yuanxin112/wiktionary-morph huggingface dataset:
abuzz
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From a- (prefix indicating a condition or manner) + buzz (“feeling or rush of energy or excitement; major topic of conversation; widespread rumor; information spread behind the scenes”) or buzz (“to show a high level of activity and haste; to communicate in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly; to talk to incessantly or confidentially in a low humming voice”).
Base: buzz
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more abuzz
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abuzz
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: a-buzz
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by a high level of activity or gossip; in a buzz (“feeling or rush of energy or excitement”), buzzing.
pos: adj
tags: postpositional
examples: The court was all astir and a-buzz, when the black sheep—whom many fell away from in dread—pressed him into an obscure corner among the crowd.
There's too many women in the house for me: I hate the sound of women's voices; they're always either a-buzz or a-squeak, always either a-buzz or a-squeak.
The long silent halls of sumptuous hotels are all abuzz with excited arrivals.
Now what a-devil has set this hornet's nest of theirs abuzz so suddenly?
The town was abuzz with excitement for an hour, when the news became stale.
It was coming up on the cusp of July and August, and he remembered boyhood summers on the mountain's slopes abuzz with blackflies and syrupy heat.
The ranch was abuzz with activity and had been for hours.
Translations:
aby
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English abyen, abien, abiggen, from Old English ābyċġan (“to buy; pay for; buy off; requite; recompense; redeem; perform; execute”), from Proto-Germanic *uzbugjaną, equivalent to a- + buy. Cognate with Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌱𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usbugjan). Not related to abide.
Base: buy
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: abought
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: abought
pos: verb
tags: past
form: abye
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: abuy
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: abie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To pay the penalty for (something); to atone for, to make amends.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: Foole-hardy Knight, full soone thou shalt aby / This fond reproach, thy body will I hang, [Hee takes down / his pole.] / And loe vpon that string thy teeth shall hang: Prepare thy selfe, for dead soone shalt thou bee
gloss: To pay (something) as a penalty, to atone for; to suffer (something).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
figuratively
transitive
examples: Who dyes the vtmoſt dolor doth abye, / But who that liues, is lefte to waile his loſſe: / So life is loſſe, and death felicity.
We doubt thee not; / Thy tale seems true, nor dost thou glorify / Thyself herein—certes thou wouldst abye / A heavy fate if thou shouldst lie herein— […]
gloss: To endure or tolerate (something); to experience.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The muckle black deil was father to the Frasers, a'body kens that; and as for the Gregara, I never could abye the reek of them since I could stotter on two feet.
gloss: To pay for (something); to buy.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To pay the penalty; to atone.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
gloss: To endure; to remain.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: So long as breath, and hable puiſſaunce / Did natiue corage vnto him ſupply, / His pace he freſhly forward did aduaunce, / And carried her beyond all ieopardy, / But nought that wanteth reſt, can long aby.
Translations:
abysmal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From abysm + -al. Compare abyssal.
Base: abysm
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more abysmal
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most abysmal
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to, or resembling an abyss.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: The latter [geology] gives one the same sort of bewildering view of the abysmal extent of Time that Astronomy does of Space. [First attested in the early 19ᵗʰ century.]
gloss: Extremely bad; terrible.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
examples: Robben curled an effort against the foot of the post from the edge of the box after being gifted the ball by an abysmal clearance from keeper Stephan Andersen.
Related words: abyssal
Derived words: abysmally
Translations:
abysmally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English abysmal
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English abysmally
From abysmal + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more abysmally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most abysmally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Very; incredibly; profoundly; to an extreme degree; dreadfully.
pos: adv
examples: Abysmally ignorant
Am I alone in feeling smug (if slatternly) about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection? Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for germs but for children's immune systems, too, and paradoxically causes more disease than it prevents. Not round my gaff. Oh no. My standards of housekeeping are so abysmally low that my eldest daughter was three years old before she even developed a temperature.
Translations:
abyssal
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: First attested in the 1690s. From Medieval Latin abyssalis, from Latin abyssus (“abyss”) + -alis (“-al”). Equivalent to abyss + -al.
Base: abyss
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
gloss: Of or belonging to the ocean depths, especially below 2000 metres (6500 ft): abyssal zone.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This "abyssal" life, typically in the form of strange tube-worms and microbes, is almost completely unknown to science.
"Ea", the beneficent god of earth and life, who dwelt in the abyssal waters, was shown with two streams running from his hands or shoulders[.]
gloss: Pertaining to or occurring at excessive depths in the earth's crust; plutonic.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: In the utter depths of despair; gloomy.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: In an attempt to avoid sliding into incorrigible despair, I abandon such abyssal and existential pondering and investigate the artist behind the work.
Related words: abysmal
byssal
Derived words: abyssalbenthic
abyssal blue
abyssal fish
abyssally
abyssalpelagic
abyssal plain
abyssal rock
abyssal zone
hypabyssal
hyperabyssal
hypoabyssal
nonabyssal
Translations:
Abyssinian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Abyssinia + -n.
Base: Abyssinia
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: Abissinian
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: Abyssinians
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Abissinian
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Ethiopia or its inhabitants; Ethiopian.
pos: adj
tags: dated
not-comparable
examples: Our men are frightened of these Abyssinian women.
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Abyssinian Church.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: This king [Fasilides] immediately restored the Abyssinian doctrines, and hunted out the Jesuit missionaries.
The Abyssinian rite has fourteen different eucharistic prayers for use on different liturgical days; […]
Among the documents, according to the chronicler [João de] Barros, was information brought to Lisbon by an Abyssinian priest, one Lucas Marcos, in 1490.
gloss: A short-haired domestic cat descended from the cats of ancient Egypt, making it one of the oldest breeds in the world.
pos: noun
gloss: A member of the Abyssinian Church.
pos: noun
gloss: A native of Ethiopia.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: A group of Abyssinians are astride horses in brightly colored saddles at the top of the hill across the valley.
Translations:
academe
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der.
New Latin acadēmī̆abor.
English academe
From New Latin academia, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía); Doublet of academia, academy, and Akademeia. Academe (frequently capitalized) is a poetic name for the garden or grove near ancient Athens where Plato taught, supposedly named for its former owner, the hero Ἀκάδημος (Akademos; Ἑκάδημος, Hekademos).
Inflected forms:
form: academes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Academe
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The garden in Athens where the academics met.
pos: noun
tags: historical
gloss: An academy; a place of learning.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: Navarre shall be the wonder of the world; / Our court shall be a little Academe,/ Still and contemplative in living art.
gloss: The scholarly life, environment, or community.
pos: noun
tags: poetic
examples: If it did nothing else, Homosexuality: Social, Psychological, and Biological Issues shows that the basic tenet of gay liberation—that is, viewing gayness as having an intrinsic validity—has finally entered and taken root in the groves of academe.
His father expected him to enter the government or a major corporation upon graduation from the university, but Noboru Wataya chose to remain in academe and become a scholar.
gloss: A senior member of the staff at an institution of higher learning; pedant.
pos: noun
Related words: Akademeia
academia
academy
Derived words: academese
Translations:
academically
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă)
Ancient Greek -εια (-eia)
Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)
▲
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)der.
Latin acadēmicus
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 academical
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
▲
Medieval Latin acadēmicusder.
▲
Latin acadēmicusbor.
French académiqueder.
English academic
▲
Middle English -al
▲
Middle English -ly
Middle English -ally
English -ally
English academically
From academical + -ly or academic + -ally.
Base: academical
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more academically
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most academically
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an academic style or way; from an academic perspective.
pos: adv
examples: academically disadvantaged demographic group
Academically, the football team is counter-productive.
Translations:
academicism
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
classical-studies
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂
Proto-Hellenic *-íā
Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)
Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *-ēs
Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs)
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-ih₂der.
Ancient Greek -ῐᾰ (-ĭă)
Ancient Greek -εια (-eia)
Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)
▲
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek ἀκαδημικός (akadēmikós)der.
Medieval Latin acadēmicusder.
▲
Latin acadēmicusbor.
French académiqueder.
English academic
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mos
Proto-Indo-European *-mós
Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)
Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.
English -ism
English academicism
From academic + -ism.
Inflected forms:
form: academicisms
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Academicism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: academism
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
pos: noun
tags: capitalized
countable
sometimes
uncountable
gloss: Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Related words: academicist
Translations:
Acadian
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: First attested in 1705. From Acadia + -n (“one that is”).
Base: Acadia
Affixes: -n
Inflected forms:
form: more Acadian
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most Acadian
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: Acadians
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to Acadia, its people, or their language or culture.
pos: adj
gloss: Of or pertaining to the Acadian epoch.
pos: adj
gloss: A native of Acadia or their descendants who moved to Louisiana; a Cajun.
pos: noun
gloss: A descendant of the settlers of the French colony of Acadia in current eastern Canada. More specifically a speaker of Acadian French.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
Translations:
acceptability
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Latin acceptābilitās. By surface analysis, accept + -ability.
Inflected forms:
form: acceptabilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being acceptable; acceptableness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Therefore vve eat Chriſts ſpiritual body, becauſe he hath given us his natural body to be broken and his natural blood to be ſhed, for the remiſſion of ſins, and for the obtaining the grace and acceptability of repentance.
The acceptability of a television picture is also governed by its size, colour and freedom from interfering signals, flicker and lininess.
gloss: Operation plan review criterion. The determination as to whether the contemplated course of action is worth the cost in manpower, materiel, and time involved; is consistent with the law of war; and is militarily and politically supportable. (JP 1-02 Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: acceptableness
Antonyms: unacceptability
inacceptability
Related words: adequacy
feasibility
Derived words: nonacceptability
Translations:
acceptable
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English acceptable, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French acceptable, from Late Latin acceptābilis (“worthy of acceptance”).
Morphologically accept + -able.
Base: accept
Affixes: -able
Inflected forms:
form: more acceptable
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most acceptable
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: acceptible
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: acceptables
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acceptible
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Worthy, decent, sure of being accepted or received with at least moderate pleasure.
pos: adj
examples: We need to find an acceptable present for Jeff.
I think if post commanders of the unchaplained posts could employ acceptable clergymen […] then the needs might be met.
A site that carried [sexually explicit] material, but that gated it off from children through credit cards or other mechanisms to verify the age of the user, would have an acceptable defense under the act.
gloss: Barely worthy, less than excellent; passable.
pos: adj
examples: The designs were acceptable, but they were nothing special either.
gloss: Someone or something that is acceptable.
pos: noun
examples: The whole range of the knowable is divided into two classes, the acceptable and the avoidable. The acceptables are: Śiva, Śakti, Vidyesa, Mantra, Mantreśvara and the Jivas.
The good old acceptables are called “character” actors. An actor of the versatile order is called, casually, even contemptuously, a “character” actor.
Close to 3 percent of the acceptables are free of DMF teeth while none of the rejectables have fewer than 7 DMF teeth.
The church will not be content to see that older persons are housed and entertained, or even that acceptables are worked out to provide them with therapy and income from jobs.
Related words: acceptability
Derived words: acceptableness
acceptably
inacceptably
nonacceptable
Translations:
acceptably
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English acceptably, equivalent to acceptable + -ly.
Base: acceptable
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more acceptably
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most acceptably
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: acceptibly
pos: adv
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: In an acceptable manner; in a manner to please or give satisfaction.
pos: adv
gloss: To an acceptable degree.
pos: adv
examples: Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.
Translations:
acceptation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English acceptacioun, acceptation, from Middle French acceptacion and Late Latin acceptātiō. By surface analysis, accept + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: acceptations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The meaning (sense) in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The term is to be used according to its usual acceptation.
My words, in common Acceptation, / Could never give this Provocation
In its most proper acceptation, theory means the completed result of philosophical induction from experience.
Farce, indeed, is a term which has been used by literary historians in two rather different shades of meaning. In one acceptation, derived from its use as applied to Maître Pathelin and other examples of fiteenth-century French dramatic humour, it does not so much connote something other than comedy, as a variety of comedy itself. It is a matter of temper and milieu.
Sn may in the latter case designate the uncle, the cousin, or the nephew. None of these scholars, however, has dealt extensively with the third and largest acceptation of the word sn, namely its metaphorical one.
gloss: Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; the state of being acceptable.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Finally, ſome things although not ſo required of neceſſity, that to leave them undone excludeth from Salvation, are notwithſtanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God, that moſt ample reward in Heaven is laid up for them.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
The acceptation of the anti-hegemony clause – President Carter in May 1978 had encouraged the Japanese to agree to it – compelled the Japanese government to confess publicly what everybody knew: omnidirectional diplomacy notwithstanding, Japan was more favourably disposed towards China than the Soviet Union.
gloss: The active divine decision to approve an act or circumstance, held by Scotists to be necessary to render it meritorious.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This does not, however, mean that the habit of created charity may be regarded as the formal cause of divine acceptation, considered from the standpoint of the one who elicits the act of acceptation (i.e., God), as this must be regarded as lying within the divine will itself.
Related words: acceptative
Derived words: misacceptation
nonacceptation
Translations:
acceptor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biochemistry
biology
business
chemistry
commerce
computing
computing-theory
engineering
law
mathematics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
physiology
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English acceptour, from Latin acceptor, with the meanings from accept.
Inflected forms:
form: acceptors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: acceptour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
rare
Senses:
gloss: One who accepts.
pos: noun
gloss: One who accepts a draft or a bill of exchange; a drawee after he has accepted.
pos: noun
gloss: An atom or molecule which can accept an electron to form a chemical bond.
pos: noun
gloss: A transfer RNA molecule that can accept a specific amino acid
pos: noun
gloss: A chemical acceptor atom forming a positive hole in a semiconductor
pos: noun
gloss: A cluster of skin cells that respond to pain
pos: noun
gloss: A kind of finite-state machine whose binary output indicates whether or not a received input was accepted.
pos: noun
Derived words: acceptorless
acceptress
alloacceptor
isoacceptor
phosphoacceptor
photoacceptor
Translations:
accessibility
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
web-design
Etymology: From accessible + -ity, after Late Latin accessibilitas, from Latin accessibilis.
Base: accessible
Affixes: -ity
Inflected forms:
form: accessibilities
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptiveness.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: He says the company's FLIRT design, in particular its retractable steps, provides greater accessibility, while the technology is highly innovative and reliable.
gloss: Features that increase software usability for users with certain impairments.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The purpose of this study is to measure West Virginia University's website accessibility for students and users who are blind or visually impaired and compare that measurement to the measurement of other websites of […]
Derived words: bioaccessibility
immunoaccessibility
unaccessibility
Translations:
accessible
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
literature
media
publishing
Etymology: First attested in 1400, from French, from Late Latin accessibilis, from accessus, perfect passive participle of accēdō (“approach”), equivalent to access + -ible.
Base: access
Affixes: -ible
Inflected forms:
form: more accessible
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accessible
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Easy of access or approach.
pos: adj
examples: an accessible town or mountain
At first sight it would seem that the deep interior of the sun and stars is less accessible to scientific investigation than any other region of the universe.
gloss: Built or designed as to be usable by people with disabilities.
pos: adj
tags: specifically
examples: an accessible website
accessible public transport
As well as the boom in off-peak leisure numbers, "there has been a big spike in passenger assistance - that's really taken off as well", he continues. "We're probably victims of our own success because we promote this more than we ever used to. We promote how accessible the railways are. I think that this area has more than doubled from pre-COVID levels.
gloss: Easy to get along with.
pos: adj
gloss: Open to the influence of.
pos: adj
tags: with-to
examples: Minds accessible to reason.
gloss: Obtainable; to be got at.
pos: adj
examples: The materials, however, which are at present accessible, are sufficient for the construction of a narrative not to be read without shame and loathing.
gloss: Easily understood or appreciated.
pos: adj
examples: But something new was rippling through a million MySpace profiles. The sound was electro, and bass-laced synthetic dance pop would soon start streaming in from producers in Paris, dizzying the twenteens of Britain with its accessible, anthemic funk.
gloss: Capable of being used or seen.
pos: adj
Antonyms: inaccessible
Derived words: accessibility
accessibleness
accessible tourism
accessibly
bioaccessible
handicapped-accessible
immunoaccessible
nonaccessible
unaccessible
wheelchair accessible
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: accessible
lang: Danish
word: tilgængelig
lang: Estonian
word: kättesaadav
lang: Finnish
word: lähestyttävä
lang: French
word: accessible
lang: Galician
word: accesible
lang: Galician
word: accesíbel
lang: German
word: zugänglich
lang: Greek
word: προσιτός
roman: prositós
lang: Portuguese
word: acessível
lang: Russian
word: досту́пный
roman: dostúpnyj
lang: Spanish
word: accesible
lang: Spanish
word: abordable
lang: Swedish
word: tillgänglig
lang: Turkish
word: erişilebilir
accessibly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English accessible
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English accessibly
From accessible + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more accessibly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most accessibly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an accessible manner.
pos: adv
Translations:
accidental
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: entertainment
geometry
human-sciences
lifestyle
mathematics
music
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English accidental, from Anglo-Norman accidentel, Middle French accidentel, accidental, and their source, Late Latin accidēntālis; corresponding to accident + -al.
Base: accident
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more accidental
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accidental
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: accidentall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: accidentals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: accidentall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
pos: adj
gloss: Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.
pos: adj
gloss: Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
pos: adj
gloss: Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
pos: adj
gloss: Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.
pos: adj
examples: The discovery was purely accidental.
He was killed by an accidental gunshot.
accidental damage
accidental death
entirely accidental
The way to trueth is but one and simple, that of particular profit and benefit of affaires a man hath in charge, double, uneven and accidentall [translating fortuite].
gloss: Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
pos: adj
gloss: A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
pos: noun
examples: He conceived it just that accidentals ... should sink with the substance of the accusation.
gloss: Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.
pos: noun
tags: plural
plural-only
gloss: A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
pos: noun
gloss: Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.
pos: noun
Synonyms: circumstantial
incidental
casual
contingent
fortuitous
occasional
serendipitous
accidental
accidentary
by accident
by the by
causeless
chanceable
lippening
random
unforeseen
unintended
unintentional
unplanned
Antonyms: inevitable
impossible
intentional
Related words: accident
accidentally
Derived words: accidental abortion
accidental chord
accidental chords
accidental color
accidental colors
accidental colour
accidental death
accidental gap
accidentalism
accidentalist
accidentality
accidental light
accidental lights
accidentally
accidentalness
accidental point
accidental property
nonaccidental
pseudoaccidental
unaccidental
Translations:
accidentally
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English accidental
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English accidentally
From accidental + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more accidentally
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most accidentally
pos: adv
tags: superlative
form: accidently
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.
pos: adv
examples: He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.
For quotations using this term, see Citations:accidentally.
gloss: Unintentionally.
pos: adv
examples: He accidentally exposed the bacteria to mold spores.
As I arrived at the foot of the hill I overtook two ladies, whom I passed. As I did so, I brushed one of them accidently on the arm.
Robins, of Torquay, had denied a single charge of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal. She claimed the microwave was accidentally turned on by one of the cats after the kitten got inside. But Knutton said the kitten was too small to even get onto the work surface.
Synonyms: accidentally
adventitiously
by accident
by chance
fortuitously
on accident
Antonyms: intentionally
deliberately
designedly
on purpose
purposely
advisedly
by choice
by design
advertently
consciously
knowingly
purposefully
selfconsciously
strategically
studiously
volitionally
voluntarily
wilfully
with awareness
wittingly
Related words: accident
acausally
as luck would have it
casually
causally
inadvertently
involuntarily
fortunately
luckily
noncausally
unexpectedly
unfortunately
unintentionally
unluckily
unwittingly
accidental
Derived words: accidentally on purpose
Translations:
accipiter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
ornithology
sciences
surgery
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin accipiter (“hawk”).
Inflected forms:
form: accipiters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any hawk of the genus Accipiter.
pos: noun
gloss: Any hawk formerly classified in the genus Accipiter, such as Tachyspiza and Astur.
pos: noun
gloss: A bandage applied over the nose, resembling the claw of a hawk.
pos: noun
Derived words: accipitral
accipitrine
Translations:
acclamation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: art
arts
government
politics
Etymology: * First attested in 1541.
* Borrowed from Latin acclāmātiō, acclāmātiōnis (“calling, exclamation, shout of approval”), from acclamo (“shout approval or disapproval of, shout out at”), from ad (“toward”) + clamo (“cry out”)
* Compare French acclamation.
Inflected forms:
form: acclamations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A shout of approbation, favor, or assent; eager expression of approval; loud applause.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Sometimes a member nominates a chairman and no vote is taken, the assembly signifying their approval by acclamation.
On such a day, a holyday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children:..it must be a scramble among the mountains, and I must accompany them; […]
gloss: The act of winning an election to a post because there were no other candidates.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: See also: uncontested, by default
With no one running against her, she won by acclamation.
gloss: A representation, in sculpture or on medals, of people expressing joy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The medals on which laudatory acclamations are recorded are called by antiquaries acclamation medals.
gloss: An oral vote taken without formal ballot and with much fanfare; typically an overwhelmingly affirmative vote.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Translations:
acclimate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
French a-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱel-
Proto-Indo-European *-éyti
Proto-Indo-European *ḱley-
Proto-Indo-European *-né-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néyti
Proto-Hellenic *klíňňō
Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek κλῐ́μᾰ (klĭ́mă)bor.
Latin climalbor.
Middle French climat
French climat
Proto-Italic *-āzi
▲
Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Middle French -er
French -er
French acclimaterbor.
English acclimate
1792, from French acclimater.
Inflected forms:
form: acclimates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: acclimating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: acclimated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: acclimated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To adjust to a new environment; not necessarily a wild, natural, earthy one.
pos: verb
tags: US
transitive
gloss: To become accustomed to a new climate or environment.
pos: verb
tags: US
intransitive
Synonyms: acclimatise
acclimatize
accommodate
acculture
accustom
climatize
conform
get used to
habituate
harden
season
toughen
adjust
Related words: acclimatize
climate
Derived words: acclimatable
acclimatation
acclimatement
acclimation
acclimation nonacclimating
acclimator
acclimature
deacclimate
nonacclimating
photoacclimate
reacclimate
Translations:
accommodating
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin com-
Proto-Indo-European *med-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Italic *medos
Latin modus
Latin commodusnom.
Latin commodum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin commodō
Latin accommodō
Latin accommodātusbor.
English accommodate
English -ing
English accommodating
From accommodate + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more accommodating
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accommodating
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful.
pos: adj
examples: Richard DeLongpre: I have to say, we were surprised that Principal Gottlieb wasn't more accommodating.
Judith Gottlieb: Oh, for God's sake, he's a child. I'm not gonna date him.
The staff were very accommodating and made sure we had everything we needed.
He’s always been an accommodating neighbor, offering to help with anything.
She was extremely accommodating when it came to changing her schedule.
gloss: Pliable; easily corrupted.
pos: adj
Derived words: accommodating dependent
accommodatingly
nonaccommodating
overaccommodating
over-accommodating
superaccommodating
unaccommodating
underaccommodating
Translations:
accordant
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English acordaunt, equivalent to accord + -ant.
Base: accord
Affixes: -ant
Inflected forms:
form: more accordant
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accordant
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In agreement; agreeing.
pos: adj
examples: The breach of this law, even when the breach is known to be strictly accordant with true morality, has caused many a man more agony than a real crime.
And now his voice accordant to the string.
gloss: Harmonious.
pos: adj
examples: From the accordant strings of Michael's melodious fiddle
Derived words: accordantly
disaccordant
inaccordant
unaccordant
Translations:
according
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English accord
English -ing
English according
From accord + -ing.
Inflected forms:
form: more according
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most according
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: accourding
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Agreeing; in agreement or harmony; harmonious.
pos: adj
examples: This according voice of national wisdom.
Translations:
accordingly
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: manner
Etymology: From Middle English acordingli, equivalent to according + -ly.
Base: according
Affixes: -ly
Inflected forms:
form: more accordingly
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most accordingly
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably
pos: adv
examples: He was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card.
We may the number of ships behold, and so proceed accordingly.
Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
From the Marvel Mixmaster to the Miracle Microwave, every time a new-fangled gadget has lobbed into the Aussie kitchen, Aussie mums have changed their cooking styles accordingly.
gloss: In natural sequence; consequently; so.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
examples: Our preparations were all finished. Accordingly, we set sail.
Accordingly a young chap wearing his hat over the left eyebrow, some clerk I suppose, - there must have been clerks in the business, though the house was as still as a house in a city of the dead, - came from somewhere up-stairs, and led me forth.
Translations:
accrual
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: accounting
business
finance
health
medicine
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
English accrue
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 accrual
From accrue + -al.
Inflected forms:
form: accruals
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act or process of accruing; accumulation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The effect of her alcoholism wasn't over, of course, and our relationship continues well past her death. What did change was that the accrual of new events stopped. I didn't have to worry about her anymore. She would never drink again.
gloss: An increase; something that accumulates, especially an amount of money that periodically accumulates for a specific purpose
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The finding out of the source accrual or arisal of income is not material as the incidence of charge is dependent on the place of accrual or arisal of income.
gloss: from the creditor's viewpoint, a receivable incurred in one fiscal year, but paid during another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: from the debtor's viewpoint, a debt incurred in one fiscal year, but paid during another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Recruitment (of participants) to a clinical trial.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Synonyms: deferral
Antonyms: deferral
prepayment
Derived words: accrual basis
accrual bond
nonaccrual
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: siirtosaaminen
accumulative
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh₁mósder.?
Latin cumulus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin cumulō
Latin accumulō
Latin accumulātusbor.
Middle English accumylaten
English accumulate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English accumulative
From accumulate + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more accumulative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most accumulative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass
pos: adj
examples: At the back of it all was a nebulous, accumulative foreboding; a gathering together in the cumulus sky; a mounting excitement in the heart of secrecy […]
gloss: Having a propensity to amass; acquisitive.
pos: adj
Derived words: accumulatively
accumulativeness
accumulativity
bioaccumulative
nonaccumulative
Translations:
accurately
Part of speech: adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English accurate
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English accurately
From accurate + -ly.
Inflected forms:
form: more accurately
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most accurately
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error or defect.
pos: adv
examples: For much of the 20th century, the image of Mexico popularized abroad through film, music, art and literature was, more accurately, a portrayal of Jalisco state and especially its capital, Guadalajara.
The internal NES clock must accurately measure down to milliseconds for its games to work properly.
Translations:
achene
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
Etymology: From French achène and its source, New Latin achena, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “a-”) + χαίνω (khaínō, “to gape”).
Inflected forms:
form: achenes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: achaenium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: achenium
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: akene
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup.
pos: noun
examples: The mulberry puts forth its messy clusters of achenes.
Translations:
homeworld
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
Etymology: Compound of home + world.
Inflected forms:
form: homeworlds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The world on which someone or something originated; a home planet or moon.
pos: noun
examples: But Woman's heart within itself lives more, / And in her Homeworld she can happy be, / Loving and lov'd: from Nature's founts her Lore / Instinctive flows, she drinks it fresh and free
"First the Patrons wipe-out our home world, now you blow any chance of us making any credits," Kane said in his gruff sinking voice.
Translations:
spring
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
Senses:
pos: adj
tags: no-gloss
Translations:
de
Part of speech: noun
intj
prep
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Russian дэ (dɛ)bor.
English de
Borrowed from Russian дэ (dɛ).
Inflected forms:
form: des
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Cyrillic script letter Д / д.
pos: noun
gloss: A meaningless unstressed syllable used when singing a tune or indicating a rhythm.
pos: intj
examples: “Dum de dum, dum de dum”, he hummed as he sauntered down the road.
gloss: Used in the titles of French nobility; of.
pos: prep
tags: historical
examples: Conwoman Jeanne de La Motte stole a 2,800-carat diamond necklace, The Slave's Collar, by convincing the Cardinal de Rohan that Queen Marie-Antoinette wanted it.
When Prosper Mérimée had next seen Mercedes after Spain, in March 1846, he told the Countess de Montijo that Mercedes "looked less well preserved [and] limped a little."
Translations:
en
Part of speech: noun
prep
Morphological type: simple
Topics: media
publishing
typography
Etymology: The name of the letter comes from Latin en. The typographic sense dates to 1793.
Inflected forms:
form: ens
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The name of the Latin script letter N/n.
pos: noun
examples: The word length, which contains only four sounds l e ng th, is usually spell'd thus, el ee en gee tee aitch.
I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
gloss: A unit of measurement equal to half an em (half the height of the type in use).
pos: noun
examples: That the price of work, paid for by letters be advanced from fourpence to fourpence halfpenny per thousand, including English and brevier; and, in leaded matter, the ems and ens at the beginnings and ends of the lines not to be reckoned in the width.
gloss: Used in various phrases borrowed from French or formed as if borrowed from French (see "Derived terms" below).
pos: prep
Derived words: enby
en dash
ennage
en quad
en space
Translations:
het
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
Etymology: Clipping of heterosexual.
Inflected forms:
form: hets
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more het
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most het
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A heterosexual person.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: See how you like that you townie het from southeastern MA / Saying "fairy" and "Mark Wahlberg" like it's southie any day
gloss: Fan fiction involving characters in an opposite-sex romantic or sexual relationship.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: Mary Ellen Curtin presented a paper at the 2002 Popular Culture Association conference in which she studied fanfiction archives to discover that black characters appeared far less in both het and slash fiction than white or even Latino/a characters.
The vast majority of fan fiction is het or slash, and these types are usually defined against each other as approaches to romance and porn, marginalizing gen as something outside of the dominant concerns of fan fiction.
Other studies explore why some women write het, or fictions with heterosexual pairings of certain couples, within canons such as Star Trek Voyager that generally inspire slash fiction (Somogyi, 2002).
gloss: Heterosexual.
pos: adj
tags: slang
Translations:
te
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
Etymology: Sense 1: Altered from si in the 19th century to prevent having two notes of the musical scale starting with the same letter, to become te and later ti.
Sense 2: The vowel of ti then changed to 'e' to signify a flattened note.
Inflected forms:
form: tes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: In solfège, the seventh note of a major scale (the note B in the fixed-do system): ti.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: In solfège, the lowered seventh note of a major scale (the note B-flat in the fixed-do system): ta.
pos: noun
Translations:
google
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Back-formation from googly + -le (frequentative suffix (indicating continuousness or repetition) forming verbs).
Inflected forms:
form: googles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: googling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: googled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: googled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: googles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: Google
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: An Internet search, such as one performed on the Google search engine.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
informal
examples: Each night I allowed myself one desultory google before leaping to my feet for a lamplit walk around the neighbourhood.
gloss: A match obtained by a query in the Google search engine.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
dated
informal
examples: The word oceanfront has 64,300,000 googles, so I think it must be a real word.
Related words: googol
Derived words: googler
googlebomb
googlewhack
googlish
Translations: