yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
prolong
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Either a back-formation from prolongation, or from Old French prolonguer or porloignier, from Latin prōlongō, from prō + longō. Doublet of purloin.
Inflected forms:
form: prolongs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: prolonging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: prolonged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: prolonged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To extend in space or length.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Complaining prolongs one’s pain.
The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
gloss: To put off to a distant time; to postpone.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The government shouldn't prolong deciding on this issue any further.
gloss: To become longer; lengthen.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
Derived words: prolongable
prolongate
prolongation
prolonger
prolongingly
prolongment
Translations:
goblet
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English goblet (= Middle Low German gobelet, kobelet (“goblet”)), from Old French gobellet, diminutive of gobel, from or related to the verb gober (“to ingest”).
Inflected forms:
form: goblets
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A drinking vessel with a foot and stem.
pos: noun
examples: sup wine from a goblet
No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward. No man will ever again drink from this golden goblet!
At first Enkidu gags on the food, but then he grows to like the strong drink and takes seven goblets, until his face glows.
Translations:
splendor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman splendur, splendour, or directly from its source Latin splendor, from the verb splendeō (“to shine”).
Inflected forms:
form: splendors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: splendour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: splendeur
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Great light, luster or brilliance.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: What tho’ the moon—the white moon
Shed all the splendour of her noon,
Her smile is chilly—and her beam,
In that time of dreariness, will seem
(So like you gather in your breath)
A portrait taken after death.
Once upon a time on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental-splendour.
gloss: Magnificent appearance, display or grandeur.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
examples: The splendor of the Queen's coronation was without comparison.
The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, so that the actual structure which had come down to posterity retained the secret magic of a promise rather than the overpowering splendour of a great architectural achievement.
gloss: Great fame or glory.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
usually
Derived words: in splendor
outsplendor
splendorous
splendrous
Translations:
wonderbra
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From the brand name Wonderbra, from wonder + bra.
Compound parts: wonder
bra
Inflected forms:
form: wonderbras
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any padded enhancement brassiere.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Translations:
whoreson
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English horesone, hureson (also horessone, hores sone). Compare Dutch hoerenzoon, German Hurensohn (“whoreson”) and French fils de pute. By surface analysis, whore + son.
Inflected forms:
form: whoresons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: An illegitimate or misbegotten child born of unwed parents.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
derogatory
examples: Ah, you whoreſon loggerhead, you were borne to do me ſhame.
Though this knave came something saucily to the world before he was sent for, yet was his mother fair, there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.
gloss: The son of a whore.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
literally
vulgar
examples: Ploughing whoreson!
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter!
Synonyms: bastard
Translations:
suave
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English suave, borrowed from Latin suāvis (“sweet, pleasant”); doublet of sweet. First attested in the early 15th century.
Inflected forms:
form: suaver
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: suavest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: suaves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a person, charming, though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated.
pos: adj
examples: a man with a suave demeanor
gloss: Displaying smoothness and sophistication.
pos: adj
examples: suave excellence
gloss: Gracious, kind.
pos: adj
gloss: sweet-talk
pos: noun
Derived words: outsuave
suavely
suaveness
suavify
unsuave
Translations:
subdue
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English subdewen, subduen, sodewen, from Old French souduire, from Latin subdūcō (“to draw away”), perhaps influenced by subdō (“to subdue, subject”).
Inflected forms:
form: subdues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: subduing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: subdued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: subdued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To overcome, quieten, or bring under control.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d:
And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes,
Share equally the gold that bought their liues,
And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]
Gary Cahill, a target for Arsenal and Tottenham before the transfer window closed, put England ahead early on and Rooney was on target twice before the interval as the early hostility of the Bulgarian supporters was swiftly subdued.
“It's like the opposite of punk, isn't it?” he said jokingly in 2016 while discussing his influence on other musicians. “I've subdued a generation.” But [James] Blake is not so quiescent after all.
gloss: To bring (a country) under control by force.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: In the run-up to his return to the White House next Monday, Mr. Trump has rattled the world, and America’s neighborhood in particular, with a list of objectives – buying Greenland, seizing the Panama Canal, making Canada the 51st state – that treat friendly nations as weak interlocutors and impediments to be subdued.
Derived words: resubdue
subduable
subdual
subduement
subduer
subduingly
Translations:
vulva
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin vulva, earlier volva (“womb, female sexual organ”), probably from volvō (“to turn, wrap around”). Akin to Sanskrit उल्ब॑ (úlba) and उल्व॑ (úlva, “womb”) or English valve, valva and other descendants of the Latin term (evolve, involve, revolve).
Inflected forms:
form: vulvas
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vulvae
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: vulvæ
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The external female genitalia of humans and other placental mammals, which includes the clitoris, labia, and vulval vestibule/vulvar opening.
pos: noun
examples: The vulvae of the sow were popular as a gourmet's dish. Credited with erotic effects.
The wedge-shaped character was the triangle, the archaic Paleolithic sign of the vulva; the pubic triangle was at the end of the phallic stylus.
Many of the less-sophisticated works are sexual in nature. Among the most common images are stylised vulvas, whole flocks of which appear on some cave walls.
gloss: A protrusion on the side of a nematode.
pos: noun
Synonyms: axe wound
badly packed kebab
bearded clam
beaver
beef curtains
burger
chocha
clam
cooch
coochie
coochy
cookie
coot
cooter
crack
cunny
cunt
fanny
foo-foo
front bottom
fur burger
fur pie
gash
gee
girl penis
hair pie
ham sandwich
honey hole
it
kebab
kitty
ladybits
minge
minnie
moocha
mooshoo
mott
muff
muffin
na-na
nonny
nooky
noonie
old hat
pee flap
pee-pee
pink
poontang
prat
pudendum muliebre
punani
pussy
quaint
quiff
quim
rat
roast beef
scut
slit
slot
snatch
treasures
tuppence
twat
twinkle
vadge
vagina
vajay
va-jay-jay
vulva
wee-wee
yoni
Related words: camel toe
moose knuckle
Derived words: blue vulva
multivulva
vulva dentata
vulval
vulvaless
vulvar
vulvate
vulvectomy
vulvic
vulviform
Translations:
verdant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle French verdoyant, from Old French verb verdier, verdoier, from vert (“green”), from Vulgar Latin *virdis, from Latin viridis.
Inflected forms:
form: more verdant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most verdant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Green in colour.
pos: adj
gloss: Abundant in verdure; lush with vegetation.
pos: adj
examples: It was a verdant and delightful valley, watered by a rivulet ...
A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.
gloss: Fresh.
pos: adj
gloss: Inexperienced.
pos: adj
examples: a verdant youth from the interior of Connecticut
Synonyms: bosky
greenly
lavish
lush
verdant
verdured
verdurous
virid
viridescent
Antonyms: barren
leaveless
unverdant
Related words: verdancy
verdantly
verded
verdure
verdurous
vert
virid
greenish
Translations:
verdure
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English verdure, from Middle French verdure, from Old French verdure, from Late Latin *viridūra, from viridis (“green”) + -ūra (abstract noun-forming suffix).
Base: viridis
Affixes: -ūra
Inflected forms:
form: verdures
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: verdures
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: verduring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: verdured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: verdured
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The greenness of lush or growing vegetation (greenery); also: the vegetation itself.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] now he was / The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, / And suck'd my verdure out on't.
The five weeks which she had now passed in Kent had made a great difference in the country, and every day was adding to the verdure of the early trees.
To her belonged Amber Spring, the water which gave verdure and beauty to the village and made living possible on that wild purple upland waste.
Through the brazen hours that followed high noon, we crept onwards through a tunnel of glittering verdure.
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.
gloss: A condition of health and vigour.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: To cover with verdure.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Related words: verdant
verdurous
Translations:
unsaid
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English said
English unsaid
From un- + said.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Unspoken.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We discussed the terms, but the methods were left unsaid.
Informal techniques, if properly written, can be quite readable and comprehensible; unfortunately, it is easy to leave unsaid details that must be specified, or to misgeneralise and produce inconsistencies.
Translations:
engraving
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
entertainment
lifestyle
media
music
printing
publishing
Etymology: By surface analysis, engrave + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: engravings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A print produced from an engraving.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.
He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.
gloss: The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: engrave
whittle
carve
Derived words: electroengraving
wood engraving
Translations:
tremor
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English tremour (“fright”), from Anglo-Norman tremour and Old French tremor, from Latin tremor.
Inflected forms:
form: tremors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tremour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: tremors
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tremoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tremored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tremored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tremour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: A shake, quiver, or vibration.
pos: noun
examples: She felt a tremor in her stomach before going on stage.
gloss: A shake, quiver, or vibration.
pos: noun
examples: The optometrist has been losing patients ever since he developed tremors in his hand.
gloss: An earthquake.
pos: noun
examples: Did you feel the tremor this morning?
gloss: To shake or quiver excessively and rapidly or involuntarily; to tremble.
pos: verb
examples: The ground tremored under their big boots.
Derived words: antitremor
earth tremor
essential tremor
harmonic tremor
microtremor
night tremor
tremology
tremordominant
tremorful
tremorgenic
tremorgram
tremorgraph
tremorgraphy
tremorine
tremorless
tremorlike
tremorogenic
tremorous
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: потръпване
roman: potrǎpvane
lang: Chamicuro
word: ka'nakosilo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 哆嗦
roman: duōsuo
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 顫抖 /颤抖
roman: chàndǒu or zhàndǒu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 發抖 /发抖
roman: fādǒu
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 顫慄 /颤栗
roman: zhànlì
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 震顫 /震颤
roman: zhènchàn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 震動 /震动
roman: zhèndòng
lang: Czech
word: třes
lang: Czech
word: otřes
lang: Emilian
word: tarmarî
lang: Emilian
word: termarìa
lang: Emilian
word: tarmarìa
lang: Emilian
word: tarmarôla
lang: Finnish
word: väreily
lang: Finnish
word: vavahtelu
lang: Finnish
word: tärinä
lang: French
word: tremblement
lang: French
word: trépidation
lang: Friulian
word: trimôr
lang: Galician
word: tremor
lang: German
word: Zittern
lang: Greek
word: τρεμούλα
roman: tremoúla
lang: Greek
word: ρίγος
roman: rígos
lang: Haitian Creole
word: tranbleman
lang: Hungarian
word: reszketés
lang: Hungarian
word: remegés
lang: Irish
word: creathán
lang: Italian
word: tremore
lang: Japanese
word: 震え
roman: furue
lang: Japanese
word: 揺れ
roman: yure
lang: Korean
word: 떨림
roman: tteollim
lang: Latin
word: tremor
lang: Māori
word: ngāueue
lang: Māori
word: wheoi
lang: Persian
word: لرزش
roman: larzeš
lang: Polish
word: drżenie
lang: Portuguese
word: tremor
lang: Russian
word: дрожь
roman: drožʹ
lang: Russian
word: дрожа́ние
roman: drožánije
lang: Sicilian
word: trimuri
lang: Spanish
word: temblor
lang: Swedish
word: skakning
lang: Walloon
word: tronnaedje
lang: Walloon
word: tronna
tremble
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tremblen, from Old French trembler, from Late Latin tremulāre, ultimately from Latin tremere (“quiver, shake”). Cognate with Ancient Greek τρέμω (trémō).
Inflected forms:
form: trembles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trembling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trembled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trembled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: trembles
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To shake, quiver, or vibrate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Her lip started to tremble as she burst into tears
The dog was trembling from being in the cold weather all day.
Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.
gloss: To fear; to be afraid.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Thou beleeuest that there is one God, thou doest well: the deuils also beleeue, and tremble.
gloss: A shake, quiver, or vibration.
pos: noun
Derived words: atremble
knee-tremble
tremble and obey
tremblesome
trembly
Translations:
seedy
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English sedy, equivalent to seed + -y.
The senses with negative connotation, first attested by 1725 in slang, originally especially “poor, out of money”, probably arose from the metaphor of a flower that has gone to seed, and is no longer considered beautiful. From there the word came to be used to describe unwell or past-their-prime people, and parallelly run-down places and by extension low-income or crime-affected urban areas. Compare the figurative expressions go to seed (by 1817), etc., originally in reference to plants, “cease flowering as seeds develop”.
Base: seed
Affixes: -y
Inflected forms:
form: seedier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: seediest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Literal senses:
pos: adj
examples: Pomegranates are as seedy as any fruit you are likely to see.
gloss: Literal senses:
pos: adj
gloss: Literal senses:
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
gloss: Inferior in condition or quality.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Sleazy city / Seedy films / Breathing so heavy / Next to my neighbour / Let’s get acquainted
The healing power of alcohol / Only works on scrapes and nicks / And not on girls in seedy bars / Who drown themselves in it
gloss: Inferior in condition or quality.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: His seedy, dirt-smudged visage caused her to look at him askance.
Besides the broad-brimmed hat, he was distinguished by a spotted tie, a pair of seedy check trousers rather baggy in the seat, and a cut-away coat, much too tight for him.
gloss: Inferior in condition or quality.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: With her aching back and pronounced limp, she was feeling particularly seedy today.
gloss: Inferior in condition or quality.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: After last night’s party we were all feeling pretty seedy.
Derived words: seedily
seediness
seedy toe
unseedy
Translations:
uncommon
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
English common
English uncommon
From un- + common.
Inflected forms:
form: more uncommon
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: uncommoner
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most uncommon
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: uncommonest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Rare; not readily found; unusual.
pos: adj
examples: Bald eagles are an uncommon sighting in this state.
This is not an uncommon practice.
There’s no delicate way to put this, so we’re just going to come right out and say it – we feel that ramp meters are underappreciated. […] Yet, it’s not uncommon to see drivers totally ignore a ramp meter and drive right through its red light.
gloss: Remarkable; exceptional.
pos: adj
examples: The diamond was of uncommon size
Synonyms: infrequent
raresome
scarce
Translations:
sledge
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English slegge, from Old English sleċġ (“sledgehammer; mallet”), from Proto-Germanic *slagjǭ. Cognate with Dutch slegge (“sledge”), Swedish slägga (“sledge”), Norwegian Bokmål slegge (“sledge”), Norwegian Nynorsk sleggje (“sledge”), Icelandic sleggja (“sledge”), German Schlägel.
Inflected forms:
form: sledges
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sledges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sledging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sledged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sledged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A heavy, long handled maul or hammer used to drive stakes, wedges, etc.
pos: noun
examples: [based on information from Major Hill, Master of the Silver Mills, in 1662, describing silver mining in Cardiganshire] They dig the Oar thus; One holds a little Picque, or Punch of Iron, having a long Handle of Wood which they call a Gad; Another with a great Iron Hammer, or Sledge, drives it into the Vein.
Sledge hammers are only used for heavy-duty persuading when working on vehicles or machinery.
gloss: To hit with a sledgehammer.
pos: verb
examples: The rapid and violent exertion of smiths, mightily sledging the glowing iron masses of their furnaces.
When I inquired the reason of this wire being used in the construction of the safe, I was told it was to prevent the doors being broken by either sledging or wedging.
Translations:
extracurricular
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: education
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
Proto-Indo-European *-teros
Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰsteros
Proto-Italic *eksteros
Latin exter
Latin extrā
English extra-
English curricular
English extracurricular
From extra- + curricular.
Inflected forms:
form: extra-curricular
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: extracurriculars
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: extra-curricular
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Outside of the normal curriculum of an educational establishment.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The students enjoy a number of extracurricular activities at weekends.
gloss: Similarly outside of the normal duties of a job or profession.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Extramarital.
pos: adj
tags: informal
not-comparable
gloss: An activity outside the normal academic curriculum.
pos: noun
gloss: An activity beyond official duties of a job or profession.
pos: noun
tags: informal
gloss: An extramarital affair.
pos: noun
tags: informal
Derived words: extracurricularly
sextracurricular
Translations:
educational
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin ēducātiōder.
English education
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisbor.
Old French -albor.
▲
Latin -ālis
Old French -elbor.
▲
Latin -ālisbor.
Middle English -al
English -al
English educational
From education + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: more educational
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most educational
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: educationals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or relating to education.
pos: adj
examples: A school is an educational establishment.
gloss: Instructive, or helping to educate.
pos: adj
examples: They were shown an educational film about VD.
I can't see the educational value of going on a field trip to the clothes factory.
Imagine a testless educational system up through the fifth grade. What effect would that have on children's later performance, or on our ability to prescribe individualized educational programs for them?
gloss: A free (or low cost) trip for travel consultants, provided by a travel operator or airline as a means of promoting their service. A fam trip
pos: noun
gloss: An educational seminar, workshop, etc.
pos: noun
examples: Groups such as the Union of Young Communists, the Cuban Women's Federation, the Artists and Writers Union (UNEAC) and others have held internal and public educationals on the issue of homosexuality, using a recently produced video GAY CUBA.
Translations:
taekwondo
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Korean 태권도(跆拳道) (taegwondo)bor.
English taekwondo
Borrowed from Korean 태권도(跆拳道) (taegwondo).
Inflected forms:
form: tae kwon do
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: taekwon-do
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A martial art from Korea, known for its elaborate kicking techniques. The sparring aspect is a recognised Olympic sport.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Khudadadi, originally from Afghanistan but now living and training in France, won bronze in the taekwondo women’s K44 -47kg category in Paris.
Translations:
provocation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English provocacioun, from Old French provocacion, from Late Latin prōvocātiō, prōvocātiōnem, from Latin prōvocō. By surface analysis, provoke + -ation. Doublet of provokatsiya.
Inflected forms:
form: provocations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Something that provokes; a provocative act.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Salzburg Festival stunned the musical world by hiring him to succeed the hallowed Herbert von Karajan, and Mr. Mortier spent the 1990s there scandalizing many of its tradition-minded, well-heeled opera patrons, the most notorious provocation being a production of Johann Strauss’s “Fledermaus” laced with cocaine and fornication and aimed at Austria’s far-right political forces.
gloss: The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: When it's time to check for provocation, ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.
Related words: provocateur
provocator
provoke
Derived words: bronchoprovocation
nonprovocation
overprovocation
preprovocation
provocationism
provocationist
Translations:
tailspin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: From tail + spin.
Compound parts: tail
spin
Inflected forms:
form: tailspins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tailspins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tailspinning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tailspun
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tailspun
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tailspinned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tailspinned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The rapid, uncontrollable descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral.
pos: noun
examples: The loss of the third engine threw the plane into a tailspin.
gloss: A severe mental or emotional collapse; emotional breakdown.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: Just hours after leaving the institution, she suffered another tailspin.
gloss: Any sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
examples: The present stock tailspin proves bankruptcy is imminent.
But I was reading a statement that either you made or was part of your movie, “An Inconvenient Truth”, and it said we have just 10 years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tailspin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
St. Louis, the fourth-largest U.S. city in 1900, is fading fast […] . Jobs, and airline, an educated population—all gone or in a tailspin.
gloss: Of an aircraft: to go into a rapid, uncontrollable descent in a steep spiral.
pos: verb
gloss: To go into a sharp, sustained, often uncontrollable descent or decline.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
Related words: downward spiral
nosedive
Translations:
vertiginous
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: medicine
sciences
Etymology: From Middle French vertigineux, from Latin vertīginōsus.
Inflected forms:
form: more vertiginous
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most vertiginous
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having an aspect of great depth, drawing the eye to look downwards.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).
pos: adj
examples: GPT-4 didn’t give me an existential crisis. But it exacerbated the dizzy and vertiginous feeling I’ve been getting whenever I think about A.I. lately.
What began as a drop in support for Israel among younger Democrats has become a vertiginous, across-the-board collapse.
gloss: Pertaining to vertigo (in all its meanings).
pos: adj
gloss: Revolving; rotating; rotatory.
pos: adj
Derived words: vertiginously
vertiginousness
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: шеметен
roman: šemeten
lang: Māori
word: āmai
lang: Māori
word: aniroro
lang: Polish
word: związany z zawrotami głowy
waning
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English waninge, alteration of earlier waniand, waniende, from Old English waniende, from Proto-Germanic *wanōndz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *wanōną (“to wane”), equivalent to wane + -ing.
Base: wane
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: wanings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Becoming weaker or smaller.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: my patience is waning
gloss: Of the lunar phase: as it shrinks when viewed from the Earth.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: the waning moon
gloss: The fact or act of becoming less or less intense or present; fading.
pos: noun
examples: the waning of her energy
And boyhood is a summer sun
Whose waning is the dreariest one —
For all we live to know is known
And all we seek to keep hath flown — […]
Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat.
gloss: The fact or act of becoming smaller.
pos: noun
examples: 17th century, Joseph Hall, Epistle to Mr. R. B.
This earthly moon, the Church, hath her fulls and wanings, and sometimes her eclipses.
Derived words: waning gibbous
waning moon
Translations:
well-fed
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-fed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-fed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well fed
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Properly or adequately fed or nourished.
pos: adj
Translations:
well-read
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-read
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-read
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-read
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-read
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well read
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Well informed and knowledgeable through having read extensively.
pos: adj
examples: You've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books
 You are very well-read
 It's well known
Translations:
well-wisher
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From well (“in a desirable manner; so as one could wish”, adverb) + wisher.
Compound parts: well
wisher
Inflected forms:
form: well-wishers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Someone who extends good wishes, or expresses sympathy, to someone else.
pos: noun
examples: [T]hose honest gentlemen that are always exposed to the wit and raillery of their well-wishers and companions; that are pelted by men, women, and children, friends and foes, and in a word, stand as butts in conversation, for every one to shoot at that pleases.
[T]he actual traytor or rebel is guilty of perjury in the eye of the lavv; the ſecret promoter, or vvell-vviſher of the cauſe, is ſo before the Tribunal of conſcience.
Nor did he ſeem to have made an unreaſonable reply to them both, and it vvas eaſy for a ſpeech to be received favorably amongſt vvellvviſhers.
[G]ive me the hopes of my dear girl's approaching felicity, equal to the deſires of / Her ſincereſt VVellvviſher, / LAVINIA RAWLINS.
She had still, however, her friends and well-wishers, many of whom thought, that as she was a lone woman, and known to be well to pass in the world, she would act wisely to retire from public life, and take down a sign which had no longer fascination for guests.
"You see before you," she said, with choking utterance, "one who, fallen and degraded as she is, would still venture to hope that she has a friend, at least a wellwisher, in Mr Thornton. If I am mistaken in this, alas! I am friendless."
"[…] [I]t would be a nice opportunity for any of his well-wishers to pay him a visit, if they knew how straight the path was made before them." / "I am none of his well-wishers, sir: I don't care for him."
Already a J72 0-6-0T has been promised by a well-wisher and will be re-painted in North Eastern Railway livery.
I'm a well-wisher, in that I don't wish you any specific harm.
At each stopping place I stepped out of the train to chat to well-wishers.
gloss: Followed by to: someone who has an ambition to be or become something.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
rare
examples: I never saw your chancellor, nor his chaplain. The latter has a good deal of learning, and is a well wisher to be an author: your chancellor is an excellent man.
Related words: well-wished
well-wishing
acquaintance
benevolent
Godspeed
Derived words: well-wish
Translations:
rafter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
architecture
business
lifestyle
Etymology: From Old English ræfter, of Germanic origin, related to the origin of raft.
Inflected forms:
form: rafters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rafters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: raftering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: raftered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: raftered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One of a series of sloped beams that extend from the ridge or hip to the downslope perimeter or eave, designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
pos: noun
examples: […] the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters
gloss: A flock of turkeys.
pos: noun
tags: collective
gloss: To make (timber, etc.) into rafters.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To furnish (a building) with rafters.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To plough so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unploughed ridge; to ridge.
pos: verb
tags: UK
Derived words: jack rafter
packed to the rafters
rafterless
rafter snapper
valley rafter
Translations:
well-worn
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more well-worn
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-worn
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Showing signs of wear because of extensive use.
pos: adj
examples: Well she's black as coal, but she burn like a fire,
And she wrap herself around you like a well-worn tire.
gloss: Trite or hackneyed; repeated too often.
pos: adj
tags: broadly
examples: The decay of social norms and status quo systems triggering an authoritarian tightening of the screws is a well-worn pattern throughout human history.
Related words: mechanical erosion
Translations:
well-being
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: well-beings
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: wellbeing
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: well being
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A state of health, happiness or prosperity.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: which concernes our whole three Kingdomes, Parliaments, Religion, and every one of our well-beings, in this preſent world
Other pursuits and avocations of life, far less intimately connected with the comfort and well-beings of humanity, seem by their own spontaniety to be more and more flowing into utilitarian channels.
Most foreigners who have heard of Bhutan know two things: the country charges international visitors a $100/day sustainable development fee (aka tourist tax), and that it is the birthplace of the Gross National Happiness Index, a system intended to look after the well-being of citizens and the environment.
Translations:
well-bred
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: better-bred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-bred
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-bred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-bred
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wellbred
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of good breed.
pos: adj
gloss: Well-mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education (and, originally and literally but usually not in current usage, because well-born in a eugenic sense).
pos: adj
examples: Halpin [Frayser]’s death and the post-mortem demoniacalness of the well-bred Southern woman, lops off the grafted branches of the human and cuts it down to that stump of itself which is primordial, persistent, unconscious animalism.
Ideally you should relax—though well-bred English people do no feel entirely at ease in a room full of naked strangers beating one another.
Translations:
well-founded
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: mathematics
sciences
Inflected forms:
form: more well-founded
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most well-founded
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Based on reasoning, evidence and good judgement.
pos: adj
gloss: Properly substantiated.
pos: adj
examples: After the crisis had passed, certain well-founded proposals were revived, and resulted in important additions to the railway network of the country.
gloss: Of a binary relation: such that every non-empty subset of the relation's domain has a minimal element with respect to the relation.
pos: adj
examples: well-founded relation
Related words: foundation
founding
ground
grounding
Translations:
well-known
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English well knowen. By surface analysis, well + known.
Inflected forms:
form: better-known
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-known
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-known
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-known
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well known
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: wellknown
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Familiar, famous, renowned, noted or widely known.
pos: adj
examples: Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.
There are a number of diseases that are considered to be universally fatal. AIDS and rabies encephalitis are well-known examples.
Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.
At 6 weeks and 9 months, the babies’ motor skills were tested using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, a well-known assessment tool that looks at gross, fine and total motor abilities.
Less well-known is NR's High Marnham test track, which occupies part of the former Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (LDECR) Chesterfield-Lincoln line in Nottinghamshire.
gloss: Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known
If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.
A common approach is for the server to accept messages at a well-known port.
Related words: celebrity
Translations:
well-mannered
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Compare Middle English wel ymanerede, wel y-manerit.
Inflected forms:
form: better-mannered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: more well-mannered
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: best-mannered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: most well-mannered
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: well mannered
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Having good manners; polite, courteous, and socially correct; conforming to standards of good behaviour.
pos: adj
examples: A well-mannered gentleman always allows others first.
Translations:
Welshman
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English Walishman, equivalent to Welsh + -man.
Base: Welsh
Affixes: -man
Inflected forms:
form: Welshmen
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A man who is a native or inhabitant of Wales.
pos: noun
Translations:
westerly
Part of speech: adj
adv
noun
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more westerly
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most westerly
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more westerly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most westerly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: westerlies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Facing the west; directed towards the west.
pos: adj
examples: a westerly course or voyage
Tall, blue-eyed, this proud and stubborn Genoese seaman first visited Portugal, proposing his scheme for a westerly voyage in search of the Indies.
gloss: Located towards or in the west.
pos: adj
examples: the westerly side of a lake
The head of the North Tyne is reached at Deadwater, 36 miles from Hexham. The river has its source just on the English side of the Border, at the foot of Peel Fell, the most westerly spur of the Cheviots. At first it is a sluggish stream (hence the name Deadwater) but begins to flow more swiftly before it reaches Kielder.
gloss: Coming from the west.
pos: adj
examples: a westerly wind
Don’t be so darn foolish. It’s the calm afore the storm, Winslow. She were a gentle westerly wind yer cursin’. Only feels roughly ‘cause you don’t know nothin’ bout nothin’ and there ain’t no trees on this here rock like your Hudson Bay bush. Nor’Easterly wind’ll come soon a-blowin’ like Gabriel’s horn. Best board up them signal house winders.
gloss: Towards the west.
pos: adv
gloss: A westerly wind or storm, one blowing or coming from the west.
pos: noun
examples: A road that runs due west from Dale passes the village church and Dale Castle, and a footpath continues to Westdale Bay, a sandy beach used by surfers when the westerlies send great rollers crashing in from the Atlantic.
Related words: wester
go west
out west
Translations:
participation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English participacioun, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French participacion, from Late Latin participatiō. By surface analysis, participate + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: participations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of participating, of taking part in something.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being related to a larger whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The process during which individuals, groups and organizations are consulted about or have the opportunity to become actively involved in a project or program of activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: a decision made based on the participation of the shareholders
gloss: An ownership interest or profit-sharing right.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: participate
participant
Derived words: antiparticipation
coparticipation
multiparticipation
neighbouring group participation
non-participation
nonparticipation
overparticipation
participational
participationism
participationist
participation points
participation trophy
participation-washing
preparticipation
proparticipation
underparticipation
Translations:
entirely
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English entyerly, entierly, enterely, entyreliche, equivalent to entire + -ly.
Base: entire
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: entierly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
form: intirely
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
nonstandard
Senses:
gloss: To the full or entire extent.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: It is entirely up to you where we go, as I’ll be happy with anywhere.
The cake hadn’t entirely been eaten, so some was saved for later.
manuscript pages entirely without ornament.
[O]bſerving [...] abundance of Matter floating in the Urine like Bran, with a great Number of Recrements like Cuttings of Hair, ſome above an Inch long, which Subſtances were found in all the Water that I made in above Twelve Months; for which I could get no Remedy: I was adviſed to drink Water, which in about half a Year did intirely free me from thoſe Symptoms, [...]
Frommer spoke to me—mostly in English—about the challenges of creating an entirely alien language.
Unlike Ali G Indahouse, Baron Cohen’s failed attempt to bring his most famous character into an entirely fictional universe, Borat found the comic tension in placing his Kazakhstani buffoon in delicate social situations, like a rodeo where he supports the “War Of Terror” a bit too zealously.
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
gloss: To the exclusion of others; solely.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: I'm entirely to blame.
This part of the park is used entirely by the workers; everyone else will have to go to the other side.
Synonyms: wholly
Related words: entirety
Translations:
wetness
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English wetnes, wetnesse, from Old English wǣtnes (“moisture, wetness”). By surface analysis, wet + -ness.
Inflected forms:
form: wetnesses
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The condition of being wet.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The young man looked long and fixedly on the place, the sight of which interested him so much that he had forgotten, in the eagerness of youthful curiosity, the wetness of his dress.
The first business was to make a fire, an operation which was a little delayed by the wetness of the fuel and the ground, owing to the heavy showers of the afternoon.
The industrial brewers continue to prosper, but now they are facing a new challenge from local brewers across the country who are dedicated to turning out brews that have only one thing in common with industrial beer—wetness.
gloss: Moisture.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: “Oh! if I had my gravity,” thought she, contemplating the water, “I would flash off this balcony like a long white sea-bird, headlong into the darling wetness. Heigh-ho!”
And so nature was not interfered with in the middle of the rainy season. Sometimes it poured down in such thick sheets of water that earth and sky seemed merged in one grey wetness.
Willis was too embarrassed to ask for a napkin. He let the wetness stay.
gloss: Rainy or damp weather.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: 1797, Tobias Smollett et al., The History of England, from the Revolution to the End of the American War and the Peace of Versailles in 1783, Philadelphia: Robert Campbell, Volume 4, Book 5, p. 484,
They complained, that the wetness of the season, and the scarcity of fodder in the year 1762, with other natural causes, had reduced the quantity of fat cattle, by discouraging the farmers from rearing them.
Tanoo, Skedans and Cumshewa lie fairly close to each other on the map, yet each is quite unlike the others when you come to it. All have the West Coast wetness but Cumshewa seems always to drip, always to be blurred with mist, its foliage always to hang wet-heavy.
Antonyms: dryness
Derived words: wetness indicator
Translations: