yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
navigation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French navigation, from Latin nāvigātiōnem, accusative singular of nāvigātiō (“sailing, navigation”), from nāvigō (“sail”). Morphologically navigate + -ion.
Base: navigate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: navigations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The theory, practice and technology of charting a course for a road vehicle, ship, aircraft, or spaceship.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: An ocean-going yachtsman must be competent at night navigation
gloss: Traffic or travel by vessel, especially commercial shipping.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: CHESAPEAKE AND DELAWARE CANAL. Notice is hereby given, that this CANAL is NOW OPEN FOR NAVIGATION. The Locks are 100 feet in length, by 22 feet in width, and the Canal can be navigated by Vessels within those dimensions, and drawing 7 feet of water. The rates of Toll have been fixed so low, as to make this the CHEAPEST as well as the most EXPEDITIOUS and Safe channel of communication, between the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware. Horses for towing vessels may be hired at reasonable prices at each end of the Canal. ☞ Any information in relation to the Canal, rates of Toll, &c. may be had, on application at the Company's Office, No. 44 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. ROBERT M. LEWIS, President; H. D. GILPIN, Secretary. Chesapeake & Delaware Canal Company.
gloss: A canal; a waterway comprising one or more canals and river stretches in communication with one another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
usually
examples: the Schuylkill Navigation
gloss: The act of accessing different components of the user interface of software.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
gloss: The process of finding a way through a difficult situation.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
Derived words: aeronavigation
air navigation
astronavigation
avigation
celestial navigation
circumnavigation
cybernavigation
freedom of navigation
geonavigation
grid navigation
head of navigation
hyperbolic navigation
hyperbolic navigation system
hypernavigation
inertial navigation
inertial navigation system
inertial navigation unit
inland navigation
internal navigation
metanavigation
misnavigation
mystery meat navigation
navigational
navigation bar
navigation channel
navigation laws
navigation light
navigation mesh
neuronavigation
nonnavigation
proportional navigation
radionavigation
radio navigation
renavigation
safe navigation operator
satellite navigation
satellite navigation system
satnav
slack-water navigation
soft navigation
space navigation
subnavigation
TACAN
taxonavigation
terrestrial navigation
turn-by-turn navigation
Translations:
astrolabe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English astrelabie et al., from Middle French astrolabe, Old French astrelabe, from Ancient Greek ἀστρολάβος (astrolábos, “star-taking”), from ἄστρον (ástron, “star”) + λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Inflected forms:
form: astrolabes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An astronomical and navigational instrument for gauging the altitude of the Sun and stars.
pos: noun
examples: The shop carries more than a dozen sundials, mostly of bronze, plus an astrolabe ($650) of wrought iron.
The cafe serves a Moroccan breakfast (orange juice, yogurt, sweet crepes, honey and jam; 100 dirhams), and the Museum of Islamic Art offers wrought Persian astrolabes, Syrian copperwork and shimmering Moroccan textiles.
Translations:
destruct
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: Back-formation from destruction.
Inflected forms:
form: destructs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: destructing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: destructed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: destructed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To intentionally cause the destruction of.
pos: verb
tags: nonstandard
transitive
gloss: To invoke the destructor of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To self-destruct.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: autodestruct
destructedness
destructible
Translations:
voucher
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: advertising
business
marketing
Etymology: From vouch + -er. The verb is from the noun.
Base: vouch
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: vouchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vouchers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: vouchering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: vouchered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: vouchered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A piece of paper or other token that entitles the holder to a discount, or that can be exchanged for goods and services.
pos: noun
examples: a voucher for a free kettle
This voucher entitles the bearer to a 20% discount on frozen goods.
Today, clients who cannot afford the reasonable rates are able to join a work-voucher system in which they agree to work for an hour helping the HCHS staff for each hour of service received.
gloss: A receipt.
pos: noun
gloss: One who or that which vouches.
pos: noun
examples: To the fashionable world he cannot be a stranger […] and his having married a sister of the Duke of Leeds is a voucher for my assertion.
She is my sister—my own father’s daughter. Well; why do I believe it? The other day I had not so much as heard the remotest rumor of her existence; and what has since occurred to change me? What so new and incontestable vouchers have I handled? None at all.
gloss: A copy of a published advertisement sent by the agency to the client as proof of publication.
pos: noun
examples: Most agencies also have a vouchers department. It is its responsibility to obtain a copy of every advertisement that appears in print. It supplies the accounts department with the relevant newspaper or magazine, which is affixed to the agency's invoice for the space.
gloss: A mechanical device used in shops for automatically registering the amount of money drawn.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: To establish the authenticity of; to vouch for.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide a vouch for (an expenditure).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To provide (a beneficiary) with a voucher.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: vouch
Derived words: e-gift voucher
e-voucher
force the voucher
gift voucher
luncheon voucher
meal voucher
milk voucher
school voucher
Translations:
voracious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin vorāx, from vorō (“to devour”).
Inflected forms:
form: more voracious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most voracious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Wanting or devouring great quantities of food.
pos: adj
examples: He is voracious by suppertime.
His appetite is voracious by suppertime.
I never had so much as […] one wish to God to direct me whither I should go, or to keep me from the danger which apparently surrounded me, as well from voracious creatures as cruel savages.
The old man was up, betimes, next morning, and waited impatiently for the appearance of his new associate, who after a delay that seemed interminable, at length presented himself, and commenced a voracious assault on the breakfast.
Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the inhospitable polar regions, the Pygmy to the fever-rotten jungles of Africa.
gloss: Having a great appetite for anything; eager.
pos: adj
examples: a voracious reader
If he carried chiefly his appetite, a zeal for tiled bathrooms, a conviction that the Pullman car is the acme of human comfort, and a belief that it is proper to tip waiters, taxicab drivers, and barbers, but under no circumstances station agents and ushers, then his Odyssey will be replete with good meals and bad meals, bathing adventures, compartment-train escapades, and voracious demands for money.
Methodical and voracious, these hackers wanted all the files they could find.
Phoenix: Moe seems to be a voracious reader. Look at all the hard books he has here.
Synonyms: cormorant
edacious
esurient
gluttonous
gutfoundered
hungry as a hog
insatiable
lupine
pantagruelian
rapacious
ravening
ravenous
voracious
Antonyms: abstemious
unvoracious
Related words: devouring
omnivorous
voracity
greed
glutton
Derived words: unvoracious
voraciously
voraciousness
Translations:
vibrator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
weaving
Etymology: From New Latin vibrātor, from Latin vibrō (“to vibrate”). By surface analysis, vibrate + -or.
Inflected forms:
form: vibrators
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
examples: They recommend a vibrator because it's a safe alternative to sex.
Mmm. I'm sick of my ‘Mighty Intruder’ vibrator with the flexible shaft and the textured head.
A vibrator does not call you on your birthday. A vibrator doesn't send you flowers the next day. You cannot take a vibrator home to meet your mother.
Evie’s website is a peek inside an idealized wife’s sex life, serving up “The Wife’s Guide to a Morning Quickie He’ll Think About All Day” (husbands, good) and “My Vibrator Almost Destroyed My Marriage” (solo sex, bad).
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
gloss: A device that vibrates or causes vibration.
pos: noun
Related words: vibrate
vibrant
vibration
Derived words: bullet vibrator
master vibrator
rabbit vibrator
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: вибра́тор
roman: vibrátor
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 振子
roman: zhènzǐ
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 振動器 /振动器
roman: zhèndòngqì
lang: Czech
word: vibrátor
lang: Finnish
word: tärytin
lang: Finnish
word: väristin
lang: French
word: vibreur
lang: Galician
word: vibrador
lang: German
word: Vibrator
lang: Greek
word: δονητής
roman: donitís
lang: Korean
word: 진동기
roman: jindonggi
lang: Macedonian
word: вибра́тор
roman: vibrátor
lang: Polish
word: wibrator
lang: Portuguese
word: vibrador
lang: Russian
word: вибра́тор
roman: vibrátor
lang: Tagalog
word: pambayok
lang: Turkish
word: titreşim cihazı
shipping
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English schipping, schyppynge, from schippen, schipen (“to take ship, navigate”), from Old English scipian (“to take ship; put in order, equip, man a ship”), equivalent to ship + -ing.
Base: ship
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: shippings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The transportation of goods.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it is clear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
gloss: The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry; ships collectively.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Our overplus of shipping will we burn; / And, with the rest full-mann’d, from the head of Actium / Beat the approaching Caesar.
[…] the Advantage appeared greatly on their Side, in Numbers of Shipping, and of Men;
My first afternoon, on reaching New Bedford, was spent in visiting the wharves and viewing the shipping.
Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
[…] I clearly remember a castle on the shores of the lagoon, where gondolas appeared amid larger shipping, which seemed to be plying in and out of Naples […]
gloss: Passage or transport on a ship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The cost of sending an item or package using postal or carrier services.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The shipping is included in the quoted price.
gloss: Navigation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: God send 'em good shipping.
Derived words: anti-shipping
merchant shipping
nonshipping
preshipping
shipping agent
shipping and handling
shipping company
shipping container
shipping fever
shipping forecast
shipping lane
shipping master
short-sea shipping
take shipping
trans-shipping
Translations:
realistic
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *(H)reh₁ís
Proto-Italic *reis
Latin rēs
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Late Latin -ālis
Late Latin reālisder.
Old French reelbor.
Middle English real
English real
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English realist
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English realistic
From realist + -ic.
Inflected forms:
form: more realistic
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most realistic
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Expressed or represented as being accurate, practicable, or not idealistic.
pos: adj
examples: A realistic appraisal of the situation.
Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
gloss: Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.
pos: adj
examples: A realistic novel about the Victorian poor.
gloss: Possible or practical to achieve; based on what is real or practical.
pos: adj
examples: a realistic goal
Synonyms: realsome
Antonyms: unrealistic
utopian
Related words: real
realism
realist
reality
realize
verisimilar
Derived words: antirealistic
biorealistic
extrarealistic
hyperrealistic
macrorealistic
neorealistic
nonrealistic
overrealistic
photorealistic
pseudorealistic
realistically
realisticity
realisticness
semirealistic
superrealistic
transrealistic
ultrarealistic
Translations:
transportation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English transport
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English transportation
From transport + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: transportations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation.
gloss: Deportation to a penal colony.
pos: noun
tags: historical
uncountable
usually
examples: Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.
Redpath was sentenced to transportation for life, and his assets, amounting to over £25,000, went to reduce the sum that the Great Northern had to find.
gloss: A means of conveyance.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.
gloss: A ticket or fare.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
(Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."
Derived words: antitransportation
biotransportation
cotransportation
evapotransportation
hydrotransportation
intelligent transportation system
mass transportation
means of transportation
nontransportation
pretransportation
public transportation
teleportation
teletransportation
transportational
transportation car
transportation network
transportation network vehicle service
transportation safety board
Translations:
penal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Old French peinal, from Medieval Latin penalis, from Latin poenalis, from poena (“punishment”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “punishment”), from Proto-Indo-European *kʷoynéh₂.
Inflected forms:
form: pænal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pænall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: penall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pœnal
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: pœnall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of or relating to punishment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: penal servitude
gloss: Subject to punishment; punishable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a penal offence
gloss: Serving as a place of punishment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a penal colony
gloss: Exorbitant.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: a penal rate of interest
Synonyms: penal
penary
penitentiary
punishmental
Antonyms: nonpenal
unpenal
Related words: penality
penalize
penalty
Derived words: nonpenal
parapenal
penal code
penal colony
penal-industrial complex
penalise
penalism
penalization
penal law
penally
penal notice
penal officer
penal populism
penal rosary
penal substitution
postpenal
unpenal
Translations:
museum
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin mūsēum (“library, study”), from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon), shrine of the Muses (Μοῦσα (Moûsa)). Doublet of mosaic.
Inflected forms:
form: museums
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: musea
pos: noun
tags: plural
rare
form: musæum
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: museums
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: museuming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: museumed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: museumed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: musæum
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A building or institution dedicated to the acquisition, conservation, study, exhibition, and educational interpretation of objects having scientific, historical, cultural or artistic value.
pos: noun
examples: visit the history museum
They're opening a new coin exhibition at the local museum.
gloss: To place in a museum.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: I use daily those books that for others are museumed. The glass case approach depresses me, makes books into porcelain, guts them of what they are.
Such museuming provides evidence that the Gulf has started building up its defences to protect its national culture, which might be seen as threatened by modern, global societies.
gloss: To visit museums.
pos: verb
tags: colloquial
intransitive
examples: I told her I'd do just one visit to start; I don't really have time to do a lot of museuming.
Translations:
exhibition
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Old French exhibicion. Equivalent to exhibit + -ion.
Base: exhibit
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: exhibitions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: exhibitions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: exhibitioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: exhibitioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: exhibitioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An instance of exhibiting, or something exhibited.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A large-scale public showing of objects or products.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: There was an art exhibition on in the town hall.
a boat exhibition
gloss: A public display, intentional or otherwise, generally characterised as negative.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a shameful exhibition
a disgusting exhibition
Well I made some exhibition, I lost my will to eat / The only thing that matters to me is to touch your lotus feet
gloss: A demonstration of personal skill or feelings.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "I could not have believed," remarked Francesca, "had I not witnessed it since my residence in your country, how the reality and the affectation of feeling can exist together. Before I left our solitary home, the very exhibition of emotion would have tempted me to doubt its truth. Now, I observe that some affect, as others shun, display; yet the feeling is equally true in both."
gloss: A financial award or prize given to a student (who becomes an exhibitioner) by a school or university, usually on the basis of academic merit.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
uncountable
examples: He was a scholarship boy who had won an Exhibition to Oxford, and then, like so many others, had found himself thrown upon the slave market of pedagogy.
Despite a couple of rustications, he gained an exhibition to Cambridge.
gloss: A game which does not impact the standings for any major cup or competition.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To participate in sexual exhibitionism.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Related words: exposition
Derived words: exhibition game
exhibitiongoer
exhibition-goer
exhibition hall
exhibitionism
exhibitionist
exhibitionistic
exhibitionize
exhibition match
Exhibition Road
make an exhibition of oneself
nonexhibition
reexhibition
sexhibition
Translations:
unleaded
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From un- + leaded. The US standard of identity comes from 40 CFR §79.32.
Base: leaded
Affixes: un-
Inflected forms:
form: unleadeds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Without lead.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Containing no more than 0.05 grams of lead per gallon.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Decaffeinated.
pos: adj
tags: US
not-comparable
slang
examples: I order a draft beer and a decaf coffee for Cha. The bartender tells me in a nice way they don't have unleaded coffee.
“Could I get you a drink, coffee, or something?” “Unleaded coffee if Alex has any.”
gloss: Having low alcohol content.
pos: adj
tags: Australia
not-comparable
slang
examples: Richie Pace ordered an unleaded beer.
gloss: An unleaded fuel.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Because one of the unleadeds just might turn out to be the right gasoline for your car. By right, I mean the one that gives you the best balance between price and performance.
Check the pumps and you'll see some economy unleadeds with octane (antiknock) ratings as low as 86; some quality unleadeds rate as high as 89.
gloss: Decaffeinated coffee.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
uncountable
usually
examples: And while you may enjoy your morning coffee buzz, caffeine is active in the bloodstream for up to nine hours, so it is best to switch to unleaded after noon.
gloss: Low-alcohol beer.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
slang
uncountable
usually
Translations:
testator
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Latin testator (“one who makes a will, in Late Latin also one who bears witness”), from testari (“to bear witness, make a will”). See testament.
Inflected forms:
form: testators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: testatour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: One who makes or has made a legally valid will.
pos: noun
examples: […] there is an exception “in the cases of heir and executor, who may plead a release to the ancestor or testator whom they respectively represent; so also with respect to several tortfeasors, for in all these cases there is a privity between the parties which constitutes an identity of person”.
As it is, knowing that the testator was a gentleman of the highest intelligence and acumen, and that he has absolutely no relations living to whom he could have confided the guardianship of the child, we do not feel justified in taking this course.
Antonyms: intestate
Translations:
obsolescent
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Latin obsolēscēns.
Inflected forms:
form: more obsolescent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most obsolescent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In the process of becoming obsolete, but not obsolete yet.
pos: adj
examples: How can I live among this gentle
obsolescent breed of heroes, and not weep?
Translations:
resistance
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From earlier resistence, from Middle English resistence, from Old French resistence, from Latin resistentia. Morphologically resist + -ance.
Base: resist
Affixes: -ance
Inflected forms:
form: resistances
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: resistaunce
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: resistence
pos: noun
tags: alternative
rare
Senses:
gloss: The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: widespread resistance to the new urban development plans
the resistance of bacteria to certain antibiotics
[…]this Autority of his Perſon, doth notwithſtanding lay on us an Obligation, of keeping under his Obedience, and making no warlike Reſiſtance.
So that there can be no possible misunderstanding, both Germany and Japan can be certain beyond any shadow of a doubt that America will continue to fight for freedom until no vestige of resistance remains. Our demand has been and it remains unconditional surrender.
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
For decades, trainers and scientists have debated whether and how to mix cardio and resistance exercise. Some small studies suggest combining the two might up the likely gains from each, especially the resistance training.
gloss: A force that tends to oppose motion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Electrical resistance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A resistor.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
examples: In our study of simple electrical circuits, we have considered a single source of E.M.F. for each individual circuit but we have learned that any number of resistances may be connected in parallel […]
gloss: An underground organisation engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation; a resistance movement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Alliance forces are stretched too thin right now to attempt to liberate the colony, but we've been doing what we can to covertly aid the local resistance.
Derived words: autoresistance
axis of resistance
corticoresistance
cryoresistance
line of least resistance
Lord's Resistance Army
multiresistance
necroresistance
nonresistance
osmoresistance
oxidoresistance
path of least resistance
pentaresistance
piece de resistance
pitting resistance equivalent number
resistance arm
resistance band
resistance box
resistance coil
resistance distance
resistance frame
resistanceless
resistance thermometer
resistance training
seroresistance
Translations:
liberation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
politics
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French libération, and from Latin liberatio, liberationem (“a freeing”), from liberare past participle liberatus (“set free”); see liberate. Equivalent to liberate + -ion.
Base: liberate
Affixes: -ion
Inflected forms:
form: liberations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of liberating or the state of being liberated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The liberation of American slaves was accomplished by the Department of War, that of British slaves by the Exchequer.
People saw in the elders, who were closer to death, the manifestation of the divine force that was thought to achieve its full liberation at death.
gloss: Synonym of conquest or theft.
pos: noun
tags: countable
euphemistic
ironic
uncountable
gloss: The achievement of equal rights and status, particularly as seen as freedom from historic and structural oppression.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: women's liberation... black liberation... gay liberation...
Synonyms: emancipation
independence
Antonyms: enslavement
oppression
Related words: liberate
Derived words: animal liberation
antiliberation
black liberation
gay liberation
liberational
liberation day
liberationism
liberationist
liberation theology
male liberation
nonliberation
photoliberation
postliberation
preliberation
pseudoliberation
pseudo-liberation
queer liberation
war of liberation
women's liberation
Translations:
tendentious
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From tendency + -ious, after German tendenziös.
Base: tendency
Affixes: -ious
Inflected forms:
form: more tendentious
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most tendentious
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having a tendency, written or spoken, with a partisan, biased or prejudiced purpose, especially a controversial one; implicitly or explicitly slanted; biased.
pos: adj
examples: Near-synonyms: partisan, slanted, partial, prejudiced
That he was a supporter of the cause was clear, because his reports from the front were tendentious.
President-elect Donald Trump abruptly abandoned some of his most tendentious campaign promises Tuesday, saying he does not plan to prosecute Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email system or the dealings of her family foundation, has an “open mind” about a climate-change accord from which he vowed to withdraw the United States and is no longer certain that torturing terrorism suspects is a good idea.
It is a canard trotted out by lazy or tendentious journalists that nationalised British Railways lacked entrepreneurial flair.
Translations:
isobar
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + βάρος (báros, “weight”), equivalent to iso- + bar-.
Affixes: iso-
Inflected forms:
form: isobars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: isobare
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant pressure.
pos: noun
gloss: A set of points or conditions at constant pressure.
pos: noun
gloss: Either of two nuclides of different elements having the same mass number.
pos: noun
Related words: adiabat
isochore
isopleth
isotherm
isotone
isotope
Derived words: isobaric
Translations:
isotherm
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From the French isotherme (“of equal temperature”, adjective), itself from Ancient Greek ἴσος (ísos, “equal”) + θέρμη (thérmē, “warmth”). By surface analysis, iso- + -therm.
Inflected forms:
form: isotherms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A line on a graph or chart, such as a weather map, along which all the points have the same temperature.
pos: noun
Translations:
sextant
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
dentistry
geometry
mathematics
medicine
natural-sciences
nautical
sciences
transport
Etymology: From Latin sextāns.
Inflected forms:
form: sextants
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A navigational device for deriving angular distances between objects so as to determine latitude and longitude.
pos: noun
examples: […] I can do more with a Quadrant, Sextant or Octant, of 1 foot Radius, furniſhed with Teleſcopical Sights and Screws, then ^([sic]) can poſſibly be done with any other Inſtrument, furniſhed only with Common Sights, though 10, 20, 30, nay threeſcore foot Radius; […]
I took our position every morning with my crude sextant; but the results were always most unsatisfactory.
Moskowitz and Devereux have designed a hyperaccurate sextant for interstellar navigation based upon the design of the sextant used by the Apollo astronauts.
gloss: One sixth of a circle or disc; a sector with an angle of 60°.
pos: noun
gloss: One of six groups of adjacent teeth, excluding the wisdom teeth.
pos: noun
gloss: A radial cell division of segments in three series, a sixth part of the original.
pos: noun
Related words: octant
quadrant
Derived words: sextantal
Translations:
alveolar
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: anatomy
human-sciences
linguistics
medicine
phonetics
phonology
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin alvus
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Indo-European *-éyos
Proto-Italic *-ejos
Proto-Italic *-eos
Latin -eus
Latin alveus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin -olus
Latin alveolusbor.
English alveolus
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin -ārisbor.
English -ar
English alveolar
From alveolus + -ar.
Inflected forms:
form: alveolars
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Relating to the alveoli (small air sacs) of the lungs.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Relating to the jaw ridge containing the tooth sockets.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: Formed with the tongue touching or approaching the inner ridge of the gums of the upper front teeth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: In the case of the Wubuy alveolar versus retroflex contrast for instance, we argue that the phonetic overlap is so great that native listeners can behave as if this were an instance of a good and a 'less good' instance of a single category (CG).
gloss: Relating to the glands with secretory cells about a central space.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
relational
gloss: An alveolar consonant.
pos: noun
Related words: alveolary
Derived words: alveolar artery
alveolar bed
alveolar bone
alveolar dead space
alveolarisation
alveolarization
alveolarize
alveolarly
alveolar nerve
alveolar process
alveolar ridge
alveolar socket
apico-alveolar
apicoalveolar
basialveolar
bialveolar
bronchioalveolar
bronchioloalveolar
bronchoalveolar
dentialveolar
dentoalveolar
inferior alveolar artery
inferior alveolar nerve
interalveolar
intraalveolar
labioalveolar
lobuloalveolar
microalveolar
monoalveolar
nasoalveolar
nonalveolar
palatoalveolar
palato-alveolar
parietoalveolar
perialveolar
postalveolar
post-alveolar
posterior superior alveolar artery
retroalveolar
subalveolar
transalveolar
tubuloalveolar
zygomaticoalveolar
Translations:
gonzo
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: journalism
media
Etymology: Coined in 1971 by Boston Globe editor Bill Cardoso. Of uncertain origin; OED proposes Italian gonzo (“dolt”) and / or Spanish ganso (“dolt, goose”). The etymology supplied by Cardoso himself (French gonzeaux) is spurious; French does have a similar word gonze, but this is a loan from Italian.
Inflected forms:
form: more gonzo
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most gonzo
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: gonzos
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Using an unconventional, exaggerated, and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes part in the events of the story.
pos: adj
examples: I ask Hunter to explain ... Just what is Gonzo Journalism? ... “Gonzo all started with Bill Cardosa ^([sic]), ... after I wrote the Kentucky Derby piece for Scanlan's ... the first time I realized you could write different. And ... I got this note from Cardosa saying, ‘That was pure gonzo journalism!’ ... Some Boston word for weird, bizarre.”
gloss: Unconventional, bizarre, crazy.
pos: adj
examples: Nicholson’s Torrance is an evil clown ... Appropriately, pop culture has embraced him as a gonzo antihero: Ads for T-shirts emblazoned with the “Here’s Johnny” Nicholson
gloss: Gonzo journalism or a journalist who produces such journalism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: “Unstable” indeed! Those swine: Next year we should demand a gonzo category – or maybe R S should give it. Of course: “The first annual Rolling Stone award for the year's finest example of pure gonzo journalism.”
gloss: A wild or crazy person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
Derived words: gone-zo
gonzoism
gonzo journalism
Translations:
soapbox
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From soap + box. The figurative use of the word derives from the fact that soap products in the US used to be commonly transported to stores in large wooden boxes. It used to be common for individuals to give impromptu rally speeches to their neighbors by finding something to stand on like a soapbox.
Compound parts: soap
box
Inflected forms:
form: soapboxes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: soap box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: soap-box
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: soapboxes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: soapboxing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: soapboxed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: soapboxed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: soap box
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: soap-box
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A crate for packing soap.
pos: noun
tags: literally
gloss: A small platform, being or resembling a literal soapbox, on which a person stands in order to give an impromptu speech or espouse their views.
pos: noun
examples: The madman obtained a soapbox which he stood on at the corner of Broadway and Wall street, to shout out his prophecy of the end of the world.
The one image which the word “Socialist” brought to Jurgis was of poor little Tamoszius Kuszleika, who had called himself one, and would go out with a couple of other men and a soap-box, and shout himself hoarse on a street corner Saturday nights.
gloss: A platform or outlet, such as a media platform, that a person uses to express their opinions.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
often
pejorative
examples: The politician used Twitter as his soapbox.
Please stop using council meetings as your own personal soapbox.
Bernhard's last appearance on a late-night talk show was a handy soapbox to expound on his political message of patriotism, nationalism, and populism.
gloss: A figurative means of talking repeatedly or at length about one's opinions on one's pet topic.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
especially
examples: He's been on his soapbox all day about the new football coach.
gloss: A figurative means of talking repeatedly or at length about one's opinions on one's pet topic.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
derogatory
especially
examples: His soapbox is the lack of public toilets in the city.
gloss: A soapbox car.
pos: noun
gloss: To give a speech from (or as if from) a soapbox.
pos: verb
examples: He soapboxed for whales and pressed us to write petitions and demonstrate with him—he as the leader, we as followers.
[…] and various members soapboxed in Hyde Park on Sunday.
Derived words: soapboxer
soapboxy
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 個人觀點 /个人观点
roman: gèrén guāndiǎn
lang: Finnish
word: mieliaihe
lang: Finnish
word: lempiaihe
lang: Polish
word: ulubiony temat
lang: Russian
word: конёк
roman: konjók
formed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
developed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
Inflected forms:
form: more developed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most developed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: wealthy and industrialized; not third-world.
pos: adj
examples: Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.
gloss: Mature.
pos: adj
gloss: Containing man-made structures such as roads, sewers, electric lines, buildings, and so on.
pos: adj
gloss: Having useful or necessary infrastructure.
pos: adj
examples: Access to finance is deeper and wider under better institutions (more transparency, better property rights) in more developed financial markets, and in an environment less distorted by taxes, unnecessary regulations, and other avoidable costs.
gloss: Advanced, fully formed.
pos: adj
examples: We shall, however, obtain a clearer view of the question if we consider the superstitions of those races which have a rudimentary religion, and endeavour to trace these ideas up into a more developed condition.
gloss: Processed and fixed; containing a visible negative (or positive for slide film) image
pos: adj
Synonyms: advanced
first-world
industrialised
adult
Antonyms: undeveloped
Derived words: developed country
developedness
ESA-developed
hyperdeveloped
maldeveloped
NASA-developed
overdeveloped
semideveloped
underdeveloped
well-developed
Translations:
received
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: receiv'd
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Generally accepted as correct or true.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: And therefore as though there were any feriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is natural, and under no intermissive, but constant way of mutation, this season is commonly termed the physician's vacation, and stands so received by most men.
The old saying goes that we should not judge a man until we have walked a mile in his shoes. As with so much received wisdom – from judging books by their covers to the relative exchange rate for birds in hands and bushes – this is of course rubbish.
Translations:
metropolitan
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: Christianity
Etymology: From Late Latin metropolitanus, from Ancient Greek μητροπολίτης (mētropolítēs).
Inflected forms:
form: metropolitans
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more metropolitan
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most metropolitan
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A bishop empowered to oversee other bishops; an archbishop.
pos: noun
examples: I knovv God by Miracle can inſtruct Kings, as he rained Mannah, and raiſed the Apoſtles from letterless Fiſher-men, to learned Metropolitans, and profound Doctours.
She was in love with all the new royal princes and princesses, who entered into family relationship with the imperial family; she had been in love with a metropolitan, with a vicar, and with a priest.
Yet from the late thirteenth century the metropolitan based himself either in Moscow or Vladimir-on-the-Kliazma, which was also in Muscovite territory, and it became the ambition of the Muscovites to make this arrangement permanent.
gloss: The inhabitant of a metropolis.
pos: noun
gloss: Pertaining to the see or province of a metropolitan.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, a metropolis or other large urban settlement.
pos: adj
examples: But the one [letter] in the unknown script and with a metropolitan post mark—could it be from some London Woman? In spite of having lived in the country all her life and for the most part in remote Devon, Miss Tilehurst had always understood that such beings really existed.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the parent state of a colony or territory, or the home country, e.g. metropolitan France
pos: adj
examples: Policies relating to the elimination of racial discrimination which obtain in metropolitan New Zealand are applicable in the Tokelau Islands.
the new political status of these islands marks a definite break with the traditional Dutch colonial practice to keep its Caribbean colonies at a distance; and, after 2010, Dutch metropolitan laws and dministrative practices started being implemented on the islands.
Antonyms: non-metropolitan
Derived words: Delaware Valley Metropolitan Area
extrametropolitan
Kamrup Metropolitan
metroplex
metropolitan area
metropolitan area network
metropolitanate
metropolitan borough
metropolitan city
metropolitan core
metropolitan county
metropolitan elite
metropolitanise
metropolitanism
metropolitanize
metropolitanly
metropolitanship
metrosexual
micropolitan
nonmetropolitan
perimetropolitan
ruralpolitan
Santiago Metropolitan Region
submetropolitan
unmetropolitan
Translations:
voluntary
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: From Middle English voluntarie, from Old French volontaire, from Latin voluntārius (“willing, of free will”), from voluntās (“will, choice, desire”), from volēns, present participle of volo (“to will”). Displaced native Old English selfwille (literally “self-willed”).
Inflected forms:
form: more voluntary
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most voluntary
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: voluntaries
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Done, given, or acting of one's own free will.
pos: adj
examples: September 10, 1828, Nathaniel William Taylor, Sermon delivered in the Chapel of Yale College
That sin or guilt pertains exclusively to voluntary action is the true principle of orthodoxy.
She fell, to lust a voluntary prey.
gloss: Done by design or intention; intentional.
pos: adj
examples: If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.
gloss: Working or done without payment.
pos: adj
examples: Wikimedia is a voluntary service.
gloss: Endowed with the power of willing.
pos: adj
examples: […] God did not work as a necessary, but a voluntary agent, intending before-hand, and decreeing with himself, that which did outwardly proceed from him.
gloss: Of or relating to voluntarism.
pos: adj
examples: a voluntary church, in distinction from an established or state church
gloss: A short piece of music, often having improvisation, played on a solo instrument.
pos: noun
gloss: A volunteer.
pos: noun
gloss: A supporter of voluntarism; a voluntarist.
pos: noun
Synonyms: discretionary
optional
volitional
willful
intentional
Antonyms: antonym(s) of
compulsory
obligatory
accidental
paid
salaried
Related words: voluntarism
voluntarist
Derived words: individual voluntary arrangement
voluntarily
voluntary agent
voluntary aided school
voluntary controlled school
voluntary jurisdiction
voluntary manslaughter
voluntary movement
voluntary muscle
voluntary waste
voluntary work
volun-told
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: tahdollinen
lang: Polish
word: świadomy
lang: Albanian
word: vullnetar
lang: Finnish
word: vapaaehtois-
lang: Finnish
word: vapaa-
lang: Italian
word: volenteroso
lang: Polish
word: woluntarystyczny
lang: Portuguese
word: voluntário