror the ups and downs of rock as a whole, and sometimes of the society that nurtures it. Often, rock icons become the objects of personality cults that tend to overshadow their musical accomplishments.
President Obama gave an important press conference today and even took questions from the press, but all of this was overshadowed by the fact that Obama debuted one of the ugliest suits in the history of this great nation.
It’s surely consequential that Jon has a claim to the throne, whether he knows about it or not, but all of that is overshadowed by his immediate circumstances, which are that Jon Snow is leading a raiding party beyond the Wall to kidnap a wight.
gloss: To shelter or protect.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: overshadower
overshadowingly
overshadowment
Translations:
pathogenesis
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From patho- + -genesis.
Base: patho
Inflected forms:
form: pathogeneses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The origin and development of a disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The mechanism whereby something causes a disease.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: aetiogenesis
pathogen
pathogenic
pathogenicity
pathogeny
aetiology
aetiopathogenic
aetiopathology
dysregulation
etiology
pathobiologic
pathobiology
pathophysiologic
pathophysiology
Derived words: aetiopathogenesis
aetiopathogenetic
cardiopathogenesis
cardiopathogenetic
chronopathogenesis
clinicopathogenesis
clinicopathogenetic
copathogenesis
cytopathogenesis
cytopathogenetic
enteropathogenesis
enteropathogenic
entomopathogenesis
etiopathogenesis
etiopathogenetic
hepatopathogenesis
histopathogenesis
histopathogenetic
immunopathogenesis
immunopathogenetic
nephropathogenesis
neuropathogenesis
neuropathogenetic
pathoangiogenesis
pathoangiogenetic
physiopathogenesis
phytopathogenesis
salutogenesis
synaptopathogenesis
uropathogenesis
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: patogènesi
lang: Czech
word: patogeneze
lang: Dutch
word: pathogenese
lang: Finnish
word: patogeneesi
lang: Finnish
word: taudin synty
lang: French
word: pathogénie
lang: German
word: Pathogenese
lang: Greek
word: παθογένεση
roman: pathogénesi
lang: Hungarian
word: patogenezis
lang: Irish
word: pataigineas
lang: Italian
word: patogenesi
lang: Occitan
word: patogenia
lang: Polish
word: patogeneza
lang: Polish
word: patogenia
lang: Portuguese
word: patogenia
lang: Romanian
word: patogeneză
lang: Romanian
word: patogenie
lang: Russian
word: патогене́з
roman: patogenéz
lang: Spanish
word: patogénesis
lang: Spanish
word: patogenia
lang: Swedish
word: patogenitet
lang: Tagalog
word: mulsakitan
paterfamilias
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: (c. 1425 to 1475) From late Middle English paterfamilias, from Latin pater familiās. From Latin pater (“father”) + familiās, archaic genitive of familia (“family; household”). Literally, "father of the family" or "father of the household".
Inflected forms:
form: paterfamiliases
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: patresfamilias
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: pater familias
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A man who is the head of a household, family or tribe.
pos: noun
Translations:
goutte
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
Etymology: From Middle English goute, from Old French goutte, goute, gote, from Latin gutta (“drop”). Doublet of gout and gutta.
Inflected forms:
form: gouttes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A charge in the form of a teardrop shape, originally with wavy sides, but now often with straight sides.
pos: noun
examples: Per fesse nebuly chequy azure and or, each of the last charged with a goutte of the first, and sable, in base five estoiles, four and one of the second, all within a bordure argent, charged with eight crosses couped gules.
Translations:
sestet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: communications
entertainment
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
music
poetry
publishing
writing
Etymology: From Italian sestetto, from sesto (“sixth”), Latin sextus, from sex (“six”).
Inflected forms:
form: sestets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
pos: noun
gloss: The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.
pos: noun
Related words: couplet
tercet
quatrain
cinquain
septet
octave
Translations:
xenomorph
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From xeno- + -morph.
Inflected forms:
form: xenomorphs
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A strange form, an alien creature.
pos: noun
gloss: An allotriomorph.
pos: noun
Derived words: xenomorphic
xenomorphous
Translations:
geothermal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Pre-Greek der.
Proto-Hellenic *gayader.
Ancient Greek γαῖᾰ (gaîă)clip.
Ancient Greek γῆ (gê)
Ancient Greek -ο- (-o-)
Ancient Greek γεω- (geō-)der.
English geo-
English thermal
English geothermal
From geo- + thermal.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to heat energy extracted from reservoirs in the earth's interior.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Translations:
co-op
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: games
gaming
video-games
Etymology: From cooperative, by shortening.
Inflected forms:
form: co-ops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: coop
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: coöp
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: co-ops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: co-oping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: co-opping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: co-oped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: co-oped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: co-opped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: co-opped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: coop
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: coöp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A unit of a housing cooperative; a purchased apartment where the apartment owners collectively are responsible for maintenance of common areas and upkeep.
pos: noun
examples: Whereas condo residents own their apartment outright, co-op residents are shareholders in a company that owns their building and have a right to live in their apartment. As such, co-op owners have control over who they allow in.
gloss: Any cooperative, including housing, retail, utility, agricultural, banking or worker cooperatives.
pos: noun
examples: Once or twice a week, Chris Wotton, an unemployed farm labourer who ran the coop, and some of the estate's older children, borrowed a van from Centerprise […]
In the spring of 1954, three agricultural producers’ co-operatives — Chenkuang, Nungyuan and Yangchiachai — were formed in Kuangta Township, Suiyang County, Kweichow Province. Since then they have put in nearly a year’s intensive work in farm production, finishing up in the autumn with the distribution of the year’s harvest. Our Party has strengthened its political and ideological leadership over them in good time. As a result, the three co-ops have been put on a firm footing and are making considerable headway. They have created a good impression among the peasants outside the co-ops, who say, “The co-ops are doing better in every way than we!” These co-ops are really taking the lead on the road to co-operation.
gloss: Any shop owned by a cooperative.
pos: noun
gloss: A cooperative game, as opposed to a competitive game or deathmatch.
pos: noun
gloss: Synonym of cooperate.
pos: verb
examples: It would also afford her the opportunity to see where he was co-oping.
gloss: To play a game in a cooperative style.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: Oh, you have this game too? We should co-op some time.
Derived words: condop
Translations:
praxeology
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πρᾶξις (prâxis) + -logy.
Affixes: -logy
Inflected forms:
form: praxeologies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: praxiology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: praxæology
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
hypercorrect
Senses:
gloss: The study of human action or conduct.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
deliveryman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From delivery + man or delivery + -man.
Base: delivery
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: deliverymen
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: delivery man
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Someone employed to make deliveries.
pos: noun
Translations:
prance
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English prancen, prauncen (“to prance”, literally “to show off”), variant of Middle English pranken (“to prank”), thus probably from the same ultimate root as prank. Cognate with Bavarian prangezen, prangssen (“to put on airs”), Alemannic German pranzen (“to strut”).
Inflected forms:
form: prances
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prancing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: pranced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: pranced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: prances
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To spring forward on the hind legs.
pos: verb
gloss: To strut about in a showy manner.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
figuratively
examples: John's daughter was prancing about the sitting room, practicing for her school dance.
“So, so beautiful. I'm gonna do one last roly-poly before we go. [snorting, squealing] At least I had one moment of joy in a life of drudgery. Where will the truffle hunt take us next?” “Nowhere. You're free, Jambone. I'm releasing you from nose jail.” “Really? I can stay here in this paradise and prance and frolic?” “Just stick to frolicking.” “[emotional] Thank you, Mr. Bender. You're the kindest person I've ever met.” “Really? [crying] That's horrible.”
gloss: A prancing movement.
pos: noun
examples: There seemed a little prance of triumph in his movement,
Derived words: pranceful
prancer
prancesome
prancy
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتَنَاصَ
roman: istanāṣa
lang: Arabic
word: نَاصَ
roman: nāṣa
lang: Bulgarian
word: изправям се на задни крака
roman: izpravjam se na zadni kraka
lang: Catalan
word: alzinar
lang: Catalan
word: encabritar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 騰躍 /腾跃
lang: Danish
word: stejle
lang: Dutch
word: steigeren
lang: Esperanto
word: pranci
lang: French
word: se cabrer
lang: Italian
word: impennare
lang: Italian
word: fare un'impennata
lang: Occitan
word: se cabrar
lang: Occitan
word: se quilhar
lang: Portuguese
word: empinar
lang: Russian
word: встава́ть на дыбы́
roman: vstavátʹ na dybý
lang: Russian
word: станови́ться на дыбы́
roman: stanovítʹsja na dybý
lang: Russian
word: встать на дыбы́
roman: vstatʹ na dybý
lang: Spanish
word: encabritarse
lang: Spanish
word: escarcear
lang: Turkish
word: şahlanmak
lang: Turkish
word: şaha kalkmak
lang: Welsh
word: ymgodi
lang: Welsh
word: ymsythu
whimbrel
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps from whimper + -el, alluding to the sound of its cry.
Base: whimper
Affixes: -el
Inflected forms:
form: whimbrels
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A large migratory wading bird, Numenius phaeopus, of the family Scolopacidae, with a long downcurved bill.
pos: noun
examples: Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Flotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.
Translations:
potage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French potage, and from earlier borrowing pottage.
Inflected forms:
form: potages
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A thick soup, especially a creamy one.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
undertaking
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: By surface analysis, undertake + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: undertakings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The business of an undertaker, or the management of funerals.
pos: noun
gloss: A promise or pledge; a guarantee.
pos: noun
examples: Nobody troubles to keep his word, to carry out literally his undertakings. In my small way I try to set that right by showing them the logical development of their ways.
The Hong Kong SAR Government has given undertakings that such powers [powers to prevent people from leaving Hong Kong] will not be used and that the ability to remove people from flights will be applied only to stop certain asylum seekers from entering Hong Kong.
gloss: That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise.
pos: noun
examples: He laid the foundation stone on August 1 1847, and then set around 2,000 workmen loose on the undertaking. The station opened exactly one year later on August 1 1848.
gloss: The act of one who undertakes (in either sense).
pos: noun
Translations:
orthorexia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English ortho-
English -orexia
English orthorexia
From ortho- + -orexia.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A fixation with healthy or righteous eating.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
Translations:
coulrophobia
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Coined in the late 1980s or 1990s, of unknown origin, appearing first, without further explanation, in lists of phobias circulating on the Internet. First use appears c. 1997 according to the OED. According to a widespread theory, the term is based on Ancient Greek κωλοβαθριστής (kōlobathristḗs, “one who goes on stilts”), allegedly chosen for lack of an obvious Ancient Greek equivalent of “clown”, + -phobia (“fear of”). This theory fails to explain the alteration of colo- to coulro-.
Affixes: -phobia
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: The fear of clowns.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: […] to develop coulrophobia. On the seventh, clowns from around the world […] congregate at London's Holy Trinity Church for the annual Grimaldi Memorial Service.
Clowns are no laughing matter to Sean "Puffy" Combs. The swaggering rap royal is widely reported to suffer from coulrophobia, an irrational fear of the red-nosed, versized-shoe-wearing, greasepainted circus buffoons.
⁵Unfortunately, the first time they attempted the study, the clown accidentally burst one of the balloons. The noise frightened the children and they associated that fear response with the clown. All 15 children are currently in therapy for coulrophobia!
After you plug in your wish list and dating criteria, search results spit out matches; it’s like scanning a room of a thousand and pinpointing the ten who share your favorite author and chronic coulrophobia (fear of clowns).
The ironic twist is that he recently admitted to a possible onset of coulrophobia.
Translations:
oeuvre
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From French œuvre, from Old French uevre, from Latin opera (plural of Latin opus), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep- (“work”). Doublet of opera, opus, and ure.
Inflected forms:
form: oeuvres
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: œuvre
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A work of art, music or literature.
pos: noun
examples: (Calvin) This piece is about the inadequacy of traditional imagery and symbols to convey meaning in today's world. By abandoning representationalism, I'm free to express myself with pure form. Specific interpretation gives way to a more visceral response.
(Hobbes) I notice your oeuvre is monochromatic.
(Calvin) Well c'mon, it's just snow.
gloss: A substantial or complete corpus of works produced by an artist, composer, or writer.
pos: noun
tags: collective
uncountable
examples: the complete oeuvre of Mozart
Let’s “fictionalize” Foucault’s life by turning it into a biographical account of Foucault and his oeuvre or work.
There, in that pale region, beneath that essential cover, the twin incompatibility of an œuvre and madness is unveiled; it is the blind spot of each one's possibility, and of their mutual exclusion.
Although, at the onset of my writing this catalogue, his forty-eight opus numbers suggested a small output, in fact his oeuvre comprised more than 100 published and nearly as many unpublished pieces representative of nearly every musical genre.
Related words: oeuvre-catalogue
oeuvre de vulgarisation
chef d'oeuvre
hors d'oeuvre
manoeuvre
Translations:
hots
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: the hots
pos: noun
tags: canonical
plural
Senses:
gloss: A condition of physical attraction toward (for) someone.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
slang
examples: I mean, this girl obviously has the hots for you man. Why do you think she's calling you?
Translations:
STAB
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Acronym of same-type attack bonus.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: A 50% damage boost applied when a Pokémon uses a move with the same type as itself (for example, an Electric-type Pokémon using an Electric-type move).
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
Translations:
Coorg
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: Coorgs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Coorg
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A member of the ethnic community originating from the region of Coorg in India.
pos: noun
Translations:
expedite
Part of speech: verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin expedītus (“unimpeded, unfettered”), perfect passive participle of expediō (“bring forward, set right”).
Inflected forms:
form: expedites
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: expediting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: expedited
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: expedited
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more expedite
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most expedite
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: To accelerate the progress of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He expedited the search by alphabetizing the papers.
The bodies and bogies were built by more than one firm, to expedite the work, and the electrical equipment was supplied by the British Thomson-Houston Co. Ltd.
[…] moreover, there are times of pressure when, to expedite deliveries, cars may be driven in what should otherwise be the running-in period at speeds that do them no good - and over long distances too.
gloss: To perform (a task) fast and efficiently.
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
gloss: To perform the duties of an expediter.
pos: verb
gloss: To free from impediment; to release or set at liberty.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: Free of impediment; unimpeded.
pos: adj
examples: […] to make the way plaine and expedite […]
gloss: Expeditious; quick; prompt.
pos: adj
examples: nimble and expedite […] in its operation
[…]Speech in general (which is a very ſhort and expedite way of conveying their Thoughts one to another)[…]
Antonyms: impede
slow down
Related words: expede
expedience
expediency
expedient
expediter
expedition
expeditious
expeditiously
accelerate
dispatch
facilitate
fast track
speed up
Derived words: expeditely
expediteness
Translations: